After Effects

I'm running into what feels like a workflow dead end in After Effects, and I'm wondering how experienced users deal with this.Here's my setup: I have multiple levels of nested precomps. Deep inside those precomps are vector shape layers with effects applied (for example CC Bend It, used to animate things like plants or grass bending in the wind). My top-level precomp is placed inside the main composition and treated as a 3D layer. The issue appears when I animate a 3D camera.Without Continuously Rasterize, everything works correctly, but as soon as the camera gets closer, the entire precomp becomes soft/blurry (Depth of Field is disabled). I understand that's expected because AE is treating the precomp like a rasterized image.If I enable Continuously Rasterize on the precomp, the image stays perfectly sharp, which is exactly what I want. However, this creates two new problems: The internal transforms of the nested layers can change, although enabling 3D on the appropriate precomps

ADOBE PLEASE FIX THIS AS IT IS A PITA!!!!!!!!! DOES ANYONE HAVE THIS PROBLEM??? So I open a file through either Recent or from selecting a file on the Welcome screen when I open AE… and make edits, do work, and save this file with new filename date (which is how I work - new day sees update file with _Sep4 (today)) so that I have daily backups, and go to save it, and it saves into the last folder I had used from a previous different client job. If I am not paying attention because I ASSUME WHEN I OPEN THE FILE THROUGH THE WELCOME SCREEN OR THAT HOME SCREEN WHERE IT LISTS LATEST/RECENT FILES THAT IT WOULD KNOW WHERE THAT FILE CAME FROM, BUT NO. This has been a PITA for years now. PLEASE FIX!

Having issues with randomly not being able to make cryptomatte selections, the cursor simply doesnt change as it should when cryptomatte effect is selected. This can happen in projects which have worked well for days and suddenly it breaks and then i stays broken.Furthermore Im having trouble gettin cryptomatte working in already established AE projects - its like I HAVE to make my comp with the cryptomatte effect as one of the first comps in a project - otherwise same issue - cursor doesnt change when cryptomatte effect selected.My cryptomattes are generated with 3dsmax and vray and Im quite confident they are containing correct data its just the effect inside AE which stops working.Any ideas how to fix this?

Why is the Object matte SO MUCH BETTER in Premiere than it is in AE? I feel like it should be the opposite. Its a welcome change from Roto brush, but hopefully it bogs down AE less soon. I am an AE lifer, with an AE tattoo, so I’m not complaining, just curious why its worse in AE.

I am wondering if I an asking too much of this tool. I have 14000 frames of 4K footage. And the client wanted (last minuet) to cut out speaker  in front of some diagrams. Using the normal footage. (obviously without a green screen) Below is a small sample of of the image. You can see there isn’t much difference between between the hair and the shade of the blue curtains. Initially I tried the same (new) tool in premiere 2026, but the darkness of the curtains where still bleeding into the hair. I have now tried to roto  using the the object matte (4.0) in after-effects. It is working quite well however it is just so slow, I’m not sure it will ever render. I am now trying to freeze the Object matte, but, again painfully slow. Hoping to be able to render. In the setting, I have tried switching off some refinement settings and dialling down the search area. Gemmi and Lama4 reckon it can be done. So I am wondering if I am not doing something right? Thank you.  

AE 26.5 Install… open. ..crash.  Rinse and repeat.MacOS 27.2 BetaThat is all.

Good evening everyone.I'm using ChatGPT because my English isn't very good.Like many other users, i've been experiencing major issues with the latest version of After Effects. Despite working on a PC with 128 GB of RAM, a 32-core CPU, an RTX 4090, and an ultra-fast SSD dedicated to the cache, After Effects has become practically unusable.Not only am i constantly running into "Out of Memory" errors, but the entire system eventually becomes unstable and unresponsive. It's been a complete disaster.After searching all over the internet, i finally managed to get things working again by applying the following changes. i have no idea whether all of them are related to the fix or if only one of them is actually responsible, but it certainly doesn't hurt to try:Disable idle caching in the Composition Preview: Composition > Preview > Cache Frames When Idle. Disable Enable Compressed Frames in the Disk Cache options. Reduce the Idle Delay value in Preferences > Preview to a very low numb

After Effects 26.5 does not start, it crashes on the splash screen or the loading screen when I press open After Effects, and deleting the microsoft.ai.machinelearning.dll file located in: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CC\File Formats did not fix the problem.

Crafting After Effects scripts is getting easier - I've even coined a term for it -Just In Time Scripts - JITS (aka doJITSU).I recently posted on how to write better LLM prompts to obtain expressions and scripts. Let’s take things a step further - a name for what has become a common practice in recent After Effects history. JITS do not have to be full-featured and they should not hinder your work with layers and keyframes, for too long - it’s an investment in time, to create reproducible solutions using Expressions and Scripts. Both can be enhanced as and when required, during a project and then saved, as is, or enhanced further, to cater to more use-cases or to handle edge-cases.Below are screengrabs of 6 scripts that were crafted in a a day or two, for a recent project. They saved hours of work including the critical ones that appear during revisions or near delivery.A couple may make it into my multiscript - broadcastGEMs MAG and the others will be saved into a larger multiscript fo

I'm working in ACES 1.3 Studio v1, and my working color space is ACEScg. I can set the diplay color space for my monitors, but I can't find where to set the display color space for the Mercury Transmit display (a HDMI connected UHD tv). The colors and contrast are way off, only when I set the working color space to none or an sRGB color space do I get a more 'normal' looking image. I'd like to work in ACEScg and be able to preview on a HDMI connected TV.What am I missing?Thanks!

When importing a 3D asset (.gltf) from Illustrator to After Effects, the bright red colors change to a dull, pinkish hue. Rasterizing fixes the issue, but standard 3D imports have color mismatches despite both setups using RGB/sRGB.