After Effects

graceful_Euphoria6379Participant

video is sped up after rendering

after rendering my video is about 1.5x faster than the preview. I've already checked and the preview plays 20fps, as my comp is set to 20fps aswell. I reinstalled ae on my new pc as this happened on my old pc aswell and the problem is still happening please help

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imiplacedaParticipant

Can’t open After effects project

About two days ago I was working on an edit in After Effects 2020. I opened Google to look for an image and suddenly both After Effects and Google crashed (at least I think both did — I’m not 100% sure). I didn’t panic because crashes happen sometimes, but after that, AE wouldn’t let me reopen my project. I thought my laptop might’ve overheated because the fans were going crazy, so I let it cool down. The next day, I opened After Effects again — it worked fine at first. But when I tried to open my project, it just wouldn’t load. What’s weird is that I can make new projects and open them with no issues, but my older projects won't open anymore, except I've tried opening a project I've made in August and that worked but the one that I need doesn't open I’ve tried everything I could think of:• Resetting my AE preferences (like six times)• Restarting my laptop• Updating my system• Basically every fix I found online Nothing works. I’ve never had this issue before and I have n

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Brave32556563zv1yParticipating Frequently

Deep Glow missing after Updating AE to latest v25.2

Hello Everyone, Hoping to find a solution for this issue here. I just updated my AE to version 25.2 and when I opened my project it gave me a message that Deep Glow effect is missing. I manually checked and saved the effect in the plugins folder as what was suggested in tutorials but it still showing as missing when I open After Effects. Anyone had the same issue? 

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Premiere to Replace AE Composition does not bring footage to After Effects 25.6Needs More Info

WalterAF85Inspiring

posted in Bug Reports

I recently updated my Premiere & After Effects to 25.6. I would normally duplicate my footage in my sequence on the above layer, then right click and click "Replace to After Effects Composition." Normally, it would place the footage in the After Effects software, but now it doesn't show it at all. Is there a fix to this?Photos included.

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kailah_8577Participant

After Effects Missing Plugins - Missing Folder

I've been getting the following error when opening After Effects: "After Effects warning: The following plugins have failed to load Please reinstall these plugins:" The supposed location is not there, and the only found effects are for Premiere and not AE. They also don't show in the effects manager panel to turn off. I don't use them/know what they are for, but it leads to my AE crashing continuously while working.  I reinstalled AE and deleted my preferences and I'm still having the issue. Running version 25.6 and Red Giant/Universe is updated as well, been an ongoing issue for 4+ months. Thank you!

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RobBarrettCommunity Expert

"Stop after current" option for Render QueueOpen for Voting

I'd find it helpful to have a "Stop after current" button that would continue to render the video that is in progress, and then stop, so that all remaining items are still set to 'Queued'. (Or even for this to be the default behaviour.)   Currently, if I've set a lot of videos to render, and need to stop for some reason, I need to stop the queue, and then later find the item that was 'Stopped by user' and re-queue that item. This adds workload and also increases the risk of an item being forgotten during the export process.

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EMSA2Participant

Mogrt with Audio Waveform

I have a simple line animation (with expressions) that simulates a waveform audio visualization.Is there any way with expressions to include it in a (responsive time with intro/outr) mogrt, and be unaffected when I extend the unprotected area ?

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Aaron27592463uct5Participant

Help! After Effects freezes upon startup during the Crash Repair Options

After Effects 25.6 decided to stop working and it is racking my brain on what happen. I have manually trashed the preferences, unistall/installed AE and all my adobe apps (including cloud), and have deleted the few plugins/extensions I do use (Artlist.io and Animation composer) and have restarted my computer. Tried the tips in this post but none of those plugins are used on this computer. The beach ball of death pops up during the repair options and I have to force quit the app everytime.  The same happens with previous versions of AE now but AE Beta seems to work just fine. Running on Apple M2 Max64 GB MemoryTahoe 26.1

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epic_7157Participant

How to create this cool text animation

First of all, credits to Lemon Visuals on X for this vid. I would like to replicate this text animation but I'm not sure howhttps://x.com/LemonVisuals/status/1520085512576507909?t=9PFUAQQ4mvRUcGAiWXhkuA&s=19

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emmetWeCre8Participant

Pre-comp with Add Mode on a video layer won't work on Parent Comp

Hi. So I have a video layer in a pre-comp that has the Add Mode applied. When I place the pre-comp into the main comp.....the Add mode doesn't work. Now the thing is, I want to make that layer (pre-comp) a 3D layer so I can't use the "collapse transformations" option. Does anyone have any suggestions please?Thanks for your time!

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TheFosterHouseKnown Participant

Copy edge pixels and expand edge color?

I'm looking for a plug in or script that could help with a very specific issue. I have an object that is out of focus and I need to replace what is behind it. I'm aware of the regular methods and techniques to achieve this, but I'm looking for a faster way. I'm looking for a way to use a filter such as Stroke or Edge Finder in conjunction with a mask to create an outline on the layer. I want to mask the object at the point of the last solid bit before the blur begins and apply a filter that creates a stroke on the mask. Instead of using a single color the stroke, I want to have it sample the color of the pixels of the image at the edge of the mask and expand them outward. Basically, I want fake a "Strait Alpha" so I can defocus from there. Does anyone know of anything that can help achieve this? Thanks.

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After Effects Becomes Unresponsive on Project LoadOpen for Voting

arvind_6181Participant

posted in Bug Reports

I am facing a serious issue with Adobe After Effects. As soon as I open my project, After Effects starts hanging and becomes completely unresponsive. Along with the software, my entire PC also starts hanging and I am unable to do any work. Please help me resolve this problem as soon as possible.

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Xolani_TMParticipant

After Effects 25.6 crashing when exporting.

Hi.I'm getting a crash everytime I export my animations from after effects. I've updated all my graphics browser, my BIOS, turned off multiframe rendering, turned off GPU excelerator, I uninstalled then re-installed After Effects and Media Encoder, I exported with Media Encoder but still I get the same problem. I export with after effects and still get the same problem.Please help. I have no idea what to do now.I have Windows 11, 32GB of ram and 4GB GTX 1650 GPU with an Ryzen 5 5600 CPU. My pc specs are good and drivers and software is up to date. 

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TheFosterHouseKnown Participant

AE needs an Edge Extend / Color SmearOpen for Voting

After effects is in DIRE need of an edge extend tool. When dealing with keys or roto that has haloing and edge contamination issues and/or transparency from motion blur. To the best of my knoledge, there is no way in AE to extend the color and luminance values from the core of the key and extend them outward. This is a vital tool for correcting edges. I have been looking for over a decade for a tool or technique that can reliably to this in AE, and there isn't one. I literally have to have a Nuke artist do this for me. Nuke has a myriad of tools for the the clean up of contaminated edges on roto or keys.This is an example of what edge extend does in Nuke. this isn't an averaging of the overall pixels, it just extends the values outward so things like motion blur can be rebuilt.Here's a video describing the process of using Color Smear with an actor very quickly crossing a bright monitor that needs screen replacement. this is something I do regularly, and it's a tota

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ScorpyyxParticipant

After Effects 25 preview stuck on one frame — any fix?

Hey guys, running into a weird issue in after effects 25. when i try to preview a small project, hitting play just freezes the video on one frame. switching between comps doesn’t update the image either, though the rest of the panels still work. the preview panel button changes from stop to play, but nothing moves. only restarting ae helps. anyone know how to fix this? My pc: rtx 5070 ti, ryzen 9 9950x3d, 64gb ram

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ZafferInspiring

Manipulate path points as a group in a precomp?

Hi,I would like to be able to select a group of path points in a precomp and then manipulate them as a group -- rotating the group for example.  Is this possible?  Thanks!  

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ShebbeCommunity Expert

Need new effect: pixel spread / erode-dialate / cleanplateOpen for Voting

I don't see a lot of discussion around this topic and most After Effects compositors either use sub par methods or simply aren't in need for high end solutions. But for us being stuck in the ecosystem it is tremendously hard to perform high quality composite work without any form of pixel spread to do clean ups, edge extends and creation of clean plates from green screens. These tools have been available in compositing packages like Flame, Fusion and Nuke for years already. The only thing we have is an immensly slow performing extend in Refine Hard Matte with tons of options we don't need and a range limit of about 1pixel. Their tools perform close to realtime and are able to smear the pixel information much much further. Please consider implementing a very fast performing high quality pixel spreader that is able to take RGB information and spread it with different methods/modes via it's own layer's alpha/mask or external via the mask layer selection. To understand what

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Keeley21981778xjacParticipant

Keyframes bouncing back and forth despite interpolation being set to linear

I’ve spent the past few hours trying to troubleshoot an issue where my position keyframes keep bouncing back and forth on one specific slide, and I can’t pinpoint the cause. The issue is with the spotlight gradient composition moving from the first keyframe to the second. I’ve already confirmed that all keyframe interpolation is set to linear and checked for any hidden bezier handles that might be affecting the motion path. I've checked the main comp panel as well as the value graph. I’ve deleted and rebuilt the keyframes multiple times, restarted both the software and my computer, and even updated the program, but the problem persists. None of the other keyframes are doing this, so I’m completely stumped at this point—has anyone run into this before or know what might be causing it? Maybe I'm not looking closely enough? Let me know if there are more helpful images I can attach. Thanks!

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ShiveringCactusCommunity Expert

Tutorial: Cinematic Space Shots in After Effects | Bloom, Shake & Lens Tricks

  In this video, I dive into how to create cinematic, documentary-style spacecraft shots in After Effects, inspired by Apollo 13, Europa Report, and For All Mankind.   We’ll explore camera movement, light bloom, starfield backgrounds, and lens defects. My goal is to combing lots of small tricks into make the 3D render feel real. Along the way, I’ll also share tips, failed experiments, and resources like Jarle’s handheld presets.  

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After Effects UI Bug / Selections deselect immediatelyOpen for Voting

deleteandrepeatParticipant

posted in Bug Reports

Hey everyone,Since this morning I’ve been encountering very unusual problems with my After Effects, Premiere Pro and parts of the Illustrator UI (haven’t tested any other apps).Whenever I select a panel it immediately looses focus and deselects itself. Trying to rename any type of item or clicking on any type of value immediately looses focus as well.I’ve tried the following to fix it and was wondering if anyone else here encountered the same issue and might know how to fix it.• AE Reboot + System Reboot• Safe mode• Reset all preferences• Remove plugins and extensions• Changing to AE 25.5, 25.6, 25.1• Deleted everything in ‘/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common’ (Fixed lots of cache problems in the past)• Turning off PC for a longer period of time & unplugging power• Updating MacOs 15.7.1 => 15.7.2• Changing Keyboard & Mouse• Checked and toggled all kinds of security, accessibility and after effects settings• Full AE Uninstall and Install• Full uninstall o

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dbDavideBoscoloLegend

Template bug

Hi all,Here's the bug:https://youtu.be/nwpme8zh1rkAny workaround is appreciated. 

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ryanhoogInspiring

Set Render Location for multiple itemsOpen for Voting

Right now, when multiple compositions are queued but not yet rendered, each one requires its own manual “Output To” selection. This gets tedious fast when you have dozens of comps waiting. It would be a major time-saver to select multiple queued items and assign a single output destination to all of them at once. Currently, even if you select all the comps and set the output for one, it doesn’t propagate to the other selected comps. This would simplify batch-rendering workflows and eliminate a lot of repetitive clicking, especially on large projects with many deliverables.

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Letty2019Legend

BIB Error. Unknown Bravo Error, BRV, 0 (83 :: 3) great, NOW WHAT?

Yes, I have this bug too.  What is this thing? From the limited info here, some say "bad fonts" and others say during rendering. Well, I have no fonts installed, just stock AE useage. I would get this pop up during playback and sometimes rendering.Doesn't crash.  But will reappear after a while.I timed it out, and it's every 5 mins... MMMmmmm    the same 5 mins as my auto save.My auto save just happened to be maxed out at 50 saves, (long session) and all new auto save back ups  would have to delete one, and then save one.I'm not sure, but I'm thinking now, the maxed out auto save might have a bug? I increased my auto save to 100, and so far, no BIB Error code.I'll check when it hits 100 and see if that big comes back. Just wild speculation, but there might be a pattern. Thoughts?? 

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SharathRangaswamyParticipant

Simple Plugins & Scripts - Should i put them up at market place?

Hi Everyone!  I have Been working with adobe products from the Macromedia Flash & Action Script days.! Usually i come up with simple scripts to speed-up my work. i went a step further and curated some of the scripts i have and have a working "plugin" - basically a ScriptUI panel.  Simple text Animator - it basically exposes the TextAnimator options that are available with a textlayer. Here i plan to add more types of animations, this was inspired by animation-composer. There were system (not PC) restrictions to install plugins from market. Autofade is a simple script that will fade-in and fade-out any layer. this button will just add that expression onto opacity property of the layer. Easing Curves - This is again just exposing the functionality within graph editor for easier access, this was inspired by Flow plugin - which again due to system restrictions i was not able to install plugins. Composition Creator - Full fledge video assitant - from script

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