After Effects

Hi Adobe Expertscan't start Adobe after effects on my new macbook pro M4 - always get the same error - see my attached warning and shutdown-message by starting the tool. - thanx for some helping adivces how to start -  i did already the safe start - don't work also i've deleted every not compatable plugins. - deleted also every older versions - no chance - thanx for help.  adobe tutorials and online help desks don’t show helpful answers and guidance. - This is the error message:  Zuletzt protokollierte Meldung: Transmit plugin „DeckLinkTransmit“ ist während des Aufrufs von „tmResult ML::TransmitEntry::Startup(const dvacore::UTF16String &, const tmModule *, tmStdParms *, tmPluginInfo *)“ abgestürzt..  

Hello Adobe,It all happened since I updated my software. I had many pending updates for all my Adobe software, but as soon as I updated them, my After Effects started crashing repeatedly. I tried all possible solutions, followed everything I found in the community with similar issues, but I still have the same problem.Attached are the errors that I am facing. Is there anyone here to help  

I Need some help 

If you often find yourself reopening Notepad just to copy expressions, this might help! I made a free and open-source After Effects extension that lets you store and manage your favorite expressions right inside AE. Grab it here: 👉 Download The code is completely open, so it’s safe to install and easy to modify if you want to customize it.

Rotobrush keeps crashing AE. I was on previous version yesterday of AE and I started encountering the error. I only have 1 shot left to complete. I updated AE, and still rotobrush crashes. I made a consolidated version of the project, and deleted current rotobrush all other effects, Started rotoing from strach, and then crash. I've cleared caches, restarted and as i already said, checked and updated AE. I can not complete this project because of this crash. I thought maybe the refine edge might be crashing, so I tried with just normal brush, and it still crashed after a minute or 2 of using it.Crash message:"After Effects can't continue: Roto Brush & Refine Edge plug-in generated an unexpected exception."Mac Studio Apple M2 Max, OS 15.7.1 (24G231)AE Version:  25.5.0 (build 4)

Hi, I'm working on a brand new desktop with After Effects and suddenly after a few moments of uploading a file, the composition freezes and the timeline also stops moving. It seems to happen to all the new projects I open. I have tired restarting the app but it always freezes and does the same thing after just a few moments in. It also somewhat lags behind when I go to other panels? I'm wondering if this is a problem related to my CPU or GPU. I believe my drivers are all up to date as well if that's the issue. CPU: Ryzen 5 7600XGPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060Ti 16GBWindows 11

Hi all:  I'm still trying to learn the roto-brush tool but I'm having some growing pains that I can't find answers to online.  The video I'm working with is a plane taking off and flying out over the ocean.  Attached is a picture of the scene I'm working with.  It's a 20 second clip.  I'm trying to mask the grass, the water, and the sky, all separately. 1. I'm having trouble keeping the mask from moving or breaking up when rendering it.  I'm constantly adjusting it and having to train it.  While the roto-brush sees the lines perfectly when I do it frame by frame, once I playback it starts to shift slightly.  I understand that the line between the sky and the water is faint, but again, it sees it perfectly when I do it manually frame by frame.  Also, the line between the water and the grass seems to brake up and move as well. 2. I don't understand the concept of the Refine Edge tool.  I get that it's supposed to be used for jag

I'm not talking about blending modes, I mean the thing in 'shop with the splitable sliders to remove the lighter or darker tones from a layer?  If not, what could I do in AE to achieve something similar? I have a comp where I have some footage at a gig... I've added an element on top & made it look like it's part of the background (tracking, blurring, etc.) but for about 5 frames, the motion-blurred hand of one of the characters in the footage passes "behind" the new object instead of in front. I've duplicated the footage, put it in front & created a "garbage matte" around the hand.  The hand is light, the background is dark, the footage is very low quality & it's just for fun. Rotoscoping the hand is not really an option (with my limited skills plus it's very blurry). If I were in photoshop, I'd just go to my blending options, remove the darker tones & split the sliders to get a feathered edge but I'm not sure whether or not such a quick f

Hi, I want to control the opacity of a layer by the position of another layer. I dnt know why my expression is not working. Please correct me where I am making mistakes. Thank you. I want the eye corner to be visible only when the eyes moved to teh last positinon (here 990,403), before this it's opacity will be zero,  Thank you.  

How to check other frame 

It’s frustrating that After Effects scripts can’t access or handle the text from modal alert panels. I understand there are technical and security reasons, but as developers, this limitation blocks us from creating more intelligent, user-friendly tools. There should be a safe, official way to catch or read these messages programmatically without compromising security. Why hasn’t Adobe addressed this in a more developer-friendly way?

As a long-time user and motion designer, I’m writing to request the addition of a native Duplicator system in After Effects—comparable to the powerful one available in Cavalry. While After Effects is excellent for compositing and animation, its current duplication and instancing workflow is extremely manual and outdated compared to modern tools. The Problem Currently, duplicating objects and managing variations in AE requires a combination of precomps, parenting, expressions, or third-party tools. This process is slow, lacks flexibility, and is not visually intuitive—especially when working with large numbers of repeated elements in motion graphics, UI, or pattern-based animation. Proposed Feature: After Effects Duplicator Here’s what the new Duplicator panel/system should offer, inspired by Cavalry: Core Features Instance-Based DuplicationLike shape layers or nulls, duplications should be instances (linked copies), not flattened clones. Editing one updates

No crash if loaded onto a Solid (makes no sense but just tot test) When loaded on an EXR layer the effect crashes After Effects.   Even the latest beta of AE crashes, the difference there is that it crashes immediately and closes the app instead of giving the windows below.   Win 11 AE 25.5.0b4 RTX 3090Ti / NVSD 581.29   Does not crash on a Mac.  

I've not had an issue adding rounded corners to a stroke before... been using the same technique multiple times until this suddenly occurred.Made a stroke with several right-angle cornersClicked 'Add' and selected Rounded CornersChanged the value to my desired roundness (in this case, 71)And only SOME of the vertices are becoming rounded...  This is new to me. I've purged memory. Restarted (both Ae and computer).  Maybe I'm missing a simple detail? Any thoughts?

When I put an Element 3D on a layer in my scene, the Render Que and Media Encoder cannot render the composition. They will either freeze, or drop frames of the Element 3D layer, or flash up crazy blues, greens, or a solid white frame. I just finished a project 2 weeks ago with no problems.I think there was an AE and ME update since then (I did try rolling back, and that did not work).There was also an NVIDIA driver update since hten I believe.Anybody else having trouble with this? 

I've got a composition built up of some light passes from Maya & V-Ray 7. Rendered with ACES 1.2 Config.These are added on top of each other to match a result that I get in Photoshop for a product render.On top of these are some adjustment layers with various exposure/hue sat/curves etc. When I RAM Preview the animation without the adjustment layers it looks fine, then with the adjustment layers it'll be fine up to a point then the colours will go all muted. The individual light comps and beauty pass look fine on their own... No flickering or muted colours. I've tried this setup via the new OCIO Color Managed set up in After Effects, and via my old method that was to use an OpenColorIO ACEScg > sRGB adjustment layer with a Color Profile Convertor layer on top to correct the gamma. Both of these methods have very much random issues with the frames going muted on random frames. If I turn any adjustment layer off the muted look disappears. I've tried to reset AE pref

I'd like to download after effects 2023 or 2022 but its not shown in the previous older files, and I can't get into contact with any adobe workers 😞

I have an Ae file that freezes up Ae every time I open it, even the autosave files freeze it up. The problem is specific to one project. All my other Ae project files open just fine. Never had this issue before today. I have coworkers that can open the file just fine, on the same version of Ae. Same exact hardware and software build as well. I can even open it on my laptop, which has an old version of Ae, just can't open it on my Mac Pro. I tried reinstalling the current and old version of Ae. Still won't open. See screenshot below. It looks like a dialogue box starts opening and freezes before it gets past this point. I get the color wheel and have to force quit. Any thoughts?

Al abrir en Windows un archivo creado en Mac, los controles de efectos de Menú desplegable que existían previamente en el proyecto, cambian el nombre del efecto “Menú” por “Menœ”.Una vez guardado en Windows, al abrir en Mac cualquier proyecto (aunque no haya sido abierto en Windows) contiene el mismo error hasta que se elimina la caché de disco y se limpia la base de datos del programa. 

After Effects 25.5.0 (Build 4). Windows 11.  When previewing in full screen mode (full screen checked in preview panel), the timeline zooms way out after stopping the preview.  When not in full screen mode in preview, the timeline remains as is.

Hello, I'm not sure it is OK to raise the issues on Adobe FORUM. When I import Obj.files on Plexus, Obj  isn't showed up!!! why ???????Even I adjusted both OBJ Scale and Camera Position, Obj isn't showed up. Would you let me know how to solve the issues ? Help me ㅜㅜ. sincerely