After Effects (Beta)

It'd be nice, when I drag a guide onto my comp then right-click it to specify its precise location, to be able to specify, instead of pixels, its position as a percentage from the top-left corner; i.e. on a 1920px wide comp, if I dragged out a guide, I could set it to "50%". Currently it sets its position to 50pixels.

Hi After Effects team, I recently got into the world of expressions, and I noticed something that feels like a bug, so I'm reporting it here 🙂 When you try to rename an effect name that's linked inside an expression, using a try catch method. It unlinks the effect from the expression, while a normal expression without try & catch does rename it properly. I've attached a video showing the issue, and the project file, hope that helps explain it. Thanks in advance!Kind regards,Onno Build:24.6.0 Platform:MacOS Sonoma 14.5Apple M2 Max, 64GB 

I’m curious about the ongoing development mentioned: "Fixes a crash when running a very long script. IN DEVELOPMENT. Prevents switching of hardware accelerated views, which was causing a crash when running long scripts." Will this update address the issue with ProRes Raw not working properly in After Effects on Windows, especially after applying effects or doing significant work on ProRes Raw files? Regular ProRes file types work fine in After Effects, but ProRes Raw has been problematic. I’ve worked with support multiple times, but they couldn’t resolve it and said it’s a known issue. However, I haven't found any official documentation about this problem—only reports from users in several forums.  

Rotobrush can now take advantage of pre-existing propagated frames when performing the Freeze process.   Our internal testing indicates Freeze is now 1.6x to 5.8x faster to complete. Performance results can vary depending on platform, OS version, and GPU. Older GPUs will see the biggest performance gains. Performance gains are reduced when using the Refine Edge Tool (1.2x to 1.6x faster).   This update is now available in After Effects 24.2 Beta builds, starting with build 71, and is supported with both Rotobrush 2.0 and 3.0.   If you are a Rotobrush user, we’d love for you to try it out and help us by answering the following questions:   Is Freeze faster for you and for your projects? If not, which projects perform worse? Do you experience any frames unexpectedly re-propagating during a Freeze? Are there any unexpected slowdowns or increased use of memory during the Freeze process? Are projects with frozen Rotobrush layers reloading and rendering correctly? Is fr

app.project.usedFonts doesn't work Properly, If we duplicate a text layer and change the font of either one of the layers, It won't detect the old font used in the original layer. Even if we remove the layer which have the new font. It always shows us the removed font (second font). Not the font that remain in the project.

Version 24.5x4 of After Effects Beta introduces support for two new 3D features in the Advanced 3D renderer: shadow catchers and shadow colors.   Shadow catchers are 3D layers that “catch” shadows cast by 3D models but are otherwise transparent. They’re a great way to make a 3D model look like it’s part of a 2D video or image.   Beta users can also customize a shadow’s color tint and opacity for a more realistic composite. Color can be set per-layer rather than per-light, which makes it possible to do things like cast pink-toned shadows on a model while the model casts blue shadows onto the ground. Shadow Color also works with shadow catchers.      Getting Started Shadow catchers and shadow colors work with any 3D layer that can accept shadows using the Advanced 3D renderer. The Accepts Shadows and Shadow Color properties can be found under Compositing Options for 3D model layers and Material Options for native AE 3D layers (3D text, shapes, solids).   To

Starting with Beta build, AE 23.0x11, H.264 is now available as an option in the Output Module Settings dialog allowing you to encode to H.264 directly from the AE Render Queue.     This integration utilizes the Adobe Media Encoder (AME) UI along with AME’s backend encoding system all without leaving After Effects. We have also included 3 H.264 presets to get you started.   If you need more control, you can customize the H.264 settings by clicking on a Format Options button in the Output Module Settings dialog. Not every option that is available in AME is exposed inside AE, and some settings such as resolution, frame rate, color management, are still set from AE’s Render Settings or Output Module Settings, but there should be enough to tweak for most users.   H.264 export also supports both Hardware and Software Encoding modes. The same accelerated export you have in AME and Premiere Pro is now available for H.264 export in AE.   If you need more control or sp

in camera no depth of field

Lumetri Scopes Panel shows nothing sinse the Spectrum UI updates 

Feature request:Right now we only can see how many Comps there is in one particular selected Folder.Can we please have this improved and be able to see how many Comps there is while selecting more than one Folder? Also while selecting only Comps.

after selecting project. close automatically after effects.

1. Adobe After Effects (Beta 24.5.0 (Build 46))2. MacOS, Sonoma 14.4.1 BASIC STEPS TO REPRODUCE CHALLENGEI continue to get an error about the Cap Locks needing to be disabled, even though it is. To replicate: 1) Shuttle to a different location in the timeline. - Error: Refersh Disabled (Release Caps Lock to refresh view) Or 1) Select the Roto Brush Tool 2) Click on the layer to apply the Roto Brush Tool- Error: After Effects (Beta) warning: Roto Brush strokes cannot be added while Caps Lock is engaged.  To temporarily resolve both errors, type any key on the keyboard. Afterward, replicating Step 1 in either scenario above creates the same error.  To resolve, I quit and reopened After Effects, same issue. I tried using After Effects 2024 and the same issue occurred. I replaced keyboards, same error occurred.  EXPECTED RESULTSWhen Cap Locks is off, these error messages should not happen.

tengo 128 Gb de ram,  y aun asi a veces colpsa y se traba

Hola! Tengo un PC Windows 11 con una tarjeta NVIDIA T400 de 4GB y he actualizado las versiones BETA de After Effects y Media Encoder. Sin embargo, no puedo exportar una composición de After Effects a Media Encoder.  Sale un mensaje diciendo: "Error de Dynamic Link" - El origen está vacío.  ¿Cuál es la solución? Gracias

Steps to reproduce:    1. Run "Scale Composition" script Result: Dialog opens but impossible to read input over almost black background.Expected: Contrasting colours for legibility Medium-dark is better but not great. Light looks fine but my eyeballs are aching. Thanks,Laurence System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v24.6.0.13    OS: macOS v14.2.1, RAM: 128.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 16 PS. I fully expect After Effects to complain when I pull the trigger on resising this comp which is already enormous.

Sometimes, when i want to render a 3D Object, the model itself disappear and in the video you can see the blue 3D-Box. This happens randomly, with .gltf and .obj files and it appears sometimes only at one frame in the rendered video. 😞 How it should look like.       What actually is shown.    

The reference frames created in the Content Aware Fill window have mismatched colours.  In the attached picture you can clearly see the hard line between the footage and the reference frame.  This is the same on my Windows machine and every mac we have in the office. 

Recently I've posted that it has been fixed but it was just a lucky day where I tested it and it opened with no misclicksbut to day it is happening again...here is the fresh screen grab of the issue:(in ae so as pr) 

Steps to reproduce:    1. apply Lumetri Color2. Twirl down curves3. add two points on any horizontal curves4. grab one of them and try sliding passing by the middle Result: ... it jumps through the invinsible teleporting portal that sends it to the backroomsExpected: ... to smoothly follow the mouse drag System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v24.6.0.7    OS: Windows v10.0.26217, RAM: 47.86 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 16 P.S. this bug exists from the very beginning of the updated lumetri effect with horizontal curves to replace the circular ones

Importing PSD files freezes Ae and consequentially requires forced closing the software.For comparison no issues with the same PSD files in Ae 2024.Something to do with the recent importing to folders in Project Window update? 

If you call $.colorPicker and just alter the sliders it's fine. But the moment you actually use it to sample a value, it then always returns the wrong value. 1. Run attached colorpicker_bug.jsx script. The hex value is sent to $.colorPicker then updated on return.2. Click Picker and use the picker's sample tool to sample a value from anywhere. For example, the blue from the selected AE toolbar item. Note the hex and RGB values displayed.3. Close picker and hex will show different returned values. Click Picker again and you'll see how it's altered the RGB values. Actual result: The blue from selected AE toolbar item is hex 066CE7 or RGB 6/108/231 according to $.colorPicker after sampling, but it then returns b52e1 or RGB 11/82/225. Expected result: you had one job $.colorPicker!  

1. Create a shape layer2. Draw a path3. Select all the points and do a ctrl-T to make the transform controls appear4 .Scale it5. Move the anchor point of the bounding box6. Scale it again7. Notice how the scaling ALWAYS works relative to the oppsite corner, and completely ignores the position of the anchor point (I'm not talking about the LAYER'S anchor point - just the "temporary" transform box's anchoer point)

Steps to reproduce:1. Close the Properties panel2. Click the Type Tool icon, ready to add some text to a comp Result: Properties panel re-opensExpected: Properties panel to remember that I closed it. I know this panel received a lot of love from Adobe when it was introduced relatively recently and I'm sure they want to show it off to everyone, but if I close it, I want it to stay closed thankyou very much. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v24.5.0.46    OS: Windows v10.0.19045, RAM: 127.91 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 32

After installing the Ae Beta 24.5.0.45 They seem to appear once at every first initialization in the project so it happens either when I load a project with them already or when I add effects but only the first time as I add them so far they don't affect effects to not working

my glb animation in 2024 after effect beta not working