After Effects (Beta)

Sequences imported from Premiere Pro do not appear in composition.

Hello, I am having issues with the import of 3D objects in After Effects beta. 3D objects will not preview but will show only the shape path. How can I solve this issue? 

 hello. after effect simply crash when trying to play a mpeg2 or h264 file.it crash when just double clicking on it to view it.it crash when > after creating a composition with it by draging it on a new comp > then trying to scrub the time line.this is happening this morning after i did the UPDATE suggested .  as of today 29/11/2023  10:08 am french local time. the minute before I did the update, same file in the project I was working with work working perfectly. thanks.  have a wonderfull debugging day ;)))yann ps > i can't share the file because of working policy. secret stuff blablabla.   but it';s not related to that anyway.

 When i am importing glb file in afterfx beta this is what appears on screen, is there any way to fix this?Thanks

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, along with Known Issues in the current build. We will be keeping this page updated. Last updated: Oct 18, 2022   Model Import Formats GLB, GLTF, and OBJ are currently supported. Other formats are possible in the future, please let us know what you need! Animated models Currently all models are static inside After Effects. Built-in animation will be supported in the future. Camera and Lights Cameras and lights in a 3D model are not currently imported. After Effects cameras and lights work with models in the composition. Empty 3D Cache There are a couple of cases where 3D model data must be extracted before After Effects can use the files: GLB files must be unpacked and OBJ files are converted to GLB. The new 3D Cache folder is stored in the same location as the default for the disk cache; this is currently not a user-definable location. Clicking the new Empty 3D Cache button in Preferences > 3D that deletes all files from this folder except

My file refuses to open and the app consistently crashes at around 90% at loading stage. Had been working fine piror to this. Have tried almost everything to rectify it at this stage. Any ideas? Thanks!

Steps to reproduce:    1. ...Start rendering with Media Encoder to store the output on external driveResult: ... file not found errors Expected: ... render and store Rendering with output on internal drive wo problems System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v24.2.0.21    OS: macOS v14.1.1, RAM: 64,00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10

The 3d obj file did't working properly in After Effects (beta). Then After some time importing the obj 3d file the software was close suddenly could't show any warning information.

Hi: We have been working diligently to add significant new capability to the TextDocument and, although we have not exposed any of the new APIs to you yet, in preparation for this we have changed a significant bit of the underlying architecture which TextDocument is built upon. These changes went into ae-beta/24.2.0/8. Quite a lot of automated testing has been written to demonstrate that the existing TextDocument APIs behave exactly as before (and I mean exactly...), but errors may have slipped past us. Consider this a heads up that we might have broken something and to please let us know if you encounter any regression when using the TextDocument - we really need to know. Thanks in advance for your engagement, and we look forward to exposing these new APIs as soon as we can - we are confident they will be well received. Douglas WaterfallAfter Effects Engineering   

Hello, Does anyone have a 32bit Aces AE comp that plays back in realtime on an external HDR monitor? I can't get true HDR (aces) realtime playback. Rec 709 works fine.

A bunch of previouslly-reliable scripts that use sourceRectAtTime() no longer work with latest beta builds. Try this: 1. New Comp 2. New text layer 3. run this script: var myTextLayer = app.project.activeItem.layer(1);var myRect = myTextLayer.sourceRectAtTime(0,false);alert(myRect.width); The width comes back 0

rendering issue with 3d render in Ae betaversion of the app is 24.0.0 betaOS is macOS 13.4.1 error code:1

So basicly, I use after effects beta and everything is black. GLB 3D and all PNGs are working, but mp4 and jpg for example are completly black. And I really wanna fix this since I want to use 3D feature of AE beta.I have 3060 with i5 10400 with 16gb ram so hardware is not an issue, I also have the latest driver. Any ideas? 

Hi, I'd like to request a feature in scripting: it would be really useful if there would be a way to identify true 3D objects in the new Mercury engine. This could be useful for a number of reasons but a very pressing issue is that those layers don't accept effects and when trying to apply an effect, an error is generated. This can be problematic when, for example, applying an effect to every layer in the comp. Now, of course, one could use try/catch but this will still internally create the error and therefore slow down the script. Additionally, I often have to check back on the layers in my scripts and when it's not clear why there's no effect on a layer where there should be one, this can cause issues. Currently, I'm using a rather elaborate set of conditions to identify whether an object may be a true 3D object (by checking the source file extension, etc.) but I think there should be a proper way to identify those objects. Thanks for your consideration! Best wishes,C

ProblemWhen using the new OCIO-ACES management, the Info Panel shows the same color values whether the Display Color Space is on or off. It's only showing the Working Space (ACEScg) values and not the Display Space values (ACES/Rec709). This causes confusion and is misleading when dealing with colors like white or brand colors. For example, when viewing "white" in ACES, it looks gray, yet the color values still show 1.0. This can also become an issue if you need to confirm that brand colors are correctly represented.   RecreateTurn on OCIO-ACES management and view in either sRGB or Rec709. Then create a white solid (1, 1, 1). The white solid viewed with the ACES/Rec709 ODT will look gray which is correct. However, the Info Panel still shows this gray value as 1.0 instead of 0.8216. Proposal- There should be an option in the Info Panel to view color values in either the Working Space or Display Space. A simple toggle button would do.- Another option would be to

Does the current beta import .Obj? I import the file but no shading or texture is on it.  .gltf is working just fine.

Some years ago, I reported a bug that the previews in the font menu are not always working. This bug still exists in 24.1.0x66:Cherry Blossoms, for example, should be a hand-drawn scripty font. Also, a feature request: Make the font menu's width responsive to the width of the panel. As you can see in this screenshot, there is no way of knowing (other than clicking on the font menu) if I have Copperplate Gothic Bold or Light selected, because the end of the font name is cropped off:(You'll also notice that Courier's preview is clearly not Courier.) And one more thing: This font preview size is "extra large" according to AE. Contrast this to Photoshop's largest setting (this image has probably been scaled down by this forum)...which also previews the fonts correctly. Can't you just duplicate the code from Photoshop's font menu system in AE? 

Using AE V24.1.0 Build 59 on Windows 10 as seen from the attached images, when rotoscoping this subject, the AI algorithm keep including the chest area approx every 5 seconds.  If I let this proceed unchecked, Roto V3 eventually includes the complete chest area.  So every 5 seconds I had to keep telling AE Roto V3 to include the chest area and the algorithm just never learned to keep it excluded.  Maybe we need a mask to tell Roto leave this area alone? 

One of the features in photoshop that I find extremely helpful is that when you nudge a layer, no matter how many times you've nudged, if you hit undo, it resets back to the original position, treating all the nudges as one action. I would love to see this implemented in After Effects. As a motion graphics artist I find myself wishing for this feature very often.  After doing a dozen small nudges, if I change my mind I have to hit cmd+z as many times as I nudged, or I have to manually drag it back into position, with no guarantee of getting it perfectly back where I had it. I find it hard to imagine a situation where I wouldn't want to undo all nudges in one keystroke, so to me, it's a no-brainer. I think over the course of many projects, this feature would save quite a bit of time and frustration.

Good morning all, and happy Friday! Coming to you with an update on Selectable Track Matte Layers: with After Effects Beta version 23.0x37 we are introducing the following scripting changes to support the new Selectable Track Matte Layer behavior.   Previous scripting models, and After Effects as a whole, only required the setting of trackMatteType, as there was no ambiguity about which layer was the track matte — it was always the layer right above the matted layer in the layer stack (index-1).   Since Track Mattes can now be sourced from any layer, our scripting methods have been updated as well. However, legacy scripts that do not supply a Track Matte source will fall back to previous behavior of using the layer above the current layer as the Track Matte source.   New API 1. AVLayer.setTrackMatte() - Method to set the track matte on the AV Layer.Parameters:* trackMatteLayer : the AV layer to be used as the track matte layer for the fill layer. Passing null for layer w

In build 59, in Advanced 3D (and Cinema 4D) cameras only have one property in Camera Options (Zoom).

Looks like the import of 3D assets is broken again - models import with no preview (just a bounding box).I tried with glb files only.Issue occures on 24.1.0.29 and the most recent 24.1.0.30.  

I was testing a 3D model yesterday (October 16th) and my model looked good. I updated the BETA this morning (October 17th) and now my model is missing some pieces. Please see image attached. I have circled the missing pieces. Version: 24.1.0.52Mac OS Ventura 13.4.1

3d obj become box

I have created a project in version 23.6. After updating to 24.0, the inserted 3D object (.glb) is no longer displayed correctly: it turns deep black. I assume this has something to do with the Mercury 3D renderer. Does anyone have the same problem? Here you can see the comparison of before and after: