After Effects (Beta)

why? whyyy??

I've had multiple instances of masks failing to work. Suddenly the mask will just be a path and not mask anymore. restarting AE seems to fix it. Toggling add,substract etc does nothing, attempts to check masks are closed does nothing.  Example screenshot is 2 add masks that aren't working. 

Today we are excited to announce the availability of Speculative Preview in After Effects beta, available in builds 18.4x37 or newer. Download the latest build from Creative Cloud Desktop.   What is Speculative Preview? While AE is idle (e.g., you’ve stopped to admire your beautiful design, checking email, or getting coffee, etc.), the composition that has focus (and any pre-comps in that comp) will begin automatically rendering in the background. You’ll see green cache marks appearing as frames are rendered and you will not lose your place in the preview window. This should allow you to then scrub around the composition with frames already rendered, speeding up your design/preview iteration loop.   You can see Speculative Preview in action in the attached video.    Please use this forum post to discuss and provide feedback.    Thanks!

I am uisng After Effects Beta version 24.1.0 and when I import 3D models in it they are invisible

Create an environment light on ARM Mac; no Source drop-down appears. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v24.1.0.49    OS: macOS v13.6.0, RAM: 64.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 12

Hi, I have a problem. 3d models are invisible in After Effects Beta version 24.1.0.Do I need draft 3d to be visible? And how I can do this?

I made double sided cards and built up 3d house of cards. Lit them etc and used custom view camera with advanced 3d... everthing was fine. then out of the blue The card surfaces got a pixelated jazzy pattern on them. Help!!!

after effect error: CINEMA 4D: render failed (5070::0) when i add a spot light to cinema 4d composition, pls fix

Hi , I'm getting some odd cache functioning when previewing advanced renderer timelines. The cache isn't accumalating as normal and also it seems to be 'adding' to memory each time it repeats a frame , buffer errors perhaps ?  I'm enjoying the 3d object import btw thanks!  AE beta v24.1.0.25 windows 10 pro 19045.3448 

As you may have noticed, as of After Effects 24.1 build 14 (so for a while now), there were big changes to the rendering of non-model 3D layers in the Advanced 3D engine. Imported models have always used physically-based rendering for their materials and now objects created internally within After Effects do too. Any solids, precomps, text, and shape layers with the 3D switch activated are now textured and renderedwith Adobe Standard Material, a Physically-Based Rendering-material format capable of more accurate and photographic looks. This may have some impact on the way your 2D layers look when you click the toggle to change them to 2D to 3D, but it enables significantly more integrated and beautiful lighting and rendering of your scenes. Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) is an industry-standard way of building out the entire space in which every type of physical material exists and reacts to light and reflections. PBR aims to more realistically model how surfaces respond in the

where is the problem?

this is all that appears in the AE Beta folder. 

3D model import was originally released to After Effects Beta in October 2022. So much has changed in the past 10 months! Since new features are being released today, we thought this would be a good time to recap the entire feature set and provide a new FAQ.   This document reflects the state of 3D model import and rendering features as of After Effects Beta build 24.0x23, released on August 9, 2023. Where possible, we have linked to existing documentation already offered at helpx.adobe.com, which will be the eventual home for all of this.   Overview  3D model import in After Effects Beta allows you to import 3D model files in OBJ, GLTF, and GLB format and render them in the same 3D space as native After Effects cameras, lights, and other 3D layers. A new high-quality, performance-oriented composition renderer, Mercury 3D, enables this rendering. Environment lights, a new type of 3D light layer available in the Mercury 3D renderer, add realistic image-based lighting and

Steps to reproduce:I work off Google Drive, which has been fine, until the last AE beta update, where projects seem to freeze on asset download, but never seems to recover (spinning beachball, no assets downloading), and I have to force quit AE. I've attached logs, which show a few warnings and errors. I'm able to open the same project in AE 23.6 without a problem.Result: crashExpected: project to openSystem infoApplication: After Effects (Beta) v24.1.0.34OS: macOS v14.0.0, RAM: 64.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10 (M1 Max)

How do i get access to ther AE beta(24) with rotobrust 3.0.At the moment, I can only find the Photoshop beta installer. There is no beta for AE installable in Adobe CC. If AE beta is complete, any idea when the 3.0 version of the tool will be released?  

Steps to reproduce:  importing various 3D objects (obj, glb, gltf) from 2 sources : illustrator files or stager exported files placing on a comp manipulating the "frame" around the object with the 3D gizmo Result: ... No object is seenExpected: ... seeing at least a wireframe, and better, any render.   trying yesterday's update. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v24.1.0.31    OS: macOS v12.6.3, RAM: 32,00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 16 32 Go 2667 MHz DDR4 2,3 GHz Intel Core i9 8 cœurs AMD Radeon Pro 5600M 8 Go Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 Mo

On Mac OS (Sonoma) I find glb files which used to show up using the Mercury renderer are now just an empty bounding box. Is this going on for anyone else?

the effects panel lets me write the name of the effect , and responds to the search , but i can't click on it or drag the effects or even scroll on it 

System: M2 Max MacBook Pro/Ventura 13.5.2   I've seen several reports on this problem from other users.

Hello! The following Memory handling updates are available starting After Effects Beta v23.5x23.  Faster renders  After Effects now allocates memory more quickly, particularly when After Effects is processing intensely such as with multi-frame concurrent rendering. Memory allocations no longer wait for caches to be freed to create space. Instead, space is created asynchronously as needed. This change results in faster renders.  Minimum Cache size for core After Effects  Third Party plugins and Core After Effects share the memory limit as specified through “RAM available for” preference. In this latest build, we have reserved a small amount of memory specifically for the core After Effects functions, separate from the memory allocated for third-party plugins. This change is expected to have a positive impact on both render/playback performance and preview range, as it ensures that core After Effects functions are allocated sufficient memory to function properly, even

Working on a spot with "See and Say" graphic Subtitles.I tried to use text based editing to get the timing and transcripted text into after effects for animation. To save time. 2 issues. First I created the captions, and it misspelled a good portion of the dialogue. I kept trying to correct it but it keeps changing them back. Eventually I gave up trying to edit the captions and decided to just use them as a timing reference in after effects. We have a style for the show so all text has to match the style and the brand. So I converted the captions to graphics. and then tried to transfer the timing to after effects. When I select everything and click replace with after effects composition, they come into after effects with each piece of text as a precomp with the editable text inside the precomp. It seems like if you transfer graphic text to after effects you would want it to be editable. because having to go into each precomp to edit the text and pull it out or making any

I've mentioned this before in more general feedback threads on the OCIO implementation but I'd like to have it here as a separate topic.  The current way AE shows the display outputs is in a combined list with the view transforms. While it 'works', it is not very elegant and quickly readable. The other problem is that the color space 'Raw' is defined for every display in the configuration but ultimately means the same. Due to the flat list this space becomes listed times the amount of displays present.  I just made a post on notifying that the v2 config of ACES has been released which adds Display P3 to the displays. This is exactly what I warned for. We now get a total of 4 entries to that list, of which 1 is yet another duplicate... If View Transform and Display Device are separated, the addition of a display means just 1 new entry to the displays, and whatever view transforms that are actually new will be added to it's respective list but existing ones will

Yesterday new ACES configs have been released. Some small tweaks for OCIOv2.1/2.2 and a v2.1 config for OCIOv2.3 which adds Display P3 to the displays and CanonLog2 colorspaces and curves. Can we expect OCIOv2.3 being implemented in AE soon including the ACES config updates? It shouldn't affect current projects as no other spaces were renamed or removed. It may also be practical to look at implementing OCIONamedTransform.

Hello folks, i'm using Geo Layers 3 extension in order to create maps, however, when i want to use 3d models as you guys know i have to use After Effects Beta. I can't add extensions to After Effects Beta, can someone help me?😬😬😬😬😬😬

If I have a 3D model in C4D with condensation on a can, what would be the workflow to export as a .glb or.OBJ and import that into AE Beta to have thecondensation show up within AE Beta, is this possible?Has anyone here run into this sistuation?Thank you.