After Effects (Beta)

When AE performs an auto-save, no matter what window is in foreground gets replace with AE, I mean when browsing the web for example and AE is running in the BG it automatically switches to the foreground when and auto-save occurs, this is slightly more annoying since I have to decrease the auto-save time interval because unexpected crashes of Betas. I wish I could provide more info.

H/ware: MacBook Pro / M1Max / using internal laptop screen (doesn't seem to matter which colour preset is active) or internal + external screensOS: macOS 12.3.1AE: shiny fresh install of the latest AE (22.5.0.35), default prefs, no 3rd party plugins Steps to reproduce:New ProjectNew CompProject Settings > Color: set depth to 32 bit; set Working Space to sRGBClick the viewer or timeline to make sure the comp has focusView > Simulate Output > Rec.709 (or any of them for that matter) This hangs (beachball or watch) or crashes AE here; you may need to Force Quit it (Cmd-Opt-Esc). If anyone can confirm this happens (or not) on their machine that'd help me figure a way forward. Could be M1 based, or it could be something display related, but I've no way to narrow it down. Thanks : )

Steps to reproduce:1. Import an .mp4 Result: No video is being shownExpected: Video to be displayed System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v22.5.0.32    OS: macOS v12.3.1, RAM: 64.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10 Quicktime info

This is a bit nuts so if anyone has a second to either confirm it's a bug or point out my idiocy it'd be much appreciated; there's a minimal project file attached. I tend to work with a linearised sRGB working space, and when rendering to an sRGB output file, AE correctly applies gamma correction to de-linearise the image. Except it's not doing it on my M1 machine; it outputs a linear space file. The same project opened on Intel vs ARM64 machines show the problem: To reproduce:open the attached project. It contains an empty comp and a single render item.look at the File > Project Settings... > Color dialog. It should show the project is using a linearised sRGB working space:  go to the Render Queue, click on the Output Module (ProRes), and go to the Color Management tab. On my Intel Mac Pro, I see this: Note the middle paragraph - though I'm outputting to the same colour space as the project, AE knows it has to apply gamma. On my M1 MacBook Pro, I see thi

Steps to reproduce:    1. Quit After EffectsResult: After Effects (Beta) error: crash occurred while invoking plug-in "Scripting".Expected: Quit System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v22.5.0.29    OS: macOS v12.3.1, RAM: 64.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10

There is isssue whene I copy autosave aep from its folder and return to main folder to paste it AE crashes this isssu in version AE 2022 and 2022.4.0

I continuously get "Cached Preview needs 2 or more frames to playback in AE Beta 22.4.0 (Build 10)" when I add a new layer or adjust a layer in my setup. Simple 3D camera setup with a slow camera push in z-space. 5 layers in total, no effects. Continuous rasterization thru to a live text layer with no effects. Background/base layer is built off a quicktime MPEG-4 movie - 2.3 MB. If I restart AE beta, it works fine for a little while until it pops up again. Roughly 80% CPU idle. Hardware Overview:   Model Name: MacBook Pro  Model Identifier: MacBookPro18,2  Chip: Apple M1 Max  Total Number of Cores: 10 (8 performance and 2 efficiency)  Memory: 64 GB  System Firmware Version: 7429.61.2  OS Loader Version: 7429.61.2

As promised, we have some new functionality being added to the Keyframe Color Labels feature today in After Effects Beta, 22.5 build 25.   Select Keyframe Label Groups  More options are now available to give you more control when you want to select all the keyframes that have been labeled by a specific color. Right-click on a keyframe and notice the new ‘Select Keyframe Label Groups’ option. You can now choose your selection to include keyframes of the same label group: On Selected Layers On All Layers Visible Keyframes on Selected Layers Visible Keyframes on All Layers  Visible keyframes means that the property for that layer has been twirled open in the Timeline panel. It does not relate to the zoom or scroll of the Timeline panel.  For the first two options, keyframes that aren’t visible will be selected and their properties will be twirled open.  KNOWN ISSUE: These commands do not work if more than one

When quitting the AE Beta app it hangs the app and I need to restart the computer.

Steps to reproduce:Put 'Properties' panel in a stacked panel group, and select a different panel in the group (so that Properties is contracted, or 'closed').Select a shape layer.Click on the Properties panel to expand it (make it active). Result: The Properties panel doesn't show any information or properties – the Panel title reads "Properties: No Selection". If you click on the shape layer with the Properties panel expanded, it then populates. Alternatively, if you expand and contract the Properties panel a couple of times, it populates.Expected: Properties panel should populate with information on the selected layer even if the panel is contracted. System info:Application: After Effects (Beta) v22.5.0.14OS: macOS v12.1.0, RAM: 64.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10

Steps to reproduce:1. create a new comp (command+n)2. create a solid (command+y)3. undo/redo 2xResult: Solid takes .5, 1, then more than 15 seconds to appear in the new comp. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v22.4.0.32    OS: macOS v12.2.1, RAM: 64.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10 Here's a video. You can jump about halfway through to see the 15 second delay. I wiggle the cursor around while waiting more than 15 seconds for the solid to show up. Solid Creation Delay  Anyone else getting this? Please let me know if there is any way I can help. Also check my profile for other AE Beta bug reports. Thanks! Benjamin

Hi all!I'm always on the newest Beta, but never can start it. I sendet die report, no response.I deinstalled it, but it does not matter. alwys that Debut Event, then the Bug report window 

When I render DNxHD in any Apple Silicon version of After Effects (Beta 22.5 and the current release v22.3), the file is unreadable when imported in to Avid. Avid can read DNxHD files redered out of 22.2.1 using the exact same output module no problem.

Hello everyone! I'm back to announce a new feature, available today in After Effects Beta 22.4x1!   Separated Dimensions Preference:  You can now set AE to default to separated X, Y dimensions (for 2D layers) or separated X, Y, Z dimensions (for 3D layers) on position properties by enabling the new Separated Dimensions options in Preferences > General.     What We Want to KnowDoes this feature improve your workflow? What would you change?   Thank you! We’re looking forward to your feedback

Text Animation of Character Offset with Range Type Preserve Case & Digits has been enhanced in After Effects Beta 22.5 (19) to include the Hebrew character set. You can read more about this particular character set here: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0590.pdf  Just to review, the Range Type Preserve Case & Digits defines a set of Unicode range groups whereby when After Effects adds a positive or negative offset to the base character it is animating the resulting Unicode character is wrapped around so it stays within the same Unicode range group as the base character.  For example, consider the upper case Latin letter "Z" which is part of a Unicode range group for upper case Latin letters that spans from "A" to "Z". When we add one with the Character Offset we generate an upper case Latin "A" instead of getting the next Unicode character after "Z" which is the Left Square Bracket "[". Neat, eh? With Character Offset Range Type Full Unicode the

Been struggling with a strange issue lately but I've narrowed things down, so I here's what I've found in case it helps others with the same problem. I don't think AE is the cause, but since AE is where you're likely to experience the problem, I wanted to document it somewhere. Symptom: a project containing certain ProRes assets renders fine on Intel Macs, loads and displays correctly on ARM macs but when you try to render them, AE hangs at the start of the render. The cause seems to be some ProRes files that have been created using ffmpeg. Not all files created with ffmpeg exhibit the problem. The ProRes files in question may not cause problems in any other software packages, but something about the way ffmpeg compresses them can cause issues with the M1 chips' hardware decoding, I'm guessing. We've been using ffmpeg to compress image sequences into ProRes files for years now without any problems, so this has been tricky to track down; it really does only seem to affect AE o

Hello all, About a week or so ago I did the update for my M1 Mini for AE Beta and ever since then I cannot get it to open. I get the error message below,Afeter Effects AlertLast log message was: <2694842> <DynamicLink> <5> Increase wait time to 2.  Now of course there is the longer thread as well that I have been sending to Adobe.  Any help or suggestions would be grately appreciated!!! Cheers, John Grote, Jr.Generating crash log, which may take a few minutes.

Text Animation of Character Offset with Range Type Preserve Case & Digits has been enhanced in After Effects Beta 22.4 (41) to include the coded character set KS X 1001 which supports hangul and hanja characters. You can read more about this particular character set here: KS_X_1001  Just to review, the Range Type Preserve Case & Digits defines a set of Unicode range groups whereby when After Effects adds a positive or negative offset to the base character it is animating the resulting Unicode character is wrapped around so it stays within the same Unicode range group as the base character.  For example, consider the upper case Latin letter "Z" which is part of a Unicode range group for upper case Latin letters that spans from "A" to "Z". When we add one with the Character Offset we generate an upper case Latin "A" instead of getting the next Unicode character after "Z" which is the Left Square Bracket "[". Neat, eh? With Character Offset Range Type

This was a problem a few releases ago; I'm not sure if it was resolved and now it's back, or I just never noticed it for a while:When an AE render completes (a final render, not a preview) AE always jumps to the front of my app windows. For example:Set a render goingGo to Chrome to type an emailAE's render completesAE, very rudely, jumps to the front of all my windows/apps, interrupting whatever I'm doingIt's rather annoying! AE should just politely play the 'render complete' chime, and stay in its place.

Hello there, As I'm overall impressed with the performance of AE Beta for M1 (running on a 16" M1 Max, 32GB, mOS 12.1). I'm sad to report that I can't manage to launch the 22.3 Beta. 22.1 and 22.2 work, but the latest version crashes on start-up. Is anyone else having the same issue? Because I can't seem to find similar reports online or here on the forum. Thanks, Pieter  

During rendering animation a lot of high is missingrecording is ok, sound in AE also?

I have no idea what happened between the last and current beta, but this is unusable. Every move I make caused the screen to drop to black. I will see the screen in the preview window, but when I move the mouse or try to make changes everything in the preview goes black. WTF. Macbook Pro M1 Max fully maxed out on Monterey 12.2.1.

Anytime I try to apply a previously made text animation preset or one built in from Bridge, it gives an error: "After Effects (Beta) error: Can't import file "Text-Fade in-out.ffx": unsupported filetype or extension. ( 0:: 1) This is a deal breaker for me, I absolutely need these presets for my main client. I had just started trying beta as the current version is nearly impossible to use with shape layers causing a pinwheel every time I touch anything. Please fix ASAP.MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) M1 Max 64GB Ram

Hello.I'm writing from a Mac Studio M1 Ultra 48-Core 128GB, on macOS 12.3.1After Effects Betta 22.4.0 (Build 32).I'm noticing the composition (working in simple 8-bits per channel) being very slow to update even when performing some very simple changes, like moving a very small and simple png layer in the comp.You can see an extreme delay between me moving the file and the file being actually moved.Sometimes the delay is as long as 5 seconds, which is unbearable in a normal workflow.Here's a video showing what I mean:https://youtube.com/shorts/g9NN1_NuicE?feature=shareThanks 🙂

I imported an illustrator file with a grid of boxes and each box on its own layer. Just a box, nothing else. If I select all these layers and "Create Shapes from Vector Layer" it crashes every time. If I do them one at a time there is no crash.