After Effects (Beta)

Fast-Exit is now available for After Effects in Public Beta 22.2x17   We’ve added the Fast-Exit feature to After Effects which greatly accelerates the process of shutting down the app. After you choose to close the app and all data and preferences have been saved, After Effects will immediately exit. In addition to improving shutdown speed, the Fast-Exit feature is intended to reduce the incidence of process hangs and deadlocks.   Please give it a try. We’d love to hear your feedback on how it is working for you.

Your system has run our of Application Memory – AE BETAI switched over the the latest Beta AE 22.1.1 (Build 68) and am still getting this issue I had using AE 2022 on 64GB M1 MAX. I'm having to purge memory constantly which is really a disruptive workflow. Definitly my biggest pain point. My previous 2018 intel Mac seemed to mangage the memory in the background and I never confronted this issue.Other users are seeing this same issue:https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/after-effects-22-0-1-causing-memory-leaks-o...Any feedback in regards to this issue is greatly apprciated!

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Turning the resulotion to 1/4 in the view port eliminate the model,It is visible only in third, half and full res

When applying Smoother to the position property on a 60fps/6 minute layer, with a keyframe on every frame (created with convert expression to keyframes)  the system hangs (After Effects not responding). Steps to reproduce:    1. ...use wiggle expression on position property for a layer.2. convert expression to keyframes3. apply Smoother to position property Result: ...crash (Adobe Effects Not responding, spinning beachball)Expected: ...Smoother to work System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v22.1.1.68    OS: macOS v12.0.1, RAM: 32,00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10

In AE 22.1.1x68, the Project Panel's thumbnail is always just black (or purely transparent if Thumbnail Transparency Grid is on) regardless of whatever comp, solid, .ai file, .mp4 file is selected. Composition > Set Poster Time does nothing.

Another playback issue with 22.1.1x62:Whenever I preview a comp with audio, the audio meters do absolutely nothing. The audio plays ok (well, it always goes very out of sync with the picture) whether I do a spacebar or Numpad . (audio only) playback - but no audio meters. However, if I ctrl-drag the CTI, to do an audio scrub, the meters display the levels normally.So whatever playback bug was around a few releases ago is back with a vengeance.

Still running Mojave on my home computer.  The creative cloud app says that v22.0 is compatible, and v22.1 is not, however when I updated to the latest build of v22.0 the app says it requires mac os 10.15.  I had to roll back to an older build of v22.0 (from July) using Time machine.  Can we please keep the v22.0 branch Mojave compatible, or provide a link to the latest version that is Mojave compatible?

Nothing happens when I press the spacebar for playing back a preview, neither when I trigger a preview playback from the Preview Panel. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v22.0.0.38    OS: macOS v10.15.7, RAM: 72.00 GB, CPUs (logical): 6

The current beta build of AE does not display anything in the comp viewer - just blackness, no transparency grid, no layers, no ruler lines, no title/action safe lines, nothing - no matter if I load up an existing project or create a new project/new comp, even if the new comp has a bright background colour. It makes no difference if I'm using CUDA or software mode. I shall update my Nvidia drivers (I updated them about 2 weeks ago) from 496.49 to 496.76 and report back. I'm on Windows 10, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, Nvidia RTX3090 24GB GPU, 128GB RAM UPDATE: I updated my Nvidia drivers to today's version, restarted, and AE is still as dead as a doornail. Back to good old, reliable version 2021!Incidentally, each time I quit the beta versions of AE or PPro, I always get that "do you want to send an error report?" message.

I'm running AE Beta on M1 Max on an external monitor but the issues appear on the Macbook display.I was working on a project earlier today with no issues, and then updated to build 54. That's when I no longer could see anything being previewed. It's just gray or flashing black. I saw that there was another update (build 56) and I updated, still having issues. I restarted my computer, reverted back and forth with the build versions but nothing works. The non-beta version still works with no issues.

Hello,I don't have preview of anythings in my After Effects. Test many project and nothing appear in the preview windows.System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v22.1.1.56    OS: macOS v12.0.1, RAM: 64,00 Go GB, CPUs (logical): 10

Compositions that worked in the Beta previously, are now not showing anything in the main composition window or the preview window.

L'écran de visualisation de nos médias est noir. On ne peut rien voir à ce que l'on fait, que ce soit calque de forme, média importé ou autre, rien n'est visible.

Hi in Ae Beta when I try and create a refernce frame, this happens... Any ideas? I'm running a windows version  

The Word 'What' is sitting next to my Effects Controls Panel.  I do have a text layer called what, probably came from there.  

Good afternoon, unless I'm missing something (quite possible as it's been a long couple of days) I'm not having some essential properties created in 2021 carrying over to 2022 the same way. There used to be a dial down arrow saying "Essential Properties" when you look at the layer properites. I had it set up so that when you did dial down the EP you could modify the source text of a layer by right clicking "edit value" and enter in the new text in the following window. I'm not seeing that anywhere in 2022. Has anyone else run into this?   - Rob

Ran into a bug where a ProRes 444 file's single color comes out as black and white. Specifically, an orange color comes out to black and white while grey text in the video remains grey. Some glitchy artifacting also appears when viewing at a lower preview resolution that isn't seen when I view the same file within AE on my intel iMac.  System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v22.1.1.23    OS: macOS v11.6.0, RAM: 16.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 8

I can't use anymore Element 3D, Saber, Keylight and a lot more plugins on AE. Even when I'm opening a project using those plugins, it doesn't work and all the effects are disabled. I see an error message that say there isn't enough storage left on my disk : what's false. I don't know how to fix this, is there someone who know what I can do. 

cmd shift d - split layer does not work  you need a better bug reporting system in your beta - going to your forum is a bad solve.

I have a comp, let's call it "Comp 1". I have a lot of expressions in there which include "thisComp", eg. thisComp.layer("matte1").transform.anchorPointIf I then rename my comp to "Comp 2", I get an error (including the orange box saying "This project contains expression errors") saying "Comp 1 is missing or does not exist" or similar, even though I'd never explicity used "Comp1 " in the expression - just "thisComp". If I then just click through each expression (by clicking on the magnifying glass in the orange warning banner), the errors go away, without me having to change anything. So AE knows that they're not real errors, but just takes some encouragement to get its head around the concept.

Hello, If I open aftereffects project do my work and put computer to sleep, after waking up RAM preview doesn't play. I have attached an image - in preview window it shows that it's playing, but video is static, nothing is playing. There is the same issue when Windows has been locked, after ulock I launch RAM preview, but it doesn't play. This bug is since version 18 or maybe even earlier, it's annoying, that so many versions of AE has this bug. To get rid of it, I have to restart aftereffects. Thanks! 

I have a long render, and about 10% in it slows from 50% cpu down to about 10% and just stays there. Build 22.1. Lot's of UHD footage. All effects turned off (just making a pre-render).  

Is it possible that media replacement can work with the audio in that media which is being replaced? Maybe I'm missing something but how could we approach this situation: For instance, we have video clip number one (of a variable length), which has a complex transition built in after effects, that goes to clip 2, which is also of variable length and can also be replaced. Instead of a protected in & out region, you kind of create a protected 'center' region, which is the AE transition, and the in & out is the footage itself in Premiere. Now, for even a simple positional slide-in of footage to match my wipe animation from AE, I'd have to use an extra adjustment layer in Premiere, matching the speed of my mogrt.

AE Version: 18.2.0 (Build 11) Reproduction Steps:- Make a tiny composition (e.g. 16x16).- Add a source where each pixel is distinct from its neighbours (e.g. random noise).- Zoom in so that each composition pixel is shown very large.- Pan the viewer until either the top edge, left edge, or both, are outside the bounds of the viewer. Expected Result:Preview continues to pan smoothly. Actual Result:Preview moves in a stepped fashion. Additional Notes:This issue does not occur on the release version of After Effects that I tested with (18.0.1 Build 1). Elements that don't exist as part of the composition itself, but are instead overlaid on top (such as bounding boxes, position indicators, shape/mask paths, title/action safe, the box drawn by CC Power Pin, the ground plane and viewcube on CC Particle World, etc) do not move in a stepped fashion.