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Rocketbottle
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Rocketbottle
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Feb 18, 2025
03:35 AM
Thanks for the tip, Shebbe Finding practical information about AE's Colour management with ACES is still difficult. So, using as wide working space as possible is not good? So far I have set the correct media and output profiles and worked in a wide gamut space. Everything has worked fine, looked correct and exported transparent to originals. Could you point to a good source of practical information about After Effects ACES working methods and all the display profiles? Cheers
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Feb 14, 2025
06:43 AM
1 Upvote
Thanks, Kevin. Unfortunately purging the cache or clearing the memory does not work. At some point, the Paint plugin just hogs the memory way I cannot clear. Restarting AE or the Mac does not help either. When the Paint freezes AE, nothing seems to help.
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Feb 06, 2025
06:46 AM
1 Upvote
Hi Does anybody else find AE's Paint performance, politely put, poor? Using Mac Studio with the latest AE version. Today I got really frustrated. Usually, AE starts to crawl and freeze after some +1000 Clone Stamp strokes. You may be able to continue by duplicating the Paint effect, clearing the strokes and resuming fresh. Now, I have a normal-ish 20-second 4K clip, (Prores 4444, Arri LogC3). AE freezes completely after 70 - 100 tiny strokes. Nothing fancy - just a basic clone brush. RGB, single frame stroke, clone source from the same layer. I have tried: clearing caches, disabling all other layers and effects, Safe Mode (all third-party plugins disabled), changing METAL to Renderer to Mercury Software Only, using a small Region of Interest, opening a new fresh project and starting over, half resolution (you really can't work this way), precomping, downgrading AE versions... Nothing alarming with Mac's memory usage. Would not want to start over the fifth time. Getting gradually angry with all AE problems! So, I guess it's a Photoshop video sequence then ☹️ Very limited output formats. [What do you know, Photoshop project saves the timeline too! After finishing my first test sequence I Copied a Premiere Prores .epr preset to the Photoshop video preset folder (I knew Premiere would be useful one day), opened the saved PSD file with all the video timeline and rendered out Prores4444. EXCEPT - how to make Photoshop open the Prores in 16-bit. Changing the Image Mode in PS menu was not enough ☹️ Rendered output was not original bit depth.] To be honest, I wish AE Paint tools would be even close to Photoshop. Does anybody have any better suggestions, please?
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Feb 04, 2025
06:04 AM
Check the Adobe Status page https://status.adobe.com/ to see when the issue will be fixed. Meanwhile, you can install older version 25 of Photoshop to be able to work [Thanks for the working tip to yann_9888].
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Jan 23, 2025
05:38 AM
1 Upvote
OK. While we wait for the miracle to happen, I would like to share my Add Grain workaround for working with log material in the 32-bit. You'll need to use full ACES/ACES2065-1 colourspace to keep transformation transparent.
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Dec 30, 2024
11:58 AM
2 Upvotes
This is great. Two and a half years in this thread alone, backed by valid reasoning. Not a single comment from Adobe so far...
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Nov 07, 2024
07:12 AM
2 Upvotes
Something is definitely still broken. I am struggling with similar memory problems. The system runs out of memory when rendering or previewing in AE. AE v25.0.1 (Buid 2) Mac M1 Ultra, 64GB Sonoma 14.7. This can occur with 100% native AE tools and in safe mode. Bit of a mystery, but I have constantly experienced this with larger ProRes sources. Keep the Activity Monitor open to monitor the memory usage of the After Effects process. You'll get a warning of low system memory at a certain point. To me, AE hogs about double the available memory and freezes. Interestingly, the render queue might indicate that only 10% of the RAM is being utilized. Exporting a video file can be impossible. My solution has been rendering in pieces using image sequences. Stop the rendering process before After Effects freezes, clear the memory and then continue from where it left off. Annoying, tedious, etc.
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Oct 15, 2024
04:31 PM
Bad news. I was about to install the Beta version to be able to finish rendering. Unfortunately, I am not able to share this project. If it helps, here’s some information: My hardware: Mac M1 Ultra, 64GB Sonoma 14.7. Material is on fast Thunderblade SSD, APFS volume, RAID 0, connected to a Thunderbolt port. Project: AE v25.0 (seems to be worse than the previous v24.X). 32-bit, OCIO colour management, ACES colourspace. 1 layer 4K Prores 4444, RedLog3 - used 2 times. Comp length +200 frs. AE is using only 10% of the 64,0 GB memory when rendering. Plugins & FX: Rotobrush, light, camera and grain FX, various levels & blurs. Element 3D, animated Obj sequence, 250 frs. 4K exr file for environment lightning. Here are a couple of screen captures from the main- and precomps. Disabling the disk cache does not help. Restarting Mac and disabling hardware acceleration in import and output seem to aid a bit. [Edit - turning off hardware acceleration is not the solution]. I finally succeeded in rendering the whole timeline. I am happy to send a log file. I hope I got something useful in there. If you need anything else, please don’t hesitate to ask.
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Oct 15, 2024
04:06 PM
Thanks, but disabling disk cache does not help 😕
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Oct 15, 2024
12:10 PM
Ha! I cannot render my project out. AE freezes every time. I was already rejoicing when I downloaded the fresh 25.0 update - until "Your system is running low on application memory" popped on the screen. So far, three hours lost in rendering time, and the deadline is getting closer as my blood pressure builds up. I just realized the fix is in version 25.1. Please, how long until it's released?
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Sep 07, 2024
07:53 AM
Thanks I have updated AE to 24.6.1. I don't know if there is any change, but so far I have had fewer memory problems. Mostly with full frame 4K or larger frame size. Difficult to do problem-solving in the middle of a client project. I will mail some more information as soon as the problem appears.
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Aug 29, 2024
07:24 AM
Thank you. Now that you told me, I remembered this from somewhere earlier. Don't need an alpha channel from AE to Photoshop very often 🙂. Funny, one would think Adobe softwares would understand each other. But maybe it's just me... [Sarcasm mode off].
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Aug 27, 2024
11:15 AM
Bug Photoshop 25.11.0 macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 Open composition on the timeline and select from the menu: Composition > Save frame as... Render out a 16-bit file with transparency (Tif, Psd...). Open a Photoshop composition. Drag the rendered file as a layer in Photoshop or place it from the menu - no transparency available! Bad. Please fix.
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Aug 19, 2024
01:35 AM
2 Upvotes
Same here M1 Mac Ultra AE version 24.5 Just started a project with new AE version. I can't work with this ☹️ Normal Prores 4444 with colour management - nothing new or special. Has been working for ages, before the update. Downgrading AE now. Quality control, anybody? Please Adobe!
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Jun 21, 2024
02:34 AM
4 Upvotes
Treating loyal customers with indifference and arrogance year after year will bite you back eventually. Not the best time to raise the already expensive subscription price either.
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Jun 19, 2024
03:47 AM
2 Upvotes
Yayyy! Adobe made 5,4 billion dollars profit in 2023. And you just raised the subscription fee. How hard could it be to channel some of it to really useful features?
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Apr 13, 2024
03:44 AM
PS. Because of the ongoing AE Prores bugs, until official 24.4. update, I am forced to use the old 23.2.1 version. No memory issues there. Runs like butter - solid and smooth.
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Apr 11, 2024
05:27 AM
1 Upvote
AE Beta V 24.4.0.041 Mac Studio M1 Ultra - 64GB memory macOS Ventura 13.6.6 I have been testing the new beta V24.4. With a couple of the latest releases, I have noticed my Mac is running out of memory when working in AE for a while (usually less than hour). Nothing out of ordinary - Simple few 4K layers compositing with Mocha AE masks, tracking with multiple keyframes, blur and grain FX. I am getting a low RAM memory warning too often or freezing and prompt: "Your system has run out of application memory". At this stage AE freezes and saving your work may not possible. Memory problem has never been an issue with any other AE versions. Prores 4444 original. No 3rd party plugins. OCIO color management with ACES.
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Mar 19, 2024
05:01 AM
Thanks, I know. Most are for Windows (I'm on Mac). And I prefer simplicity over complex functionality or full-blown image editing software. Just open a filter in Photoshop, where I do my editing anyway - or a simple drag-and-drop app with minimal UI to quickly convert bump to normal. I've tried a few, but who would write a simple, stylish Mac app or a plugin for Photoshop?
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Mar 19, 2024
04:36 AM
I kindly ask, are these filters already made inoperable in Photoshop release 25.5 because they do nothing but crash Photoshop? If so, why does Photoshop still have these menus? I guess it's time to learn some coding on Mac 🤨 to create a simple standalone app or filter. To my understanding, an image filter like "Generate Normal Map" has not much to do with Photoshop's "3D" features (they were heavy and a bit unusable anyway). It only would take a few lines of code to keep us happy... But Adobe policy is Adobe policy.
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Mar 08, 2024
10:10 AM
1 Upvote
Paul, thank you. I tested importing a Prores 4444 video clip and I cannot see the luminance flicker anymore. Can you shed any information on when version 24.4 will be officially released, please? Happy
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Mar 01, 2024
08:27 AM
I believe I found the issue. I just updated Photoshop and haven't had a chance to fully test everything. It appears that a 4800 ppi scanned image as a background increased the imported layers size to ridiculous. I am so accustomed to working with screen resolution, so I accidentally overlooked this.
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Mar 01, 2024
06:32 AM
Bug: Photoshop 25.5.0 macOS Ventura 16.3.4 Apple M1 Ultra Drag an image file over the open Photoshop document to import it. If "Resize Image During Place" is not ticked in settings, the imported layer is resized huge (probably Photoshop max canvas size?) and practically freezes Photoshop. I used to work with this selection off, but it caused a problem after the latest update.
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Feb 27, 2024
10:23 AM
4 Upvotes
I had a quick look at AE Beta 24.3.0. I heard some CC plugins have been updated. What if...? Nope. Not yet ☹️
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Feb 27, 2024
10:16 AM
2 Upvotes
I am sorry, Adobe, but removing the 3D filters seems like a plain stupid move. Generating bump and normal maps has been a useful feature, but after updating to Photoshop 25.5.0 a couple of days ago, I am facing a crash whenever I use these filters. I am confused why you still keep the menus if they were intended to be disabled. Feels like twisting the knife... The solution suggested subscribing to the Substance Painter for an extra €237 per year seems kindly put, unreasonable. Keeping another older Photoshop installation just for normal maps is not an elegant workflow (and sooner than later it will no longer be supported). Might as well use another software altogether. I naively assumed that Substance Painter would be included in the annual subscription when it first became available. Of course, it was not. As a result, I am not a happy customer.
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Feb 22, 2024
05:32 PM
1 Upvote
Thank you, Paul. I appreciate the update. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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Jan 30, 2024
01:54 AM
1 Upvote
Paul, Thank you for the update.
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Jan 22, 2024
05:17 AM
Dear Adobe, Any news yet? Soon it will be a year since I was able to update my After Effects version. I am getting a bit annoyed and frustrated business-wise. I am open to suggestions and happy to receive some compensation. Respectfully
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Dec 09, 2023
09:14 AM
1 Upvote
Sigh... AE version 24.1 just appeared. M1 Mac Prores is still flickering. I knew I was over-optimistic to hope for a Christmas present 🙂, but... maybe a Happy New Year's surprise?
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Nov 30, 2023
10:05 AM
1 Upvote
Yes. The dropped level is the incorrect one. Hope this gets solved soon. Thank you Jari
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