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Inspiring
Feb 9, 2026 10:29 AM UTC
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Content Aware Fill won't create any Fill

Hi, I’m trying to use Content Aware Fill, for the first time probably and it just won’t create any Fill for me. Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but I’v tried it as well on completly different footage and project and the problem persist.

 

  1. I upload the footage
  2. Create a Mask on the layer
  3. Set the Mask on Subtract and sets Feather
  4. Motion Tracker on Mask is not needed
  5. The hole is visible in Comp and in Content Aware Fill
  6. Clicks on Generate Fill Layer from Content Aware Fill
  7. After approximately 6s a new fill layer appears, however without any fill or content
  8. Immediatelly my CPU and RAM start going up until 100% (I have 64GB DDR4 RAM and i5-12600KF CPU)

 

CPU stops going crazy when I delete the new Fill layer and my RAM drops to like 80-90%, until I reopen the project again. There is no visible activity in After Effects and I even left it for a moment running on 100% to see, if something appear in After Effects, however nothing showed up. For most of the time I don’t encounter hardware limitations and never that kind of nonsense type.

 

 

Thank you for your time

YuriwexyCorrect answer
Inspiring
Feb 23, 2026 7:27 PM UTC

@thepixelsmith I don’t see any bar there, however it was fixed by changing the Renderer into Classic 3D

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Community Expert
Feb 11, 2026 1:55 AM UTC

Are you revealing enough of the Content Aware Fill Panel to see the progress and do the numbers reach 100%

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Inspiring
Feb 12, 2026 12:40 PM UTC

Please explain what are you talking about. When the Fill layer is created, there is no visible loading to 100%, it just wants to use 100% of my CPU and RAM, without any visible process

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thepixelsmith
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Community Expert
Feb 16, 2026 3:39 PM UTC

At the very bottom of the Content Aware Fill panel there is a status bar that runs first when the effect is analyzing and again as it generates the fill layers.

That is what ​@RobShultz is talking about.

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