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My ae keeps crashing if I start a new project and try to save it. As soon as it opens file explorer for me to choose where to save it, it crashes with the following messages: It is also crashing if I try to render a composition and gives me the following messages:Or this one also comes up  These are the steps I've taken so far to try and resolve the issue but none have worked:restarted the pcscanned pc for virusesremoved 3rd party driversuninstalled AE as well as removed folder from program fileschanged render settings to cinema 4dThis is happening in version 24.6.1. PC info:Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz   3.11 GHzInstalled RAM 16,0 GB (15,8 GB usable)System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processorEdition Windows 11 ProVersion 22H2Installed on ‎2023/‎02/‎27

Hi all,How can I do a perspective transform in AE just like in Photoshop?Thank you!

I'm just learning. Trying to recreate the I Love Lucy opening sequence. I needed a heart outline to draw itself but I cannot get trim paths line animation to work. The line just sits there the whole time. I know this is probably something stupid, so I apologize in advance, but....any help?

How can I apply an expression to multiple layers at once using Automation Blocks? I don't like manually copying and pasting the expression to each layer. I also don't want to open layers and select all properties manually. Instead, I want to enter the property name in a dropdown menu or input box and apply the expression to the selected layers' properties. Example:I select multiple layers and run the script. A dialog box opens where I enter the property name, such as "position" and the expression. Then, the script applies the expression to the specified property for all selected layers. Has anyone done something similar or have suggestions on how to achieve this? I’d appreciate any guidance. Thanks in advance! 😊

Hi community. How can I get this electric orb to look spherical on in solid? I have played around with the emitter settings. but the effect is from edge to edge of my canvas. I cant seem to find the settings which controls the shape, to get it spherical like the preset is showing. Thank you.    

What I was used to is if one layer is linked to another, the position value of the child becomes relevant to its parent anchor point position. So if the child's anchor point is perfectly aligned to its parent's anchor point, its position would be [0,0].Lately I noticed it's not the case anymore. instead the child position is calculated from the top left corner of the parent layer.I recently moved from Ae 23 to 24.6.4 (build 3)Am I missing some updates? Anyone know why this is happening?I can't find a reason for this behavior. The old way was definitely right.

Hi. When setting key frame positions/numbers, how do you bring numbers back to original with a click, without remembering each individual number? this is extremely frustrating, premiere pro has a single ''reset'' button that does this in one click. 

Heey, I'm wandering how to target separated position dimensions in a AE Script. I separated the position dimensions with ".position.dimensionsSeparated = true" and want to apply expressions to each value. I know I can add the different expressions in one expression, but it is eassier and more efficient to code it this way in this case. Does anyone know how to apply expressions to the position dimension values after they have been separated? Thank in advance for the reactions!

This is the kind of question to which there is just no video or tutorial, the most maddening kind of question. In Premiere I masked out a subject by working with a linked After Effects file. The rotobrush mask did a great job but when I "freeze" the clip and bring it back to Premiere it is totally the wrong color. And I spent 2 hours using evey color correction scheme known to man with no good results. So I've now spent 6 hours going through color management tutorials and videos and articles, all to no avail. When I can actually find matching profiles on files they still don't match color.  There are so many damn hidden places to adjust color and profiles and working spaces and god knows how many more color things there are that adjust color in these programs. Crazy frustrating.I really want to get more into After Effects but I'm at the point now where I have to write off the software as useless because everything that comes out of there is such horrible color. Any help

I am using aftereffect and set the auto save around 5/10mins and it takes really long time to auto save it. whats the issue? I tried to clear cache or restart the ae, but eachtime autosave is in random time, can anyone explain? And any solution to this?  

Hello I am trying to export my animation project from media encoder. The quality is poor. Picture is pixelated, not what is supposed to look like. Can you help me, what is wrong?  

Hi, there! I'm trying to do a Trim Paths feature in a way I think is impossible, but I ask anyways, just in case...As you can see in the following image, in the left I have a shape with Trim Paths apllied, and that's the final shape I want, BUT I want to have not a shape but a STROKE (as the right side one) because I want to manipulate it more easily. The right one is a double stroke, made with the following technique...  ...when the black stroke is attached to the blue one with a value at the end (+5). This is the way I use to use in these cases; when I change the value of the blue stroke and the false stroke mantains its false looking.So there's the problem: I want to Trim Paths the black one. It's a solution for this?Thanks in advance!

I have a photo, I'm animating a small push in. I created a few solids for the ground, a building, and some awnings. The projection is working as expected, but it's noticeably softer and more blurry than the guide layer.I've tried everything I could find online: No depth of field on the camera, shadow map set to 4000, no shadow diffusion, and it doesn't seem to matter if the projection material is close to either the light or the projection catcher. Camera settings and projector resolution don't help either.Rick Gerard recommends parallel lights for projections, and while a parallel light does produce a sharper projection, as far as I can tell a parallel light will only project correctly onto a perpendicular surface. My ground plane doesn't receive a projection and my awnings (at a 45 degree angle to the building) are distorted.I looked at the Cinema 4D renderer, but I can't get any projections out of it; materials don't have the "Transmit Shadows" option.I'm afraid my answer is "Yeah,

I'm trying to copy keyframes throug a script, but I'm having problems with getting in and out temporal eases. I have the folowing code:function copyKey(property, index){ var keyData = { inTemporalEase: property.keyInTemporalEase(index), outTemporalEase: property.keyOutTemporalEase(index), //Other key properties.... } return keyData } $.writln(keyData.inTemporalEase[0].influence) //==> 16.666666 $.writln(keyData.outTemporalEase[0].influence) //==> 16.666666 The problem is that if the keyframe is not eased in after effects, the influence of the KeayframeEase  objects returned by inTemporalEase and outTemporalEase, are always 16,66666, although  the value in after effects is 0.01. When the keyframe is eased in After effects, it gets the correct influence value. So, Is there a way to deal with non eased keyframes to get the correct value?

Hi, I found that some guide layers can still be seen in the preview in After effects. For example, as you can see, the second-to-last layer is a guide layer (the blue bg). When I press the space bar to preview the video, I can still see it. I believe that they won't be seen in the rendered video. Usually, if I set it as a guide layer, it can't be seen when I preview it. I wonder if there is an setting so that the guide layers can be seen in the preview?

Hello,I am having a query about JSON file and how to use them in after effects. So I have created a quiz template. And I have like 50 questions. For which I have like 50 renders from my production team. So I have an excel spread sheet that has 50 questions with multiple options as answers, i.e. A,B,C,D. Out of them one will be correct. Now I have created an animated template that I'll add after each video, with questions pertaining to that relevant video and there will one correct answer that will be revealed after some time. I'm gonna put them in my LMS online. So is there a possibility to make it modular using JSON. Since I have to render each of those videos by adding the quiz template and then animating the answer reveal. So here's my query. I wanna make a JSON which will have the questions, and it will have 4 options and another 5th column which will have random numbers from 1 to 4, which will say which of the 4 options is the correct answer.  Can I somehow link the 5th

Hello everyone.  First of all, i'm a beginner in After Effects,so i really hope someone can help me. I'mhaving some trouble with the paint brush tool. My idea is to make an animation project.  I started with watching a tutorial, i firstly had to mask and the paint out some parts of the character. The problem is that the layers where i painted on for some reason last for a few frames. Let me explain better: The first seconds the layers are as if i never applicated any paint on them,and at some point  the paint comes back. In short,it applicates just for some frames. I don't know if i was clear enough,but i hope that someone managed to understand the problem,if anyone can help, it would be lifesaving. Thanks for reading.

Hi community. Today my post is about comminity members who use a TV monitor instead of PC monitor.  Im considering getting a TV monitor because they seem more afordable, and I need large screen to mount to my wall.  Is there any problems using AE with TV monitor? (I dont game at all), I just do simple graphics, use PS, AI, and AE for most of my projects.  Thank you. 

I'm sorry the title is confusing. I'm not sure how to describe this more succintly, but an example will tell you what I'm after:  I have a shape layer, a rectangle with rounded corners. I want it anchored from the top edge and I want to maintain the same radius of the rounded corners no matter what size changes I make to the rectangle. The size property seems to ignore both the layer anchor point and the (smaller) shape anchor point. Changes to the size property are anchored in the center of the shape. All I can get to work is an expression. It works great, but there must be an easier way that I'm missing! Can anyone tell me an easier way? Here's my expression solution:  On the Rectangle Path 1 > Position propertyx = content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").position[0]; y = content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").position[1]; y += .5*content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").size[1]; [x,y]Essentially I have the shape positioning

Adobe needs to address some basic issues in its software. A particularly frustrating one is that when you create a shape from an Illustrator layer with transparency, After Effects completely ignores the transparency. This seems like a simple fix, especially considering both programs are from Adobe. As paying subscribers, we expect essential improvements like this instead of having to rely on paid plugins to fix something that should work natively.

I didn't have any issue until one day while my AE project is set to full, this error pops up: I've already tried all the fixes. I emptied the disk cache, cleaned the database and cache, increased my maximum disk cache size (it was originally 100GB, I set it to 200GB), in the Memory settings I increased the allocation from 56GB to 58GB of RAM to be available for AE (I have 64GB of RAM total, so the max AE allows me to set it to is 58GB), and in the Project Settings I'm using Mecury GPU Acceleration (CUDA). Why am I still getting this error when 3GB is not the max amount of memory I allocated to it?

Hello, I have some questions about extending a 20-second video clip to 60 seconds while maintaining its original speed.Using "time remapping" and dragging the last keyframe makes the video slower, and "time stretch" has the same effect. I also tried a loopout expression, but it just causes the video to restart at the last keyframe.I’d like to know if there’s a way to extend the video to fit a 60-second composition without changing the playback speed. In the screenshot attached, you will see my current timeline setup. The initial lenght of the video is 20 seconds. If you need more information, please let me know. Thanks!

Problem:I'm unable to resize the switches column. To be more accurate, I'm able to resize it, but the minimum width lets a lot of space on the right side.The problem occures only with this one. The other columns don't have any empty space (marked red in the image)  What I tried:Hovering over the intersection between two timeline columns at the top of the timeline, the mouse cursor changes to a double-ended arrow, I drag to the left until the column width doesn't change any further.Resetting the preferences and uninstalling (with deletion of the preferences)/reinstalling of After Effects. Expected result:Being able to reduce the size of the column to the first switch on the right side, so that there is not this much free space. I don't want to get rid of the switches entirely, just of the free space next to them. 

I have animation about 2 minutes long. It consists of 10 photo frames where each frame shows a simple animation. The camera moves from frame to frame and when the camera focuses on a frame, the animation is played for that frame. Is it possible to start playback of a pre-comp at a certain time in the main comp?

I am attempting to wiggle position of layer but in a staggered motion, not smooth, so each new wiggle generated position would appear, hold, then reappear in new wiggle position at a rate of every .5s...