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Hier ist die vollständig überarbeitete und kompakte Version, die alle deine Informationen berücksichtigt:After Effects zwischen Mac und Windows: Hilfe bei Kompatibilitäts- und Performance-Problemen gesuchtHallo zusammen,ich brauche dringend Hilfe, da ich massive Probleme mit After Effects habe – speziell in einem Workflow zwischen Windows-PC und Mac. Ich hoffe, jemand von euch hat Tipps, wie ich die Situation verbessern kann. Ausgangslage:Windows-PC: Hauptrechner mit interner Grafikkarte, extrem langsam bei Animationen und Exporten. (16GB, Graka "Intel UHD Graphics 630")Mac: Neuer Mac (24 GB RAM, 8 Kerne, kleiner Bildschirm) wurde angeschafft, um Exporte schneller zu erledigen.Beide Systeme laufen mit legalen, aktualisierten After Effects-Versionen (2025).Dateien werden über eine externe Festplatte ausgetauscht oder über Online Cloud. Probleme:Dateikompatibilität:Manche After Effects Dateien, die auf dem Windows-PC erstellt wurden, lassen sich auf dem Mac nicht öffnen, obwohl

Dear AE fellows,I wrote a plugin for AE for windows which used cairo library.I simply used the standalone cairo binary for windows which was easily downloaded from thr web. Now I'd like to rewrite my plugin for MacOs.Do you know if there is standalone cairo library for macos? Yaroslav. 

I have a perplexity.ai generated script that changes selected KF from linear to auto Bézier. This bypasses the cumbersome right-click and menu clicking needed to do this manually, plus it's now a KB shortcut for me, so even easier. What I need now is a script to change selected KF's from any other interpolation (auto Bézier, continuous, etc.) to linear interpolation. So far, AI can write the conversion from linear to auto Bézier, but not the reverse of that.Any help or solution would be appreciated? ...or, Dummy needs to know the KB shortcut AE already has that does this... 🙂AI script that goes from linear to auto Bézier, but AI cannot write a script to go back the other way. I even uploaded the AI script to the AI and asked it to reverse the process of its own script, but it could not. 😞JavaScriptEditDeleteFlag asked just now James Reid VanVoris111 bronze badge New contributorAdd a comment     Show tips    Hel

I am trying to more realistically control the level of grain in shadows/mids/highlights; the Add Grain effect has controls for shadow/mid/highlights, but I find it difficult to get the right falloff.  What would be the right way to do this with curves?  Alternately, it would also be good to know how to do this right with a film grain overlay clip. I have tried using a luma key matte but in this case too, it is difficult to get the smooth falloff, and it would seem better to do it with curves; I'm sure I'm not doing it right.  As a point of reference I just re-watched the late, great David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (shot and printed on film), and noticed the tremendous amount of grain in the mids, with zero grain in the shadows and zero in the fully blown out highlights such as headlights. Meanwhile, skin tones and yellow/orange/red range seemed more grainy than the green/blue/magenta side. [Inserted image somewhat distorted by digital compression] Woul

Using Cinema 4d. Under Geometry options I have Curvature and Bevel but no extrude. 

Hi!I'd like a 3D Null to get the orientation of 3D a layer. (without parenting, it would be too easy )I've tried a lot of solutions, through orientation, rotations, both combined... some results are close, but never perfect.If I'm right, orientation is computed before rotations...I think the simplest way would be with auto-orientation, or the lookAt() expression on orientation, wich gives me correct X and Y orientations, and then get an expression on zRotation to get a "full" orientation.But what would it be? How can I get the Z orientation in layer space?Any idea will be appreciated!François

Hi,I have an issue when using Ae. I regulary have the message "After Effects: Out of memory".These last days, I used to open the Windows task manager while using Ae to check the memory usage.It is around 40-60% all the time, but sometimes there's a peak exeeding 90% and that's when AE crashes with multiple error messages. When it's happening, I'm not doing anything particular that would eat more ram, It may even happen when an Ae project is open but I'm not working actively on it. Sometimes it even make the computer crashes, my 3 monitors turn black, and eventually only one turns on again and windows don't detect the other 2 aynmore. I have to turn off and on the computer to solve that (and sometimes it doesn't even work...) I have 128Go ram, a GTX 1060 super.I tried to disable almost eveything on Ae, multi-frame rendering, gpu accleration, increase / decrease allocated ram, empty cache folder... Still the same problem. As if an unkown process was randomly running and ea

Step 3 in the first tutorial in learning After Effects and already stuck.  On the Import media video at https://www.adobe.com/learn/after-effects/web/getting-started-after-effects?learnIn=1, the presenter has icons for New Composition and New Composition From Footage.  I don't.  The panel is just blank.  The Composition menu has 'New Composition'.... but no 'New Composition From Footage.'  File>New doesn't have it.  So how do we create a new composition from footage? This is going to be a long, painful journey. v2025Windows 11

Hi, I have an animation rendered, and to test it I rendered every second frame. The frames are numbered 0,2,4 etc. When I try to import the sequence into AE, the warning about missing frames appears, and it puts the color pattern in-between missing frames.Can someone help me, how to avoid it and just render every second frame?Thanks!

 How do i open the timeline in the Effect control Panel like on the first screen? This is what I have now  

Hi, I know I cant edit motionpath when I separate the position dimension. But is there any way or trics I can use to smooth a motion path when I already had separated it in X and Y ? I dnt like this pointy area. I want to curve it, smooth it, Convert vertex tool doesnot work.... Please guide me if u can. 😥 Thank you.

in most video editing software you can select all clips on the right side of the playhead at the press of a button. how do i do this in after effects? i have quite complex composition, i cant just shift click all of the layers because it would also select the wrong ones. 

Hello ladies and gentlemen, Please advise how can I bypass this restriction? In the last couple of months I have upgraded my hardware so I used the After Effects before on an older equipment and it worked fine. Now I have this error and I am unable to even install the software which I am paying for since months already. I checked the link multiple times but it didn't help me much: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/system-requirements.html?x-product=CCHome&x-product-location=Apps&guid=a08e7949-6caa-4f03-b2e3-8ba47500441c&promoid=QGMZPG6T&mv=other&mv2=ahome My specs are: CPU: Intel Core i7 9700FGPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 TiRAM: 48GB DDR4 [G.Skill F4-4000C18-8GTZRB and Kingstone KF3600C16D4/16GX]OS: Windows 10 Pro 22H2 (OS Build 19045.4651) Kind regards.  

I'm in AE 2025 on Windows 11.  I have a RAM preview of my entire timeline, solid green bar all the way across, and it plays back perfectly in realtime, yet when I try to scrub the timeline, the green bar disappears even though the preview is still there if I want to play the timeline again, just not there if I want to scrub it.  If the preview is already calulated in RAM and all the frames are there, why can't I scrub through them? Seems like it should work.  Thanks!

When using aerender.exe in the command prompt, rendering works fine with the Classic 3D renderer. However, when I switch to the CINEMA 4D Renderer, the output is incorrect, resulting in black images. Interestingly, rendering works perfectly when using After Effects' graphical interface.What could be causing this discrepancy? I am using the extrude feature within the CINEMA 4D Renderer for text, so I need to use this renderer. Have you encountered this situation before? How did you resolve it? Thank you very much!

I am mistaken and this post is irrelevant...   if a layer is locked, one should not be able to turn it on and off. It's locked. Can't accidentally turn it on or off, this is the main reason to use this switch in my opinion. This also then would be the same as other Adobe apps and continue the functionality as any experienced AE user is accustomed to. Just sayin'

I have a motion tracker in a project, creating a 'jitter' effect based on the movement of an element on the footage.  How can I determine the maximum extent (x axis and y axis) to which the motion tracker is moving?  The awkward solution I am using is to export the keyframes of that motion tracker into excel and just sort the data points. Is there a better way to do this? I want to know: Transform/Position/ Xmax - Xmin and Transform/Position/ Ymax - Ymin.

Hello everyone I need to get old version of AE I talk with support and they said that the only way is to ask someone who may have it   "We are only having the older version starting for 2022 for Widows and 2021 for mac, but I am sharing the link of Adobe community with you, you can raise the request for older version on the community forums and if any Adobe community member has it, they will provide you the installer of the older version"   So if you have please provide it    Thank you 

I need After Effects to release my audio driver when AE is minimized. Yet there is no where in the preference to check the box "Release Audio Driver when in Background". I need to watch youtube while working or have occasional Video Chats. What is strange, I explicitly set Windows 10 not to allow apps to take exclusive control of my audio driver, yet AE does not seem to respect it and overide Windows 10. If there is one thing I really cant stand is when developers do not respect MY SETTINGS. Not sure why it is not possible to set this in AE, when in any other app it is possible. Any ideas?

I have transprentcy grid showing in my composition, and i selected RGB+alpha in the render que but the background is still solid After Effects 2025

Hello guys, Im facing 2 issues, useing both AE 2025 and AE latest beta version for a project.1. both are crashing when i open the new project or worked project.2. Unbale to open any files. 3. in AE 2025 version, when i disbale the plugins the follwoing issue appears as below Please help need to finish the project asap. Thanks in advance   

Hi, I have a question. I have this question in my mind for a long time  I need some senior to correct me. So when I use illustration from Adobe Illustrator  in after effects is it a good practice to discard extra/hidden part of illustration? Does it increase file size in AE when I render that as GIF or Lottie file or some animatin for web? like for example  am drawing an aeroplane in AI. It has 4 lights. I draw the lights and  part of the lights is hidden under wings. and then I group all those lights as a whole. so the part which is hidden under the wings, should I delete those unwanted part before importing it in AE? or it is not a big deal?  Please help me Understand this. Thank you. 

Hi guys, I have a problem with colors in After Effects after the latest update. When I import MP4 or MOV videos, the colors look different from the original files. This didn’t happen before I updatethe Adobe version last week.I checked the Project Settings and Working Color Space, and they are set to "None." How can I make sure the imported videos keep their original colors?Thank you for your help.

Hi,I have a 2 plugin of different types (say A and B). both have an arb parameter that consists of a 3x3 matrix (actualy 9 floats). When i try to connect both paramters via the whip tool in AE i get an expression error saying that paramters are of idfferent type. Is there a way for 2 plugins instances (of different types) to connect through an arb paratmeters knowing that the 2 arb are of the same type ? I dont record a way of naming a type for an ARB (aside from refconPV). Thank you

I am trying to open an AE project that I worked on in the last 2-3 weeks, but it keeps crashing before I can see anything. The project has assets I made from Illustrator. After the file opens, I instantly get a pop up stating "crash error in progress. last logged message was <26688><ae.blitpipe><2> HardwareBlitpipe Engaged". I double checked my laptop's drivers (Intel(R) UHD Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU)) and they are both up to date. The crash occurred prior to updating InDesign, and after. I've included screencaps in this post. Once it goes through all the pop ups, it tells me I can save the project file under a new, different name. I tried doing that, but the previous steps repeat all over again.