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Whenever I interact with any part of After Effects—such as opening the Window menu, stopping the preview, starting the preview, selecting a composition, clicking a layer, or even deselecting one—the application briefly freezes, and my Mac cursor changes to the spinning loading (wait) indicator before responding. This delay occurs consistently with nearly every click or action, making the interface feel unresponsive and sluggish.Additionally, I have a third-party plug-in, FX Console, and whenever I use my assigned shortcut keys to open its search bar, After Effects freezes momentarily, shows the loading cursor, and then nothing appears—the FX Console panel fails to open altogether.

I doubt this will get a response but ive been on youtube and i havent found a good aura.  below willl be what i created vs what i wanted.. if someone can help me understand how i can create the goku black aura 1 for 1 image wanted to create ( js want spikey vers) vs what i didofc ik its not the bets but i do want to understand how i can create it

I'm trying to export my project and it has a couple of bcc effects ( bcc ripple and bcc rain ) and it is not working. whenever i export, the video does not show the effect at all. i have tried exporting it as animation. i have turned off multi frame rendering. i have switched to mercury software only. None of it has worked. does anyone have any ideas on what to do? 

I’m a new adobe user, I am trying use the Roto tool in AE to select the star in the middle.I must’ve hit some button because now the Roto Brush & Refine Edge is no longer available in layer view options. It now selects the whole image instead.No roto tool variations work. I’m just trying to select the damn star for a project man :(Please try to assist me! (These are the settings)

I am migrating to a newer version of Adobe After Effects on my MAC (17.0.6 build 35 to 24.6.1). I want to backup /migrate ALL Settings, Presets, workspaces, keyboard shortcuts, plugins, templates, scripts etc.  I found this tutorial that mentions one folder location to copy files over to new version but want to make sure I am not missing anything else that I should migrate over. New to AfterEffects and want to make sure the migration is successful. Here’s the steps I found: Step 1: back up scripts, presets, settings, keyboard shortcuts, workspaces. Copy over the entire folder.PC folder path: %AppData%\MAC folder path:  /Users/[username]/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/[Version NumberThank you

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After the update to ver 26.0.0 any log clip that is imported into After Effects is not showing as log. There is a LUT applied to the clip, but I can’t turn the LUT off, or see what conversion LUT is even being applied or adjust it at all. Very confusing. 

 after effect 가 실행되지 않습니다. 처음 구독후 사용하기 위해 프로그램을 설치해보았으나,  위와 같은 경고창이 떴고, info 를 눌러 intel의 gpu 최신 드라이버 프로그램을 설치하고 업데이트 했습니다, 그 이후에 after effect를 실행시켜 보니 아래와 같은 경고문이 지속적으로 뜨며 실행 문제가 해결되지 않습니다.        gpu드라이버 문제라고 하는데, 사실 가장 최근 버전으로 업데이트 했는데 이렇게 문제가 지속적으로 발생합니다. 이를 해결하기 위해 어떻게 해야 합니까?  

Photo 1Hi,I created an animation using a Pen Tool (used the mask). After I made the animation, I noticed that, firstly, when creating a mask with Pen Tool, the mask options (Subtract, intersect, etc.) are not displayed; they are displayed only when, as you can see in the picture, the dots are closed. Secondly, when I tried to return the previous standard settings, or rather this checkbox, the dots closed.Unfortunately, I don't understand how to deal with this problem and I would be grateful if you could tell me how to return the check mark.Thank you!😊

I too was facing this issue and wanted to share a solution I found that was much simpler than other threads I’d read. I noticed that when the distance between keyframes was more than the number copies I was making the copies value would add a decimal place, which affected the opacity of the copy. So, under Copies I added a “Math.round()” expression making the value stay whole numbers and now I can move the keyframes around and it doesn’t affect the opacity of the copies animating on at all.  I hope this helps!   

Help!! I edited an Illustrator file linked in my animation to add a new element and now ae has apparently duplicated a layer. The original illustrator file doesn’t have a layer there so it seems to be a bug from ae. Is it fixable?Not a preview error because I keep seeing it after rendering.I am using the newest versions of both programs tooIllustrator versionAfter effects version (white box over the illustration) 

Hi everyone,I'm running into a frustrating color management issue in AE (latest version).Setup:Project: Working Color Space = Rec.709 Gamma 2.4, Linearize working color space = ON Footage: HEVC 4K clip. Interpret Footage shows Media Color Space = Rec.709. I tried both "Embedded" and overriding to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 Output Module: Output Color Space = Rec.709 Gamma 2.4, Convert To Linear Light = Off, Preserve RGB = OffProblem: In the Composition viewer everything looks correct (thanks to the view transform). But every export (H.264, ProRes, etc.) comes out washed out / low contrast.If I check Preserve RGB, the export matches the viewer perfectly.Theory vs Reality: In theory, AE should be doing: Source (sRGB/Rec.709) → Working Space Linear (1.0 gamma) → Output Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 (with gamma encoding on export).But the final gamma encoding step on export seems to be failing, so I get linear-looking results instead.Has anyone seen this specific issue? Any reliable workarounds besides always

Hello All!  I've recently ran into an issue that is quite frustrating. Any insight would be much appreciated!  Issue: The 3D camera tracker is not working as expected. After its analysis process, it simply does not display any of the track points. Additionally, it's having difficulty analyzing clips in detail. (A hard time tacking floor and wall surfaces but has many track points on trees.)  Context: I regularly use this feature of after effects but I noticed the issue happening after the more recent update. The only way I am able to view the track points is when I click the "Render Track Points" option in the effect options. With that said, these are unclickable or useable points. They are just juxtaposed on top of the clip. I have read many threads and have attempted their solutions. Nothing has worked yet. Below is everything I have tried so far.  Troubleshooting Attempts: Confirmed the "Show Layer Controls" option is enabled Confirm

3d Camera Tracker Error 'unable to obtain dynamiclink server connection'. I have re-installed and updated to the latest release. Please note I do not use dynamic link ever! 2017 Imac Monterey Vers 12.6 64GB Ram, Radeon Pro 580 8 GB. Any assistance here would be greatly appreciated. My productivity vs cost of Adobe subscription has been seriously compromised this year. Rich.   Title edited by Mod. to include After Effects version

I'm having a bit of trouble exporting a video. In the animation there is a box with an email address that comes up, and it transitions into the next shot by spinning on the Y axis (this is in a pre-comp). In the first picture I've attached you can see everything looks fine, but for some reason when I export the video the email addresses disappear just as it spins to transition out.
It's strange how when I'm editing it everything is fine in the preview window but you can see in the pictures I've attached it's rendering it out differently. For security reasons I’ve censored the email addresses, but you get the idea.It if helps, the email address layers are text layers and has the following effects applied: Animation: Slider, Cursor On/Off, Cursor Shape, Cursor Blink SpeedHope someone can help - thank you! 

Hello community,I am planning to upgrade my workspace setup and looking to buy a pre-built configuration to avoid assembly issues. I found this specific build locally: https://nextlevelpc.ma/pc-gamer/98158-pc-gamer-amd-ryzen-7-5700x-rtx-5070-12g.htmlMy main concern is RAM preview performance and multi-frame rendering in AE. The specs list a high-end CPU and GPU, but I want to make sure the motherboard/chipset won't bottleneck complex compositions with multiple heavy expressions and 4K assets.Has anyone run a similar setup from this site, or noticed any compatibility quirks with Adobe's latest dynamic link updates on these specs? I want to make sure it's stable before making the purchase. Thanks!

I did my searching and found nothing so far.The Issue:In a comp view pane, if you use the hand tool or shortcut to move the comp view around, is there a way to recenter the view to default?  This would be useful, if I have three or more comps that I want to click the tabs to compare for differences.  As it is now, each comp has an view offset setting remembered.  I would like to recenter the comp view for one or all comps.Is this possible?Thanks!

Hello there,I am new in 3D modelling and I am looking to experiment 3D models and animate them frame by frame for a video.My question is, which Adobe software should I be experimenting with? I know with Adobe Felix you can import a model and arrange it but is it only for still images? or can you potentially use it for frame by frame animating?I know its unlikely but is there anyway you can import a 3D model into After Effects and animate it there?Thank you for your help guys!

I’m new to expression controls in After Effects, so please be kind if I am missing something here.I am trying to rotate a bezier triangle distributed around a circular path.To do this, I set the copies property expression to a Slider Expression Control (with a bunch of math to make the slider go from 0 to 100% of the maximum number of triangles that can rotate around the circle.)When I create a second repeater, I open the Transform Repeater Rotation control and click the spiral button to drag it to the previous Transform Repeater control Rotation value. (so they both rotate the same)But now, I want to add a value to the control, so I should be able to expand the Rotation Control and see the expression under it. Clicking on the expression allows me to edit the expression. HOWEVER, I can only see half of the expression level under my rotation. It’s not clickable or accessible. All you can see are the tops of the word “Expression Control” because the line is ½ height or smaller. I have tr

Hi,using Essential Graphics, can’t make parametric connection between text size and leading.I am using this expression in Source Text:text.sourceText.style.setLeading(text.sourceText.style.fontSize);Looking for solution to solve that problem.Thanks.Tom

All of a sudden AE is giving me a "not enough available space" warning but the cache drive has 4TB open  and it's just set to 100GB default. This just started. Reset prefs. I change the it another drive (at 1TB open) and it does the same thing. Even if I turn the the cache size to 20GB it still does it. No clue.

Hi everyone,I'm trying to identify the name of this visual effect/style. It has a retro pixelated, old video game / low-resolution look.Does this effect have a specific name? Also, how would you recreate it? Is it mainly done in software like After Effects, or does it require specific plugins, shaders, or AI tools?I'm referring to the pixelated retro effect used throughout this video.Thanks in advance!

I’m specifically trying to recreate this here where futuristic code seems to be eating away at the screen, this background loading animation is used in a few other places as well.https://streamable.com/850t1sWhat I can’t figure out is how they managed to,make the little ‘x’s change into another symbol, then to an ‘M’ symbol. have the symbols move around and eat away at the screen.Is there a way to achieve this via expressions?Bungie game studio released their game Marathon this March, with it some amazing animation styles worked on by brilliant people. I’ve been going through their in-game animations and there are a lot of things I can’t figure out how they managed to do, mostly the 2D stuff.  

I have a project with several comps that are each about seven seconds long.When I try to import a new PSD into the project as a composition, it is forcing the new comps to be two frames long.When I try to import individual footage layers into a composition, it looks like it is making each layer a two-frame image sequence.For over two decades, a PSD imported into After Effects for me has always been the length of the last created composition. Any suggestions on how to fix this? 

When creating multiple masks on a layer, it comes in very handy to be able to lock a mask, to prevent it from being changed accidentally.