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After the last update yesterday, 03.12.2024, After Effects started to work drastically slower. When I try to do something in the program, it's almost unmanageable how slow it works, while yesterday before the update it worked normally. I'm wondering if I'm the only one having this problem. At the moment, I restarted the whole system on windows, bought a new SSD and tried various ways, but it still works too slowly.

I started with a video about 2 hours, then trimmed it down to 1 second by using B and N key, then trim comp to work area.Even the composition settings show the duration to be 0;00;01;05I did some masking and content aware fill.Then when I send it to render queue, it tries to render 2 hours of video. Why? There is only 1 second of video in the comp.This is version 25.0.1 

Im having this crashes. It is happening everytime i am rendering. I tried disabling the multi rendering, tried the disabling the cuda, starting in safe mode but no luck at all. I cant render anything in both media encoder and after effects itself. Out of frustration i left the after effects unattended but it crashes without me doing anything. I downgraded to windows 10 thinking it was not compatible with windows 11 but having the same issues on both windows. I tried installing and reinstalling after effects even the creative cloud. I removed all the third party plugins but I still get the same message. I can render the same after effects collected file on my old pc My current rig is: NVIDIA system information report created on: 12/02/2024 01:00:03NVIDIA app version: 11.0.1.163Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, Version 10.0.19045DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12Driver: Game Ready Driver - 566.14 - Tue Nov 12, 2024CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KR

Okay when i adjust the roundness option the resolution of preview will broke, does anyone know how to fix that (im using adobe after effect 2024)

Hi there, new to AE. Scoured the internet, but can't find any info on this at all. Hoping someone can help with this. When I go to Preview the Composition (spacebar to play/stop), as soon as I stop playing, the Layer timeline automatically zooms to max. Typically, I have it zoomed in so that I can do more finetuned work. It's a bit frustrating when you constantly have to zoom back in. Is there any way to turn this auto-zoom off? I've scoured and tested every option that I can find. I don't want it to go to max zoom every time I play a Preview. I want the zoom level to remain the same, unless I manually change it. Thanks in advance.

How and where can I install plugins into After Effects cc 2020 on Windows? More specifically:- Twixtor - Pixel Dither- Omino- Glitchify - Twitch- Trapcode Particular - Universe - Sapphire I've tried looking online but I have been unable to find a trustworthy website. 

After EffectsAfter Effects error: Crash in progress. Last logged message was: <14892> <RenderThreadExecutor> <1> Creating executor with 32 threads.After Effects

So, yesterday everything was working fine.Today, I open up After Effects, I'm getting an errorSorry, After Effects has encountered an error and needs to close.Use Reference code 205.The stuff that I tried:Reinstalling After EffectsDirect download & install without Creative Cloud installerDeleting Older After EffectsReinstalling Creative CloudRedownloading Creative Cloud and installing After Effects over different networkAdobe CleanerDeleting preferencesChecking permissionsChecking firewallNothing workedSo then I did a timemachine backup restore to yesterday.I booted up After Effects, seemed to work.. UNTIL.. I logged into Creative Cloud.Boom. Error.So I logged out again.And restarted After effects.It seems to work, can't do anything because I have to log into Creative Cloud, and the moment that I do that, I get the error.The older After Effects and other adobe software are not affected.Please please please please let there be a fix.I've searched the forums and have seen all the sug

I am using After Effects version 25.0.1 on a system with a 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-13600K, 32GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU. However, After Effects freezes every time I try to use it. I've tried everything, but nothing seems to work. Can anyone help me fix this issue, or should I consider switching to an older version of After Effects? Is my system compatible with this version?

Hi,This is more of a question for Adobe directly, so I’m sorry if I‘ve posted this in the wrong place.When can we expect full support in after effects for 32bit linear workflow? Many of the stock effects and colour correction tools still only support 8 and 16bit.The advantages to comping in 32bit linear are tremendous, yet we haven’t been able to take full advantage of this because most of your tools don’t support it - and it’s been this way for many years. So I was wondering if there’s any intention to improve this in the software, or if I’m just wasting my time and should consider another application for compositing my images. Thanks in advance,Jonathan

One of our scripts in pipe would need to know what effects are being used in a scene and where those effects are located(.aex file). Currently I am able to get the used effects from my project, but I am unable to access or get the file path to locate the effects files.```var project = app.project;if (project) {  var usedEffects = {};  var pluginLocations = '';  for (var i = 1; i <= project.numItems; i++) {    var item = project.item(i);    if (item instanceof CompItem) {      for (var j = 1; j <= item.layers.length; j++) {        var layer = item.layer(j);        if (layer.property('Effects')) {          for (var k = 1; k <= layer.property('Effects').numProperties; k++) {            var effect = layer.property('Effects').property(k);            if (!usedEffects[effect.name]) {        &

I'm creating a fully 3D animation in Blender, adding VFX elements in After Effects, and color grading in DaVinci Resolve. Need guidance on proper linear workflow:Current pipeline:Blender: OpenEXR (RGB Half, DWAA)After Effects: Adding H.264 VFX elements (fire/energy)DaVinci: Linear grade + final transformQuestions:Best color space settings for EXR export from BlenderHow to properly match H.264 VFX elements to linear EXRCorrect DaVinci color pipeline for CG contentOutput transform recommendationsSeeing conflicting advice online about proper CG/VFX color management. Any help

Folgende Meldung kommt bei mir jedesmals, als ich versuche das Program zu öffnen. Habe ich alle Berechtigungen aus mein Benutzer Name im Lesen/Schreiben umgewandelt, alles aktualiziert, das program desinstaliert und nochmals instaliert und den Komputer mehrmals neu gestartet. Es geht trotzdem das programm nicht auf... ich bin verzweifelt. Es kommt immer die gleiche Meldung:"After Effects Warnung: Das Verzeichnis „/User/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/17.0/Original-Benutzerarbeitsbereiche“ konnte nicht erstellt werden. Prüfen Sie die Schutz- oder Freigabeeinstellungen des übergeordneten Verzeichnisses." Danke im vorausEva 

hey everyone i wanted to shuffle layers randomly in after effect. I have around 50 layers and wanted to just rendomly shuffle i need any kind if script or free tool that can help me to ease my work rather than doing manually for example: (before shuffle)layer 1layer 2layer 3layer 4layer 5layer 6layer 7layer 8layer 9layer 10 (after shuffle)layer 4layer 7layer 5layer 1layer 9layer 3layer 8layer 10layer 2layer 6

Hi.Does anyone have any suggestions on how to more efficiently produce creative for simultaneous export across all main ratios (1x1, 16x9, 4x5 & 9x16). I currently start with a 1920x1920 comp with all Insta, Youtube etc safety cage overlay png's as the top layers. I then fill the whole canvas with, at the very least, a background colour solid.  Then I'll create the animation but obviously the layout, font sizes and position, and moving elements are more successful when the ratio is specifically designed for.  I have experimented with keeping all top-tier text and graphics contained within the 1x1 area but sometimes the 16x9 & 9x16 look too empty. I therefore duplicate the 1920x1920 comp, use the Resize script and then manually amend the whole thing - very time-consuming...  I have looked 'Smart Resize' from AeScripts but it only handles basic modification to logos and simple text. Is there an easier automated or semi-automated way? Thanks

The YT link below shows a Count-Up Timer tutorial I hope somebody in this forum can expand on because what I need to do is not covered in the tutuorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhDK12uvOBM  I need the timer to start at 1hour:30minutes:00seconds and then count-up to 1hour:37minutes:00seconds. What is the correct slider, keyframe, composition and/or expression edits needed so the clock counts up 7minutes and comes to a stop at 1hour:37minutes:00seconds? I hope somebody can give me some advice because I cannot make such a countup animation work correctly. Below is the timer expression I am using just in case it needs to be modified to make this animation work as I described: slider = Math.round(effect("Slider Control")("Slider")) sec = slider%60 x = Math.floor(slider/60) min= x%60 hour = Math.floor(slider/3600) function addZero(n){ if (n<10) return "0" + n else return n } addZero(hour) + ":" + addZero(min) + ":" + addZero(sec) 

Firstly, i was having issues with a preset that included the transform effect. i then disabled the effect and it is now missing. how do i re install this effect?  

Heya. Am I able to modulate glow intensity based on values I have in a CSV file? I have a CSV file where I have the luminance value of each frame, and I want to be able to make the glow more intense when the frame is darker, and less intense when the frame is brighter.I would like AE to somehow reference the CSV file and change the glow property based on the frame number and the luminance level in the CSV. Is this possible? Thanks.

Hi guys! I've been trying to make some animations with the puppet pin, but the yellow dots that appear when I place a pin look insanely small on my 4k monitor. I attached a screenshot so you can see what I see on each monitor. Is there a way to increase the size of these or do people just embrace the squinting asian guy meme when using a 4k monitor?

Adobe After Effects had this roundness control for rounded rectangle shapes. It was a handy option to change the roundness to suit my needs, but now you can only change roundness while making the shape and then it is locked as soon as we leave the mouse click. Please bring back roundness control. Or please tell me if it is there in AE 2025. Everyone, Please share your thoughts too.

Hey,about 2-3 months ago, I noticed that the way the path tool works in shape layers and masks changed for the worse. When I draw masks nowadays, AE tries to change the paths between the points to even roundings (as you can see in the picture), and changing the roundness influences both sides of a point instead of giving the option of influencing the roundness of each side of the point individually.Before this change, when I drew the path, I could also just set the points without any roundness as a standard or hold while setting the point and then decide the roundness. Both aren't possible anymore.I'm using the latest version (24.6). This makes my work a lot harder. I hope someone can help me. 

When selecting the effects window, the program freezes and the computer stops responding to commands for 5 seconds

So in Adobe premiere you can see the percentage of what your speed ramping example(120 frames to 24 is 20%). If I interpolate footage to 23.976 from a 120 it's going to be in slow motion but how do I speed the footage back to 23.976 precisely in after effects it's really annoying and would love to know a fix to this. 

Hi everyone - I'm trying to create double helix animation as in the attached image as an animation where the helix be two sided each side have it's own color . i tried to optimise my project but im not getting the same visual as the logo. (i used cc cylindre). Any advice would be appricated ‌‌. thanks

How do I make the preview button ONLY play normal speed from play head. NOTHING ELSE like speed upIm thinking like in a video editor Just play from where ever I set the play head ie scene 1 20 seconds in and just play normal speed.Not speed up, slow donw, jump to whereever it was playing before, skip to 45 seconds or a minute ahead, stop playing sound ahd basically doing its owh thing and not what I want please?It seems to get lines underneath the play button whihc looks to me liek an indicator or changign speed to double speed etc.Its driving me bat do  do and majorly slowing me down.Ie remove any short cuts, intitions, intiative, its own creativeitym etc wetcJust okay reguaklr speed from where I want or slowign down or speedign up as I slide the play head likign when editign video. (and with sound). ANd not turnign off the sound please