Questions

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.

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.

Hey everyone. I've recently built a new pc and have installed After Effects. Unfortunately, whenever I hit play (even if the composition is empty), my entire screen flickers rapidly, including other apps that are open. It is more noticable in darker areas. I uninstalled and reinstalled After Effects, but that didn't help. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. 

Hallo zusammen ich möchte gerne einen solchen Effekt erstellen, den ich gestern erstellt habe. aber ein wenig "professioneller"! dass auch die Nachberarbeitung einfacher fällt. Jetzt habe ich es händisch gemacht in dem ich mehrere Textebenen erstellt habe, Wörter gelöscht und zusammengeschoben. Aber das ganze passt mir nicht. Erstens möchte ich es dynamischer haben und zweitens sollte die Nachbearbeitung (wenn Wortlängen sich zb ändern) einfacher gehen. Ich kenne mich erst gerade mit den Basics aus und arbeite mich Schritt für Schritt vor. Habe auch das Handbuch und lese mich in das Thema mit dem Null-Objekt ein. Wäre dies der bessere Ansatz?Oder wie würdet ihr einen solchen Effekt erzeugen? Cool wäre es noch, wenn das fettgedruckte Wort dann noch animiert unterstrichen wird. Danke für die Hilfe

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Please help me fix this after effects glitch. I imported an HDR image into after effects and put it all the way down at the bottom of my layers, and then I set my environmental light’s source from default to that layer. Then, I decided to use a different image. I imported it into my after effects file, and then I highlighted the first image at the bottom of my layers, and while holding option, I dragged the new image over the first image all the way at the bottom of my layers, which allows me to swap places with those two images. (a shortcut) Almost to the problem. Then, I decided I wanted to take them completely out, so I kept hitting undo, undo, undo until they were no longer in my after effects file. Shortly after, I noticed that the source’s drop-down menu within the environmental light is no longer there. In fact, all the environmental lights that are in my file are having the same problem, including if I create a new environmental light. It’s gone. I’ve closed afte

Hi Everyone, I have this huge confusion on how to divide my SSDs for After effects. Hope someone will help me with their expertise. Basically, I am using windows PC, I have two internal SSDs - 1 TB NVMe & 1 TB SATA. Obviously, Windows & Applications run on NVMe. Right now, I am having project files (includes AE, Footage, Assets etc.) on SATA and Cache on NVMe (previously, I used to keep both cache and project files on SATA).   Now, I need to know whether it is the ideal way to use or is there better way. Because sometime my footage will be 2-5 GB of size and then should I need to keep it on NVMe along with cache or should I keep them on SATA along with project files? Should I do it the opposite way?  So, I am looking to find the best way to manage the files and use the advantage I have with two seperate internal SSDs.  Hope I get some amazing insights on this topic. Thanks to all!Maneesh-----------------------------PC specs

How do I download After Effects 2022

Ive been using After Effects 2022 for many years and had been using a Mac Book Air 13-inch. Recently due to issues with the screen breaking, i had no choice but to upgrade to the Mac Book Pro 14-inch. I purposefully got a better running computer so that my adobe apps could run faster, more storage, etc. But as i went to open After Effects, an error came up saying "After Effects can't continue: unexpected failure during application startup".  I tried as many things i could think of to fix it and researched as much as i could. I had unistalled, and then re-installed, which didnt work. I reset my laptop multiple times, also didnt work. I talked to someone who is pretty good with computer systems and they said that since im using a new system out the latest software, ill also have to update my After Effects as it may be uncompatible with the new system. But i feel like After Effects 2022 should be compatible because its not even that old, i know people who still use After Effects 2020