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I accidentally named a file the same as another file, and now it replaced the previous file. It was an untitled project before, but then I created a new project and named it the same. Now I can't find the previous project. Is there any way to fix this?"

I'm new to Adobe After Effects. Are there any tutorials that would help me take filmed footage of a skull in the earth, and add VFX of white mycelium branching over the surface of the soil and over the skull?   It's for an opening sequence of a trailer I'm doing for my Horror Feature, plus it's part of my PhD. So I have a tiny budget to pay a little something for someone who wants to do the VFX in return for a screen credit and something very cool for their portfolio!   But if not, then I need to learn to do it myself, so any suggestions of which tutorials I should focus on, would be amazing, thank you!   Suzy Miller Personal info removed by Mod.

I've been trying to render a video for a while now, but everytime it reaches the part where i use Pixel Motion Blur effect, it crashes.  App version:Adobe After Effects 2025, 25.0.0 (Build 53)Specs:Windows 11i7-13700KFRX 6800 XT32 GB RAM (24 GB for After Effects, 8 GB for system) I honestly have no idea how to fix it. I already have the newest GPU driver, restarted my pc, tried using the effect both in a pre-composition and Adjustment layer. The original footage is MP4 and i also render to MP4. Log:[2024-11-16_15-54-04][6332][Info] [general] Instead of the WebView2 runtime in the system, UXP will use the WebView2 runtime in the folder: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Microsoft\EdgeWebView[2024-11-16_15-54-04][6332][Warn] [general] We are going to deprecate HostInfo API soon, please use HostApi instead.[2024-11-16_15-54-04][6332][Info] [general] Debugger enabled for runtime group FirstParty on port: 9222 breakOnStart: no[2024-11-16_15-54-04][6332][Info] [gen

Hi, after doing rotobrush analysis,  after full propogation, there are times when I want to edit a frame, but not repropogate anything to left or right of that frame.  Seems whenever I do this, propp[ogation starts again. What is the proper way to go about this? Am I instead suppsoed to render the alpha mask and edit the mask directly outside of the rotobrush editor? thanks

I am trying to figure out how to do a full rotobrush analysis with one click.  In a given clip I have 1300 frames. Baseframe is frame 620. If cursor is at frame 620 and I hit spacebar then I see the clip going from frame 620 to end, and the span bar will become green as it is moving forward.  THen when it gets to end I see the span bar becoming green starting at frame 620 to the beginning.  At the end, it seems the analysis is all done. But only one half of the span bar remains shown in green. Like this: Why is that? Is this a glitch? The mask seems to have been propogated everywhere, so I just don't understand why there is this visual cue showing the span bar green only for the backwards direction analyzed frames.  Ideas?

Hi, I’m developing a plugin for After Effects and noticed that my plugin receives two render commands for a single frame. I suspect one is for preview and the other for final output. I don't want to apply my effect twice for a single frame, as it utilizes deep learning model, which has significant latency. Even though I read through the SDK document, I couldn't find relevant options. •How can I detect if the current render command is specifically for preview?•Is there a specific flag or selector in the PF_InData structure to differentiate between preview and full-quality rendering? Any code snippets or pointers to relevant documentation sections would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hello,I've recently started using After Effects. Everytime I want to change the font family of a text, a warning pops up stating: 'Unable to set transform. GDI Status: Invalid Parameter.' When I click OK, the warning keeps popping up and so I can't move on.  Does anyone know how to fix this or what I might be doing wrong? Working with:AE version 23.2.1 (Build 3)Windows 11 Home (version 22H2)

Hi forum. Has anyone used or know a softwate which is capable of generating large scale sprite sheets?I have been requested by a developer to make a controller ( Control knob ) 150 frames, and the PNG images, to be in 3 different dimensions: 500 px X 500 px1000 px X 1000 px1500px X 1500 pixels I found online a after effects script plugin called Sheetah, has anyone used it? I'd like to keep within AE for my tasks, as Im more comfortable doing this. I know about adobe animate, but I dont know how to use it.  Thank you.  

Hey, i have a big problem with all my CC and i don't know why, since i solve the problem of mojo II parasytes I have now a pb for rendering. It takes a lot of time for just a render of 15s of video. If someone have the solution i'm open to it because it annoys me a lot.

fig 1. is before adding the invert effect,fig 2. is after adding the invert effect, the whole thing goes black instead of being inverted. Changing the channels doesn't fix the problem.I tried doing it to a regular layer, and then to a pre-composed layer/composition. Doesn't solve it either. Does anyone have any idea what the issue is?

This one is for the After Effects developers:I have never posted to Adobe's community page before, but the ridiculous amount of lag and delay caused by a simple text layer in After Effects has enraged me to the point of making this post. Why on God's green Earth does a text layer cause so much of a delay in After Effects. Is it a processing issue? Is it because there are text animators programmed into those layers? Why?!I am currently working on a project that only requires me to type in some text into a text layer, and each time I type a word or change a spelling error it takes literal minutes for the change to be applied. TO TEXT!! Why?! I am typing directly into After Effects too, no other programs.So I beg you, for the love of all that is holy and just, please make the Text layers more optimized. Forget your generative tools, I just want to be able to type a message and edit the text in real time, without my whole computer bogging down to the point of shut down.Please and than

I am trying to create a 3D scene with light leaks, and some CC effects. Any time I add a few effects to the timeline, it crashes on me. I've done the usual things like clearing cache, making sure everything is updated, restarting the PC, etc. Nothing is helping. The machine I am working on was built last year and contains an Intel® Core™ i9-13900KS Processor, 128gb DDR5 ram, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Please give me any help. I have a deadline I'm missing because of this.  

so i split a video and deleted a portion in the middle that i didn't want, but now the audio is lagging. its not synced with the clips i have

Hi, I have a 3D object that I want to continuously bob up and down but I'm having trouble finding an expression to do this.I would use wiggle on the Z except wiggle creates random motion and I need consistant up and down oscillations.It seems simple but I can't figure it out... any ideas? Thanks.-Pete

Helo EverybodyI need help .I Cant find Multiframe Rendering Option In After Effects  And Premiere Pro Cpu Specs:Hp z820 (Dual Prosesors Intel Xeon E5-2687W)56 Gb Ram2 gb graphic card gtx 7602 tb hdd250 bg ssdwindows 10 EnterprisesAfter Effects Version 17.0.4 (updated)Premiere Pro Version 14.0 All System Drivers Up To Date  

Hello, I have a very specific issue for an mogrt animation.So i have a box that grow horizontally, then a text appear in it. I need to have that box growing at the same size than my text (So First key frame will always be the same, but the last one will change).I can do it in after effect with the Essential Graphics panel but as soon i export in mogrt to use in premiere, the growing animation don't happend. The box just stay at the final size, removing the growing part. Is there a way to make it in y way to keep that growing animation ? Thanks !

Reporting After Effects 2025 crashed again today killing my bluetooth Windows 11. I9 128GB ram 2040This version is crashing and causing me to lose work. Very frustrating for how much money it costs and released in such terrible state. It won't render if you have any optical flow blending turned on any layer.Screen goes black constantly and very laggyCrash, Crash Crash.These are all the same projects that render and work fine in 2024, so full blame here on the recent update.

Hello, I have a question, how to correctly make a smooth wiggling for example, as in my case hand and fingers, without stopping? (I have attached an example of how I would like to do)https://youtu.be/aRHncsjW1VY

Hi all, I have a 9x16 composition. The adjustment layer is just as big as the comp size. There aren't any masks being used. The ground level on CC Snowfall is set to 100% the entire time. Yet, the effect stops short of bottom of the comp. It might be a bit hard to see, but there's quite a bit of solid space at the bottom. Does any know what could be causing this? 

ok here's the deal... This is a thing that also happens in Photoshop and it's annoying (and pretty much useless): Let's say I create a new project with the name "Hello" and I save it. Then I modify it or add new stuff and I save it with the name "Bye". But, when I do that, instead of keeping open the version that I just saved (the file named as "Bye"), the original project ("Hello") remains open, so If I continue to modify it and save it, ofc it overwrites the original project instead of the second version I created Is there a way to revert that or modify that somehow? Perhaps for some people, this new way of saving makes sense, but in the workflow where I work at, it's pretty annoying and has caused a lot of trouble. All of my coworkers have accidentaly rewritten a file this way or modified the original project instead of the new version so... yeah

I just built a new computer with an Intel i9 14900k processor, Z790 motherboard, 64GB of DDR5 RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, full liquid cooling, etc. Everything benchtests well and the computer is extremely stable unless I am working with blurs in After Effects 2025. Any time I apply Camera Lens Blur or even regular motion blur to a layer, the computer just comletely turns off without warning. It ONLY happens when using specific blurs. Fast Blur seems to be fine, as well as gaussian blur. So far it's just camera lens blur and adding regular motion blur to a moving layer. Everything else on the computer, from games to Premiere, works totally fine. I turned off hardware acceleration. All drivers for the computer and related components have the latest updated drivers, etc. Is anyone else having this issue? It seems like there's something wrong with After Effects, but I'd happily take any advice. I do not have this issue on my Macbook Pro, only on my Windows PC. Than

I'm trying to set up a script that "If" a file is selected, then do something on it, if not, I'd like to throw an error to do something else.I'm setting up the variable Selected Duration that polls the duration of a selected item (for the A side of the logic), but if nothing is selected, it throws an error.There is an alert that comes up in the library tab and in the console "execution result:"please select exactly one project item in the project panel (line 1)"". I just want to do something actionable based on this result to fix it since users might not see either of these alerts. Problem is, I can't seem to find check if something is selected or not. Maybe I'm going about this all wrong by testing the duration of a selection, but I can't figure a way to test if something is selected or not. Any recommendations on how to solve this would be, as always, appreciated.

After I updated to the latest release of After Effects (last week) I get these warnings for all footage in my project file whenever I alt-tab between AE and other apps.Its getting quite annoying... The project works fine whenever Im inside AE, but I have to click through these warnings every time I leave the AE-window.The warning says;After Effects warning: Unable to open file."footage path". If the file is opened in another application, closing it may solve the problem.None of my footage-files are opened in other apps.Please help - Phillip

In After Effects 2022, is there a way to add a Keyboard Shortcut to trigger a script (purchased through AEScripts.com as opposed to anything native to AE)?

AE 2022 22.6.5 MAC OS Catalina always crashing by typing Text only