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My CC subscription renewed 2 days ago and ever since then I can no longer run CC2018 apps on my older iMac.  They launch in trial mode with a message that I do not have a subscription to 2018.  Did Adobe shut off access to 2018 without warning?  CC2018 is the latest verion I can run on my iMac. 

Hello, After Effects performance drops on the home screen, which has no files, layers or anything that could make the program work less efficiently. What should i do ?

Hello, I have an older system that doesn't work with the latest versions of AE, PP, etc. The latest version I think works is 23.6 (AE), but there is not way to install that. I can get older versions of PS, AI, etc, but not the other apps. See the attached screenshot. Any way to fix this? Thanks!

I would like some help bringing still photos to life. I want to make it appear the mouth is moving, the eyes are blinking, gentle head tilts, etc.  I have seen plenty of online AI generators, "free apps," etc. that do this. I HAVE to believe that our professional software would allow us to do something similar, if not better. I have attached what I am looking for and what I have been able to accomplish. Please send over any ideas!

Hello, I was looking for information on YouTube about this glitch effect and I couldn't find it anywhere. Maybe someone knows how to make a similar effect? ​​Maybe it's some kind of plugin?

Hi all, I'm a complete newbie to After Effects but have been working with Adobe products like Illustrator, Indesign, Flash/Animate and Photoshop for decades. So, I am kind of expecting AE to work in a similar manner when I draw a rectangle or other shape. The main problem is that the fill is not showing and I can't for the life of me figure out why. I have change the fill colour to something totally obscure and violating to ensure I can see it, but it just won't display. I can add a stroke colour and can see that fine, but the fill will not display.What am I doing wrong? It's the top layer of the timeline, I've not added any effects such as layer transparency or blend mode. I've not changed any application settings that I'm aware of. I'm looking for answer everywhere and getting very frustrated! The second issue I have is I am having to lock all layers in order to draw a simple shape that I want to see rather than it act as a mask to an existing layer. Again, what am I doing

Hola, ultimamente estoy teniendo un problema y es que cada vez que exporto un video en after effects, me cambia completamente el color. La imagen sale lavada, como si estuviera desaturada. He probado de todo y no se que hacer.En illustrator y en After Effects los colores con los que trabajo son correctos, no me los cambia cuando importo los archivos de AI a AE. El problema viene al exportar, que es cuando me los cambia. He probado en exportar en h.264 y ProRes 244 y me da el mismo resultado. Estoy trabajando con este ajuste de color, que es con el que he trabajado siempre.Tampoco hago nada raro en ajustes de exportación.¿Alguien sabe que puede estar pasando? Ya no se si es algo de que tengo que cambiar algun parametro en illustrator, after effects o hacer algun ajuste de color general en bridge.Así es como debería verse (captura sacada desde el mismo after effects)y así es como me saca el colorGracias de antemano y un saludo

My after effects export looks slightly blurry - how can I fix this? It's a very slight difference but you can see the text is not as crisp/clear looking. I've tried changing the quality settings to 'Current' instead of best, increased the bitrate, exported as quick time but I can't seem to fix the issue.  

Hello! it used to be like this: If I have a Composition with 25 fps and I want to have a "stop motion" effect, I can either use the effect "posterize time" - OR I change the composition fps to 12 fps. Today I noticed that if I do that (lower the FPS of the composition) it speeds up the animation accordingly. I tried changing the "preserve framerate" in the advanced setting. Basically it behaves like changing how to interpret the footage itself.I am pretty sure this behaviour is not like it used to be, or I changed some setting I can't find.I would be really grateful to the community to help me in this matter.Cheers,Alexander

Whenever I try to drag a text layer of type in it, everything happens with a huge delay. 2 secs today. Shouldn't be a problem fixing this in 2019…Also, rendering simple script-animated text plate with a solid bg color could take up to 20 minutes. I have pretty good Macbook Pro i7.BUT then, if I construct a cool Sci-Fi space scene in Element 3D (3rd party AE plugin), with several textures and lights and a depth of field camera in it, renderind could take less time! How??! .

What's the best way to unlink media in After Effects? In Premiere I can just r-click and choose "Make Offline..." but that's not an option in AE (unless I'm missing something).

Hi, I see that if I am in rotobrush layer and hit space bar it propogates all frames.  For a given project I see that process took about 80 seconds.  If I don't hit spacebar and just hit freeze, then that also seems to accomplish the propogating and takes over 3 minutes.   Trying to understand in which process is the required computation taking place.  I though freezing was an optional step that just locks in the result, but is it more than that in terms of final computed result?  Is the extra time for freezing just the cache'ing going on? thanks

Hi there, I am a complete fool when it comes to expressions and have been looking for something to create a dropdown menu for selecting a star rating (1-5 stars). I'm setting up a mogrt for the client to easily pick the desired rating. The idea is to have dropdown item 1 > select 0 stars. Item 2 > selecting star 1. Item 3 > selecting both star 1 + 2 and so on.  Currently I ended up with this expressions (from a nice blogpost by Sharayash Sherestha):menu_value = thisComp.layer("Dropdown Menu").effect("Dropdown Menu Control")("Menu"); if (menu_value == index) 100; else 0; Instead of the index I use the item numbers. I figured I could add multiple numbers at "index" (seperated by comma's?) to let the layer's opacity know it can be at 100% for all of those. That didn't work. Thanks in advance for any help! 

Please make this your priority in the next update!! Getting tired of opening recent and it saves to a different folder than from where the Open Recent should be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where do I start making a 3D video for this screen. I do have the sizes, that's a start..Or can someone help me to create a template for it. Im a beginner but would be cool when your video plays on that screen.Thx in advance  

Ever since my entire department at the office upgraded to After Effects CC 2020 on PC over a year ago, we have  experienced an unprecedented level of keyboard and mouse-click input lag of up to 4 seconds or more when using keyboard shortcuts, clicking dropdown menus, copying, pasting, almost everything. How can this be solved? I've experienced this in two different setups, on the HP Z840 Workstations at the office and on my Personal Computer at home, both running Windows 10. It's been like this for more than a year I think. It's quite debilitating when we can't work at the speed of thought anymore. Help?

Hey! I'm doing revisions on a project and just found out that one of the compositions got deleted from a project completely. I didn't delete it myself so this is a very weird situation. Does anyone experienced similar situation and is there a way to somehow recover the deleted comp? (It's not in the available auto saves)

I have after effects extension to replace image, text, audio. Now I want to render 100s of different templates to render parallelly on server. How to get started?

I have a main composition named RENDERinside it has pre composed layer named Christmas Light, and in this precomp, i have some pre-composed layers cosist of text written "Christmas Tree Lighting": Those layers & text of "Christmas Tree Lighting" are visible in Christmas Light comp. However in the main comp RENDER, it is not.I have tried to export the Christmas Light  comp only. But the output result not the text Christmas Tree Lighting as well. Please advise for the suggestion guys 

I have a minute and 25-second clip of drone aerial footage that needs to be edited with logos, a site plan, etc. I find using the 3D Camera Tracking tool the most efficient way to work with the space to place graphics into the project (when it wants to work). I initially bypassed the "forever analyzing" problem by rendering the original clip at 600% of its speed with the optical flow enabled in Premier Pro. Then, I place the rendered video back into After Effects, making it 15 seconds of footage. I did animate the whole thing and needed to create edits on it, but I wouldn't say I liked the video quality it turned into after rendering again and slowing the footage down. So I am doing my best to use the unaltered version of the footage.  I've been trying to cut the footage at 10-second variables, hoping it will quickly analyze the field. However, I am stuck on "initializing." Sometimes, when it does want to start analyzing frames, it will be attached to frame 1 with no progress

Hello, recently I've been trying to export my projects on ae and this error keeps coming up with that goat/sheep noise.i was wondering how i fix this since it never happened before and it happens on all my projects. not to mention it doesn't even start rendering and it runs smoothly when i preview it. Please answer as fast as possible if you have a solution thank you!

Hi, I just run into huge problem as all my workflow is based on BRAW footage and I'm in the middle of a complex video I'm working for two months with deadline next week, and After Effects just won't let me to import BRAW. I work separately on laptop (Win11) and desktop (Win10), using newest After Effects (25.0.1) on both, switching machines, but working on same projects (synced on cloud). Today I done some VFX work in AAE, rendered, no problem. Imported another footage and noticed that it is somehow color lifted. Then I noticed that every BRAW footage I import to After Effects on my desktop is now color lifted - like everything is way brighter than when I open the same footage on my laptop. I thought "Yeah have no idea how this happened, but let's update the BRAW plugin, as it's the first thing Adobe support would probably told me to do", I downloaded and installed the BRAW blugin, restarted PC, but now, After Effects WON'T IMPORT ANY BRAW AT ALL. 😄  Everytime I

Hello there. I am having an issue with the LoopOut expression. After adding a keyframe motion and, "LoopOut()" as an expression, the object only moves from the first keyframe to the last, no looping. See the attached video for what I mean. Can someone please help? Thank you! After Effects Version 24.6.2

Hey Folks. I'm developing an AEGP plugin, and I would like to know when the Copy menu command has been chosen by the user. My plugin has a large text field with formatted text, and I want to place that text on the clipboard when the Copy command is selected. I could probably register a CommandHook to watch for the Copy command. However, I don't know which command value to watch for. Do you have any ideas about how I should proceed? Thanks!

Hi, there!Here's the thing. When I convert Illustrator layers to vector shapes, most of the times it generates a group (called "Group 1" as his parent) and a Merge Paths. One of the paths from this group has a square sized as the original Artboard.This is really awkward because not only I have more unnecessary paths and groups but also becomes more difficult to animate since I have several squares for each character's layer.So, from there, there's a "solution":• Using the search bar and typing "group".• Select one by one the extra groups and delete them.• Using the search bar and typing "merge".• Select one by one the Merge Paths and delete them (this last one maybe is not neccesary but if I don't delete them there are remains of junk things in every layer).So I work in projects with 30 characters. Each one have 20 to 25 layers. Each layer creates 2 to 10 "Group 1". Let's make the math. This takes me a lot of time and frustration!I believe this is a kind of bug here. Anyways, I hope th