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Hiis it just me or is the edit in original feature no longer working in the latest Ae 2025 update?  command E on a photoshop layer used to open the doc in photoshop but since the update it does nothing.even if you dig down in the menu to find edit in original it does nothing - I have converted and saved both old files with the new apps but still no joy.    

aerender.exe commandline render error and delay time with this error .please tell solution for this error.pc config:windows 10 cpu:i9 9900kram:32GBae version: after effects cc2020 (17.0.2)

Hello!A couple times I saw little brighter colored button on different scripts UI, how to do this type of button?On the screen below is the button "OK"I'm sure it is not just drawn graphic element, it looks and work 100% like regular button, just white. 

Hi could anyone help or advice me how to resolve this issue: I am unable to view anyvideo in composition or footage, its just black view. snapshot below:Thank you in advance!p/s: it was just fine a few days ago, normal ae flow when i creata a comp and import video file its already viewable, but now i cant. Hope to get some help! Thanks

I believe it is Ram Preivew (the little red line) stops moving when pressing play whenever I click on premiere pro. I have to  "Clean Database & Cache" each time I go back into After Effects if I want to see the Ram Preivew. Why? I have provided a video as an example. Let me know if more information is needed. 

I'm experiencing an issue with my render output in After Effects 2025. When I render in QuickTime with RGB+Alpha, I'm getting glitchy results. However, when I render in H.264, the output looks good. I've tried using Media Encoder and the beta version, but I’m still facing the same problem. I'm really desperate for a solution—can you help me? 

Hello!I just updated my After Effects to version 25.00.I'm creating a logo that has a tagline which orbits around the logo. I got that tagline to orbit just fine. The logo and the tagline were created by typing text in After Effects.My problem is the orbitting tagline is blurry, and I can't make it sharp like the logo.I tried adding a sharpening effect, and that looked horrible. One tutorial on YouTube suggested to pressing the star symbol next to the item in the timeline. That didn't work, and it changed the radius of the orbit too. Please help! I don't know what to do. Thank you!Kelly

Hello again, today i have a question about working with Set Matte (or similar effects like CC Composite) inside a 3D Environment. I find it very peculiar, that effects like cc composite have no option to use the selected layer like it is projected inside of the viewport. In 2D this is not a big problem, but when i for example want to build a complex matte for something inside of my 3D Environment, there is no way for me to do so, except by copy-pasting and pre-comping a bunch of layers or other silly solutions.I made a quick example to show my problem, before i explain further:3D circle:Wrong Matte:Correct Matte: I understand why this happens, but i wish there was a feature to make Set Matte's output equivalent to the Track Matte feature, because i want to track matte multiple layers at one. So heres my question:What is the best (most render efficient and cleanest) way to achieve the intended behavior for more than one layer (for example imagine a complex (3D) scene with

I see a lot of support in Premier, but not so much for AE.I know that right click contextual menus have very limited support. Is marker support in After Effects limited to Layer>Marker menu commands? 

Hi everyone. I'm trying to figure out matrix transformations, more specifically, how to change pivot/origin center. So, when you apply following transformation, rotate, scale and translate:matrix.mat[0][0] = cosf(angle) * scale; matrix.mat[0][1] = sinf(angle) * scale; matrix.mat[1][0] = -sinf(angle) * scale; matrix.mat[1][1] = -sinf(angle) * scale; matrix.mat[2][0] = position_x; matrix.mat[2][1] = position_y; matrix.mat[2][2] = 1;it works fine, just the issue is it's origin is upper left corner, but I want origin to be in the center. Now, I know I need to first translate by layers half, then rotate by custom angle, and then translate back, but I don't know how that should look like in terms of matrix transformation (code than I posted). Any help would be much appreciated.

Hello, I have a question because I saw somewhere on youtube how to make such a frame, it was somehow done through fractal noise, can you tell me how to do something like that?https://youtu.be/nE8XkYPgTJY

Hi there! Recently I've been having this issue with After Effects deleting unused folders/items for every project I create. I have been using a template folder structure for the past few years to save time and now I have to create each folder again since Ae deletes the empty ones.I couldn't find any setting that prevents this. I'm using After Effects 24.1Do you know what could be causing this?Before saving: After saving the project: Many thanks!

Hello all,  After Effects 2021 (18.0.1) has a real hard time processing the Mac standard SF Pro font on my Windows device. I installed it like any other font (unpackaged the OTF from the Apple website) and it works fine in all other programs, but for some reason After Effects doesn't like it? The 3-minute animation (motion blur, 20+ layers, with camera video) can render within 4 minutes, but when I put the lower thirds in render time skyrockets to almost 2 hours. It took me a while to figure out that it was the specific font, but I tested it with other windows & Adobe native fonts, and render time was fixed. Not sure if anyone has experienced this, or found a solution, but any help would be great! Normally, I would pick another font but brand requirements and whatnot.Comp: Ryzen 1700x32gb ram1080ti

So I was curious cuz, I love to have photoshop and illustrator but I have after effect 2023 and premiere 2023 and I love to have the same versions and work with it. So my question is do I still own the 2023 or older versions if I change my subscription plan to a subscription with all app or student subscriptionIf someone know thanks

Hello Everyone!I have a question regarding workflow for longer After Effects projects. Specifically, I make video essays on Youtube and use After Effects to make all of my animations. Essentially,  I only use premiere to edit the audio, which I then export and bring into After Effects. I then construct the entire video in After Effects, and export that. I then bring that final video back into Premiere to add sound effects. I've opted for this because the dynamic link system has proven very ineffective - my computer slows to a crawl when trying to render dynamic links, much less export them. Rendering and replacing has been a possible solution to avoid exporting the final piece essentially twice over, but again, the dynamic link system as a whole seems to be much slower than editing just in After Effects. I personally aim for a style that to me, someone with decent enough experience in the program but am by no means a professional, only seems achievable in After Effects. My biggest

Hey there,  I have an After Effects issue that is driving me nuts, also because it's a little subtle but noticeable:  I have an Illustrator file with photography and when I import the file into after effects to make some stuff move this happens: 1. The elements get just a tad blurrier. I am working in AE at 1920x1080 and it's clearly a little blurrier then when I export a png of the same res from AI. 2. The colors fade just a little bit. Then they fade more when I export. The final video is a lot more washed out compared to what I get when I export from AI.  I am using the same color profile (sRGB) in both applications.  Thanks in advance! Any help will be highly appreciated!! Best,  Jonas

good days community, I have a question.What would be the expression to make a loop stop?What I want to do is the following, I have a character who walks, but I want him to walk for 10 or 20 seconds and then stop in the resting position.I do not know if I make myself understood.someone would be so kind to be able to solve this doubt, thank you.

Hi, I am having a problem where the activity of the SSD raises to 100% when I am caching, while its write and read speeds remain very low.All the other peripherals (cpu, memory, etc) are barely used.I tried to move the cache to different drives and it happened on all drives. On other pcs the disk activity is usually in sync with the read and write speeds.Also, sometimes the disk goes to 100% even by just opening AE and not rendering, etc and once I stop rendering/caching it remains at 100% for a long time.Specs:Windows 10128gb Ram6950x i7sm 961 samsung SSDTested on multiple AE versions, with same result.Anyone has a solution? Thanks!

 

To remove some content from a footage, I created a mask and a reference frame from the footage.But Content Aware Fill seems ignore the reference frame:  What did I do wrong? Why isn't Content Aware Fill using the reference frame for rendering its output? Strange: The mask in the Content Aware Fill effect window is very ragged when displaying the frame using the reference frame. It doesn't resemble the selected masks at all:   It looks very different when the CTI is at another frame:  

Hey everyone!Just wanted to share a bit about a recent motion design project I worked on, specifically my experience with frame rates. I received the initial footage in 23.976 fps and then did a few things with this footage:Tracked a phone replacement shot3D camera trackingVarious other tracking shotsAfter that, I sent off a version to a sound designer, and the sound design came back mapped to the 23.976 fps footage. Later, I received a graded version of the film, but it was sent back at 25 fps. This created a lot of issues: all my tracking work was off, the sound was out of sync, and I had to retime the in and out points of my graphics. To fix it, I changed my After Effects comp to 25 fps and retimed everything. To save some time, I exported the heavy shots and used Topaz AI to convert them to 25 fps.Then, further down the line, I received an edit back for reversioning purposes, and it was at 23.976 fps again—someone had used the 25 fps graded file but exported it at 23.976. This mean

Hi there! I have a question about file compatability between different versions of After Effects. I'm currently taking a class in AE, and when I tried to open an assignment I did on a school computer (likely on one of the latest versions, probably a 2024 version) on my laptop (with AE 2021, version 18.0.0, build 39), I couldn't, getting this error message: The file you are attempting to open was created with After Effects version 25.0×20 (Apple Arm 64) and cannot be opened with this version. See www.adobe.com/aftereffects for information on upgrading your software. Additionally, early on in the assignment, when I opened it, it automatically opened up in After Effects Beta instead of After Effects like I'd originally made it in, and I've been working with the new, (converted) file since. Does anyone know whether this issue is caused by trying to open a new version (2024) file in an older version (2021), or trying to open a beta file in the non-beta version? I have an older lap

Hello, I have a few questions about effects that I don't fully understand how to do, attached is a gif and the actual questions.1. The first is how to make the same effect as on the text.2. The second is how to make the same smoke above or below the character.3. Third, how to make the effect that appears near the hand, red elements.4. Well and the fourth, the character holds a crystal in his fingers, which shimmers with light, how to make about the same glow or glow?Thank you, thank you in advance for your answers, I'm still learning and want to perfect my work! 

I had Content Aware Fill generate a reference frame that I then edited in PhotoShop and saved. Now I want to add more masks to the original footage and edit the PSD reference frame accordingly. But I don't seem to be able to re-open the reference frame for editing … How can I edit the reference frame after it has been saved and closed in PhotoShop?

A real quick one to hopefully save someone else literal weeks of pain and frustration – after a full reinstall, swapping out hardware and lots of other steps it may have been as simple as this all along:Edit > Preferences > DisplayUncheck hardware accelerate comp, layer and footage panels. My AE was crashing multiple times a day, particularly when Illustrator was also open. So far since unchecking this box I have had 0 problems. I would speculate its a bit of a niche problem potentially related to something third party like Mt Mograph Motion or Overlord otherwise more people would be losing their minds and reporting problems!