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Some times audio file is not creating any sound. After rebooting computer it creates sound. What is the reason?

After updating to After Effects 26.3, I've noticed that copying artwork from Illustrator and pasting it into After Effects no longer behaves as it did in previous versions.Previous workflow (working in 26.2 and earlier):Create line art in Illustrator. Convert the artwork to filled shapes (not strokes). Copy and paste it onto a Solid Layer in After Effects. The artwork is pasted as masks on the solid. Apply the Stroke effect and animate the Start/End properties to create a whiteboard or line-drawing animation.This workflow has worked reliably for years and is used extensively in our production pipeline.Current behavior in 26.3:Pasting Illustrator artwork now creates a new "Paste SVG" Shape Layer instead of pasting the paths as masks onto the selected solid. Since the artwork is imported as a Shape Layer, the Stroke effect cannot be used in the same way, breaking existing projects and workflows.Expected behavior:Please provide an option to preserve the previous "Paste as Masks" behavior,

Live-action shot, mostly locked off. A runner passes between two posts. I want some kind of field or energy plane to appear in that gap, and as they go through it, it reacts. It could ripple, part, break, scan or light up. I’m open on the look.It doesn’t need to be a real simulation, just something that convincingly feels like it’s responding to their body.Any ideas? I know this is possible in 3D software with cloth sims but I don’t have the time for this - quite a tight deadline.Thanks a lot guys.

 (Note: English is not my native language and I am using a translation tool to write this post, so I apologize in advance for any awkward phrasing!)The Main Issue I’m trying to make my After Effects preview accurately match my rendered output (viewed in VLC/Safari), but I’m running into preview color mismatch issues on macOS.Project & Color Settings Working Color Space: sRGB IEC61966-2.1 Use Display Color Management: OFF Blend Colors Using 1.0 Gamma: OFF Two Specific Problems We Are Facing1. Preview oversaturated on MacBook built-in display (My setup) On my external monitor, the AE preview matches the exported video (VLC/Safari) perfectly. However, when I move AE to the MacBook Pro built-in screen (Display P3 / Liquid Retina XDR), the preview suddenly becomes much darker and overly saturated, breaking the match with the rendered output. 2. Preview color shifts ONLY during playback (Friend's setup) Using the exact same settings on an external monitor, the preview matches the e

The music track is clipping on the timeline (not just the export) in AE, but I checked it in Audition and it isn’t clipped. It AE, the waveform looks like this: and in Audition, after zooming out one click, it looks like this: I tried exporting it from Audition as a WAV file, and it still comes into After Effect and Premiere as clipped. In AE, the levels are set at 0, so I tried reducing to -5 as a test, and the waveform is still flat on top. I updated my video card driver and it didn’t help. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you!

I have several animated pre-comps, but the animation does not show up in the main comp, actually, it shows the (motionless) object after de animation key frames. I am not ussing guide layers.

Some times spacebar does not respond therefore I opt for Numpad 0. What is the reason spacebar becomes not reliable?    

I’m having a problem where AE is ignoring the background color on export, and exporting everything with a black background. It also then resets the comp background color to black.It’s an easy fix to just throw a white background layer in every comp, as I don’t need an alpha channel, but that’s a dumb fix, and I’m wondering if there’s something I’m not understanding? I’ve been using AE for 26 years now and never encountered this before -However,  I did get a new macbook around the same time as I ran into this, which is also right around the time AE 26 came out. Any ideas would be helpful, I hate little unexplained things like this 🎱

I have created a character in illustrator with size 800x1000. I add the file to AE with comp being at 4k. I enable continuous rasterization and also enable Create shape from Vector layer. When i apply wiggle effect on the character, it glitters and shines due to rough, jagged edges. I am zoomed to 250 percent in this image. You can see the jagged edges. Once I export out the video, it shines during wiggle and looks very bad. Please help 

When I switch to any tool that utilizes a brush of some sort (paintbrush, eraser, clone stamp, refine edge tool), my cursor just stays as the default system mouse cursor. It’s making it very hard to correct roto mattes. I saw someone had this problem 3 years ago in another thread, but no answer was posted. I’ve tried restarting After Effects to no effect. I’d appreciate any input. I’m working in After Effects 2026.5 on macOS Sequoia 15.9 with 64GB memory.

Hi,I'm developing a native After Effects effect with a custom Effect Controls UI. I need to access the exact native parameter streams belonging to the effect instance receiving a custom UI event, so I can implement stopwatch, keyframe diamond, previous/next-key and expression-aware controls safely.Environment: After Effects 26.5.0.89, macOS arm64, SDK 25.6.Using AEGP_StreamSuite6 (kAEGPStreamSuiteVersion6 == 11), AEGP_GetUniqueStreamID(AEGP_StreamRefH, int32_t*) repeatedly returns A_Err_NONE but explicitly writes 0 for distinct effect parameter streams and even built-in layer Opacity.We confirmed this using two nonzero output sentinels and surrounding canaries. Across DRAW, multiple stream-acquisition routes, duplication/reordering and a separate AEGP command/idle test, 7,652 successful calls returned zero.Stream values remain readable, and acquired references are disposed within their callbacks. I'm not assuming this behavior occurs in all AE versions.Ordinary value edits work through

when i start working on my project after applying some effects or working for a few times in it. the playhead not move when playing video and when i stop playing my playhead just goes 1 frame back and everything is stuck in after effects. i can move my playhead with cursur but video is not playing these are my pc specs.

Does anybody know how to download and install After Effects CC 2024 or earlier version? I can only install AE later than version 2025 via Creative Cloud Desktop app or website.My hardware could not really handle with newer version of AE.

hiwhen im opening a video on ae in a minute ae crashes,i was using it for a lot time and i didnt do anithing like aded plugins or updates,it just started from nowere.I have tried everything but still i cant fix the crashing

Hello, Issue Description:I have searched for this issue, tried multiple troubleshooting ideas, but cannot seem to find any similar issues or fixes that work.I press play in the preview buttonAE proceeds to cache all of the frames in my workspace (full green bar)The play icon is displayed but I see no playback/no audio, and timeline marker does not moveThe timeline marker just appears to freeze as shown below. You can see the preview status (square) acts as if it's playing, and all frames are cached, but the playback is just frozen.If I press the stop preview button, the timeline marker will jump back 1 frame specificallySee below screengrab from this frozen preview:It happens at any playback resolution (full/half/quarter/auto) and any location in my timeline.  The weird thing is I can get RAM preview to work properly upon my first initial startup of AE. Once I make more than a couple edits to my comp and try to preview though, the freezing playback issue occurs again. On

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Never had this issue on my Windows 7 desktop, this is only on my brand new laptop running Windows 10... which should be a lot quicker and run AE better. Anyone else experience this? I press space bar, wait about five seconds and then the preview plays even if it is already loaded.Tried google and found nothing. This is on the latest version of AE but I'm using it for the first time on this computer. Specs: https://i.imgur.com/XpZmZfx.png It makes no sense to me because everything else is fast except this. Additional info: I'm using Mercury Software Only in settings if it matters. 500gb memory and disk cache are empty, purging affects nothing. Display drivers up to date. Working from local drives. Video footage is just small 1080p mp4 files recorded with OBS, so loading them is no problem once the video plays.

I want this object to follow same path it had before. By holding SHIFT key it is possible to have either vertical path or horizontal path. Is there any key to hold to follow same path it had before? file & video also attached.Same Path.aep   

Font is graphic area shows italic font but selection is regular. What is reason? File is attached as well.Font.aep  

Hello community, 🙂  I am in a big rush and working on a restricted PC, so I cannot update my software right now. I need to open a 26 MB project file created in After Effects 2024 (v24.6.4), but my local version is CC 2021 (v18).Could someone with AE 2024 please open it and save it as a copy for CC 2023, and then from 2023 save it as a copy for CC 2021? I would appreciate it infinitely.Here is the WeTransfer link: https://we.tl/t-YiBzshhsuJsCn0TAThank you so much! 🙏🏻 

Font is graphic area shows italic font but selection is regular. What is reason? File is attached as well.Font.aep  

My Roto Brush in version 26.5 simply doesn't work. I can't use any of the available versions. I can make the strokes, and sometimes even select the areas, but as soon as I move the cursor away, the markings disappear. If I freeze it, it processes, but nothing appears visually. It only creates an Object Matte in the layer, but I can't actually use it. I've tried searching for a solution but couldn't find anything. I've tried several fixes and different versions of Roto Brush, but nothing changes. It keeps behaving exactly the same way. My next step is to uninstall and reinstall After Effects, but if that doesn't work, I honestly don't know what else to do.

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After effects recently did an auto update and now I see the New viewer option is gone??This is a crucial funtion I need to see how my precomps update in the main comp.  Is this a mistake? Has it moved somewhere else?? After Effects 25.2.2