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I'm trying to use a script(Motion Tools Pro). But when I try to use it the error "Allow scripts to write file and access network" comes up and guides me to do it on (Edit-Preferences). But whenever I do that after effects hang up. I already tried removing the(Motion Tools Pro) if it will help. But it's not, then I tried to reinstall and clear all disks on after effects. It's still the same even if I try (Reset Preferences) and Start in on Safe Mode. I'm currently on a free trial. Please help me!

A deep dive into how computers were able to render digital images on physical film.   Back in 2019, I posted a question on CreativeCow.net wondering how it was possible that a computer in the 1980s could render an image onto a celloid film strip. The answers I got to that post led me down a rabbit hole of competing technologies, historical imperatives and some fascinating anecdotes. I talk about John Whitney and his work, Lee Harrison and the Scanimate team, John Whitney Jr and Gary Demos at Triple-I, later Digital Productions and of course, I talk about the PDP-10, Foonly F1 and Cray XMP computers.   I've tried to sum up my findings here and inevitably, I will have missed out crucial steps and glossed over important points. Still I hope you find this VFX history entertaining, if not informative.  

 

Please help, I cannot drag and drop anything on Adobe AFter Effects. It randomly started occuring last night, and I have tried everything including unclicking "running as adminstrator"

Hi! LoopOut function on scale and opacity causes glitching.  I have three keyframes. - Keyframe 01: 0% Opacity- Keyframe 02: 100% Opacity- Keyframe 03: 0% Opacity With he LoopOut cycle function, it glitches and shows the third keyframe at 100% opacity. I use MacOS Sonoma 14.0 After effects 24.0

Since installing AE 22.6 the disck cache no longer clears itself, when it gets to the "Maximum Disk Cache Size" set in preferences (which is 84gigs).  Has anyone run into this.  I've only recently jumped from AE2020 to AE 2022 and this has only become a problem since 22.6.  I'll set a render to run over night which will crash cause it's filling up my HD with 200gigs in cache.  

Many of my renders have been failing on the first try and succeeding on the 2nd try: 2 consistent errors continuously pop up on fail:After Effects error: Unknown checkout id ( 78 :: 7 )After Effects error: An unexpected error occurred while exporting a composition. Error Code: 516. Please restart After Effects and retry the export. Mac OS Sonoma. Version 23.6.0 Build 62   

Buongiorno, stavo importando delle clip da After effects a Premiere Pro, le prime 4 le ha accettate, dopodichè ha iniziato a darmi un messaggio di errore, con scritto "errore di importazione file, per completare l'operazione deve essere installato Adobe After Effects 2023" e io al momento ho la versione 2024. Il problema è che se dovessi retrocedere di versione mi cancellerebbe tutti i progetti che ho realizzato sulla versione corrente. Come posso risolvere questo problema?spero di essermi fatta capire, grazie in anticipoSolphia

Hello Adobe Community,so far I have tried to help myself and scoured the internet for a solution. To no avail.Hence my question to you, can you help me?I have an After Effects problem on a simple film project where I use several hundred layers, with memory-heavy footage. I'm using After Effects 2023 version 23.6.0 (Build 62) or 24.0 with same issues on a 2020 M1 Mac Book Air with Apple's Sonoma 14.0. The thing is that after I saved my project and reopened it, the error overflow ratio denominators are converted. (17 § 19). When I want to work on my subcomposition "film", the lowest layers are "removed" or "withheld" or "cut off" (see screenshot)The strange thing is that I can still see the content of it in the preview window, even when I export the movie, you can see everything I had created in these lower layers. I just can't access it anymore in the timeline. I don't see them anymore either, they should actually appear at the bottom if you scroll further down?What I did: Reb

After Effects changes colors of the imported Illustrator layers!When converting the file to shape, it appears grey.There is a glitch in the program. I want my money backProgram release 2023

I'm just simply removing logos with the content-aware fill. It works, but then crashes when I save. Here's what happens every single time without fail: Generate fill layer > it works > press save > nothing happens > press save again >  A window opens saying "After Effects error: Crash in progress. Last logged message was: <random number> <RenderThreadExecutor> <1> Creating executor with 16 threads." It then lets me save as a new file before it crashes, and then I have to reopen it to continue working. Every. Single. Time. How do I stop this from happening?

小新手嘗試使用AE轉lottie但bodymovin 輸出json失敗重開程式第一次輸出時會顯示character could not be created但json還是會輸出，Demo的html顯示有錯誤畫面一片為空白json可使用但顏色會錯誤後面再嘗試輸出則會卡在跑圖片(.png)或(.ai)不動想請各位幫幫忙 

Hello AE friends!I need your helping writing an if/else statement to adjust the position of a layer based on the size value of another layer. Is it even possible?! I am creating a .mogrt lowerthird and I am trying to add an if/else conditional statement so the client has the option to add an extra line of text under 'Occpation job title'. If they add the extra line of text, the 'organisation' text layer below, needs to shift down so a gap remains between the two text boxes. Else, it stays where it is.  So if 'Text box' Shape layer size height value is greater than 90.9, 'Organisation' text layer y position is 27.3. Else y position is 14.7 Here is my current expression added to the y position value of the text layer 'Organisation' s = thisComp.layer("Text box").content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").size;y = s.height;if(y>90.9){(27.3)}else{(-14.7)}; No error has come up, but it's definitely not working as nothing changes when I add an extra l

Bonjour, j'utulsie adobe after effects depuis un bou deja et pour la première fois aujourdh'ui jai un soucis. Jai 2 Fichier Ilustrator qui s'affiche super bien et non pixeliser que j'ai cree en vecteur dans ilustrator. Mon soucis est que lors de l'importation dans After effects, ils devienne Flou comme si elles etais rendu des image et non du vecteur. Pouver vous m'aider?  Je vous join ci desous les 4 Photo (Nomme par vecteur(sois ilustrator) et after effects). J'ai essayer avec d'autres Ilustrations et elle ne font pas ca. Je suis perdu et j'ai besoin d'aide.Merci 

I have a rendering problemWhen i render after using “evaporte” effect it dose not look good as it did while i was editing. Adding a video. If someone can help I would be thankful.Already tried to export as quickTime insteadof H.264 and it dose the same problem.

Hi. So I have a circle image and I want it to spin 360°, the issue is that when it’s mid rotation, the back of the image is inverted (which makes sense), but how do I make it so the text reads the same way on both sides of the image as it spins? Basically, I want to recreate this but I only have the 2D png of it facing forward

guys who can help? When I import a preset, the keyframes are not displayed. but in 2020 after effects everything is fine with the same presets. I've been sitting for two hours now and trying to figure out what the problem is? all plugins are installed and working. 10 percent of my presets work fine and the other 90 don't show the keys

Hi,I hope this problem has a relatively simple answer.I am creating an animated infographic and I had orginally set the composition to be 30s long. Near completion of the animation I realised that it needed to be longer so I went to the composition settings and extended the duration to 90s.However, after the extension the video still plays as normal until the 30s when everything just disappears and the composition reverts to its background colour.How do I get everything to remain in place from 30s to the complete 90s?

I want the Layer name to appear on the Timeline Bar to see the Layer name quickly as I'm working on more than 100 layers in a composition. Is there a script to do that?    idk it's called Timeline Bar. (coloured bars on the Right side)

I use the ASUS PA329 CV and work with video footage in Log. Which color setting on my monitor should I use to get accurate colors? The monitor covers 100% sRGB and 100% sLog.

Hi I was recently having issues with my PC where Adobe After Effects would continually show white screen, then freeze, then work for a minute and then show white screen again...I decided I would wipe my PC, reinstall Windows 10 and all the drivers I need and it would rectify the issue. Unfortunately I am faced with a nother problem. After installing  Adobe After Effects and Premiere I go to use them and I get a warning telling me the ENTRY POINT NOT FOUND, that the DusplaySurface.dll is missing. The warning says:The procedure entry point GetSystemDpiForProcess could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro 2022\DisplaySurface.dll The annoying thing is that it is there...? (see attachement).  I'm trying to get a project finished and I can't complete it thanks to this so any help would be gratefull appreciated. James 

I can't for the life of me figure out how to install a simple plugin (varifont.plugin).And there doesn't seem to be any decent info out there. So I got as far as copying the .plugin file to the plugins folder. (although I'm still not sure where as my plugins folder contains multiple catagories of plugins like "effects",  "keyframes" and "extensions").Then I'm supposed to go to scripts > install script and then select the file.But when I do this all plugins are just greyed out and I can't do anything. What am I doing wrong or what is happening?(Also why doesn't AE work with variable fonts still after so many years? Come on Adobe...)

Ive been using ae 22 because the newer versions arent compatible with Rosetta, and recently my ae was saying I couldnt open it due to an internal problem so I uninstalled it and now im not sure how to redownload it. I go onto the donwloads and it only shoes upto ae 23 , can someone help me find out how to get an odler version ?

I got this error message ..."cript at line 21565. AE Error: The section name and key (Main Pref Section v2, Use Reduced Contrast) could not be found in the preferences) while launching the Duik Angela after updating to never version of AE (24.4). File from later version where I had already made bone structure worked fine, made a new file and tried launching the script and got that. Anyone knows what this is? How to solve this? I looked for how to uninstall the script to reinstall it again, but I'm missing the uninstall file – I got the "DuSi" instead, which can uninstall all the scrips from rxlaboratory but I'm not sure if that's what I need. I have macOS, Sonoma 14. 4. 1

Going insane over this.  I know the position property is the distance between the anchor point and the comp. However if I move the anchor point to (0,0), the layer moves to the bottom right. If I change the position property to (0,0) it returns to its normal position in the middle. The original position values were 540, 540.