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I got Google Drive running upon system boot. When attempting to start AE, it goes straight into a perma-freeze. After quitting the GD app, AE can be started without a hickup.After AE started, GD can be started and used again without issues whatsoever. This is repeatable and a bit unfortunate since I'm using Google Drive all the time for my work. 🙄 It's been happening since about half a year now, persisting over several app iterations by both companies. Specs: Win 10 Pro, 22H2, build 19045.3393 – Google Drive 80.0.1.0 – RTX 3090 at driver 536.23

Is there a quick keyboard shortcut that will immediately toggle a layer to 50% opacity (and back)? I would like to find a faster shortcut than hitting 'T,' and then dragging the opacity amount to the left with my cursor. The reason is because I do a lot of UX animation work where I am frequently aligning layers with reference layers underneath. Thanks! -Shaun

Hello,I've been using After Effects for about 7 months now, and this problem just started occurring last week, I though I fixed it with getting a new graphics card but still, the problem persist.I use Magic Bullet Looks, and it seems that the problem comes up when that effect is enabled, I tried upgrading from cc 2018 to cc 2019, i reinstalled MB Looks, but still the problem is here.I get this error message. Now I'm not sure why it keeps coming up as I upgraded from a 2gb GPU to a 6gb GPU. Nobody I've seen seems to be having this problem as well but if any of you know a solution to why this is happening then the help would be much appreciated.By the way, clicking "Render Effects Using Software Only" does not fix the issue and actually ruined the project I was working on for the past 4 days. Ignoring it just brings up the error message again when you try and reload another frame.For the sake of the question, my specs are:AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3 GHz 8-Core ProcessorMSI - B350 PC MATE ATX AM

Whenever I export my video it just exports colored bars even though when I scrub through the .mov file in AE 2020 it scrubs fine. What am I doing wrong... See colored bars at bottom, note no audio comes through either when I try and play the file in the rendered version. I've also tried the YouTube Format with no success.... all footage shot on an iphone     

I often do animations using pre-comps, hold keyframes and time-remapping.  Lately this is incredibly buggy, and frames are not holding, making this technique I've used for over a decade unworkable.  I'm using v 22.4 on a Mac, and I've purged the cache repeatedly with no difference.

Does anyone know how I can get a subtle stabilization In my videos?For example, if someone was moving their head around it would only do like 50% of the full motion.I have already tried mocha ae, mocha pro, and the default tracker that comes with after effects.I thought it might be a plugin where it follows the motion of the video so it will look subtle, but I can't find anything on that.If anyone has a solution please let me know, thank you!

Having issues importing Photoshop files into After Effects as comps in AE 2022. I can import them as footage, but not as a comp of any kind.  I get the mac "beach ball of death" and have to do a force quit. Is anyone else having this issue? Reinstalled AE and PS.  Restarted multiple times.  Ended up going back to the older version.Thoughts?

Hello Community, I am trying to get rid of this green outline. Could anyone give me any tips on how to? I used Mocha to make the motion tracking of the screen. I also used keylight asvanced spill suppressor and it kind of helped the noise but not to get rid off that outline.

Hi, I am using the original After Effects version 23.3.0, i have experienced this problem in several versions. Now it s getting really annoying and i decided to write about this problem. I couldn t find anything on the internet. My problem is, while trying to create a text, when i start typing something, nothing appears on the screen and the name of the text in the source does not change. (As if my keyboard is disabled) When i try to write something, it shows the "〈empty text layer〉" action below. . I could only solve this problem in this way: writing what i wanted to write on a note paper, copying it and pasting it into the text in after effects... Now i want to write normally, not by copying and pasting, i hope u can help me solve this problem :3▻The computer I use: 16GB MacOS Sonoma with M3 chip, released in 2021 iMac

Hello all, I am writing this because I have been unable to render any videos that I have on After Effects and Media Encoder for the last couple of hours. I already cleared the media cache and restarted my windows machine but that doesn't seem to help. If any more knowlegeable people would be able to help me I would greatly appreciate it.

Hi friends, I am very new to after effects and I am trying to follow a tutorial. I am simply trying to do the action in 12:05 - 12:45 of this youtube video which is just to change the position and size of the shape in only the first keyframe in the "path" section. However, it doesn't work for me at all. The frame never remains selected and the desired effect is not occuring. I have attached a few second clip of what happens when I try. I am doing exactly what the tutorial is doing and its not working. Also the I disappears when it's off screen while his still shows. What can I do to remedy these issues?

Please note: I am aware of the Transform > Rotation on every layer but that simply doesn't work in this instance.  I am trying to make two formats [Landscape and Portrait] for export. To achieve the Portrait format, I am trying to rotate the background layer 90°. It should be simple to do- right?? But I  cannot rotate the layer 90° to work in Portrait mode and I can use some help. ***I can do this for all the other layers though- just not the 'star'  I bought an After Effects template from Motion Array and the layer appears to have been made procedurally [see attached] and therefore cannot be rotated 90°. In the Layer Transform tab, I'll rotate it 90° and nothing happens. I've also tried the Rotation Tool [W] and that doesn't work. How do I do a simple rotation??Below is a snapshot of the layer I am trying to rotate 90° to work in Vertical format. I tried 3 different ways to rotate this layer without any success. Whats happening?? Thanks in ad

Was able to open and work with exr the other day... after zipping the porject folder for archove, we have a few more tweaks to make, so unzipped anf now the exr sequences won't appear and get warning popup... This popup is from a test as file to see if i can at least import a sequence into a clean blank slate... but no.  

I use a Macbook and want to use shortcuts in After Effects, but I keep encountering this issue... for example, when I press the shortcut H, it switches to the Hand tool but at the same time, it also displays the text bar below, and if I press V (selection tool), it shows as HA. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Please help me.   Title edited by Mod.  

I am using after effect ver24.3.When I have many shapes or rectangles in one shape layer, I often want to click on each one to see which shape belongs to which item.If multiple shapes are in the same layer and I try to select one shape from among multiple shapes in the composition window, I will not be able to select them separately.In order to find a certain shape among multiple shapes, it is difficult to click on each shape item one by one, so I would like to be able to find it more easily.For example, is there a shortcut key for selecting the next item for items in the same hierarchy in the same layer?I would like to know if there is a better solution. 

Help guys!  How to separate "size" like "position" when you constrain size properties. In graph editor it's barely possible to select X graph to animate. Is there a solution guys help please!  

Hi, I've exported a .glb file from blender and imported into aftereffects. As you can see in the images below, when I add it to my comp, a shadow appears on other layers below like my phone asset, which I have no control over. Where am I going wrong? How can I remove it? Thanks!

I was doing an simple project in After Effects and spent some time on it. Afterwards I set it to render. I went outside, and when I came back home I saw my video saved... but the video was cut in half? I was really sad. If anybody knows why this happens let me know!

Hello all, I am creating a demo video that will contain about 10 animated inserts. Each insert will be designed the same way using a templated Illustrator file. We will only be swapping the text data in each file.  Is there any way to animate each layer and then swap out the Illustrator file so that each layer will animate in the exact same way by only swapping the Illustrator file in the After Effects composition?

I just start my after effect free trail to test my mac can run it or not, but this popup keeps show up and I couldn't do anything,Does anyone has soulutions for this issue? 

I am getting constant Low Memory Warning banners in AE 23.6. Purging the cache or restarting AE doesn't fix it. Most of the time, I have to restart my machine for it to go away, at least for a time. My footage is usually EXRs in resolutions from 1080p to 4k. Project doesn't matter, it happens in any project and has ever since the multiframe rendering feature was added back in.  Much of the time if Ilet the timeline cache in the background, it'll work fine, but I need to press the spacebar instead of the Num0 key for a RAM preview. i have had entire timelines cached only to hit hte num0 and the banner returns. I only Have AE and Chrome open, but it happens even if it's just AE. System Specs: Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32Core64GB RAMNvidia Quadro RTX 6000window 10 Pro *UPDATE* This is still happening with24.3 and completely new projects with completely unrelated source.

Liebe Community, seit ein paar Tagen funktioniert der Zeilenumbruch für meinen Text in After Effects nicht mehr. Wenn ich einen Text erstelle und in die zweite Zeile springen will, werde ich nur zum Anfang der ersten Zeile zurückgeworfen und die beiden Zeilen (oder ggf. mehr als zwei Zeilen) überlappen sich.Auf dem beigefügten Anhang Habe ich in die erste Zeile "blablabla" geschrieben und in die 2. "Hallo hallo hallo". Bei dem Panel "Paragraphs" ist alles auf 0 eingestellt. Die settings sind ebenfalls im angehangenen Screenshot.Ich bedanke mich im Voraus für eure Hilfe 🙂 

Bonjour, je vous écris afin de vous faire part d’une situation contraignante. J’ai effectué l’essai de 14 jours d’adobe after effects et j’ai voulu annuler l’abonnement avant la fin des 14 jours. Il semble que cet annulation n’a pas été prise en compte puisque j’ai payé deux mois de facturation et que je suis parti pour 10 autres m’is de paiement à mon insu. Puis- je me faire rembourser et annuler mon abonnement svp ? Cela est très contraignant pour moi et ma situation financière….

I am using after effect ver24.3.I often convert multiple rectangular shapes to Bezier paths to create cartoon-like emphasized lines.However, it is not possible to select multiple path items of multiple shapes, right-click, and convert them to Bezier paths all at once.Is there a way to select multiple shapes and turn them into Bezier paths at once?

Is this a bug or UX/UI team has nothing better to do than remove useful features?Please bring it back, it's very helpful when working on a multiscreen video. thank you