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Hi Everyone So i am trying to add a simple Placeholder to essential graphics please help me with this i am getting a red error again and again i need to do this quickly i cant fix it waiting for solution Thanks alot

will after effects 2023 work on Xeon processor with these specification HP Z440 WorkstationRAM : 64GB RAMDDR4 RAMSSD : 512 GBHard Disk Drive: 1TBProcessor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 V414 core processor14 physical cores14 virtual coresTotal 28 threadsGPU: M4000 Quadro Nvidia 8gb Graphics card

I want to make some 3D text and have installed the add-on from the creative cloud and restarted, but Ae still complains that I still need to install Cinema 4D, whats wrong?

Hi, i am having trouble with rendering in ae,When I do some color correction and sharpen on my video, when it starts rendering I can see in the preview that the sharpness dissapears and also some of the color grades.Any help? 

Hello. I've pick-whipped a layer's position to a null object a few levels up in the hierarchy of nested compositions. Adjusting the null's position moves the layer as expected until I create a keyframe, then it stops working.I'm not sure if this matters, but I'm working on an animation where comps of a character's face orientations (profile, 3/4s, forward) are nested inside a comp with a duration of one frame and staggared by one frame. I've time-remapped the upper comp to control which orientation is being shown.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

i want to display seconds in my timeline window but i am getting still frames.Before i wrote here also i googled to fix this problem and followed the steps below :Ctrl-click (Windows) the current-time display. The current-time display is in the upper-left corner of the Timeline panel and at the bottom of the Layer, Composition, and Footage panels is not worked.File>Project settings>time display settings>timecode not workedthen i closed after effects and clicked shift+ctrl+alt to reset preference settings of after effects and opened a new project and new composition then i achived to showing seconds later on i bring that problem composition to the new new project but i still getting frames instead of frames in timeline.Probably i click wrong key while i worked on my project.How can i fix this issue and recover that setting?Thanks for your kind helping attempt.

Trying to open a Premiere project in After Effects and I keep getting these two errors:After Effects error: zero denominator converting ratio denominators. ( 17 :: 19 )AEGP Plugin Premiere Pro Import: Unknown error. ( 5027 :: 12 )Any help would be great

HiPlease help me how to fix random crash, pc freezing. I started After Effect and not open it - blue screen error  IRQL Not less.. and other stop code error and reboot my pc again and again 😞Updated all driver, mem test ok, no virus, etc working perfectly all devices.PcI7-14700k/4070ti/64GB ram Premiere pro opened and error messeage, and closed program. I opening again no messeage, clicking the timeline bum blue screen and restarting pc. I used Ae and Pr version 2020 updated all version 21,22,23,24 all version crashing. Help me how to fixing because I watching lot of youtube videos and any helped me 😞 I working every day in programs it would be a big loss for me and job pasused because programs not working.

Renderização demorando o triplo do normal. Alterei minhas configurações do computador para uma melhor, saindo de um R3 2200g para um R7 5700X, 32GB ram, saindo de RX 580 para uma RX 7700 XT e a renderização está pessima, demorando muito e não consumindo nada, literalmente 0% de GPU mesmo com OpenCL. Não sei o que fazer, já configurei certo, rodei a internet toda atrás de respostas e estou sem solução, preciso de ajuda urgente! Necessidade de Trabalho

I  refuse to install this product but it keeps getting installed on my computer despite me checking no. I did a fresh computer wipe and reload of CC and still this software installs. How do I keep Maxon off my computer?   

I have a 3D text in Blender and want to import it as a 3D object into Ae, how do I do that? Do I need Adobe Animate? I can render it as a movie clip but I want to animate it in Ae.

Just wondering if there's a setting I may not be aware of in After Effects that would enable me to change the default "Step/Foward back many frames which is always set to 10 in After Effects. In Premiere (see below) it's great that we have this option to change the step forward/back many frames from the default 10 to any number you want. Just curious why there's no option (I'm aware of) to do so in a compositing animation program like AE. Working in 24 and 12 fps timelines, it would be great to have the option to change the default 10 to say 12 or 8 or 6 or whatever. Hopefully Adobe will one day add this.   

Hi, I am creating 3d shapes in After Effects by making them 3D, Changing render settings to Cinema 4D and then  under Geometry Options i'm selectingConvex and expaning the Extrusion Depth & hole Bevel Depth, but when i trutn my spae to the side the edges are harsh and i want them rounded. I tried adding 'round corners' to my shape but this doesn't help. I tried to redo this in After Effects Beta incase there where any additional settings but nothing i could find.... (doesn't mean its not there i am a noive at all things AE)Does anyone have any idea on how i could round out my edges....(i've added a layer over the top of my shape to give it texture, but can't make this 3d so it doesn't move well with the shape so any tips on that, i've fudged it for now...) Thank you so much for any advice/tips/ ideas 

I apologize if the title doesn't make sense I'll try to explain in the comments if something doesn't make sense. I'm new to after effects but l'm trying to make an opening movie. The beginning of this movie has eyes looking left and right while the background slowly pans downward. The problem I have is that I need the eyes to pan down with the background and look left and right at the same time. The way it is now is the eyes move left and right then start panning. Is there a way to make the eyes pan with the background without using the position (that's how they move left and right) Thanks for the help.

Dear Support Team,   I am using the wonderful Puupet tool but i only the first option is working. I can't see or use the other 3 options.   Best Regards,   Shai

Hi, I tried using a datamosh extension for AE 2020 but when I go to Windows -> Extensions as usual, there is my Datamosh extension, but when I click on it nothing happens, not even an error or something. I tried reinstalling everything at least twice now and I really don't know what to do. By the way a friend of mine got it working perfectly so it has to be my error rather than a software error.

I purchased the anual After Effects but i can't download the app.I received the following mesage: ''This page isn't aviailable right now. Try visiting this page again later.I tried, not working. Many Thanks, Shai

I created two characters in AI with the intention of animating them. Each of their body parts is its own layer. Both characters and their layers were brought into AE as comps. Since the characters do some movement, I parented each body part layer to the main "body" (torso) layer. Minimal animation required, though, and I had everything exactly where it needed to be until it came time to export. For some reason, in the Media Encoder export, the arms of Character A are missing completely, and the mouth is wrong. In the original animation, Character A's "frowning mouth" layer is at 100% opacity for the first two seconds, then the "smiling mouth" layer replaces it at 100% opacity. In the export, however, Character A has no mouth for the first two seconds, then for some reason the frowning mouth appears instead of the smiling one. Long story short, those layers are suddenly appearing at the wrong times.  I thought this was an export issue, because even though the export was s

Hi,I'm experimenting with vr workflows and tools in ae 2018.So far everything works well like expected, except the option Add 3D Edit. When I use it on a equirectangular clip, the new VR Output comp displays a wrong image.All of the 6 cameras that are combined into the final view look exactly the same - they just show exactly the same view as the master camera in the VR Edit1 comp. So in result my output footage is just six copies of the edit view stitched into an equirectangular image The Extract Cubemap option works correctly, it creates all the precomps, the cube scene with 6 camera views, and a final output comp that at default shows the exact same image as my source clip.So why doesn't the 3D edit work the same?

Using AE 17.0.2 on Windows 10.0.18362 (Latest Update)Intel i7-8700k cpu @ 3.70GHz, 6 Cores32 GB RAMNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Latest Driver) Never had any problems until I got a job requiring Apple Prores 422HQ files.System crashes without offering crash report when I try to play themIf I get one to play without crashing, exporting file fails with this error report:"Export ErrorError compiling movie.Render ErrorRender returned error.Writing with exporter: QuickTimeWriting to file: D:\AIA\FX5-014\Clips\FX5-014Cmp06.movAround timecode: 00:00:01:01Rendering at offset: 0.083 secondsComponent: QuickTime of type ExporterSelector: 9Error code: -1609629695" Any ideas? Will have to pass on job if I can't solve this quickly. Thanks.

In the Effect Controls of my path text, there's an "Information" category with the following data:Font:ArialText Length:3520.69Path Length:640.08The "Path Length" value is exactly what i want to use in an expression, but i don't know how to access it. I've tried a dozen different ways to approximately re-calculate it without satisfactory results. Is there any way to access this value within an expression?For context: i have individual image layers in my composition that i have visually "connected" using another path text layer, pickwhipping the vertices of the path text to each of those graphics' positions. The tangent points are also calculated based on the same positions. The "string" connecting them is a bunch of ellipsis typed along that path. Both of the graphics move around the screen. i want to be able to adjust them both without having to manually adjust the path text too. The problem i have is trimming the path text dynamically depending on how short the distance between the t

hey so I have this issue for a while now and i really dont know how to fix this. Everytime i get project files I try to either type in the transition curves etc myself or save the animations and add it onto my own project.but it never looks the same. Sometimed it looks completely different most of the timed the scale is too big or the transition is completely different and choopy or even too slow. The project file is for edits and they always use scale and x and y transition but if I change those things to fit my frame and to make it correct,so I have my anchor point (or just the face in the frame) it becomes a mess and not the project that I wanted to have. Can someone please help me?  

Hello, I can't open AE project file when I update my AE to new version. What is the solution to open previous AE project file on new version? 

When working with imported Cinema4D renders, once in a while, some clips have to be rendered again in Cinema4d. When the 3d render is overwritten while it is imported in Ae (in the currently opened project), Ae panics, and some kind of bans the clip forever. It is logical that while the clip is overwritten, Ae can't work with it, but in stead of switching it to an offline state, Ae comes up with an error (see screenshots), and even when the file is complete again (render in Cinema4d is finished), it will not import/reload again. The clip is kind of 'dead' It seems to have no video content, while in Finder, it just appears to be fine. In other siuations, it is replaced by color bars, but does not Reload when the 3D render is finished. Please make Ae be more tolerant in this situation: let it reconsider the file's condition on Reload, or on reopen the project, and in every case where it wants to show the error.

Hi,  I made a simple scale transition where my image zooms in. I selected the key frames like usual and clicked easy ease. Then I opened the graph editor and I saw a normal red scale curve. But there were no yellow arms. I looked at the lower left corner and all the options were grayed out. When I clicked on the left side key frame nothing happened. No arms appeared. Oddly, when I then clicked on the right side key frame the arms appeared for that side and I could adjust them as normal. And the arms also appeared on the left side, but when I went to move the left side arms, they dispapeared and wouldn't let me move them. This has never happened before and I've spent hours looking online for answers and I've found nothing. It's a scale graph so I can't separate dimensions, and I am in the value graph which is what I need. I do not need to edit the speed graph. How can I get both key frames/both ends of my transition to work in the graph editor?