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Having some rendering issues as this error pops up "Compressor format error. (-1610153454)." Then it follows up with "Error Code: 9988".  I'm using Apple Pro Res 4444 file out to an Apple Pro Res 4444 file (RGB + Alpha), 1920 x 1080, 29.97. Render crashes on Frame 13 each time when these error messages pop up.  I've seen other solutions suggested with similar errors, but nothing seemes to be working.  Any thoughts out there? Thanks in advance. /LG

I’m completely stuck with a critical After Effects issue and I really hope someone here can help.Here are the exact technical facts....The main issueAfter Effects crashes with:“Unable to allocate XXX MB of memory”Or random GPU/CPU errors during preview or renderThis happens even on very small projects, sometimes after 1–5 minutes.Hardware diagnostics already doneI tested absolutely everything on the hardware side:MemTest86 — 4 passes — 0 errors → RAM is 100% stableMotherboard BIOS updated (MSI B550 Gaming Plus – latest version)AMD chipset drivers updatedAMD Radeon 6700 XT → clean driver install (Factory Reset)XMP disabled for testingTemps are normal (no thermal throttling)After Effects troubleshooting already doneReset AE preferences (Ctrl + Alt + Shift)Disabled GPU acceleration (Mercury Software Only)Cleaned media cache (manual + preferences)Deleted all Adobe cache folders in AppDataMemory & Performance: multi-frame render disabledMemory virtualized by OS (auto)Fresh installation

Can someone explain why this happen?Its a Win PC and the latest AE Version.Thank you

Using the latest version of After Effects - both my main Desktop machine (Windows 11) = and laptop (Windows 10) are freezing and crashing. Graphics and Video. No other app is causing this. Most often triggered when TAB through windows to different apps. Please sort this out. Not acceptable.

この映像の冒頭、「ハートフルサステナブル」という文字の出現方法について教えていただきたいですハの１画目を再現する方法を模索しています。試したことは以下の通りです①マスクを設定して線のみと塗のみに分けて作り、線エフェクトでアニメーション→線のみを線エフェクトで出現させることができない？そもそも最後にバウンスしているのを再現できない②パスでアニメーションする→最初が残ってしまい綺麗に出現させられない、頂点やハンドルが煩雑で調整が難しい③アンカーポイントをハの頭に設定してスケールでアニメーション→オブジェクトの形に沿ってスケールさせることができないサやナなどの線が交差する部分での挙動などもヒントにして考えましたがわかりませんでした。よろしくお願いいたします。

I’m struggling to use After Effects after the new update, it seems super unstable compared to before. I have constant crashed and overall it’s insanely slow now. It will often crash and I am unable to launch the app back up again, even after killing every task related to AfterFX and Adobe, the only way to launch is to restart my PC…I have reinstalled AE, reinstalled my GPU drivers (using DDU for clean install), cleared cache and everything I can think of…There seems to be a very frequent error with my AE Cache not working correctly, as you can see in the log file… any ideas?

I want to do some calculations in c++ (faster and more secure), and then, can get these calculations in some layers’ expression to control things like their position and scale for example.Note that this calculated data changes every frame, as this calculated data is driven (function of) by other properties of some layers such as (position, rotation, scale, rect).The data I’m interested in can be represented as an array of numbers, the array size can be more than 100.How can I achieve something like that?It is REALY IMPORTANT for my new tool, as this will make it faster and secure.Example.My plugin would get the position of two layers and get the mid-point.then, I want for these layers to get the value that was calculated inside the plugin and use it in an expression for the position property.Layer 1/2 → position → expression:midPoint “calculated from the plugin”value + midPoint ← the return of the expression.“This is just a simple example, the calculations are much more complex than th

Hey folks, wondering if anyone can tell me the shortcut to align the beginning of a precomp to the playhead in AE, or even just to the exact beginning of the comp?  I know how to align and snap the active, visible section of a precomp to the playhead using “[“ or “]” but can’t figure out how to align the actual beginning of the pre comp to the playhead or even the comp beginning.  Thanks for any info!

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Hi,I have been going crazy looking for a solution to how to solve the 'blank frame' glitch when creating a looping composition using the loopOut() expression.I tried the current/previous solutions which involved adding a keyframe on the penultimate frame or manually setting the final keyframe value -1 frame. These worked, but I was still getting a visible animation glitch happening.My final solution, for a perfect loop with zero visible glitches or blank frames, was to open the pre-comp layer (the original composition that you're trying to loop) and for every layer that reaches the final frame, drag it beyond the end. These layers may appear to run to the very end of the comp and appear as though they reach the final frame, but manually dragging the end of the layer 'off' to the right of the comp was what was needed for that final 'missing' frame to show in the precomp loop.So, starting with a Time Wrapping comp that is showing a blank frame:1. Double-click the comp to show the content

I'm very new to AE. I was wanting to do a camera moving through my text. I parented the null object layer to the camera. Now, when I try to move the position of the null object, nothing moves. The sliders for the directions move, but nothing happens on screen. 3D is selected on my comp, text layers, and my null layer. I'm sure it's an easy fix, but I can't find an answer anywhere. All the tutorials I've watched, I never see an issue. They simply add the camera, add the null object, link them, and when they move the position, no issue. Any help would be super appreciated. Sorry if I didn't explain the best. I'll link a video as wellhttps://imgur.com/a/F2zhVOS

I want to have a shape move from right to left but be linear in speed then when it gets to a point speed up and then slow down before going back to linear speed again.I always struggle with understanding this. I thought I could have the first keyframe linear, the next one easy ease (hour glass), then another easy ease, and then finally linear, and that by selecting temporal (speed) interpolation to linear it would allow this. Problem is it changes the easy ease keyframes to linear.Essentially in the graph editor I want a straight line and then an n shaped curve which i can modify the handles for to create the speed up and slow down speed I want, before going back to linear again. I have done this before but I’ve never learnt it properly and AE seems to do different things each time. How do I do this because it comes up a lot and is rarely explained in tutorials on youtube etc.Also how do you move the handles so they have exactly the same percentage adjustment. Kust dragging them invari

Is there a way to use a video or another comp as a material on a 3D model/object?Kind of obvious but I’m trying to add a video to a 3D phone screen. I added the video to my scene/comp, and I can see the 3D phone material, but cant find a way to select the video as a material. I think I can fake it and make a 9x16 comp and make it 3D and have it aligned right on top of the screen. I know good ol Element 3D can do it, but I’m really hoping that the new native 3D tools in AE can pull it off.If anyone can help lmk, THANKS! 

Hi all. I’m a professional editor working with a UAE based editing agency and using After Effects for years on commercial and ad projects. Recently an entertainment website [personal info removed by mod.] contacted us for a short eye catchy promo ad video. While editing in latest After Effects, I started facing an issue with Multi Frame Rendering. Render gets stuck on a random frame, cpu still high but frames don’t move, no error shows. If I turn off MFR it renders, but very slow. Project is clean, no missing plugins, cache cleared, GPU drivers updated. This feels more like a render thread or plugin related issue, not basic settings. I searched YouTube and blogs but didn’t get real help. Saw many experienced AE editors here so thought to ask.

Hello! I am using After Effects. I synced the Adobe Font Config Variable, but I am not seeing it in the After Effects text options. I am able to use it in Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, and Photoshop. So I am a bit confused as to what is going on. Does After Effects not support some Adobe fonts? Thank you.

Editing Text in AE is very inconvenient and buggy. The font dropdown menu where you can see the sample text only shows the actual font for the sample for some fonts, but the majority has the preview in a standard font. I have to actual choose the font to see it in my composition - add to that that there's currently no way to scroll through fonts or go through them with the arror keys:I have to click on a font, which closes the dropdown menu, then i have to open the dropdown again, find where I left off and click the next font and so on. And after I pick a font, the name doesn't even appear in the window, it's instead replaced with a "-" It's also missing some filter options that are available in Illustrator, like weight, serif etc. I can only filter by Adobe fonts.   I guess this is a mix of bug and idea for improvement. The text editing workflow as it currently is an AE doesn't work well.

HiDoes anybody else find AE's Paint performance, politely put, poor?Using Mac Studio with the latest AE version. Today I got really frustrated. Usually, AE starts to crawl and freeze after some +1000 Clone Stamp strokes. You may be able to continue by duplicating the Paint effect, clearing the strokes and resuming fresh.Now, I have a normal-ish 20-second 4K clip, (Prores 4444, Arri LogC3). AE freezes completely after 70 - 100 tiny strokes. Nothing fancy - just a basic clone brush. RGB, single frame stroke, clone source from the same layer.  I have tried:clearing caches,disabling all other layers and effects,Safe Mode (all third-party plugins disabled),changing METAL to Renderer to Mercury Software Only,using a small Region of Interest,opening a new fresh project and starting over,half resolution (you really can't work this way),precomping,downgrading AE versions... Nothing alarming with Mac's memory usage.Would not want to start over the fifth time. Getting gradually ang

I’m facing an issue with my graphics card optimization in After Effects and Premiere Pro. I have the latest 2025 versions of the software installed, but my system keeps recognizing them as 2019 versions and doesn’t optimize my graphics card properly.

The problem:I've enabled Time Remapping on a composition and am using the loopOut() expression to repeat a 16 second animation until the end of the video.When I apply the expression, it places a keyframe at the beginning of the clip and at the 16 second mark. When I look at the single frame at the 16 second mark, the composition is not visible. (The object boundaries are visible to scale/move but the image is not.) This also occurs at the 32sec mark, 48sec mark, 64sec mark...The solution I found (that's not working for me):Create a new keyframe one frame before the 16 second markDelete the keyframe at the 16 second markWhat happens instead:Once I delete the keyframe at the 16 second mark, the keyframe at 15;29 becomes blank. The last keyframe will always be blank, no matter where it was placed, before or after the original.If I have four keyframes and delete the last one (#4), the third keyframe will become blank. If I then delete the third keyframe, the second keyframe will become bla

Guys, I have a question. I'm using After Effects 2024 and trying to use the Text Evo 2 plugin, but when I try to open the plugin, I get an error saying "unable to execute script at line 34026. null is not an object". By the way, I installed the plugin from aescripts + aeplugins. I had installed this plugin before, and it worked fine. But then I had my laptop serviced and they reinstalled Windows, so I had to download everything again using the same AE and plugin version, but this time it's giving me this error. How can I fix this? I would appreciate any help, friends 🙏. - After Effect 2024- Windows 11- Text Evo 2

I am working on an extension for AE that uses Angular. I have a lot of things watching assets, and I suspect that might have something to do with this, but was curious if anyone else has ever encountered this error?"After Effects error: having to focus on ourselves (76 :: 59 ). I can find nothing about it online or any relevant error codes.Screenshot below

I've tracked a shot and created a 3D camera, added a logo and text in the shot.  I've added drop shadow and stroke to the text, and drop shadow to the logo but they don't show up.  As soon as I turn off 3D in each layer, they're magically there.I did the same exact thing last year to a project.  As a matter of fact, I opened the project and there was the drop shadow. I've added them as an effect and as a layer style, neither work.I'm pull out what few hairs I have left.TVS 

Hi all! I am trying to create my own .mogrt file of a typewriter effect that's meant to mimick a robot speaking, with plans to move it into Premiere Pro so I can control the speed, font, colours, etc for future projects. The attached image is from a template that I downloaded, and the speed can be controlled via this slider and NOT keyframes.  The below image is my effect that I'm creating. As you can see, it has the normal 'slider' with the keyframes. My issue is that I want to bring this into Premiere Pro and control the speed in there, and that can't work with keyframes. Does anybody know how that 'speed' fx was added onto the first image, allowing the typewriter effect to be made without keyframes? Thanks! Hope that made sense lol  

How do I install a version of AE 24.x now? Creative Cloud only has versions 25.x and later. Where do I go to download an earlier version? Thank you.