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I have after effects 2021 on my mac Macbook Pro and have been using it with no problems for almost 3 years. Since yesterday, whenever I add more than a few videos/ pictures to my project and then try to move them using keyframes or dragging, it will lock up or show the rainbow spinning wheel even when in quarter resolution. I am unable to upgrade my after effects and I tried clearing my cache and deleting footage but nothing helps. Not sure what to do please help!

After the last update Mac After Effects no longer opens.I tried to check the permits of the folders suggested by the solutions I found on the net, but the permits are correct.I tried to restore preferences, but it doesn't open.I tried to start it in safe mode, but it does not open.I tried to uninstall the application and reinstall it without anything new.Whenever Apple updates the operating system puts after use after effects.MacBook Pro and Sonoma 14.3.1

I've just updated my AE and did my usual workflow of uploading PNGs to the comp and then dragging them in, but for some reason it now doesn't show the images anywhere on screen?? have I accidentally turned them off or am I missing something?  Looked back on some older Q&As to see if that could help first and have tried: went to 'Window' > 'Workspace' and set it to standard, reset, all panels etcchanged the names of the PNGs i would really really appreciate any help and hopefully i'm just being a little dumb and it's something obvious! thanks in advance for any help anyone can give!! Georgie :') ❤️ 

HiWhen i try to render my footage I get this error. Cannot unlock an unlocked list (27 ;; 4)I retried to render several times and every time the error occurs in different moments. i already restarted after effects several times and purged the cache folder.it keeps happening. Does anyone have an idea whats going on and how to solve it?

I'm trying to download After Effects CS6 on my mac but creative cloud only lets me download back to CC 2023. Is there any way to access older versions than just one year? I prefer the older layout of After Effects.

Dear sir:I want to move a file (such: "c:\\test.txt") to a new folder, I use javascript: var object = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); var file = object.GetFile("C:\\test.txt"); file.Move("d:\\");But this is not work? Can somebody tell me how?Thank a lot!Sincerely YoursZe-Yi  Hsu

AE 24.1.0Trapcode 2024.1.0MacOS 14.3.1M1 Ultra, 64 GB We are trying to animate the speed of a fluid system. Go from regular speed and then ramp it down to slo motion. Using the Physics Time Factor in the Global Controls seems to be the trick but when I play it back the seems to skip after a few seconds. Anyone else seen this before? 

Super slow render using shape layers with Master Properties and .csv file.i7-6950X 10C-20T using only one core to render and 1080ti at 2%3 minutes 1920*1080 is rendering 50 minutesCan't Attaching Project file!https://we.tl/t-FeRGIkXJ1E

Some assets in my CC Libray are missing. I can see it in other programs from Adobe, but not in after effects.

hi all I have a time remapping script that I have been using for literally years that has suddenly stopped working properly.  The issue I'm having is the values I set with the script are correct, they're just no longer being applied properly to the time remap keys. If I set a value and then check to see what the property value is, I get some very odd, close but not exact number, and in the UI the non-exact number is getting rounded, often to an incorrect frame.... so annoying!!! I've never had this problem before. It is like something has recently changed internally with the time calculations. Any suggestions on how I might resolve this or possible trouble shooting options would be greatly appreciated... ps. here is a snippet from the debug console showing the value i'm setting and then what Ae has actually set (or at least what it reports being the current time remap value) I generally use 25fps as it so much easier to work with frame durations of 0.04 se

I have created two sliders, one which will control the start point of a layer (if then statement looks at the time of the CTI and the slider time, in seconds) and if the CTI is greater than the slider time, then the opacity is set to 100) and the other to control the end point of the same layer (same thing as the start point, except it turns the opacity to 0).I would like to set it up so that if, say the end slider is set to 15 seconds, then the start slider either cannot move further than 15 or the start slider "pushes" the end slider higher up the scale. What happens now is that the start time can be set after the end time, which simply prevents the opacity from changing.I'm not sure if it's possible to limit the movement of a slider based on another slider's value, or move a slider based on another slider's value, but if it is, please let me know.Additionally, if there's another method instead of using two sliders, please feel free to share, but I'd rather keep with this, unless the

In Premiere Pro, you have the option to "step/forward back" by any amount of "many frames" that you want, which is great. I can't find this setting in After Effects. Just wondering why that is. Since AE is dedicated to visual effects and animation, surely there must be a setting that allows you to change the default move forward/back 10 frames to whatever number you wish, like in Premiere??? If not, is there some third party plugin that allows you to change that setting? For anyone who works in 24fps and 12 fps projects, it would be ideal to be able to set the "move by many frames" number by say 24, or 12, or 8, or 4 frames.   

HI all,In After Effects...I have a masked out image of a red balloon.The balloon is the only object in the layer. I placed that ballon layer in a comp, scene is a park.Now I have a park, with a red balloon on the grass.Now...I double click on the balloon layer, and use the Paint brush (or clone stamp) ...I then manually paint the border outline of the ballon with white, I notice that the white paint spills into the main comp image of the park.   Now I have a balloon with sloppy white around it's edges that spills into the grass. Is there a way to paint or clone stamp the balloon layer and stay within the outline edges of the balloon layer? I hope I asked that right. Can't find a post on this one. Thanks!Letty

So I just bought after effects on my Mac Air and the program has been running smoothly with no issue until I went to export my video. After rendering my video to QuickTime it's in slow motion, as well as the audio. Ive tried turning town resolution and quality but it doesn't make a difference. Ive also tried rendering trough media encounter but the same thing happens. Something that I have noticed is that the video in slow motion somehow has the same time span as in after effects which is a little strange because wouldn't it be significant longer after being slowed down? I'm not sure if this has anything to do with my settings or if it's an issue with QuickTime but I would be so grateful for any help I can get.

Hi, I am noticing something a bit odd that I can't figure out. I have 25 fps mp4. It is 804 frames. In AE I rotobrushed it and rendered an 804 frame EXR sequence. I also rendered the original mp4 as EXR sequence.  I am just experimenting, triyng to confirm that I can solve a camera, use that solve, then add a rotobrushed image sequence to then apply compositing later on (adding object in footage to 3d environment). In blender, if I have the original sequence play as camera background, then you can see that the cat is lined up with the red line. All is well. But if I then use the rotobrushed img sequence as the camera background, notice how the cat is sliding all over the place, especially at the beginning. In the attachments I have the playback in AE of the rotobrushed scene.  As well as playback in blender showing the disparity. I can't figure out how to account for what I am observing and what might be causing it. Ideas? thanks

Hi Community. Is there any theoretical method to see where the glowing fx bleed actually finishes when applied to an object?  I sometimes export an image, be it a shape, or an imagine with applied Glow Fx to it, and when I import it in another editing software, I can see sudden hard edges from the glow. Sometimes even masking and feathering, I still get hard edges.  In order to counter this problem, I usually export larger compositions boundaries to avoid hard edges, but is there another method the industry uses around this problem Im facing? Thank you.   

Hey, there. I use AE on my Dell XPS 15 9510 laptop. Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz, 2304 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s) with 64GB of RAM.  Ever since updating to AE 24, I have been experiencing the same exact problem over and over again. Every single time I open after effects, my preview works fine for a few minutes, and then all of a sudden the preview line freezes and only the green cache bar above runs. Everything else in the program works completely normally, but whatever I do, I cannot preview. The only thing fixing it is closing and reopening the program, and then, after a few minutes, repeating the cycle as the preview would inevitably freeze again . I have already tried all the typical solutions: cleaning up the disc cache, purging everything, looking for any new uninstalled drivers , etc. After a deeper dive i found out the issue might be something with the Audio hardware . I tried changing that in the preffrenc

Why if i'm writing anything in small caps then why it's showing in small capital letters?

Hi 🙂 I want to snap the anchor point to the middle of the composition without changing the position of the layer. Thank you for helping me !    

I have a custom effect that I don't have the original xml file to edit it. Is there anyway to edit it, or do I need to recreate the effect?

Hi guys !Today I'm having a quite tedious task to achieve, which is to remove a chainlink fence on a video that we shot a few days ago. I must confess that I never did such a thing, and that despite watching over google and searching for tutorials, nothing conclusive came to me.Therefore I'd like to ask for ideas, thoughts or even if anybody could point me in the way to achieve that removal, it'll be amazing !! I guess the task will be tricky, but I'm pretty sure there's something to do about it.Feel free to tell me what you think about it 🙂 All the best !

Hi!I haven't used AE in a while and I have an issue with sound/music.I'm using MP3 files that play fine outside of AE, but in the software some files plays weirdly, some just don't play at all (when I'm checking on my composition there is nothing in the "signal" section) and some play just fine? I'm using an old version of the software (AE CC 2018)Thank you

I am facing an issue while exporting an animation created using the Puppet Tool in After Effects to JSON format. Despite my efforts, the exported JSON file doesn't seem to retain the Puppet Tool effects. I've tried adjusting export settings and troubleshooting, but haven't found a solution yet. Any guidance or insights on the correct settings or potential issues would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Having some trouble using the dynamic Stream suites.I'm working on some wrapper classes, and perhaps I'm just finding things the wrong way, or maybe I'm missing a step--AEGP_LayerH layer; ERR(suites.LayerSuite9()->AEGP_GetActiveLayer(&layer)); AEGP_StreamRefH stream; ERR(suites.DynamicStreamSuite4()->AEGP_GetNewStreamRefForLayer(*SuiteManager::GetInstance().GetPluginID(), layer, &stream)); StreamFactory sf; _StreamClasses streamH = sf.createStream(stream); StreamGroup* streamGroup = std::get_if<StreamGroup>(&streamH); // This is ADBE AV Layer std::string matchNameZ = streamGroup->getMatchName(); _StreamClasses streamVal = streamGroup->getStreamByName(AEGP_StreamGroupName_TRANSFORM); if (std::holds_alternative<OneDStream>(streamVal)) { OneDStream s = std::get<OneDStream>(streamVal); std::string name = s.getMatchName(); } else if (std::holds_alternative<StreamGroup>(streamVal)) { StreamGroup s = std::get<St

I set the after effects program to default, but i can't see a graph when i go on the graph editor. Both selected properties and graph editor set are selected, but I still can't see anything :(. Got the 2020 version.