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My PC has a crash on work and after that After Effects don't open more my project, this never been happened with me.I try some solutions like scannow on CMD, drag my project into a new project, reinstalling the program. But nothing works.I have a modest PC: I3 10100RX580SSD Sandisk Nvme 500gb

Hi everyone,I’ve been working with After Effects on Windows for a while now, but I’m considering switching over to a Mac for my motion graphics projects. I’ve noticed that some people say AE tends to run smoother and crash less often on macOS, while others argue that Windows machines give you more flexibility with hardware and performance.For those of you who’ve worked on both platforms, what’s been your experience? Do you find After Effects to be more stable on Mac, or is it about the same as Windows once you factor in good hardware?I’d love to hear your thoughts on performance, render times, plugins compatibility, and overall workflow differences between Mac and PC.Thanks!

Hello, I currently use CC and AE in my work PC computer and have projects there that I have been working on. After months of not being able to use CC apps like AI, PS, and AE, I was now able to download those apps specifically AE on my Macbook Pro M4 that is my personal computer. The adobe account is my own, but when I went and opened AE, my projects that was in my AE in my work computer is not on this app... how can I transfer or sync?

Overlod not transfering objects I think since I updated Ae2025. I am working on MacStudio M1 Max. Any ideas? 

So today for some unknow reason I am getting "Adobe After Effects error code 19972" and nothing will export. I used After Effects yesterday no issue. Now every project is giving me this error. I uninstalled After Effects and reinstalled it. Does anyone know what to do to fix this error. Beyond Frustrated right now and need to get this project exported with the finishing touches. 

Can someone help me with an after effect project? ill pay. i can talk on any social media where the helper wants

  I'm working on a composition in After Effects and a png layer of a bird with effects gets cut off at full resolution in (see image it's to the left and shows up just as black triangle), but is fully visible and working effects in half resolution (see image ) . Could someone please me resolve this issue?  

Hey there, I feel like I've been living under a rock but finally got to look into why it is possible that some people can create animation presets that look like 'plugins' but work natively. So I discovered the beautiful but seemingly incredibly clunky world of pseudo effects and I want to create my own.   I've been looking for tutorials but while I can get them to work by altering the PresetEffects.xml in the install or by using a trial version of PseudoEffectMaker, I don't understand how to pack them into an ffx so they can be opened and used anywhere without other dependencies.   Does anyone know of a resource that explains the process fully in a way a non script savvy person can follow?   I also feel that the entire mechanism should be a complete native integrated feature in AE itself with friendly UI/UX directly in the software. It's a system much more powerful and useable than all these separate controls or Essential Graphics. But that's an entire discussion by its

I am unable to change layer order.The keyboard shortcuts work; clicking and dragging does not. AE 25.4Mac 15.6.1

Hi,   Can someone help me? Advanced 3D does not appear on my After Effects. I have an RX 6600. I have the impression that the software does not recognize my GPU.

Multi frame rendering now crashes consitently on my PC, tells me that my gpu runs out of ram.I have a RTX 5090.

Just this morning when I tried to double-click a comp in my timeline to open it (like I have a hundred times before) it doesn't open it. Instead it brings it into the window like it was footage.However, If I right-click and goto "Open Comp" it works fine, it just takes far longer. Any idea how to change it back?

How do I conform my 4:3 or 16:9 video to form a circle? I am not talking about cropping a circle in or out of my video. I am talking about changing the shape of my video so that the edges smoothe out to circular, the video distorts accordingly, and forms a cirlce in my sequence space. I have tried spherize, but it doesn't really do what I am looking to do.  I have a camera angle upshot from the middle of a football huddle.  I am trying to actually convert the video to a 360 degree video.  I figured out how to fake a 180 degree video, and I also figured out that I can take the video and put it in Action Director and it will automatically populate into a 360 degree space..BUT when it does os, it looks kind of like a stretched pringle chip with straight edges on the left and right and that has corners that pinch.  What I want is the video to drape down around me with the bottom edge being a 360 degree circle.  I can move the video to the top of my 360 degree space

Hi,   I have an after effects file I have been working on for a client. I just had the client on to run through final amends on a 5 minute film and I am getting the error message: AFTER EFFECTS WARNING: YUR PROJECT FILE IS APPARANTLY DAMAGED (SKIPPED SECTIONS: 😎 PLEASE SAVE USING A DIFFERENT NAME. ( 26 :: 0 )   I have looked all over google for a solution but can't find one. I have no backups to fall back on as I had been working on it from home. I tested the file yesterday at work and it worked fine so I then deleted the back up from my hard drive which obviously I now regret.   If anyone had any ideas of how I can recover a weeks worth of work I will be forever grateful.   Many thanks,   Paul.   PS if more information is required please ask.   [Moderator: Moved to the After Effects forum]    

 Hello,  I managed to google and use AI to write this script - it crops the selected layer to the layer above. Works well! But I'd also like it to move the last two keyframes on the position property to the layers new outpoint. I'm not sure if scripts are able to move keyframes like that? I haven't been able to find anything that works when adding it to this script. var selectedLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0]; var layerAbove = selectedLayer.index - 1; var layerAboveDuration = app.project.activeItem.layer(layerAbove).outPoint; selectedLayer.outPoint = layerAboveDuration; Any suggestions would be amazing. Thank you

Bonjour,C'est la première fois que je m'adresse à un forum (il y a un début à tout) et je vous remercie par avance de vos réponses si vous pouvez m'aider.Je travaille depuis un moment sur After Effects en autodidacte et je réalise une animation qui a deux états.Il s'agit d'une tête de Cylon de la série Battlestar Galactica, pour ceux qui connaissent. Ce robot a deux types d'animation : soit son œil translate de gauche à droite, soit il reste fixe tout en scintillant.J'ai créé ces deux animations à l'aide de deux calques et j'ai effectué deux rendus avec chacune d'entre elles.Par contre, comme j'ai créé ces deux calques dans le même projet, si je veux passer d'une animation à l'autre, je dois aller au fin fond des compositions et masquer/démasquer les deux calques.Ma question est la suivante : est-il possible d'afficher, par exemple, dans une petite fenêtre à part (ça serait extraordinaire), une case qui ferait que, si je clique dessus, elle masquerait l'un des deux calques pour affiche

What I want is to have a pixel perfect separation distance across each letter of a word:So, from the very side edges the distance between each letter to another must be exactly the same.Snap to grid was my first thought but it doesn't work because you will never get both sides of a letter to touch a grid line Any suggestions?

Hello, for grading I'm trying to create an alpha matte for the VFX Layer, I've attached a pic of how the Composited Layer looks like in AE that was applied to the original shot, how can I turn just the red blood parts into an alpha matte? As currently it exports all the white parts as part of the matte too? It's made up of multiple of layers.  

There are users not familiar with the After Effects feature that allows you to drag a numeric property value in the timeline into the Composition Panel to display this value dynamically. The only issue with this feature is that it writes Expression that uses Javascript String Concatenation which is messy to edit and almost always leads to user error. So, I wrote a script that converts the Expression to one that uses Template Literals which uses Javascript String Interpolation which is more readable and a lot easier to edit so you can more easily apply text styling and paragraph alignment of your choice.Download Link to the script and other Useful Links are below -  https://www.broadcastgems.com/post/creating-dynamic-overlay-values-in-adobe-after-effects

is there any way to have a second alpha track matte for another layer?One way would be a pre comp, but is there any way without a pre comp?

created a map graphic in illustrator and want to convert vector to shape in after effects to extrude using cinema 4d but coming up with this error - After Effects error: TDL: outline contains triangles that are too small to be rendered. Check for very thin triangles in original artwork. (88::3)Have tried simplifying the illustrator file (deleting unneeded points, simplifying number of points) and purging memory and disk cache but no luck 😞 any thoughts? Thanks

Bonjour,Après de multiples essais dans Ae 2025 : Import texte vectoriel depuis Ai (manuel ou via overlord) dans une compo en HD 1920x1080 - 29.97 i/sParamètre "intégral" activé dans AeRasterisation activé "soleil" dans AeLa forme (texte) reste pixellisée !? (J'ai testé aussi avec un calque texte)Quelqu'un connaît le problème svp ?

I have custom render settings and output modules, but Creative Cloud does not transfer them to updated AE versions. What can I do?

I have the new MacBook Pro M4, I had a Macbook Pro 2021 (intel) where I downloaded and installed CC. Now, I am trying to download AE and nothing happens, (when I transitioned to this new laptop all the apps including AI tranferred and downloaded with no problems using the Migration Assistant). I checked the compability specs and its says Mac Sonoma and others and I have Mac Sequioa, which doesnt seem to be listed), could that be the issue of why I can't update or download new/existing Adobe Apps? Note: I usually use CC and all Adobe Apps on desktop PC at work, I want to use on Macbook Pro for convience and pratice at home, and I am the owner of the account as well.

Is there a way to take a precomp and eliminate it and simultaneously move all the elements within it up stream to the parent composition while maintaining all keyframe data?Funny enough, I've never had to do this until now, but another way to ask this is: can one simply move items out of a precomp into its parent?Thanks forum.