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Hello,I've been working on a shot requiring me to isolate my subject from the green screen behind him. I chose to go with Rotobrush over keying the subject. I used the refine edge tool as well. In the middle of me finalizing this shot, my AE crashes on me giving me multiple error messages including "After Effects warning: Cant use the Roto Brush tool because the "Paint" effect plugin is missing. You may need to reinstall." Im very confused because I hadnt messed with any settings beforehand, I'm not using a third party plug in or anything, Roto brush was working fine, and then it just happened in the middle of me editing the shot. I've uninstalled and reinstalled twice now. I cant even open After Effects (Beta) or even open a project, the message shows up as soon as AE shows the startup screen. Help! 

Wel the titel says it all i guess: Is there a way to only render part of the timeline?

Hello, I want to use roto brush tool, but it doesn't work. When I choose roto brush tool and start selecting what I want, the whole video border turns purple, meaning the whole image is selected. I don't know what I need to do, to just select what I want. Any suggestions?

Every time I send something to process, and it finishes, I get this notification in CC. I haven't found anything to stop this particular notification, anywhere. Does anyone know how to deal with it? I don't want to disable notifications since some may be useful. Notifications are off inside After Effects. I'm using the latest version of CC and AE in macOS Sonoma 14.2.1, MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports.

Hello there, it's my first time trying After Effects and I was trying to work my way around it. I managed to create some simple animations and it worked okay, but out of the blue, when I create shapes, I don't have the values on the right side, it only appears the pick the whip and it won't let me animate or do anything and I don't understand why I don't have any values when I create the shapes anymore, can you please help me out?  

Description I’m using an Alienware Area 51 system with an Intel Ultra 9 275 CPU, 64GB RAM, and an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU running on Windows 11.After Effects 2025 consistently crashes on startup when using the RTX 5090 GPU. However, when I force the app to use Intel integrated graphics via Windows Graphics Preferences, the application launches and functions correctly.I have tried:Clean reinstalling After Effects 2025Reinstalling NVIDIA drivers (latest Game Ready and Studio versions)Using the latest Windows updatesResetting preferences and pluginsDisabling hardware acceleration (when accessible)This issue affects both After Effects 2025 and Premiere Pro 2025, while other Adobe apps like Photoshop and InDesign work fine.This appears to be a critical compatibility issue between AE 2025 and RTX 5090 or its driver layer (likely CUDA-related), as it happens even on a fresh install with no projects loaded.Steps to Reproduce:Launch After Effects 2025 with RTX 5090 enabled as the GPU.Observe c

I was working on a project in After Effects 2025. I went out for lunch, came back to open the files and it just shows opening files dialog box but doesn't open the file. Tried all the methods that need to troubleshoot but no luck. Transferred the same files to another workstation, it opened at first and then the same thing repeats again. Any solution to this?

I hope someone could help because I'm at a loss with this problem.I had several versions of after effects installed (23/24/25). I was working in 25, all went well and suddenly there was a crash. Since that moment I'm not able anymore to open any of these AE versions anymore.When opening AE it freezes on "Initializing Media Core", it hangs and that's it.Things I tried so far:- removed all third party plugins- removed all files in the Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common map- uninstalled andn reinstalled all AE- even did the total Adobe clean up and installed everything again- but the problems is still there Needless to say this is really frustrating and stressfull because I have projects to deliver. I am a user of Adobe and after effects since 2001 (!) now, and I never experienced such a severe crash problem as this one. Adobe how on earth is this posssibe. So far my complaint, I hope someone can help me.I'm on Mac, M1, 15.1.1 (Sequoia). Updated a few days ago, maybe that

I am rendering a 1 minute credit scroll with an mp4 of bloopers next to it in AE2025 v25.3.2 (build 2). See image attached. This should not take more than a couple minutes. Why is it taking 4½ hours? It was going so slowly I cancelled and used AME instead, but am getting the same render time. I am on Windows 10 with 32GB RAM, i9 11900KF processor @ 3.5GHz with a 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti card (it's an Alienware system). I don't recall such bizarrely slow render times in the past, especially for such a simple comp.

Update: Camera RAW version 13.0.1 has been released which takes care of this issue. Please ensure that your Camera RAW is updated to 13.0.1 to solve this issue.The latest release of Camera Raw (version 13) requires macOS 10.14 (Mojave) or later to work properly. Updating Photoshop will also update Camera Raw. If you are on macOS 10.13 and have updated Photoshop to the latest version, you might experience a crash at launch with the latest version of After Effects (v 17.5). To solve this issue, please install Camera Raw version 12.2.1 from this link.

Why are cryptomattes still so slow/unsuable in AfterEffects 2023? It's been 8 years since they're implementation. We have to use them on a daily basis for post-production work. We have to use Nuke and Fusion to extract the obj id's and then import them back into AfterEffects which is a really ineffective workflow.Unless I missed something, I can't see any update on the topic since 2018. Could members of the community please bump this to show Adobe this is priority feature to fix.Thanks

I have this composition which contains several squares. My idea was to create a mask that gradually reveals each square from a specific point. My plan was to use a simple circular mask, but I was wondering if there's an effect or an expression that can make each full square reveal instantly as soon as the mask touches it? or when the mask has covered the majority of a square. Thanks

Hello,I am experiencing a severe and persistent issue with my After Effects 2024 (v25.3.2) installation on Windows 11. The global JSON object is consistently undefined in ExtendScript, which prevents JSON.parse() from working.This is a fresh, clean installation performed just two weeks ago, and this is the first time AE has been used since.I have already tried the following troubleshooting steps:Ran a simple diagnostic script (typeof JSON, JSON.parse('{"key":"value"}')) - consistently reports JSON is undefined.Launched AE as Administrator - no change.Confirmed only Windows Defender is active; temporarily disabled it - no change.Performed a hyper-meticulous clean reinstallation of AE and Creative Cloud components (using Cleaner Tool option 16 - Clean All). The Cleaner Tool itself completed with errors ([Error 13] Access is denied, [Error 41] Directory not empty, etc. for various Adobe paths/files), suggesting locked files or deeper corruption. Even after this, JSON remains undefined.My

I need the offline installer for after effects 2021 on my windows 11 pc, in order to get plugin compatibility. As it isn't available using the creative cloud desktop app, I contacted adobe support and they said it's discontinued and they don't have the link. Does anyone have the installation link?

I'm writing an AEGP plugin, and would like to determine the current time of the playhead. Do you know if there is a function for that in the SDK? I've been looking for about 20 minutes, and can't find it. Thanks!

I’m looking for advice on which versions of After Effects and Premiere Pro would work best for my system. Right now, I'm using the latest versions of both apps, but they often crash and aren't very stable on my setup.    My Laptop Specs:CPU: Ryzen 5 4600HGPU: GTX 1650 Mobile (4GB)RAM: 16 GBStorage: SSDOS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)    My Use Case:I create animated 2D/3D-style illustrations, often with:Shape layers, flat design, character rigsDepth-based 3D animation (with camera moves and parallax)I rely on After Effects for animation and Premiere Pro for editing/assemblingI may occasionally use Dynamic Link between AE and PR    What I Need Help With:Which After Effects version is best suited for my specs ?Which Premiere Pro version should I pair with it for Dynamic Link compatibilityAny tips on performance optimization 

I have been having this issue (which has been going on for years now) where my Wacom tablet/pen stops working when I use AE. The issue does not happen right away, sometimes it happens within minutes after I launch and use AE and sometimes it may take up to hours. What happens is the mouse/cursor does not move when I am hovering over the tablet. The only way for it to move is when the pen is putting pressure on the tablet and I drag, in which case also makes it click AND drag at the same time. This ONLY happens with After Effects and it's ONLY the Wacom that stops working, when I switch to a mouse it works fine. The only way to fix this issue is to restart the computer which is only a temporary fix. Please help! Wacom and Adobe "specialists" were not able to resolve this issue for me.

Updated AE to V16.0 and now see After Effects Error: The source compression type is not supported ( 86 :: 1 ) when opening projects with links to videos in our CC Library. Also see another error message which ends 4K UHD movie cannot be imported (from CC Library) - this '.mov' file is damaged or unsupported.Any ideas welcome

 I'm using after effects and suddenly this weird green grid, of like hundred of grids, shows up and i can't get rid of it. It's not like the one when you press Alt ' . it's this weird tech looking green grid and i thought it was because i had too many layers so i deleted some and it hasn't gone away. Can anyone help?

When I convert an Illustrator vector into a shape, the handles appear on the anchor points. (image 1)However, if I draw a line or any object using the Pen Tool and then use the Convert Vertex Tool to change the shape, the Handles do not appear on the Anchor Points. (image 2)  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the AE. How can I fix it?

I have been experiencing a weird bug with after effects 2025 for a while now on Windows 11, which causes all of it to freeze for a few seconds when alt-tabbing back to it or focusing it from any other window.This happens both with gpu acceleration disabled and enabled, latest GPU drivers (tried both studio and game ready) and even in safe mode with all plugins disabled.However 2024 doesn't have this issue so it's seemingly related to the new UI introduced in 2025. Has anyone experienced simliar and found a fix for it? I have also attached a log file of opening up AE2025 with a new project, creating an empty comp and alt tabbing out and back in, which instantly causes the error to occur (but the issue also occurs with no project open) After Effects 2025 25.3.2AMD Ryzen 9900x64 GB DDR5 6000 MT/s CL30RTX 4070 Ti

WARNINGI recently purchased an expensive new Mac Studio M4 for my work as a motion graphics artist. specs PROCESSOR AND GRAPHICS 065-CGWJ M4 MAXWITH 16C CPU, 40C GPUMEMORY 065-CGWP 64GB UNIFIED MEMORY  I needed a reliable, powerful main machine for my work having previoulsy been using a 2017 Imac which has been great for the past 7 years, but started to slow down noticably in the past year or so. I have been using the new Mac Studio machine over these past 2 weeks for some important element 3d/4k work which I began on my old machine. Unfortunately I have been plagued with constant freezes, crashes and GPU memory failures when attempting to render even png sequences from After effects desite paying extra for 40 cores of GPU . . . .(see attached images)  I have never seen these errors appearing on any project on the much older and less spec 2017 imac in all the years of intense After effects work i put it through, And, moreover did not expect to see err

Im trying to create a mogrt (so I can change the text) to premiere with two lines of text on top of each other, appearing letter by letter (the second line is supposed to appear after the first one).  Usually I do this with range selector, but now I want to have different font etc in the other line. But if you create a mogrt like this, the other line's format settings wont stay the way I want to. So I need to separate the lines to two text layers in order for the format settings to stay the way I want them to be. Is there a way to use range selector with two text layers, or is there some other animator that could do the trick?

(See picture below) How can I adjust the view of the comp view in AE? There is so much space at the top and so little in the bottom, where the red arrows are, I want the comp to somehow be moved up higher and be even in space top and bottom so I can see clearly. Whenever I zoom, it zooms in unevely and I can only see part of the comp if I zoom over 33%. It was fine before but I don't know what I did to change it... 

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