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I have been trying to render in After Effects with various different file types. I tried media encoder as well. Both Crash. I'm using an external hd. Bought a new SSD USB C thinking the other drive may have been the issue. Still same thing. Can the Cache files be on the external hard drives or should they stay on the local drive?  

Hi guys i wanna know how to make this effect it's subtle and simple, the colorful background start from the center until fully revealed, you can see from the sample, it goes with some flash lights with some sort of randomness i think, could someone explain me how to achieve a similar result?  Sample here.

Hi, I'm trying to stretch keyframes for several effects at once so they're further apart but keep them proportionally separate. I'm able to do this sometimes by clicking "option" + clicking on my mouse and moving them, but then other times when I do that, it moves them all at once without stretching them apart. Is there a reason why that's happening? Here's a video below to show I'm talking about.  I'm currently using AE 25.5.0 Build 4 on a Macbook Pro - with Apple M4 Pro chip.  Thanks for your help!

It's so frustrating. After Effects keeps crashing. I'm working with  computerPuget-252003-5Intel(r) Core (tm) i9-14900k 3.20GHZ64-BIT OPERATING SYSTEM, X64-BASED PROCESSOR STORAGE 8.38 TBGRAPHICS CARD 24GBINSTALLED RAM 128 I always get a error message to work in safe mode. manage 3rd party plugins. I'm working with a envato template. Sometimes i work fine all day then next day i have 20 crashes. I put in my email and send report to adobe but nothing happens. Anybody have any ideas?  Thank you,Laz

Anyone know how to achive this kind of glow animated yellow thing at the background? And what called  

I do not want an error noise when I press the number keys when I have the 3c camera navigation unchecked. I do not use 123456 keys for navigation.Latest version of AE has started making a distorted error noise presumably to tell me that I am not using them as navigation. No 3d layers, classic or advanced 3d renderer. don't currently have other sound IO devices to check if it other hardware specific. This is new behaviour, unless I have not touched my numbetr keys in a few yearstagtagtatgatgatgtag tag tagag7agagag

GPU acceleration (rocket ship icon) frequently disables and I'm finding myself turning it back on over and over again. I'm not sure why, but this has been happening for a good year or so with each AE release still showing up. I'm using an RTX-3080 ti with studio drivers that always remains up to date with Windows 11. I always choose cuda as the option and when it's on, runs smoothly. I'll be working on a project and randomly glace over at my roket ship and notice it's in the grey and has tripped like a breaker. I feel this is a bug, but if there are any other potential reasons, please let me know. Thanks!

 My Preview Pane is stuck like this. I have reinstalled AE, restarted my PC, looked through the Window Tab at the top, and the Preferences.

Hello I'm having this problem where the shadow is showed only on a part of the 3d objectBut when I move it to the right it dissappearsIm using environmental light and everything has cast shadow on 

 freshly installed and its not working

I'm getting this error when loading some, but not all projects. This error is only incurred when clicking on the AE project file from within Windows Explorer. When the project is opened from within After Effects the projects open without error. Why? Needing a computer engineering degree appears to be a prerequisite for working with the Adobe apps.

Hi there, I have a 24bit/48k .wav audio file (music) that I've been using for years in Premiere. I've just started some social ads in AE but whenever the audio is in certain Comps, it jumps in volume by about 5db at around 7seconds - this volume change also renders in final renders. In the Comps in question, there are no keyframes or effects on the audio file, nor keyframes on any other layer at that point. I've removed and re-added to the comp, purging Memory & Cache, and restarting AE. But no joy. If I add to a new comp, there's no volume change so clearly something is causing this - does anyone know how to it track down? Have never seen this before. Any help much appreciated. Cheers, Ben

Bonjour, j'utilise habituellement une extension du nom de "shake sauce" qui permet de creer des tremblements rapidement, cependant, depuis 1h, je ne parviens plus à l'ouvrir sans avoir toucher ou modifier aucuns fichiers, de plus, aucun message d'erreur n'apparait.  Je vous avoue être un peu perdu, j'ai vu des solutions sur windows où il faut changer un code source nous-même mais rien sur MAC.. Je vous remercie d'avance pour votre aide ! 

Why is the viewport in AE more saturated than the input and also output it exports on Mac M2? I work in ACES and have my monitor set to Rec709 and the Color Profile of the Mac is set to Rec709 Gamma 2.4.I get the same result if I change the color profile, change the monitor settings, or change the color workflow in AE... the viewport is consistently about 10% punchier and more saturated than it should be.This is also regardless of the files I'm using. Arri, Red, PNG, Stock footage, etc... All the same.When I preview the files in Finder they look normal. I drop them into AE, they look 10% punchier, I export and they look normal again...What's happening in AE? 

Hello everyone I'm new to After Effects and I try to animate a path or vector, which should be animated like it is drawn. I followed this tutorial and was able to create that animation with the pen tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYWGWATVWVI)So when it is a straight line I can use the pen tool and let ae draw the line with the trim function. But now I want to outline a more complexe shape which I draw free hand with my graphic tablet. I tried to import a Illustrator file, but I wasn't able to add the trim function to it.  1. Can I draw free hand with the pen tool?2. How can I animate a line which I draw free hand with the brush tool? (The animation should also be like it is drawn.) 3. Other options? thx for any help. 

Recently my after effects has been automatically creating new compositions every time I import footage into a project. This becomes very annoying as I'm always importing lots of footage and always manually deleting the new comps after effects is making for each piece of footage. I've looked through the preferences, but there doesn't seem to be an option that controls this. This wasn't happening when I first starting using this version so I think I must've changed some setting but dont know how to change it back. Any idea how I can stop after effects from automatically creating new comp when I import footage?[Moved from After Effects Resources to the much more active After Effects support forum - moderator]

I have 1min of footage, I want to create an expression that creates a loop that advances forward one frame with each iteration.I tried unsuccessfully time remapping with  LoopOutDuration(type = “offset”, duration = (4/24)).What I’m looking for is if “n” is the duration of the loop and “a” is the first frame of the loop, say n = 4 then what I need is:abcd bcde cdef  …. till the end of the footage.If I could get that to work I’d be very happy.If I could also get it to ping pong then I’d be extremely happy, e.g.:abcdcba bcdedcb cdefedcAny answers gratefully received.Chris-----I should have kept looking: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/23446#23446 f = timeToFrames(time); seg = Math.floor(f/5); phase = f%5; framesToTime(seg + ((phase == 4) ? 2 : phase))Currently fiddling with this.Does the travelling loop but not the pingpong.Praise be to Dan.

Hi I submitted a feature request for this, but wanted to reach out to the community to see if anyone has found a work around for this?Also I wanted to encourage other users who feel the same way to submit a feature request as well.Feature Request/Bug Report Form Here is what I submitted to Adobe.How would you like the feature to work? User can choose a custom destination folder for all render logs.  This folder can be selected as a global preference in the After Effects general preference menu or chosen through the render queue drop down menus for project specific or template based destinations.Why is this feature important to you?For my job at World Poker Tour we animate graphics to follow the actions of each hand we cut into each show.  This becomes hundreds of After Effects projects by the end of the season.  Now with no option to choose where these log files go or to not create them at all, we have hundreds of folders cluttering our very organized file structure.&nbs

hello, I have a problem with my CTI.When I first opened my after effect, the red line CTI is doing fine, but after few minutes when I play preview the video & audio is playing but my CTI doesn't move.Could anyone help me with this problem?

Hi, I need to download After Effects version 23.6.2 for my workflow. I cannot find this version in the Creative Cloud app under “Other Versions.” Is it possible to download this specific version? I would greatly appreciate your help!

I can't be able to expand my workspace to the native full screen on my Mac despite pressing the green button, please fix this as soon as possible because it becomes tough to work in such a small area

An interesting development in the world of AE amongst its community members in recent months has been the release of quite a few free and paid After Effects scripts and Extensions (CEP). These are interesting times indeed because for those technically driven in the art of AE can and should take advantage of AI-assisted Coding Assistants -  the sky isn't the limit but you can certainly take flight and have a jolly good time. Here's a quick look at a script I imagined, desgined and crafted with the help of a couple of Coding Assistants. ACDC - a famous rock band and now aka Align Clone Distribute Clone empowers users to quickly and (hopefully) intuitively align and distribute layers and groups of layers quickly with pixel-perfect accuracy. ACDC is part of a script package named, MAG - Make Ae Great. Post your Qs or thoughts or even samples of your AI-Assisted Tools you've developed for AE. 

After the latest update unmult no longer works correctly. Glitches during render, but the glitches are not visbile during ram preview. fix. now. plz.

Thefinal frame of my animation is still showing a motion blur. How do I remove this efect on the final frame?

I have a 1920x1080 .mxf in a 608x1080 Comp, to crop it and to make a vertical promo.When I add Lumetric Color to this Layer, it scales the layer horizontally to fit in the Comp size.This is strange behaviour.