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When I import PSDs into AE, the interpretation is not defaulting to the embedded profile, always to the working profile. Can anyone help me work out how to change this? If the PSD is sRGB, I want AE to respect that. Thanks

I'm working on a project for a class and we need to animate shapes. However, we're not allowed to use anything other than the brush tool to draw (no shape tool, no pen tool). We're not allowed to have object mode on either. It's been a significant struggle for me to draw neat straight lines. I know that holding shift while drawing creates straight vertical or horizontal lines. Is there any way to do this with diagonal lines? 

Mac Studio 2023 Apple M2 Ultra 192GB ram Mac OS Ventura 13.5 running AE2023 23.6 Getting this error when trying to run camera tracker. First error is "Unkown Exception"followed by "After Effects error: Could not launch Adobe Analysis Server. (515) ( 25 :: 101 ) I've seen this posted before but on older versions of AE. Most solutions reference steps to take on a PC, not on a mac.  Other solutions also seem to indicate virus software, of which I do not have.   Based on previous errors with camera tracking and "dynamic link" I'm guessing this has something to do with a plugin, but hard to pinpoint that.  Hopeful for any other feedback or ideas.

Hello, I have a project where I need to showcase multiple rows of names, hundreds of thousands of them, scrolling through a long 15K x 2K resolution screen. These names are going to be sourced from a spreadsheet (I believe sales force), converted into a .csv file.  They don't need to be animated, I was planning to just manually keyframe the scrolling motion myself. I just need each row of names to be connected to their own individual text layer. I found an expression that allows me to take a single text layer and populate all the names in a single column of .csv file:  var filename = "[file-name].csv"; var column_index = 0; var numberOfRows = thisComp.layer(filename)("Data")("Number of Rows"); var textString = ""; for (var i = 0; i < numberOfRows; i++) { var cellValue = footage(filename).dataValue([column_index, i]); textString = textString + cellValue + " "; } text.sourceText = textString; But how do I adjust this expression so that I can use t

Hi there, hoping someone can help me with this. Whenever I try to open After Effects, I am prompted with the following two pop-ups, before the application crashes.First: After Effects error: Crash in progress. Last logged message was: <19216> <APIP> <5> fae66f06-7b5a-4b69-95eb-719e6fe49b6eSecond: After Effects can't continue: sorry, After Effects has crashed. For After Effects Help and Support, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_support. If you still can't resolve the issue, please contact Adobe Technical Support (2). ( 0 :: 42 ) I have tried updating to the latest version, back-dating to an earlier version, and a fresh re-install of After Effects, none have worked. I have also updated my graphics card drivers.System specs:After Effects version 23.5Windows 10CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600XGPU: Nvidia Gefore RTX 3080 TiRam: 32GB3 Hard Drives - 1TB, 6TB, 2TB (6TB one used for media cache & has 4.5TB free space)The logs folder for After Effects 23.5 is empty too

My Specs:Mobile Nvidia RTX 5090Intel(R) Core Ultra 9 275HX, 2700 Mhz, 24 Core128 gigs of DDR5 Ram4 Terabytes of NVMe SSD Storage. Hey there, guys! I've been getting back into editing, but for some reason, After Effects keeps freezing even when I am doing nothing more than moving clips around in the timeline. Even worse, the program won't quit even when I try to kill the process in Task Manager. The only solution I have found is to restart my laptop altogether. I've tried almost every solution imaginable, yet I've seen no improvement. This all started when I tried to motion track and stabilize some footage in After Effects, but it froze almost instantly. At first, I thought maybe it was just the process taking up a lot of resources, but as time went on, the program started to freeze even when doing the most basic of tasks.  Here are all the things I have tried with no improvement:Purged all CacheAdjusted Memory Settings (over 100 gigs is assigned to AE)Disabled

Hello, i was wondering if anyone can help! I really want this logo to kind of scale out like on. the lego clip at 0.28 but on a 9:16 video  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lego-group_technical-operations-activity-7314942750066421760-5Wrc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABQY-VsBABVxsccvGqmtHZow3QrGJiWOP10.  Is it possible to do something like this with the logo, I've attached or would it be too difficult? Thank you 🙂  

Hi everyone, I'm administrating a company license for Creative Cloud/After Effects for 2 users. Our graphic designer would like to try out the Duik Bassel plugin. As it appears, this is a free of charge plugin by RxLaboratory.Are there any costs to installing this since this is an enterprise license. Our certified re-sellers had no answer and pointed out to this community for help. If there are no costs and Adobe allows the installation, then we would proceed accordingly. Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi Adobe Expertscan't start Adobe after effects on my new macbook pro M4 - always get the same error - see my attached warning and shutdown-message by starting the tool. - thanx for some helping adivces how to start -  i did already the safe start - don't work also i've deleted every not compatable plugins. - deleted also every older versions - no chance - thanx for help.  adobe tutorials and online help desks don’t show helpful answers and guidance. - This is the error message:  Zuletzt protokollierte Meldung: Transmit plugin „DeckLinkTransmit“ ist während des Aufrufs von „tmResult ML::TransmitEntry::Startup(const dvacore::UTF16String &, const tmModule *, tmStdParms *, tmPluginInfo *)“ abgestürzt..  

Hello Adobe,It all happened since I updated my software. I had many pending updates for all my Adobe software, but as soon as I updated them, my After Effects started crashing repeatedly. I tried all possible solutions, followed everything I found in the community with similar issues, but I still have the same problem.Attached are the errors that I am facing. Is there anyone here to help  

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If you often find yourself reopening Notepad just to copy expressions, this might help! I made a free and open-source After Effects extension that lets you store and manage your favorite expressions right inside AE. Grab it here: 👉 Download The code is completely open, so it’s safe to install and easy to modify if you want to customize it.

Hi all:  I'm still trying to learn the roto-brush tool but I'm having some growing pains that I can't find answers to online.  The video I'm working with is a plane taking off and flying out over the ocean.  Attached is a picture of the scene I'm working with.  It's a 20 second clip.  I'm trying to mask the grass, the water, and the sky, all separately. 1. I'm having trouble keeping the mask from moving or breaking up when rendering it.  I'm constantly adjusting it and having to train it.  While the roto-brush sees the lines perfectly when I do it frame by frame, once I playback it starts to shift slightly.  I understand that the line between the sky and the water is faint, but again, it sees it perfectly when I do it manually frame by frame.  Also, the line between the water and the grass seems to brake up and move as well. 2. I don't understand the concept of the Refine Edge tool.  I get that it's supposed to be used for jag

I'm not talking about blending modes, I mean the thing in 'shop with the splitable sliders to remove the lighter or darker tones from a layer?  If not, what could I do in AE to achieve something similar? I have a comp where I have some footage at a gig... I've added an element on top & made it look like it's part of the background (tracking, blurring, etc.) but for about 5 frames, the motion-blurred hand of one of the characters in the footage passes "behind" the new object instead of in front. I've duplicated the footage, put it in front & created a "garbage matte" around the hand.  The hand is light, the background is dark, the footage is very low quality & it's just for fun. Rotoscoping the hand is not really an option (with my limited skills plus it's very blurry). If I were in photoshop, I'd just go to my blending options, remove the darker tones & split the sliders to get a feathered edge but I'm not sure whether or not such a quick f

Hi, I want to control the opacity of a layer by the position of another layer. I dnt know why my expression is not working. Please correct me where I am making mistakes. Thank you. I want the eye corner to be visible only when the eyes moved to teh last positinon (here 990,403), before this it's opacity will be zero,  Thank you.  

How to check other frame 

It’s frustrating that After Effects scripts can’t access or handle the text from modal alert panels. I understand there are technical and security reasons, but as developers, this limitation blocks us from creating more intelligent, user-friendly tools. There should be a safe, official way to catch or read these messages programmatically without compromising security. Why hasn’t Adobe addressed this in a more developer-friendly way?

As a long-time user and motion designer, I’m writing to request the addition of a native Duplicator system in After Effects—comparable to the powerful one available in Cavalry. While After Effects is excellent for compositing and animation, its current duplication and instancing workflow is extremely manual and outdated compared to modern tools. The Problem Currently, duplicating objects and managing variations in AE requires a combination of precomps, parenting, expressions, or third-party tools. This process is slow, lacks flexibility, and is not visually intuitive—especially when working with large numbers of repeated elements in motion graphics, UI, or pattern-based animation. Proposed Feature: After Effects Duplicator Here’s what the new Duplicator panel/system should offer, inspired by Cavalry: Core Features Instance-Based DuplicationLike shape layers or nulls, duplications should be instances (linked copies), not flattened clones. Editing one updates

When I put an Element 3D on a layer in my scene, the Render Que and Media Encoder cannot render the composition. They will either freeze, or drop frames of the Element 3D layer, or flash up crazy blues, greens, or a solid white frame. I just finished a project 2 weeks ago with no problems.I think there was an AE and ME update since then (I did try rolling back, and that did not work).There was also an NVIDIA driver update since hten I believe.Anybody else having trouble with this? 

I've got a composition built up of some light passes from Maya & V-Ray 7. Rendered with ACES 1.2 Config.These are added on top of each other to match a result that I get in Photoshop for a product render.On top of these are some adjustment layers with various exposure/hue sat/curves etc. When I RAM Preview the animation without the adjustment layers it looks fine, then with the adjustment layers it'll be fine up to a point then the colours will go all muted. The individual light comps and beauty pass look fine on their own... No flickering or muted colours. I've tried this setup via the new OCIO Color Managed set up in After Effects, and via my old method that was to use an OpenColorIO ACEScg > sRGB adjustment layer with a Color Profile Convertor layer on top to correct the gamma. Both of these methods have very much random issues with the frames going muted on random frames. If I turn any adjustment layer off the muted look disappears. I've tried to reset AE pref

I'd like to download after effects 2023 or 2022 but its not shown in the previous older files, and I can't get into contact with any adobe workers 😞

I have an Ae file that freezes up Ae every time I open it, even the autosave files freeze it up. The problem is specific to one project. All my other Ae project files open just fine. Never had this issue before today. I have coworkers that can open the file just fine, on the same version of Ae. Same exact hardware and software build as well. I can even open it on my laptop, which has an old version of Ae, just can't open it on my Mac Pro. I tried reinstalling the current and old version of Ae. Still won't open. See screenshot below. It looks like a dialogue box starts opening and freezes before it gets past this point. I get the color wheel and have to force quit. Any thoughts?

Hello, I'm not sure it is OK to raise the issues on Adobe FORUM. When I import Obj.files on Plexus, Obj  isn't showed up!!! why ???????Even I adjusted both OBJ Scale and Camera Position, Obj isn't showed up. Would you let me know how to solve the issues ? Help me ㅜㅜ. sincerely

Hi everyone,this seems like such a basic question:but how do i view my composition FULL SCREEN in after effects? I searched "toggle full screen" in keyboard shortcuts and found nothing there.  Thanks for your help!

Hi,I am try to import Canon Raw image (.CR2) sequences in AE 2025  (25.5).I am working in a art school, we have both PC (windows 11) and Mac (Os sequoia). These images display correctly in photoshop 2025 and in the last update of Camera RAW.The problem does not appear in AE 2024, the problem is really with After 2025 and how it interprets these images when imported. When importing raws in AE2025, CameraRaw opens to do settings (right colors displayed) but when you close it, the colors turn to this ugly shift. According to me, this is due because on former versions (2024), these images were imported and interpreted with a media color profile "Camera Raw" in AE.But now this default  profile is not available anymore, and the raw images are interpreted with a ProphotoRGB profile. Why ? Will this problem be soon solved? I cannot find a profile in the interpretation of the media that match the look i had on Camera Raw and Photoshop.I had the exact  same pro