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With either the menu selection Edit->Split Layer or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-D (Windows) I cannot split a layer.  The shortcut will sometimes do nothing and sometimes duplicat

i've noticed ae crashing more recently, and after reading the an online guide have picked up on some mistakes that likely led to that (mp4 files), but for the last 3 days every time i try to open the program this happens. i can't even enter the app to make changes, it literally crashes immediately. any advice? i cannot figure it out for the life of me and i am desperate 🙏 

Salut tout le monde ! (Merci à ceux qui prendront le temps de lire ma demande d'aide 🙂 !) Je me permets de faire un post car j'ai de gros gros problèmes de performances sur After Effects.En fait, peu importe ce que je fais dessus, il y a une utilisation énorme de ma RAM et je lagge à mort quand je preview. Je précise que j'ai suivi tous les tutos YouTube sur comment optimiser After Effects : Mettre la preview en 1/4Changer les settings dans displayVider le cache et la mémoire à chaque utilisationMettre le cache sur un SSDTester plusieurs project settingsEssayer d'activer et de désactiver le multi-frame pour le CPU renderingJ'ai alloué le max de RAM que je pouvais Bref, j'ai testé tout le truc basique que j'ai trouvé sur les tutos YouTube récents sur le sujet.Je vous joins 2 captures d'écran montrant la consommation de After Effects sur mon PC quand je n'ai fait que lancer After Effects (c'est-à-dire uniquement en lançant After Effects sans aucun projet ouvert ni

Been trying to add a shadow to my tracked 3d object with no success. The 3d file format is GLB and is animated. Here is are the views of my compositions: (I realised an odd thing is that the shadow does finally appear only when the model & solid is within the confines of the "white" box on the left composition view as seen above.) I tried to restart my scene from scratch, however no matter what i do i can't get it within the confines. I've attached images of my layer order and settings(top to down), please tell me if there are any issues: Overall, I don't know if it's a bug problem or something but all I know is that I'll truly appreciate any support to help fix this problem! Thank you🙏

Hello, I am new to After Effects, I created a lower third third that had an animated and multi-colored rectangle on my name; however, the rectangle and my name are not showing up after I transfer the Mogrt to Premiere Pro. The text for my second and third lines (I have to add a third line) show in Premiere Pro, and I can see my name and the box in the preview screen in Premiere Pro, but the box and my name won't show in the program window. What am I doing wrong?  

Hi. I had an issue about composition panel in After Effects. It happened after windows update several months ago. When I use the app with Nvidia gpu for high perf, the view port disappears. But after switch it to intel it works. I checked the update history, there was intel update amont others. I wonder how it affects nvidia and how can solve the problem

Hey gang—I am having an issue on my renders (see attached image). I know this has to do with the technique I'm using, but this is a new issue and I suspect some sort of setting got messed up during an update. I'm taking jpg sequences, and the shots are kind of related, also kind of not; I change the frame blending to pixel motion, enable time remapping and stretch the length to about 1000%. The effect is quite dreamy and strange, which I like, and it works perfectly in the comp viewer, but when I render it out, I get the attached image. I've tried using Animation and all the ProRes varients. AE 25.2.2MacOS 13.7 on a 16" 2019 5600M 

Hello. I´m trying to export my camera and some locators to after effects and the resulting scene seems to suffer from offset of a wrong camera. I don´t know if i am doing something wrong but i´ve followed the instrucctions i´ve seen everywhere with no succes. Even Maya live link is failing. I have a 1920x1080 maya scene (the same in AE), i create some planes, one camera, set its Fil Aspect Ratio to 1.778, render from Arnold and then i try to import the camera via .ma files, .fbx (via FBX to AE plugin) and AE Live Link, and i always get the same result, the planes are not in position. This is driving me crazy. Can anyone help me please? Thanks! I guess it has to be with the scene scale or some camera setting that im not able to recognize yet...

Hallo zusammen,seit letztem Freitag habe ich im Geschäft einen neuen PC erhalten, da ich mehrere Projekte bekommen habe, bei denen ich mit After Effects und Premiere Pro Videos erstellen soll. Der PC läuft auf Windows 11 und hat aktuell 16 GB RAM, was laut meinem Chef im Grafikbereich eine übliche und verbreitete Standardgröße sei. Ich war allerdings der Meinung, dass das für meine Anforderungen nicht ausreicht, da ich durchgehend eine Arbeitsspeicherauslastung von 80–90 % habe. Nach einigem Überzeugen wird der RAM diese Woche noch aufgerüstet. Leider hat der PC nur zwei RAM-Slots, aber gut – damit muss ich arbeiten. Die Grafikkarte ist eine Nvidia 4070 Ti, und der Studio-Treiber ist auf dem neuesten Stand.Nun zu meinem Problem: Auch wenn 16 GB nicht viel sind, sollte der PC doch kleinere Renderaufgaben bewältigen können, oder? Bei einer einfachen Komposition ist jedoch gar nichts möglich. Diese besteht lediglich aus zwei PNGs, die mit einem Nullobjekt gesteuert wer

Hi. I got the same problem than like month ago. (https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/essention-graphics-slider-control-not-working/m-p/15179348#M262667 ) This time with opacity.if (effect("Checkbox Control")("Checkbox") == 1){ 100 }else{ 0 }The Expression and Essential Graphics works in Ae 2025.1 but not in Premiere 25.1please find here the fileshttps://www.swisstransfer.com/d/6c33b2fc-1314-4f1d-820c-d24124d00e6b 

My After Effects is crashing all the time, I click to edit a text and It crashes. I try to open the file again and it crashes abou 10 or 20 times before i can open it again. It's not even a complex project, just simple things with text. Can anyone help me? These are my laptop configs:AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics 2.90 GHzNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 TiRAM 32,0 GB

hello everyone 🙂 i am new using after effect and i would like to get help on how to create the text effect of the second slide of this post https://www.instagram.com/p/DDuglGYCa2j/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link thanks ❤️

After upgrading from MacOS 13 to MacOS 14 Sonoma on iMac20,2 yesterday, After Effects (24.2.1) freezing while opening project files. I can see that files are being loaded in Project window, then Render Queue loads list with recently rendered comps, and it freezes (sometimes at 78, 98 or 99%). 1) I tried to reboot;2) tried to open in safe mode;3) I tried to reset preferences ( helped with opening one project that was freezing before, but didn't help with other projects I tried to open later, even after resetting preferences multiple times).4) uninstalled and installed AE 24.2.1 The only workaround is to import old project file in new project.

Hello, I been trying to fix this bug for multiple days where when trying to use element 3D my 3D text would just bug out and start flashing the 2D text white and in general bug out. Ive tried using media encoder, and the built in rendering for after effects. Im running on the latest version of after effects and media encoder. I attached a video to show the bug in action.  

My PC is very old and has a very weak GPU and CPU. I can not use AE tools in my pc. I'm sorry but i didn't find better forum to ask this question. Now I want to create videos similar to this one: https://youtube.com/shorts/WZZXM3xAoi0  Can anyone tell me how I can easily create a video like this? I mean a floating phone from a top view that is ringing (with sound and animation). If possible, I’d like to create this type of video using Android apps like CapCut or any other mobile-friendly tools. Any help or tutorial recommendation would be really appreciated! 

Hello, I've been having issues with compositing motion graphics into a cinema 4d render. I've placed a null object into my final scene as a reference for where I want my graphics to be attached to in after effects, you can see this displayed as the 'cube' in my screenshots - this null object has a external compositing tag on it. There is a morph camera that provides the camera move for the scene (this has had its keyframes baked) I was given a image sequence final render of the scene which was rendered in corona, and as previously discussed I have the scene file that correpsonds to that render. (Just to clarify, the corona render + scene file perfectly match up, there hasn't been any accidental move of the camera. My problem is when I import the camera's and null objects, through cineware or even an AEC export into After Effects, the reference null is in a wrong position compared to how it set it in my cinema scene I'm sure I'm using the correct imported camera too. As you ca

I hope I'm wrong, but after 5h of investigation, C-GPT and me gave up on this. As far as it looks, it is not possible to organize shape layer content via script? I've tried duplicate() and another recreational approach (duplicate would be best as my content has expressions) but it seems impossible. for-loops keep breaking after the first successful duplication, throwing an alert that the object from the duplicate line was invalid. GPT says that the "invalid object" is a common bug when operating inside shape layer content and that duplicating, removing or sorting of shape content is just not possible. I do hope that there's a way though, as I've always preferred a single-layer workflow for shapes whenever possible so I can quickly import them as animation presets + they don't clutter up comps. This works fine in most cases, but if I want to dynamically generate content - tables, diagrams etc. - into these templates, with various amounts of the same thing, I need ExtendSc

i really want to download and use after effects 2021 as it is the last version compatable with my plugins/cc. is there any way i can get this legit? i tried looking it up but all the websites offering it looked mad sketchy and i want to be sure im getting the REAL one, not a cracked one or one with malware lol.

My preview is stucked in this situation, seems is always calulating. Video has trasparent background  and has been created with a dinamyc link from adobe premiere

Ich wollte heute After Wffetcs öffnen aber mein Mac blockiert es.  Ich habe einiges versucht und es liegt an der neuesten Version. Wenn ich auf 25.1 zurück gehe lässt es sich öffnen.  bitte um hilfe.

Hi, I'm noew to After Effects.  I have multiple dust spots on some clips and have been using masks with content-aware fill to fix these.  Its been working great but on one clip somehow all the dust spots move in tandem partway thorugh the footage.  I know how to animate a single mask to folow a dust spots as it moves (Ive been doing this manually by adding keyframes as the video image behind the dust spots is too disriptive to use mask tracking). My question is, since they are all moving together, how can I apply the animation of one mask to other so they move in the same way realtive to each inital starting point?  I thought maybe "copy with relative properties link" migh be it -- but that didnt work. There are dozens of these masks --one for each tiny dust spot... so it would be helpful if I could apply this movement pattern to all at once.  Thanks for any suggestions!

Hello there,So, I'm a stupid idiot, and I imported all these TIFF sequences at 30fps and then did all of my VFX work for the client in 30fps in comps that are 30fps with rotoscoping frame by frame over many layers in 30fps timelines.  So actually the client is using 23.976 and now I need to make this all 23.976.  I'm fixing it temporarily by making new comps that are 23.976 and putting in the 30fps comps in there and stretching it so it's playing the same number of frames, but at 23.976.  But is there any way to convert all of my working comps and assets to 23.976?  Or do I just have to stick with this workaround for now?Thanks,Gavin

Beginner here, I was trying to understand keyframe interpolation and how it affects the graph in the graph editor. I made a simple motion animation, where an airplane moved from one point to another in a straight line. Created two keyframes at t=0 and t=3s, and by default the interpolation between them was linear. On the graph editor the value graph looked like this: x values went from 200 to 1500 in 3s, y values stayed the same (as there was no motion in y). I selected the two keyframes on the timeline (which were looking like diamonds) and then right clicked -> keyframe interpolation, and changed the temporal interpolation to Bezier. This changed the keyframes to hourglass icons on the timeline. However, when I opened the graph editor the value graph was exactly the same as was for the linear interpolation. I was expecting it would change to the curve that you get when you "ease in" and "ease out". Sure I'm able to make the graph look like how I want to by going to

I have an After Effects project that I am unable to open. When trying to open the file, After Effects freezes with the "Open Project" dialogue box, but nothing happens. This started happening today, after using Dynamic Link to link a Premiere Pro project with the After Effects project. There didn't seem to be any issues (I was able to incorporate some of the Premiere Pro clips into the AE project) until I closed the project and later tried to open it again. Now it won't open at all (AE freezes). Unfortunately, the auto-saves don't help as I can only open ones from the day before (which means a lot of work is lost). I tried creating a new project and importing the problem project there, but AE freezes when I try to do that as well. It also didn't help having the Premiere Pro project opened first, then opening the AE project.This is the first time I've had this issue, and also the first time I've used Dynamic Link in an After Effects project. Some web searches show that others have also

I get this error when importing an image sequence in to After Effects 2020 (Version 17.0.4 (Build59)). The funny thing is that it works just fine when importing the very same image sequence in the previous version of After Effects (Version 16.1.3 (Build 5)) ... This means I can't use the latest version of After Effects, since I work with image sequences all the time. Have anyone else encountered this problem and/or have a solution or workaround?