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Hello everyone,  I have a big issue I have been trying to solve. mostly workflow related  I am doing a 3D animation and editing in AE woith many elements to do post-production on: facade, floor, glass, etc For a smoother file layout and workflow I don't want thousands of layers with a set matte, so I thought to put all adjustment layers for each element on a precomp and then MASK THE PRECOMP ONLY.Most of my layers have blending modes such as COLOR DODGE or SOFT LIGHT. This works with perfectly with COLLAPSE TRANFORMATIONS on, UNTIL I apply the mask to limit those adjustment to the area that I want them in. At this point I loose all blending modes and adjustments. Is there any solution you can think of?

We've been building Adobe export plugins for many years and this went fairly well. This week I was confronted that our plugin didn't want to run anymore, didn't happen always as it seemed to be related to being built on a computer with a more recent version of Microsoft Visual Studio installed and only in release builds. What we observe is an runtime error with a locking a std::mutex crashing Adobe. After some trial and error we found that when we 'disable' the runtime dlls from Microsoft from the Application Support directory of After Effects the issue goes away - as Adobe would be using the system installed runtime dlls in that case.I'm not sure why Adobe decided to ship runtime dllls next to their binaries and not rely on a minimum installed version of these which I've always been advised as the proper way to do things. Anyhow it seems that this blocks us from moving foward to a newer version of Visual Studio as that would be blocking creating plugins for Adobe.&

Depuis la mise à jour Sequoia 15.3, impossible d'utiliser after effects plus de 5 minutes sans être obligée de forcer à quitter le logiciel. La prévisualtion ne fonctionne pas, aucune image n'est lue. J'ai encore accès à l'interface, mais ne peux absolument pas utiliser le logiciel car impossible de visualiser ce que je fais.Je peux sauvegarder le projet, mais ne peux pas quitter l'application sans Forcer à Quitter : le logiciel plante au moment de quitter.Je remarque que le bug intervient surtout quand j'importe une vidéo ou un audio dans ma timeline.J'ai tenté en Acceleration GPU Mercury et Logiciel Mercury, rien ne change.J'utilise un Macbook Pro 2023, M3, Sequoia 15.3.2. 18Go de mémoire RAM, et une grande capacité allouée à after effects.After effects 25.1, tout est à jour.J'ai essayé sur after effects 24 et même problème. En mode Sans echec, aussi.Je dois rendre des projets pour des clients, et impossible d'utiliser le logiciel, tout marchait très bien jusqu'à ce que je fasse la m

Hello, when I play a video, it lags terribly. Only when I click what’s shown in the picture does the video play completely smoothly without any stuttering, and I have to do this every time I want to play a video.Do you have any ideas on how to fix this?My PC specs:64GB RAM 3200MHz DDR4Ryzen 5 5600XRTX 3060I have allocated 170GB on a separate partition for cache files, but everything—including the system and files—is on the same drive. I should add that it doesn’t matter whether I set the playback quality to 1/4, 1/2, or full— it stutters the same way at every resolution   

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Why does nobody give an answer to why this is happening, it must be wide spread.  I am using a 3090 and 2080ti drivers updated, after effects is the latest. why does it say initializing GPU every damn time i open up AE, and it takes minutes to finish. this needs to be fixed. it never used to do this, it's only through updates that this has happened.

Hi,I just updated after effects (2017.2 release - 14.2.1.34) and I'm noticing that I no longer see the anchor point and bounding box in the layers, the mask and shape toggle are active and responsive as i can see the masks but I can't see the anchor point or the bounding points of any layer. it briefly comes up when I press Y and drag around in the comp but I can't change it's position. The only way I can change the position of the anchor point is by double clicking on the layer to open it and there the anchor point shows up like usual, but in the comp view the anchor and bounding box no longer show. Is there a setting that changes??

MacOS Sequoia 15.4 on Mac Mini M4Since the last update, After Effects won't boot. I had to re-install 25.1 and it works perfectly. Anyone else?

Hi there, basically everything i've been doing in after effects, has become washed out in media encoder when i render it (includes native after effects render), i have never encountered this issue before, and have been scouring the internet trying to find a fix. if anyone can help, please do, greatly appreciated! Please note, all colour management settings are standard, nothing has been altered.

Hola, recién instalé la versión 25 para mi PC y particularmente es muy lenta. Hasta ayer todo estaba funcionando bien, pero con esta nueva actualización la importación de archivos (jpg, png 1920x1080) puede tardar hasta 5 minutos o simplemente no los importa y "crashea".  Ya desinstalé y volví a instalar y sigue ocurriendo lo mismo. También he limpiado la caché y no ha funcionado. 

(AE v24.6.4)Hi. I'm trying to see if I can use nulls created from a shape path (illustrator design) in my work flow. It seems after using the script and getting nulls for all the points in the path I can no longer go back to edit the path itself. Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a workaround? I'm making a noodle type arm for a character and I just want to have a controller/null for the endpoint/wrist of the path so that I can parent it to the hand shape. As it is right now the entire shape of the path gets locked as soon as I use the null-script. Moving the null works, rotating the null have no effect. I kinda want to be able to set keyframes for the null motion (of the hand and the end of the path) and then keyframe an edited version of the path to get the correct curvature of the path. Using pentool after running the scrip just wants to create a whole new shape...there are no point handles to move around to change the path anymore. Am I stuck or is there a way out.

Please put a UI Brightness slider back!  The UI is too dark!!  We have to stare at a screen all day... eyes get tired!  UI is very important.  Too much contrast now!

After updating to version 25.2, I noticed that JSON support has been completely removed. Now, running scripts that use JSON syntax results in a 'JSON is undefined' error. This issue was not mentioned in the update list<title edited by moderator>

Hi, I was trying to export my video in transparent mode, have tried many ways,but it still turned out showing background colour. I did turn on the transparent mode in the saber render setting, video output chanel in rgb and alpha mode,no solid colour, so when i preview the video is in transparent mode, but when i export it , it showed my composition background colour. 

I've watched a lot of tutorials on this but I still don't know how to do this. I'm trying to put text behind Tanjiro but idk what the heck is going on.

Bonjour je suis nouveau sur l'app et je ne comprends comment je peux travailler en plein écran sur mac avec AE.J'ai fouillé les paramètres mais aucunes options trouvées.(sur le screenshot je suis en plein écran)Merci d'avance !

I have imported a layered Photoshop file into After Effects as a layered comp with several .psd "footage" layers:I've created and edited the comps within the 20s main comp with animations and effects. Now I need to extend the .psd layers(all ~7s) to the length of the main comp(20s).I've tried dragging to extend their regions and right-clicking > Time > Enable Time Remapping(this allows me to extend the region with keyframes, but the content still ends proportionally short of the containing comp duration).When I right-click the .psd layer and click "Open Layer Source", the preview shows the layer duration extending to the same time as it shows in the timeline(~7s)...but the green "render bar" only goes to 5s. And no content is showing while the playhead is at 6s, below...This is also reflected when I drag the playhead in the main comp timeline—the layers with this problem disappear at 5s even though their regions extend to 7s.1. I need to get these layer regions to extend the leng

Hi, I have followed the tutorial for Mocha without issue, everything works.When I try with my own footage it tracks fine, I quit out to AE and apply the tracking data to the layer Iwant to corner pin, the FIRST FRAME warps to the correct place and size, but no additional data is pasted on the timeline.My footage is pulled from Premiere using "Replace with After Effects composition" (Dynamic Link) and as such is zoomed in and not full screen as is required by Mocha, so I alwasy pre-compose to both the source (tracked footage) and the target are the same dimentions.Still doesnt work.However,  If I grab the raw footage internally in After effects, and make new comps, the tracking and the corner pinnign works. Why cant I use ths technique? because the part or the footage I want to track and the target are NOT from the start of the clip, and the correct places are editted in Premier. The only solutionI can think f is to render our these clips sperately in Prem and import them and

I want to cteate a roto of only 3 swcond clip which is cut from the original clip. Now wat happens is that to rotto I have to go out in individual video layer and totto the whole video and everytime I make changes it loads and takes a lot of memory.What I want to do is simply only roto that 3 particular seconds. How can I achieve. Thanks.

Hi all,I am using AE CC and I find this error on start:  AE error: CT generic: not ascii(83 :: 2)I close the alert and AE works correctly, but I want to know what is going on. I am using AE CC 12.1.0.168 on a Windows 7 SP1.Thanks

Is there a way to set "Commit changes to Text" using Escape as a keyboard shortcut? I tried mapping it in the keyboards shortcuts panel, but everytime I try and input ESC it just exits the window.  I'm just getting into AE and have heavily used Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign for years where pressing ESC quickly exits the text box and retains any edits. I come to find that I input text in AE and not only does it not commit any changes, but completely deletes the text box all together! This inconsistency after years of muscle memory has caused quite a few headaches when using text in AE. I've seen some scripting solutions for Windows users, but are there any solutions for those of us on a Mac?

HiA strange and bizarre issue. Text tool doesn't show any text after i type!!! Nothing. I can see the text layer and my alphabets in the layers on the timeline.Never encountered this problem before.Suddenly started over the last few days. I am running the latest updated After Effects.Please help!! I have to create still images in Photoshop and bring them in!MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) MacOs HIgh Sierra 10.13.4 (17E202)2.9 GHz Intel Core i716 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3Radeon Pro 560 4096 MBIntel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Hello everyone, I've designed some LED video panels for a client in After Effects, but their supplier specifications ask for a .MOV video with DVX codec. I honestly haven't heard of DivX in 15-20 years and thought the format was dead... A quick search led me to the official www.divx.com website, that provides a free app to convert video files into DVX format. The installer for the app however is not signed and I don't feel comfortable bypassing Mac OS security (also on Trustpilot it's mentioned that the Windows installer too gets flagged as malware). All in all the website is pretty sketchy. I found another alternative in https://resolume.com which provide a free converter, and while they look like a serious and professional developer, the converter is bundled with their other applications that I'd rather not install on my work machine. Does anyone know of a free and safe way to encode or convert into DVX in 2025? Thank you so much!

So when I add the option to move the Y Pos of a text layer, moving the slider a few pixels makes it go completely off screen, since the ends are -32768 and 32768, whereas my sequence/timeline is 1920x1080. So how can I add a position slider, without such a crazy range, so that the slider moves in a more intuitive way?   

Steps to reproduce:    1. ... Result: ...Expected: ... System info    Application: After Effects v25.1.0.68    OS: Windows v10.0.26100, RAM: 23.84 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 8