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After effects error: crash in progress, last logged message was:<8896><BEE_WorkQueue><5>BEE_Project::TimestampGetNext ZANZIBAR-3: cannot produce Timestamp,frozen=0, open=0 Note:adobe master collection cc 2017Windows 10 Pro   Title edited by Mod

I want to assign a 'click' sound to the value of a repeater value in after effects. How can this effect be achieved? 

I hope this doesn't sound like a bizarre workflow. Let's say I'm doing consulting working with a client on an animation for a how-to video on thier website. I work with the client to carefully gather requirements for the animation in several rounds of meetings. I've done a few wireframes, even threw together a prototype. It's all thumbs up. Time comes to review the work and the client - for what ever reason - decides we need to insert something that they didn't realize they needed until they saw the end product. We talk about what exactly they need and it looks like we need ten seconds of content inserted about 30 seconds into a 4 minute animation with lots of things going on. Is there an easy way to just insert the addition frames to get that additional 10 seconds?

I need to add 4 puppet pins to image using extendscript and change it's positions using keyframesvar puppetEffect = selectedLayer.Effects.addProperty("ADBE FreePin3"); var ARAPGroup = puppetEffect.property("ADBE FreePin3 ARAP Group"); var meshGroup = ARAPGroup.property("ADBE FreePin3 Mesh Group"); var meshAtom = meshGroup.addProperty("ADBE FreePin3 Mesh Atom"); var posPins = meshAtom.property("ADBE FreePin3 PosPins"); var pinAtom = posPins.addProperty("ADBE FreePin3 PosPin Atom"); pinAtom.property("Position").setValuesAtTimes([0,5],[[100,100],[200,200]])But after adding them they are grayed out:What i'm missing?

Hi!I installed the Motion Mosh plugin. After Effects gives an error when I use it. Screenshot attached. Maybe someone knows?  

Hi forum. I have a file with multiple keyframes (around 30) on a layer controlling the opactiy of the animation. I dont want to redo the same opacity values on the new AE file one by one, what is my best option?  Thank you.

I'm running into an Out of Memory error in After Effects 24.2.1 that I just can't fix and am looking for solutions.Here are the errors, they always happen together, there's usually about 30 of them that pop up back to back:  This happens on all of my projects, when I render a video or just RAM Preview my project in AE. There is no specific frame that kills it, rather, it appears that AE uses more and more memory until it fails. In the past when I would RAM Preview my projects in AE I could watch as it reached the limit of how much it could render and earlier parts of the timeline would lose their rendered status as new frames were rendered. This does not happen anymore, once I reach the limit of my memory the program just crashes and gives me these errors. Memory while rendering, fills up and then crashes AE:   Solutions I've tried (purging memory and disk cache and restarting AE in bettween each attempt):Restarting my comp.Turning Multiframe Rendering on/offTurning CUDA

Hello!I opened up the newly updated Adobe After Effects 2020 and got a message saying my driver is unsupported. I have updated my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 driver, but I still got the same message. My laptop is a Lenovo Y530-15ICH with an Intel Core i7 (8th Gen) processor.Any help would be appreciated!

Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible somehow to have the nulls created from the new 'points follow nulls' expression appear right above the selected layer? For instance, if I want to create nulls for the points on a layer that is maybe 50 or 60 layers down, then the nulls show up at the very top of the comp. I'd like to have them right above the layer that they are controlling. Anyone know if this is possible via preferences or something?Thanks.

Hello all, I'm trying to create a target reticule effect where four separate objects converge on a central point. To do this, I've parented them to a null object and set up a script to work off the null's scale property.  The script I use is: pSc = parent.scale;x = value[1]*100/pSc[1];y = value[0]*100/pSc[0];[x,y]; I also use a separate script to maintain the child layers' scale, but that doesn't seem relevant to my struggle. The problem occures when I change the parent scale and the entire array moves in a uniform direction. Instead of converging on the center, I wind up displacing the array.  As far as I can tell, the object in the upper left is moving as I wish. It's the other three that need some kind of inversion, but I'm not sure how to modify the script to accomplish this. Any suggestions?

Why does the 'X Rotation' in After Effects seem to move the camera up and down the scene when traditionally the X axis is horizontal? And obviously this means the 'Y Rotation' rotates the scene on the horizontal axis? I feel like this could have been made so much simpler by making these rotations line up with traditional axes.

Hi. Is it possible for the new UI to scrumble things around? Where is the option to check "cache before playback"  Thank you 

Is there a way to animate a precomp along a path in after effects, like you can do with shape layers?

Hi, I am trying to app.project.renderQueue.render()However, the err say : After Effects error: render() may not be called while rendering is paused.I just want to know to use render.It's like button "render" on panel.

Hello everyone! I’m working on a Motion Graphic Template kit in AE for an editor/client to use in Premiere. Everything is working great except I have a pretty annoying bug regarding the Responsive Design Time feature once the Mogrt are imported in Premiere. The RDT feature works well inside of AE when I put my template in another comp to test it : I have the blue protected region, and when I’m resizing/retiming the comp, the protected region keep their duration. But when I import them in Premiere with the Essential Graphics panel, the protected regions are slowed down or accelerated, and the outro animation happens at a random point in time. I’ve tested with a simpler comp (just a text with little animation) and it works.. That means, maybe it is something in my animations that break the RDT ? (That’s the scary hypothesis) Would you have any ideas what can break the RDT features only in Premiere ? I have no sounds in my templates, no time-remap, nothing I

I imported AI file to AE and used create shapes from vector layer, but when created, the selected area of the layer is the whole artboard not just the layer itself. How do I fix this? 

I've got this panel developed for After Effects, using CEP.The panel default "snap-sizes" make it look very weird, so I want a control over panel's width and height.Tried many ways like specifiying those values in the manifest.xml file: <UI> ... <Geometry> <Size> <Width>200</Width> <Height>400</Height> </Size> <MaxSize> <Width>200</Width> <Height>400</Height> </MaxSize> <MinSize> <Width>200</Width> <Height>400</Height> </MinSize> </Geometry> ... </UI>In addition, tried using this function:window.resizeTo(200, 400);which after searching online found that it won't affect chromuim-based applications...Also that function:new CSInterface().resizeContent(200, 400); which also doesn't

The Warp Stabilizer is getting stuck and won't continue working (although it displays the message "1 minute remaining"). I'm editing 4K video and am trying to use the Warp Stabilizer, which always worked perfectly before the latest version (18.4.0 (Build 41)). My frame rate is 29.97, which matches that in the original. I have 128GB of RAM, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4GHz Sixteen Core, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB working on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. The system is new and this is the first project I've run on it; unfortunately, I've had more frustration than expected. Canceling the process causes AE to crash. Sometimes upon restarting AE, the menu stops working also - it displays "After Effects: Invalid Menu Option" when clicking on any menu item. I've deleted the Warp Stabilizer from the comp, purged all memory, restarted AE, restarted the computer, and added the Warp Stabilizer back to the file (it happens on various files - although one did stabilize properly once). I'm looking f

For like a month now I've been having this issue. When I edit keyframes with the speed graph, my mouse and keyboard will start acting on their own. Things just randomly start happening such as: mouse click and drag, undo's, caps lock turning on, etc. The weirdest part is that this issue will extend to outside of after effects. Even after I have closed it. Same random mouse and keyboard inputs. It will continue for a little while, like a minute or less, and then stop randomly. This issue doesn't happen everytime, but been happening most times if I edit the speed graph. And I fix it by closing and reopening. I've reinstalled after effects when I first found out about this, and it seemed to fix it for a little. But the issue persists. I'm on Windows 10

Hello! I have a rigged character that is setup like this:- There is a primary comp in which you add your art to each body part and then adjust the spacing and position with some sliders; - There are multiple precomps with preset animations that automatically get updated with the art I added to this primary comp above; - When creating the head, I used a precomp, instead of a flat layer, so that I could rig the head, eyes, mouth, etc using Joysticks and Sliders. - In my Main comp, I use the premade animation compositions in the order I want and I pushed the controls of the Head rig to this comp.However, when I started animating the head, i noticed a problem. If I add, for example, a blink animation at 1s in the Main comp, I noticed that a blink happens at 1 second in every other premade animation. Everything I animate at the main comp gets replicated in all the other comps that have the head. I thought the controllers would affect only the Main comp, since i've pushed them there. Wh

Hi there, I'm building a MOGRT where the user would be able to replace a footage. Then, I would like to build a shape layer around this layer so I can have a specific kind of frame. All the expressions I wrote work perfectly fine in After Effects. However, when using the MOGRT in Premiere Pro and replacing the footage, it doesn't anymore. I guess this may be related to this kind of "virtual subsequence" Premiere is using to deal with the footage. The fact is that, even with a code as simple as this (on a text layer)...srat = thisComp.layer("MyFootage").sourceRectAtTime(time); ratio = srat.width / srat.height;...I can see the width / height / ratio values are not updating as they should. I tried to use a precomp as a workaround but with no effect. Hope I'm making this clear enough and that someone would have a workaround or at least that Adobe Video Team would provide more info or fix this. Best regards,Julien

For those of you with access to Envato, there are some characters that were created by Moriscopy.  They are for After Effects and they various poses and hand movements, and their mouths can move based on the wafeform of the voiceover.I am wanting to know if anyone knows how these characters were built.  Are they just puppets or are they something different.  I would like to learn how to build something like them to use in my job.Here is the link to Envato, so you can see an example of what I am referring to:https://elements.envato.com/presentation-with-amy-office-wear-VS9RBN4 Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.Greg

Hi community. Is there a plugin for AE, which creates loops for effects? My question is an ambiguous one today. AE has 100s of effects, and  each effect has different parameters making it difficult to figure out how to loop each individual effect. Even making layers into precomps and LoopingOut expression most times there will be a snapping frame when the animation effect jumps back to frame 1. So whats the best method to make effects which could loop seamless.  Another thougt is, why Abode hasnt implemented a feature in each of their effects settings, which enables the effect to have a loop setting. Thank you.  

Hello,I'm working on a AE extension that sends requests to a API. The API returns a .glb file formated in a really long https://assets.............. link How would I automaticaly have the extenstion download the link, save it in folder localy as a .glb file then add it to a open composition in Affter Effects?I think I need to have JavaScript and Exendscript download the link localy  and work together to make this hapen, but (how) is my question.

Slide in From Comp Edge Effect has a glitch. It does not allow to change the direction of reveal. I nthe menu of effects you can choose the direction: Left, Right, Top, Bottom. But the text animates in only from bottom. The change of option does not make any difference.