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when you morons from Adobe are gonna fix the pasting text issue in after effects? We cant paste text from other apps like photoshop with out re-editing the font styles when pasting... just take the line of code from photoshop app "paste without formating" and put it on after effects... geeez....

We are thrilled to announce Selectable Track Matte Layers for Adobe After Effects 23.0 beta!   Any layer in your comp, no matter where it sits in the layer stack, can be used as a Track Matte source for any other layer. You can even have multiple layers all reference a single layer for their matte. You can also use the matte layer’s Alpha or Luma channels and invert them if necessary.    Important! Projects saved in the 23.0 beta will not be able to be opened in other versions of After Effects (including the 22.5 public release).     If you need compatibility with 22.x or before, please follow the instructions below:   Moving from v22.x to v23.0 - On opening a project in the 23.0 beta, you will be presented with a message that the project needs to be converted. Simply click “Ok”, and the project will be updated automatically. The old project will be untouched. “Save as” the project in 23.0 so that you don't need to convert again in the futu

Using the latest beta as of 31/05/23. Mouse feels sticky during any time where processing happens. Text entry lags.

We have improved our display pipeline to provide smoother playback and to reduce screen tearing artifacts. The change is effective in the latest public betas of Premiere Pro and After Effects.The changes we've made slightly increase memory usage, so the improvements are available on computers with a GPU that have 2 GB or more of VRAM.If you have been affected by screen tearing, we'd love to get your feedback on this change.

After a very loooong journey I have finally merged a very significant revision with ae23.5_13 to the code in After Effects which manages Fonts.   Some example immediate benefits to this code revision:   • Apple’s SF Pro and New York, and other Open Type Variable fonts will start working properly.• Duplicate fonts, by PostScript name, will show properly in the UI and also stop crashing After Effects.• Copying and pasting text from Illustrator with a Open Type Variable font using custom design axes will come through correctly - After Effects UI still lags what AI offers but it is better than the useless “0 0 0” we used to show.• The Char Panel UI is going to behave a little less wonky than before - it still has some flaws (ex: sample drawing, mixed selections) - but it is quicker and less sloppy at points.• Substitute fonts, that is fonts which a Project asked for on open but did not exist, now show the PostScript name and font technology we know about. They sort at the bo

Text Animation by Character and Word has been Left to Right (Roman)-centric since the beginning and consequently in the case of Right to Left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic it was 100% wrong (unless your content was a single character or single word!) Essentially the code assumed that the order the glyphs appear on the screen is the same as the character order but that is only true for Left to Right. For a line of Hebrew text, for example, the glyph on the left is actually the last character and the glyph on the right is the first character. Consider with the following Text Animation settings: With Roman text it looks correct as we scrub about half way - first character in the Story is the "R": But not so good with Hebrew text where the first character in the Story is on the far right. See how the left glyphs have been exposed before the right most ones? Bad. With Beta build 22.3.0 (89) this has now been addressed and After Effects is properly iterating th

The Solids folder names itself to"Farbflächen" even if in the Prefs it is set to be auto-named to Solids

Please help me, I am no expert, still learning. Why is make comp size greyed out??? is there an issue with my file? I have mercury software only enabled, followed various tutorials.. what am I doing wrong??? thank you

Hey beta users!    Starting today (August 1), the After Effects beta will save in project version 23.0. This means that projects saved in the 23.0 beta will not be able to be opened in other versions of After Effects (including the 22.5 public release) without file conversion.    If you need compatibility with 22.x or before, please follow the instructions below:  Moving from v22.x to v23.0 - On opening a project in the 23.0 beta, you will be presented with a message that the project needs to be converted. Simply click “Ok”, and the project will be updated automatically. If you would like to preserve your 22.x version of the project, please be sure to “Save as” the 23.0 project so that you don't need to convert again in the future.  Moving from v23.0 to earlier versions of After Effects (I.e. 22.x or below) - Please use the option Save As > Save a copy as v22/v18 to create a project that is compatible with older AE versions.  We apologize fo

Hi, I'm setting lots of expressions to comps & layers via a jsx file.In current versions I have no problems, but the Beta app (23.4.0) gives me errors, while there are none... What the issue probably is, is that I'm setting e.g._ references to effects (and ffx files) which are not applied yet_ linking to layer names in compositions which are renamed afterwards in the jsx file etc... So it seems that the Beta version is evaluating expression on the fly, while current AE versions check the expressions afterwards.I tried to fix some issues with "autoFixExpressions", but that doesn't work in this case... Is there anything to worry about when the new release comes out, or will this behaviour of "evaluating expressions" change?The reason I ask, is because it's a bit clumsy to go through "expression errors" only to click them away and be totally fine at the end. Anyhow, hope to hear from you, Jochem

Hi All,   We've made some changes to the Default Workspace in Beta, and we'd like to hear your thoughts!   These changes will not impact any custom workspace settings you have. To see the new Default Workspace, click the hamburger menu next to "Default" in the workspace toolbar, then select "Reset to Saved Layout". Please note that if you have previously changed and saved over the Default Workspace, you will have to reset your preferences to see the new Default Workspace.     In the new Default Workspace, the Libraries Panel is nested horizontally with the Project Panel on the left-hand side of the workspace. The Info Panel is stacked on top of the right-hand side, with Preview, Align, and Audio Panels nested horizontally. The Properties Panel is stacked directly below the Info Panel, with the Effects and Presets Panel nested horizontally.   Tell us what you think! Do you like the new Default Workspace? Do you hate it? Other thoughts? Your feedback is critica

Hello everyone,I am currently working on a project with After effects Beta (23.5), in my project I use 3D elements in .glb format.The problem is that it is impossible to export it to mp4 format because every time there is this error that appears.I wanted to know if any of you have managed to export projects correctly from after effects Beta and if so how did you do it?Thanks 

 Select a text layer.Choose Animation > Browse Presets…In Adobe Bridge, choose a text effect to apply. Result: ...Error: Can't import file "[name-of-effect.ffx": unsupported filetype or extension. (0::1)Expected: Animation Preset should be applied. This works as expected (no error) in AE 22 (non beta). System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v22.2.0.59    M1 Mac mini, OS: macOS v11.6.2, RAM: 16.00 GB, CPUs (logical): 8

No matter what my permissions settings on the folders, I constantly get this "An error occurred migrating the settings files. Check the permissions of the After Effects preferences folder." I have checked them OVER and OVER. What is going on?

when i  try to paint strokes with rotobrush it doesnt work, it just leaves a purple outline around the video and says "after effects warning: roto brush strokes cannot be added until the current frame has finished rendering

Is it possible to focus the lumteri scopes to just a selected area of the frame?Ie. I just want to see the scopes for an actor's face - I don't want the rest of the scene visible in the scopes.If there is no such feature - can we make Lumetric Scopes work with Region of Interest?It's the first thing I tried, I was surprised it didn't work. I think selecting a part of the frame with RoI should be reflected in the scopes.

  In After Effects Beta 23.4 build 26, available today in Creative Cloud, we’re rolling out a very, very, very small (11 pixel) change in the Track Matte column…a new pickwhip icon just for the Track Mattes. Combining the pickwhip shape with just a hint of transparency grid, this stylish new icon should make it very clear that it’s here to do one thing and one thing only: help you set up your track mattes!   While the pickwhip icon is a standard icon used elsewhere across After Effects, we have heard (and experienced) that 30 years or so of only having one pickwhip in the timeline is a lot of muscle memory to overcome so we (ahem) whipped this up.   We’d be very interested to hear if this new icon makes sense to you, helps you differentiate at pickwhipping time, and means less undoing because you grabbed the wrong one!

Hello,somehow I can't get HDR to work in the viewport on a Pro Display XDR in an ACES project. Is this perhaps not possible? if I select p3 d65 1000 nits for example, the image in the viewport only gets darker and flatter...Is srgb the correct preview mode on the pro display xdr?

Changing the fonts of multiple text layers at once doesn't work via the Character Panel. On change, the new font gets applied to the text layers correctly and the change of font can be seen in the comp viewer, but it then toggles back to the initial font.

When working with timeline/keyframes/graph editor I am experiencing extreme lag.I thought initially that was my workstation fault (Win 11 latest update, 3080 nvidia latest update, i10900k, 64gb ram) but then I found on Twitter a lot of people with the same issue. Here's the source post (there's also a gif showing the issue):https://twitter.com/TaylorJonpeters/status/1623778202241085440How to reproduce: create some layers and drag them around, also happens with keyframes and sometimes, also affects the  graph editor. As a daily/heavy AE user I think this is a tier 1 issue, makes working with projects a real struggle.Hope sometimes in the future timeline operations can be as smooth as in "Skew" plugin! (http://goodboy.ninja - not an ad, just for reference and comparison)

Hi everyone! We are very pleased to announce that Scene Edit Detection is now available in After Effects (Beta) starting in build 22.0x88.   Powered by Adobe Sensei, Scene Edit Detection automatically detects scene changes in an edited clip and creates scenes as markers or layers for a faster project setup. This makes it much quicker and easier to reuse part of an edited video clip, or apply motion graphics and visual effects to specific scenes. This feature was first released in Premiere Pro last year and now it has been brought to After Effects. Using Scene Edit Detection After adding footage to the Timeline in After Effects (Beta), select one or more footage layers and go to Layer > Scene Edit Detection or right-click and select Scene Edit Detection. You'll be shown a dialog with options to determine how the detected edits will be applied to the footage:     If you choose "Create Layer Markers", the selected footage layers will have numbered Segmen

We are pleased to announce that in After Effects Beta 23.2 build 26 we have two new features: Effect Manager, and Startup and Repair preferences panel. Effect Manager Frequently, when After Effects crashes, it’s because something went awry with a rendering effect and wouldn’t it be great if you knew which one? With Effect Manager, when launching After Effects after a crash, we now show a dialog explaining what effect may have crashed during the last session and allows you to keep it enabled and proceed as-is or disable the effect on your After Effects installation — particularly helpful in the event the effect is crashing on project load. But dialogs are fleeting and ephemeral and you need to know the state of your system at a glance. Now, in the application-level Effects menu, our new Effect Manager dialog allows you to see a list of all your installed effects, with all the details you’d expect of a Manager: Effect Name, Category, Version, File Path on disk. But most importantly: each

HI all .... i'm pretty adept at AE overall ... less so in the 3D space .. I'm on the Beta version ..... and have been working with the Draft button .... i'm wondering if anyone has seen any good tutorials (videos or otherwise) on the ground plane  ? I'm trying to natively build a 3D room in AE 3d space, place 3d objects, cast lights and shadows on the walls etc. It seems (?) you should be able to pin a shape onto the ground plane and make a floor out of it ? any advice or guidance would be appreciated .. .sjk

Dear Adobe Developers, I am the founder and developer at KeenTools. Recently, we released GeoTracker, a plugin for After Effects that enables easy geometry tracking. We were excited to learn about the upcoming native support for 3D models in After Effects! We believe that the combination of our plugin and native 3D will bring unlimited creative potential. The After Effects community is already making incredible things entirely within AE, empowered by the synergy of 3D objects and the ability to easily track them in footage. This tutorial is a telling example of that. Through this post, I would like to express my gratitude for this monumental step and ask some questions from a developer's perspective. Additionally, we have received feature requests from our users that we plan to implement. However, since they are mostly related to the general 3D object pipeline, it is important for us to be in sync with you on these matters. We would greatly appreciate it if the SDK (API)

Text animators are not listed in the Essential Properties Panel.