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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. 

Hello Beta users!   We've extended the Properties Panel to support text as of After Effects 23.2 build 53 and we'd like you to try it out!       With Text Properties in the Properties Panel, you can quickly and easily edit all the properties from the Character and Paragraph Panels for your selected layer. Update your font, change your fill and stroke, set your paragraph alignment, and even add Text Animators, all without needing to switch between panels!     Known Issues: The hamburger menus in the new Text & Paragraph sections do not yet work as expected when multiple Text Layers are selected. Adding or removing keyframes using the right-click menu in the Properties Panel will only affect keyframes on the first selected layer. Users who have enabled operating system settings that use a comma (,) in place of a decimal (.) will see the tenths place of transform values truncated in the Properties Panel (i.e. position value in the Properties Panel

Greetings After Effects users! We’re accelerating shape layer rendering with multi-threading, and we’d like to hear how it's working for your projects. In our testing, many shape layers now render at least twice as fast.   In your Creative Cloud app, update to After Effects Beta 23.3x9 or later. You don’t need to do anything special to enable the updated rendering.   Give things a try with some of your more shape-heavy compositions, especially ones with more complex shapes and gradients. You can use the Composition Profiler to compare performance with the release version. Projects are compatible across beta and release. If you have compositions where your shape layers aren’t seeing a speedup or have unexpected behavior, please let us know.   Looking forward to your feedback!  

The lastest After Effects Beta build (23.3x19) includes a performance improvement for selecting layers in the timeline window via mouse click. The improvements should be most noticeable when there are many visible layers in the window. When selecting a layer or layers in the timeline with or without a mod key After Effects should now properly invalidate and redraw only the previously selected layers and the newly selected layers. This will likely be most noticeable when selecting a single layer in the timeline when many layers are visible. Please let us know how this update works for you or if you run into any problems with it. 

In the latest After Effects Beta, you can now access source item timecode via scripting through a new frameTime attribute. This will enable you to specify a particular frame, so you don't need to worry about precision limitations due to floating point rounding that you may have encountered accessing time in seconds. You can set frameTime as far back as 3 hours before the 0:00:00:00 time and as far forward as 1 frame less than 24:00:00:00. Compositions can be a maximum 3 hours in length; these limits exist so you can slide layers that far back or forward. A couple usage examples:   Get the current frame time with var curFrame = app.project.item(1).frameTime;   Set the current frame time with app.project.item(1).frameTime = 105; frameTime is an AVItem attribute, so app.project.item(1) can be replaced with any reference that resolves to one of those. Please give it a try and let us know how it’s working for you.

3D animated FBX file import would be great to import for little animated characters, etc. 

Hello! Starting in After Effects Beta v23.3 build 9, you can now snap layers in 3D space while dragging the constrained X, Y, and Z position handles of the 3D gizmo.   This new behavior is in addition to non-constrained snapping, which has worked with 3D layers since snapping was introduced in After Effects many years ago. Non-constrained snapping is when you reposition a layer by clicking on an arbitrary point on that layer and snap it to another layer.   There's actually quite a lot of subtlety to snapping! If you're not familiar with how snapping works in After Effects, here's a great overview video. This was made when snapping was introduced in a much, much older version of After Effects, but the basic principles still apply.https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/using-layer-snapping-aftereffects.html   What's new and different today is that snapping now works when you click and drag on the X, Y, and Z handles of the 3D gizmo. This includes the XY, XZ, and YZ

Hi All,I just tried to download and open the Beta v 23.2 on my Mac Studio but the app closes directly before launch. I only see the very first AE splash screen (no loading activity). No crash report generated.The associated Beta Media Encoder opens fine.I have the latest non-beta version of AE installed and that's working fine too.Is anyone else having this issue? Not sure what I'm doing wrong...Thanks,Rupert

hi,while working in compwindow, it happens often, that the footage opens in panel layer window. Like I would do an double clic on it.Or often sticks an keyframe on the mouse(pen)curser, or the In or Out point of an Comp, "sticks" on the curser...anyone else expiring this?

Import de 25 objets 3D (.glb) : active camera out (dézoom la composition et crée des bords gris) - même problème au pré-render. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v23.2.0.60    OS: macOS v12.6.2, RAM: 128,00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 36

About 40% of the time when I use Font Manager, it causes AE beta to crash, regardless of the update. It's never caused the regular version of AE to crash. I let Alex White know about this, and he said that based on the attached error repot that I keep getting from AE, the problem is with the beta version of AE and that it's something Adobe needs to fix.Thanks,Paul

When dynamic linking with Premiere, the links just seem to randomly break. It's easy enough to relink, but it shouldn't be doing that an is quite annoying.

When trying to run a custom UI Script, AFX now hangs for a while, or completely. Issue occurs when script window is open and you run a command. AFX 23.2.0 Build 60.

Been running a project with Beta using OCIO colour management - has been fine in the main. However latest build keeps producing an error when loading the project, saying Config file for OCIO is invalid, despite reapplying settings everytime. Running 23.2.0 Build 60.

I think it's important to be able to select properties from the new Properties Panel. A lot of third party tools ask the user to select a property first in order to act upon it.To make the new Properties Panel more attractive and better integrated, I believe it should allow users to do it from there. Users might neglect if after giving it a chance if they are constantly reminded that they have to, from time to time, select properties from the timeline instead. While you can double click to expose a property in the timeline and then select it from there, that's 3 extra clicks and one extra mouse drag (often across the entire screen). Thanks for the great work on it otherwise. It's coming together really nicely. 

Hi. I have quit and reopened and quite AE, and have restarted my computer, but every time I try to do the latest update to AE Beta, it tells me I need to quite AE. I'm using AE Beta 23.2.0 build (34).Thanks,Paul paul@peak.org

In our ongoing aim to make your After Effects experience better, we have made some changes to the way we display error and warning messages. These changes were introduced to the beta in 23.2x28.   Have you ever run into issues where repetitive error dialogs kept appearing and it was too hard to dismiss them? We've heard your feedback! This feature should help you view and dismiss multiple messages at a time, allowing for fewer clicks to get back to work.   Example aggregate dialog   Here is an example of one of the new aggregate dialogs:     Supported Scenarios   Error dialog aggregation works by delaying the presentation of all error and warning messages until a given operation is complete. Operations supported so far are: Importing files Opening a project Reloading updated footage Applying an effect   Right now we present one aggregation dialog for errors, and one for warnings. Informational messages are not yet aggregated. In our experience so f

Support for all Type 1 fonts will end in early 2023. This change is in the latest Beta build (Ae23.2xBeta052) and users will no longer have the ability to author content using Type 1 fonts after the next public release. This affects all Adobe products. More information is available here:   https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end-of-support.html

Steps to reproduce:    1. System Preferences / Monitor / place a second monitor above the laptop    2. Interpret footage / Color / Override Media Color Space / choose from the list Result: Can't see the complete listExpected: A scroll from top to bottom of the list of color profiles System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v23.2.0.51    OS: macOS v12.6.0, RAM: 64,00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10

Before the last update of After Effects (beta) v23.2 everything worked fine. But now it's a mess, all my 3D objects (GLB) start dancing all over the comp. Please come back to the previus version.