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I'm using the latest version of AE, Beta 2023.0.0. that was just released days ago. And while the selectable track mattes are amazing, one issue I've run into is that in the Speed Graph, when you stretch the speed handles to ease the speed, you see no discernable difference. The speed curve stays the same. After I extend the right keyframe's speed handle to have that Vox-like speed effect, the shape of the speed curve doesn't change at all. Is this normal or is it a bug? Has anyone else run into this issue or is there some new setting I'm not aware of? The curve also used to be on the top and is now on the bottom.     

Pressing Escape generates an error: Invalid camera view index( 26 :: 327 ) ...which is odd.System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v23.0.0.45    OS: Windows v10.0.19044, RAM: 127.92 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 32

Hi all!   I'm posting to let you know that we will update our system requirements with the next major release of our video applications. This includes the 23.0 versions of After Effects, Audition, Character Animator, Media Encoder, and Premiere Pro. We update our system requirements each year, which allows After Effects to take full advantage of these platforms and helps ensure optimal performance for you.    This change goes into effect with next week's Beta builds (week of August 22).    Minimum OS Requirements  To run After Effects Beta version 23.0, Mac users need to be on macOS Big Sur (version 11) or later. Windows users need to be on Windows 10 (64-bit) v20H2 (or later) or Windows 11.    We recommend running our applications on the latest operating systems:           macOS Monterey (version 12)            Windows 10 (64-bit) v21H2

Simple as that. I tried to reinstall couple of times but nothing changed, AE wont open

Starting with Beta build 23.0x6, the Composition Presets list has been overhauled to make it easier to find the more commonly used presets. We have also removed the NTSC and PAL related presets and added a set of Social Media ones for networks such as Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, etc. The new list will be created the first time you install and run a 23.0 Beta build.   Migrating Existing Custom Presets This change of presets is a full replacement of the old preset list, and your existing custom presets will not be migrated over automatically. You can either rebuild and save any composition presets or migrate your existing presets manually using the following example as a guide.   I have a composition preset called “My Custom 1749x984 Preset” which I want to migrate.   Install and run After Effects 23.0x6 or above, then close After Effects to ensure the new composition presets list has been written to disk. Open the Adobe After Effects 23.0 Prefs-indep-compositi

Hello. Loving the beta for the past few weeks. But when I upgraded today, I could only get ram previews to work new projects. Old projects yield: "After Effects (Beta) error: Cached Preview needs 2 or more frames to playback" This seems to be a very old bug wich has resurfaced. I purged all, increased cache size, trashed prefs... Restarted. No luck. Same project/comps ram preview correctly when I launch 22.2.0... even when current and beta AE are launched concurrently. AE (beta) 22.3.0 build 90Apple M1 Max, 64 GB RAM, MacOs 12.2.1

Right clicking on Columns (modes, switches, parent and link etc) does not do anything anymore (still works in the previous version)

Greetings! After Effects is a BIG application. Here on the After Effects development team, we know that when we introduce a new feature it can sometimes become lost, like trying to find a newly sprouted tree in the forest. We do our best to announce new features via Adobe.com and our social media accounts, but the best way would be for After Effects itself to tell you what's new and changed. Starting today in After Effects Beta, version 22.3 build 72, you will see new notifications when you click on certain parts of the UI. We call these coach marks, as they can help point you towards new features, introduce you to changed functionality, or even help you improve your workflow.  Right now in After Effects Beta, you'll see just a few coach marks sprinkled around After Effects that point you towards some of the newer changes to rendering performance and 3D workflows. What we'd like to know from you is:Do you like having these little pop-ups tell you about what's n

As announced back in May, we’ve added Keyframe Color Labels to After Effects. Right-click on any keyframe(s), select ‘Label’, and choose the color you want assigned. Choose ‘Edit Label Colors…’ at the bottom of the Label list if you want to change those default colors. Use ‘Select Keyframe Label Group’, to have that color label be the basis for a selection (also available via scripting hooks).   From the feedback we have gotten so far, we’ve been adding updates and fixes along the way. Now we want to know from you, our beta members, whether you think Keyframe Color Labels are ready for primetime.   In your AE Beta build, click on the flask with the blue dot in the upper right:   In the What’s New in Beta panel that comes up, select ‘Rate features’ on the left. This gives you an option to say whether you think Keyframe Color Labels are either ‘Not ready yet’, or ‘Ready for release’. There is also space to leave any comments you may want to add:   As always, thank

Hi everyone,I'm going crazy about this and I hope someone could help me.As in the title,  I'm using a Macbook pro 16 gb M1 and my after effects is letteraly unusable. Now I'm on a project that uses Animation Composer preset and I can't see the preview at all. I tryed to open the same project on another Macbook pro (2019) and everything goes easy. I comparated the render, memory, cache storage, preview settings, on both computers and everything seems to me ok and the same, but I can't see if there's someting I'm missimg or what. I only notinced that in my new computer when I press the spacebar for preview the cache blue/green bar becames uncolored, and restart the green from the start point. Then green go slow slow slow and stop. I'm not super expert on setting, so something maybe make no sense, but perhaps it could be helpful to understand what's wrong.I have also read that many people are having issues with the native Mac M1, so at least I would like to understand if it

Good afternoon!   As of After Effects 22.6 Beta (build 11), we have fixed a situation where starting a preview could cause After Effects to purge previously rendered and cached frames in front of the CTI, creating a need to re-render them during playback. The issue presented as slow playback even though green cache markings were present as the green cache markings do not update fast enough to reveal the purging. This would have been most noticeable in cases where memory usage was maxed out.   You should see improved Preview performance with less re-rendering during playback as After Effects should now purge the frames least likely to be played during that Preview if necessary. If you do see re-rendering of frames about to be played during Preview, either via the info panel or disappearing cache markings bar in front of your CTI, please reach out to us with your system specs and any project you see this behavior in.

The good news is that After Effects Beta 22.3 no longer crashes when using Apple SF Pro version 17.1d1e1. This font is available from Apple here https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ The repro was simple - select some text in a Text Layer, apply any SF Pro Regular font style, other than Regular itself,  boom. The reason for this, though there really is no good reason for After Effects to crash, is that there is a problem with the construction of the particular font version which confused our code and in that confusion it did something bad and triggered the crash. That vulnerability in our code has now been fixed, but an underlying problem with the font remains and that is the bad news that I will cover next. The issue our code has with the font is that we are unable at times to properly distinguish between the Regular instance of the front from the Italics instance of the font. This only happens, so far as we have seen, when applying a Regular font style othe

As the title mentions - if the properties pannel is active (even while being collapsed) - moving a shapre is extremely slow.Is there any temp fix for that?

As promised, we have some new functionality being added to the Keyframe Color Labels feature today in After Effects Beta, 22.5 build 25.   Select Keyframe Label Groups  More options are now available to give you more control when you want to select all the keyframes that have been labeled by a specific color. Right-click on a keyframe and notice the new ‘Select Keyframe Label Groups’ option. You can now choose your selection to include keyframes of the same label group: On Selected Layers On All Layers Visible Keyframes on Selected Layers Visible Keyframes on All Layers  Visible keyframes means that the property for that layer has been twirled open in the Timeline panel. It does not relate to the zoom or scroll of the Timeline panel.  For the first two options, keyframes that aren’t visible will be selected and their properties will be twirled open.  KNOWN ISSUE: These commands do not work if more than one

Steps to reproduce:1. create a new comp (command+n)2. create a solid (command+y)3. undo/redo 2xResult: Solid takes .5, 1, then more than 15 seconds to appear in the new comp. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v22.4.0.32    OS: macOS v12.2.1, RAM: 64.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10 Here's a video. You can jump about halfway through to see the 15 second delay. I wiggle the cursor around while waiting more than 15 seconds for the solid to show up. Solid Creation Delay  Anyone else getting this? Please let me know if there is any way I can help. Also check my profile for other AE Beta bug reports. Thanks! Benjamin

When I render DNxHD in any Apple Silicon version of After Effects (Beta 22.5 and the current release v22.3), the file is unreadable when imported in to Avid. Avid can read DNxHD files redered out of 22.2.1 using the exact same output module no problem.

Hello everyone! I'm back to announce a new feature, available today in After Effects Beta 22.4x1!   Separated Dimensions Preference:  You can now set AE to default to separated X, Y dimensions (for 2D layers) or separated X, Y, Z dimensions (for 3D layers) on position properties by enabling the new Separated Dimensions options in Preferences > General.     What We Want to KnowDoes this feature improve your workflow? What would you change?   Thank you! We’re looking forward to your feedback

Text Animation of Character Offset with Range Type Preserve Case & Digits has been enhanced in After Effects Beta 22.5 (19) to include the Hebrew character set. You can read more about this particular character set here: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0590.pdf  Just to review, the Range Type Preserve Case & Digits defines a set of Unicode range groups whereby when After Effects adds a positive or negative offset to the base character it is animating the resulting Unicode character is wrapped around so it stays within the same Unicode range group as the base character.  For example, consider the upper case Latin letter "Z" which is part of a Unicode range group for upper case Latin letters that spans from "A" to "Z". When we add one with the Character Offset we generate an upper case Latin "A" instead of getting the next Unicode character after "Z" which is the Left Square Bracket "[". Neat, eh? With Character Offset Range Type Full Unicode the

Hello all, About a week or so ago I did the update for my M1 Mini for AE Beta and ever since then I cannot get it to open. I get the error message below,Afeter Effects AlertLast log message was: <2694842> <DynamicLink> <5> Increase wait time to 2.  Now of course there is the longer thread as well that I have been sending to Adobe.  Any help or suggestions would be grately appreciated!!! Cheers, John Grote, Jr.Generating crash log, which may take a few minutes.

Text Animation of Character Offset with Range Type Preserve Case & Digits has been enhanced in After Effects Beta 22.4 (41) to include the coded character set KS X 1001 which supports hangul and hanja characters. You can read more about this particular character set here: KS_X_1001  Just to review, the Range Type Preserve Case & Digits defines a set of Unicode range groups whereby when After Effects adds a positive or negative offset to the base character it is animating the resulting Unicode character is wrapped around so it stays within the same Unicode range group as the base character.  For example, consider the upper case Latin letter "Z" which is part of a Unicode range group for upper case Latin letters that spans from "A" to "Z". When we add one with the Character Offset we generate an upper case Latin "A" instead of getting the next Unicode character after "Z" which is the Left Square Bracket "[". Neat, eh? With Character Offset Range Type

This was a problem a few releases ago; I'm not sure if it was resolved and now it's back, or I just never noticed it for a while:When an AE render completes (a final render, not a preview) AE always jumps to the front of my app windows. For example:Set a render goingGo to Chrome to type an emailAE's render completesAE, very rudely, jumps to the front of all my windows/apps, interrupting whatever I'm doingIt's rather annoying! AE should just politely play the 'render complete' chime, and stay in its place.

Hello there, As I'm overall impressed with the performance of AE Beta for M1 (running on a 16" M1 Max, 32GB, mOS 12.1). I'm sad to report that I can't manage to launch the 22.3 Beta. 22.1 and 22.2 work, but the latest version crashes on start-up. Is anyone else having the same issue? Because I can't seem to find similar reports online or here on the forum. Thanks, Pieter  

I'm doing very basic renders between Cinema 4D and AE. C4D lets me choose between rendering an OpenEXR file, or rendering the OpenEXR file with an accompanying aec. file that After Effects should be able to read. I'm doing a basic render (a sphere on a plane with a light) and rendering out the EXR file and the accompanying aec file. When I open After Effects - current Beta version 22.4.0, Build 41 - it can import the EXR file but the aec file is greyed out and unselectable. There's a C4Dimporter plug-in that comes with C4D and I've placed this (if it's needed) in my AE plug-ins folder. If it's meant to help the process it doesn't seem to be doing so. If this is a limitation of the current Beta, I can certainly wait, as I'm sure things will be fixed in the coming months, but I'd welcome some guidance as to whether I'm doing something wrong, if Maxon needs to fix things at their end for the Apple Silicon version of AE, or this is something that the Beta version will be able to

Steps to reproduce:    1. Create Project in Ae Beta    2. Save Project    3. Open Project in Ae 21 or 22 Result: Project wont open error  and 33 : 5(In my original project I get the above error in addition to 26 : 00)  (screenshots attached)Expected: It should open without issueSystem info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v22.4.0.32    OS: macOS v12.3.1, RAM: 32.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 8 This was happening on my other computer (PC), and for my client as well. I think this is a recent issue and I have previously been able to open projects in previous versions of Ae when using Beta, if I recall correctly.I have tried every method of exporting and importing that I can think of, and I haven't got anything to work. I originally thought that it was a problem with some footage I was using, but it is now happening for me with a fresh project (new project with an empty comp, attached).