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I noticed the preformance of Rotobrush 2.0 is as of the last few updates, Is totally unuseable it will begin to propagate a few frams and then NOTHING it hangs and does nothing a few seconds into the clip OF ANY clip I use. Both in the Beta and the  the non Beta versions of After Effects. I have heard that some people have had to back date there graphics card drivers to get it to work again. What ever the problem, at this point it is unusable.

Frequent (every session) crash when using AE for the last ~3 2021 updates and Beta. After working in the timeline (scrubbing is sufficient), any attempt to switch to another application causes a system freeze of 2-5 minutes. If I wait it out, the comp window in AE becomes solid white, and I am able to access other apps. AE doesn't recover; to get the comp viewer back, I have to quit and re-launch. Steps to reproduce:    1.Open AE and move around in a composition timeline    2. use alt-tab or windows taskbar to select any other running application Result: system hangs for 2-5 minutes; mouse and keyboard unresponsive including to ctrl-alt-del. At the end of the freeze, the AE comp window turns white and system responsiveness is restored.Expected: should just switch aps, no? System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v18.4.0.18    OS: Windows v10.0.19043, RAM: 255.89 GB, CPUs (logical): 64Video

The levels effect is crashing AE Beta every time I add it. Also Every time I click it in a prexexisting comp.Results in a full software freeze and crash.

Hi everybody! My title is pretty straight foward, I was wondering if there is a possibility to intruduce camera raw as an effect color correction in After Effects (like in photoshop). I already know the trick to importe the footage as raw, but this technique has alot of inconveniant, the main one beign that you can't really adjust the effect afterward, it just ''applied''. I think that everybody that come from the graphic design industry/photography would be really please to see this tool in AE. I've talk to a couple of person that would be willing to intruduce it as a plugin, but I think it's obviously a better idea to ask you first 🙂 And while im here, are you planning to intruduce the same fonctionnality of the Curve effect in Photoshop to After Effetcs anytime soon? The fact that we still don't have a color picker in the curve is really a bummer. Thank you so much for your time! Marie-Christine 

I have discovered that when exporting from AE to ME using H.264 my final output colours/gamma doesnt match my AE viewport. However, if I export to DNxHD directly from AE then the colours match. What's strange is that if I then take this DNxHD and convert it (with the exact same settings) using ME, it also correctly matches! So why the shift when going straight to ME from AE? Results attached

Is it only me or is it normal to have screen tearing in the new beta versions that just recently came out?  Weirdly I don't have any screen tearing in after effects 2019. What could possabliy be the issue, and is it fixable? Maybe its because of DirectX12? It looks like this

What are the implications of this? Searched the forum and the beta "What's new", but found no explanation. Is it meant to improve panel performance?

After update to Ae 18.3.0.22 and Ch 4.3.0.27 from latest beta versions, Ae no longer sees imported Ch files. When opening file in Ae there is message that Ae can't read files and opens dialog box with selecting Ch projest scenes. I use 2 imported scenes and diolog box shows 4 times, and after that I cancelled reselecting (another 2 dialog boxes) and Ae file opens with missing 2 imports from Ch. Ch opens project without problem. Error Message: Failed to connect to Adobe Dynamic Link source in project: "xxx". Please select source again. When I reload or replace footage, the same looop with selecting source and connection problem occurs. Please help to go back to previous beta versions Ae and Ch (where are installations) - I'm on the last day of very urgent project and I can't wait

Steps to reproduce:1. Have a comp with a 3D enabled solid and a Camera2. Right Click > Guide LayerResult: 3D Layer Indicator dissapeares Expected: Regardless if the layer is a guide layer I'd expect to be able to see if a layer is a 3D.I suspect that this is related to the 3D stack as it doesn't happen to layers in the middle of a stack but does disappear if the guide layer is on the top or bottom.All the solids in the above image are 3D. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v18.2.0.20    OS: Windows v10.0.18363, RAM: 15.93 GB, CPUs (logical): 8

there is a problem when copy&paste text from mail or simluar.. to AE. It wont happen anymore. making it useless at this point to work with the beta.

Hi I'm testing After Effect Beta Is it a bug ? When i set a multi view, sometime the menu to select single-view, multi-view, etc is present at the bottom right, and somtime ... it is not There is still the possibility to change mutli-view by right-clicking one the area (not on a object) Regards, A. Very

This error message showed up when starting Effects 18.3.x11 for the first time after installation via double click on an AE file (macOS Big Sur 11.3.1)Before that there was a message claiming that the “Required Folder” ist missing. Subsequent launches via the Dock showed no problem.

Bounding box do not match shape boundaries.And when I zoom and use Hand Tool - shape boundaries "jump".How can I fix that? 

Steps to reproduce:1. Create animated composition that you want to loop (in my case, used multiple masked versions of an AI file to create a strobing arrow animation)2. Use the LoopOut expression after placing in another composition.Result: On out point, frame fails to appear (sometimes randomly it will work, but fairly consistantly results in error)Expected: LoopOut of composition not to blink out of existence on last frame. ***Does not occur if you render out the composition to file and replace, so it seems to only be with compositions. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v18.3.0.11    OS: Windows v10.0.18363, RAM: 31.73 GB, CPUs (logical): 16

In the newest version, sometime i can't play review. It's freezing, just can be play when i reopen. Another thing, i hope to be able to drag & drop Footage folder as Premiere does.  Thanks team.  

The expression: "style" to retrieve the character style from one layer to another seems not to work properly. It doesn't work on 18.1 either. I don't understand what's going on, after dozens of tries, it sometimes starts to work again. I can't figure out when it works and when it doesn't.I managed to make the same project: one that bugs and one that does not. If I import the buggy project into the non-buggy one, it doesn't bug anymore and conversely if I import the non-buggy project into the buggy one it starts to bug.I'm going crazy.You've ruined my weekend. :~-(https://youtu.be/i7LLdWH3asc

 I can't sync settings (workspaces, scripts, etc.) between the beta version and the normal version since the last beta update. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v18.3.0.9    OS: Windows v10.0.19042, RAM: 31.91 GB, CPUs (logical): 8

When using multi frame, the render sometimes stops at random points, unsure why. the same project will fail at different points. looking at the log, it might be a memory issue.System infoApplication: After Effects (Beta) v18.3.0.9OS: macOS v10.16.0, RAM: 40.00 GB, CPUs (logical): 8

The progress bars for rotobrush2 don't update and often don't show.The main progress bar (the popup) works for a minute and then freezes.RB2 otherwise appears to work as expected.

After latest update (mid-April 2021) changing from one composition to another takes like 3 or so seconds, while before it was almost instantaneously.

When a text property is accessing through the Essential properties, this property does not behave like a Source Text property: we cannot use expressions who control the style of the characters.

Problem Description:This is a bug that has been around for many, many years: it is impossible to type specific values into the Time Remap field in the Timeline panel. Steps to Reproduce:1. Drop some footage into a comp2. Right-click it and 'enable time remapping'3. Add a keyframe or two4. Click on the timecode of one of the keyframes and type in a new value. Or press the arrow up/down keys. Actual Result:Either nothing changes or the timecode changes to something other than the value typed in. Expected Result:The timecode should be whatever was typed in. Or it should get nudged up/down by 1 frame when pressing the arrow keys. Any Workarounds:Scrub the value to get a kinda-accurate figure in there.

After changing the extrusion depth of a shape layer, the app was seemingly not stuck, but it became unresponsive. I was able to delete the comp and make a new one but as you can see in the attached screenshot, I got nothing in the comp window. The app became unresponsive when I tried to quit.

Dear Adobe,   Thank You for new "features" As the long-time user (since 2004). Unfortunatelly I noticed that there is no "real new features" at all since many years. During many years - You made changes in "appearance", Hot-Keys. Result for me?   The changes bring nothing but confusion. Instead of working on Performance Improvments, you're making it difficult for old folks to work in this old good environment.   Honestly, it looks like you've lost your creativity :(. I know - After Effects was designed in the 80's. The "logic" of algorithms in the middle is still from the 80's. Over the years you've only updated some plugins to really only partially exploit the potential of today's GPU. The interface itself is so horribly outdated (but not what it looks like, but inside how it works). When you scroll down layers in the timeline window, no matter what high-end computer you have, it's abusively slow. ! do something from scratch, starting with a totally new high-end super r

I can no longer import .mp4 files or use previous projects from Version 17 that use .mp4 files. The preview only shows solid green.