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Issues I experienced with AE 2025

Explorer ,
Oct 22, 2024 Oct 22, 2024

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AE 2025

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Hello, I experienced a few issues while creating an animation. Expressions wouldn’t work, animation I created disappeared on 4 occasions and had to be created again. Once I finally completed a task that should have taken my 4 hours, but was all day, I am not able to render in either Media Encoder of the Render Que in AE 2024 won't open the file. I see nothing on the forum, bit Co-Plot let me know that there are issues. I thought it was my laptop. all my drives are up to date, and I regularly clear cache.  Do we know if these issues will be fixed? I am thinking of starting over in AE 2024, which makes me want to cry.  

 

Dawn

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Adobe Employee , Oct 23, 2024 Oct 23, 2024

Hello @The New Dawn 

Thanks for posting about the issues you are seeing. We would need a bit more information to determine what the issues are.


  1. Expressions: Do you have an example of expressions that should have worked that were not working for you? Could you upload an example project with the issue and either share it via DM or here in this post?
  2. Animation disappearing: you mention it disappeared and had to be recreated. In what way did it disappear?
  3. Rendering to media encorder/render queue - c
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Oct 23, 2024 Oct 23, 2024

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Hello @The New Dawn 

Thanks for posting about the issues you are seeing. We would need a bit more information to determine what the issues are.


  1. Expressions: Do you have an example of expressions that should have worked that were not working for you? Could you upload an example project with the issue and either share it via DM or here in this post?
  2. Animation disappearing: you mention it disappeared and had to be recreated. In what way did it disappear?
  3. Rendering to media encorder/render queue - could you create a video recording to demonstrate the issue? 

    All the best,
    Jessica
    AE Engineering

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Explorer ,
Oct 23, 2024 Oct 23, 2024

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Thank you for your reply Jessica.

 

I was trying to follow this video first and it wasnt working which I found strange, because I followed it when I was really new at AE and I was able to do it. I then was relying on ChatGPT and we know it makes mistakes so I hope the codes above are correct.

 

Here are the expressions:

thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")
thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider") * rotationFactor
[value[0] + thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider"), value[1]];
thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider") * 10;
[value[0] + thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider"), value[1]];
thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider") * time * 10;
time * effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider") * time;
time * thisComp.layer("Car Controller").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
time * effect("Slider Control")("Slider") * 10

 

As for the disaperaing animation, I dont see how I can capture that. A very large ending animation disapeard that I ha to recreate in my 15 second video and then the body of the car disappeared, but this could have been me and my frustrated state. 

 

Screenshot 2024-10-22 114455.png

Video Url: https://youtu.be/wn6NoF-iB5c

This is of the Media Ecoder Render and AE Render

 

The AE render won't upload, it like a second long. 

 

I started over and will not be using 2025 for awhile. 

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 23, 2024 Oct 23, 2024

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Hello @The New Dawn,

For the expressions, what was the error you were seeing? It would probably be benificial to rewatch the tutorial as some of these expressions I would expect to work in the context of what the video was demonstrating and others don't make sense. Example, if your project has a null layer named "Null 1" that has a slider control applied to it, your first expression would work. For your second, rotationFactor would have to be switched to a value or defined in the expression.

If you are newer to AE, people sometimes loose their animations when they click on the stop watch expecting to add a keyframe. If the stop watch is blue for a property, you are in a state where there is at least one keyframe. Clicking the stop watch again to make it go grey would remove any keyframes on that property which would require you to reanimate it. 

For your export, it looks like you are creating a video based on your workarea. See the bracketted area in this image example:

JessicaMcMillan_0-1729742656161.png

Which results in the start and end values shown in the render queue when twirling open render settings:
JessicaMcMillan_1-1729742673468.png

You can adjust the time span by clicking on the blue text to the right of "Render Settings." In my example case that is "Best Settings."
It will show the following dialog where you can adjust the "Time Span" to "Length of Comp" or a custom subsection of your composition.

JessicaMcMillan_2-1729742797623.png


There is a very strong community for After Effects both here in the forums and in other locations like social media, reddit, etc where people are often more than happy to help people further their work in After Effects. Hope this has helped you a bit today, and happy animating.

All the best,
Jessica
AE Engineering

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Explorer ,
Oct 23, 2024 Oct 23, 2024

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Hi Jessica,

Thank you for your response and guidance. I wanted to clarify that the image with the “Null 1” wasn’t a complete representation of everything I tried; it was just one part of the testing process. Additionally, I didn’t just lose a single animation—an entire section disappeared unexpectedly.

I’ve been using After Effects for over a year, and I also have an animated series on YouTube, so I’m familiar with many aspects of AE. However, I am still learning about expressions and how to animate specific elements, like making a car drive.

Regarding the rendering, I attempted to export the project in both After Effects and Media Encoder, but unfortunately, neither method worked.

Lastly, it would be helpful if new versions of the software weren’t labeled as updates. However, I understand that I should have looked closer at the details.

 

Thanks again for your assistance!

Best,
Dawn

 

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Oct 24, 2024 Oct 24, 2024

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Oct 24, 2024 Oct 24, 2024

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Hello @The New Dawn 

Appologies for miscatogrizing your current experience level in AE, that was not my intention. We help folks of all backgrounds and not knowing exactly where someone is at, I try to make my responses accessible regardless of your current experience in the application.

Sorry you are still experiencing those issues with the update and that we couldn't resolve them here.

For the render output issue, perhaps this site will do a better job explaining than I did for how the work area affects your render output. The reason I believe it is your work area causing issues, is because in your video that you recorded, the work area looked like it was a very narrow slice of your composition. When you send the composition to the render queue, it is just rendering that defined slice instead of the whole composition. 

JessicaMcMillan_1-1729805350358.png

How to Render Work Area in After Effects | aejuice.com



I can see where the phrasing for new version vs update can cause confusion, I will bring your feedback back to the team.
For After Effects, we continuely update the application, adding features and bug fixes, throughout the year. Years ago, our application would only push out bug fixes inbetween the major versions which were released in the fall. With our beta program, and pushing updates to release every few months, the style of bug fix only releases are rarer. The only time a version is a bug fix only update is if it is major_version.minor_version.dot_fix. Recently we pushed out the 25.0.0 release, which is what you have unfortunately experienced issues with. Generally, project file changes are restricted to this major version change, but all other changes could happen during and of the updates done throughout the year. For this most recent release, we did unfortunately have some bugs that we felt required a hot fix, so a 25.0.1 was released earlier this week. That is an example of a bug only version/update. Ideally we would never need to have a bug fix only release.  


Once again, thank you for taking the time to post here. Hopefully some of this was helpful and/or informative, even if it didn't fully resolve the issues you were seeing in the new version.

All the best,
Jessica
AE Engineering

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Jessica, 

 

Thank you.

 

I think the ADOBE Gods are against me. I recreated the video and of couse it is always better when that happens, but just as I am putting the finishing touches on it, this just happened. I'm sorry, I cant expalin it. You have to see the video for yourself. 

 

I thought I captured a screenshoot, but I was trying to save and it said I couldn't, then the box with Asian writing came up. You see that I saw after that.

 

The box with Asian writing should be a CH lightbulb charater. I saved a back-up, so the issue is not with CH. Why does it always wait until the end? Its not eeven a loaded video. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...

 

Take care 

Dawn

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