August 2020 After Effects Community Recap

[Rameez_Khan]

Community Highlight:

Dr. Mathias Möhl (Mathias Moehl) is a cofounder of mamoworld and is known for the tools and tutorials he develops for the motion graphics and visual effects industry. He has developed popular extensions for After Effects, Premiere Pro, NUKE, and Audition, including Squash & Stretch, iExpressions, BeatEdit, MochaImport+, Auto Lip-Sync, QuickImporter, and mamoworldJSON. Mathias also wrote the popular, free eBook Motion Graphics in After Effects that Speaks to Your Brain. Mathias has spoken at international conferences like the After Effects World Conference, Adobe Video World, and Keyframes Conference. Mathias has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is an Adobe Community Professional. In his earlier life, he was a researcher in bioinformatics. Mathias will be speaking at Adobe Video World which is going to be an online event this year.

This month's community highlight is Mathias's post titled "Falling in Love with the Speed Graph of Ae" which gives us a sneak peek into one of his upcoming sessions at the Adobe Video World - Keyframes Demystified. After attending this session you will know all the different types of keyframes, but more importantly, you will also understand how to use those effectively. You spend so much time keyframing every day - it’s about time to invest one hour of your life to build a solid basis for your keyframing workflow!

Top three troubleshooting topics from August:

1. After Effects preview doesn't work:

If you are running into an issue where preview doesn't work, follow these steps:

• Go to Preferences > Display and toggle "Hardware Accelerate Composition, Layer, and Footage Panels"
• Go to Preferences > Video Preview and toggle "Enable Mercury Transmit"
• Update the on-board and dedicated graphics drivers of the computer
  

2. Display Acceleration Disabled in After Effects:

Follow the troubleshooting steps given in this article to fix this problem - How to fix Display Acceleration Disabled

3. After Effects can't connect to Media Encoder:

Go through the steps given in this article - How to fix dynamic link between After Effects and Media Encoder

Top three how-to topics from August:

1. How to export WebM with a transparent background and glow?

2. How to duplicate a pre-comp and make it independent?

3. How do I trim/split a layer on After Effects?

More editions of our community recap:

September 2020

October 2020

November 2020

[EuanWilliamson]

An excellent start!

Thak you Mathias and Rameez 🙂

[jackthegiantslayer]

Or After Effects could just finally give us decent keyframing that acts and feels like every 3D app on earth with visually appropriate curves that just work. Also, how about your team chime in on the user suggestion page more than once a year?

[Mathias Moehl]

Thank you for the great summary, Rameez!

Such an honor to be featured here 🙂

[Mo Moolla]

Thank Rameez and Mathias

This is indeed a great start and exciting to see. 

I look forward to seeing more in the future

Mo