I have a computer with the GT 730 card and it works with Element just fine. Have you tried following some of the free tutorials that come included with your purchase of Element? It sounds like you might just be missing a step or two. ... View more

Laptops aren’t very upgradable. Doubling your RAM would likely be the only option for you. -- - Michael Szalapski ... View more

Can we see a screenshot? I'd suggest uninstalling, making sure your CC app is set to the language you want, and reinstalling. ... View more

Does adjusting your operating system's scaling feature help? ... View more

There is a comments column you can enable in your timeline, but making layer markers and composition markers and adding your comments there (as Mylenium suggests) is much more likely to be noticed since many people keep the comments column hidden. ... View more

Element requires a certain level of GPU to work properly since it works entirely on the GPU. What GPU do you have?   If you don't have a decent one, Mylenium's suggestion to try Cinema 4D Lite is an excellent one. Cinema 4D Lite is included in your After Effects subscription and renders on the CPU and not the GPU, so it should work for you when Element fails (it might just be a bit slower). ... View more

In general, for After Effects performance, the most important thing is clock speed of the processor. In some future versions of AE, the number of cores will matter a bit more than they currently do (the AE team has been talking publicly about how they're developing a more multithreaded renderer). Also important is RAM. MINIMUM system required RAM is 16GB, but the suggested minimum is 32. GPU is a bit important too as a number of effects render entirely on the GPU (the VR effects and a number of third-party plugins) or can be accelerated by a GPU (Fractal Noise and dozens of others), but this doesn't have to be crazy - just something decent like the 1000 series from NVIDIA. Having SSD instead of HDD (and multiple ones, if possible, so your cache can be seperate) is also helpful.   So, knowing that, it should help you know for yourself what you can improve or not. ... View more

The minimum system requirements for AE is 16 GB of RAM with 32 being the recommended minimum. Something as intensive as Roto Brush failing on only 8 GB of RAM is not surprising. ... View more

Are the layers inside the precomp set to be guide layers? ... View more

This is something you need to contact Adobe support for. ... View more

What sort of certification are you looking for? I don't know of any place that's hiring for motion graphics artists that requires certification of any kind. The only time you'd need to be certified is if you're doing training yourself. If you're just looking to learn AE, the tutorial resources here at Adobe are a great place to start. School of Motion has some excellent free resources for learning AE too. There are also a bunch of good YouTube channels too like Evan Abrams, Ben Marriott, and tons more. ... View more

What, exact, version number of AE are you using? Is it 17.5.1? What are your computer's specs? Have you tried the public beta? ... View more

Try rolling back to earlier drivers. It's worth a try. Rebooting the machine might also make it start working correctly again. ... View more

I don't understand what you're saying. If your composition has black borders, your renders should as well. What are your render settings out of AE? ... View more

Oh yeah, I use the beta all the time! If something goes squirrely, you can just open it in the production version of AE, but the current version of the beta doesn't really have anything huge in it that might cause a big issue. ... View more

I'd suggest reinstalling it. ... View more

Can you go back to the original RAM configuration? Does that work? ... View more

Are you saying there is transparency even if you move the singer's video down in Premiere Pro? ... View more

No problem! ... View more

I've found, in general, there are fewer errors and things are faster to do the two step process vs. sending it to AME. Glad it worked out for you too! ... View more

Glad to help!  ... View more

This tutorial might be helpful: Flying Liquid Blobs - Adobe After Effects tutorial - YouTube There's even a sequel: Flying Blobs to Liquid Letters - Adobe After Effects tutorial - YouTube ... View more

You can make shapes like this using shape layers in AE and then animating them. ... View more

What do you mean by "Tracke Matte" it to the water? Can you not duplicate the water layer and use that duplicate as a Track Matte for the text? ... View more

Duplicate your footage, put it over the top of your new image layer, and key out the green of the screen. If the key doesn't work well, you may just need to rotoscope the hand. Make sure you're only workign on the parts that cross the image though. No need to do extra work here! You can try the new Roto Brush in AE or you can just animate masks by hand. I say masks because almost every roto job is easier if you have multiple masks (depending on the shot, of course).   As a side note, I usually don't like having green on the screen of a phone or tablet when I'm planning to replace the content. It's usually harder to make it look right with reflections and stuff if I'm keying the screen away. I prefer to have the screen turned off entirely, roto the hand, and just set the layer with the image to Screen blending mode. ... View more

Glad to help! Don't forget to mark posts with correct answers to close out the thread. Note: you can mark more than one post as a correct answer. ... View more

There's no issue doing it that way because of how high quality ProRes is.   You can test this by doing ProRes 444, if you want (which is technically lossless) and comparing it to ProRes 422. There's no quality loss at all going to 444, but I doubt you'll notice a difference between that and 422.  ... View more

There is a way! The sourceRectAtTime() expression lets you set up a box that automatically scales with the text. Alternatively, if it's simple enough, you could actually build this with Premiere Pro's new essential graphics workflow and build your own templates (including auto-sizing boxes) without even having to use AE or expressions at all. ... View more