This is a known bug - dev team is on it already. As workaround, you can deactivate AE in bridge, or simply right click the file > open with... *Martin ... View more

How did you move AE to another drive? Keep it on C, get more space. *Martin ... View more

Thanks for the error message! GPU is out of RAM and cannot calculate the effect. You can go to file > project settings and disable GPU support as a first try. Which effects are you using around 1:26? ... View more

You can change the comp size just in the running project but it will mess you all your position animations slightly - so you have to re-check them. Smaller image sizes can be a solution, since your computer has very little RAM and huge images requires a lot of RAM. However, if the preview only renders in 1/4, you are lost. If it is not rendering in full res (regardless the time it needs to do it), you need a better computer to do the job and finding one for free is a question of luck. Try to render PNG sequence, you are save even if AE dies during it. There are also render farm out there which can handle AE projects. It's not that expensive. *Martin ... View more

For a quick and easy, use the puppet pin tool. Check out all available pins (there is position, scale, rotation, and someone to modify resistance) and play around until it fit your needs. The visual best outcome will be, if every bended side is an individual layer with rounded ends, then using simple anchor point moving and rotation animation as well as parenting if needed. For more advance animation, use DUIK IK. Placing the bend point to the homogeneously surface texture will make the bend neatless or close to it - depending on your effort. If no need for animation, do it in Photoshop or Illustator (but only if you know Illustrator). There is also the effect CC Bender, or Bend It or anything else with Bend. But they are limited to one bend only, so you have to trick around with masks and clever composition set up to make this work. *Martin ... View more

There is a preset folder within the AE installation path. If you copy this, you should have access to all the custom presets you've created. AE projects are just files, which you can copy/paste. No idea about the cloud thing. Never used this - but for sure you have to login into your old account and share the assets with your new account. *Martin ... View more

If this should be rendered on a different computer, you'll not just send the AE file via EMail, you'll have to provide all assets as well as used fonts, 3rd party effects, plugins and scripts. And what version of AE are you using? If this is a commercial project, nobody will render this for free - if this is a non-commercial project, you'll be lucky to find somebody rendering this for free. Because it's not "Just save it as...". Rendering could take up hours, even for such a short clip. Paid hours, if you are working with AE for a living. You'll should focus on what is going wrong, instead. You'll learn something and be able to get this next time. First, your computer is - roughly said - useless when it comes to AE. To weak, to less, no matter what. But you know this already, because you can't render. Lets focus on that. It doesn't matter if you use MediaEncoder or AE. Both use the same rendering engine. If AE fails, AME will fail, too. So skip this and focus on AE. Can you render the preview in full resolution? From you comp setting, you are working on 1/4 resolution, but what about full? Do you get any error message and what is it saying? If you don't get the full resolution preview to render, nothing else will render - no matter what format or codec. If preview is fine, try to render the comp as PNG sequence. If it fails, you can start from where it fails, or find the problematic part of your comp which might have effects causing the trouble. Is there a special reason for the missing 8px in comp-width? Standard HD is 1920x080px. *Martin ... View more

Keep us updated and good luck! ... As a different approach: that happens if you comment out line 9413 (just add // in front of it)? Does the error appear somewhere else in the script, does it run, but one button is missing (maybe not the most important one)? ... View more

Disk recovery is your only option by now - and don't even think of trying one of the free tools, paid tools or anything you find online somewhere. Don't try anything but going to a data recovery center with good reputation, pay the price and cross fingers. That's sadly the outcome of saving 100 bucks for a 2nd drive and 15 minutes time for setting up an auto-backup batch. Good luck - honestly! *Martin ... View more

I can approve that Bridge is behaving weird since the update - when I double click on an AI files, AE opens up instead of AI. ... View more

As last resort, you can search the whole computer for everything related to "duik", "duae", "duaef", and "du" just to be sure, and look if you find any image content in it. Have a close look at the date, or filesize - maybe you find something odd. Deleting everything you'll find could and starting over could also help. Is macOS Mojave 10.14.3 an up-to-date OS, or old but still supported? ... View more

Yes - maybe you should post in rainbox-forum. The DUIK guy is for sure very busy, but he also cares as I can read from the posts over there. ... View more

You are probably on the latest version already, or Adobe is shipping the update staggered. ... View more

I think there is no way to extent a path beyond it's anchor points - but I'm sure that there is a better way to achieve what you want. Can give us more details about that? ... View more

Why not making the line very long and then trimming it? Alternative: Shape layer rectangular with low height and huge width. You can control both very easy in the shape layer path property. It will work independent from any rotation. *Martin ... View more

The zoomlevel and comp display is weird. We got an update yesterday, you are on the latest version right now. The issue could be related to the update. Updated GPU drivers, consider a clean install of AE, clear cache and preferences as first steps of troubleshooting. *Martin ... View more

You are right! Have you tried to re-install AE. Maybe the fontfile is corrupt. *Martin ... View more

With the new update (16.1) you can change the font of expressions in the preferences menu. There is a new entry at the end of the list. If this isn't working, try to reset your preferences (there is a shortcut for it). *Martin ... View more

As far as I know, this is not possible. ... View more

There is an animation preset which do this - maybe combined with the typewriter-preset. It should cycle through numbers as well - isn't it? I had an expression which was similar - I think you need "fromCharCode(n)" where n is any ascii number you want - but it turns out very slow compered to the animation preset. *Martin ... View more

Can you please try one more thing: Switch back to the new JavaScript engine, shut down the computer and start it again. Check, if the problem still persist. Thanks! ... View more

Hi Jean, the previous engine was ExtendedScript, the new one is Javascript.  Now you are on the old engine, which is fine if it solves the issue. Which is interesting btw. - somebody in another forum run into the same issue. Can you please send in a bug report to Adobe? Maybe there is actual some going wrong in 16.1 for some users: Feature Request/Bug Report Form Thanks! ... View more

Are you serious? You open the CC client and update...  If you are running into any problem with the update, please open a new thread describing the issue. ... View more

Some suggestions: GPU drivers up to date? Have you tried a preference reset? Any possibility, that you mousebutton binding has changed from left to right? *Martin ... View more

Also, have you tried anything of this? "Unable to Execute Script" error message - Rainbox Forum or this? https://forum.rainboxprod.coop/viewtopic.php?t=397 *Martin ... View more

In addition to davidarbor​ make sure nothing is corrupted during "install": 1. check the box to give scripts access to network and files 2. download DUIK and put the DUIK script into ScriptsUI folder DUIK created external data on first run and if you just now checked the box, those files might not gets created ... just an idea. *Martin ... View more

The fractal noise in the video looks pretty static. Did you animate any of it's properties? If this is not appealing, you may create shape layers as rectangles, add a lot of blur and one of the distortion effects (try out which will work best), animate the distortion and maybe move the whole layer. Work with transparency and overlay the fog-shapes to each other. This is not fast done, but could turn out more realistic. *Martin ... View more

For Windows, you go to: C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects You'll find the folder 16.0 and 16.1. Go to 16.0 and find the folders ModifiedWorkspace and OriginalUserWorkspaces. Copy the files in there to the according folders in 16.1. *Martin ... View more