Is the output-file bad, or is it bad after you uploaded the clip to fb? Can you provide a screenshot of the final clip and also a screenshot of your detailed render settings in Media Encoder? I always render H.264 with 10MBit for youtube and online and the result is quiet good. Cheers, *Martin ... View more

This is not a bug. After Effects is not meant to playback anything in realtime. It's not an editing software, but an composer. You can use the preview for real-time playback but it's performance highly depends on your machine, your footage and your composition. Cheers, Martin ... View more

I recommend using an shape layer. You can create a path with the pen tool like the first graph. Set color and thickness. Then you animated the path and color. Move all path-points to the second graph and change color. If you want the dots as well, you can create them manually and animate then manually. Unfortunately you can't connect pathpoints to layers, and vice versa. An easier way would be the script "Connect Layers" (Connect Layers - aescripts + aeplugins - aescripts.com ). Create the dots with shape layers, connect them with the script and then animate the dots and their colors and the colors of the newly created shape layers (the lines). But the lines between the dots will be linear, without that bit of ease like in your example-graph. Maybe somebody knows an better option. Cheers, Martin ... View more

Thank you for sharing this tutorial, Ruan! In an addition, alternating textures will give a more realistic cut-out-feeling. Like if you have different sheets of paper cutouts. Just drop some textures in an comp, let every texture display for maybe 1 second and then use this comp as texture overlay to your assets. You can also wiggle() every asset, so they are not aligned perfectly frame by frame. PosterizeTime() will give a nice stop-motion-effect to the wiggle(). And last, you can also reshape all assets every frame (or every 15 frames, or whatever) with one of the deform-effects. Cheers, Martin ... View more

Die AEGPUSniffer.exe ist unter C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2017\Support Files zu finden. Sieht aus wie ein Diagnose Tool. Na ja, Problem gelöst irgendwie. Cheers, Martin ... View more

Hallo Eva, läuft der Rechner sonst normal? Schau doch mal in das Fehlerprotokoll von Windows: - Windowstaste drücken - "Ereignissanzeige" eintippen (ohne Anführungszeichen) - Enter - ein neues Fenster öffnet sich, dass der übersichthalber auf Vollbild bringen - zur Linken ist dort eine Spalte: "Benutzerdefinierte Ansichten" und dann "Administrative Ereignisse" auswählen. - In der Liste nach Datum und Uhrzeit suchen, als der Rechner das letzte Mal mit After Effects festgefahren ist. Vielleicht findest Du da ein paar Anhaltspunkte. Cheers, Martin ... View more

A SSD outperforms a HDD in any scenario by large scale! Especially when it comes to random read/write of small files. AE cache files are around 8MB (version 14.2.1). Putting this files on a SSD will speed up your workflow. Due to lates real-life tests, Samsung 850Pro SSDs last for at least 2,2 PB, up to 9,1PB (SSD-Langzeittest beendet: Exitus bei 9,1 Petabyte | heise online ). So I wouldn't worry much about lifetime, when you use a SSD as cache drive. Also keep in mind, that the cache drive don't hold any critical data. When it dies, simply replace it. Prices are constantly falling. No big deal. In my setup, I have 1 SSD for system and applications, 1 SSD for cache and 1 NAS for project files. I only use Samsung 850 Pro SSDs. We have a newly build workstation at work, where we got 1 SSD for system and applications, 1 M.2 SSD for cache and again the NAS for project files. Again, all Samsung 850 Pro (M.2 is EVO due to availability). Reading and writing speeds are very high, around 400MB/s for SSDs, and above 1GB/s for M.2. To give you a clear answer to your question: No, it's not OK to put System, Applications and AE Cache on the same drive. Keep in mind, that AE cache will let your drive die faster (even if it took a long time), prepare for that case by separating critical data with none critical ones. It doesn't really matter, where your project files are stored. This will only affect the time it needs to be loaded into RAM. When you have an additional SSD, than use this one for cache, even if it's external. Cheers, Martin ... View more

... and please note, that you can only update floating windows, not dockable panels. .update is a window only function. (sadly!) But you can launch a window, while your loop is running, which as a progess bar. Cheers, Martin ... View more

Hello Amit, what you really need is RAM, lots of it! I'll recommend at least 32 GB for a decent system. The next thing you need are high clocked cores. I think the i7 7700 will work well. I would take the "k" version which clocks at 4,2GHz and only costs a bit more. If you have money to spend, go with a 6 or 8 core cpu. Depending on what you are going to do in After Effects, the graphic card is more or less useful. I'm doing a lot motion design with Illustrator files and After Effects hardly use my graphic card. I only have a GTX 760 and it's most of the time in idle. I also recommend a SSD or even M.2 HDD for diskcache. Cheers, Martin ... View more

You can set up a second computer rendering the same comp. You must render the comp as PNG or TIFF or something like that and toggle the option to skip existing files. Your destination folder muss be accessible for both computers. Also, you can set different rendering-ranges on both computers, but the first way is easier to do. There is a plugin "BG Renderer" which will come in handy for this rendering workflow and I am also working on a render manager plugin for After Effects, which will come with a couple of useful features like parallelization, rendering presets and pipeline workflows. (But I guess I need till next year for a release - if you are interested you can write me an email at dev@vogelmoritz.de and I will notify you as soon as I have something). Cheers, Martin ... View more

It's german, but the settings should be identical: ... View more

Same here. Everybody with this error should report the bug - than maybe they'll fix it: Feature Request/Bug Report Form ... View more

I simple drag the main-comp beneath the pre-comp. So I see two comps open on my screen. Than I go to the beat, or audio-point on the maincomp and have the playhead at its right position in the pre-comp. Every pre-comp can start at 0, which is quiet useful for some effects. Cheers, Martin ... View more

Yes, Fusion is awesome and fast! Re-installing After Effects may solve the problem... maybe re-installing your whole machine... haha. No, go with Fusion ... View more

Hello Avauri, thank you for the footage! Unfortunately I can't recreate the error on my machine. I've used your project and your last renderqueue settings, the outputfile is as it should be. When I open your project on my machine, After Effects alerts that this project was last used with OpenCL Mercury acceleration, which is not present on my computer (I'm using NVidia and Cuda). So this could be a clue for your error. You may update your graphiccard drivers. After Effects hardly use GPU for rendering as far as I know, but give this a try. Hope this helps! ... View more

Thank you. Can you may provide the footage, too? ... View more

Use Google Drive, or Dropbox or something like that. ... View more

What is your export format? I recognized rendering issues with CC2017 and using PNG-Sequenzen helps from time to time. For a closer look at the issue, more information are needed. Maybe you can upload the project? ... View more

Clearing all caches may help. Otherwise, which effects are applied to that image? You can also try to save the project to the old cc13 format and render it in CC2015. ... View more

Size depends on the codec your are rendering to. Such huge files aren't unusual, if you are rendering to uncompressed avi, for example. ... View more

Hello guys! I've tried to set up something like an easy mailing list, but it doesn't seem to work. I'm very busy right now, so the easiest way to get informed about the rendermanger-project is to write a mail to dev@vogelmoritz.de. I won't spam you, just need your mail-addresses so I can send out a notification as soon as early states are passed. I'll try my best to make this happen as soon as possible, but I can only code in my freetime, which is very less right now. Meh. If things took too long, I'll release a very basic early version, which should already speed up rendering, but will missing a lot of planed features. Cheers, Martin ... View more

I've written a render manager which can load up the computer to 100% by using parallelization - but it's still in beta. Keep your eyes open, I'll announce it once it's final. Cheers, Martin ... View more