the program suddenly crash with this message. what exact version of Ae are you using? you should be using 11.0.4 so first make sure your software is up to date. what happens when you re-open your software? does it crash every time you try to puppet pin your character? share a screenshot of your full Ae interface so we may examine your setup and source file and try to provide more information in that regard. ... View more

try this first: Reset After Effects Preferences if this still does not work try to isolate your problem: does it happen when creating a solid? does it happen with another file or different type of file? ... View more

I've reset and rebooted you were better off resetting your Ae preferences than your Computer. Reset After Effects Preferences my guess would be is that your character panel is messed up. something like this with a thick stroke same color as the fill : press the panel options and reset your character panel after reset now get back to work ... View more

sorry, I guess I have missed it. I actually read all the thread but there are many posts and missed yours or maybe I read it but failed to connect it to your user name.  I even refreshed my memory with a few tutorials to see what exactly does the workflow entail. thank you for describing again. excuse me if you already know this but it's worth trying so bare with me. I really want to understand what paint can't achieve with a few tweaks instead of VP Basically a paint recorder, where one draws in the comp (and not layer) window, I have seen this come up in this thread and failed to understand how painting in the layer window is such a problem. I know it is essential to see your brush strokes in context of what you are stroking on but why not paint with the paint brush on the actual pixel layer i.e if it's a doodle or some image - why not just paint on it in its layer window? if it's to reveal some pixels, my workflow would be to paint on it then duplicate the layer and use the paint check box to "on transparent" and this will be my alpha matte for my pixel layer. REAL time, (no going down to TL fixing brush stroke lengths,) If you set it to write-on then it will paint in real-time. you also get key-frames if you want to manually adjust it so the playback speed will be determined by the keyframes distance. you actually have much more control than using a sequential/simultaneously stroke because you can control each stroke in its mini layer right in the timeline. you can set the brush layers to start at the same time or right after the other, or even create an overlapping reveal. If you want sequential strokes then as soon as you stop painting, you press u and advance to the next keyframe and draw the next stroke - this will give you the next brush stroke right after and the result will be a sequential stroke. you also wrote this: Have tried workarounds from Ai to AE, but again not the same, if AE could only get a "fill paths sequentially" option like the stroke fx does. on a previous thread you wrote this: just copy paste from Ai to an AE layer which arrives as multiple masks, and then with either stroke sequential masks if you want to use your Ai paths to be revealed in Ae, it's actually much easier to bring it as and Ai layer and use the "create shapes from vector layer" and now you can simply add a trim path operator- set it to trim individually.  you can even use the beautiful wiggle path operator to get some realistic path wiggle. thoughts? ... View more

I don't think it's coming back. I remember using it a long time ago and enjoying it too. can you specify exactly what are you trying to accomplish and your exact workflow scenario so we may offer a workaround if possible? ... View more

if you want to use the native motion blur you need to make sure of 2 things: 1. that you set the motion blur switch for the layer 2. that you set the master switch for the composition if you see your modes column instead of your switches column, click here: if you can't see any of them click here: you can also add them manually by right clicking ot the columns header Native Motion blur switch applies only to a change between transformation properties (with the exception of opacity). meaning if there are keyframes to position, rotation, scale or anchor point , you will see a directional blur of the layer according the its movement. the intensity of the motion blur will be determined by the speed of your layer (determined by a factor of a change in space and time) and with accordance to the advanced composition settings. for example - a higher number to the shutter angle will increase the blur. more information here: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/assorted-animation-tools.html#motion_blur Native Motion blur is NOT related to the Pixel Motion Blur effect which is an effect to create motion blur to CGI or Video footage. more about it here: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/time-effects.html#PixelMotionBlurCC ... View more

thanks for the update! ... View more

it´s a hustle to close after effect open ame  go back and so on just to be clear - you don't need to close Ae to open AME or Encode in AME. you can if you want (it will still work in the background). I understand. it's certainly not as straight forward as it used to be. you try to explain to students that use the software for the first time that they should export through AME and the gotchas that are in Add to AME Queue vs Queue in AME. and the time it takes to open AME for the first time. and the long wait for it to appear sometimes in the Queue.... NOT FUN!. having said that, once AME is open, it's a pretty fast process. you can work in Ae, send your comps to AME and with the new Queue in AME the workflow between Ae to AME has gotten a lot better. this is from a guy that kept using CC 2013 for 2 years not upgrading the software, and did not use CC2014 at all! all because of the H.264 thing and much because the blue interface. but I have gotten over it. truly. it's better now. you should save Ae rendering for the production codecs you need to export, and AME for the encoded ones. the reason the encoding was out of Ae is so they could focus on what it's truly for - Animation and Compositing. not Encoding. more info here: using Adobe Media Encoder to create H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV videos from After Effects | Creative Cloud blog by Adobe ... View more

Unfortunately Op never came back so we will never know what was the issue. you should work with the presets (that has 2 Artboards and this is a good thing). even if you are not, make sure you prepare your Ai file prior to importing it to Ae. Preparing and importing still images in After Effects ... View more

I tried to render it with Lossless AVI too. why? here watch this video: Exporting from After Effects with the Adobe Media encoder here's another one I made with a bit in depth information: ... View more

Rick's advice is golden - firstly you should encode your composition with the proper rendering workflow. if you are looking to create a video to post online or for playback purposes you should use the common H.264 unless you know otherwise by the technical specification you were given on the receiving end. this could or could not be related to how long it takes for you to render, that as said before relates to what exactly you got going on there (effects mostly). you can make a 10 seconds composition take 2 years if you set it up wrong. guess you should read again the links I provided earlier. ... View more

It's taking around 20 minutes for 9 seconds video what are your output settings in the render queue. what are your format and format options. this could be o.k for what you have there.  we can't see much out of this. this was supposed to give us an idea on what you got in there. if there's only one layer visible and the other are in precomps and not visible we can't tell. what effects are you using? when you render notice that you got a twirl down arrows - open them up and see where's the hold up. ... View more

it but doesn't work what doesn't work? what are you expecting exactly? if it's smaller file sizes - you file size is o.k and suits a lossless compression, if it's the render time - that really depends on what you got inside your composition. you should provide: 1. workflow details (what are your output settings fo the render) 2. a clear view of your composition (screenshot of your Ae interface) 3. specify in numbers what is happening ("it takes 3 hours to render 10 seconds" for example) so we can know what is the problem 4. you should specify the Ae version and OS exact numbers in any case where this could be a compatibility or bug issue so far we have not demonstrated that there's even a problem. ... View more

I am trying to render 9 seconds video in Quicktime(.mov). It's taking too long and around size of 1.7 GB. what is too long? 1.7gb for a 10 second video sounds about right for a lossless compression. have you read this? FAQ: Why is my output file huge, and why doesn't it play back smoothly in a media player? FAQ: What is the best format for rendering and exporting from After Effects? ... View more

I called Adobe before upgrading to Sierra and they told me Adobe products where compatible with the new macOS. interesting. this Os is not listed in the system requirements page, and I haven't found any official report that Sierra is fully supported. though it is obscure there is no official statement. List of compatibility issues with Adobe Creative Cloud products running on macOS 10.12 (Sierra)... ... View more

I found this article to be very useful: http://www.provideocoalition.com/flicker-removal/ after reading it and a bit of testing, I found GBDeflicker the most useful for my needs. ... View more

8 Ram is quite the minimum but this should not take too much toll on your render times, just previews. slow is relative - what do you have there? what effects? resolution? need more information here. also 3 minuets or 5 minutes is a long duration for after effects. see here for system requirements for after effects: After Effects System Requirements for Mac OS and Windows ... View more

Hi everyone I have Adobe After Effects cc 2015 I make a video about 5 minutes long or 3 minutes long without effects It takes a very long time, about 6 to 8 hours and sometimes more and the video size it's 55.4 GB you should first start by reading this: FAQ: Why is my output file huge, and why doesn't it play back smoothly in a media player? even if i change the format to QuickTime or H.264 still the same Don't do that. use Adobe Media encoder. ... View more

Thank you for sharing. ... View more

Interesting. My experience showed me the opposite but I am on Win 7 with 24" monitor ... View more

you might what to check here: After Effects Scripting  instead of the general forum ... View more

just remember 2 main things need to happen for you to see the track points: 1. the effect has to be highlighted. 2. you layer controls need to be ON if you are experiencing something different, please provide a similar screenshot and we will figure it out. ... View more

I'm using QuickTime (H.264) in the rendering settings, Don't. you should encode your file with an encoding software like Adobe Media Encoder. read this: using Adobe Media Encoder to create H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV videos from After Effects | Creative Cloud blog by Adobe and this: Basics of rendering and exporting in After Effects CC watch this: ... View more

you should know this Os is not supported yet and Ae currently has bugs a plenty with it. this could be your problem. more about problems with Os 10.12 here: Re: Renaming Comps is acting weird you could submit a bug report here: http://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html ... View more

Hello I have been using After effects 2015.3. make sure its 13.8.1 After that I moved the puppet tool the program crashes and shut my computer down. this could be many things. let's try the obvious: clear the cache from preferences -> media&disk cache - both options reset your preferences by clicking Ctrl+Alt+Shift right after you launch the App. you will get a window to reset your preference - click O.K. this could be a GPU driver issue. what is yours? I would check and see that it's updated. if anything of this worked please update the thread. ... View more

I would suggest you try to ask here: After Effects Scripting ... View more

you should also look here: Recommended upload encoding settings - YouTube Help . the bit rate recommendations are actually lower than AME. I use the AME youtube preset too. I sometimes would make it a bit higher. if there is a specific issue with your video you could show it to us. before and after. ... View more

for the geeks among you that are interested in the specifics like me: opacity or blend mode changes to any object in your illustrator file will cause the "create shapes from vector layer" feature to any of the layers to behave in the following manner: your shape layer will have an additional group in the shape hierarchy that will contain paths that constitute your Ai artboard and another merge paths operation. and it's very annoying it could look like something like this if you work in an HD Preset. BTW HD preset gives you 2 artboards.. it's actually a good thing:Re: AI (illustrator) layers not showing up in AE (after effects) CC 2014 ) here is the shape hierarchy comparison of Layer 1 that is normal and Layer 2 that has 50% opacity: as you can see the artboard is here as a group with 3 paths and there is an additional merge path operation to the content of the shape. What to do? if it's after the fact: you can just manually delete the group and the merge path from your shapes, or remove the blend mode / opacity from the layers in Ai (or set them to 100%/set them to normal) which is what Ae is going to do anyway, save the file again, and create shapes from vector layer again. before the fact - proper workflow:  it is already known that opacity and blend mode (and not only them) don't translate to a corresponding shape anyway, so this makes this an easy workflow decision: if you do plan to convert to shapes, prior to importing to Ae - set your blend modes to normal and opacity to 100% if it's not. there's also this script: Explode Shape Layers 3 - aescripts + aeplugins - aescripts.com that is very handy for dealing with the whole conversion of Ai to shapes and it has the "Remove Artboard" feature. this from the script description: If any of your Illustrator layers have non-100% opacity or go outside of the frame, you've probably noticed that converting brings in an empty artboard artifact that gets in the way. No more! Remove it with Remove Artboard. ... View more