as the title says…. how do i add a swatch library to after effects in creative cloud? i don't want to have to eye drop colors here and there, i want to keep a collection of my clients colorways. i saw the swatch script from video hive. is that good? does that only work with the said website? is there a way to customize color in that script?
thank you in advanced!
Hi Community,
I ran into a problem using the Particle Systems II Effect in After Effects CC v2017
I have a 2D jpeg as a layer, and I've been trying to add a layer of particles (to look like floating dust) on top. However, when I use the Particle Systems II Effect, I run into this problem:
I followed this youtube tutorial (Dust Particles Effect in After Effects - YouTube) step by step, so I what I did was create the solid color (black) layer, then made an adjustment layer, added the Particle Systems II Effect to the adjustment layer, and tailored it to what I wanted it to look like. But when I select the adjustment layer, then go to Layer>Pre-Compose>Move All Attributes to New Composition, the result is the effect disappears, and all that shows is the solid layer. What am I doing wrong here? I'm just trying to get this effect to overlay another layer. Please help me.
When I want to duplicate a comp and move it to another folder, it appears that dragging it is the only option?
Currently I either duplicate (ctrl-d) and drag to the new destination folder, or copy and paste, which results in the item getting pasted outside of any folders at the base level. both of these options are extremely counter-productive when working on large projects.
I really hope there is a simple method which must have passed me by for pasting to currently selected folder?
When working with multiple comps, After Effects remembers the zoom and the offset of the composition view for each comp.
I would like to know if its possible to disable this, or at least if there is a way to center/reset the composition view to a default position and scale.
I know there is the snapshot button, to compare between comps, but I find it too slow, and inconvenient when comparing more than 2 different compositions.
If you are not sure what I mean, here is an example of the composition view remembering the offset:
Hi,
Hope someone can help me with something, I am working on a project were I need to find out the duration in seconds and frames of multiple compositions within a project. Obviously, I can display this in the Project Panel at take the data from there but I need to enter it into an excel spreadsheet. Is there a way of getting this information in the form of a .txt file or .csv file so I can just copy and paste the information?
Any help would save me A LOT of time!
James
All the other applications updated just fine. This is what I get when I try to open AE.
I've uninstalled/restarted/reinstalled and still has the same problem. Can't seem to find an answer anywhere. Please help?
Since I updated after effects in January I have had this issue. When I try to launch after effects the only thing that comes on screen is an empty error box. I have looked around the forums ever since but I have had no luck trying any of the posted answers. Renaming/deleting adobe folders in documents and appdata does nothing. completely removing aftereffects with a cleanup tool, updating graphics drivers and so on makes no difference. One thing I noticed was that when I tried logging on to my personal adobe account and installing after effects as trial it all seemed to work fine, but as soon as I log on to my school account and the program license is validated it stops working right away.
This is what the error message looks like and in the task manager you can see that the error box is the ONLY thing running under after effects.
Also when closed, nothing else happens except for the regular startup error message "After Effects can't continue. unexpected failure during application startup".
I'm on an Asus NJ550:
CPU: intel core i7-4710HQ 2x2.5GHz
GPU: Nvidia 860M (latest drivers)
RAM: 8GB DDR3
OS: Windows 10 Home
Everything else works just fine, including all other Adobe Software.
I have an image of a lion with alpha channel, and a paw-print. I want to create an outline of the lion using paw-prints, and animate it so the paw-prints slowly build up the outline.
I used to use Apple Motion, and to achieve this effect I'd just use a stroke with a custom brush (i.e. the paw-print) and keyframe the endpoint of the stroke, but I can't find any way to create custom brushes in AE.
Any help gratefully received!
whenever i do something in my composition my AE freezes for like 5-10 minutes (it shows a wide fade my cursor turns into a blue circle thats loading and it says that ae is not responding.) doesnt matter what i do ( add an effect on a layer, disable a clip etc) it does the same thing. it only started like 2 days ago. why. i have a decent pc with 8gb ram. and no i dont have a lot of layers on my composition ( only cc, rsmb and one more effect). can someone help/? thanks
Anyone else having trouble with the more recent 2017 update causing after effects to move at a snails pace to make the AME file? I mean like 4+ minutes to make the file. My main .aep is 33 MB but thats because there are a lot of vecotors and imported illustrator files. there is only one photo texture used and thats only 700 kbs.
Hello everyone.
I was trying to apply a TURN PAGE effect to a mask, but I had a problem related to the affected area. I need the effect works only with the masked area, not the full image.
Any clue?
Thank you all in advance.
For the past few weeks I've had the most annoying script error when trying to open a file (often times a file that I had open just minutes before)!
Which causes a crash of course, and then the next Ae start I get this very helpful error message:
The only way I've been able to get around it has been to have start a new file and import. But the constant versioning up of the files... My folders are a huge mess! That loop will continue as long as I'm trying to open the file after I see that error. And it's happened on many different files, some 3D composites other 2D simple animations.
Anyway to figure out what this error actually is?
Hi there!
I have used Mocha several times over the last two years for simple tracking, but now I have come across a severe problem;
I load my footage into AE, import it to Mocha and create splines, planar grid and surface. But no matter what I do, it won't let me track one single frame! The track buttons are frozen and won't react when I click them.
There's nothing wrong with the preferences, I have went through this process numerous times now, used different clips, restarted the program and did everything I could think of to make it work.
Anyone got some help?
Greetings!
After Effects error: Crash in progress. Last Logged message was: <3884> <BEE_WORKQueue> <5> BEE_Project::timestampGeNext ZANZIBAR-3: cannot produce timestamp, frozen=0, open=0
What does this mean and how can I fix it?
Hello there. I'm working on a project in which I am animating a highway filled with cars. (For your convenience, I have included a style frame. You'll notice the cars are on the left side of the rode because my client is British.) Besides animating each car individually, is there a more economic way of populating the highway with flowing traffic? I welcome your ideas. Thank you.
Scenario:
I have all my videos arranged on a Premiere CC timeline exactly as I'd like them. However, I need to add After Effects CC animations (Text and shapes) over said clips / timeline.
Problem:
I need to do this without "replacing" my Premiere timeline with an After Effects comp. After Effects becomes too laggy and half the clips never fully load. I also cannot simply create the animations in After Effects and then import into Premiere because I need all of the Premiere clips for visual reference to build the animations in the first place. I need both in After Effects Simultaneously.
Is there a way to add a live PROXY of my Premiere timeline into After Effects via Dynamic Link? It seems my only options via Dynamic Link are to ACTUALLY import all associated clips, etc into AE.
Temp workaround:
Render out a low quality version of my Premiere timeline and import into After Effects as a single element for visual reference, build animations, import said animation comp into Premiere and drop on top of the original clips / timeline. Everything lines up, etc.
But that seems inefficient, no? Any time I need to make even a tiny adjustment to my Premiere timeline, I'll have to re-render through Premiere, re-import into After Effects, adjust animations, rinse repeat, rinse repeat.
Again, I just need a visual reference of my Premiere timeline inside After Effects that can reflect any updates I make via Premiere. Is there a better way to do this?
So I don't know what's going on, I've tried everything I could find on Google and this forum and nothing seems to solve the issue.
I have Cinema 4D Student Version. In a C4D file I have something that pops in while rotating, with four simple materials. This file in C4D takes about one or two seconds per frame to render, which is not so fast, but it is pretty decent. Then I drag-and-dropped the file into the project I'm working on in After Effects, created a new comp and dropped the C4D file there. First thing I noticed is that I can't see anything on the viewport. I left the computer alone for about an hour because I had to do something else, and when I came back, the preview was rendered in Ae as I expected. Then I tried to start working on it, adding a solid layer to that comp just to begin, and the progress bar below the viewport starts going on as if it was loading a complex preview. I left the computer for about ten minutes and when I came back it was still loading. Then I thought restarting the computer may solve the issue. That time, when I opened the project on Ae, I got an error I googled and found out it could be solved by running Ae as admin. I did that, and in fact the error didn't show again, but still no preview.
In order to discard variables, I created a new project in Ae, because the one I was working on was becoming a bit heavy, dropped the same C4D file and nothing. Then, in a new C4D file, I created a simple cube with no materials, just like C4D creates it by default when clicking the cube icon, dropped that file into Ae, and again, NO preview. In fact, the whole time I've been typing this words, Ae's been running and is still "thinking" the preview for that simple cube.
Task manager shows an average CPU use of 50% for "Adobe After Effects CC 2017.1" and about 40% for "CineRenderAe", the total CPU use averages 98%. There's about 45% RAM still available. Even though it is definitively not a high end PC (2.66 GHz processor and 6 GB of RAM) I don't get why something that is a matter of seconds in C4D lasts about an hour in Ae with Cineware.
Some suggested solutions I've found and tried are running Ae as an admin, purging caches, and changing the TCP port in Cineware options (since this one didn't work, I turned it back to the default port). And still, no preview.
Thanks to anyone who may help me to find what's going on.
EDIT: Forgot to point out the versions I'm working with: Cinema 4D Studio R17.053 STUDENT (Build RB166656). After Effects 2017.1 14.1.0.57
It happens to me when I open AE.
I've got an i5 6600K, GTX 970 and Windows 10 x64 (Spanish)
Hi guys, i'm trying to find a solution for this problem, and i hope here someone can help me! I'm using after effects from some days, i have the need to use the rotobrush function becacuse i want to change the background to a object in a video ( A panda, and almost he does not move). Now, i would like to use this function for do this and other similar operations in the future, always with pandas, the video with the panda is taken from youtube, so in mp4 container but with this codec
This media info is for a portion of the video, cut and exported with a mobile video editor. The original downloaded video from you tube have this media info and same problem....
The original video is in 1080p, i have 8 gb of ram, and when i check frame by frame for any errors with pag down and up, as I go forward, and this bar go up
My ram is filled and this slow down the whole program, causing various problems. often the bar is reset, etc. The only way is to reduce the resolution of the image
in this menu
but if i do this, to the half resolution of 1280x720 (i tried the same video in 720p) or one third, for 1080p video, the image is very low resolution and it's hard to use properly rotobrush function and i don't know if this affect the auto detection of the borders from the software for the base frame. So this is a problem of the codec used or is the preview in ram that neeed so much ram ? If is a codec's fault, i can improve the situation converting the video to another codec ? There is something that i can do o i should use 480p files and stick with them ? For now i can't add more memory to my pc, in the future i will, of course, but i don't know when. Please if it's possible to do something to improve the situation i would very glad to know it! Thanks!
(I've had little sleep the last few weeks so I'm a little loopy - hooray grad school! - AND I'm reasonably new to After Effects so please bear with me.)
I'm trying to import a vector logo into my project (import + drag and drop), and of course it's massive.
So I scale it down and it's super pixelated...
And many of the "fixes" I've found is to click "Continuous Rasterization" but... there's no option to toggle it.
I've used this exact same file in another project before without issue, so I'm not sure where the pixelation is coming from. I've imported other vectors to see if it was the file, but every test image has also come up pixelated.
It's the last six seconds I need to finish of a project that has already consumed so much of my time, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!