Hi
The draft 3d and motion blur boxes are not displayed on individual layers. This screenshot 
shows my software where it is only possible to click on a "general" box and this screenshot 
from a recent Youtube tutorial where they are displayed individually. Consequently it is not possible to display the X, Y and Z orientation options.
I am new to After Effects so I hope I am not missing the blindingly obvious. Any help would be much appreciated.
I have both the latest CC2015 and CC2017 installed. On opening After Effects 2017 gives two plugin errors:
1. After Effects error: couldn't find main entry point for PremiereProImport.plugin (48::72)
2. After Effects error: couldn't find main entry point for Moka.plugin (48:72)
Can't seem to find anything online or in these forums. Thanks for helping!
Hey all,
We are a 12 people team with the same setup:
Z640
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4620 v4
64 gb ram
System Pcie SSD ( read 1200mb Write 1800mb ) + cache ssd( 550mb both ways) both 512gb
Titan X pascal Or Quadro m5000
After effects 2017 14.2.1
Windows 10 pro
Dell 4k displays.
The issue is that while working on a project (doesn't matter what kind of project), it can be 10 sec or 30 min into working and then the ram preview stops working without any reason.
you press the Ram preview, it looks as if it loads it into memory and then it just doesn't play. in the info panel it say its playing real-time but it doesn't move from the current frame.
This issues keeps happening even after a purg all.
the only way to solve it is exiting after effects and reopening it.
Is it a bug ? any suggestions ?
I've been trying to use a separate SSD for cache, but every once in a while, after restarting my PC, the drive has a question mark on it and can not be used. I know it has to do with AE because it started just when I set it up as a cache drive.
I'm not sure how to test it further and couldn't find any info online. Any ideas?
Thanks!
I'm using the Core Start and Core End points to move this solid frame-by-frame over a video, and it was working fine, though I did something, not sure what, and now it seems to be doing something to transform the solid/shape on some of the frames (please see attached), sometimes when I drag on one of the Core Start or end points it is widening the rectangle. I want the shape to be a rectangle and not change. I only want to move the Core points to match the footage. In the attached image you can see the shape becomes wider at the top. What did I do, and how can I change the shape back on each frame as necessary to the way I like? Thank you in advance!
Thanks.
I'm using footage of a kid swinging a toy light saber around and I am simply trying to add a glowing solid on top of it, and map it the movement. I have been going frame-by-frame through the footage and simply moving the solid so that it covers the toy saber on each and every frame.
1. I am having some difficult seeing where to move the solid so it matches the toy underneath. What is the best way to handle this? Temporarily lower the opacity of the solid? If so, where do I do this?
2. As I adjust the the angle of the solid by dragging on either the top of bottom crosshair (not sure what it is called?) it changes the size of the light saber I am making. Is there a way to do what i am doing while keeping the size of the solid fixed so it can not get longer or shorter?
3. I spent a bit of time moving the solid on each frame so that it covers the toy, though when I go back and either scrub through the timeline or hit spacebar the solid is not moving along with the toy. What did I do wrong?
4. Is there an easier way of doing this instead of moving the solid on each and every frame?
Thanks for any help.
Hi everyone,
I am trying to use the clone stamp tool to remove some objects from my footage.
I click on the spot I want to clone from, while holding the option key at the same time.
Then I click and drag on the part I want to remove.
I can see the clone bar on the timeline. But how can I view the actual change?
There's no change, except for the clone path is shown on the layer viewer
I am a beginner, and I just learned these steps on the Internet. Did I miss something? Thanks.
latest version of after, macOS Sierra 10.12.5
Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013
8 ГБ 1600 MHz DDR3
what can i do?
I was looking around youtube to try and find a way to do rotoscoping seamlessly. Im trying to move a "hologram" ive made and while the camera is turning around the object. I still get camera blur and it looks like its not quite believable. I tried using AE Mocha to track instead of using a null object cause its easier. but I found out it doesn't track quite as well. Any tips, tricks, or any kinda tutorial to make it look like it was part of star wars or something?
Thanks.
I just don't understand this basic expression and why it's causing this result. I wanted to make a circle rotate properly along a path, like a ball rolling. I started to play around and when I pick whip my rotation to the separated position dimension of X and start adjusting the X position, it works, but why? All that is in the expression is "transform.xPosition" so I am not understanding where in that tiny expression that if the position moves the object should rotate equally. I feel like to do that would entail a much more extensive expression. Any help explaining this is greatly appreciated!
hello!
I need to export a motion graphic that i created for a client who is using Final Cut Pro but i am a PC user. i have never used Macs before and so am not sure what format and codec to export with to get optimal quality. i have heard that Prores4444 or Prores422 are good codecs to use but they don't appear in AE as an option (probably because i run PC).
My question boils down to 2 things:
1. What settings are optimal to get high quality files when exporting from AE to be used by a Mac/FCP user/client?
2. If Prores 4444 is the answer to my last question, how do i gain access to that codec on my PC?
i appreciate any advice and suggestions.
thanks.
On use two Nvidia Cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti with 11GB VRAM on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014). They have different CUDA compute level and different VRAM.
How I can force After Effects to use only my powerful GTX 1080 Ti?
Thanks for any advice!
I'm an Instagram editor who usually edits 5-10 second clips. My render time is usually never more that 20 minutes for an edit. I was recently having a problem with error 7 :: 66 that was resolved by me updating after effects cc 2017. The problem is after the update, my render time has gone from about 10-20 minutes for a 15 second clip to 10 hours. Only one second of the clip has been rendered and it's been over an hour already. Not only that, but I used to be able to do other things while a video was rendering, now my computer is extremely laggy and slow during a render. I always render in the best quality possible as a .avi file. I'd rather not decrease the quality since I used to be able to edit on the quality with no problems. How do I fix this issue without facing the past error that I had with rendering (7 :: 66)? I'm considering deleting after effects and then redownloading it but I don't know if that'll fix the problem and I don't want to stop the render if it won't fix it.
Hola, verán tengo un problema, estuve editando un video con after effects cc 2017, el problema es que estaba exportando con Adobe Media Encoder para tener el formato H.264, (ya que no viene por predeterminado en el after effects).
Estaba renderizando, pero mi compu se trabó, creo que no soporto el video, entonces hize un apagado forzado, creo que fue un gran error, ya que al volver a encender la compu, y tratar de abrir el proyecto de nuevo, me aparece:
Advertencia de after effects: No se puede importar el archivo como proyecto (formato incorrecto o no legible)
No se como resolver esto, por favor ayuda!
PD: No se si sirva de ayuda, pero al momento de importar el archivo, noté que no aparece el formato para importar 
En la primera foto traté de abrir otro archivo para ver si era el único archivo que no me dejaba abrir. En la segunda foto es el video que estaba renderizando
Heya all,
if there are artist who have an after effects key and want to exchange it for a flash cs5 key,
please respond.
i would love to exchange.
kind regards.
Oz
So, I'm very new to After Effects (just started CC free trial a few days ago) and I'd like to think I've got the hang of it fairly quickly with tutorials and experimentation, but I'm running into an annoying problem in one of my test projects. I have a Particle World attached to a null object, and the animation for emitter position, gravity, etc will not update! I've looked around for a couple hours trying to find a solution to no avail...
It's simple footage of me waving my hand around and I want magic dust to follow it and then start falling quickly at a certain point, so I have the emitter's position linked to a null object that follows the path of my hand, and the transform position linked to another null object that tracks camera movement (so the trail moves with the rest of the purposefully shaky footage), and the gravity animated such that it stays at 0 until I want it to fall. This works fine when I first create an animation, but if I want to change anything it won't update in the preview window despite the numbers giving me correct information -- and the weird thing is that if I adjust the position path of the null object following my hand it'll work with the first few keyframes but not beyond those; that is, the path will update (including the lens flare object that's also parented to it) but not the particles. I've tried reloading the project and I've heard that clearing the cache works but I'd rather not do that every time I update something... If I disable animation and change the value it works fine but as soon as I re-enable it it goes right back to how it was.
If it helps anything, I'm mostly following this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81oz2rtAtYk for the effect.
Sorry for the newbie yet seemingly complicated problem... Any suggestions?
I have a question about AE.
I'm trying to make a Youtube Intro.
The intro is supposed to look like this: FREE Energy Burst Intro Template! - YouTube. It also came with backgrounds I was supposed to add.
I have this: Intro Test - YouTube (With my username in there.) Notice how it is zoomed out and there is a small box around the intro in the first second in the video.
I exported a PNG Sequence from Cinema 4D, added the backgrounds, and came up with that.^^^ (My Youtube Video.)
My question: The thing is, the backgrounds expanded out of that box, and now my intro is zoomed out. How do I fix the backgrounds so they stay inside that "box" that you see in my intro test?
I can provide an individual frame if you'd like. Let me know. Thanks!
I'm using After Effects CC 2017 and Cinema 4D Version R18.048.
-Yoshi24517
After upgrading from 2015.3 to 2017 I noticed a consistent and annoying behavior. When adjusting values for different effects, there is a noticeable "lag" from .5 sec to as long as 10 seconds at times where the mouse freezes, the processor spikes (not maxes but something is happening) and then it reverts to normal. Previews all run fairly fluid and it only seems to be a problem when adjusting effects values. This happens on third party or included plugins (levels) for example.
I noticed the worst scenario was when I had VMWare 12.5.1 installed on the system, it would cause a solid 10 sec gap between adjustments, reverting back to a time when it wasn't installed, I still get the lag, but it's more tolerable at less than a second. It's enough to interrupt my workflow though. Also, when I open a project and make the first adjustment, the lag is almost imperceptible, but all adjustments afterwards the lag is present. Strange.
Also, when closing AE, I notice the mouse is very laggy when moving around the screen as if something is really bogging it down in the background, then once AE completely exists, everything is fine. This is the only software that causes this issue and 2015.3 doesn't have it either.
SYSTEM:
W7x64, 6800k OC 3.8, 64GB 2400 RAM (Quad channel), 950 Pro m.2 nvme, GTX 1070 (enabled), 950 Pro OS, 850 Pro Scratch Disk, Asrock Taichi MB
Rapid store on disk cache SSD Drive, Intel Turbo boost 3.0 enabled, Pagefile 16GB.
EFFECTS:
Effects used are Red Giant suites (all updated for 2017)
Sapphire
Plexus 3
I'm just asking if anyone else notices this behavior so I can help narrow down the cause or if it's another Adobe bug.
I am editing a feature length film shot in SD and I want to output in HD. I have almost finished but when I take my whole film to AE to upscale to HD I lose all the transitions. I tried exporting scene by scene but I find that only the "visible" part gets sent across so when it comes back there is no overlap for the cross dissolve to work.
Clearly I am doing something wrong. The only thing I can think of is to individually convert all my clips to HD and import them back .. but that would take days .. any better suggestions?
Thanks
Hi,
My daughter used a trail version of After Effects for her school work and every things was fine. Last night we upgraded to a licensed single app version and every time we try and open it we get the error message "Adobe After Effects cc 2017.2 has stopped working" and we can't even get the thing started.
Any suggestions?
Mark