After Effects not recognizing Red Rocket?
Hi everyone, I'm having serious troubles with a Red Rocket in AE CS6. Nothing I have done will get AE to recognize the rocket. Premiere seems to recognize it and use it just fine. The card is...
View ArticleError when using aerender
I am getting this error randomly when using After Effects with our render farm. We use Deadline as our render manager Exception during render: An error occurred in RenderTasks(): aerender Error: After...
View ArticleAxis Mode Bug
Hello, Just recently I noticed that after switching my axis mode, I can no longer single out a particular axis. Example: Create solidMake 3DRotate on Y-axis any amountswitch to world axis modeswitch...
View ArticleWhy some layers are missing in After Effect CS5 when I imported PDF which...
Cannot figure it out, Please help!!
View ArticleUnable to start Audio Playback?
Hello everyone, I have installed After Effects CS6 in a Mac running 10.6.8(Snow Leopard) with 4 GB ram and have installed all the updates of After Effects. Whenever I try to get the audio output, i...
View ArticleSway 3D object on Z-axis using slider?
Hi there,I have multiple objects (side by side) which I would like to sway on the z-axis as if the wind is blowing them. I already have their anchor points at the top of each object. I have a few...
View ArticleMaking a certain effect: Double Vision? (Not sure what to call it...)
I am trying to make an effect in AE and I need help. I want to make that effect that you see often in film, usually when someone is on drugs or drunk. I am not very good at describing it, but I will...
View ArticleScaling anomolies on render that aren't appearing in timeline
Hi,Just preparing a live job for client preview tomorrow and AE has thrown me a curve ball. I have an object that scales from about 200% down to about 70% and it changes position at the same time. On a...
View Articleproxies
Using a proxy is a great help. But i ran into a problem of Premiere using the low-res proxy in the final render of my project. I assumed Premiere, or After Effects, would have the brains to not use...
View ArticleAfter Effects CS6 will no longer load past Splash Screen
Recently been using AE CS6 more frequently. Used it today for about 3-4 hours. Restarted my computer when it started to get slow to free up space from temp/cache files. Now AE does not load past the...
View ArticleStroke mask sequentially...with time intervals
Dear all, I recently learnt how to use the stroke effect, for example to give the impression a logo is being drawn. I usually stroke all the mask sequentially but I was wondering: is there a way to put...
View ArticlePoint Light and Glow not working
I have ran into a strange issue recently. For some reason, certain built in features aren't working for my CS6 AE. When I try and use a point light or the glow effect nothing happens. No matter how...
View ArticleBest way to shoot this scene, stitch together plates, or green screen?
I have a shot where I am walking in front of an actor, with him framed on the right side of the screen, "Actor A." Then over "Actor A's" shoulder, (on the left side of the screen) another character...
View ArticleAE CS6 crashes at startup - indicating GPU problem
Hi, I am new to the Abobe suite. Using a MacPro running 10.7 Lion, Intel based processors. Using a Radeon ATI 6xxx video card (2 monitors connected via mini-display, HDMI not used at the moment)....
View ArticleProblem with speed change in Twixtor Pro
Using Twixtor 5.0 and After Effects CS6, and I'm struggling with a situation where keyframing the Speed% change causes the slow frames to freeze for several frames at a time. What works: Drop clip into...
View Articleimporting flash 3d animation into after effects
I have to create an animated video for my boss of silhouettes of baseball players on a baseball field. All the baseball players would be flat images. The field would be like an over head image of the...
View ArticleError-The directory originally specified in the selected output module
I put together an animated text composition that I would like to add to the beginning of one of my premier projects. When trying to render I keep getting an error that the directory originally selected...
View ArticleGPU not available-incompatible device or display driver
Last summer I was able to use the GPU in Ae (CS6) no problem. This included the Simple Wire Removal tool, -that was not working yesterday but I have been provided a fix by Cycore Systems, Thanks and...
View ArticleHelp: Pseudo mosaic tiles randomly dropping!
Challenge: a screen of 12,273 x 1080 px is divided into 560 tiles of 153 x 153 px, 7 rows by 80 columns. I want to be able to map a single image across all tiles with the ability to individually...
View ArticleVideo clips get shortened after interpreting footage
After selecting "interpreting footage" in after effects after importing my video clip (the clip shows 24.999 fps) i change it to 25fps and it starts working. It took me a while to figure out why my...
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