Just tried to open After Effects and got the above error - all my other CC apps seem fine. Could do without re-installing and have read some posts to say that a re-install didn't work??
Regards
Alan
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After effects CC won't launch and displays the following error "The Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite couldn't be loaded." and that I should re-install? What has caused that?
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Make a null object draw a line
I am trying to make null object create a line. The intended effect is to have a line attach to a person's head as he climbs across the screen. How would I create this effect? I have already created a null object and it is a solid track. I just don't know how i am supposed to turn the track data into a line. I am trying to show where his head has been as he climbed the wall.
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AE...The Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite couldn't be loaded.
I just updated to After Effects CC 2015 13.7.2 and it won't open. i get the error message The Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite couldn't be loaded. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but nothing. I am on a mac, running Yosemite. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Help with similar build to example
First off, I do apologize if this is not in the correct section. I honestly was not sure where to start with this. Any, and all suggestions on the appropriate forum to put this question on will be greatly appreciated.
With that being said. Has anyone ever come across this?
I am particularly interested in recreating the interactive scratch off effect for our company. When researching it, I could not find anything. In fact, I don't even know if this can be done in the adobe product line. But, given my previous experiences with adobe, I am sure there is a way.
Thank you for any, and all recommendations.
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Turn Off Scroll Wheel Zooming
I need to turn off the scroll wheel zooming in After Effects. If I am looking at a Comp window and I scroll with my mouse, the view zooms in or out. I don't want to do this, especially because I have a Magic Mouse and any stray movement suddenly zooms my window. It's a realy problem. Can I turn this "feature" off?
iMac i7 running Mac OS X 10.6.2
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Imported images vanish at full (and other) resolution views or when trying to render
Hi all,
Been using AE since 2006, but found a new issue today with current version. In my composition, I have six trees and six candy canes alternating around the edge of the "circle" as I am using a plug in. I have imported these images from "Magic" which allows me to control their motion with Music, so the trees and candy canes dance to the imported sound file. I guess it is more proper to say that the images are all png files. Have done these sorts of things many times.
This time, I learned that I could view the composition at 1/3 resolution, but at full, half, or quarter, the images vanish and are replaced with random dots, like stars--that still know the programmed motion from Magic. When rendering to see what would happen, one of the images might flash into view for a few frames, but otherwise it is just the dots. A render does not produce a successful result. Even if I render at 1/3 resolution, where I can see the images, the window turns into dots upon starting the render.
It is possible-and I will experiment--that this has to do with the pngs coming in to the composition, and I am also wondering if it memory-related. Naturally, these things are hard to envision this way, but does any of this remind anyone of something? I can't find a settings issue or anything.
Regards,
Matt Linke
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The Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite couldn't be loaded.
Does anyone know how to resolve this? I uninstalled and reinstalled and getting the same error. After Effects can’t continue: The Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite couldn't be loaded. You may need to reinstall. After Effects can’t continue: unexpected failure during application startup. I'm running (Mac) Yosemite 10.10.5, using After Effects CC 2015 v.13.6.1. Any help is appreciated!
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Error message: The Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite couldn't be loaded.
I just updated to After Effects CC 2015 13.7.2 and it won't open. i get the error message The Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite couldn't be loaded. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but nothing. I am on a mac, running El Capitan. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Using masks to exclude part of a still image
Hi,
I have a still image the at brought into AE. I would like to use only part of the image and exclude the rest. In photoshop you can create a mask and place the object in the mask on a separate layer. Is there an equivalent process in AE? I know I can go back to PS and extract the part of the image I want, but I thought there might be a way in AE. Thanks.
Cliff
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Increase expression variable using a slider in a separate layer?
Hi. I'm Yuvraj and I have a problem
I am making a music visualiser in Ae CS6. Stock plugins and no budget. I have 4 layers that I would like to move right at different defined speeds to achieve a kind of parallax effect. There should be some basic, constant movement and also, when the bass hits (each kick drum), I would like the layers to move faster, but also then slow down once the kick drum is finished. So it will be a constant plus a variable (dependent on my bass keyframes). I have exported a bass-boosted and treble-dehanced version of my song to keyframes and now have a layer with a slider control which in expression is referred to as "thisComp.layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Slider") ". I set a constant for the y-position of the first layer (I tried to nail the first before doing others) and also a slider to keep a constant basic movement so then my expression looked something like this...
temp = thisComp.layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Slider");
newt = (effect("Slider Control")("Slider")) + (temp) + 20;
cool = 1080;
[newt,cool];
(I have no clue why I named them newt and cool that was what I heard when typing so there's that )
Anyways, I thought I had this all worked out and it was going to be a simple piece of diddlydonk (do people say that? ) when my layer (a bunch of stars) started jumping back and forth when I asked the rig to play me a RAM preview. I was confused as to why it was doing this - then it hit me.
As it turns out, my audio amplitude keyframes generated from the bass-y audio jumps up and down (as expected) so the temp value goes up and down resulting in jerky movement. My question is is there any way to make the keyframes cumulative in value or some other way to achieve the effect that I want. Feel free to ask more questions and btw project size is 3840x2160 @60fps (like a baus!) and basic movement is 1.5px/frame or 90px/s and I'm a complete noob to expressions and code so please take it easy on me
Many thanks to any cool people who are awesome at expressions and can understand this
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AE CC 2014 Multiprocessing : killed by CC Desktop app
Hi there,
For a few weeks, we were experiencing serious issues on After Effects CC 2014. Render with multiprocessing enabled was not as fast as it used to be. Worse: it failed to do more than one render without restarting the app.
After a lot of tests, including uninstalling/cleaning and reinstalling Adobe CC 2014 apps one by one... We can say that current version of Creative Cloud Desktop app includes some shared component that kills multiprocessing in AE CC 2014.
We don't know which component is to be blamed... We don't know why...
So we now work with standalone apps, don't install Creative Cloud managing app and won't update any piece of Adobe software.
All we can say is this: after removing this important function in CC 2015... With no information about how CC 2016 will work on multi-CPU architectures... After removing MXF export in AE... ("But you can use Media Encoder" Do you know Media Encoder is SLOW? Media Encoder should stick to what it does well: encoding. Not rendering.)
Do guys at Adobe realize that we use these tools for work? Stop the mess!
Julien
Creative services - Plani (France)
Our workstations specs:
HP Z820 with 2 Intel Xeon CPU E5-2640 @ 2,5GHz
64 GBit RAM
Windows 7 Pro SP1
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Terrible customer service
First of all, let me start by saying that the unnecessary amount of time it takes to get customer service from you company is laughable. You REALLY pull your customers through the ringer for no reason. First that ridiculous "wizard" which then leads to a log in page (LOTS OF FUN for those of us who then need to take the extra time to set up a login) just to be told there
1. there's no contact email
2. there's no phone access
3. we can post questions on this forum where it is the blind leading the blind here
So, what EXACTLY do you offer, Adobe, besides being COMPLETELY useless when it comes to your overly priced, extremely complicated products and then leaving your customers running circles to try and figure out technical support. You're a terrible company, I am BEYOND frustrated with the lack of assistance. Also, this message would be FILLED with stronger words but looks like your company has no problem giving the time to weed out "inappropriate posts."
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Track Mask not working
Hi. I can't seem to get the mask tracker to work. I must be missing something quite simple.
Have a look at the video.
Thanks.
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How do I selectively change colour of an object?
So here's a screenshot of my footage.
What I'm trying to do is make the whole of my actor's body look like its painted matte black (excluding the face and rib marked on left). How would I go about this? Would I use a mask?
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Alpha Matte Help
Hi all,
I am using AE cc2015. I have successfully alpha matted a jpeg file to a text layer and am unable to alpha matte the same jpeg to a different text layer. Any help is appreciated. I have pasted a pic of what I am exactly trying to do. So "hello" and "world" are alpha matted to my jpeg and "my" is not. I hope this helps.
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cant reinstall color finesse in ae master collection
Windows 10 installed. Color Finesse wouldn't show clip in full interface yet would effect clip color when clicked OK. Tried to reinstall. Got trial version. Same problem. Now can't reinstall with color finesse serial #. Must have 5 serial numbers from upgrades going way back. Lost. Will I have to re buy for@ $550?
[Moved from forum lounge to product-specific forum - Mod]
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(After Effect)How to fix this problem-Unable to execute script at line 118. Unable to create temporary image file.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem '' How to fix this problem-Unable to execute script at line 118. Unable to create temporary image file. '' ??
Thanks everyone!!
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mask tracker not working
Hi. I can't seem to get the mask tracker to work. I must be missing something quite simple.
Have a look at the video.
Thanks.
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Advice for New Computer / The Next Version of AE
Hey all, looking to get a new computer soon and obviously I'd like it to be a good buy not just for now, but for the future.
The AE team has promised major performance improvements for awhile, so my question is, do we have any inkling what kind of hardware those improvements will need? Should I be looking at more cores? Higher clock speed? Better graphics card? (I assume more RAM will always be a good thing)
Or is all this still under wraps by the Adobe team?
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AFTER EFFECTS
Hi
i'm new to After Effects so don't know much about it. Ive just spent the day editing together a short clip and now i need to color correct certain parts of the final cut. Do I have to color correction each individual clip and then rearrange my original cut with the new color corrected shots, or can i use my already finished cut and just color correct certain shots
Thanks
Oli
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