Hi everyone, I'm pretty new to After Effects and am not sure what to do for this issue.
I have a file sequence of 960 frames made from combining two file sequences that were 30fps and 16 seconds long. My composition is 60 fps, but whenever I import that combined file sequence, AE recognizes it as a 30 fps video that's 32 seconds long when it should be a 60fps video lasting 16 seconds. Do I need to change some import settings? Or use some sort of a time warp or something?
Thanks in Advance!
Josh
Hey! I seem to be having an issue with my Adobe Software. Basically, when and only when using my tablet's pen, I run into an issue where small strokes register as a dot when using the prush/paintbrush/pencil tool etc in Animate or After Effects. The same tool works as expected when used by the mouse. It seems I have to draw a specific distance from the point of contact with the stylus for it to register a stroke, initially drawing a straight line from the point of contact to the stylus's ending position. This would make sense if the distance required was tiny i suppose, when drawing a dot is intended by the user, but in Adobe Animate for example, if my stroke is any shorter than about an inch on screen, the stroke will register as a single dot. I do not have this issue with Photoshop, so I do not believe it is a hardware or driver issue but perhaps a compatibility issue with how Adobe handles stylus input when drawing differently than with mouse input? I'm looking for any kind of workaround what so ever.
I have Adobe CC 2018, all apps are up to date and running in Windows 10.
My tablet monitor is the MP 22" IPS FHD Graphic Pen Display.
Things I have already tried:
-disabling effects in Windows Pen and Ink Settings, including double click, hold to right click, etc.
-I've even gone into the registry editor a little to turn any extra pen features off manually and restarted my PC.
-browsing forums and searching on Google for days.
This was an issue since the beginning, it hadn't originally worked and somehow got messed up.
Here's a video showing the issue.
Fairly urgent. I've got an After Effects project I've been working on for a couple months now, and this week is the crunch to export it finally. The project is a grid of several videos, mostly 1080p, and so it takes about 6 hours to render out. I've exported several versions of it with no problems, as both uncompressed AVI and highest res WMV.
However, as of last night, it was rendering out with random videos in the grid flashing black frames. I've not changed anything about export settings, have restarted my computer and tried, but no luck. Baffled. Any suggestions? Deadline is looming.
Quadcore, 2.20GHz, 8GB RAM, Windows 64-bit, CS5.5
Hi all, new to forums.
I'm using AE2017.2 and windows 10. I have a comp with two video tracks (track 1 and 2) that i combined into a single track on another timeline, when it cuts from track 1 to track 2 I want to remove the color correction I did to track one and then apply a new color effect to the same track in the new timeline when the new shot comes in. I can use effect opacity 100%-0% and it does what it's supposed to (removes the color correction), but if I try to keyframe it doesn't work at all. It's super weird...
Pics below are sort of hard to see but I'll try to elaborate on em. The part of the preview we're looking at is the top left panel with the dude drinking a beer. Top pic you can see the effect opacity is at 0%. The keyframe on either side of the playhead is 0%, the two outside of those are 100%. The effect is NOT going to 0% when it says it should. Without the color it looks like it does in the bottom pic, much brighter, which I produced by turning off the effect entirely by clicking the little "fx" on the far left of it. It's a dynamically linked premiere clip, which might matter, but the only effects are done right here in this misbehaving AE timeline. I'm at a loss, I can get it to look like the bottom pic if I delete all keyframes from Effect Opacity by clicking the stopwatch then set it to 0%, but then the rest of the clip is uncolored and unusable. PLEASE SEND HELP!
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Quick edit: I did end up getting what I needed done by doing the color correction to each separate track in the other timeline they originate from, but this problem had me scratching my head and I'd hate for it to come up again in a more frustrating way.
I have a problem that the right mouse button does not work under AE? I turn on the 3D tracking option after a while I have to embed a circle and up to this point is fine but as I try to push the right injection to choose the option of embedding the object, nothing happens about what is the way to remedy it to work?
Hey all,
I am wondering if anyone else had had this issue, whenever I precomp something, anything, AE crashes. I have tried re-installing and starting clean, but it doesn't fix the issue. I have also tried going back to AE17. It happens on BOTH 17 and 18. The problem started a couple of weeks ago.
Can anyone help with this? I am on a 2017 MacBook Pro. Below is the crash log.
Last log message was: <140735749579584> <BEE_WorkQueue> <5> BEE_Project::TimestampGetNext ZANZIBAR-3: cannot produce timestamp, frozen=1, open=1
１カ月料金の終わりは、2/28でしょうか？3/25でしょうか？
Hi,
Im just starting into After effects, while trying a few tutorials i have noticed my timeline goes 00001,00002,00003 etc, whereas the tutorials i am following timelines go 1s,2s,3s etc. How do i change mine. I know its probably a simple process but iv tried everything.
I have attached 2 pics to show what i mean incase I'm not clear.
Thanks in advance!!
Hi all,
I'm currently using After Effects 5... yes that is version 5, not CS5.
I'm trying to figure out if I can import a group of layers and their applied Effects in to another project while keeping all the editable attributes and the positions of the imported layers with respect to one another.
I see that I can import a AEP project file in to another project via IMPORT FILE, but that just brings the raw layers/files in to the project window and does not place the layers in the timeline with all of their positions, Effects and edited attributes, the way that I'd like.
I also tried Pre-Composing the layers, but that does not leave them editable once a pre-comp has been made... it just makes the 7 layers that I want to import in to another project all one layer and does not leave them editable the way the the 7 layers are separately.
In Adobe Premiere, there is an actual "IMPORT PROJECT" selection under IMPORT that allows me to import an entire project file in to another project and lets me place the imported project where I want in the new project timeline... that is what I'm trying to do in After Effects.
I realize that there may be an easy way to do this in one of the newer versions of After Effects, and one might say, "just buy the new AE CS5", but I figured out allot of things on my own so far and I like After Effects 5 for what I'm doing now... maybe later on the newer version.
Thanks for any input,
digi
So I'm trying to install the trial version of After Effects but it gets to 2% then come up with a download error. I click on it and it says that I don't have enough disk space. I have my install location set to my D drive. I have recently checked and I still have tons of space left. So I click on more information and it comes up with this:
Exit Code: 120
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- 2 fatal error(s), 0 error(s), 0 warnings(s)
FATAL: Fatal Error '120' occurred while download
FATAL: Error occurred in download of package (Name: AdobeAfterEffects14AllTrial Version: 14.2.1.34). Error code: '120'
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Can anybody help me with this? Thanks!
I made a logo in Photoshop and I'd just like to bring its shapes into After Effects and extrude them as 3D.
I've managed to get the shapes into After Effects by copying the paths in Photoshop and pasting them as masks (though this method means manually lining them up, which is a bit clumsy).
The trouble is, you can't extrude a mask, so I need them as shapes.
In order to turn a mask path into a shape, I created a new shape layer, added a path, then copied the mask path into the path parameter. The path does appear in the shape, but when I add a fill or stroke, no fill or stroke appear! The path just remains as an outline.
See image:
(I'm fairly new to After Effects so please forgive my ignorance here.)
Just starting to use After Effects and Premiere Pro. I made a sequence in Premiere Pro with footage and I inserted captions into the sequence. Upon importing or dynamic linking to After Effects, although in the timeline both caption and footage items are there, the footage only shows where the caption is not meant to be, but where the caption is meant to overlay the footage the preview screen turns black. What am I doing wrong? I want to see and edit both so I can animate the captions.
Hi guys.
I don't do any fancy effects. Very simple stuff. And yet my work is moving at a snail's pace ever since I decided to give After Effects a try. Admittedly I am new to AE but already I can see it is not very intuitive (and please don't say it's my problem not the software's problem because I am about to explain why, exactly, I think that way).
Basically, what I want to do is: paint an arrow using the brush tool. Note: I did not say ANIMATE an arrow using the brush tool. I just want to paint one. Something a three year old child can do if given a market and a paper. Something which I, a 29 year old man, cannot do in AE.
I have looked up tutorials. Most of the results end up being for animating the brush strokes (that's a laugh!). and the few results I found for simply using the brush stroke to begin with, did not work. The closest I came to using the brush tool, was when I created a null layer, moved it to where I wanted the arrow, and then opened the null layer in the layer panel and I could paint in the layer panel. But when I painted in the layer panel, I would go back to the composition and see that there is absolutely nothing.
This is something that should take a few seconds. I have spent literally hours. HOURS, trying to do the simplest GED task one can do in a graphics software.
Maybe I'm the stupidest person on the planet. Or maybe AE is monkey butt for not letting the simplest of tasks be... simple.
Again: I'm not trying to make explosions and planetary rotations here. I'm trying to paint an ugly arrow.
Note: i did try the clunky "solution" of finding an arrow PNG with a transparent background. but after I imported it into AE it just became a big black rectangle. So even my GED solution to my GED problem failed.
Any suggestions would be appreciated but I hope to God none of them are prefaced with "maybe you should familiarize yourself with the basics of the software blah blah." I'm like: bro there is nothing more basic than painting a ******* arrow.
PS I'm very frustrated not because I dislike Adobe or anyone here but rather because I don't think people were meant to sit in front of a computer screen for three hours trying (and failing!) to paint arrows.
Hello,
I am currently trying to render an AE project but it always fails with Error Code 1609629695. Can someone help me?
Mac OS High Sierra 10.13
latest version of After Effects 15.0.0
I can't drop down the inner drop down menus on the timeline. For example, changing a matte from ADD to SUBTRACT. They won't work. Nor will RIGHT Clicking any menu. This works in the latest Premiere software.. I tried restarting multiple times, and switching mouses. Nothing works.
I'm freelancing at a facility that has Adobe CC, so I'm not fully in charge of my world.
Can anyone help?
I have Intel Graphics and I used to be able to use OpenCL hardware acceleration so that I can use effects that require it and now it's missing! Any help?
Hey, i've had so much struggle and problems working with After effects and sometimes with Premiere as well. I'm using 2016 Macbook Pro with 2,7GHz i7,460 Radeon 4GB,500SSD and 16GB RAM. Recently i had to work with audio in Ae and it just lagged so badly that i couldn't work. One of my friends helped me out with this and it's kinda stupid but that's how it is anyway. If you are experiencing something similar or need that extra power then follow these tips:
Only on Macbook's * because iMac's are using power sources.
System preferences->Displays->then you should have options to scale the resolution(check picture below) and apparently Macbook Retina display needs so much resources that it can't handle everything at once on maximum resolution,so i tried to lower my resolution as you can see on the picture and after that my Ae was at least 30%-50% faster.Let me know if this helps you as well.
I took a video of a projected video. The result is kind of choppy
like a time lapse, not like camera shake. I would like to smooth
that out please. Frame blending and motion blur did not work.
Any ideas please?
Thanks
steve z
Hello friends,
So I have some shapes parented to each other and animated, and there is a shape layer that animates depending on the rotation parameters of the parents rotation. I have the echo effect applied to this target shape layer which creates interesting cardiod "paths"
My question is; how do I trace the path of the cardiod with a solid, unbroken line, instead of the "dotted" line that I am creating with the echo effect? Thanks!
I would think there would be a loop icon just like Audition
so we can see the work area only to preview our effects.
I do see in the preview panel an option to confineplayback to the work area. Is that really how we are
supposed to do that? And then navigate back into
that dropdown menu to change that? No buttons
or key commands?
thanks