Hello,
I am applying the "VR Plane to Sphere" effect to a text layer - all correct.
But, I am also applying the "Blur By Word" effect to the layer. When I do so, what I actually get is an animation from 0 to 100 scale of the text layer instead of the "Blur by word" effect.
I don't see any keyframes that implement that.
Help?
Maybe there is an expression I can implement to the text layer to get a blur by word effect?
Thanks,
Caitlin
Hey So I cannot be the only person in the world the thinks the stupid UI panel which pops up when a font is missing and think - why the heck is there no option to choose which font you'd like to replace and with what. Nowhere can I seem to be able to find the info to change the default AE font as a workaround. So basically In a massive project which refers to a demo typeface (of which I now own) can I easily replace this.
Shortcoming indeed. So pleased sometimes I pay for this software. Which is always full of bugs. Don't even get me started on the overlooked use of arrow keys to preview typefaces in the active composition - quickly and easily. Wonder how long that will take to fix.
Any help most appreciated
I have Adobe CS6 everything works except for my After effects. It tell me my os wont run it. why woud all the other run and not adobe?
Hi:
I just got an error that displays and doesn't want to go away even after I click the only OK button in the dialog box.
The error as cryptic as this is, is:
"After Effects error : unbalanced unlock. ( 7 :: 40 )
Does anybody know how to get rid of this and why did it show up in the first place?
Using Mac OSX El Capitan with the latest AECC2015 update (13.6.1.6)
Thanks.
Currently running After Effects 14.2.0.198 and this is on both Macintosh and Windows.
There will be expressions that do not visually update to what the value says it is.
Example ... layer Opacity without an expression is 0%, layer is not visible.
Add an expression (if/else toggle) for either 100% or 0% ... the expression will be enabled (no syntax errors) and the value colored in 'red' showing it has an expression on it ... of 0% ... but the layer will be 100% visible. Stunner is that if I temporarily turn off the expression the layer disappears because the Opacity without an expression is 0%. Toggle back on the expression-driven value of 0% and the layer is visible again.
Same with position. I have Position expressions placing items in random locations. If I dial in new seed values I can watch the 'red' expression-enabled position value change... but the layer itself doesn't move to the new position.
Edit -> Purge -> All Memory / All Memory & Disk Cache / Image Cache Memory has no effect.
Many times quitting AE and opening it back up refreshes to the correct value.
Any thoughts what's causing this? Expressions are expressions are expressions... they return a value and the value 'should' visually reflect the numbers that correctly update in the 'red' text value field. But don't.
Thanks,
Marc
Hello,
I've search for quite a while without any results so I hope you guys could help me out.
I am working on a project with lots of layers and (3d) effects. When I open the project I get the following warning.
When I checked the File -> Project Settings -> Video Rendering and Effects -> GPU information I noticed that the ray-tracing was set on cpu and couldn't set on GPU.
It also said that there was no compatible device or CUDA driver. Which is weird because the Device is standard in the raytracer_suppoerted_cards.txt file. I think it will really helps if I can enable this.
is this gonna help me and make playback time a lot smoother / faster or is my hardware just not what it suppose to be.
iMac - macOS High Sierra
3,4 GHz Intel Core i7
16 gb 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675 MX 1GB
I am clueless about what to do to make this work. I really could use some advice.
Hi ! It's impossible for me to work right now all my adobe programs crash every time I use them here is the crash log from after effects
Faulting application name: AfterFX.exe, version: 15.0.1.73, time stamp: 0x5a61a1d6
Faulting module name: nvoglv64.dll, version: 23.21.13.9077, time stamp: 0x5a67b485
Exception code: 0xc0000409
Fault offset: 0x0000000000fde979
Faulting process id: 0xdf4
Faulting application start time: 0x01d3afff0d83ea26
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2018\Support Files\AfterFX.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvami.inf_amd64_80865528b013df3a\nvoglv64. dll
Report Id: 505c8ec2-1f26-4c47-838d-192bd7e57173
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Since updating to CC 2018, AE launches into a screen size that's almost twice the height and width of my screen resolution full of the old bloated default workspace. If I try to save my preferred minimal setup as a new workspace then any time I open a new file I'm greeted with the warning that I've screenshoted below, and all the files in the Project window disappear!
The most recent update did nothing except have AE delete any new user-edited workspaces upon launch. Even pre-existing ones such as Default and Standard that I'd attempted to save new version of.
This massively impacted my workflow as I now have to set up my workspace anew at every launch. Additionally I now have to sign in to Creative Cloud every launch, another great new feature of CC 2018. Thanks Adobe!
Seriously, this is the worse "bug" I've encountered in over 10 years of using After Effects. This product is getting less and less dependable with each iteration.
I have a star imported from Illustrator that I would like to apply a rotation animation to based on the shape's geometric center. Currently, the star wobbles when it rotates. I want to eliminate the wobble.
Hopefully this can be a resource for some people who run into this error.
Running Windows 7. Other people who ran into this error seemed to encounter it under different circumstances, so I decided to just make a new topic. If mods feel like it should be elsewhere, feel free to move it - just trying to help get around this frustrating thing.
Recently I was using CC2018 on another machine and after changing the font of a text layer, it locked me into an error:
(83::2) not ascii
I was forced to close After Effects via Task Manager as the dialog was persistent. I had used the font before this in CS6, so it's something definitely in the newer versions. Sad how "upgrading" has caused more problems... I uninstalled the font for good measure to be safe. However, I had to use the font in question for this project, and I didn't want to raster the text from Photoshop and then bring it in - a lot more work for something that should be working by itself.
I went back to CS6 and selected another font, then went back to CC2018; it worked, so it was clearly something with the font that After Effects decided to not co-operate with. I fiddled around a bit more and concluded it wasn't that my font file was corrupt. Although the error message was incredibly vague, I figured a way to get around the error, due to the keyword "ascii". The TTF font in question had Asian (Japanese to be specific) characters in its name, so I suspected this was causing issues (for whatever awful reason), so your mileage may vary on this point.
I opened the font up in FontForge (though I suspect any font-editing program will work), and removed the offending (unicode) characters from the font's names.
Note: this is not the same as just renaming the file
In FontForge's case, you're looking for the names here:
After that, I went to File > Generate Fonts... and generated a new font file, installed it... and everything seems to be working fine now.
Cheers, and I hope this helps someone.
Hello, I need some urgent help regarding this topic - I need to draw on a video, I am in the video layer and selecting a brush. I hover over the image but the actual stoke appears 1 c"m under or abouve the mouse position.
see photo attached - the white dot is my mouse, and the stroke appears way under.
I have tried mouse and graphic pen, both deliver the same result. How do I make it so that the stroke appears in the exact location where the mouse is at?
Many thanks
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Hello everyone,
I have a problem with After Effects. Every time I open AE CC I get an error with the massage "After Effects warning: Can´t write to font cache directory." I tryed an update but it brought no resolution. After Effects CS6 is still running. Does anyone have an idea how I can solve this problem? I´m currently not able to work.
I use Windows 7 64 bit.
Hallo zusammen,
ich habe ein Problem mit After Effects. Jedesmal wenn ich meine After Effects CC öffne bekomme ich eine Fehlermeldung " After Effects warning: Can´t write to font cache directory." Ich habe bereits ein update installiert aber es hat das Problem nicht behoben. After Effects CS6 läuft ohne Prbleme. Weiß jemand an was das liegen könnte?
Habe Windows 7 64 bit.
Hi,
I have been experimenting with puppet pins as I am newbie with AE and this is my first time with puppet pin tool. I followed this tutorial Puppet Animation in After Effects - Tutorial - YouTube . The problem is the pins won't follow the shape when I am say, trying to move the position of that layer . I am using layer shape which consists of 4 groups as contents . It looks like as if the pins are locked to that one location. I tried to imported the same shape as PNG the second time, it works without any issue. The youtuber is using .TGA file extension how different it is from PNG file ? what is the best way to apply here if I am using puppet pins ?
Hi everybody
Since i installed AE CC (ver 15).
I have import problems importing footage, other projects. Never had this proble before. Tried, i think, erverything. Installing and re-installing
Loosing lots of time. HELP!
I work on win 7 SP1.
Hi all, just installed a new system (X299, i7-7820x, 64GB, GTX 1070, , BMD Mini Monitor, Win 7 x64). Everything works fine, hardware has been checked many times.
So I install AE 2018, open the program, start a new project and create a composition, just one text layer. I can srub through the timeline without problems. But when I hit "space" AE will crash immediately.
I've tried everything including adjusting audio settings, enabling/disabling caches and so on. Nothing helped.
Unfortunately it's the same with AE 2017. 2017 Crash Log says the following:
Crashed thread: 93 [5680] THREAD_PRIORITY_ABOVE_NORMAL
Exception Code: EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION
Exception Parameters:
Exception Message: 3221225501 {AUSNAHME} Ungültige Anweisung Es wurde versucht, eine ungültige Anweisung auszuführen.
Application Specific Information:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2017\Support Files\dvaaudiodevice.dll
And now the funny thing: CC 2015 WORKS
ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED. TIA !!!
I have a question,
I have to write a text in hindi but Adobe After effects does not provide Hindi font(s). I have tried changing the keyboard input in my Mac but it was no good. Is there a way to type in Hindi?
I get a text error like a picture.
I looked for type manu, but it is not anywhere....
please help !
copy other‘s application to my folder, the software is broken.
Hi all,
I'm having a serious problem while exporting from After Effects 15 (cc18). Both on my 2013 Mac Pro on High Sierra as on my MacBook Pro (2017). Both have AMD graphics cards. When I render from the render queue, from any project, I get white lines on some frames. A single pixel, horizontal and/or vertical. You can see it on the desk on the right. Is anyone else experiencing this, because support says they haven't seen this before. When I Google or search these forums, I can't seem to find any info on it either.
I run rubberhose 2 and motion 2 plug-ins on both setups, but they worked fine in cc17. I recently upgraded the mac Pro to High Sierra, because Adobe told me too. I think I was still on Yosemite before and couldn't install cc18 without upgrading.
As said, when I render from the render queue, from any project, I get white lines on some frames. A single pixel, horizontal and/or vertical.
I contacted Adobe, because this pretty much destroys my workflow: I have to check every frame of the rendered file and fix these frames manually in Photoshop and Premiere:
They told me it's an Apple problem, caused by the drivers of Open CL / Metal in High Sierra. This is weird, because it's the same under Sierra with cc17 and it didn't occur in cc17 under Sierra.
Their solution: render via Media Encoder, using the software renderer. At first this seemed to work. I actually did one render that was fine. The next day, it simply didn't work anymore.
This must be some kind of bug. I'm experiencing it under both Sierra and High Sierra with CC18 (AE15).
To perform the ultimate test. I rendered the same project with cc17 ont the MBpro and it has no white lines whatsoever. In my logic it would be safe to assume that it is an Adobe problem and is'nt driver related after all.
I hope the problems don't occur anymore after I roll back to cc17 on both machines. It's a shame though and I feel let down. This has cost me many hours of troubleshooting and testing in a week with tight deadlines. That's of course a lot of frustration that shouldn't have happened.
I hope this discussion temporarily helps other people having troubles with white horizontal and verticla one pixel lines in their After Effects CC 2018 renders.
If you have any more info or maybe fixes please do reach out!
Thanks,
Pieter
hello guys
I have a really annoying problem with the preview in after effect.
i work with 2d explainer videos templates and the preview is too slow
i have bought a new pc and still too slow
i tried every single version of after effect from cs6 to cc 2018 and i change the setting many times and no thing works
i don't know what to do.
here is the pc specifications .
MBD: Asus ROG STRIX B350-F GAMING
1x16GB
English
Hello! I have a problem and maybe you can help me ... When I download Adobe After Effects and activate it as a test, I get the following message:
After Effects Warning: The directory "/ Users / cflng / Library / Preferences / Adobe / After Effects / 15.0 / Workspaces of the original user" could not be created. Check the protection and permissions of the main directory.
And then, this:
"After Effects can not continue: unexpected error during the start of the application"
Español
Hola! Tengo un problema y quizás puedas ayudarme... Al descargar Adobe After Effects y activarlo como prueba me sale el siguiente mensaje:
Advertencia de After Effects: No se ha podido crear el directorio “/Users/cflng/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/15.0/Espacios de trabajo del usuario original”. Compruebe la protección y los permisos del directorio principal.
Y acto seguido, esto:
"no puede continuar After Effects: error inesperado durante el inicio de la aplicación"