AE6 Null Object disappears
Hi, Having trouble with nulls. As soon as I make a null object into 3D, the square disappears. If 3D is unticked, the square (null) comes back. I double checked the View Options and everything is...
View ArticleAfter Effects CC is a Major Stability Disappointment on OS X 10.8.4
All those constant updates and STILL the most basic things arent working... AE CC has intense problems with its window system... I.e. Working in Lightroom and AE at the same time : 1) Command+Tab...
View Articletime-remapping audio artifacts - pops/crackling/static
I'm still not entirely sure why it happens but when I slow footage down with time-remapping in AE CS5-6 I can most of the time get these 2-3 frame audio popping sounds ( best way I can describe it, you...
View ArticleHorizontal Glitching in After Effects CS5.5 on a late 2012 IMac
I'm getting horizontal glitching or tearing when playing footage with a lot of changes in the imagery between frames in After Effects CS 5.5 on a brand new late 2012 Imac. Is there anything that can be...
View ArticleAfter Effects:CC, Shift+F9 stopped working, and Browse Presets does nothing
While working with my Easy Ease, the SHIFT+F9 just no longer works or hasn't since installation. SHIFT+CTRL+F9, or F9 work as intended.(I checked the pref text file for my keyboard short cuts and...
View ArticleMorph a horse head into a human head of course
Hey All, I was thinking about making a horse head talk, but I want it to morph into a human's head at the end. I was wondering the path to use? I was thinking about animating masks to do it. Where I...
View ArticleCinema 4D Lite & Illustrator Files .ai / .eps
I'm trying to import a logo that I've made as an Illustrator file, into the C4D Lite app bundled with After Effects CC. But I can't make it work. I don't have the full C4D program, but all the online...
View Article"After Effects can't continue: sorry, After Effects has crashed [...] (0 ::...
Hey all.I've recently been getting the aforementioned error message, and from what I've gathered from my reading into the problem it's probably the most generic AE error message there is. Fun. If it...
View ArticleCascading Tile Flips?
So I'm trying to acheive the same effect as the very start of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wGNm2GVt4g Literally just the first second where the tiles flip and form a kind of grid. I've...
View ArticleWhat does this message mean?? After Effects error: Couldn't find main entry...
I have been working on a project for ages and all of a sudden I keep getting htis message every time I start AE can anyone help?? After Effects error: Couldn't find main entry point for...
View ArticleBounding Boxes (Importing Photoshop to After Effects)
Hey, I'm sorry if this is a stupid question and it seems like (hopefully) it's a one click easy fix but here goes. When I import Photoshop files into After Effects the bounding boxes around the orignal...
View Articlereturn photos to the beginning of the layer timeline
How do i make all the photos in a project return to the beginning of the timeline. It is a keyboard shortcut. I cannot remember what it is.
View ArticleColor balance for particles question.
I made a ring using particular and I want to change the color. It's multiple copies with fast blurs applied to them to givethe glow and it's all pre-composed. Now all I want is to change the color as a...
View Articleslight delay when clicking on a menu
obviously it's not big of a deal with small projects , but its quite annoying with working on AE for stright 4 hours i had make a small video to show you what's happening...
View ArticleAfter Effects CC (CS7)
Attempting to render out - this new incarnation of After Effcts no longer offers h.264 and h.264 Blu Ray.. Is this intended? h.264 - mp4 output is the one we've always used most - and now completely...
View ArticlePile-Shuffle Images Animation
I have several images piled up on top of each other in a fan-like pattern (as in fanning a card shuffle). I'm wanting to create an animation that brings certain images to the top of the pile and shifts...
View ArticleAdd new layers to Photoshop file already imported into After Effects?
Hi...for a .psd with say 10 layers imported into After Effects I'd like to add an 11th layer. How do I import this 11th layer into After Effects? Sorry about the basic question, thanks!
View ArticleQuickTime Player open while doing a RAM preview makes the RAM preview stutter
Update: Ooof. Having QuickTime Player open while doing a RAM preview makes the RAM preview stutter. I quit the player, and now the RAM preview plays back without dropping a frame, says it's 24 FPS, but...
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Shape vs. Masked Solid poor edge quality
Using CS6 Mac here. Ran into this problem. Masked solids with a layer style applied looks terrible compared to a shape layer with the same layer style. The anti-aliasing is really crunchy on the masked...
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