We need to use the simple distortion effects like Mesh Warp, Liquify, etc without clamping colors to properly work in advanced compositing. It's impossible now to work in ACES for example and do a simple warp to correct something without clamping all the values...

I have a 1080 24p EXR file that i'm applying Extractor too. When I try to RAM preview, it stops after about 75 frames and starts looping playback, even when I tell it to render the full duration or work area. This is NOT a problem in AE 17.

I have 32GB of RAM, so that's not a problem.

Hello

A small inconvenience with AE V 18.2.1

I just tried to patch a video with the Content-aware fill.
If Lighting Correction is on, the result is not 32-bit despite the settings say so.

I often use a masked copy of a video layer als an alpha matte.
Unfortunaletly Ae disables the Mask tracker for layers that are used as a matte. We first have to release it (by changing the setting of the masked layer) befor we can use the Mask tracker again. Why?

Import .VDB in After Effects

Create White and Black Values for Depth based on AI or another Route within After Effects

It would be great to disable the shading on the balls so that the user can create a flat color effect. Thanks

I'm using Rotobrush 2 for Rotoscoping on the job. It is an improvement over the previous version. However, it does not do well with large shots. My shot is over 2,000 frames and Rotobrush 2 takes hours to propagate. I can do small parts of the shot, but I need roto that last for the entire shot, so I've had to stop using Rotobrush 2 and use a mask with Mocha Pro. Please improve this on future releases of Rotobrush.

Cryptomatte workflows need major improvement.

Lots of instability issues and crashing, especially when applying masks, mattes, transforms, resizing compositions, and changing project bit-depth whenever the Cryptomatte effect is in use.

When using ProRes 444+ with premultiplied Alpha in AE2020 (17.x) on MacOS 10.14. and 10.15. the key will have black outlines. Bug wont occur in AE2019 (16.x) or with AE2020 on MacOS 10.13. Please fix this issue.

If you use the Set Matte effect and paste all the layers of an animation into another composition, the "Take Matte From Layer" changes to itself.
So I have 80 layers pointing to one layer, and when I paste them, they all point to themselves.
Please fix that so that it is pointing to the same layer it was previously pointing to.

Dear Adobe,

My effects presets disappeared from the effects & presets panel and i have tried everything from refreshing the list, resetting preferences, resetting the workspace and even reinstalling After Effects. I currently own After Effects CC 2020 and just updated to macOS Big Sur last month. I had no issues when upgrading to Big Sur and when I was clearing my cache (which I normally do), my effects decides to disappear. All my effects are still in my folder it is just not showing on the effects panel. Please help!

idea: when I type a bit of text I can select the «text box» option and select the colour, corner radius, extension, etc. The box should adapt to the text.

Mask Feather Tool works only on one frame. If I set it on one frame it disappears on next frame (no keyframes on mask feather). It seams that it is dependent on mask path keyframes what is just stupid. First I want to do masking/rotoscoping and after I finish with that I would like to set seather using Mask Feather Tool and keyframe it by mask feather not by mask path.

When Glow is added (Glow Operation Add), in many cases it also generates a dark halo around the Glow. Imho, Glow, especially when set to Add should not make any pixel darker.

It would be great to have a Pre-Comp DropDown window so that we dont need to move out of the original window to edit elements. We could have a scrub window to look through pre-comp and isolate effects and parameters. As there are so many twirl down menus , it would not matter if there a few more. Even if there was a little scrub window or something outside pre-comp to enable/disable layers etc. Any little thing would make life with pre-comps a lot easier

MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro15,2
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
16GB Memory
Intel Iris Plus 655 1536MB

I could not render my work in After Effects or in Media Encoder. I get the error message:

Export Error
Error compiling movie.

Render Error

Render returned error.

Writing with exporter: H.264
Writing file type: H264
Around timecode: 00:00:00:08
Rendering at offset: 0,000 seconds
Component: H.264 of type Exporter
Selector: 9
Error code: -1609629695

So I started to disable layer by layer one by one and render again until I narrowed down the problem - This was due to layer that had "Levels" effect. Once I turned off the Effect everything worked fine. Your welcome.