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AE 17.5 Alt key functions broken - switches to camera regardless of active tool
Regardless of the tool used, holding the Alt key switches to the camera tool.
Hoping this is a mistake - it makes zooming out (z, Alt-Click) or adjusting vector bezier curves (G, Alt-click) frustrating without the shortcuts.
7 votesThis bug has been fixed in the November 2020 update for After Effects, version 17.5.1. You can install the update via the Creative Cloud desktop app.
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8 bit warning pop up on all effects
If I click an effect in the effects control panel where the warning icon appears for '8-bit only' effects, I get the pop up attached, even on full 32bpc effects.
Seems to be a UI bug
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Bug: Master Properties not displaying property name
After updating to 17.1.4 everything in Master Properties on the timeline is now displaying as the property type (i.e. "Slider" or "Checkbox") instead of the correct name.
macOS Catalina 10.15.6
update: renaming the property in Essential Graphics will rename the property on the timeline (at least temporarily). However, when duplicating the layer, the duplicate will revert to displaying the property type.
11 votesThank you for filing this bug report. This bug was fixed in the October 2020 release of After Effects, version 17.5. If you are experiencing this problem in an earlier release, please update After Effects using the Creative Cloud desktop app.
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Major Bug in AE 17.7 Related to Illustrator and Color
Imports from Illustrator are showing colors that are way off. This appears both in the imported illustrator layer and when the Illustrator layer is converted to shape the color is wrong. I was not having this problem in 17.6 and when I downgraded and opened the exact same project the colors were magically fixed. This is a major issue that needs to be fixed immediately.
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Bug in Team Project using Essential Graphics with nested composition.
I'm using Team Projects for After Effects and have a face-composition with a nested mouth-composition two levels down in the face-composition.
From the mouth-comp I've added some Essential Properties to the face-comp. This works.
When re-opening the Team Project however, I get the following error:
"After Effects warning: Could not create Essential Graphic parameter because it refers to a non-existent layer."
The file opens but the master properties referring to the mouth-comp on the face-comp have all disappeared. Needless to say that is a serious problem because all keyframes added to these properties are lost.Don't know if this is…
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The latest After Effects crash when installed the Joystick N Slider Ae Script
When I open my After Effects this morning, and every time when i opened it would crash and give me an error message wrote some issues with Joystick N Slider script. It would work when I delete the script from Ae. Please check this out because this script is quite important for animators and motion designers who use Ae for everyday working. Thanks
2 votesThe underlying issue of ScriptUI panels set to the “Use Legacy UI” caused a crash has been fixed in the March 2021 ( version 18.0 ) release of After Effects. Please let us know if you continue to see any crashes when opening script panels.
Thanks,
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Expand parameters based on used keyframes via Shortcut
Especially when dealing with multiple layers and parameters within each layer, it is frustrating to have to manually navigate to open and view each keyframe. Wouldn't it be nice to have a shortcut key command that automatically expands parameters within each layer that have used keyframes? That way I can quickly go to the parameters I need adjusting quickly. I understand there are shortcuts that lead to individual parameters (ie, "T" or opacity), but usually one would animate multiple parameters alongside each other. To have one shortcut that opens only the parameters that contain keyframes as a starting point for…
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Exporting pro res 4444 + alpha bug
Issue when exporting pro res 4444 with alpha directly from AE. When this file is taken into premiere, there are weird purple artefacts, this can be removed by changing the premultiply settings, but this looses some alpha and introduces black fringing. When the same comp is exported via media encoder, using the same settings, no such issue exists.
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interpret Footage -> Premultiplied not working
My Prores 4444 Footage w Alpha that is premultiplied on Black, only acts normal when I am in Half resolution preview. As soon as I switch to Full Res or Render, the Alpha is treated as Straight/Unmatted.
Interestingly… if I select the interpret footage option "invert Alpha", the Alpha is only inverted when previewed at Full Resolution, not at reduced resolutions.
When I employ the workaround of adding the effect "Remove Color Matting" (Black) myself manualy, I also get very weird halos and artefacts when previawing at half resolution, which are not a side-effect of simply downscaling.
This occurs in…
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Camera GUI display does not reflect expression-driven Point of Interest
When the "Point of interest" of a camera is driven by an expression.
Something like:
thisComp.layer("Null 1").transform.position
The graphical display of the camera wireframe in the interface does not reflect the value of the expression.
It seems to be "stuck" at the Point of interests native value.After Effects 17.6.0
MacOS 10.14.62 votes -
When using projectPath render token, existing files are overwritten without warning
When using the "projectPath" property (render token) to manually set the filepath in the File Name and Location Template, if a file with the same name already exists, it will be overwritten without any warning when the user clicks Render. This should be fixed to prompt the user with a warning before rendering begins.
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There is an issue with Key Cleaner.
After Effects crashes unexpectedly after applying key cleaner weather you use Keylight or color range without a message or warning.
3 votesAs noted below, this issue was addressed in the 17.6 version of After Effects.
- John, After Effects Engineering Team
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68 votes
This issue is fixed in After Effects 17.0.1, released last night.
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I can't double click and edit key frames anymore.
I can't double click and edit key frames anymore.
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Bring back the unified camera tool
Why did you get rid of it in the first place??? We were used to it. It worked!
You added all these nifty camera tools, like orbit around cursor or scene. Which would be fine. Except I want to change something and now it doesn't work the way I'm used to. Like using my center mouse button, which was super useful.
So I have to spend time looking at your documentation. Which is TERRRIBLE by the way. It's super confusing and I don't understand which is the most like the old behavior.
Stop breaking things we're used to even if…
1 voteDon’t worry, you can still control the camera with the mouse! Hold down the alt/option key while in any tool to access the mouse-driven camera controls. Make sure that this feature is enabled in Preferences > 3D.
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Draft 3D ground plane bug
Just tried the new draft 3d and ground plane and I am getting this on my viewport (see the following image). It seems like there is no refresh on the viewport.
Win 10
Gtx 1060
Ryzen 9 3900X2 votesThis bug has been fixed in After Effects 18.1. (The current release as of this post is 18.2.1; apologies for the delay.)
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Urgent Bug in 2020 - 3D Reference Axis Causes Instant Crash
Turning on the 3D Reference Axis in 2020 causes an automatic crash.
For days I've been trying to figure out why some of my older projects were crashing in 2020 when I opened a comp, and I just realized it's because the 3D Reference Axis was on in those comps.
To recreate the problem, simply add a Camera layer to any comp, and turn on the 3D Reference Axis.
I'm on an iMac running Big Sur, but I get the same results on Catalina, and on a PC running Windows 10.
Please fix ASAP. I have products that clients can't…
2 votesHi Noel,
Thank you for reporting this crash. It has been fixed as of After Effects 17.7.
- John, After Effects Engineering Team
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right to left writing
hi please add right to left writing for middle eastern country please
its really an important option and reduce your product popularity
all other adobe apps has it1 voteRight to left and bidirectional text are supported in After Effects. Under Preferences > Type choose the South Asian and Middle Eastern engine. It will apply to all new text layers you create. You can change text direction in the Paragraph panel.
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Shift + a number key doesn't add a numbered comp marker
Well, that shortcut does add numbered markers for numbers 4 through 0, but not numbers 1,2 or 3.
I'm assuming it's a small bug.1 vote -
[BUG] ProRes DNxHR RGB 444 12 bit Export fail
- Export ProRes DNxHR RGB 444 12 bit with no Alpha, but "premuliplied" setting
- Import the Rendering back into AE.
- Playback reports error. Video is black.
Workaround: Set the output alpha to "straight" even though there is no alpha channel.
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1 vote
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