Being able to paste from Premiere into After Effects is awesome, but there is a bug when pasting footage/audio from the Premiere timeline into an already existing composition in After Effects. The After Effects composition will automatically change duration without your input and it won't respect "Paste At Current Time". Do this to re-create the problem.

• Create a new After Effects comp, either from Premiere's "Replace With After Effects Composition" feature, or an independent project. Make it something like 10 seconds.


• Copy any footage or audio clip from a Premiere timeline into an After Effects composition. But make sure the copied clip is from a spot that is well into the timeline, lets say 2 minutes in.


• In After Effects, you'll notice that the copied clip is pasted at the same timecode that it exists within Premiere, at that 2 minute mark. Which is fine, it's a little annoying to have to bring it back to the beginning of the composition, but I can live with it. The trouble is that it automatically changes your composition duration to 2 minutes aswell. It doesn't respect your current composition settings.


• Every time you paste into After Effects your duration will change to a completely random duration depending on where you copied that clip in the Premiere timeline. Try it with different clips in Premiere at different times. Super annoying.


• I've tried "Paste at Current Time" in After Effects hoping that it would paste where I wanted it to, but it still pastes that clip at 2 minutes.

I understand having the ability to paste into After Effects at the same timecode that's in Premiere, that can come in handy alot. But lets have an option to just paste that clip wherever the playhead is, just like you can pasting layers within After Effects. And then lets also not have the After Effects composition change the duration settings on you every time you paste. I can't imagine a situation where you would actually want the comp duration to change on you like that, but if there is an need for this that I can't think of, can we atleast have it not be the default behaviour?

The latest AE Version is dumping huuuuge CRLOG-Files on the OS-Harddrive after crashing (which as everybody knows happens quite a lot).

The Files can reach 20-35gb each. These files are meant for UPLOAD and this is unacceptable.This concerns workflow AND data-privacy. ADOBE just wanted to upload 120gb of my data to their servers from my workstation. This is NOT acceptable.

WHAT ARE YOU UPLOADING THERE ? This is way more than just Crashlogs !!!

And this is blocking my OS, my upload-feed and slows my system down.

This is a perpetuum mobile of ****: AE crashes all the time, then generates files which make the system more instable,so it crashes more often and generates more files. Are you serious ?

You need to fix that!

Excuse my language. I am just annoyed.
Your support couldn't help me or navigate me to a spot where to drop this concern -- so they dumped me here on "how to improve AE" -

Thanks again... great Update.Great Service...

There seems to be a bug when working with parametric ellipse paths in tandem with trim paths.

It only seems to occur when the Start or End properties in the trim path are set to 50%, while the other is set to 0%. I've attached a couple videos for reference.

When the ellipse path position is adjusted the ellipse path will occasionally close itself, resulting in an unwanted half-circle. The half circle is a result of the Start property set to 0%, and the End property set to 50%. However, when the values are swapped (Start: 50%, End: 0%) it results in a completely different shape entirely.

Changing the group position in the layer doesn't cause this, and neither does the layer position. Other values for Start and End didn't seem to cause the issue either, only the 50/0 combination.

Some known workarounds include:
- Setting the value to something very close but not visibly different, such as 50.0001%
- Using an if/else expression to prevent a frame landing on 50% if the property is animated.
- Adjusting position with the group transform or layer transform properties

This has been tested on multiple machines running the latest version of After Effects (15.1.2), and while the issue occurs at varying positions, it seems to always result in the same shapes being created.

I'm trying out team projects for the first time with 2 other animators. I created a master team project file that they are trying to incorporate their existing AEP files into. Each animator imported their old AEP files into the team project. They need to copy layers from their imported comps and paste them into compositions that I made in the team project. Every single time they hit command C to copy the layers from their imported projects, AE crashes and shuts down completely without warning. This was reproducible on different computers on different Adobe accounts. It also happened on several different comps so it's not specific to a single comp being corrupted or something.

After some further digging, we discovered that you can copy and paste layers successfully in a team project if there are no PSD files in the comp you are copying from. This is clearly a bug with PSD files. Please look into this Adobe. This is a really big problem for making team projects work in AE.

If I use Master Properties to edit text inside a pre-comp, I get a "string memory leak" error when I quit After Effects. If I then clear the custom text by clicking the "Pull from Master Comp" icon, and then save and re-open After Effects, I no longer get the error (at least until I edit the text again through Master Properties).

As an example, I have attached two files. The file with text edited through Master Properties gives me the error upon quitting AE. The other file is identical, except that the text has not been edited through Master Properties, and it does not give me the error when I quit.

CC2018 (15.1.0-build166) / MacOS 10.12.6

I am not able to change order of advanced puppet pins after pin position has been modified. Doing so kills preview and breaks mesh. If I revert back to original order, preview is restored and mesh works again.

I'm able to recreate this problem on multiple machines.

1. Apply puppet mesh to layer


2. Add 2+ pins to mesh


3. Adjust position of pins


4. Change order of Puppet Pins


5. Move layer position (not sure if this is necessary)


6. Adjust position of pins

Sometime works for a few seconds after, but eventually preview will fail. revealing mesh will show underlying issue.

Legacy PP doesn't seem to have the same problem

Exporting from premiere I got an "Unable to create frame" error on an AE linked comp (error code -160962695). The comp was an animation of a PNG graphic with some Mesh warp "glitch" effects.

Tried to render from AE, initially got an error about the memory requirements of the frame while in 32bpc color (error 12804) but after switching to 8bpc I started to get a different error, after that point it was the same error in either 32 or 8pbc.

The final error was a Bad parameter error (error 516) and I discovered that it was the animated Mesh warp effect that caused it. Redid the animation for the effect and that fixed the issue.