The Fractal effect (not the Fractal Noise effect) is buggy in AE 2022. It works fine until I try adding another effect to the layer. For example, if I start a new project, create a new comp, add a new solid layer, and then add the Fractal effect to it, it looks fine. But if I add a Glow effect to the layer (after the Fractal effect) the effect disappears.

Almost all other effects will have the same result when used with the Fractal effect, but the bug is inconsistent. So If you have trouble recreating the issue, try adjusting some of the properties of the Fractal effect, after adding a couple effects to the layer. This problem does not exist in earlier versions of AE.

I am attaching two screenshots. The first shows the Fractal effect by itself. The second shows the same Fractal effect, with a Glow effect after it.

I am not the only one who is experiencing this. In version 18.4.1 of AE when you make a comp height size 64 pixels the comp goes black. No matter what you try it goes black. I installed an older version 17.5.0 and it works fine as it should. This has wasted so much of my time on a paid job for which I had to create a comp at 960x64 and it would not let me. What is worse is your so-called Technical experts told me that some ratios were not possible which was a lie as he didn;t know what he was doing.

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 CC2020 and CC2021 (not in Beta 18.2)
Footage is included here:https://we.tl/t-UUxC1SQe4S

I have a composition of a keyboard with each key to light up on a note. I make the keyboard and several checkbox controls for the highlight. Now I put the keyboard composition as a layer in a composition that has all the note info.

Why can't I make the checkboxes inside the composition available to the layer so that I can have multiple note arrangements using the same keyboard composition? I can't make this link without hard-coding the composition name into the keyboard composition. So I have to make a duplicate keyboard for each composition I want to use it in.

It would be nice and efficient if I could toggle a button on these so when I drag keyboard comp into a new composition, it has the controls inside available on the layer instance.

The Set Channel effect does not seem to respect masks for the alpha source anymore, if the layer refers to itself.

When „Source Layer 4“ points to the same layer it is applied to, with the dropdown set to „Masks“, the effect would apply the layer’s alpha, but only within the layer’s masks. Now, it does not respect the masks at all and won’t apply the alpha.

Simple Setup: red shape layer with a mask, „Solid Composite“ with green color applied, then „Set Channels“ with „Source Layer 4“ set to the same shape layer, using „Masks“. See attached images for what the setup did before and what it is doing now.

The effect still seems to be working fine, as long as the alpha refers to another layer.

The issue might be related to the recent revision of the Set Channel effect with the may 2020 update: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/whats-new/2020-1.html#Otherenhancements

The Exposure effect in the latest version gives a different result with the same exposure values as before. For example, in my project I have the Exposure effect with the Exposure value set to 3. If I open the project in the latest AE version it looks so much brighter. To get the same look in CC 2014, I have to set the Exposure value to 15 instead of 3.

I found that the Gamma Correction slider in the Exposure effect behave inconsistently with the previous versions of AE. If the Exposure value is set to 0 and you drag the Gamma Correction slider down it looks like everything is working as it should. But once you increase the Exposure value, Gamma Correction is broken. I try to lower the Gamma Correction value, but the color values increase dramatically for some reason. In my case Gamma Correction was set to 0.2 and that ruins everything. That makes no sense, it looks like a bug!

• I see this inconsistent behavior in the 32-bit project.
• I use the latest vesrion of AE (16.1.0, build 204).
• The NVidia driver is updated to the latest version.
• I tried both, CPU and GPU rendering with the same result.

Latest version of After Effects. Import a .TGA sequence fine. Import a single .TGA and After Effects crashes and requires I close the app. The .TGA sequence that imports fine is 8192 X 8192. The single .TGA is the same size. One crashes after effects the other does not. This BUG just showed up today after update. Additionally I attempted to contact support and was directed to a person that was reading from a web page trying to assist, zero experience with After Effects. We pay a monthy subscription and the only time I have ever contact Adobe about a problem I get sent to a person who has zero experience. This is NOT customer service. My computer is running Windows 10, 64gb Ram, 3- Nvida 980Ti video cards, 8 core Xeon Processor. Huge waste of time. I will now have to uninstall After Effects and reinstall and older version. If the software is not ready to be released and has not been tested please do not release it and waste peoples valuable time. I attempted to attach the .TGA file and was given the error the file type was not valid and the attachment was to large ? If I cant send you the file how can you recreate the error ?