Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe)

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  1. Render Queue Complete Notifications Time Limits & Options

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Brent,

    There is a global preference under Preferences->Notifications
    "Automatically enable notifications when you add a composition to the Render Queue"
    If you do not wish to automatically have notifications for each item in your RQ, you can uncheck this preference. This will make it so that the checkbox in the notify column of the render queue is not automatically checked on adding to the queue.

    We do not however have a throttle mechanism or a smart estimate mechanism from your first and third suggestions. We can bring that in to discuss as potential quality of life features.

    Thanks for posting your requests.

    All the best,
    Jessica

  2. Optimize layered videos.

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Nick,

    There is a lot of nuances to the information you see in the render time output.

    Anything listed in the twirl open of a layer gets combined to be the value for the overall layer time. Just from looking at this - the extra time being taken on your first layer is due to Luma Key.

    As for the frames where you are seeing 0ms* - the * represents that this render was able to pull the results from cache where the part or all of the image for a layer was completely stored. It is likely that the frame with the heaviest hit is because that was the first frame rendered and the others were rendered after it. If you were to clear your cache and have the CTI resting on a different frame, I imagine that would be where you would see the render hit instead.

    The following page has a lot of additional details that might help you interpret what you are seeing represented in those values. https://helpx.adobe.com/si/after-effects/using/composition-profiler.html

    All the best,
    Jess

  3. Stop adding new features till the program works at an appropriate speed.

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello,

    Responding to a few different threads in this post.

    @John Myers, I am sorry you and other users experience frustration with Uservoice. We are looking into ways to improve this experience.

    @Marco Sanasi and @ Nuno Caroco, could one of you start a new user post with this issue so we can track it? It is better if it isn't part of another post for identifying and responding to specific issues or requests, and I am happy to follow-up with discussion and suggestions with you on that post. If you both happen to make a post on it, no worries - we can combine them if that happens.

    All the best,
    Jess

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Nick,

    For some applications I think it is for sure the right approach to start fresh and I appreciate your feedback in either case. Our team is working hard to update the application and I hope you have had a chance to check out our most recent release (AE 22) which has a lot of improvements to performance: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/whats-new.html

    The beta application is also a great place to get involved with the team and be involved in the process of shaping the future of AE https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-beta/ct-p/ct-after-effects-beta?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all&tabid=discussions

    I hope you continue to engage with the team as we move towards improving AE for the future.

    All the best,
    Jessica

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Nick,

    Thank you for your post.

    Just curious if you have tried the beta application recently? We are actively working on performance there and as things become ready, they will be moved to the release version.

    Information can be found here:
    https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/multi-frame-rendering.html

    On going discussion and updates have been posted in this thread over the past several months:
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-beta-discussions/multi-frame-rendering-is-here-aka-the-multithreading-you-ve-been-asking-for/m-p/11885358#M533

    With the new beta there are preferences for setting the resources you would like AE to use which I would expect would help your focus issues where AEs performance is decreasing and a min/max boosts it temporarily.

    Hope this helps sort out those performance issues you have been seeing. And if not, it would be great to get further into the details of what version you are using as well as what your system hardware looks like?

    Which applications do you use with AE that give you the most pain points?

    Thank you for taking the time to reach out to us.

    All the best,
    Jess

  4. Multi Frame Rendering slowing down machine

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Andy,

    Thanks for taking the time to post your issue here.

    Would it be possible to get a log file from your AE run? It might help us narrow down the situation that you are encountering. You could send the log to aebugs@adobe.com, and Post a comment here when you have sent the email. We'll need to manually check that inbox.

    It is really odd that your caching was obviously present but playback not performant. If you can reproduce this outside of a IP project (you mentioned just text could be an issue?) that would be helpful to know.

    If you could talk generally about the types of assets you were using, any plugins, layer types - that could help us have a better understanding of what is going on.

    Thanks again for taking the time to reach out to us. I am going to vote on your issue so I can get e-mails when you are able to respond back.

    All the best,
    Jessica

  5. Allow relocate columns in AE interface

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    @Eduardo,

    You can actually rearrange the timeline as you describe though in a roundabout way. You can drag most columns in the TLW to change their position, layer/name isn't one, but you can drag the others to the left/right side of it. That though is a stopgap to solve your current request, and likely should be expanded on to allow that column to be moved itself.

    - Jessica

  6. Error message with AE 2022

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Genevieve,

    Sorry the delay in this response, was out at the end of last week.

    If you could send an e-mail to aebugs@adobe.com with a link to a dropbox (or similar service) upload of your file, that would be very helpful. Let me know if you need suggestions in this regard.

    I will keep an eye out for your e-mail and see about reproducing your issue locally. To help in this investigation, what system + OS are you running the application on (windows, mac, etc). There might be something in this that is os specific.

    Thanks for taking the time again to reach out and help us get to the bottom of the bug.

    All the best,
    Jessica

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    In discussions with other team members, there is also a bug that is present for Lumetri properties in the EGP panel. I assume you are on the official release, does your project use this feature by any chance?

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Genevieve,

    Thank you for posting here about the issue you are seeing. This is one way to post about a bug, here in user voice. Uservoice doesn't have a separation of bugs and suggestions so it unfortunately gets put all together.

    Would you be willing to send this project to the AE team? It would help in tracking down whatever the issue is as it might have something unique that we didn't have in our testing sweeps.

    Is the crashing/opening all related to attempting to open this specific project or?

    Any details you could provide related to system (os, cpu, graphics card, ram etc) would help as well.

    Thank you again for taking the time to reach out.

    All the best,
    Jessica

  7. Missing curent render information v.2020

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Dariusz,

    Thanks for taking the time to reach out.

    We have removed this information from the current render and brought the purpose of it into a new format. With help from those who downloaded the beta and provided feedback, we have created the Composition Profiler. Information can be found here about this newly released feature in 2022 https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/composition-profiler.html

    Would love to hear your thoughts once you get a chance to use this new tool in the timeline window instead of waiting until render out to see this information.

    I voted for your idea so that I can be notified of your response.

    All the best,
    Jessica

  8. Bug: After Effects 22.0 Freezing On Splash Screen AND Causes Other Apps Not to Start

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Thomas,

    We have put together a bug report with the log you have sent in for further investigation. Thanks for taking the time to do that.

    For the slow network drive, you could try disconnecting from them/diagnosing the slow drive, but that might not be possible depending on how you use them.

    Will link this post as well to the bug and update here as we get more information/have further questions.

    All the best,
    Jessica

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Thomas,

    A fellow dev had the following thought: "My guess is that Ae is calling a Windows shell API, maybe something which results in drives being enumerated, and there's a mapped network drive on the user's network that isn't responding (or is running very slowly). Any other app calling into the shell would end up hanging too"

    All the best,
    Jessica

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Thomas,

    Curious if you could generate a log file for us to look at.

    On one of your successful launches, you can enable logging:
    Launch After Effects and go to Help > Enable Logging.
    Work in After Effects for a few minutes.
    Then go to Help > Reveal Logging File.

    You can keep that file location open, try launching the application (where it will likely fail) and then send that log file to us at aebugs@adobe.com

    If you do that, please comment again here so we know to look for your e-mail.

    Thanks for working with us to help solve this issue.

    All the best,
    Jessica

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Thomas,

    In trying to narrow this down further, do you run any other Adobe software? If you use other Adobe software, are you experiencing similar issues? I am trying to determine if this is an AE only issue for you or if it might be related to licensing and causing issues across your various programs. I am leaning towards licensing due to the i/o item you mentioned as well as safe mode.

    All the best,
    Jessica

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Thomas,

    Thanks for posting about the issue you are seeing. What system + OS version are you running?

    I know first launch after install has to do some kernel setup work that makes launching take longer, but this sounds like you have let it go and it never moves forward.

    Thanks for any additional details you could provide about your system, as well as if you are running Creative Cloud Desktop (and are logged in).
    All the best,
    Jessica

  9. Hitting Enter ↵ should close theEdit Marker dialogue

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    @Designer Three

    To quickly get out of the text edit box simply press tab. You can pressing tab to cycle through all the fields of that dialog box and you can use it to highlight the ok or cancel button and press enter to perform those button actions without using your mouse.

  10. Import and save window appears behind main window. Version 18.0

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    @Shane Keefe,

    Thanks for taking the time to post about this.

    Curious if you are using the home screen or not? The home screen is a window that pops up when you first open the application.

    All the best,
    Jessica

  11. Bug report: MoGRTs and Libraries

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    Hello Mograph Mindest,

    In this particular case it is a bit of a design limitation of the Libraries panel that we can not access the destination library options (get a list of what libraries you have that we could save to) without the panel being open since it is a CEP panel and the request for paths is to the panel. Unless you are proposing that the drop down list would only have Libraries and then some new dialog or new popup would show up with a list of libraries destinations? There might be some issues with that for timing of population for destinations... but is something to think about.

    A set it and forget it option in preferences though is very much possible, and probably more likely for an easy solution that doesn't change workflows/expectations of the process. Likely this preference starting state would show libraries locations as a default since we have been shipping with this functionality. If creators had to enable libraries as a destination that might cause greater confusion than giving options to disable the libraries destination.

    I will enter it into our backlog for consideration. Thanks for taking the time to submit this request. Feel free to respond back if you have any further thoughts to add.

    All the best,
    Jessica

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    Hello Mograph Mindest,

    Unfortunately, in order to get a list of destinations from libraries, that panel needs to be open. I understand that it sounds like you do not want to export to libraries, so an alternative solution would be needed. Would a preference option for mogrt export stating that you do not want to export to libraries (or some effect there to) be a potential option that would interest you?

    All the best,
    Jessica McMillan

  12. Adobe fonts are broken in After Effects

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Gilad,

    Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Are these locally installed fonts or ones that should be automatically downloaded from Adobe Fonts?

    If you could also respond with which version of AE you are experiencing this issue with, that would be helpful.

    -Jessica

  13. Thai Vowel Character not support

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    Hello Chanwit,

    Thank you for reporting it to us. I have forwarded it to an an internal team to narrow down the cause.

    All the best,
    Jessica

  14. missing Thai font accent mark if not follow by character in AE 2020 ver.17.5

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Ittiphon,

    Sorry you are encountering this issue, and thank you for reporting it to us. I have forwarded it to an an internal team.

    All the best,
    Jessica

  15. My Adobe After Effects keeps crashing every time I use it. And everytime it crashes, my entire computer does.

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Anii,

    Sorry this is happening to you and thank you for posting here. Do you get a chance to send a crash report or is it launch and the application and system crashes in one go?

    I know I have experienced whole system crashes in other applications when an old graphics card was incompatible.

    Could you please comment as well on your system information? OS, processor, GPU, it could help point to the issue.

    All the best,
    Jessica

  16. An error message appears in the Import File dialog window when I create or delete a folder.

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello Alexey,

    Thanks for posting. I am able to see this issue when deleting a folder, but it doesn't prevent import. Is that the same situation as you are seeing?

    -Jessica

  17. Queue in AME needs to know you've queued to AME!

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    Hello Stuart,

    Thanks for your suggested improvement. I will have to look into it, but it is likely waiting for a response from AME and if it never received the response from AME, it would be bad to prematurely unqueue it. Would your preference be that it unqueues it upon clicking queue in ame, then requeues it if the queueing fails?

    Just curious to hear more of how you envision this workflow and what the UI would look like. I would expect it is better for most to get extra renders listed then miss exporting one from the queue?

    Thanks for your time in discussing this issue.

    All the best,
    Jessica

  18. Recovery

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello,

    Thank you for reporting this issue. If you recall any specifics around the crash it would help us isolate that bug to fix it.

    After Effects does have an auto save feature, and can be modified in your preferences under the Auto-Save panel. It requires an initial save of the project but then will function according to your settings.

    Hope this helps you.

    All the best,
    Jessica

  19. Alt-clicking 'Stop' in Render Queue not working in CC 2020

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello,

    Thank you for taking the time to post here.

    I just tried this in my local beta build and it seems to be working on Windows. Can you let us know your version number and what OS you are on? I can see if the functionality is incorrect in that specific version/OS.

    All the best,
    Jessica

  20. Strange Situation 26::82 error (pre-solved)

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    Jess McMillan (AE Dev @ Adobe) commented  · 

    Hello,

    Thanks for letting us know about the issue you encountered.

    Is this version 17.0 or one of the more recent releases? Monday (pacific standard time) we released version 17.1. Even though opening and closing the application solved the issue, it would be good for us to know what version you had the issue with.

    Thanks again!

    All the best,
    Jess

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