I was using AE, and doing a bit of probably-heavy-CPU-work, and it crashed. This happened twice. I then tried reopening AE, but get this error:

But, like I said, I had <i style=”font-weight: bold;”>literally JUST been using it.

It’s After Effects (v 25.1)

I’m using MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1

What do

I have one layer where a girl is getting off the ground, but her head/shoulders get cut off as she stands; I want to put an image of her on top of the clip, so it doesn’t chop off her head, but the tracking/keyframes with corner pin doesn’t work; the image doesn’t stay aligned with the video; how do I get her stupid head to stay with her body?

The…

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Any time I open Premiere, I get prompted to relink missing media; I locate the file, and it links it – excellent. But, when I save the project, close, and reopen it, the media is magically unlinked and I have to do it again. I haven’t moved the files.

I have a dedicated flash drive where everything is stored, so it shouldn’t be unlinking…
It’s…

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I’m attempting to create a flood scene, but I can’t get the water to look as though it’s actually hitting the buildings. I need to do this, but replace one of the jets of water with a wall; what is the process to accomplish this?

I’m attempting to make the camera follow and zoom in on a certain student in a classroom scene, but when I parent the camera to the layer with the mask of the student, the movement doesn’t apply.

I’ve followed video tutorials, and yet, for some reason, the camera is stationary; in another attempt, the camera did follow the point/mask, but it was…

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It may be obvious, but it’s not something I know how to do.

I have a few shapes I’ve created and am using them as marks for where I’ll need to cut once printed, but I have about 300 images to put (in pairs) and align with these marks.

When I drag the new image into the file, it is centered on the canvas, so I’m having to manually scoot them over one…

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Turned out the video file was damaged.

I’m trying to superimpose a head onto a body, as the head/shoulders are out of shot and progressively enter the shot, yet I need the head/shoulders to show from the beginning.

I’ve tried doing it manually, but the movement is jerky (example: upper body is at 70% angle, while the hips show it should be at a 90% angle), and every time I try to use…

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I have tracked an object, and when I Apply Matte, nothing seems to happen, however, when I View Matte, the black and white matte can be seen.

The applied matte is only visible if I’m zoomed out to 25%.

Is there some secret setting I need to change?

That’s exactly what I’m trying to track! Look at you, being a dork, too.

I meant the motion was simple…either way, I’ve mostly gotten it figured out – I just need to track her upper body.

Only problem now is that the effing matte is the only thing that’ll show up unless the zoom is at 25%, which is way too small to accomplish ANYTHING and I’ve…

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That blows.

I don’t know anyone who would do it for me…

However, for some reason, it works better (not perfectly, mind you) if I duplicate the layer a million times, track one body part on each layer, then just have like 40 layers, each with a different body part.

This is going to be hella aggravating.🤬

I tried to track just the calf, but the same thing happened. As well, I also tried just the hair, and, again, the spline wouldn’t behave. I’ve attempted tracking the arm, the hand, the torso (each separately) and the spline always drifts and distorts. I don’t think it’s the size that’s he issue here – since I have tried tracking the hand,…

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I am trying to track a relatively simple clip, just needing to remove a girl getting off the floor. For some reason, when I click “Track” (either Forward or Backward), the Spline goes wonky after a few frames, although it keeps something similar to the shape, but it doesn’t move upward with the legs, which are what I’m currently tracking.

I…

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Bleeping iCloud!

Apparently, since I usually keep a copy of the files on my Desktop for easy access, I didn’t think about the fact that that meant the darn folder would have been in my iCloud folder; I found all but one of the project files, but it’s luckily not one actually used in the video.

This was just me being a dumbo. Although now I’m having…

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It’s a pretty simple, self-explanatory problem: I accidentally moved ALL of my media files and I now have one linked file. I tried “Locate” when the prompt came up telling me the files were missing, but it keeps saying “file not found”; I know I didn’t delete them, but I simply moved them into another folder, however, everything is stored in…

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I’m attempting to generate steam coming from a cauldron with Trapcode Particular, however, even when following the Red Giant tutorial(s), I get this weird red X when I apply Particular to a layer. I get no preview of what I’m doing, which means I can’t achieve anything. How in the devil do I do this? Please help me!