Category: After effects

One of the biggest causes of stutter and lag when using After Effects is having a lot of compositions and layers. This combined with the use of effects and 3D camera work can seriously slow down your compositions and render times. Is 16GB of RAM enough for After Effects? The minimum amount of RAM that […]

After Effects must use memory and processor resources to update open panels, which may slow the work that you are doing in another panel. Create a region of interest. If you are working on a small part of your composition, limit which portion of the composition is rendered to the screen during previews. See Region […]

While After Effects itself does not contain any stock music or sound effects, the Creative Suite or Creative Cloud has a big library of stock music and sound effects included. In CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 the audio files are conventiently accessible from Adobe Soundbooth as shown in Andrew Davis’ tutorial Free Music & Sound FX […]

An After Effects snapshot is basically a copy of one frame that you can use as reference to compare with another frame in your composition. The snapshot image is stored in your computer memory but you can’t copy or paste the image/frame in After Effects or Photoshop. When we were reading we ran into the […]

Motion designers and VFX artist below is the list of the After Effects shortcuts specially listed for you. The above After Effects shortcuts will be a game-changer for you once you start using them. These shortcuts can save you valuable time and effort. How to change keyframes in after effects? Hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift while starting […]

Plug-ins costs Third-party developers usually create these plugins. Some After Effects plugins are free, but most of them cost money. However, if you are a creator on a low budget After Effects can be expensive as it requires a subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe have recently ajusted their pricing plan so you can buy […]

After Effects is used widely in TV and film post-production for the creation of special effects, animation, and video compositing. Projects created using After Effects can be used in broadcast TV, video, on the web, in-store displays, and kiosks. After Effects is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe After Effects is a video and […]

There are tons of reason why the rendered file is over large. Mostly, it is because you’ve selected an lossless codec, as like, Apple Pro. Res and AVC-Intra. They are quite different from the H. 264, HEVC, VP8 and many other high-compressed codec. Another thing we asked ourselves was why does after effects take so […]

Memory (RAM) Depending on the length, resolution, and complexity of your projects, After Effects can often benefit from having very large amounts of RAM available. Larger amounts of RAM allows AE to store more previews in RAM rather than on a cache disk which can result in smoother playback. In short, RAM is needed in […]

As this shows, side effectwritten as two words has been a lot more common throughout the past half-century with the hyphenated version used much less. That said, the recorded uses of side-effectare not negligible, some people do hyphenate. One of the next things we wanted the answer to was: do you put a hyphen after […]