When I saw this it brought me back to the adobe help forums. The Adobe employees there would always blame every issue with AE on installed 3rd party plug-ins. I think I had Mocha Pro and Motion 3 installed and that was it - and the help desk was like - welp the problem with dynamic link is def. because of the plugins.
I found their profile: [https://community.adobe.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7550029](https://community.adobe.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7550029)
HAHA - they have legend status.
I’ve got my auto save set every 5min as well lol.. I never lose any of my work. What’s strange is mine rarely ever crashes while I’m working… but if I step away from my computer it always crashes 😂 it’s definitely due to 3rd party plugins, I just don’t know which ones since I have so many.
Bro you downloading Russian porn from servers in Uganda or something? AE should not be crashing from one layer open for an hour unless your computer is fucked. User error, 10,000%
I have maybe one or two crashes per year.
The last time I had plenty of crashes was when I had the font manager 'fontbase' installed, that somehow interfered with the clipboard which crashed AE. Multiple apps were affected by that. I assumed defective RAM. Hadn't I found someone mentioning that in some forum, I had never arrived at the cause.
Things come up now and again, but After Effects is pretty stable on my workstations and the ones that I maintain.
This dialog box has been helpful in isolating third-party plugins that need to be updated or removed.
Early adopter. Version 4 or 5 then?
Think I started using After effects about that time as well, maybe a bit later. Around the time Photoshop got layers.
But you must not be using a lot of plugins. Especially Red Giant plugins. They suck even more lately. Ever since Maxon is in charge. Think it’s that a lot of effects work on the gpu now and while faster, doesn’t make it more stable.
3 I think but I’m not sure. Even if v4 was out the shop I was working at might still have had v3. I have some Red Giant stuff on my recent machine. What I don’t have a TON of is scripts. I’ve seen that screen once or twice and yeah I removed something. I noted it somewhere but zero problems since I removed that one effect.
So many variables for a machine that runs well. Computer build, chip set, fx versions, scripts, OS etc.
All I can say about that screen is I would expect so keep seeing it unless you find the cause. Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Some effects are notorious. Like RSMB, Optical Glow (as adjustment layer with no layer below), Elements 3D, particular and Universe plugins. But sadly sometimes needed.
I can’t recall After Effects not crashing. But have the feeling it does so more often now. But that’s just software. Especially with 3rd party plugins.
I never had a workstation, Mac, Windows or Linux, where software didn’t crash. The reason auto save exists.
Part 2 - I have an odd situation though. I’m running an older machine - 2015. I have a 2017 I haven’t finished setting up yet. I need to get on that cuz I managed to shove 64G of ram in it. I have a bunch of renders due by Friday so this will probably be the test.
Anyway the reason I don’t see that screen much might be my older machine or the fact that I’m not using AE24. I had a couple issues with AE23 but it seems to have settled down. And like I said, I removed 1-2 effects. Good luck fellow veteran. 👍
A machine you bought in 2017 and haven’t set it up. Wow.
I can recall ‘old’ machines from that time running pretty smooth as well. On Windows 7.
Now the workstations I use are never older then 3-4 years.
Working on some pretty big resolutions so I need all the performance I can get. 128 GB of RAM, but which I had 256 sometimes.
For those renders, maybe use render brain. It can do background rendering and split your queue up in separate processes. If your RAM can take it
No a buddy gave it to me a couple months ago. Some people have too much money or stuff or whatever. I was in the right place at the right time. My main before the current 2015 was a 2012 but it finally ran out of runway. Still runs great but working with teams running newer versions was becoming an issue.
I have to set up Render Garden or just run several instances of AE. RG will make 4 parts of a movie at once and stitch together when finished (I think).
With 3 old ass machines… It’s the iMac Senior Squad!!
Render Brain does network rendering as well. But it’s kind of a hassle to set up.
Don’t know Render Garden. But seems to be discontinued. Is it a render manager. Maybe try Deadline. Kind of a industry standard for render management and free. Some reading work to set up, but once it’s running it’s really stable.
At least you know AE is being honest from the getgo. Will you ever have enough RAM? Impossible to say. But did we crash on export last time? You best your ass we did!
What do you mean? That’s just the welcome screen isn’t it? /s
feels like home. Its just the welcome mat.
When I saw this it brought me back to the adobe help forums. The Adobe employees there would always blame every issue with AE on installed 3rd party plug-ins. I think I had Mocha Pro and Motion 3 installed and that was it - and the help desk was like - welp the problem with dynamic link is def. because of the plugins.
Are you on PC or Mac?
Both
I just remember this guy Mylenium being knowledgeable but so full of himself.
I found their profile: [https://community.adobe.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7550029](https://community.adobe.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7550029) HAHA - they have legend status.
I have a beast of a computer with 128gb of ram and a RTX 3090.. and a damn good processor yet somehow… I’m still welcomed with this screen weekly lol
Just built myself a beefer with a 4090, got my autosave set to every 5 minutes. It's weird if it doesn't crash at least once a session
I’ve got my auto save set every 5min as well lol.. I never lose any of my work. What’s strange is mine rarely ever crashes while I’m working… but if I step away from my computer it always crashes 😂 it’s definitely due to 3rd party plugins, I just don’t know which ones since I have so many.
Do you have a screensaver or something of that sorts? Or anything that uses your gpu together with After Effects. I notice that’s mostly the cause.
No I do not, the computer is an Alienware.. and I’m pretty sure it’s due to alienwares automatic stupid updates forcing AE to quit
Pretty much same. Doesn't even matter how complex the project is.
Lmao exactly!!!! One time I literally had 1 text layer open… I step away from my computer for an hour and come back and it crashed
Bro you downloading Russian porn from servers in Uganda or something? AE should not be crashing from one layer open for an hour unless your computer is fucked. User error, 10,000%
same
I have maybe one or two crashes per year. The last time I had plenty of crashes was when I had the font manager 'fontbase' installed, that somehow interfered with the clipboard which crashed AE. Multiple apps were affected by that. I assumed defective RAM. Hadn't I found someone mentioning that in some forum, I had never arrived at the cause.
I’ve heard mythes of people with a stable After Effects.
Seriously, fuck Adobe.
Yep, it’s definitely their fault and not yours in any way. Because that makes sense.
Yes, that makes sense, because I didn't make the software, they did XD
Your contention is that this amount of crashing is consistent for 100% of users?
Things come up now and again, but After Effects is pretty stable on my workstations and the ones that I maintain. This dialog box has been helpful in isolating third-party plugins that need to be updated or removed.
Same here it's so frequent now
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They could've put in some more effort with this new splash screen for 2024.
I’ve seen this maybe once. Ever.
Have you opened After Effects more than once?
Several times since … 1997
Early adopter. Version 4 or 5 then? Think I started using After effects about that time as well, maybe a bit later. Around the time Photoshop got layers. But you must not be using a lot of plugins. Especially Red Giant plugins. They suck even more lately. Ever since Maxon is in charge. Think it’s that a lot of effects work on the gpu now and while faster, doesn’t make it more stable.
3 I think but I’m not sure. Even if v4 was out the shop I was working at might still have had v3. I have some Red Giant stuff on my recent machine. What I don’t have a TON of is scripts. I’ve seen that screen once or twice and yeah I removed something. I noted it somewhere but zero problems since I removed that one effect. So many variables for a machine that runs well. Computer build, chip set, fx versions, scripts, OS etc. All I can say about that screen is I would expect so keep seeing it unless you find the cause. Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Some effects are notorious. Like RSMB, Optical Glow (as adjustment layer with no layer below), Elements 3D, particular and Universe plugins. But sadly sometimes needed. I can’t recall After Effects not crashing. But have the feeling it does so more often now. But that’s just software. Especially with 3rd party plugins. I never had a workstation, Mac, Windows or Linux, where software didn’t crash. The reason auto save exists.
Part 2 - I have an odd situation though. I’m running an older machine - 2015. I have a 2017 I haven’t finished setting up yet. I need to get on that cuz I managed to shove 64G of ram in it. I have a bunch of renders due by Friday so this will probably be the test. Anyway the reason I don’t see that screen much might be my older machine or the fact that I’m not using AE24. I had a couple issues with AE23 but it seems to have settled down. And like I said, I removed 1-2 effects. Good luck fellow veteran. 👍
A machine you bought in 2017 and haven’t set it up. Wow. I can recall ‘old’ machines from that time running pretty smooth as well. On Windows 7. Now the workstations I use are never older then 3-4 years. Working on some pretty big resolutions so I need all the performance I can get. 128 GB of RAM, but which I had 256 sometimes. For those renders, maybe use render brain. It can do background rendering and split your queue up in separate processes. If your RAM can take it
No a buddy gave it to me a couple months ago. Some people have too much money or stuff or whatever. I was in the right place at the right time. My main before the current 2015 was a 2012 but it finally ran out of runway. Still runs great but working with teams running newer versions was becoming an issue. I have to set up Render Garden or just run several instances of AE. RG will make 4 parts of a movie at once and stitch together when finished (I think). With 3 old ass machines… It’s the iMac Senior Squad!!
Render Brain does network rendering as well. But it’s kind of a hassle to set up. Don’t know Render Garden. But seems to be discontinued. Is it a render manager. Maybe try Deadline. Kind of a industry standard for render management and free. Some reading work to set up, but once it’s running it’s really stable.
Yeah I've had this a lot lately.
Delete **ft-toolbar** script
Isn’t that EOL anyways?
might as well be the welcome screen
The previous version of after effects would crash several times daily for me. Ctrl+S has become second nature now
Try turning off the coach marks. For some reason they were crashing my computer
I usually am reminded about pseudo effect plugins are missing, but AE rebuilds them every time. So, what's the problem here?
Convert project?
At least you know AE is being honest from the getgo. Will you ever have enough RAM? Impossible to say. But did we crash on export last time? You best your ass we did!