After Effects

When MacBookPro M3 Max wakes up from screensaver, plugin panels with modern UI like Motion4, Flow, MoBar change it's appearance - distort and scale up with blur, while older script panels like Rift with simpler UI stay the same. It only happens if After Effects is on secondary display (DELL P2715Q). When I hover with mouse over distorted panel, it's UI refreshes to normal state. Attached are screenshots with normal and distorted UI. 

Hello! I have to animate this groovy waves for a video and would like some ideias on what to do. I thought about using wave warp and turbulent displacement to give it some movement, but didn't like the result so much, it feels too linear and samey. This waves are made of big parts and some small creases, and i couldn't replicate this with displacement or wave warp. Is there a trick to do this? Do i need to animate it more like 2D animation? Any help is appreciated. 

I am using multiple shapes inside a shape layer, and each shape has a trim path assigned to it. I am trying to move one of the shape path's vertices, but the answer provided here:Move vertexes of a mask around doesn't work in this case.Here is the shape layer set-up:Here is the way it looks in the composition layer with "Path 1" selected in the timeline layer:And here is the way it looks when I click the vertex:The bounding box appears, and all the vertices are selected, but I can only move the shape as a whole and not by individual vertices. It is the same whether I shift-click or just regular click.Any advice would be much appreciated.

I have not used After Effects or Premiere Pro for about two months. The software is completely updated. I opened After Effects to import some clips for what I thought would be some quick work. Unfortunately, After Effects was behaving erratically; it told me that it would have to disable 3d because my video card was not compatible. It then failed to load or display clips added to a composition and then crashed. I assumed, as has happened so often in the past, that I needed to update my graphics drivers. I updated my drivers, restarted the system, and ran After Effects. Same startup complaint; now, however, After Effects crashes immediately upon importing a clip. I uninstalled all of my plugins. I uninstalled After Effects and reinstalled. Same issue. I ran After Effects in Safe Mode. Different error number, same issue.  I am using two nvidia Titan RTX video cards connected via NVLink, each with 24gb of VRAM. My system has 128gb of RAM.

My after effects trim pahts is not working. Can you give me advice on how to fix it? Thank you

Instalé la nueva versión de After effects 25.3.1, y desde eso no puedo abrir ningún proyecto, inicia la apertura del proyecto y al llegar al 58% se bloquea y "no responde",  probé en modo seguro y tampoco. También probé instalar versiones más antiguas y sigue sin funcionar.por favor no quiero perder todos mis proyectos 🙏

I was trying to follow a tutorial elsewhere for animating the drawing of a circle using a trim path on a hand-drawn vector circle I drew. The tutorial only says, "add a Trim Path from the Add menu." I typed in "trim path" into the help search bar in AE, and I cannot find any "Trim Path" option anywhere. Can someone help me find this? I'm using After Effects version 14.2.1.34 on a Macbook Pro running OS X El Capitan.

I have recently transfer my after effects from amcbook to drive. However my mocha plugin is not shifted to the drive i need to know where i should exaclty paste the mocha folder in drive so it can be use that. 

how to solve this error  

Hello All, apologies if this has been covered but I can't seem to find an existing post with this specific issue. I have created a composition which includes png files that I move using the puppet pin tool. I then try to replace the png in the composition with a similar sized one but it is not taking in the project, and especially not taking the edits and effects on the original file such as puppet pin movement etc. Can this be achieved at all? Could it be done via scripting? 

Ok…weird. When We bring an audio file into AE, the duration listed of the file is wrong.In the screenshot attached, the audio file is 4secs, 11 frames.The project windows says it’s 5 seconds long(?).The Media and and out imply 4 seconds long (??)But if we make a comp of the audio file, the Project windows display’s the comps duration correctly. Nothing wrong or odd with the kHz settings, bit rate or frame rate - as far as I can tell.Brought the same audio file into Premiere, and the Project window in PP is correct.

Directly opening a project file (doubleclick or right click > open) while AE is not already opened, results in simply opening the app, not loading the project itself.I find this behaviour counter to expectations, and wish it would load the project as well, like all other Adobe apps do. Currently you have to open the project twice, once to load AE and once more to actually load the project.Is there some reason why AE does not do this?Is it a bug?(same behavior with zero plugins installed, consistent through all available modern AE CC versions)(Macbook Pro M1 Max)

My compositions no longer appear on Media Encoder when I try to export them from After Effects.Also when I try to add them manually from Media Encoder by browsing to the file, it gets stuck on "Connecting to project..."Also when I try to use "add to render queue" and then use the "queue in AME" button it doesn't work (after pressing this button nothing happens) AE Version 24.6.2 (Build 2)AME Version 24.6.1 (Build 2)

Hey guys i have ryzen 5 3600 and gtx 1660 supermy adobe softwares like after effect / premier pro / illustrator lags a lot and most of the times crashes while in lag what can i do it used to work fine but now days its been happening i tried multiple fixes like deleting temp files reinstalling adobe installed studio driver can someone help me find the issuethank you 

key light out of memory glitch issue while using aftereffects 

I’m working on an automation app called X-Cast (built in Electron/NodeJS). The app patches an .aepx project file with correct data and then needs to render a specific comp from that project.I know I can trigger renders using aerender.exe, but I have two main challenges: Populate AE Output Modules in UII need to programmatically load After Effects’ output module presets (codecs and settings, e.g., H.264, ProRes, etc.) into my app’s UI so users can select their desired codec. Is there a way in AE 2025+ to query or export this list without launching the AE GUI?Render without opening AE UIAfter the user selects a codec, I want to start rendering from the command line — ideally using aerender or another supported headless method — so the AE GUI never launches.Questions:How can I fetch the available AE output module presets programmatically (2025+)?What’s the best supported way to trigger rendering of a specific comp from an .aepx via command line, fully headless?Is there any modern API

Hey Yall Im having trouble figuring out how to add a keyframe, fill to this clip. where at the end it fills with color, I can get it keyframed with a solid color but I'm having trouble blacking out the 3 spaces in the middle of the logo... I need a way to post this looking professional so if yall could help me that would be great!

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone had any tutoails or guidence they can send my way. I was trying to create a splash explosion similar to this only in after effects  https://stock.adobe.com/video/water-splash-underwater-explosion-or-object-hitting-the-water-surface-3d-render/379479518#token_type=bearer&expires_in=86399996 I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to do it. I have been watcing a few red giant turoals but I was not sure if there was a better toolset or plugin to look into. Or ateast get somewhat close to the effect 

Bonjour! Il y a quelques semaines je suis passée d'un laptop à un Pc fixe plus performant. A chaque fois que je travaille sur des projets avec des effets (exemple CC particule, Bend it) le logiciel freeze, s'arrête instantannément ou met un message d'erreur. Bien souvent c'est le AfterFX.exe qui tombe en panne. J'ai déjà fait toutes les manipulations nécessaire : mise à jour des pilotes, installation et désinstallation, reboot, retour à Windows 10, retour aux version antérieurs d'After effect. Le problème est toujours là.Elodie29026523q639 a signalé le problème récement ici, mais j'ai bien un seul pilote installé contrairement à elle. Mon nouvel ordinateur : Je tourne sous Windows 11 Professionnel 24H2 26100.4946Carte graphique : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TI SUPERPilotes à jour : 581.15Processeur :  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700KFRAM : 32Vram :16J'ai envoyé un rapport d'erreur avec mon adresse mail après un crash.Merci d'avance pour votre aide!

I'm currently rendering a shot. Tons of FXs so it is taking a while. I accidentally pressed the spacebar and AE switched from the Render Queue panel to a Comp Timeline. EA is still rendering but I can't see the progress bar or the time remaining. How can I switch back to the Render Queue panel? I tried hitting the spacebar but it does nothing. Help, please. I'm using After Effects v18.4.1 because of some compatibility issues.

This bug causes incorrect color space to be exported when working with ACES CG. The project must be set up for ACES workflow. ACES 1.2, 32-bit, ACES CG. I work with EXRs that are also in ACES CG and are interpreted correctly. If you export the composition and leave the color management in the export tab set to “Working color space - ACES CG,” an incorrect color space is exported, namely ACES 2065-1. To work around the bug, you have to explicitly select ACES CG for it to work. Thank you for fixing it. 

It is well known that not all effects work when working in 32-bit mode in After Effects. Some colour modes are also affected and cannot be used in 32-bit mode, because otherwise the highlights in the footage will be greyed out.However, this bug also affects Add mode. This was never the case before, but since the latest updates, it has become a bug. The last version where I used it correctly is 25.1. thank you

Hallo,ich schreibe bewusst auf Deutsch, da ich ein deutschsprachiges After Effects habe und leider keine Idee habe, wie die Bezeichnungen der Tools auf Englisch heißen. Vielleicht liest ein netter Mensch mit, der ebenfalls ein deutschsprachiges After Effects hat und sich besser auskennt als ich. Ich möchte gerne zu Weihnachten eine 3D-Animation erstellen, bei der Weihnachtsgeschenke (vielleicht so 15 Stück) explosionsartig erscheinen und durch die Luft fliegen. Ich bin komplette AE Anfängerin und habe mir mit Chat GPT eine Anleitung erstellen lassen. Leider will es trotzdem nicht klappen. Ich habe Particle World gewählt, habe mit Alt die Geschenke dupliziert, habe sie unter Texture auch zumindest eines ausgewählt. Es bewegt sich rein gar nichts. Explosion habe ich eingestellt und auch Texture Square. Velocity 3, Gravity 0. So wie es mir die KI gesagt hat. Gemini hingegen behauptet, es würde ohne ein Plugin nicht klappen, leider ist dies kostenpflichtig und ich kann es mir überhaup