After Effects

Is there a way to take a precomp and eliminate it and simultaneously move all the elements within it up stream to the parent composition while maintaining all keyframe data?Funny enough, I've never had to do this until now, but another way to ask this is: can one simply move items out of a precomp into its parent?Thanks forum.

I can't open the script Animated Typeface.jsxbin in the latest version of After Effects 25.4. However in the version 24.6.8 I was able to open the script. The message that appear says: Unable to execute script at line 215. JSON is undefined.  

In the last few days, After Effects has been horribly distorting audio on the timeline. This applies to both MP3 and WAV files. The audio renders properly. These are the Preview settings, if it matters. Any suggestions? 

Hello! I'm new to after effects but I'm having a hard time following tutorials and how to use the software, does anyone have a tutorial on how to learn it easier? I'm a visual learner btw !

Bonjour, Sur la dernière version d'After Affects 25.3.2 sous windows, lorsque j'applique n'importe lequel des effets "tremblement" (position, rotation,taille...) rien ne se passe.j'ai tenté d'appliquer les effets sur tout type de calques mais aucun résultat.  Auriez-vous une explication ?

my project use deep glow and some color key effect, i edited on quarter resolution but whenever i change to full its getting flicker? anyone know how to deal with?

Hi, Is it possible in After Effects to change color of the text then goes back to its original color after the word was mentioned by the audio script? It's like a karaoke style but instead of staying to one color following the script. It should go back. Sample is this https://www.instagram.com/p/DNgCTVcxwaa/?hl=en , from "It took me...." text effect around 8 seconds. 

\\so when i go to open after effects it gives me this and it says also gives me plugin errors so ik its about plugins but idk how to fix ive tried restaring pc, reintsalling ae, deleting plugins but its even the plugins that come with ae i get an error so please help 

Posting this incase others are having similar issues or know solutions - I utilise MacOS Applescript in an Ae product (BlenderAe) from the command line https://ae-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/introduction/overview.html#running-scripts-from-the-command-line-a-batch-file-or-an-applescript-script and some users are reporting that it's not working with Ae2024 but works perfectly fine with Ae2023 on the same machine. In my own tests I was able to replicate the issue - DoScriptFile was indeed freezing up and not reaching Ae2024 until I added it to the 'Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access'. But this solution did NOT work for the users that reported the problem, and even re-installing After Effects 2024 hasn't helped them. I'm currently waiting for them to try `sudo tccutil reset All com.adobe.AfterEffects` from the terminal. I don't have the latest mac to test personally atm, so any other ideas on fixing this would be appreciated.

After installing the 25.3 update After Effects will crash on trying to open projects. I have tried creating new projects, saving them and opening those also causes After Effects to crash. I have tried rolling back to 25.22 and the problem still persists. I have also tried completely reinstalling the entire Creative Suite and it didn't resolve the issue. In event Viewer the General Application Hang summary states "The program AfterFX.exe version 25.3.0.71 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel."The details state - APPName AfterFX.exeAppVersion 25.3.0.71ProcessID 0x70e4StartTime 0x1dbe166abcb23d6TerminationTime 269ExeFileName C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2025\Support Files\AfterFX.exeReportId 3fed1eaf-b201-bc7d-028b477b5791HangType UnknownI am running Windows 11 Pro - Version 10.0.26100 Build 26100My machine is a Dell Latitude 555

Hello AE team In the c++ SDK, if there are two characters and text is set as default left to right, we receive all text paths as expected. But if the paragraph options is set to right to left (as customers working in Arabic or Hebrew are) the first (right most) path is ignored.  This affects the very popular VC Saber and a bunch of my text based plugins. Attached is a visual example; the left column is LTR, and the right column is RTL. The first image is the plain text layers, and the second image is with saber and textbox 2 applied. Note how the first column is missing the first (rightmost) character. As a temporary workaround, a dummy character can be placed as the first character but it's a hassle.  Tested on AE 2023 to 2025. Since there's only one version of AEGP_TEXTLAYERSUITE1, I suspect it goes back to whenever RTL text was introduced. Any feedback is appreciated. 

Sat down this morning to the new update. Project freeze up after replacing video footage, like replacing source footage and reloading it from the same name. After that, the project goes F'all to hell. Previews not updating, audio not playing, hanging... PC win 11Ryzen 9950x256 gig of ram x870e godlike2x 4090sseperate cache drive Tried removing prefs, turning off plugins, clear cache and comformed mediaThe workaround is to never overwrite footage, which is ridiculous 

In After Effects when I click on the extension to try to open it, the extension does nothing does anyone know how to fix this. And i'm on version 18.2.1 if anyone asks.

I have an image sequence that I have reversed (CTRL-ALT-R)When I animate the position I can't see the motion path or the position of the keyframes. When I reverse the layerr again (ie back to normal) the keys and motion ttrail becomes visible. Is this a bug?

Intel i9 13900ksRTX 409096GB of DDR5 6000Mhz RAMSamsung 990 Pro After Effects it constantly crashes.  tried reinstalling After Effects, installing older version, clearing cache and all other settings. I've reinstalled video drivers and older video drivers,  

On cleaning up smart mask intepolation it stops and don't work any more i did every thing to do some thing with that but i need help 

Either a bug or a huge oversight usability-wise, but having a very annoying issue with using Essential Properties on a template that is used across a project dozens of times, and now left with having to spend a significant amount of time editing all of these across a multitude of comps, making the whole point of EP kind of moot. Expected behavior:If the text properties of a text field in Essential Properties are NOT enabled, changing the size of that element in the parent subcomp/template should be reflected across all the uses of that template.Experienced behavior:Updating the template's font sizes have no effect on any uses of it. There is no way to "Refresh" or reset those properties, the only way I've found to have those layers reflect the change is to go back to the Essential Graphics panel, enable font size properties for those text fields and then edit, individually, the font size across all the uses of that template. 

Everything was going okay, I made the best edit of my life and then when I opened the project later the program freezes and stops responding for a while and then, I get this stupid error and can't find a way to fix it. I'm really close to finishing this edit and want to get this project done but this error's stopping me. PLEASE HELP ME FIX THIS, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!😭😭😭If this error cannot be fixed let me know if there's a way to get rid of the S_TimeSlice's used in this project so I can continue the proejct without this effect, thank youuu!!!

Hello, I have installed after effect 2019, made some video and began rendering in quicktime (there is no H264) after rendering the video there is only black sreen and music sound, no image or video.what is wrong does anyone know?thanks

Hey guys,since my last update to AE 25.1.0 the possibility of exporting WebM-Files via MediaEncoder (v 25.1) has dissapeared. My collegues still have it. There used to be a downloadable plugin which some (not all) of my collegues needed to install in the past. This plugin is not available via AdobeCloud any more.I do not understand the whole codec-chapter in detail (e.g. why are some codecs available for local rendering why some others are for ME) - simply pushing the button was - and still is - fine for me so far.Can anyone help? Thank you in advance and have a great day!

I've been using camera projection in After Effects for years--only when I tried to implement it using the process I've always used with AFX 2025, it no longer seems to work?  And when I do a search (pretty much everywhere--YouTube/Adobe Community/Google), the only references I can find are referring to the earlier method I've always used with earlier versions--or there are reference to a 3rd party plugin to accomplish this.  Is anyone else encountering this?

For the past month or so every time I go to clear my disk cache AE is claiming that it's empty.  "Are you sure you want to delete all files (0kb) from your disk cache" I have tried reformatting my cache drive, i've deselected and reselected the drive in the Media & Disk Cache settings. I just dont get what's going on and if it's affecting my performance. AE 22.2.1 (Build 3)Macbook Pro M1 Max running Monteray 12.2.1 Screenshots:   

Every time I open AE, passing a while, CTI AND PTI just stop moving, so the preview keeps playing, but only PTI and CTI don't move, I reset AE, my computer, preferences , but nothing is working permanently. Can anyone help?

Hi gang; I am coding a relatively simple plugin with basic particle effects. At the moment, I have sliders that can rotate my around my particles but I would like to use the After Effects 3D camera since that's what it's for. I have gone through the Resizer project and I have successfully pulled the camera and light info. I also carefully read through this thread as well: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/glator-for-dummies-and-from-dummy/m-p/6930311 I see that using the camera matrix, I can pull the camera X, Y and Z coordinates using: matrix.mat[3][0]; matrix.mat[3][1]; matrix.mat[3][2]; I can't find anywhere in the documentation how to pull the remaninig info, like orientation. If I follow the GLater example, it suggests orientation would be: matrix.mat[0][1]; matrix.mat[1][1]; matrix.mat[2][1]; But that returns floating point data. Additionally, taking a look at the camera target, the GLater examples show: matrix.m