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My device is weak and I can't use the 2025 version of the app. I need the 2019 version. If anyone can help, I would be grateful.
I work with dozens of 2d animators (myself included) who would love to make After Effects shape and puppet pin animations a bigger part of our workflow, but we're limited by the current selection tool. When animating a complex shape (or a mesh of puppet pins), it can get quite tedious using the rectangle selection to manually select each group of vertices and pins we want to transform. (I've attached a gif showing how Lasso can be easily twice as fast). Having a Lasso tool (like the one in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Animate) would save us countless hours, help After Effects integrate even more seamlessly with Photoshop & Illustrator, and free us up to create much more complex and beautiful shape, puppet pin, and character animations. Other users have also noted that a lasso selection tool for keyframes in the timeline would also be extremely helpful in their workflows. Thanks for reading, and please upvote if you agree! 🙂 (Kudos
the sapphire plugin doesn't work cause whenever I use s_shake after effects crashes and it exits out ae please help
Adobe ponete las pilas. muchas herramientas de IA que nadie pidió pero una herramienta fundamental alta para la mierda.
Hi AE wizards!I am trying to create a simple lowerthird .morgrt with the top text layer and bottom text layer in one text box. So when people use the template to change the text, the text box will resize accoring the whichever text line is longer. Text is left aligned and the height of the box is fixed so only the width needs to adjust to the right. Font size is also not adjustable. I am familiar with the below expressions for a single text layer. I am wondering if it is possible to manipulate this to adjust to two layers instead? Shape layer expressions:Size property:s = thisComp.layer("Firstname Last Name");w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width;h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height;[w,h] Position property:s=thisComp.layer("Firstname Last Name")w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width/2;h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height/2;l=s.sourceRectAtTime().left;t=s.sourceRectAtTime().top;[w+l,h+t] Here is what I have experimented with two layers but I keep getting an error in the expre
Hi, I am in great danger, I need some guidance from seniors. 😥 I have two separate comps. I have animated a particular layers 'position' in one comp. and I want to copy paste those keyframes and want exactly same movement in another comp's another particular layer. But when I copy paste that things get messy. Please tell me how can I solve this. 😥 😥
For some chroma key jobs where Keylight fails, the good old Color Range keyer gets better results. But unfortunately, it is stuck in the 8bit era.Please update it to work with 16bit.
Hello. I've just installed After Effects on a new work computer, and I'm having issues getting the Preview window to play or show anything (see images below - the second one is where I have taken it off full screen then made it full screen again). The preview doen't show when not playing, and doesn't play at all. If I have music and play, I can hear the music play but the timeline won't keep moving along. I've tried all the usual stuff (purge cache, uninstall/reinstall, change system setting to be adjust for best appearance, etc.) but nothing has worked.The audio only has one driver (MME) and doesn't give me the ASIO or any other option. I can export and render without any issues, and when the cursor is over the preview area, the preview tab tells me the info about what is there (where the cursor is). Also, After Effects always freezes on exit, and I have to force quit it (I presume this is related some how?). Thanks
Inspo Vid:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_myHyrVpIkwProblem vid:https://drive.google.com/file/d/19-digTkzO9m8rIxL40qsvXRQggFCx4M2/view?usp=drive_linkNeed help with points follow nulls.What I've done so far:1.) Create a shape and turn the path into bezier points.2.) Selected the new path and toggled points follow nulls.Instead of the nulls appearing in its own layers, they appear in the effects tab instead. Managed to do it correctly before with the nulls showing up, but I don't really understand how it might be appearing in the effects tab instead. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
Hi everyone,I am receiving the message above in screen crab when I activate the 3d effect on any layer, the message appears, and the rest of the work stops. The message is showing that "Cannot create font 'Tahoma", but actually, this is an incorrect message. I don't have the font Tahoma installed in my system.If one has the same glitch or something, please guide me on how to get rid of this issue. It is very annoying, and I am also not able to work on 3d in AEs.
Along with migrating preferences, it would be a HUGE time-saver for there to be a tool/process to migrate plug-ins, extensions, and non-native fx when moving to a new version of AE. While some can be copied over, not all, and not having to manually re-install things would make life easier.
Estoy aprendiendo a hacer un tipo de edición y me sucede que quiero hacer la capa del texto matte alpha de la capa luz pero no tengo forma de hacerlo a menos que retire que la capa sea 3D. Como muestro en el video, en el tutorial la persona tiene sus capas en 3D y le aparece para convertir sus capas en matte alpha pero yo toda capa que esta activada en 3D me quita la posibilidad de convertirla en matte alpha. De que forma podría solucionar esto?
When exporting a video in After Effects 2025, is there a way to reduce the file size without changing the canvas size? I tried lowering the bitrate, but it still says the file size will change when I export it. Why is this?
I'm new to AE. I want to create a moving mask which follows a shape (a human body) so that I can mask out the background and replace it. How?
We can access marker times , keyframes times etc. But we cannot access then work area start and finish times via expressions.this will be helpful for creating loops and much more i suspect. somethingLike = thisComp.workAreaStart; andThis = thisComp.workAreaEnd;It can return time values just like inPoint and outPoint does for a layer.thanks
Hi, I want to loop the start and end of trim path but randomly for each line.. like line 1 start it's loop at 2 second, line 3 at 4 second. and none of them will overlap with one another's animation timing, I mean suddenly line 2 start its loop and line 3 and line 1 are not looping, again when line 1 looping line 2 and 3 not animating. . they will happen solo at their own time. And I want this to continue for as long as the main comp goining on, say 20 second, each line will be in a loop but different timing... . How can I write the expression? Thank you.
I'm working on a plugin that deals with Alembic 3D files. I can parse the geometry in the .abc and load it. What I really want is for that data to populate a dropdown menu in the plugin. But I can't seem to make the dropdown menu dynamic. So, when I select my .abc layer in After Effects comp, I can't get it to populate the dropdown with info from that file. This reminds me of how "Visible Layers" in the Mocha plugin works. It dynamicly loads info from Mocha, but it's in a popup menu. What is that technique called?
So any clip i use position keyframes that are easy eased or seperated keyframes aswell, or anything like that it shows a very glitched graph like this, I reinstalled after effects, tried to do a new project etc but i dont know how to fix it, and it was normal before.
So I have a stroke animation animating with vegas with a 3D camera in the comp. Problem is as my camera starts to move, my strokes start to flicker/jitter. I am using Continous Rasterization on my layer and this is the result. Although If I turn OFF the Continous Rasterization the problem goes away but I lose my quality and thats not what I want. I want to animate my layers with vegas only and without losing quality. Any potential fix for this or any other workaround?Comp settings:-1920 x 1080-24 fps-32 bpc
Hello!I work with the latest version of AE (18.0.1.) and now am trying to paint some simple dots on a solid (after double clicking on it), but the size of the brush won't change when I open the brush window. On the screenshot you can see the window, it seems to be dead, doesn't react on clicking on it. Does anybody know the problem and has a solution? Probably it is something completely obvious, but I jaust cannot see it 🙂Thanks and cheers!
please help me thoroughly , how to make this type of reel
In the video, i've used the typewriter preset on the "running". However, i cant use it on the "down" because it starts typing from the d (i want the ball to reveal it as it bounces). Ive tried reversing keyframes using the assistant but that just looks like the text is slowly being deleted. How can i make it so the "down" is revealed backwards?
Hey everyone,I’m having a weird issue in After Effects and I’m stuck.Every time I try to export a composition using Render Queue, I get this error:“After Effects error: An unexpected error occurred while exporting a composition. Error Code: 19972.”I’ve tried restarting AE and my computer, clearing cache, and changing the output format/folder… but it still happens.Has anyone run into this before? Any tips or fixes would be amazing!Thanks a lot
Here it is: https://youtu.be/OXCNKZnXjeYThe two color properties are master properties. The two comps have the same fps.
Hi everyone, I've run into the same problem with the Ae Roto Brush a few times now and it's more or less making it impossible to use the tool at all; Whenever I finish rotobrushing a video clip and go back to the composition window, when I change anything in the composition that somehow triggers the Roto Brush to completely restart the propagating process, which can be very time consuming. Those changes don't even need to be something related to the rotobrush, even stuff like adding a text layer or just looking at a different part of the compisition can trigger this to happen. Has anyone had this same problem?
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