After Effects

I am new to after effects and am looking for a way to make the row of vehicles loop continuously almost like a seamless pattern not sure how to go about this? Theres about 8 vehciles and I've masked a precomp with them animated insideThis is inside the precomp I found a tutorial to animate them on a path and created keyframes with a Null object but I don't know how to loop it with the car in the beginning so theres not a big gap at the end when the cycles finished  

Trying to prep shots used in some AE comps for grade and want to take into Premiere Pro to make an XML for Davinci operator - I keep getting this error message which then force quits AE. Any ideas?  

I constantly get this "Failed to write XMP metadata" error message after rendering my files. I'm using version 17.7, but this has happened with previous versions too. The resulting files work fine, but I'd really like to NOT see this message every time I render. I also have to regularly restart AE as my RAM previews just stop working too. Adobe team, please focus on making AE usable again. Thanks.

When I insert a video or image into the project I just created, and add effects like CC, Zoom, Shake, and others, After Effects simply closes without leaving any message on the screen.I'm not sure if these are faulty plugins because I've had them for a while, and it happens with almost all plugins.Help me if you can.

I've been exporting gifs using AME for these icons that I have been making, and up until the last one they were coming out with no issues. Now all of the sudden, every time I try to export a gif, it comes out with this crazy dithering on it. I've attached my "Phase3.gif" which came out with no problems, and then my "Phase4.gif" which I exported immediately after but came out all jacked up. Have tried exporting with a number of settings now and even tried exporting as an MP4, bringing the MP4 into After Effects, and then exporting into a gif, but on every single one I get this wierd dithering. Any ideas? I'm really helpless to figure this out at this point.

Hi! I've had this problem for a long time, the screen freezes for 5-10 seconds, then turns on again and this inscription is written there (attached screenshot). I do not know what to do, I have an Nvidia GTX 1660 ti graphics card and 64 GB RAM. Please help me solve this problem!

hi! i downloaded a plugin called "magic bullet looks" following a youtube video. every time i try to download it, it always says "This installer application has been moved. It must run from its original folder containing a packages directory. The installer will now exit." i tried downloading it many times, but it keeps saying the same thing. does anyone know what i can do to fix this?

 At the image above, I would like the "coffee cup" to use the Null Object's rotation as a position. As you can see I am trying to make a clock animation, when the short hands points to 10 o'clock, the coffee cup should be there too but that's not the problem. 

I'm having this issue on every post 2020 versions of After Effects: When I flip horizontally or vertically a layer the rotation of all the layers linked to it get inverted. It's really hard to animate layers like that because the rigs start to behave way less intuitive.I would like to know if there's any way to solve this problem and make that the parented layers behave like they used to on older versions.

Cómo puedo descargar una versión anterior de After Effects? En Creative Cloud no me da la opción.

Hi! Every time I try to to a reverse copy-paste keyframes, I get this message: After Effects error: attempt to inquire about a key value in a time stream with no key values ( 29 :: 84) I tried on two different computers, and I get the same result all the time.I work on a MacBook Pro 16-inch 2023 (Apple M2 Pro) with 32 GB of memory, and I'm currently using After Effects 25.3.2. Can someone help me, please?Thank you! Chris.

Here's something I'm not getting ever after trying to figure out why it's happening. So I'm working on a cutout animation for one of my classes and all I really need to do is move and rotate body parts. This only started now but whenever i use the rotation tool it's inverted, or just going the opposite direction of my mouse. To put it in perspective if I'm turning something clockwise, its going counter clockwise (rotate object up but it goes down instead and vise versa). Any tips or reason as to why this is happening? It's really annoying

I accidentally clicked on "Do not Migrate" with the latest update when prompted to migrate settings.  I wanted to click on "Migrate Settings."  But the prompt is gone now, and I would still like to migrate my settings.  Is it possible to migrate still?

Is there a way to create a magnet to which particles would stick? I just cannot find this functionality and the online manual sucks so there's no help there.

Hi all, I have to export a lot of different still images with a specific naming but each time i do a Save Frame As... , it adds the frame number at the end of comps name. I would like to know if there's any way of removing it by default.  In the render queue, I always have to select comp's Output To: and Re-select "Comp name" manually for each export and it is really a pain . Thanks in advance

Hi gang; I have a plugin that does it's thing via checking out another layer. If I grab the effect layer in the timeline (the colored bar) and shift it left or right, to have my effect start earlier or later, it doesn't. It just starts the effect midway through. This is because the effect relies on the composition's current frame. As such, I think I need to find a function that returns the offset that the layer has been shifted in the timeline. So if I were to shift the layer 5  frames earlier in the timeline, I need a function that returns that. I saw in the SDK there is AEGP_GetLayerOffset: Get the offset from the start of the composition tolayer time 0, in composition time.AEGP_GetLayerOffset(AEGP_LayerH layerH,A_Time *offsetPT); Is this what I would want? I tried to find some examples of how to use this but didn't find any. Any suggestions? I'm not sure I was able to convey what I'm after but hopefully so. Thanks,-Rich

i can't solve this problem i try everything can you help pls

Am wondering if anyone knows the keyboard shortcut to change the "focus" to the timeline panel.  I couldn't find anything in the keyboard editor.  There is a similar functionality in Premiere using Command + 3.  Any help would be appreciated.

Hello! I created a project using layers from illustrator as I have done multiple times before. In After Effects everything seems to be in the right place, but when I send to Media Encoder to export, the sahdow layers change position and get clipped. Is there a setting i need to change when exporting that may be causing this? I've tried multiple presets and it looks like this with any of them.Layers:On After effects:On Media Encoder / exported videoThank you!