After Effects

I make videos where I darken scenes using brightness and contrast to lower brightness, then have the scenes light back up, again, based on music using Sound Keys. The problem I run into a lot is that white does not darken the way everything else does by lowering brightness. I use hue / saturation at times to lower lightness but that usually leaves it looking a flat and unnatural gray. I know I can using masking and adjustment layers to lower exposure or other tricks, but I am looking for a way that will simply allow me to use an effect or plugin that will handle the white for me without masks or isolating all of the white elements in the scene.  I am less interested in realism than the need to have the white appear visually like all of the colors and react with brighness in a nearly identical way so that the viewers' eyes do not get drawn to the white areas due to a seeming contrast to how colors react when the dark to light shift happens with sound keys. Not s

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I have created a plugin that tints an image with a color. In a previous post, I explained how the iterate function was iterating over every pixel of the sequence, and not the clip, leading to performance issue and bugs. The issue was partially solved by passing an effect area to the function. The following code is how I am creating the effect area.const PF_Rect effectArea = { in_data->pre_effect_source_origin_x, in_data->pre_effect_source_origin_y, params[PLUGIN_INPUT]->u.ld.width - in_data->pre_effect_source_origin_x, params[PLUGIN_INPUT]->u.ld.height - in_data->pre_effect_source_origin_y };While I was testing my plugin to look for bugs, I realized that the effect area was never changing, regardless of other effects applied alongside my plugin that would change the clip's origin. I discovered this bug using an animated "Transform" effect on the clip. I linked two videos of the bug for a better understanding of my issue (one with the tint effect before t

I can understand Replace Footage which can be used to replace lost link. What is the pupose of Reload Footage?   

hi! i have a mac m2 that i recently updated to the most recent beta os (tahoe) and i use ae 24.1. everytime my mac goes in sleep mode, it crashes and saves a crash version of my project. does anyone know what the issue may be?

In the most recent updated of Adobe After Effects, version 25.3.1 (Build 3) the zoom in and out feature using the Option+scroll shortcut is no longer working. It's incredibly frustrating. Is there a solution for this issue or a a way to restore the feature?

Hi,This is my very first time using After Effects, and I’m already completely stuck. I’m working on a very basic project (just resizing a clip inside another, no effects or animation), and AE freezes as soon as I try to scale a layer. After a short moment, it crashes with a message like "Unable to allocate memory (7000MB)", even though I have 32GB of RAM.My setup: RTX 3060, 32GB RAM (dual channel), Intel i5 12th gen, fast SSD, latest Studio Drivers installed.I’ve already tried everything, including all the steps in your startup troubleshooting page:https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/how-to-troubleshoot-startup-issues-in-after-effects-using-the-startup-repair-options/td-p/13866327Plus:Safe Mode launchPurged all memory + disk cacheChanged cache foldersDisabled GPU acceleration (Mercury, hardware panels, etc.)Lowered RAM usage (24GB AE / 8GB other apps)Set preview resolution to QuarterTested both AE 2024 and AE 2025 → same problemPremiere Pro runs perfectly on my mac

how to fix After Effects warning: there are duplicated effect plug-ins installed on your drive.Message was edited by: Moderator

hello everyone,So im new to after effects and im trying to make an edit, but to make one of the transitions I have to use an adjustment layer and put it above the two clips i want the transition to be in. The problem is that whenever i apply the transform effect and change the position to the adjustment layer it doesn't seem to add any effect to my clips, meaning that when i play the video its like nothing happened, like no edit or change was made. My guess is that my adjustment layer isn't working.If someone knows how to fix this it would really mean a lot!Thanks! XOXO

When I'm on my composition and try and preview it gives like a 5 to 9 second delay, this is usually because of .mp3 files slowing it down, so should be switched to something like .wav which has solved it in the past, but this time I don't have any audio, I'm previewing in the lowest quality, and it still delays. I honestly don't know what to do. I can't work on the composition with this infuriating delay. 

Ao usar o track de camera aparece o seguinte erro: "tempo limite ao obter conexão com o servidor dynamic link"

I recently upgraded to a Mac with an M4 Max chip, and transferred my old mac over. I have an old version of Particular, which I know won't work on this machine. Every time I start up AE, I get a warning message that particular has failed to load. I have no idea how to get rid of this message. Other threads have suggested deleting things from the following locations:/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/Trapcode/Applications/Adobe After Effects 2025/Plug-ins/Format/Trapcode I've checked both of these, and these folders don't exist- I can't find any folders relating to Particular on my machine. I've tried reinstalling After Effects, no luck. Can anyone help?

Is it possible to take a cropped section of a video and use that to create a pattern fill? I have a video that is 1080x1920 and a small portion of it say 200x200 (basically a clean area of animated dust over black) I want to use to generate a fill for another comp that is 1080x1920 so that dust can be used as a pattern source to fill a larger area?

Hi guys i want to make a line circle around an object i tried trim path it kind work, but not the way i wanted, i want to achieve the same result in the sample on the link, the trim path disappear when reach 100% the start and the end right? But i want it keeping in loop, how can i do that? I sent you the attachment the two small blue lines circle around the square: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qJf7Dz7SE--Pi8RkI5dAC8ruCEQRKBMP/view?usp=drivesdk   

Dell XPS 8960 / 32G Ram / 13th Gen i7 / NVIDIA GeForce RTX3070Hey crew. Looking for some help here. I'm using 3d layers and camera to create a close/far rotation effect, and it would be great to utilize top view to build these keyframes in the comp window. BUT for some reason, Top View refuses to show my layers, or my camera. It's just a black screen. All other angles, (Active, Right, Front) work perfectly. It seems like a weird glitch, and it has worked in the past, in this project. Here's what I've tried:- purge cache memory in the preferences dialog  - manually deleting user libraries / presets in My Docs- manually deleting AE Cache files in AppData/Roaming- Reinstalling A.E.(vers) 24.2.1- updating GPU drivers (NVIDEA studio driver) Any ideas?? I'd love for this to work. 

When working in after effcets on my mac the color is the way I want it to look and i think it looks great but as soon as I try to export it from after effects the color looks washed out and a lighter color as pictured below. Can anyone help me resolve this issue. Thanks. 

Hi Ive recently updated my After Effects and since then I now do not have most of my quicktime codecs, I followed the suggestion on the problem on adobe solutions page: Some QuickTime codecs missing in After Effects but with no luck. Pls help

Hi Guys,In After Effects 2018 (version 15.1.2) I was able to use the Apple Color Emoji font directly inside AE. My process was to create a line of text, change the font to Apple Color Emoji, then pull up the Emoji font keyboard and double click on the emojis I wanted to put in the line of text. In After Effects 2019 (version 16.0.1), I can't get the emojis to appear in the line of text after I double click on them. However, in the composition panel, you can see the emojis in the source name of the text layer...I've included screenshots of both a 2018 & 2019 project for reference and I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.Is there a work around to use this font inside of AE 2019? Or maybe a setting I'm missing? Or is this just a bug that was overlooked in the update? I'd love to take advantage of the updated Essential Graphics tools but if I can't use the emoji font then I'll have to keep using AE 2018 Thank you in advanced for any help!

I've created a comp to use a an Essential Graphics template and added the 'Source' of the text so that it is editable. However when I make any changes to the text, they are not reflected in any instances?

I am currently creating an Premiere Pro plugin using the After Effects C++ SDK. I created a simple Tinter plugin that tints all pixels in my clip. To iterate on all of the pixels, I am using the iterate function. My problemThe plugin worked well, but when I applied it to a clip that had a smaller resolution (1920 x 1080) than my sequence global resolution (3840 x 2160), I realized that the effect was applied to all the sequence's pixels, and not just my clip's pixels. I don't understand why, since I didn't neither manipulate the output size nor used the PF_OutFlag_I_EXPAND_BUFFER flag. What I have checked so farUsing breakpoints and the debugger, I verified that no variable (in_data, out_data, output, all of the extent_hint variables) was containing informations about the sequence resolution. The only time where the sequence resolution was visible was within the iterate function, when looking at the x and y coordinates, but I have no idea as

Okay, first time doing a post like this, so please go easy on me everyone. I have been banging my head against this roadblock for the last few days I have multiple lines that need to have a trim effect that comes out from the edge of the screen. They are all of various lengths and angles. What I am after is a way that all the lines emerge at the same speed, so that the shorter ones finish first while the longer ones finish last. Trim path seems to be the way to go, but that only works on a percentage, and I haven't found another way to get this to work. I figure an expression might be the way to go, but nothing I have tried has worked