After Effects

Hey guys! So I'm trying to get some work done for a streamer.They have an animation they want me to include in the bigger animations I'm making for them.It's in WebM format.So they sent me the file, and I checked it by adding it to OBS in a scene, and it absolutely 100% has an alpha channel.But I can't get it to work in After Effects at all. It just gives me a black background.I've tried:- Converting the WebM to WebM again in Media Composer (because why not)- Converting it to a different format that has alpha channel (namely, ProRes)- Asking them to zip the file and send it to me, in suspicions that Discord was messing with the file as it got sentNope. Black background still there ruining my life.Help.I'd attach the file here, but no zip or webm support.So here's a Dropbox link [LINK] 

Hi,  I'm using after effects for the first time. I'm using the pen tool and just trying to draw some lines and it is incredibly laggy. Does anyone know why this may be? I have an HP Zbook 15v G5 laptop - intel core i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Nvidia Quadro P600 4GB. Thanks Ben

Currently have a After Effects CES extension that loads a GLB url (from a API) into a GLB URL auto-filled window, I need that URL to be downloaded and converted to a .glb on my computer, after that I need it to be imported into a AE composition.It seems releativiy simple, right?I keep on geting these Error:Download result: EvalScript error.this makes me think the CSInterface.js isn't cooperating maybe. but I can't figure it out.Any suggestions?Thank you in advance!

I am desperately trying to find the extendscript toolkit for an hour. Please dont share CEP github link or Psyrius github link , I have already tried it. It is 32 bit which my machine does not support. I had extendscript toolkit but when i reset my machine everything is gone, why is Adobe trying to hide it, people are still using it, shouldn't be this tough to find it.And in the creative cloud app in older versions too it doesnt show so don't share that tip.

Hi there, I have this issue with some frequency and it seems to happen across multiple machines at my company.  We'll try to send something to media encoder and we'll get an error saying "could not rename file" immediately followed by "AE can't continue: DynamicLinkServer generated an unexpected exception" and then finally "before quitting you have one chance to save" before crashing AE entirely.  For example, right now I'm going through a project with quite a number of comps and trying to build a queue of both multiple comps and multiple sections within those comps.  Just tonight with over 70 comps I'm exporting I've had already 10-15 crashes.   This can happen on a comp once, but then on second try exports fine.  This can be on comps that have plug-ins or comps that have none.  It happens on various projects, not just a specific one.  I've done restarts, cache clears, etc and the problem remains.   Currently I'm running

I just finished creating my animation in After Effects, but I got jittering line animation. I already tried to fix it by increasing the frame rate, adding a noise effect, increasing the bit color from 8bit to 16bit, adding blur, etc., but the problem is still there.I attached the project file too. I know some assets may be missing, but my main problem is in the grid object.Please help me!

I have this script which attempts to create a vignette. However, the Mask mode is set to Add so it is currently a reverse Vignette (ie a soft black ellipse). How to I modify this script to make it Subtract instead? Or if that is not possible, Add Invert?  app.beginUndoGroup("Create Vignette"); var comp = app.project.activeItem; if (comp && comp instanceof CompItem) { var layer = comp.selectedLayers[0]; if (!layer) { // Create a black solid if no layer is selected layer = comp.layers.addSolid([0, 0, 0], "Black Solid", comp.width, comp.height, comp.pixelAspect); } if (layer) { var mask = layer.Masks.addProperty("Mask"); var maskShape = mask.property("maskShape").value; var compWidth = comp.width; var compHeight = comp.height; maskShape.vertices = [ [compWidth * 0.5, 0], [compWidth, compHeight * 0.5], [compWidth * 0.5, compHeight],

Hello, I created a .vpe file in Photoshop. I go to file>import>vanishing pointthe .vpe file is greyed out. A .3ds file is created along with the .vpe file, and that isn't greyed out. But when I select it, I get "unable to execute script at line 138." Any idea what gives? 

Does anybody has this white box pops up when hitting short cuts in after effects? If yes, do you know how to stop that from happening? It has been really annoying as it slows down with my working speed a bit. Would appreciate any advice/help. 

I've been having this weird thing happening over the past few weeks with after effects and I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this. After Effects will just freeze the display on whatever I'm working on and won't change when I move somewhere else in the timeline. I can still "use" after effects, like keyframes, adding effects, opening new comps, etc... but I won't see any of it happening in the display window. When I try to close and restart AE, I get the spinning wheel indefinitely until I force quit. It mostly happens if I get up from my desk for a few minutes and come back. Even just 5 minutes. It also happens often halfway through a render. But it never officially crashes.  A coworker hadn't experienced this, but when she opened the project and tried to render, the same thing happened to her. I deleted all color correction on the footage, and just left in the keying, masks, etc. Then I finally got a finished render. As soon as I added Lumetri, Color Balance, Select

So the my purchase of a new Mac Studio is imminent but... How much would you say is enough memory on a Apple Silicon Mac for pro use of AE? I currently have an Intel based iMac with 64 Gigs of memory and I seem to run out of it constantly. I work with 4K+ comp sizes so memory is everything and you know AE, it will eat up everything it's been given. Since M3/M4 use unified memory, I'm thinking 96 Gigs is the closest thing without sacrifices. Am I wrong about this? What's your experience?

Hi all, I've seen tons of tutorials on how to have the shape layer auto resize around the text, but I can't seem to find a tutorial for the text that auto-resizes based on the shape. The few tutorials I've found didn't work for some reason, I swear I re-verified the expressions so many times. Can anyone help? the shape is a circle by the way.

Hello, I am creating titles for a moving camera 360 pan. Its a house that is under construction and I am tracking boards around to attach titles to. Since its just a slow pan, I am tracking the boards, usually a couple distinct points and then applying only the x axis. But when I play it, the titles don't always move smoothly with the boards. Sometimes, they shift left and right slightly. I started trying to fix it one keyframe at a time, but I have a feeling there has to be a better way, like a way to space the x positions more evenly within a range would be helpful. I've tried a bunch of different things, but nothing seems to make it super smooth. I thought I'd see what other people do for this kind of thing. Things I've tried: -Selecting a range and then moving x position, but moves all to the same exact position.-Finding two parts of the footage where the text is where I want then deleting all keyframes between them  but finding out this really makes the text move ar

I'm creating a MOGRT for a graphic that has a bunch of copyright and legal copy on the bottom. I need to enable it so that editors can change just a portion of one of the lines "© 2025 XYZ Corp. All Rights Reserved. YYY-ZZ-XXXXX" I need the editors to be able to change the YYY-ZZ-XXXXX part. What I've been doing is just having two text layers, one with the non-changeable line and one with the editable line and just putting the source text of the editable line in the MOGRT. It works but sometimes the length of the second line is longer or shorter and I added a position property so the editor can nudge it into the right place. I feel like it could be cleaner/simpler.So I'm wondering if there is a sourceText expression that will allow for changing just the YYY-ZZ-XXXX part if everything is on one text layer

Hi everybody! Is there a possibilty to change the color picker in AE? Idk if this is new, or if I only noticed because recently I'm working with Illustrator a lot: There is no way to pick a color and then simply make it lighter or darker. I cannot chose grey, unless I put in exact numbers in the field... In Illustrator I can pick any shade of grey by simply staying on the left side of the picker. How can I change it to that picker? I'm pretty sure it hasn't been like this forever, since I change shades a lot... 

It didn't let me put a Image in this.In some of the beats there is Floating Squares not attached to anything? Is there something wrong with the audio? I've tried both MP3 & MP4 but the same thing still happens. Is it a setting I need to adjust? I have my graphs on Speed Graphs also.  Any Help Will Be Valued!

I used to be able to select comp anchor position in the comp settings and then scale that comp keeping the layout intact along the chosen anchor - for example, I have a comp 100x100, but need to expand it to 100x200 and keep all layers oriented along the bottom... I would go into Comp settings > Advanced tab and set anchor to bottom, then back to main tab and change the canvas size. But now it seems the no matter where the anchor gets set, the comp scales all x and y keeping content centered. Please fix asap!!!

Hello, sometimes when I finish rendering the video and watch it to see if everything seems okay, there would be an audio pop round a few seconds into the video, but the rest of the audio is fine. In the original source audio, there is no pop, the volume levels are fine (only just hitting the yellow area), and so on. I export the audio using AAC (the same as source audio), 320kbps, 48000 hz, which is exactly the same as my source audio. I have also tried making the first few seconds of the audio fade in, as apparently that can help, but I'm still encountering a random pop five seconds into the video. I'm guessing this is a bug, as my levels and everything else are fine.

 Could anyone give me a very basic explanation of how the HUD in the above image would have masked so that it sweeps around the back of the object. Just a few clues would be enough and then i can google it.  I think the animatiuon was created in 3ds max and the the huds added afterwords. Full video is below: Full video

Working in AE I'm exporting a pile (thousands) of different versions of the same file/comp to Media Encoder.  The encoding however is going slower and slower over time.  Is it because the tmpAEtoAMEProject files generated are getting larger?  My initial processes take less than 45 seconds, but they quickly progresses to over 5 minutes.  The first tmpAEtoAMEProject file is 2.2 MB, and the 900th one is 45MB .  I'd like to be able to run batches over the weekend but I've had to stop it daily to empty the disk cache and restart. Is there a work around?  Any help from the community would be greatly appreciated!

After effects error: crash in progress, last logged message was:<8896><BEE_WorkQueue><5>BEE_Project::TimestampGetNext ZANZIBAR-3: cannot produce Timestamp,frozen=0, open=0 Note:adobe master collection cc 2017Windows 10 Pro   Title edited by Mod

I want to assign a 'click' sound to the value of a repeater value in after effects. How can this effect be achieved? 

I hope this doesn't sound like a bizarre workflow. Let's say I'm doing consulting working with a client on an animation for a how-to video on thier website. I work with the client to carefully gather requirements for the animation in several rounds of meetings. I've done a few wireframes, even threw together a prototype. It's all thumbs up. Time comes to review the work and the client - for what ever reason - decides we need to insert something that they didn't realize they needed until they saw the end product. We talk about what exactly they need and it looks like we need ten seconds of content inserted about 30 seconds into a 4 minute animation with lots of things going on. Is there an easy way to just insert the addition frames to get that additional 10 seconds?

I need to add 4 puppet pins to image using extendscript and change it's positions using keyframesvar puppetEffect = selectedLayer.Effects.addProperty("ADBE FreePin3"); var ARAPGroup = puppetEffect.property("ADBE FreePin3 ARAP Group"); var meshGroup = ARAPGroup.property("ADBE FreePin3 Mesh Group"); var meshAtom = meshGroup.addProperty("ADBE FreePin3 Mesh Atom"); var posPins = meshAtom.property("ADBE FreePin3 PosPins"); var pinAtom = posPins.addProperty("ADBE FreePin3 PosPin Atom"); pinAtom.property("Position").setValuesAtTimes([0,5],[[100,100],[200,200]])But after adding them they are grayed out:What i'm missing?

Hi!I installed the Motion Mosh plugin. After Effects gives an error when I use it. Screenshot attached. Maybe someone knows?