After Effects

hey (: i have a drone shot with a driving car across it (top to bottom). i want to have the car "revealing" text "written" on the road but i cant seem to get it perfectly like i want.heres an image of the relevant part of the shoti tried using all adobe softwares like many tutorials said - combing Illustaror and photoshop and after effects and premiere but i just cant actually get it the way i wantthe most frustorating part is that i did that 4 years ago! so any help would be much appriciated  thank you ❤️

Hello AllI have a question when using c++ to develop AE export plug-in,Set the mask in AE and use AEGP_GetLayerNumMasks to query the number of masks,The return value is 0,The specific code is as follows：AE Version: 2025System version: M3 Pro,macOS 15.3 A_long numMasks = 0; RECORD_ERROR(suites.MaskSuite6()->AEGP_GetLayerNumMasks(layerHandle, &numMasks)); for (int i = 0; i < numMasks; i++) { AEGP_MaskRefH maskHandle; RECORD_ERROR(suites.MaskSuite6()->AEGP_GetLayerMaskByIndex(layerHandle, i, &maskHandle)); auto mask = ExportMask(context, maskHandle); masks.push_back(mask); RECORD_ERROR(suites.MaskSuite6()->AEGP_DisposeMask(maskHandle)); }Has anyone encountered similar problems?

When I trim my layers, There are still greyed out areas that show and I can adjust itHow do I disable this

I know this has been posted before, but I've been having major issues with runaway memory use in AE 23.1. I'm using a M1 Max 16 inch Macbook Pro with 64gb. Running a fairly simple project with some pre-rendered .movs with alpha channels comped into scenes using Illustrator assets. Will run fine for 20-30 minutes before the system gets overloaded and I'm out of memory. You can see how much was getting used when it last crashed - 432gb!! Wasn't an issue before M1 native update... looks like I'll be going back to an older version of AE for now 

So I've been having this problem where some of the png images in a sequence are missing. When importing a png sequence from another software (Toon Boom Harmony) I faced this problem. So I attached some files to demonstrate the problem. In a 24fps file I numbered every frame with a total of 68. I exported them as a png sequence and everything was alright until I imported it in AE in 24fps composition. Few images were missing, making the footage not 68 frames long in AE

Hi. I'm having some strange behavior when I use applyPreset on a duplicated layer. I have a duplicated layer,  and I use applyPreset on it, but the preset is applied to the originial layer: var originalLayer = app.project.activeItem.layers[1]; var duplicatedLayer = originalLayer.duplicate(); var presetFile = new File("the/path/to/my/preset"); duplicatedLayer.applyPreset(presetFile); //The preset is applied on originalLayer Is this a normal behavior? If it is, is there a workarround?

I'm not in a position yet to post a thorough bug report on this, but has anyone else been encountering problems with exportasmotiongraphicstemplate() lately? Problems started with the move from AE 23.x to AE 24.x, when AE began insisiting the project be saved between exports, which really limited the utility of the operation for batch MOGRT export scripts. It seems that AE was marking the project as dirty each time it reopened the project after exporting a MOGRT. I was able to work around this by incorporating a save operation, but now the MOGRTs sometimes end up corrupted, with Essential Graphics controls in Premiere being blank or not working correctly (menus appear to have no entries, default text values are blank). And now AE is simply crashing when I try to do a batch export. Is anyone else encountering any of these issues?

is it safe to download saber plugin from https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2016/03/new-plug-in-saber-now-available-100-free/  

Hi, I would like to make Weatherstar XL v1 emulation but if you need tweaking animations, you need current conditions, latest observations, regional forecast, 36 hour forecast, extended forecast, radar, tides, and almanac. Use Adobe Illustrator to make Weatherstar XL icons (1998-2006). We want you to install Akzidenz-Grotesk and more fonts! I also added date & time on the top-right corner. but I added ad crawl. I found a tutorial. Is there anyway on how to do this?

Hi I'm new here! I’m a video editor working with an agency, and I’ve hit a roadblock while creating a dynamic gameplay video for a client (snakeaimtool.pro) where I need to anchor effects like heat distortion and UI overlays to the game’s crosshair. Despite trying standard workflows, I’ve hit three stubborn issues and would love guidance. First, motion tracking struggles with rapid camera movements. The crosshair jitters or loses alignment during quick pans, even with AE’s Camera Tracker and 3D Camera Tracker. Manual keyframing fixes misalignment temporarily but creates choppy results. Could planar tracking (e.g., Mocha AE) or specific plugins improve stability for such fast-paced footage? Second, effects gradually detach from tracked points. Heat distortion and UI elements drift over time when parented to nulls derived from tracking data, especially in scenes with motion blur or compression artifacts. Are there compositing techniques, blending modes, or matte adjustment

Is it poosible to make multiple nulls with keyframes as one preset?

merhaba. prof bir after effect kullanıcısı değilim. fakat yaşamış olduğum sinir bozucu bir problem mevcut. caps look tuşu açık kaldığın da ön izleme ekranı kararıyordu. bunu öğrendim ve sorun giderildi. fakat mouse imleci hareket ettirdiğim de calışma ekranım sürekli flash çakar gibi git gel yapıyor ve deli oluyorum. güncelleme getirdiklerin de hep birşeyleri bozmak zorundalar mı? bu konu hakkında yardımcı olabilecek birileri varmı ? teşekküler

Hey everyone,I'm working on some simple Lottie animations and have already created an animated design using circles with different stroke sizes around them. I animated them with keyframes and now want to recreate the same animation but with different shapes—hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs—instead of circles. I know that in After Effects, you can replace footage and images, but I haven't found a way to swap out shapes while keeping all existing keyframes intact. Does anyone know a way to do this?If there's a plugin that could make this process easier, I'd love to hear recommendations. Thanks in advance!

Hey all! I'm kind of a madman and I've finally gotten a pretty good release going for my new plugin-- You can write extensions entirely in python using any GUI framework, script in python, run from a separate process, etc. This is NOT a wrapper around extendscript, but around the c++ SDK. You can check it out and find installation instructions on github here:https://github.com/Trentonom0r3/PyShiftAE/releases/tag/1.0.1 There's extensive documentation, so hopefully things are simple to set up! More details in the README, but you can run a simplepip install PyShiftAEto get the ball rolling. 

My ae keeps crashing if I start a new project and try to save it. As soon as it opens file explorer for me to choose where to save it, it crashes with the following messages: It is also crashing if I try to render a composition and gives me the following messages:Or this one also comes up  These are the steps I've taken so far to try and resolve the issue but none have worked:restarted the pcscanned pc for virusesremoved 3rd party driversuninstalled AE as well as removed folder from program fileschanged render settings to cinema 4dThis is happening in version 24.6.1. PC info:Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz   3.11 GHzInstalled RAM 16,0 GB (15,8 GB usable)System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processorEdition Windows 11 ProVersion 22H2Installed on ‎2023/‎02/‎27

Hi all,How can I do a perspective transform in AE just like in Photoshop?Thank you!

I'm just learning. Trying to recreate the I Love Lucy opening sequence. I needed a heart outline to draw itself but I cannot get trim paths line animation to work. The line just sits there the whole time. I know this is probably something stupid, so I apologize in advance, but....any help?

How can I apply an expression to multiple layers at once using Automation Blocks? I don't like manually copying and pasting the expression to each layer. I also don't want to open layers and select all properties manually. Instead, I want to enter the property name in a dropdown menu or input box and apply the expression to the selected layers' properties. Example:I select multiple layers and run the script. A dialog box opens where I enter the property name, such as "position" and the expression. Then, the script applies the expression to the specified property for all selected layers. Has anyone done something similar or have suggestions on how to achieve this? I’d appreciate any guidance. Thanks in advance! 😊

Hi community. How can I get this electric orb to look spherical on in solid? I have played around with the emitter settings. but the effect is from edge to edge of my canvas. I cant seem to find the settings which controls the shape, to get it spherical like the preset is showing. Thank you.    

What I was used to is if one layer is linked to another, the position value of the child becomes relevant to its parent anchor point position. So if the child's anchor point is perfectly aligned to its parent's anchor point, its position would be [0,0].Lately I noticed it's not the case anymore. instead the child position is calculated from the top left corner of the parent layer.I recently moved from Ae 23 to 24.6.4 (build 3)Am I missing some updates? Anyone know why this is happening?I can't find a reason for this behavior. The old way was definitely right.

Hi. When setting key frame positions/numbers, how do you bring numbers back to original with a click, without remembering each individual number? this is extremely frustrating, premiere pro has a single ''reset'' button that does this in one click. 

Heey, I'm wandering how to target separated position dimensions in a AE Script. I separated the position dimensions with ".position.dimensionsSeparated = true" and want to apply expressions to each value. I know I can add the different expressions in one expression, but it is eassier and more efficient to code it this way in this case. Does anyone know how to apply expressions to the position dimension values after they have been separated? Thank in advance for the reactions!

This is the kind of question to which there is just no video or tutorial, the most maddening kind of question. In Premiere I masked out a subject by working with a linked After Effects file. The rotobrush mask did a great job but when I "freeze" the clip and bring it back to Premiere it is totally the wrong color. And I spent 2 hours using evey color correction scheme known to man with no good results. So I've now spent 6 hours going through color management tutorials and videos and articles, all to no avail. When I can actually find matching profiles on files they still don't match color.  There are so many damn hidden places to adjust color and profiles and working spaces and god knows how many more color things there are that adjust color in these programs. Crazy frustrating.I really want to get more into After Effects but I'm at the point now where I have to write off the software as useless because everything that comes out of there is such horrible color. Any help

I am using aftereffect and set the auto save around 5/10mins and it takes really long time to auto save it. whats the issue? I tried to clear cache or restart the ae, but eachtime autosave is in random time, can anyone explain? And any solution to this?  

Hello I am trying to export my animation project from media encoder. The quality is poor. Picture is pixelated, not what is supposed to look like. Can you help me, what is wrong?