After Effects

I'm trying to learn After Effects; after Animate screwed up and deleted my save file, I want to focus on something else, but I literally can't use their tutorials. I just want to know how to remove an effect from the timeline after a certain point (Like after five seconds, the effect disappears.) But I can't find anyone explaining it online, other than how to remove the effect from the entire timeline itself, which isn't what I want to do. I assume the answer is so incredibly simple that it's not found online, so I wanted to look at one of the tutorials and find the answer without asking people a potentially stupid question. Now I find out that the in-app tutorial button is just a bad prank. Because it does literally nothing. I restarted the app and my computer multiple times, and it just won't load anything. I'm just flabbergasted that every single Adobe product is having this many issues, like.. really? The in-app tutorials don't even work? Why is the option even there? I have n

I want this ball have a motion behind the cup. For that I use inverted matte. When ball cross cup handle, only portion of the ball behind the cup handle should be invisible & other portion should be visible. How it can be done? video is uploaded as well.    

I'm using AE 2025We did the testing and got the texture and animation to appear with FBX files.But when I bring new 3D models or have the working model brought into a new comp, the animation drop-down in the Animation Options is gone.  I'm a bit clueless if it's a bug, a setting in the comps, or something specific I need to do beforehand. It's getting frustrating that the animation options exist in one comp and not in others. We did update the 3D Object's texture, but I feel like that shouldn't have caused any issues on the animation side

Hello Friends,Please help me on below situation:This is updated image, previous image wrong , sorry for it. 

Is there a smart way (script?) to be able to find the exact position of anchor point of a layer in order to zoom it in full frame from a specific point of interest using keyframes for scale property only without altering the initial position property? 

In After Effects, the mask outline is still visible in preview even though no layer is selected and ‘Show Layer Controls’ is turned off. How can I hide the mask path from preview?”

Hi everyone!I'm new to After Effects, and I'm putting together a project that consists of putting together a sequence of 3D renders (JPEGs) to create an animation. We also used clipping channels and some 3D passes. For each rendered sequence, we have the same amount of images, what changes is just the initial number in the file name, example:01.RGB_color.0000 to 0071, 01.Alpha.0001 to 0071 and so on, and in the next sequence, we have the same filenames, just changing to 02.RGB_color.0000, 02.Alpha.0000...The project with the files "01.xxx" is ready. My doubt is:Is it possible to automatically replace files starting with 01 in the project with files starting with 02 that are in another folder? And then change it to 03, 04, etc...The current project has a total of 1225 images.I will be grateful for any help and clarification

Hi,I'm a beginner to After Effect expressions. I'm creating a end creadit MOGRT for my team. There are total 16 text layers, named as "Title", "Name", Title 1" "Name 1" etc. and controled by 8 checkboxes, named as "Group 1", "Group 2" etc. two layers per checkbox. The vertical gap between "Title" layers and "Name"  layers should be 15 pixels, and 40 between groups. If one of the groups is unchecked the visible groups will move up. All the stacked visible groups should be vertically centred in the comp. I tested with 6 layers. Except to keep the gap remain as I asked for after adding multiple lines in "Name" layer, everything works well with the expression generated by Chatgpt.  I would be super grateful if someone could let me know which part has gone wrong in the below expression script, and how to fix it. The image on the left is the fulty result and on the right is what I would like to acheive.      // Fixed x positionx = 785; // Layer order (

Hi all,I've recently returned to After Effects and am having trouble viewing anything in my composition window. I've uploaded a screen grab of a short animation I did a while ago here, and you can see the preview of the project in the Project window, but I can't get anything to appear in the composition window. I thought it was just having the caps lock on, but that's not sorted it. I can't think of anything else, so wondering if anyone has any ideas?

Hello guys,I'm trying to import a figma screen into After effects using AEUX and it keeps showing this script error.After Effect error: Unable to call "setValue" because of parameter 1. Value is undefined.Any help please??

Hello guys,I'm trying to import a figma screen into After Effects using AEUX and it keeps showing this script error.After Effect error: Unable to call "setValue" because of parameter 1. Value is undefined.The error keeps coming up after everything i have tried.Any help, please??

Hi folks, pretty new to After Effects (usually edit in Prem pro) so need help id possible?Basically as a proof of concept for a longer video, I need to place the head from clip 1 onto the skeleton in clip 2.So far have managed to rotoscope the head in clip 1, and motion track the dots on the head of the sheleton in clip 2.If someone could give a step by step guide relevan to the latest edition of AE, that would be great. AS you know out there there's loads of advice but I can't find anything up to date or specific for thsi problem.Cheers!!!

HI, is it possible to make this Javascript suggestion box wider on Mac OS?or where I canfind these setting or name i ccould search for AE 25.3.1. on MacOS sequoia 15.5  Thank you!

HELP!!!! Trying to make a simple particle effect of leaves falling, but cant seem to import texture (the option isnt there). I was following this tutorialThings i've tried:-Looking up tutorials, but the tutorials seem to have the "texture" option while i dont-Saw an old reddit thread 6 years ago with the guy having the same issue. Applied the effect to the layer with the texture and it didnt work. Just made squares that were the leaf but enlarged i think.-Under the same thread it said to close any RAM intensive programs and to check my hardware but from what i can tell everything looks good, and i restarted my after effects after closing everything, but still no changeSpecs:Processor: 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Grahpics 1536 MBMemory: 16 GB 3733 MHz LPDDR4XStartup Disk: Macintosh HDSerial number: C02FQ04QML88macOS: 15.4.1 (24E263)To whoever can help u i beg you... my supervisors are not helping TT

Hallo, ich habe folgendes Problem: Ich habe eine Cinema 4D Datei, die in After effects geöffnet werden soll. Daraus soll ein 360 grad Bild werden. Nun wird leider meine Kamera aus der C4D Datei nicht erkannt und das 360° Bild funktioniert nicht. Kann hier jemand helfen ?  Vielen Dank im Voraus! 

Hello,Please. Help I am trying to format a .csv file so I can have a elon vs zuck Montly networth  data,it name is test.csv How to data smooth scrolling animation in same time,How to data link the each text layers ..... V1 = Date (eg- 1/4/2010) V2= Elon Musk (eg- 804931507)V3= Mark Zuckerberg (eg- 4047591069)V4=  Elon Musk value - Mark Zuckerberg value (eg- 804931507 - 4047591069 = "-3,242,659,562" )every text layer chang by time and value.Please. help 

I know there is a quick and simple fix to this, but I've hit a roadblock. It's my first time using a Red Giant plugin, very happy with the results of my project so far, thanks to the plugin. Im using the Trapcode Particular effect to create a bubble particle logo look for my logo. Im having trouble finding a way to end the effect in unison. So far, I only have the center part fading away early, while it takes the rest of the logo a couple more seconds to fade. I know the reason it is doing this is because of the logo being matted as a shape layer, which is animating the expansion movement. Since the orb in the center is the first to be seen, it is also the first to fade away. I've tried messing with the Life Seconds slider of the Particles, but it doesn't seem to change the timing. Any input or tips to find a solution would be greatly appreciated. I've attached a video of what I have so far, as well as some of my pre-comps, to show my workflow. What I have