After Effects

Hi there --I've been trying to figure out how to loop the opacity of a layer with expressions for two days. If your first thought is, "he must not be very smart," I won the 7th grade spelling bee and the 9th grade Science award. It's been all downhill from there, though. I tried to get help from ChatGPT, but Chad (my bot) kept throwing in extra info that made what seemed like a simple question more complex than necessary. I would do what he said, then tell him it didn't loop. His usual response was along the lines of, "Great! You're on the right track. What an insightful question. Just do this, and it will loop just fine." I fell for it almost every time, and was crushed when it didn't loop the way Chad assured me it would. After a while it dawned on me that Chad doesn't have eyes and has no idea what the code he sends me looks like on screen.   I tell you all that so you know I am the kind of person who only asks for help when he really really needs it.If I can get something

Can anyone tell me what this square is on my footage that burns in when i export and render out? Im not sure if this is something that was put on in adobe premier or affter effects as I am using adobe dymic link so its on my footage in both platforms.    

I'm trying to use the Collect Files function but it keeps including files and comps that it should omit.  I tried Collect Files > For Selected Comps > Generate Report Only and it reported that I used files that were not in the comp I had selected (or any precomp within that). I also tried Collect Files > For Selected Comps > Reduce Project and it collected a bunch of comps and files that were not in the sequence I had selected.  Any idea why this might happen?Thanks!

Are there any solutions for transferring text layers from after effects to premiere pro (not MoGRT)?I don't understand when Adobe will make this function

I'm brand new to AE and I'm trying to distribute three layers of text. The Align panel is usable, and I see "Distribute Layers:", but it's unclickable and there are no options. How do I distribute text horizontally? Thank you!

Alguien sabe el por qué, me sale este error? 

When I drag the blue line around in the timeline and look at my video, there is constant black screen flashes that make it hard to see. When I play the video, the screen flashing goes away. I have tried restarting my computer, doing updates on my computer, clearing memory, clearing the disk cache, and I have tried changing the disk cache.

After years of the building CEP/UXP panels, scripts, complex expression based morgts and I have decided to expand to the plugins to dive deeper into automation possibilities, right now I am looking speficicly to analyse the sequence in PPRO for the transparent sections of the frame to work with that futher from the CEP sideSo my idea was to 1) Gather all clips that must be analised and their timings from CEP side2) Somehow launch plugin or maybe apply effect that would analise those frames to find pixels with alpha chanel in the speficic areas of the frame3) Get that results back grom the C++ context (I am not sure if CEP can communate with the C++ plugins), if it cannot be directly passed, maybe building some workaround by dumping everything in txt file that would be monitoted from Extension side4) using that data again in the CEP contextMy questions are:1) Is it possible to communatice between CEP and plugins within premiere pro?2) is it even possible to analise the pixel data?

After Effects - error occurred while importing the selected items from .1) After Effects error: Source compression type is not supported.2) After Effects error: Could not get file '.mp4'. This file 'MooV' is corrupted or unsupported.   - What is the solution? It is impossible to insert the video even if it is exported back to another program. Every time I use it, every time I update it, It get an error.   [personal information removed by moderator]

  SHOWING ERROR CODE 9988 WHEN EXPORTING  TO MOV FILE .I RESTARTED AND AGAIN SHOWING ERROR MESSAGE ,I USING M2 PRO MINI, 32 GB RAM ,OS VENTURA 13.4.1 (22F82)AND AFTER EFFCTS VERSION 23.5 BUILD 52.HOW TO FIX IT? PLEASE HELPTHANK YOU.  

video attached.I have 2 keyframes where motion should be paused, but AE is creating extra bezier curves that it is moving along.Changing spacial interpolation fixes that and it is now still - however it removes the curved motion from previous keyframes.See video EDIT: Using a hold keyframe works as a workaround, but I am still wondering if there is a more normal fix

After a crash every time I try to open Finder (while trying to choose render destination, import files, choose a proxy etc.) AE it freezes and crashes without opening FInder windows. I reseted all preferences, reinstalled AE to older version, opened in safe mode - nothing helped. v 25.2.2MacOs Sequoia 15.5  

I have been trying to open After Effect (ver 25.2.2) but it keeps on crashing while opening. I have tried all the option, including: Reset Preferences, Start in Safe Mode (both checked and unchecked the "3rd party plugins" box), and even Manage Plugins. None of the options work even after reinstalling the app into extension disk. I have also updated my Studio Driver to latest version. Please help!Window 1112th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12500HNVIDIA RTX 305016GB RAM

Current behaviour:Items in project window are deselected when entering a comp by double clicking a lyer Preferred behaviour:Do not Deselect items in Project window ever! This feels new (25 year veteren) and is causing me problems. This is why.I want to add the next item from a folder to the next comp I go into.When I double click the comp to enter it, the last item is no longer selected in the project window, so I no longer know which is the next item. This feels counter-intuitive and serves no purpose.Why would anyone want automatic deselection?Let me decide when I want to deselect thank youTristan Summers

Meu pc é um r5 5500, 16gb ram, rx 580 8gb 400 de memória nunca tive problema com os aplicativos da adobe, nem quando usava pirata nem quando comecei a pagar, porém comecei um projeto recente e ele me ocasionou problemas, por algum motivo meu computador todo crasha quando vou começar a editar ele, passo cerca de 5-10 minutos e ele simplesmente crasha meu pc e reinicia sozinho, não sei o que fazer. e quando abre aparece essa msg

Occasionally, we want to display active timeline layer's names and if we don't know better, the solution is to use one Text Layer for each 'target' layer. BUT there's a better way - drop this Expression in a Text Layer, placed at the top of the Timeline hierarchy and drop this Expression into its source text property - let layerNames = "";for (let i = 1; i <= thisComp.numLayers; i++) {if (i === index) continue;let targetLayer = thisComp.layer(i);if (targetLayer.active) {layerNames += `Layer Index:${targetLayer.index} - ${targetLayer.name}\r\n`;}}layerNames.trim();

Loving Advanced Render but when a vector objects is extruded if it has a stroke it clashes with the fill and gives an unpleasant glitchy edge. Can you fix it please Adobe. It's stopping me using Advanced Render.

Hi everyone, I just published a free eBook about creating motion graphics in After Effects.https://mamoworld.com/ebook This eBook is my contribution to supporting you in the midst of this crisis. I’m providing it 100% free for everyone, for an unlimited time, and with no strings attached. AboutSo, you’ve started playing around with After Effects, maybe watched some YouTube tutorials, and wondering what the next step is? Or perhaps you already know After Effects pretty well, but still feel there’s a gap between you and a ‘real’ motion graphics professional? Well, there is a difference between knowing how to use the software and creating good motion graphics. For the latter, you need to know not just which buttons to click, but also a great deal about design, workflow, and even how your audience’s brain works.This book is here to bridge the gap between what you can figure out with learning by doing and what you need to know to become a professional motion graphics artist. Cheers,Mathias

This has been an issue for as long as the Drop Menu has been aroung - updating Menu Items is prone to lock up AE, amongst other strange happenings. On previous occasions, I could use Task Manager to Force Quite AE but this time, even this doesn't work and rebooting is the only option!!!I've been using AE for over 25 years and have had to reboot due to a bug. This Drop Menu has been a constant horror show. Errors/Issues can easily occur if you copy/paste within the Input Field in the menu. And doing this while updating the items list is more likely to cause issues than when first adding actual item names. This is quite horrific.UPDATE - restarted Task Manager and managed to Froce Quit AE.    

A tiny script to batch change the comp resolution setting for all selected project comps { var userInput = prompt("Enter a resolution factor (e.g., 1 for full, 2 for half, 3 for third):", "1"); var res = Math.floor(parseFloat(userInput)); if (!isNaN(res) && res >= 1 && res <= 99) { app.beginUndoGroup("Set Comp Resolution"); try { for (var i = 0; i < app.project.selection.length; i++) { var myComp = app.project.selection[i]; if (myComp instanceof CompItem) { myComp.resolutionFactor = [res, res]; } } } catch (e) { alert("Error: " + e.toString()); } app.endUndoGroup(); } else { alert("Please enter a valid number between 1 and 99."); } } 

Hallo Zusammen! Ich hoffe man kann mir sagen ob mein Greenscreen-Vorhaben machbar ist.Ich möchte eine rechteckige Greenscreen Plane (rückseitig magnetisch) in einen Bilderrahmen hängen. Beim Aufhängen kommt es leider zu Falten, bis dass der Greenscreen perfekt im Schattenfugenrahmen hängt. Im Anschluss soll der Screen gegen einen Kunstdruck ausgetauscht werden. Für eure Rückmeldungen bin ich sehr dankbar! VG

Hey there,Hoping somebody here can help me with a problem I've run up against.I've got an after effects comp where I want Particular to begin emitting  halfway down the timeline. It's no problem keyframing particles per second. The problem I'm having is that I can't get it to follow the path that I have set up to begin on the same frame that particles begin emitting. Searched for tutorials but folks always have Particular begin at the beginning of the comp. Any tips or links to tutorials would be deeply appreciated. Thanks is advance!