After Effects

While checking the Boolean-search behaviour described in the official manual I ran into what looks like either a regression or an outdated piece of documentation. Here is what I’m seeing:1 · Steps to reproduceOpen the Effects & Presets panel.Type Change → the panel correctly returns the two effects Change Color and Change to Color.Without clearing the field, change the query to Change,Color (comma-separated).Same result if you add a space after the comma: Change, Color.2 · Expected result (per manual)According to “Search and find items” in the AE help, a comma should be treated as an OR operator in all three panels (Project, Timeline, Effects & Presets). Therefore I expect to see any effect whose name contains Change or Color.3 · Actual resultThe list goes completely empty — as if the panel is looking for the literal substring change, (including the comma) rather than splitting the query into two tokens and applying OR logic.In contrast, the same query works in the Project pane

New Project -> New Comp -> Text Layer with sample text with numbersAdd a text animator (scale) -> change scale valuesAdd Expression Selector and replace expression with:text.sourceText.charAt(textIndex - 1).match(/[0-9]/) ? 100 : 0This expression will change the scale of all numbers found in the text. Anything in the regex match can be there.. this is just an example. This should work as intended and it does. If the font has ligatures and is checked, it will not work correctly. Tested this in AE 24.6.6 and 25.2.2 and is still not working as intended. The sample font I had used is Daniels Signature - Signature. Also tested with HopelessRomanticSociety - Regular. Both seem to show the same incorrect behavior. I'm not sure if it's incorrectly calling the indices or if there's something extra that needs to be called for it to work with ligatures enabled. Any ideas or is this a bug?

Hello,I am writing to the Adobe Community as I am desperately looking for free footage of gps tracking :Description of the footage : "On his screen, you can see a red dot moving on a map (fully digital or basic satellite view of a field/country area) where other red dots are moving more slowly".The project is a short movie that I am working on and we would really love to have some materials (the footage) to strengthen the somewhat futuristic/technology-based dimension of the movie.The context is a mad scientist that has marked/GPS tracked a dog, and this shot of the gps tracker would serve follow the dog as he escapes into the fields (while being GPS marked).As 100 % of our very limited budget has been used, we are looking for free option with of course a huge thanks and credits gratification were you to help us find / created / obtain such footage.Thank you so much in advance.May the Adobe community be blessed.

 

After Effects Crash whenever I save any project files, stuck on "generate recovery project" bar Hi l'm on the latest version of after effects, this has been occuring since yesterday. Whenever open a project file that was not created today & attempt to save it, it pops up with "generate recovery project" bar. Same issue happened yesterday & I've tried using an older version of after effects & it's still happening.Thanks for the help!

Hello,  I am having troubles with saber, whenever I try to use it for text there is a hard line on the edge. Not sure if I am missing something. I just bought Element 3D, followed a couple of tutorials and I cannot make it work because of the harsh lines I always get around texts. I have tried pre-composing, and creating layer masks from text and still the same. I am trying to achieve what is on the image with the Motion text. HELP!!! Thank you K

Hi allJust started After Effects, which I havent done for a few weeks. In opeing a project I get a window saying no colour space is assigned and there is an issue with Camera Raw. After setting to Rec709 the project opens. I can make changes but when I go to render, the program freezes on the project queue screen and then wont do anything until I try to shut it down and it then crashes. Not had this before and I have projects that need rendering out. Any ideas?ThanksSteve

AE's Range Selector's exceptional features has also let to a lot of confusion for some users. There are lots of tutorials but most still have gaps on how it works and why it does what it does. I'm hopeful this video rundown and the accompanying Logic Table will help lessen/remove the confusion.The video uses Responsive Features (Expression-driven) to create a visualization of the Range Selector and the different Shapes and built-in Eases (Ease High/Ease Low).Post your Qs below if you have any and I'll do my best to answer them.

Bağlantıda metin animasyonunun nasıl oluşturulacağına dair herhangi bir fikir bulamadım. Yardımınızı sabırsızlıkla bekliyorum. Bağlantı:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NbaYHBKWiEgSAlRldH6rhZ9ptgQZYo9K/view?pli=1

I have a simple video in which three images should slowly move from the right to the left, without any transition nor complicate elements (the most complicated thing is the opacity that goes to 0%). However, when I render the video, the images move in a choppy way, it's not smooth. I'm rendering with the default preferences (see image below), I have the latest version both on After Effects (16.0.1) and on my Mac (see image below). Does somebody have a solution?

I am trying to import a psd file into after effects and it is not coming at the right size. The psd file is exported from illustrator then imported into ae. In illustrator, the image is 1366 x 768, which I've saved as an ai file and exported as a psd file. When I import the ai file it comes in at the expected 1366 x 768 but when I import the psd file, it comes in at 2849 x 1065. Does anyone know why this is and what I need to do to make sure it comes in at the artboard size?

Great that HDR monitoring is working now but it isn'tTesting HDMI 2.0 card versionm of Decklink 4K Extreme 12G and it refuses to output 2160P correctlyeverything else is OK but colourspace will not work at 60p Have manually switched everything with AJA Hi512G and none of it is correct.Always greenOne to double check

I have a grid of images 960x720 in a grid in my 16K comp (15360x6480) I have block dissolve set to 960x720But it is not matching the 960 widththere are 16 across which is an even number but it is the width that is inaccurate see attached?Is it broken? Did it ever work correctly? I am sure I used to use it accurately( plus the standard moan...STOP FORCING ME TO TAG AND STOP LIMITING THE SUBJECT LENGTH NOW COME ON!!!! )Tris

Hello, I'm a complete novice when it comes to After Effects.I want to make an edit to a sports video & was hoping that someone could help me with creating it. I want to make a football player electrified by lightning.Can I do it with a video? or would I need to take a still & just have the still electrified? Btw, I have NO CLUE how to do any of effects.I can do edits & produce videos, but this is a whole new world to me. Any help would be appreciated.Thanks in advance.ohiosportsnet@yahoo.com 

How can I get the file to display? I want to animate 3D models in AE and managed to import a .map from the game halo 2. It was all black though, after messing around the interface a bit I managed to get some VR features up which made a 3D scene and camera and stuff but it was still black. If you guys are curious how I did this I renamed the .map to .json then AE told me to rename the file to .jsx then after that I imported both those filles, played with them, and then I was like I wonder if I can just directly import the .map, and I go to file, import, file, and its there in my project panel, I drop it into a composition and nothing, it's black.  I want a version of AE that fully supports the import of these files. I was looking through the halo infinite files in their folders and I saw that there is a .json file, that's what lead me on this wild chase. It appears like AE was used to create some of halo infinite.  My point is, I need these features to do what I

Hi guys! someone can give me an head start to how get closer to this kind of background gradient flow shadow colors, really smooth! can someone give me a light? really thank you!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtQ3Li_vSEs

hi, I have tried all the numbers of universe in 'offseting' but no way I can fix this error, Like 'Papa Roach' I am singing 'this is my last resort', Adobe AE community forum is my last resort... please help.how can I make this glitch gone, plaeas help... I want a smooth flow, Thank you.  

I need help i tried everything

I tried to open After effects and all of a sudden this appeared, Ive tried all the options in the first crash repairscreenshotI've tried:used the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Toolchecked to see that it is updatedcleared my cachedisabled all plug-ins by deleting themuninstalled and reinstalledand ran in administratorNothing works, no matter what I click, it goes to the second loading screenshot and then after a while disappears and does not open.How do I fix? 

Hi; new at AE. I created this simple animation of a circle following a path (Ad Comp 1 on Vimeo ). I now want to zoom into the animation, have the circle animation start but then the circle stay in the center of the screen as it continues to follow the path (Ad Comp 1_3 on Vimeo ). A little like this video that someone posted asking a similar question but it wasn't answered (I ATE EVERYONE ?! SOLO AGARIO GAMEPLAY (Agar.io) - YouTube ) I'd rather not render the composition and use the motion tracking, I figured there's an easy way to do this since it's already a shape. I created the animation by drawing the path and then creating a null layer following the path and then the circle is connected to it. Or parented I guess.  (See attachment on layers).I need to do like 10 of these, different path being followed so I was hoping something easily repeatable. I've read bout "Basic Object Tracking" but I can't find it, only find 1 point motion tracking and that only works when the composit

Hi If I create an AEGP using the c++ SDK. Is it then possible to detect if a new project have been opened or created? Either by some type of event or in the IdleHook? Somewhat related: Does the events descriped here work in AEGPs? https://ae-plugins.docsforadobe.dev/effect-ui-events/effect-ui-events.html  Thanks,Jakob

Hi,I have a custom workspace set up in AE. However, every time my project autosaves and sometimes when I import new assets all the panels resize, some crush up to one side, some spread wide in the middle. On some occasions, panels will even disappear.It used to be that I could reset to saved workspace and it would correct itself - though this is tedious when I have to do it after every autosave - but since the CC2018 update, this no longer works. It seems like AE isn't saving my layout but is saving this squashed and stretched layout instead and I can't overwrite it.I have also saved it under new names and that doesn't work.It's beginning to drive me mad, not to mention interfering with my workflow.Any help is gratefully received.Thanks