After Effects

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

Hi,In the designer window (when using Particular or Form) the PRESETS that used to be on the left side aro gone - nothing there, just a black space. Wrote to Maxon for help, but they take the time, and I need those presets back. Anyone had the same problem and knows a solution?  I am on macOS sequoia, the machine is a mac studio M3 Ultra.AE is 2024 and RG is 2025.4.1.

Hi guys, I need help, thanks for you kind help! I try to use Chinese Symbol in plugin parameter, plugin name, plugin category on mac os, I use XCode to build my plugin, but I meet two problem:1. When I add effect on layer, it show up error: can not convert Unicode Characters2. The effect name is correct in plugin menu, but the category name show strange symbol.

I've been scratching my head for quite sometime now understanding how mask modes work. The end results seem so abritary to me. From what I noticed when a mask is set to "add" and there's just a single mask, inside the mask the original alpha values (0 to 1) of the layer gets multiplied by the opacity of the mask (0 to 1) and outside the mask the original alpha values of the layer gets multiplied by 0. So if I have a mask with opacity 70%, with "Add" selected, inside the mask a pixel whose original alpha from the layer was 0.9 (say), its final alpha would be 0.9*0.7.  This is consistent with what I see happening in the software. Even though I really don't understand what kind of "adding" is into play here.For "subtract" the results are even more bizarre. It behaves just like inverted mask. I just can't understand how the alpha values are influenced.When there are multiple overlapping masks, the end result is something completely different. Are there any specific rules tha

For years the community has been asking for the EXR workflow to speed up and for years this community is still frustrated in Adobe's response to this. Yes, there have been some nice tweaks to how AE interperates the files, helping us shuffle the multichannels a little easier. But the speed in which files are played on the timeline is just rediculously slow, even when working with HD frames.With more and more users leaning into 3D in their daily work, and wanting to have as much conrol over the final output of their imagery, the After Effects team needs to put a higher priority on this request. You would think that compositing exrs would move up on the list of requests since there has been such a big shift to integrate 3D into the Adobe ecosystem. If this needs to be formally asked for again, then I am asking that this push to the top of requests.Also, we all know that there are other compositors out there like DaVinci Resolve 18( which you can get for FREE) that handle exrs much faster

how to remove the Sapphire 2024 plugin from your Mac and address the issue preventing After Effectsi unistalled the plugin its still showing error 

I recently followed a video tutorial on face rigging for characters, it uses a script called Joysticks 'n Sliders. I have downloaded this file but when trying to load it in After Effects it says tat the file type is not supported.Does anybody know where i can find a version for mac? and also how to install and make it work in After Effects?It would be most appreciated if anybody can help me!

Hello,this morning i noticed one of the biggest AE bugs I ever had and still have no solution other than recreating days of work with a deadline right around the corner 😄The Problem: I Try to open a Project that I worked on last week, but I only get the Message "Error attempting to duplicate a text object. Skipping the Text Layer ( 76 § 53 )" multiple times.In the first Case it stopped loading the rest of the project as well and opened empty.Then I tried the last Auto Safe File, where I still got the Message, but it loaded more of the Project, with Essential Grafics complaining that it can´t find some layers (of course). In this Version was not only some text missing but also some Graphic elements (pictures) and Shape Layers.I could understand that maybe my workflow of just duplicating Layers of shapes or text to have a new one is unsafe?!, but i never had a problem with that in the past with even bigger Projects.The crazy part is, that I found some older Versions of the Projec

Dear team my after effect 2025 update my extension option not highlight and not opening so please can you tell me how to fix this and please share the steps

Hi,I need some guidance. I have applied displacement effect on two shape layers. one is totally okay, but another one is behaving odd. I need to solve this. Please someone help me. why am having this weird glitch thing and how can I solve it. Thank you.  

Hey!  I'm making a behind-the-scenes process video and i want to screen record how my camera looks moving around my composition. Is there a way to make the camera show when I play? this view that I showed in the screenshots disappear when I press play.  Thanks!

I placed my pictures and made them into 3d layers to create a parallax effect, but when i moved any of the layers back or forward, it doesnt change in size or doesnt look like its going far or near the camera. Please help me how do i fix this

I'm trying to open After Effects 25.1 on my macbook and this alert keeps appearing. Once i click OK the whole app closes down and a report tab opens up. How do I fix this? I've tried deleting cache, plugins and also uninstalling and installing again.