After Effects

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!

Hi guys,I want to write an effect plugin which can achieve that render result can exceed layer original size, in AfterEffects plugin, there is an effect called Motion Tile, the result from this effect can exceed layer size like image below, thanks!

Schönen guten Tag zusammen! Da wir unseren AfterEffects Workflow von sRGB auf ACES umstellen wollen, kam das Thema exr Rendern auf. Ein erster Test war sehr ernüchternd, ein schwarzes Bild 1920x1080, 32bit als exr ACES AP0 "rendern" dauerte je Bild 5-6 Sekunden (ca. 0,2 fps). Nach zahlreichen Tests änderten wir das Render Ziel auf ein lokales Laufwerk ab und hier konnten wir nahezu in Echtzeit renden - also 22-44 fps.Unsre IT Fachleute haben unterscheidliche Dinge an unseren Netzwerk Settings justiert, leider ohne Verbesserung der Problematik.Das selbe Projekt rendert als tif, uncompressed, 32bit mit ca.1,5 fps., was auch nicht toll ist, aber deutlich besser. Exr lesen und Performance in der Timeline sind sehr gut, auch ändert ein exr Input nichts an den Geschwindigkeiten. Das Prozedere haben wir mit unterschiedlichen alten Projekten und neu erstellten Projekten mit und ohne genutztem Footage / Schrift / Effekten etc. getestet.Alles kam zum selben Ergebnis. Wir habe

I've been using After Effects for years without any major issues, but the recent updates have only caused issues. I'm unable to preview a simple 2min timeline without After Effects sucking up all my memory, and prompting memory usage warnings. I have 32Gb of RAM installed, with a RTX 3060, which should be, and has been until recently, more than enough to smoothly run an AE project. Please provide fixes for this, because I'm not the only one having these issues.I have "Cache frames when idle" disabled, and every ten seconds I purge memory and disk cache. This is extremely annoying, and given the price of the product, completely unacceptable.

Yesterday, I was editing on my laptop. And the next day, after I opened the after effect, this is happened. Can someone help me to solve this? My laptop using Windows, NVIDIA GTX1650, RAM 16, Ryzen 5 4600. Thank you

How do I add a stroke to these boxes?   I was able to make two rectangles with shape layers-->pre-comping them-->Track matte with my designed foreground layer.  I was also able to make the mattes by merging the shape layers, but in both instances I was not able to create a white stroke around the boxes (the strokes I added became transparent).    Thank you 

Hello.. I installed some of presets but I am disturbed because ae always keep saying "Initializing animation presets" It takes too long. Is there a way to close that auto-load? Thank you for now!

I keep getting this error message for After Effects even though I have Cinema 4D installed and running. I've tried to put the C4DImporter.plugin file from the Maxon files into my After Effect files within applications. I've attached screenshots of both of these folder locations just to explain a little further what I mean. However this has still not resolved the issue. Does anyone please know how to fix this?

In AE 25 i found bug, which is appear at the moment you use compositing for effects on layers using masks. Then, when you add another effect to the chain, something happens and the mask for effect sometimes works like without effect compositing. Sometimes there is only one pixel column on alpha channel. I am ataching screenshot and project file. When you change curve (no matter which one), the pixel noise dissapear and if you will change the other curve, it appears back. Try to play with it..It is unreliable for now use compositing effects through mask on one layer in chain with other effects, I saw similar strange behavior for last few days..

Hello, I can't 'Save' or 'Save As' in After Effects. I've tried ctrl+s, ctrl+shift+s, and then nothing happens. In the Adobe After Effects Auto-Save, it isn't saving new versions of the file. When I save, it runs the function but doesn't actually do anything & won't create a new version of the file. The auto-saves are a day old now, since I haven't X'd out of the project, hence they're not updating there either. I've tried purging all memory & disk cache & it didn't work. I don't want to X out of the project to uninstall AE & reinstall because I'll lose a day of work.I've tried "save as copy" and it didn't do anything either. Thanks,

Hey, Whenever I add the CC Force Motion Blur effect to my clip in After Effects I get a pop-up message that says  "After effects error: zero denominator converting ratio denominators (17::18)" I click the OK button but the message instantly appears again making the program unusubale. I end up having the fully quit after effects to get rid of the message. I'm currently running version 22.2 (windows 11) and my footage is from a linked comp in Premiere Pro. Some clips were shot at 25fps and others at 50fps, the error occurs for both. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

How to change font size for menu's etc in AE 25.2 please, to make bigger and easier to read please?Had the option with previous  versions where could change in console/debug menu.Still surprised this option has not yet been included in Preferences really.

I'm trying to make an After Effects script for the first time. The idea is to basically randomize the fonts of the text layer by character or by word.I'm using Deepseek and ChatGPT to try to make it work cause i have few to none coding abillities and it almost works. The thing is that After Effects can't change the font os characters individually so the script needs to take the text from the text layer and create a new text layer for each character and then randomize the font of the new text layers. So I did that part and it works, but for it to work the way I want to it needs to change the font multiple times, then I would need a unique layer for each character and font type. Also did that part and it works, but when running everything together with a simple cut to simulate the font changing it stops working. ChatGPT said it should work with long sentences but it barely works with 2 character words. Can anyone help me?https://github.com/gariigolt/RandomFonts/blob/main/RandomFonts_v2.j