After Effects

I am trying to remove the sky and I have done it before, but it seems like keylight has new features? Or at least the masking tools have changed. Not sure if this is connected to what Premiere is doing but this is the biggest headache ever. Seems impossible to even deal with keylight anymore.So I cannot find for the life of me how Inside and Outside masks work. Also is there a reason why vertices are the most difficulty thing to deal with it. Every time I want to deal with one point on my mask it selects the entire masks and it seems to have a mind of its own when it wants to release one point or select the entire mask. This program is the worst to deal with not sure why they made it super difficult to do anything within AE. Any suggestions to either would be a huge help.

I am looking for a effect & preset which can give following vibration effect to a image. You can notice ruler is fixed & vibrating. I tried with “Wiggle” but not satisfied.  Video also attached.Vibrations in a steel ruler      

If you move multiple items at once in the Project Panel, you then have to Undo each item move one at a time. This could be really annoying if you accidentally move a bunch of items. The expected result would be a single Undo Group for the entire move. This bug is in the latest update as well as the Beta

Audio layer seen through my official layer. Please help. When I add twixtor not topaz my bad 

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IssueOn Windows (unsure of the exact Mac equivalent) pressing Ctrl+Backspace when editing text will typically delete the last word or set of characters up to a space or hyphen. In AE this behaviour does not happen.When editing the content of a text layer, pressing Ctrl+Backspace appears to have no effect.If editing a layer name (any layer, not just text layers) pressing Ctrl+Backspace will generate a non-printing character that displays as a rectangle, identified on https://invisiblecharacterviewer.com/ as U+007F. I don’t know if this will work in a post here, but the specific character has been pasted between the following marks ‘’.Interestingly, the new layer name sanitation system means that the non-printing characters are not shown when the layer name is committed with Enter, but will show again if the layer name is subsequently edited, but only in the live edit state.Ctrl+Backspace will also generate the U+007 character in text fields, such as those in the Essential Properties pan

We have some AE licenses in the company. We usually work with raw sequences from Sony and Canon cameras on older versions of AE, but this time we upgraded from AE 24 to 26 (a bad decision). Now, when we import a Raw sequence, Camera raw opens and after we make some adjustements and clic “Save” it crash and AE too. Sometimes it works but if you want to make a new change in Camera raw, both crashes. I have tried all the following steps with several computers and the bug persists:1. Toggle Hardware Accelerated DecodingA known conflict often occurs when hardware acceleration interacts poorly with raw footage.In After Effects, go to Edit > Preferences > Import (or General on some versions).Uncheck Hardware accelerated decoding.Restart After Effects.2. Purge the Camera Raw CacheA corrupted or full cache can cause the ACR dialog to freeze or crash.In After Effects, go to Edit > Preferences > Camera Raw (or Media & Disk Cache).Navigate to the Performance tab if prompted.Click P

Hey ​@JohnColombo17100380 ! are you aware of this bug? this white flash when opening 😔 (Windows 11).I also noticed a longer startup time compared to older alternatives like ConsoleFX. 

Issue : “Fill” effect and other miscellaneous pre-installed effects are entirely missing from the Effects Panel and “Manage Effects” windowAE version : 26.2OS : MacOS Tahoe 26.3.1What I did to try and fix the issue : reset Preferences uninstalled and reinstalled AE opened the “Manage Effects” window and activated all effects uninstalled and reinstalled in an older version (25.6.5)The last step allowed me to see “Fill” again in the list

Help!!! Im trying to export a 20s video at 60fps. Ive tried changing the CPU settings so its lower, tried exporting as apple pro res to help but nothing seems to work. It gets stuck half way when rendering (media encoder) and then i have to force quit. I dont get any messages about corrupted video file and have replaced the videos in the render with just one to see if that worked, but it didnt. It can do 4-5s of the video but just not the whole thing in one goAttached is an example. happy to share AF files as im not sure its my computer that cant handle it. thanks  

When an artist exports a video from After Effects in H.264 format, AE doesn't include colour metadata, unlike QuickTime or other software.When we perform certain operations after exporting from After Effects, we lose the exported colours because the metadata is missingTested on 2025 and  2026 Fichier : AFTERh264.mp4codec_name : h264width : 2048height : 2048r_frame_rate : 25/1pix_fmt : yuv420pcolor_range : unknowncolor_space : unknowncolor_transfer : unknowncolor_primaries : unknownFichier : DavinciH264.mp4 or QuicktimeH264_AE.movcodec_name : h264width : 2048height : 2048r_frame_rate : 25/1pix_fmt : yuv420pcolor_range : tvcolor_space : gbrcolor_transfer : bt709color_primaries : bt709

I want to keyframe audio going from silence to some audible level. I set the stop watch for audio levels at the beginning of a wave form and drag the level slider down, and move the CTI later into the track and increase the audio at that point by dragging the audio level slider,, though when the CTI hits the waveform it is still playing the audio even though I tried making the audio silent at the first keyframe. What do I need to do to make the audio not audible on the first keyframe? Thank you 

If you are using After Effects to layout and position content being able to create a grid system like in Photoshop can be useful.I created a scriptUI panel to create rows and columns by making guidelines. You can download it on gumroad: https://thepixelsmith.gumroad.com/l/AfterEffectsGridBuilderIt’s pay what you want (gumroad doesn’t let me just do free stuff) so just type in zero. 

Hi Everyone, I’m having a weird problem. A certain expression works on AE GUI but it does not work when rendered with aerender.I am trying to create a dynamic creative app for my agency. Basically, I have an aep template that has a json object. I modify the json and render via aerender.I can change text, images, videos, text style, etc dynamically. Here’s the problem:I can’t change a shape’s color with aerender. The json is parsed correctly (textboxes show the values correctly, and even hexToRgb conversion is done correctly). But the shape does not seem to pickup color. When I open the AE GUI, it runs correctly. However, aerender does not render correctly. I tried different methods, including putting the expression in shape’s fill color, using a color object, linked with the shape embedding the shape in a comp and using tint / fill effects. All these methods I mentioned work in AE GUI with no problem. However they don’t work in aerender. The color code comes from the json correctly, bu

Issue - filling up ram, with a preview render, never releases that ram, causes the application to generally not work.  Steps to reproduce - I use a plugin, element 3d, and preview render a long comp, that fills the ram cache, then change the comp and try to work with it. AE refuses to render anything.  Expected result - AE clears up ram, prioritizes what it is supposed to be doing. Actual result -  preview is BLACK. AE does not render anything. eventually it will crash, as the app uses more and more ram. Screen recording – this is impossible, as AE sucks down all system resources Adobe After Effects version - Version 26.0.0 (build 67) Operating system - Mac os X Tahoe 26.2 GPU driver version (Windows only) - NA Video format -  Comparative information helps us understand more about when the issue occurs:  It seems to affect projects that use large amounts of ram, and possibly plugins.  yes  AE 2025, I discovered it in December of 2025. Optional but useful: other observations: Element

I’ve just switched from AE2025 to AE2026 but I have a problem with Aces colors interpretation.I have a tiff sequence RGB+A (premultiplied alpha) with sRGB color space. The Project is set as follows in both AE25 and AE26 (AcesCCT):  The footage’s colors are interpreted as follows:This is my workflow and I’ve never had problems with colors until I’ve worked with AE25.In AE2026, when using AcesCCT I see washed-out colors; with AcesCC, the colors are ok. This is the only difference between the settings:Same machine, same footage, same color settings, different version of AE = different colors. Any ideas?I’ve searched in AE Preferences but they look very similar and they seem to have same settings.

Hey everyone,Wanted to share something I built and get honest feedback from this community.A few weeks ago I was working on a really messy After Effects project — dozens of nested precomps, broken expressions, mystery effects buried 5 layers deep. The kind of timeline that makes you want to start over.I downloaded one of those free unprecompose scripts you can find online. It could batch un-nest, which was great, but that's about it. It dropped some of my effects, didn't preserve everything cleanly, and worst of all — every expression that referenced layers inside the precomps just broke. I spent hours afterward manually fixing thisComp.layer() references one by one.So I decided to take that simple script and turn it into something that actually does the full job.What I built — Carpenter's Un-Nester Pro:Batch un-precompose with proper preservation of effects, masks, blending modes, 3D properties, time remap, track mattes, audio with level keyframes, and parent relationships Recursive m

Antes de que transcurrieran los 7 días de prueba desinstalé la aplicación desde Adobe Creative Cloud , ya que en el mensaje cuando dabas de alta la prueba decían lo siguiente:   "Puedes cancelar en línea, en cualquier momento y sin gastos" No se si se tiene que cancelar la versión de prueba desde otro sitio, ya que no veo que se especifique correctamente.El hecho es que mas de 7 días después me han cobrado los 24,19€.  

Can you save a single composition from an After Effects project so it can be opened inside a second project? Deleting a couple hundred files from a large AEP to reduce it to a single comp is not realistic. Just need to move one composition into another project where it would be useful without having to migrate the entire original project. Reconnect the media and done. Possible?

I'm trying to use the new import illustrator SVG from clipboard feature in Beta, after pasting one object into after effects it keeps pasting in the same shape even when i copy next shapes in illustrator. To fix it i have to purge all memory in after effects and then i can keep pasting more shapes/SVGs from illustrator into after effects. So after each shape i have to purge, otherwise it keeps pasting the same thing