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Hi,Magic Lantern was a Canon DSLR hack that offered dual ISO recording. This created a high frame rate .mov in which alternate frames were +2 and -2 stops around the set ISO. These two streams could later be blended to yield a faux HDR result.I shot a short film with this 12 years ago, and post got temporarily shelved.  I'm back on the case now.So far:Import original up/down 50fps footage. Put into two separate 50fps compositions. Give one a one-frame offset. Change compositions to 25fps. Both comps look great - one up and one down.Now, I can blend these two using AE's HDR Compander, but there's a temporal offset of 1/100th between the two exposures, so anything moving has a ghost. The only fix I can think of is rendering one of the 25fps compositions as a series of tiffs, and then to reimport it. I would then halve the speed of the footage using Time Stretch and AE would generate the missing frames. From there I'd extract those in-between frames as a fresh 25fps comp that would b

Hi does anyone know how I can get the fill and stroke bar at the top of the panel? I need to make a stroke line connecting the texts Like here (attachment), I dont know why i dont have it.(The youtube videos top toolbar layout is how I want it) But I really have no idea, I tried tweaking with the window setting, but I can't find the setting that enables it.

Hi! I've been working on this animation, but I can't seem to find a solution for my problem. In the gif below you see the transformation I'm looking for, but while maintaining stroke width. This is an imported path from illustrator, modified to shape layers. In numerous tutorials, I see that to achieve this, you need to create a null layer, parent this shape layer to that null layer, and add an expression to the stroke width property of the shape layer. It does seem to work for proportional scaling, but not for unproportional. Can anyone help me find the answer? Thanks!- Joppe 

Hey I am very excited to be here learning about after effects and design.Hit me if you would like to learn together and we could connect and probably grow together. Regards

Hi, I learnt here ( in adobe community, from an expert) that I can save script in notepad adding ' extension .jsx' . and use that from File- Script- Run script file. Is there any way I can move that into Ae window panel and keep that floating like other tool/plugin in my customize workspace? OR that is possible only for commercial plugins/tool? Thank you.  

Hello, I have layers of varying dimensions (160x600 1080x1080 320x250 480x320 728x90) roughly between 80 to 100 layers. Is there a way to have these layers populate into a grid with even padding around each layer, attached is an example. I'd rather not use expressions as I'm sure it will bog AE down;  it it doesn’t have to be created in After Effects. It could be done in InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop and once in AE replace these placeholder layers with my comped layers. I've had a Google, but the only real solution appear for CSS and website design. I'm here to ask if someone has seen or used such a grid layout before. Thank you

Hi community.  Recently Rick Gerard provided me with an expression using create nulls with paths, to move with 1 pixel increments using Null paths.   rNull = thisComp.layer("Null Left");strtPos = rNull.position;endX = 126,spd = 1; // number of pixels to move per frameStrtTime = 0; // Start on Frame 40;eTime = endX/spd;t = timeToFrames();mov = linear(t, StrtTime, StrtTime + eTime, 0, endX);[strtPos[0] + mov, strtPos[1]]; This animation below is correct. And is using the right null    For the following animation below, I changed the expression into the left null (deleting the code from the right null), so the green line is going in reverse, which is correct, but when it starts to expand from the centre of the line towards the right side, the line is cut short, not an even animation. (Not enough frames im dont know....) . see Example below:    My thoughts to emulate the blue line animation would be, having 2 d

Hi community. Ive came across a tricky situation in AE. I need to animate a bipolar line, from left to right. (I've uploaded an example, please see the GIF).first question is, does AE move the Shape line in 1 pixel increments?  Second question is, why does it make that smoothing transition, and not sharp edge like in the example Ive uploaded. Its half pixel smooth, then pixel sharp, then pixel smooth again, then pixel sharp again. Whats the best method to animate a line, perfect pixel by pixel. I need to animate from 0 to 100 a line, and each pixel needs to be perfect without any smoothing on the edges of the line.  Thank you.   The line animations look not smooth in their transitions. https://limewire.com/d/a0db155a-9dd8-4d23-88b8-2cee71b8e5e3#1tr_M9VsiGp_oW5VW46eLvv7RMPr77Nmyv9SUANpnY0 https://filebin.net/w7hxnrslcma5fbtp

After Effects 25.1.0Windows 11 Short version - using a script to set output file names for items in the Render Queue causes any output names from comps that have periods in their names to be truncated from the period on. I've written a scriptUI panel that adds selected items from the Project panel to the Render Queue. It takes the comp name as the base of the output file name, and has options to prepend and append user-defined strings to the file name (stuff like version number, date etc). It also generates a drop-down with all the output templates so the user can select a template and apply it to all the items being added. It also can set a folder to save the output in. To programatically set any folder other than whatever it defaults to when simply adding an item to the Render Queue, you have to create a new File object and specify the path and filename. My problem is that any comp that has a period anywhere in the original comp name will have everything in the na

I've observed an unusual behavior within my After Effects user interface that occurs when I have multiple CEP extensions opened consecutively. Here's the scenario:Opening Multiple Extensions: Whether docked or floating in the UI, if I open multiple CEP extensions (let's say three), everything appears to function normally. If I then close the last opened one, all is good, which is Normal. However: But:The issue appears when I begin closing one of these extensions that isn't the last one opened. If I close the first or second opened extension, it triggers an unexpected behaviour: the content of the last opened extensions disappears, and their functionality stops. Why does closing any CEP extension affect the last opened one? This may be related to the HTML engine, but I'm unsure. How can this issue be resolved? Thank you very much.

I'm in the newest version of AfterEffects (v.25.1), and I'm trying to set up a MOGRT that's relatively complex on the backend, and I need some help getting the code to work. I'll try to explain what I'm going for. I have a template for a lower third graphic, and I want to be able to select specific sections of text by using sliders, and then apply preset custom formatting to that text by using a dropdown menu which lists four possible formatting options. Here's what the Essential Graphics setup looks like:  As you can see by there being 5 different groups, I want to be able to make up to five text selections, and have these same options for each one individually: 1) start index of the text selection, 2) length of the text selection, and 3) ability to choose what formatting preset is applied. (For example, I want to be able to select the second word in the lower third and make it italics, and also select the fourth word and make it smallcaps, etc.) I have code that w

I have an issue with my trapcode particular plug-in. Every time I open the designer I get the below message and then when I close out of the designer my after effects gives me another error and crashes. I reinstalled Red Giant and made sure Trapcode was only in my AE 2022 folder. Does anyone know how to fix this?  

When using Increment and Save, AAE creates a new file (with an increased version number in the filename). I am wondering if that is considered a "new" file by the cache management algorithm. If so, doing that often will quickly eat up cache space as all the caches from the previous versions would be kept indefinitely (until deleted manually) as they all are considered separate documents. Can anyone shed some light on that?

When using the ellipse tool, an ellipse will appear in the shape layer, but it is not visible in the composition with fill and stoke on. Has anyone else had this issue or know how to fix it? 

Olá,Estou enfrentando um problema com a renderização de sombras no After Effects 2025. Mesmo com a aceleração por GPU ativada e drivers atualizados, as sombras não estão sendo renderizadas corretamente. Minha placa de vídeo é uma GTX 1050.Já vi relatos de outros usuários com o mesmo problema, e não encontrei soluções nos fóruns. Poderiam me ajudar a resolver essa questão? Agradeço desde já.Atenciosamente, [Seu Nome]

So I wanted to look through my older projects of AE but the thing is that I made those in ae 2022 version so I can't open so I'm looking forward to try and fix that problem.. If you have any other solution then please leave it in the comment section.

Hi community. Is there a way to fix in the trim paths and round cap section, the line animations from protruding so much into the first frame. On frame zero, the line is set to zero, but on frame 1, the rounded cap reveals too much of the rounded cap, like 2 notches, then the animation is smoother 1 pixel each interval, and the line finishes again abruptly with 2-3 more notches.   

Hi, for about a week now I'm having issues with AE 23. So I'm working in AE 23 and I have another application open in the background (e.g. Chrome or Premiere). Once I click to open up the other application, AE will crash Windows and the system reboots. It exclusively happens when switching away from AE and not from any other software so the problem has to be with AE. Not sure what's going on since it wasn't an issue before and suddenly it is. It started happening in AE 23.3 (which was running fine before). I then downgraded to AE 23.2 and AE 23.1 but the issue persists. Downgrading to AE 22 seems to resolve the issue but this is not an option for my current project. I also downgraded my Nvidia drivers as suggested by Victoria some time ago ( https://twitter.com/FakeGreenDress/status/1634250027978858497?s=20 ) but no luck. I'm on Windows 11, version 22H2. Attached you'll find a log file that was generated the last time AE crashed my system. I hope there's a

Hey,Sorry about the newbie question, but Google won't help me out here and I really need to know: isn't there an onion skin feature in After Effects? Like the one used in classic cellmation (if I, for instance, am watching frame 6, turning on the onion skin feature will allow me to see both frames 5 and 7 at a lower opacity) and that comes with Flash. I've recently started out with AE since using Flash gives me at least three brain hemmorages a day, and to be honest I just thought onion skinning is such a basic thing so I didn't even bother to check if came with AE... But I just realize that maybe it's not, only to animators.Well, now I can't seem to find it, some other forum posts mention that it doesn't really exist (why, adobe, why?), but I still wanna make sure it doesn't. Does it?

I imported a video into my timeline and it won't display the visuals. I'm only hearing the audio when it previews. I tried to see if the video layer was hidden, but there's no eye icon even. Need help with this. Thank you!   Title edit by Mod.

Tengo unas fotos que son de buena resolución y se ven correctamente. Cuando hago la presentación en After Effects y las pongo en mi composición, la calidad desmejora muchísimo y se ven borrosas, ya sea con cámara como sin ella, acercándome o no a las fotos. No lo entiendo, porque esto me pasa con la mayoria de las fotos, pues en algunas no pasa y se ven bastante bien aunque siempre pierden calidad.He probado todos los métodos que yo conozco, incluso aplicando la opción de "rasterizar continuamente" si que mejora un poco pero no lo suficiente.

Hello,I have created the gif animation it should be below 1 mb, but there are some dots that are showing in the animation, they disappear when it's mp4. But i need gif, and also it should be with smaller size.I tried to export as jpeg sequence in After Effects, and than open in Photoshop and export as gif animation, but is the sameThank you,Monika

I've imported a .wav audio track into after effescts but the waveform is far shorter than the recorded time it's been compressed from 3 minutes to 1 minute and I don't know why and would like the audio to be the original time?I tried time stretching but this distorts the audio, is there another way to import it correctly?

Heya.I'm really not very good at AE at all, so I'm not so good with the advanced terminology. I have flameless candles in the backdrop of my static shots, and these static shots often last 45+ minutes. I have PNGs of lens flares that correspond to the candles. I love how it looks, but I notice that when the candles are momentarily obscured (often things like my hands or arms moving in front of them), the PNGs of the lens flares still remain, which looks jarring and unnatural.I would like it to be such that when the candles are obscured, the opacity of the lens flares dynamically, automatically lower in opacity, proportionate to how obscured they are. So if they are partially obscured, the opacity of the lens flare would come down, but not entirely. I would like this to be automated, as this will be what I'm doing for every video I make.Ideally, I would like to be able to just mask out the small area of the candles and make AE just focus on the changes to that area, so it's aw

Hey guys,  this has been bothering me for quite a while and I haven't been able to find a solution on the web.I'm using After Effects 22 on an M2 Macbook Pro (Ventura 13.0) with 8 GB RAM (yes, I know, it's far from optimal for Ae) . Whenever my project gets a bit 'heavier', I'm speaking of 7-10 layers (different kinds like shapes, .jpeg, .mp4, nulls, occasionally 3D) plus quite a bit of adjustment layers with cc, effects, lighting etc., and I press space/playback, it freezes indefinitely. I've tried rendering my projects in sections, then layering the files in a new comp to reduce workload, yet it would still happen.Ae suddenly gives me the colorful spinning ball of death and never actually loads anything, no matter how long I wait, so I have to restart every time.Once wanted to see if it's actually trying, went for dinner once and three smokes, 1 hour later it was still stuck in loading.There are usually no other tabs opened either, although,I usually keep my activ