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My PC is very old and has a very weak GPU and CPU. I can not use AE tools in my pc. I'm sorry but i didn't find better forum to ask this question. Now I want to create videos similar to this one: https://youtube.com/shorts/WZZXM3xAoi0  Can anyone tell me how I can easily create a video like this? I mean a floating phone from a top view that is ringing (with sound and animation). If possible, I’d like to create this type of video using Android apps like CapCut or any other mobile-friendly tools. Any help or tutorial recommendation would be really appreciated! 

Using Camera Lens Blur with a Z-depth map causes unwanted halos or blur around edges that should be in focus.This issue has been around for years!

Hello, I've been having issues with compositing motion graphics into a cinema 4d render. I've placed a null object into my final scene as a reference for where I want my graphics to be attached to in after effects, you can see this displayed as the 'cube' in my screenshots - this null object has a external compositing tag on it. There is a morph camera that provides the camera move for the scene (this has had its keyframes baked) I was given a image sequence final render of the scene which was rendered in corona, and as previously discussed I have the scene file that correpsonds to that render. (Just to clarify, the corona render + scene file perfectly match up, there hasn't been any accidental move of the camera. My problem is when I import the camera's and null objects, through cineware or even an AEC export into After Effects, the reference null is in a wrong position compared to how it set it in my cinema scene I'm sure I'm using the correct imported camera too. As you ca

I hope I'm wrong, but after 5h of investigation, C-GPT and me gave up on this. As far as it looks, it is not possible to organize shape layer content via script? I've tried duplicate() and another recreational approach (duplicate would be best as my content has expressions) but it seems impossible. for-loops keep breaking after the first successful duplication, throwing an alert that the object from the duplicate line was invalid. GPT says that the "invalid object" is a common bug when operating inside shape layer content and that duplicating, removing or sorting of shape content is just not possible. I do hope that there's a way though, as I've always preferred a single-layer workflow for shapes whenever possible so I can quickly import them as animation presets + they don't clutter up comps. This works fine in most cases, but if I want to dynamically generate content - tables, diagrams etc. - into these templates, with various amounts of the same thing, I need ExtendSc

i really want to download and use after effects 2021 as it is the last version compatable with my plugins/cc. is there any way i can get this legit? i tried looking it up but all the websites offering it looked mad sketchy and i want to be sure im getting the REAL one, not a cracked one or one with malware lol.

My preview is stucked in this situation, seems is always calulating. Video has trasparent background  and has been created with a dinamyc link from adobe premiere

Ich wollte heute After Wffetcs öffnen aber mein Mac blockiert es.  Ich habe einiges versucht und es liegt an der neuesten Version. Wenn ich auf 25.1 zurück gehe lässt es sich öffnen.  bitte um hilfe.

Hi, I'm noew to After Effects.  I have multiple dust spots on some clips and have been using masks with content-aware fill to fix these.  Its been working great but on one clip somehow all the dust spots move in tandem partway thorugh the footage.  I know how to animate a single mask to folow a dust spots as it moves (Ive been doing this manually by adding keyframes as the video image behind the dust spots is too disriptive to use mask tracking). My question is, since they are all moving together, how can I apply the animation of one mask to other so they move in the same way realtive to each inital starting point?  I thought maybe "copy with relative properties link" migh be it -- but that didnt work. There are dozens of these masks --one for each tiny dust spot... so it would be helpful if I could apply this movement pattern to all at once.  Thanks for any suggestions!

Hello there,So, I'm a stupid idiot, and I imported all these TIFF sequences at 30fps and then did all of my VFX work for the client in 30fps in comps that are 30fps with rotoscoping frame by frame over many layers in 30fps timelines.  So actually the client is using 23.976 and now I need to make this all 23.976.  I'm fixing it temporarily by making new comps that are 23.976 and putting in the 30fps comps in there and stretching it so it's playing the same number of frames, but at 23.976.  But is there any way to convert all of my working comps and assets to 23.976?  Or do I just have to stick with this workaround for now?Thanks,Gavin

Beginner here, I was trying to understand keyframe interpolation and how it affects the graph in the graph editor. I made a simple motion animation, where an airplane moved from one point to another in a straight line. Created two keyframes at t=0 and t=3s, and by default the interpolation between them was linear. On the graph editor the value graph looked like this: x values went from 200 to 1500 in 3s, y values stayed the same (as there was no motion in y). I selected the two keyframes on the timeline (which were looking like diamonds) and then right clicked -> keyframe interpolation, and changed the temporal interpolation to Bezier. This changed the keyframes to hourglass icons on the timeline. However, when I opened the graph editor the value graph was exactly the same as was for the linear interpolation. I was expecting it would change to the curve that you get when you "ease in" and "ease out". Sure I'm able to make the graph look like how I want to by going to

I have an After Effects project that I am unable to open. When trying to open the file, After Effects freezes with the "Open Project" dialogue box, but nothing happens. This started happening today, after using Dynamic Link to link a Premiere Pro project with the After Effects project. There didn't seem to be any issues (I was able to incorporate some of the Premiere Pro clips into the AE project) until I closed the project and later tried to open it again. Now it won't open at all (AE freezes). Unfortunately, the auto-saves don't help as I can only open ones from the day before (which means a lot of work is lost). I tried creating a new project and importing the problem project there, but AE freezes when I try to do that as well. It also didn't help having the Premiere Pro project opened first, then opening the AE project.This is the first time I've had this issue, and also the first time I've used Dynamic Link in an After Effects project. Some web searches show that others have also

I get this error when importing an image sequence in to After Effects 2020 (Version 17.0.4 (Build59)). The funny thing is that it works just fine when importing the very same image sequence in the previous version of After Effects (Version 16.1.3 (Build 5)) ... This means I can't use the latest version of After Effects, since I work with image sequences all the time. Have anyone else encountered this problem and/or have a solution or workaround?

Hi !I am new on after effect. I am trying to create a simple animation of a loading bar. I've watched a handful of tutorials and they all manage to do it in a few clicks. But even when I do exactly like them, something is wrong with mine. I created a rectangle shape and used trim path to slowly make it appear, from left to right, just like in the videos. But mine will start from the right and fill up weirdly ( see the picture ).Does anyone have an idea why it's doing that ?Thanks in advance.

Regular Expressions are exceptionally useful in After Effects Expressions. If you're thinking of improving your Expressions to write more intelligent code or even to craft Intelligent Design Assets (IDAs) to help speed up your development of Responsive and even Automated Motion Graphics MoGRTs and Motion Toolkits, then you MUST know the basics of Regular Expressions - there are two links to video tutorials to help you build a good foundation.I've also added an example prompt you can use in a Large Language Model or with an AI Code Helper.And you also get quite a few Regular Expressions that you can readily use. https://www.broadcastgems.com/post/here-s-an-excellent-after-effects-expression-you-should-have-in-your-expressions-library 

I'm facing this issue while opening my project, please help anyone to how to resolve this and open my project file.

Good day. I apologize if I am writing in the wrong thread, I am in despair, I can not solve the problem:I need to Create a Control Text Layer (donor text), and bind another layer with text to it, so that any changes in (donor text) would affect all other bound layers with text.The expression "thisComp.layer("donor text").text.sourceText" only changes the content of the text! But the style, font and other attributes are not transferred to the bound layers!!!The option from the GPT chat does not work either:srcDoc = thisComp.layer("donor text").text.sourceText;dstDoc = createTextDocument(srcDoc.text); // clone with the same text------------------------------------// transfer the main stylesdstDoc.font = srcDoc.font;dstDoc.fontSize = srcDoc.fontSize;dstDoc.applyFill = srcDoc.applyFill;dstDoc.fillColor = srcDoc.fillColor;dstDoc.applyStroke = srcDoc.applyStroke;dstDoc.strokeColor = srcDoc.strokeColor;dstDoc.strokeWidth = srcDoc.strokeWidth;dstDoc.leading = srcDoc.leading;dstDoc.tracking = s

Speech Recognition works perfectly in a regular browser but fails inside the After Effects CEP panel.I’ve tried:Web Speech API (requires internet)Vosk (offline solution)Proper folder structure and permissionsInstalling in the correct CEP directorySetting PlayerDebugMode=1 in the registryBoth methods give errors when accessing the microphone from within After Effects. The extension itself loads, but speech recognition won’t initialize.

  Hi, I want the wiggle expression to repeat the bigger scale in a non regular basis, But the wiggle only makes the star bigger once in the entire 30 sec long comp! How should I write the expression so trhat AE can understand what I want. Thank you. Please guide me.       

Latest installs of AE have been absolutely terrible when scrubbing the timeline. Even with fully rendered RAM preview (green line all the way) it does not scrub properly, frames jump forward and backward, to the point where it's frankly unusable. This happens in comps with nothing but pre-rendered footage, as well as in comps with multiple layers of graphics. Happens with the cache empty, happens whether adapative resolution is on (which I hate because it defeats the purpose) or off. If anyone can offer some insight into what might be the problem and how to fix it, I'd greatly appreciate it. This is so aggravating, I feel like Adobe has done nothing but make the playback experience worse and worse with every release (I've been using AE since v3.1). My system specs are below, happy to share my application prefs if that helps diagnose the issue. Thanks! AE v22.4.0Mac OS 11.0.13.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i932 GB 2667 MHz DDR4Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB   

Hey!I'm working on a 2020 M1 Mac Book Pro with After Effects 22.5 installed. Whenever I try to collect a project, the files within the footage folder are all 0KB.When I open up the project I get an assortment of error and warning messages such as this   Really not sure why this is happening – I've never had this issue before  

 In my version of After Effects, I cannot find the Auto Trace option. I want to create a layer to apply an effect to my logo. I need a layer that will allow the effect to recognize the anchor points of the logo. I’ve tried a few workarounds with Illustrator and the Brush Tool, but nothing seems to work as expected. The program should automatically recognize the logo and create a layer with a mask around it. Could someone please help me with this? Here’s the logo I want to trace and create a mask around. (I have a german Version of After effects) this is the Logo I want to Auto trace  

I recently made a plugin that oscillates over-time. I got 2 main issues with it: 1. The animation doesnt restart when I cut the layer.2. It gets completely corrupted if I apply it on a layer that starts from like the 3rd second (from what I tested). The idea is that it gets corrupted (acts weird) if I apply it on a layer that doesnt start from frame 0. Is there any simple fix to this or I must use AEGP suites (LayerSuite9, PF_InterfaceSuite1, etc...). Am I missing something about how time works?Also, I have issues with GuidMixInPtr.

Hi!I imported into After Effects an OBJ image that I made in Illustrator. I can see the image in the project panel in after effects but when I bring it to the composition it's not visible there.Can someone explain what I have done wrong 🙂 I have version 25.2.2 of after effects