After Effects

I'm surprised that there do not seem to be keyboard shortcuts for the commands to "Track selected masks forward/backward 1 frame" in the Tracker window when tracking masks. (See screenshot below.) Am I overlooking them in the keyboard preferences window? If not, then please consider including these commands in the keyboard shortcuts for future versions of AE. Thanks,- DK  

Hello all, My RAM preview in AE is not playing back even though it is fully cached / green in the timeline.  Sometimes this occurs within a few minutes, other times i can work for extended periods of time with no issues.  It's as if the playback button becomes disabled - i can still manualy scrub or key thru the timeline with the cursor and picture updates immediately, so there is no indication that it is out of ram. (i have 58 out of 64GB allocated in prefs) The timeline is always completely green.  No crashes occur.  Purge all command does not fix this - only a reset / relaunch of the app, restores playback functionality, but only temporarily.   currently in AE version 23.4.0.  Tried an older version of 22 but the same problem occurs Any help appreciated! System: PC - Windows 11Nvidia 4090 / Intel Core i9 13900K / 64GB ram  

I’m using the Brush tool to draw on a layer, but when I double‑click that layer and go into the dedicated Layer panel, every other layer disappears. I need those underlying layers visible so I know where to place my strokes relative to the rest of the comp. I just want to see the other layers underneath while I paint on a given layer.

I am replacing footage with FootageItem replace() (scripting manual page 66).I've been testing it by replacing footage with the same footage just from a different directory.But AE doesn't maintain the Alpha Interpretation that I saved in the .aep file.Instead it appears to guess the alpha.As a test I interpreted straight alpha footage as premultiplied and premultiplied as straight.When I do the replace, the straight is guessed as straight and premultiplied guessed as premultiplied.But I don't want AE to do any guessing.The manual says:The method preserves interpretation parameters from the previous mainSource object. If the specified file has an unlabeled alpha channel, the method estimates the alpha interpretation.But the files do not have an unlabeled alpha. (How do I double check this?) They were created with an alpha in AE to begin with.How do I get it to never try and guess the alpha and leave it how they were manually interpreted in the .aep project?Thanks

am using after effect 2023work smooth in my laptop intel i7 / rtx 2060 / 32gb ramI want to use after effect 2024 becuse I can import 3D files and I want to do all my work in this versionSO i found more then 15 version in after effect 2024what do you recommaed and which version of after effect 2024 you are usingI want stable version and without slow prevew and bugs.and most importent to work fine with my laptop power 

Hi! I'm working on a black and white video and I want to color a single tear red to make it look like blood. I've tried using effects like 'Change Color' and 'Change to Color', but they don't seem to work with black and white footage. I'm still a beginner, so any tips (step-by-step would be amazing!) on how to pull this off would really help. Thanks in advance!

This is maybe a minor annoyance but in software I use everyday is going to slowly drive me mad.  Since updating to AE 2025 every time I start the software it creates an Untitled Project, then I go to open the project I'm working on and have to go through a Save menu to get to what I'm working on.  Who wants this? Why?  Settings > Start Up > Home Screen is already checked.  Is there anyway to stop this from happening?

I am doing a tutorial. In that "Shape Layer" was created and named it "Rectangle". I do not think it is correct because a Shape Layer can contain any number of different shapes, giving a specific name is not acceptable. What do you think?      

When I am trying open several actual projects made in AE2025.2. AE2025.1 (or beta), I am receivning error message about some duplicated text and then report about corrupted project and skipped sections.When I open project in 2025.1 or beta, no error appear, everythink works OK. When I resave the project from beta, it seems to be OK and it is possible to open project in AE2025.2.2 without message..I had no errors while using 2025.1 / 2025.2

Hi,Problem: On After Effects version 25.2 and 25.2.2 audio doesn't synchronize properly the first time the ram preview is played. You have to stop the ram preview hit "0" key again and then it plays with audio properly synch.Version 25.1 works fine.This behavior is there for a very long time. and version 25.1 was a great improvement since the audio ram preview never work proprerly since version 2014 (!). I was so surprise and so happy to see it was fixed but here we go again. What on the earth you guys are doing with ram preview audio synch ? Why don't you fixed it once ans for all ? Adding new features are great but please fix first fundamentals fonctionality like ram preview first and definitively.I repeat 25.1 works fine so please reverse back to what you did for 25.1(I am on pc Windows 10 but I was for a while on Mac and ram preview never played properly on Mac too)  

I need help?  Why does the processor temperature rise while running Illustrator and After Effects?

I just bought a new computer that's supposed to have enough power to work well on it and everytime I try using AE it crashes and gives me a blue screen. Doesn't happen wit any other program or game, just After Effects, and not even advanced AE as I literally just started the project. Computer has these aspects: - Intel Intel i9 13th gen 13900k 24 cores- MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB Ventus 3x- MSI Pro z790-A Wifi Motherboard- 64 GB Ram DDR5- 2 SSD+ enough power and cooling- Windows 11 I don't know if this issue can be solved with help here or if I have to ask MSI's support, Intel's or Windows.I just want to be able to work properly using every tool I need and that includes After Effects.  

Hello, I'm trying to export a 3-minute video in After Effects. It's made up of animated text in nested comps, background videos, MotionBRO transitions, and music. First, I tried to export the Lossless AVI directly from the Render Queue but the video would come out with several errors and audio popping in and out. When I export the H.264 file in Media Encoder, it works perfectly except for one section where I have a couple of nested comps. (A cell phone animation and nested text). It shows up as bars and tone on the preview and in the exported video. In After Effects, however, the comps are visible and there is no missing media. What is going on and how do I fix this?    Thank you!

when you are working in project and you have a slow preview and slow timeline how to fix this problem what are steps to fix this

Heya,So im currently struggling with cutting out part of a png image so that its seperate so i can animate that part of the image. I'm new to the software and have been trying to use the pen tool to create a mask but havent been able to do more than create an outline around the part that i want to seperate.

Hi guys, anyone working in AAE in an ACES workflow is probably familiar with the annoying input footage setup. Has anyone managed to set up their own interpretation rules for After Effects 2025? I don't think it works in the ACES workflow. Or am I writing it wrong? *, *, *, "oEXR", * = *, *, *, P, "scene_linear: ACEScg", **, *, *, "JPEG", * = *, *, *, *, "pRGB", * Thanks for any answer.

I've been using After Effects for over 20 years. I have a heavy duty fast processor, lots of RAM and new graphics card on a PC (trust me, it's fast). All my other software runs smoothly, including AE 2019, which I was hesitant to upgrade because "if it's not broke don't fix it." Because of recent collaborations and because I'm curious about the new features, I've tried to upgrade to AE 2024. It starts up slow, it freezes, it crashes, it locks up my entire computer. Working with one piece of video and one effect it struggles. Why???? I've searched all the forums and followed every tip and setting I can find. Nothing is working. My only conclusion is that AE 2024 is a buggy unusable software. The answer "upgrade to 128 GB of RAM" does not make sense. Newer versions of a software should be smoother and not require immense amounts of new processing power. Adobe, please stop adding so many background process and bloated features. Stop treating your customers like guinea pigs.

I need to paint on 1 layer out of many. I need the layer below it in order to guide where to paint. It seems to paint you have to do it by double clicking it and it appears as a single layer. So how can I use the layer beneath it to paint on the 1 above it? Do I have to permanently combine the 2 layers in order to do this?Thanks.

I want to create a transparent layer so I can add painted effects and images over existing footage - but then remove the original footage and render.  I'm a Photoshop and Illustrator expert but new at After Effects. It seems like a simple thing but not found the answers. Rotoscope tool is too rigid. A simple layer akin to a new layer in Photoshop would be ideal. I want to paint and add new elements so I need the footage for reference - but then need to hide it and render with a transparent background. Thanks very much

I made a video output with Google Earth Studio. The video I prepared will be about military history. I want to show the movements of military units with red arrows in this Google Earth video. However, as the camera pans in the video, the arrows change places. How can I pan the arrows smoothly on the ground in this map-video? I don't want to use a flat map because I zoom in and out with Google Earth Studio. I want the arrows to move and maneuver while the camera is drawing a circle. How can I do this? I'm new to After Effects so I don't know much.

When I import my AI file into After Effects, +1 pixel is added to any layer size, for example, if it is 500x500, then it becomes 501x501. I gave examples in the screenshots, in 1 screenshot you can see how in AI all elements in the layer have 500x500 pixels, when imported to AE in the second screenshot you can see how this layer is converted to 501x501, with absolutely any import settings, I first imported as "footage" and selected a specific layer, then as "composition" with "layer size". It's not about the import settings. I tried to experiment with another illustration, in screenshots 3-6. It's not even the resolution itself, in screenshot 7 it happens in 1920x1080. As if in AE there are settings to add +1 pixel in width and height to any vector layer. Why is this important to me? The bottom line is that when I convert the layers to shapes, they have 500x500 as they should, but they lose the anchor point both in the layer itself from the shapes, and in the shapes themselves inside,

Im using AE in macbook pro, and ecerything is latest like i've bought this last month. I was editing this video in premiere pro and then through Adobe Dynamic Link i clicked Replace it with AE composition. so now i'm trying to stablize motion and its not working, my clip will get analyzed and stablized and everything like the whole process right but still footage remains the same (shaky and like the orignal) and it should be like tracked and stablized but the point i used to stablize the motion is still dancing here and there, tried restarting both project and laptop and even reworked on the project from start but problem is still there.