After Effects

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?

Hi everyone. So eaerlier this evening I downloaded Sapphire plugin for AE; I was having some issues with it and a friend suggested just redownloading it, so for some silly reason I just decided to delete all of the Sapphire files (plugins, etc) off my laptop. However, since I did that, every time I've tried to open AE an error message appears saying: "Can't find Sapphire bundle in /Applications/BorisFX/Saphire 2022 Adobe/config/sapphire-ae64.bundle: file does not exist. Please reinstall Sapphire Plug-ins to fix this problem." I feel like I've tried everything: I've cleared ALL Sapphire plugin folders, I've reinstalled AE several times, I've reinstalled the sapphire plugins (and yet again deleted them) and literally nothing has worked. As far as I can see, there are absolutely no remaining Sapphire or BorisFX files or folders. I've tried clearing/resetting AE preferences. Nothing's been working, and I know people have had this issue before as I've googled it and trie

After opening a 3rd party project, probably made where text writes right to left, I can’t get After Effects 2026 to type Left to Right. (The same thing has occurred in the Beta version) How can I get the Latin text engine back? It is NOT a setting in the character or paragraph dialogues, and I’ve tried “resetting” both of those. I’ve also attempted the switch opening a project that use to work properly to reset it. That didn’t work either. I’m on a Mac running Tahoe. I’d prefer to not trash the preferences and lose my workspaces and keyboard shortcuts. Thanks!

If I want to test a work, is it possible to lock the existing keyframes (KF) and add new temporary KFs with different color?   

I made an animation preset for creating captions (followed tutorial). I’ve got a black rectangle shape that populates custom text. However, I want to adjust the opacity of the black rectangle shape only. I’ve tried adjusting the “Amount to Tint”, but that doesn’t work (and inverts both color mappings simultaneously). Same for the effect opacity. DOes anyone know, based on how I built this animation preset, how I can adjust the opacity of one of the color mappings? If not, what would be the best way for me to create what I’m after? Thanks all! 

A client has requested that I use Adobe After Effects version 24.6.8. However, despite reaching out to Adobe support via phone and email, and even discussing the issue during a video session with an Adobe expert, I have not been able to obtain the installer.I would greatly appreciate it if you could share it with me.Thank you very much.

You can send this to Adobe Support:Hello Adobe Support,I am facing repeated crashes in Adobe After Effects during normal editing and especially while working with heavier compositions, 3D camera, and Element 3D. The application suddenly closes without any warning or error popup.I already performed several troubleshooting steps:Reinstalled NVIDIA Studio Driver using DDU clean uninstall Checked RAM using Windows Memory Diagnostic (no errors found) Checked CPU/GPU temperatures and voltages (normal) Cleared media and disk cache Reset After Effects preferences Tested GPU acceleration settings Reinstalled GPU drivers cleanlyThe entire PC is now stable, but only After Effects crashes suddenly during use.Crash log message shown:“After Effects error: Crash in progress. Last logged message was:<16796>  <5> CenterAnchorToContentBoundsTimestampGetNextNIM_SetStreamFPV(2)”The crashes happen more often during:3D scenes Element 3D usage heavier compositions preview/renderingPlease help ide

Usually we call “Bounding Box”. What is purpose of having different name?  

I upgraded from 16GB to 32 GB of RAM, but AE still crashes after the 30 minute mark. I have BCC Sapphire 2025 and flow installed and am currently using AE 2025, but i'm not even working with a crazy heavy workflow.i precompose basically everything i can and have turned off hardware acceleration, ive uninstalled and reinstalled sapphire, ive tried the audio hardware trick, and i purge my memory and cache every 15 minutes, but STILL, my playback will just randomly stop working and i have to manually crash AE. PLEASE HELPPP!!! i need to know if I’m doing something wrong. LAPTOP SPECSProcessor Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 275HX (2.70 GHz)Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.4 GB usable)Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU (8 GB)Intel(R) Graphics (128 MB)Storage 663 GB of 954 GB usedDevice ID C2693164-56F9-46F5-B554-7DA305981479Product ID 00342-21497-29339-AAOEMSystem type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processorPen and touch Pen supportAFTER EFFECTS MEMORY USAGEInstalled RAM: 31.43 GB Cu

I have recently got my pc fixed, and After Effects was working fine but clicking on "clear cache" when I had low storage is when the crashing problems started.I had my SATA cable changed, and my memory is working fine with the AF files backed up and collected- AE is up to date- I have Windows 10 on a custom build- 16 GB of RAM- 172+ GB of storage What I have done:- uninstalled and reinstalled After Effects- disabled "Enable Compressed Frames (Lossless)"- restarted pc and ran AF in safe mode (didn't change anything as I don't have any third-party plugins) I had different types of issues, some being.-Sometimes I hear 4 rapid beeps that start quiter and grow louder, then don't see any problems until it suddenly closes after less than a minuteAre the 4 beeps a warning message? I haven't heard it before, and now I hear it while having these issues every time I start AF-I hear 4 rapid beeps, then my monitor screen turns black temporarilyturns back on, then the error "After Effects can'tconti

I wanted to download a plugin called the anime scripter from github, to interpolate anime clips as you can’t do it well on after effects alone with just time remap and was wondering whether it was a valid source

Hi, Any tips on how I can get hold of an After Effects 2020 install? Due to a system crash I need to get my system up and running with a certain set of plugins that are on longer supported by the newer versions of After Effects (2021 and 2022). Thank you! Best,Terje

Cari ragazzi buon giorno ,sono alle prese con l`esportazione di un progetto che non risulterebbe dopo coda di rendering UGUALE alla visualizzazione del progetto avviato in timeline : cioe esporta solo livello tinta unita (sfondo azzurro) posto come ultimo livello e NON tutto il progetto a carosello di foto che girano in circolarita` ed in sequenza .Dove commetto l`errore?Vi allego un foto di schermata per fervi rendere conto del sitazione Spero in vostro concreto aiuto Un grazie Giovanni   

I have installed the new After effects 26.2.1Specifically to use Depth of field in Advanced 3D, but as ya’ll can see, i cannot enable the depth of field option, nor do i see it in my properties of the camera when i add it on my timeline.Anybody knows the solution ? 

Hello! I'm taking an AE course that's teaching us how to put text partially behind a wall in some footage. To do that, they had us 3D Track Camera the footage, add the text into the 3D scene, duplicate the footage layer (keep the duplicate 2D), add a solid (make it 3D) and mask it out to match the outline of the wall, and use that solid as a track matte for the duplicate footage which is above the original footage layer and text in the layer stack. (I'm not sure if it's relevant, but we also normalized the scene in a previous lesson and there are still reference nulls in the scene as well). I've done similar things before so all the instructions make sense to me and works perfectly for the instructor in the demonstration; but, for some reason when I do it, if I hover over certain areas of the solid, it'll automatically turn into the Add Vertex Tool so I can't mask out the wall. I've tried restarting AE , resetting preferences to default checking for updates, etc. It's re

Hi. Does anyone have the .exe file for Adobe Media Encoder 2019? Please. I don't have a powerful enough computer to run newer versions and I need the encoder to be compatible with Adobe Premiere PRO 2019. Thank you

AE 2026.2  Very similar problem happening on my end. So far,  I’ve only figured out that the bug is that the GPU memory on my card is not getting released, so it eventually crashes everything, and only releases the memory when the app closes.  (I just posted on this as well, if it’s still coming up for you). Unfortunately, while I can limp along with multiple image sequence renders, this is a total deal-breaker for me to actually use this for work until it gets solved.

I’m using Adobe After Effects 2020 and running into a serious issue with the FilmConvert Nitrate plugin. Whenever I apply the FilmConvert Nitrate effect to any video layer or adjustment layer, the entire preview/composition window immediately turns completely black. The footage becomes invisible as if the layer is not rendering at all.The project itself is still active and responsive:The layer remains visible in the timeline Playback still runs normally Audio continues to work Other effects work fine The footage reappears instantly when I disable or remove the FilmConvert Nitrate effectThe issue only happens when FilmConvert Nitrate is enabled. As soon as I toggle the effect off, the video preview returns to normal with no black screen. 

I want to use AE to create different sized ads that can be displayed, example, 1920x1080,  and 728X90 for a web based banner ad. The ads will have a lot of common stuff in them, though they will be very different based on the differing sizes.What is the best way to go about doing this? Make two separate files or making two comps in the same file? I have never worked with multiple comps in AE. Is it just like having a separate sequence in Premiere where you can open comps separately, work in them separately and then export them separately?Thanks

it keeps saying this every time i play my edit but i've almost finished so i dont want to start over, what can i do?

I wanted to animate the back fingers with puppet tool but these what lines appear when they make the movement. I tried the vector shapes from illustrator and also redrawn in after effects but can not get rid of the white lines. Any help is highly appreciated!

I always struggled to figure out how the VFX team on Star Trek: The Next Generation created the warp stars effect for the series.  It was in 1987, and CG was still in its infancy.  When I was researching for my VFX History video on the show, I discovered that this effect was actually created by John Knoll using slit scan.  And so, for my other VFX History video on that technique, I figured out how to recreate the look of the warp stars using CC Particle World, precomps  and the Echo effect.  

Hi all, I've been working in Rec709 color space, and just found out I need to deliver my animations as sRGB MOV files. No matter what I've tried, the output files always have Rec709 color space embedded, according to AE when I import then, AND when I view in VLC player and check out Tools > Codec Information.  When I import them, they do appear darker in AE, so at least some gamma shift is happening, but again they're showing that their color space is Rec709. Methods I've tried include: obviously setting output color management to be sRGBexporting as ProRes 422HQ, Animation, and Avid DNxHD (the only allowable types for the client)trying outputting with no color managementchanging the project color space to sRGB before exportingattempting to change the color management upon import (it won't let me when project is color managed) Any ideas on how I can export videos that actually show as being sRGB? Or does it matter? They certainly look darker than the previous Rec709 r