After Effects

Hey guys! Hope you're well.I recently install red giant but when I preview a video on after effect 2025 with the effect looks it crashes....everytime.If someone can help me...you're welcome.Thanks!

I used After Effect 2024 as render node via command:"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2024\Support Files\aerender.exe" -project "C:\tmp\test_tpl.aep" -r "C:\tmp\some.jsx"All worked fine.After updating to After Effect to 2025 it was broken with error output:"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2025\Support Files\aerender.exe" -project "C:\tmp\test_tpl.aep" -r "C:\tmp\some.jsx" aerender version 25.2.2x2 PROGRESS: Launching After Effects... aerender SYNTAX ERROR: Illegal argument flag: -rJSX-file is generating dynamicly on runtime.How can this be fixed? 

Hello!I need help to better explore the functionality of linking CSV files with After Effects projects. I have some projects that I need to render very often, the video design of these projects is exactly the same, what changes is the text information and in some projects I also need to change the backgroundcolor. With that in mind, I decided to explore the potential of After Effects template creation further and use a CSV file to change the text information and create some conditionals to change the background color according to what is written in the CSV file. This allows me to create these videos much faster and put to render directly in Media Encoder or using a .bat file to render it with aerender, so I don't even need to open the project. The issue is that for some reason in some videos the CSV information is lost in the middle of rendering and the video texts start to glitch and switch frantically between the information in the CSV file and the information tha

Hi Is it possible to create shortcut for Fit up to 100% command in After Effect? Thanks for any help.

HiI have a question and dealing to find an answer for a weekI'd appreciate if someone can help meI am learning after effectsIk photoshop a lil but not muchHere is the problemWhen I try to use vanishing point in photoshop I do all ri8No problemGrids become blueI export into vpe file for using in after effectsAll done ri8 as I have seen videos about itBut when I open the after effects and use the vpe fileThe vpe is messIt's like the center of the pic is changedWhat I marked as wall now is half of the floorIt's not about positionI make it ri8 but it makes the pic half and then do the things in one half while other half is disappearedEven when I check the pics near vpe file after exportingPics are all wrongSome are so smallAnd completely different from what I marked in photoshopCan anyone help pls...

hello, please help me find out how to pefectly align two videos of the same content, but they are little bit different because of small camere movements...i need this for split screen project so it must fit perfectly together to create one image..thanks a lot, M.P.

I'm trying to add the simple saber glow effect to some text on transparent background. I wanna animate the first letter with a red glow that outlines it. I have been able to do it a million times before but now when i "autotrace" it literally just autotraces a circle. Any help? Could it be because I'm using autotrace on a precomped layer?

I cannot figure out the way to disable the Properties Panel.  I don't want to use it, ever.  I've tried closing the panel and saving as a new Workspace, but everytime I do something like double click a text layer it automatically pops up again LOL.

Never had this issue on my Windows 7 desktop, this is only on my brand new laptop running Windows 10... which should be a lot quicker and run AE better. Anyone else experience this? I press space bar, wait about five seconds and then the preview plays even if it is already loaded.Tried google and found nothing. This is on the latest version of AE but I'm using it for the first time on this computer. Specs: https://i.imgur.com/XpZmZfx.png It makes no sense to me because everything else is fast except this. Additional info: I'm using Mercury Software Only in settings if it matters. 500gb memory and disk cache are empty, purging affects nothing. Display drivers up to date. Working from local drives. Video footage is just small 1080p mp4 files recorded with OBS, so loading them is no problem once the video plays.

After effects will not open.My device meets the requirments to use After effects and all of the other adobe apps I have work fine e.g illustrator,photoshop but one day after effects stopped working The splash screen will load then disapper or The splash screen will glitch and not allow me to close it meaning I have to use task manager to close it. It gives me options to start in safe mode or reset prefernces but none of these options work and I do not have any plugins installed  I have repeatedly uninstalled and reinstalled and even updated to the latest version v25.2.2 However even switching to older versions does not work. Does anyone have any suggestions on How to fix this?

Hi, I have very basic AE skills and can't figure this one out. I only want every "C" to be yellow and don't want to manually change it every time I change the words. Tried an expression that looks for every space " " and then changes the color of the character right next to that, which would be the C's: var userText = text.sourceText;if (userText.length > 0) {var modifiedText = userText.replace(/ (\w)/g, " <span style='color:#FCD527'>$1</span>");modifiedText;} else {""} I'm getting "Error, couldn't turn result into numeric value"  Thank you for any ideas you may have.  

I know tons of stuff is created daily with AE that is far more complicated than what I am doing. I have a new Mac, tons of hardrive space etc... Randomly it just does not play previews for long periods of time. Sometimes it just never sends the file to Media Encoder. How do you all deal with this? Is there some special sauce I do not know about? I am a seasoned design professional and I have tried everything imaginable. 

Can i use Adobe After Effects on my iPad Pro

AE 2025.2.2 (build 2)When does an AE effect generate either Transparent-to-White or Black-to-White bump maps? I followed a YouTube tutorial using CC Ripple Pulse. The video host activated "Render Bump Map" and his gradient went from Black (-100) to White (+100). On my PC, the gradient goes from Transparent (-100) to White (+100). I'm feeding the generated bump map into CC Glass, which uses a Black to White gradient. I fixed my issue by placing a Solid Composite effect below the CC Ripple Pulse effect and set the color to Black (00 00 00). Now the comp generates the full black-to-white gradient which is being used by the adjustment layer comp that has the CC Glass effect.My assumption is that the entire project is using a media render that does not use Black in its Alpha channel, or it doesn't have an Alpha channel at all. I'd like to know where that setting resides.

I have a problem with loading a file in After Effects. I tried all the methods, considered all the possible problems, but in vain. The file becomes pixelated. Moreover, in Adobe Illustrator it is 100% vector and clear, after downloading it remains the same, but when loading in After Effects the image becomes pixelated. I redid the illustration in Adobe Illustrator a bunch of times, reinstalled both programs, made a new picture - all the same result.

Hello! I'm not sure if I clicked a wrong button, but my puppet pins for just one layer is greyed out and the pins don't move, I assume because thye're greyed out? Puppet pins that I have in other layers do move, but those aren't greyed out, I'm not sure how to get my pins back to normal?This is what I mean by greyed out, normally they're just in white, but it's like these are blocked. Any advice? Thank you.

Hello, my After Effects keep crashing and giving same error over and over.I only have Creative Cloud and Google Chrome working in the background. Also, I have no plugins in the project 3 Pre-comps and the Main Comp.I already uninstalled and installed AE and still having the same error.Can anyone help, please?

Hello, I have a question.I have footage recorded at 30fps using an iPhone. When I edit it in Premiere, I render the output at 30fps as well.The problem is, when I import the footage into After Effects, it often changes to 24fps.When I change the comp settings to 30fps, the playback becomes slow.When I check the source footage again, it does say 30fps.I hope I explained it clearly.Does anyone know how to solve this issue?

Hope the undo and redo history will be retained even if you have saved a project file. As of the moment, the undo and redo functions are disabled and the history is cleared once a file is saved. I always lose significant change allowance once AE saves/autosaves a file. Like all of the history is gone.

Does After Effects have an animated paint tool like the user friendly program "FlipaClip"? If not, can anyone recommend any third party AE plugin that has that feature? I'm seeing a lot of animated war maps on youtube that appear to be done with the program "FlipaClip". These animated war maps show frame by frame paint strokes usually illustrating an invading red layer over a conquered blue country: https://youtu.be/jGe7sG3N-Qw?t=109  Thanks very much in advance for any help or advice with this. 

This color stripes representing selected color only. I do not think there is other use to this. How can I switch off this color stripes?     

Is there a way to enable audio scrubbing when moving one frame at a time with the keyboard?As opposed to holding Ctrl/Cmd while scrubbing with the mouse.

Greetings I cannot see the Glb file in After Effect 11.25.2.2 Version of my Windows 2 Operating system.Asus Pro Art NVIDA 4080 S Video CardAsus Pro Art Main Board128 GB RamWhat is the cause of the problem, I have not been able to work in 3D for a long time.

Hi everyone,I have encountered a strange problem after updating to after effects 25, the render time is a LOT longer than usual. Some renders jump up to 200 plus hours long.  I tried reverting to AE 2024, but that didn't help. I have also tried exporting from multiple different computers and starting a new AE project but the issue still persists. the only way I have found to reduce that excessive render time was to remove almost all effects, which I would rather not have to do. Has anyone else encountered this? Or has any advice to help?  Original animation:- Total time: 4minseffects: adjustment layers, noise, point light, 3D objects, blurs, orientation wiggle, drop shadow, rough edges. - export time: 150+ hours  What I was able to get it to:- Total time: 4minsIts basically a slide show (with no audio) of images fading in and out with an orientation wiggle effect, drop shadows and rough edges.- export time: 4hs  My PC:CPU: Ryzen 9