After Effects

When importing a .psd file as a composition, I receive the message: "Encountered errors while importing selected items. 1) After effects error: Illegal XML character “” in string “[file path]”. Layers appear offline. When I close and restart app, everything is online. Also occurs when right clicking imported psd footage>Create>Convert to Layered Comp.I already checked that there are no illegal characters in filename of layer names.Version 26.2.1 (Build 2)MacbookPro M3 Max, Nov 2023, Sonoma Version 14.6.1

I have an image and a video that I positioned on the comp after scaling both down so they are positioned how I want them.  I now want to scale both items down so they are real small so I can keyframe them both scaling up together. I will use parenting to get them both to scale up together How do I scale both of them in proportion to a small size? Is there a way to group them both to do this? They are not yet keyframed Thanks  

Hi guys ! I have an Intel Core Ultra 7 265F, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 with 32gb and my After Effects is still very slow when editing. I’ve tried every tips AI gave me but it sadly doesn’t change anything… I use Twixtor, Sapphire and BCC a lot, which would be a reason why it’s slow but i don’t know… Thank you so much for your help. 😁

Hello there :)I’ve been working on my desktop PC for about 4 years now and despite some issues with an SSD NVMe and a recent problem with a a damaged USB PCIe expansion card that caused my PC to lag as hell before I identified the problem and removed it, I am quite happy with it. I produce music and am a motion-graphics designer, so I use lots of softwares and plugins and the PC is quite robuts to handle it, even on tight schedules for my clients and big renders (over 4K with plugins such as Element 3D or Deep Glow, Shadow studio, Handy cam, etc.). I’ve been watching a lot of tests that point to the RTX 5070 as a great solution for 4K editing and was wondering if anyone had any experience with such an upgrade, especially 3060 8Gb to 5070 12Gb.I also read there were some issues with the 5070 and so far, most of the time, my philosophy has always been “as long as it works”, don’t update / upgrade.But if it can help me improve my workflow and gain some rendering time, I’d be curious to kn

I get this error. No clue on how to solve it.

Hello, I've tried everything to get the spill off the apple,the top and legs/shoes but it's not working.Does anyone have any ideas on how to remove spill from reflective surfaces? 

Hi,I'm working on some text for a video and when attempting to play back or render the video with the text layers, After Effects glitches out constantly, with random text layers flickering in and out of places they shouldn't be. I've tried restarting the program, but this only caused the issue to spread to other parts of the video. This is happening when playing back in After Effects, rendering in After Effects, and rendering in Adobe Media Encoder. It's a very frustrating problem, especially as I spent hours making sure the text was frame-accurate, only for After Effects to crap all over my work.Below is a video showcasing the problem, and also an image showing the project itself, to clarify that the text layers are not overlapping and that this is not a user fault.Google Drive VideoI hope someone can help.Thanks in advance.

I have a cup with a video of steam rising from it. I keyframe the cup so it scales up and then I parent the steam video to the cup so they both scale up.What happens if you have multiple properties keyframed on an image and you parent it to something else, does it copy all of the keyframed properties? So if the the cup was keyframed to scale, rotate, change position and opacity, does the steam do all of these things also? If so, is there a way to control what is copied when parenting or does it just copy all the properties?

When trying to "replace with After Effects composition" I get the error message above.  I have seen many others with the same issue and logged out and rebooted as suggested and it still doesn't work.  I am using version 17.0.1 of After Effects and 14.0 of Premiere Pro.  What do I need to do to get this functionality to work?  Seems it's going on for years...?

I'm creating a line animation using trim path feature. the image was created in illustrator. for example. in the animation the line is growing/extendiing from left to right. is it possible to reverse the direction to have the animation go from right to left?? w/o going into illustrator and redraw the line in different way?? no matter what i do with the starting/ending point setting it ALWAYS goes from left to right...any thoughts??my illustration is actually a lot more complicated than just one line. so to redraw the whole thing would not be efficient...

Estou com esse problema, estou tentando baixar o After Effects, mas ocorre um erro de instalação de AVX2. Teria alguma versão para AVXE que rode tranquilamente no meu computador 

Every action I take causes the project cache to constantly refresh, and even moving the mouse cursor slightly makes me wait 20 seconds. This isn't work—it's torture. Here are my settings

Since updating to AFX 26.2.1 I would get the message “File is damaged and can´t be opened”. I had to re-install the 2025 Version which still worked. But now I am getting the same message with this Version that still worked the other day. I already uninstalled and reinstalled it serveral time and deleted the preferences. still no luck. any ideas?Running a Mac Book Pro M3 with SequoiaThanks! Daniel

Animated text flickers when exported. I am using Adobe After Effects (Beta) version 26.3I have 7 different text layers appearing in this animation, when I export it the text that is on the top of the screen flicker. I am exporting these and uploading the export to a Premiere Pro project and that’s where I first noticed the flicker. I tried exporting it in .mov and h.264 but both of those are giving me the same result. And when I open the export outside of Premiere Pro I still see the word flickering. At first the word that was flickering was the “HOME”, but once I exported a couple different times not changing anything about the export settings, then the word “HOME” stopped flickering and the word “THE” started to flicker. Now I can’t export without one of those words flickering. I’ve added a link for reference: Also just wanted to mention this isn’t the first time I have this issue. I’ve had this issue in different projects that had a text layer involved. In past projects the first ex

I want to make it appear as if water is spraying from an open hole on the top of a container. I found a video of spraying water and placed it above where the hole is located.  I created a mask to limit the part of the video that displays of the water, and I changed the blending mode to lighten to remove the background so only the spraying water displays.  the base of the water where it is starts small and turns into the giant spray is too wide. I want to transform the base of the spray to make it seem like it is smaller and actually coming out of the opening on the container. I tried applying a transform effect to it and I played with skew but that doesn’t seem to get me what I need. How is this done?Thanks in advance 

I animated a .png of an item falling, and rotating as it falls until it hits the floor. After the animation ended, I moved the CTI a few frames ahead and rotated it a bit to add a new keyframe, and moved the CTI again and rotated it again to make it seem more like a bounce when it hit the ground. I want to make the bounce seem a bit more natural. I spent some time online and I read about Expressions, and I copied some Bounce Expression that I found, and I want to paste it so I press alt and clicked on the Stopwatch for  Rotation to paste the Expression since this is the last thing that I added to the animation. The Expression editor opens withtransform.rotationWhen I paste the following Bounce Expression after this it just gives me an error. “This project contans an expression error: error 1 of 1. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance! e = .5;g = 20000;nMax = 9;n = 0;if (numKeys > 0){n = nearestKey(time).index;if (key(n).time > time) n–;}if (n > 0){t = time – key(n).time;v

As mentioned, my After Effects starts to slow down over time if a project has been open for a while, not matter if it’s heavy or as simple as just trimming a video. I notice the timeline doesn’t move smoothly anymore and if I right click anywhere or open any window within the program, it simply freezes for at least 10 seconds or more.My only fix so far has been to save the project when I notice the stutter and simply close and open again, but as you can imagine, it’s very frustrating and slows down my workflow by a lot, despite having a good build.My PC build:Windows 11 ProRyzen 9 9950x3DRTX 3090 FE64GB RAM DDR5 6000 CL30Everything is up to date with their latest drivers, I tried both using a separate SSD dedicated just for AE’s cache and not. Was told to try switching the layout from standard to something else, didn’t work.Was also told that the Character tab seemed to cause this issue, didn’t seem to fix it by removing it. As mentioned this happens whether the project is heavy or eve

Hello all,I opted for the 1 week free subscription of After Effects, and I was charged a full month upon purchase. I had money deducted from my account. I checked and learned that it might be possible as in that I will get refunded when I cancel the membership. I did not cancel the membership as I intend to continuing using it. I was charged again when the week trial ended. 

Hello, I would like to install the 2022 version of After Effects but I can't find it between the older version option. I can only install the 2024 and 2023 versions in the Creative Cloud app. Can you please help me install the 2022 version? Is this still possible? What are my other options if you can't install it using CC apps? Thanks for the help.I need it for creating AET templates.

In this After Effects tutorial, I'm diving into the legendary slitscan effect. While Doug Trumbull used a massive mechnical righ and long-exposure photography to create the "Ultimate Trip", I'll show you how to build the same look much more easily using Essential Graphics, the Offset effect and 3D layers.In this video, I cover: How to use the Offset effect with a simple expression for continuous motion. How to use Essential Graphics to control the speed and images 3D layers to create two infinite plains.  

In Windows in two places it shows apps. If you want increase font size which is more effective to Ae?  

Hello Adobe Community !I’ve been working with After Effects for years, and like many of you, I’ve had to constantly upgrade my hardware just to maintain a normal level of productivity—without seeing any significant improvements (though a more powerful processor and graphics card do really help me work normally).But in recent months, I’ve had to revert to the computing habits of the 2000s, using heavy 3D software, because After Effects—despite a complete reinstallation of Windows 11 Pro less than a year ago, the installation of a high-performance NVMe SSD (Samsung 990 Pro), major operating system updates, and the precaution of working on version 24x, the most stable version I’ve ever had, significantly slows down my entire machine after 2 to 3 hours of work.After that time, I have to shut it down via the Task Manager to restore my PC’s usual fluidity; otherwise, everything becomes slow, laggy, and impossible to use.The mouse freezes or becomes extremely slow; every movement, every edit,

I have some simple keyframing for a shape that scales up and I want to simply select the keyframes, copy them, paste them, and reverse them so that after it scales up, it reverses by scaling back down. After pasting the keyframes on the same layer I realize that it automatically scales it back down.When pasting the keyframes should they be placed on the same layer, or on a blank layer or does it not matter? Is this an ok way to achieve the simple effect that I wanted, or should I be doing this some other way, and right clicking on the keyframes to reverse it?Thanks

How to distinguish deference between Ram up & Ramp Down here? In the real word if you start from lower point it is ramp up & if you start from higher point it is ramp down.   

Current Spec: 64GB DDR4, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, set my disk cache at 115GB on 3400MB/s read speed, about 5000MB/s write speed, set ram reserved for other app to 6GB, paid application, enable multiframe renderingSomething likes this took me like 1 min to play back, its literally just basic 3d rotation and positioning keyframe, no crazy plugin or effectTried switching the codec for the video on another comp but it doesnt help muchI can add some other settings/info if needed