After Effects

I duplicated and flipped a path horizontal to mirror the original. When I copy the path of the flipped path and paste it to the position of my new shape layer, it just follows along the original unflipped path instead of the flipped one. Does anyone know how I can get my shape layer to follow along a path that has been flipped horizontal?

Hopefully a wonderful guru out there can help me. I created a video and it looks and plays fine in After Effects. However, when I render it (using Media Encoder as well as Render Queue) it is disregarding a layer or two. I have never had this happen before and of course I'm creating a sample video for a project at work. Any ideas on what this could be. Thanking you in advance. 

I'm rigging a character up and trying to crop in on one of the limbs. I've selected the region of interest. The composition box is selected. When I go to Composition drop down "Crop Comp to Region of Interest" is not available. It is grayed out. Not sure what I'm doing wrong? Please help.

Hello Friends,can someone help me ,thank you !i have this timeline in premiere and when i import to after effects there is space between clipsi made sure and checked there's 0 space in premiere  

I'm trying to apply the trim paths effect to quite a complex illustrator comp made up of multiple layers/objects.When I first gave it a go I experienced the issue many other people have faced of it trimming/revealing the fill of a layer. So, I went back to the illustrator comp and changed EVERY layer so it had no fill and just a stroke (this was a long process), only to discover that this did not resolve the issue once I took it back into AE and tried again. Can anyone help as I'm invested in this now and don't want to give up!

Hi all,When I take a simple image, actor's face, and use rotobrush 2.0 , it outlines it just fine, but......  (always a but)...The very first frame is ripply. The rotobrush doesn't look good until the 2nd frame.I start the rotobrush on the first frame, and I do a little tester, so the settings appear, and I select "quality best" prior to doing the full outline.I'm still on frame one...I do a full rotobrush and as always, the first frame stinks, the 2nd one is nice, as well as all others to the end.I can't figure this one out.  Please tell me I don't have reinstall the entire program for this type of glitch. 😞 Here is an example  (it's doing it for other clips as well.) First frame:  (top of actor's head) note:  it's all ripply Then the 2nd frame to the end... it looks fine: I made sure the 'caps lock' is off, caz I know AE is alergic to that button.Using standard DV clips, latest AE version, 32gb ram, 1050ti gpu, Ryzen 7.&n

What is the key to replacing footage so that the .png is in the same position as before (more or less).For example: replacing pants on a character with a newer version. 

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I purchased Element 3d a couple of months ago, but since a recent adobe after effects update, it no longer is shown in the effects panel. I already reinstalled it, but it's still missing. How can I fix this error?Thanks for helping! 

Hi All, I work in After Effects to make MOGRTs for every video series my company produces. Before the latest update, I could drag and drop photos or logos from my timeline to the AE Essential Graphics panel, making them replaceable assets for our editors to update for each video. All they had to do was click the hamburger menu in Premiere and select "Replace from Finder." Now, the option to do so (or to do anything with the replaceable file) is greyed out.  To make them work again, I cleared all properties, recreated them, and reexported the MOGRTs in the latest version of AE. The issue persists. I currently have about three templates and ten files within those templates that are affected. We produce 5-10 videos a month affected by this change. Would love to fix the issue quickly so that I can continue using and building out our CC libraries. Thanks!

I'm working with a JPEG image sequence, and have deleted frames frames at various points before bringing them into AE. Instead of skipping the missing frames, AE renders missing media frames in place of the ones I deleted, instead of just skipping them. Is there a way around this without having to manually rename all of the images so there are no missing numbers?Thanks,Molgaard

I'm in a fortunate position that my work is going to buy me a new high-end laptop, either Dell or Lenovo. The Dell XPS 16 has an RTX 4070, which from what I find online is better than the RTX 3000 Ada in the Lenovo P16 Gen 2. But the Lenovo can expand to 96GB RAM, the Dell to 64GB. They have the same processor, so that's even. Some of the other differences (weight, keyboard) are not a factor for me, I'm just at a point of reading so much about these machines that I'm in analysis paraylsis with this RAM vs. GPU thing.For my use, I do a lot of AE projects with including Element 3D, Particular, and the VFX Suite from Maxon. I don't anticipate getting into Blender or Unreal 3D work. My PPro work isn't typically super complicated with tons of layers of high res footage, but since I have this opportunity for a new laptop would like to future proof as best I can.I know both of these are nice machines and would do a good job. Thoughts on which way to go? Or other laptops I should consider?&nbs

Hello, I have a fairly niche use case, but I use automation blocks to run macros from my stream deck, utilising Bitfocus Companion and HTML commands.  I have a couple of kbar actions that I would like to trigger from my streamdeck. Is there a way I can launch a kbar action from inside automation blocks? Thank you. 

Recently while trying to create a team project, I was trying to collect files but the option was faded out on the files tab and I couldn't complete the action.Can anyone tell me what happened and how I might be able to fix it. Also on that point, can someone please give me a step by step on how to even share my project to my collaborators. Thank you.

As you'll see, top image is of the logo clean, bottom has the effect applied to the whole thing. I just want it on the logo layer. 

I have a layer with a car, and I have another Null layer with a speed controller that has manually placed keyframes. I want to control the car position according to those speed keyframes, i.e. accumulate traveled distance. For example, if the spped values on the first 5 frames are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 then positions should be 1, 3, 6, 10, 15. I wrote this script and it works as intended: sourceLayer = thisComp.layer("Null 1"); currentFrame = timeToFrames(); sum = 0; for(i = 0; i <= currentFrame; i++) { sum += sourceLayer.effect("speed")("Slider").valueAtTime(framesToTime(i)); } sum This becomes very inefficient as currentFrame increases. In reality I need some kind of persistent across frames storage, so I could just add one value to it every frame. Is that possible to do in Ae scripting system?

Hi, could someone suggest a way to get global rotation of a text layer when an animator acts on it? In After Effects, when working with expressions, its boundbox does not work correctly if the layer is rotated by the animator. I want to try to get information through creating a plugin, but I need a kick of help   

Hello, We work in a company where we share projects through a server, so it is essential for us to have the same software version installed on all computers. We have standardized on the 2023 version of After Effects to ensure compatibility with the plugins we use. Until recently, we were able to download the latest update of the 2023 version (likely 23.6.7) through Creative Cloud. However, since the release of version 25, all download links for the 23.x versions have disappeared. This has put us in a challenging position, as we recently purchased new computers and now cannot install the necessary version. We specifically need the final, most stable release of the 2023 version, where many bugs were fixed. Is there any way to obtain version 23 for After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Media Encoder, so that these three applications can run in the same version? Thank you very much for your help.

It could be frustrating if you ever run into the "Could not parse mask shape on clipboard" error in After Effects.                                        Why do I see this error? You may see this error if your clipboard contains something that After Effects can't analyze. Users often report that they see this error message after using Illustrator. It could be a raster image, a complex shape, path, or link from Illustrator or any other application.   Solution: Our community recommends the following solutions: If you are working side by side in Illustrator and After Effects, copy a simple shape in Illustrator. If you are not using Illustrator, copy text from your browser or any other application. That will replace the data on the clipboard with the text you copied. Restart your computer to clear the clipboard. If the solutions above don't help, reset the After Effects preferences. I

i want to make a mogrts template for logo animation, i hope it can be toggled with audio on and off with the "checkbox control". anyone please tell me what the correct expression it should be?  the first line shoud be correct, but the second line   if (y==1)100; else 0;   how to make right?  thank you in advance, really appricate!

Hello. I just started using adobe suite and it was working great until a few days ago when I decided to move my Dropbox location to the external drive. Since then I keep getting a message saying "The Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite couldn't be loaded." This happens only to after effects and encoder. I uninstalled the app and reinstalled, tried a different account, and gave "read and write" access to all the adobe apps. It's still not working, and I need a solution. Could someone help me please?

Я не могу переместить (позиционировать) нулевой объект, с которым связана камера, и когда я изменяю координаты положения, оси x, y, z в моей композиции не меняются, они как будто отображаются в статическом виде.как сделать так, чтобы нулевой объект лежал на композиции, как на третьем изображении, а не просто оставался квадратом на композиции?

I downloaded After effects from Adobe and when I only have a couple picture layers, and barely any animation, the playback shows the green bar for about 7 seconds and it only plays until the end of the green bar, it doesn't keep pre composing or caching. If the composition is 3 minutes, it'll only play 7 seconds and make it green from where you hit play then stop at the end. Unless I move the cursor and hit play it'll play 7 seconds from that point and stop. I've called adobe and they told me to delete and reset my preferences and rename the folder, I've cleared my cache, I've udjusted playback to 1/4. I have 64GB DDR2 Ram with a 32 core threadripper cpu and rtx 2080ti gpu. I used to be able to do more complex things with after effects on my old Mac with only 8gb and an i7. Any reason when I hit play it only plays for about 7 seconds where the green bar is on the timeline? 

Hi, hat jemand eine Idee, warum beim rendern über den Media Encoder, immer dieser Spiegelbalken rechts eingefügt wird?Das bearbeitete Projekt kommt aus AE und wird an den ME übergeben.Rendert man über AE direkt, wird der Balken nicht angezeigt.

Hi,When I try to open Color theme extention libraries in After Effects, the extention tab looks empty and I can't find the "Color Theme" libraries that I created. I can see it in the recent activity in the cloud, but it won't recognized in AE for some reason.Someone knows what can be the issue? Thanks!