After Effects

Hi, I've been a long-time user of After Effects, and today I've encountered a very unusual and project-breaking problem, which never happened before. I was working on a pretty heavy map-based documentary on After Effects 23.2, and everything was working great. It was opening and saving with all the plugins. However, today when I opened the latest version of my project, it didn't open. It just kept on freezing the loading bar. This file was opened on the same version of After Effects less than a week ago, and today it suddenly stopped working. Not only that! But every single auto-save of this project just keeps on crashing my after effects! Every single one of them! This is just for the documentary on Cuba, the same stuff started happening with the other one and same issue, not a single after effects auto-save was working. They all kept crashing.Here is what I tried:1. Renaming2. Clearing Cache & Media3. Importing into a new project.4. Installing new version

Hi there fellows!I just installed the update to the new Particular 5 - and its just so slow to work with? Has thsi happened to any of you guys.I have a powerful system and the old Particular worked way more smooth - and i tried to reinstall all red giant. Have not uninstalled After Effects - as I dont want to install all the 50 plug-ins again 🙂

Greetings all, (Apologies if this isn't the correct place to ask this question and I hope I'm not breaking any guideline rules.) I'm using the plug-in Joysticks N' Sliders to animate a project of a character playing the drums.  But I've ran into specific use-case obstacles that tutorials on the plug-in don't quite cover.I could ask a dozen questions on the forumns and Youtube channels hoping for a response but, I think in this case, it'd be best to just pay someone for their knowledge/experience and get guidance in order to continue the project as its a useful plug-in I'd really like to become better at. Officially: The question here is where can I go to find someone who's willing and able to teach Joystick N' Sliders? (If it's here, would anyone be interested? Due to Adobe Forum Community Safety Guidelines, do not leave any personal info in the comments - I'll PM.) Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!Thank you,KZ 

Hi everyone, I think my After Effects and Premiere Pro are crashing. Every time I try to drag a .mogrt file into the timeline, the applications immediately close. Has anyone encountered this issue before? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I'm having what seems to be a viewport rendering error. For example, I have a 3d nested composition with collapse transformations on. In that comp there are a few other nested comps all of which are 3d and have CT on as well. So I have switched all layers to 3d layers and have CT on all the way down. The problem occurs in the main comp when zooming in or out with a camera or rotating the layer. the nested comp doesn't keep up with the preview or freezes entirely.  It will snap into place when I stop the preview or clear cache. I've tried reinstalling AE, gpu drivers etc. Thanks in advance for any help. After effects version version 25.1 (build 68)Windows 11 version 10.0.22631 Build 22631 

Hi, I'm trying to implement a scrollbar for a script in After Effects. I don't know how to code, so I asked ChatGPT for help. Everything is working fine except for the scrollbar's position in X. What does the code do?It creates a list of 15 white rectangles in a resizeable dockable panel. If the panel is not big enough to display all the rectangles, a scrollbar appears so you can scroll through all the rectangles.Now, the problem is that the scrollbar position in X is just at the right side of the rectangles and I want it locked to the right border of the panel. The next image shows where the scrollbar position in X is right now (red arrow) and where it should be (blue arrow). This is the code:// Crear panel dockeable o ventana flotante var myPanel = (this instanceof Panel) ? this : new Window("palette", "Panel Dockeable", undefined, {resizeable: true}); myPanel.orientation = "column"; myPanel.alignChildren = ["fill", "top"]; // Contenedor principal que agrupa

Hi, i click on the play button for the ram preview but it doesn't play and it doesn't render either. Here a screenshot.

Hey guys! So I'm trying to get some work done for a streamer.They have an animation they want me to include in the bigger animations I'm making for them.It's in WebM format.So they sent me the file, and I checked it by adding it to OBS in a scene, and it absolutely 100% has an alpha channel.But I can't get it to work in After Effects at all. It just gives me a black background.I've tried:- Converting the WebM to WebM again in Media Composer (because why not)- Converting it to a different format that has alpha channel (namely, ProRes)- Asking them to zip the file and send it to me, in suspicions that Discord was messing with the file as it got sentNope. Black background still there ruining my life.Help.I'd attach the file here, but no zip or webm support.So here's a Dropbox link [LINK] 

Hi,  I'm using after effects for the first time. I'm using the pen tool and just trying to draw some lines and it is incredibly laggy. Does anyone know why this may be? I have an HP Zbook 15v G5 laptop - intel core i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Nvidia Quadro P600 4GB. Thanks Ben

Currently have a After Effects CES extension that loads a GLB url (from a API) into a GLB URL auto-filled window, I need that URL to be downloaded and converted to a .glb on my computer, after that I need it to be imported into a AE composition.It seems releativiy simple, right?I keep on geting these Error:Download result: EvalScript error.this makes me think the CSInterface.js isn't cooperating maybe. but I can't figure it out.Any suggestions?Thank you in advance!

I am desperately trying to find the extendscript toolkit for an hour. Please dont share CEP github link or Psyrius github link , I have already tried it. It is 32 bit which my machine does not support. I had extendscript toolkit but when i reset my machine everything is gone, why is Adobe trying to hide it, people are still using it, shouldn't be this tough to find it.And in the creative cloud app in older versions too it doesnt show so don't share that tip.

Hi there, I have this issue with some frequency and it seems to happen across multiple machines at my company.  We'll try to send something to media encoder and we'll get an error saying "could not rename file" immediately followed by "AE can't continue: DynamicLinkServer generated an unexpected exception" and then finally "before quitting you have one chance to save" before crashing AE entirely.  For example, right now I'm going through a project with quite a number of comps and trying to build a queue of both multiple comps and multiple sections within those comps.  Just tonight with over 70 comps I'm exporting I've had already 10-15 crashes.   This can happen on a comp once, but then on second try exports fine.  This can be on comps that have plug-ins or comps that have none.  It happens on various projects, not just a specific one.  I've done restarts, cache clears, etc and the problem remains.   Currently I'm running

I just finished creating my animation in After Effects, but I got jittering line animation. I already tried to fix it by increasing the frame rate, adding a noise effect, increasing the bit color from 8bit to 16bit, adding blur, etc., but the problem is still there.I attached the project file too. I know some assets may be missing, but my main problem is in the grid object.Please help me!

I have this script which attempts to create a vignette. However, the Mask mode is set to Add so it is currently a reverse Vignette (ie a soft black ellipse). How to I modify this script to make it Subtract instead? Or if that is not possible, Add Invert?  app.beginUndoGroup("Create Vignette"); var comp = app.project.activeItem; if (comp && comp instanceof CompItem) { var layer = comp.selectedLayers[0]; if (!layer) { // Create a black solid if no layer is selected layer = comp.layers.addSolid([0, 0, 0], "Black Solid", comp.width, comp.height, comp.pixelAspect); } if (layer) { var mask = layer.Masks.addProperty("Mask"); var maskShape = mask.property("maskShape").value; var compWidth = comp.width; var compHeight = comp.height; maskShape.vertices = [ [compWidth * 0.5, 0], [compWidth, compHeight * 0.5], [compWidth * 0.5, compHeight],

Hello, I created a .vpe file in Photoshop. I go to file>import>vanishing pointthe .vpe file is greyed out. A .3ds file is created along with the .vpe file, and that isn't greyed out. But when I select it, I get "unable to execute script at line 138." Any idea what gives? 

Does anybody has this white box pops up when hitting short cuts in after effects? If yes, do you know how to stop that from happening? It has been really annoying as it slows down with my working speed a bit. Would appreciate any advice/help. 

I've been having this weird thing happening over the past few weeks with after effects and I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this. After Effects will just freeze the display on whatever I'm working on and won't change when I move somewhere else in the timeline. I can still "use" after effects, like keyframes, adding effects, opening new comps, etc... but I won't see any of it happening in the display window. When I try to close and restart AE, I get the spinning wheel indefinitely until I force quit. It mostly happens if I get up from my desk for a few minutes and come back. Even just 5 minutes. It also happens often halfway through a render. But it never officially crashes.  A coworker hadn't experienced this, but when she opened the project and tried to render, the same thing happened to her. I deleted all color correction on the footage, and just left in the keying, masks, etc. Then I finally got a finished render. As soon as I added Lumetri, Color Balance, Select

So the my purchase of a new Mac Studio is imminent but... How much would you say is enough memory on a Apple Silicon Mac for pro use of AE? I currently have an Intel based iMac with 64 Gigs of memory and I seem to run out of it constantly. I work with 4K+ comp sizes so memory is everything and you know AE, it will eat up everything it's been given. Since M3/M4 use unified memory, I'm thinking 96 Gigs is the closest thing without sacrifices. Am I wrong about this? What's your experience?

Hi all, I've seen tons of tutorials on how to have the shape layer auto resize around the text, but I can't seem to find a tutorial for the text that auto-resizes based on the shape. The few tutorials I've found didn't work for some reason, I swear I re-verified the expressions so many times. Can anyone help? the shape is a circle by the way.

Hello, I am creating titles for a moving camera 360 pan. Its a house that is under construction and I am tracking boards around to attach titles to. Since its just a slow pan, I am tracking the boards, usually a couple distinct points and then applying only the x axis. But when I play it, the titles don't always move smoothly with the boards. Sometimes, they shift left and right slightly. I started trying to fix it one keyframe at a time, but I have a feeling there has to be a better way, like a way to space the x positions more evenly within a range would be helpful. I've tried a bunch of different things, but nothing seems to make it super smooth. I thought I'd see what other people do for this kind of thing. Things I've tried: -Selecting a range and then moving x position, but moves all to the same exact position.-Finding two parts of the footage where the text is where I want then deleting all keyframes between them  but finding out this really makes the text move ar

I'm creating a MOGRT for a graphic that has a bunch of copyright and legal copy on the bottom. I need to enable it so that editors can change just a portion of one of the lines "© 2025 XYZ Corp. All Rights Reserved. YYY-ZZ-XXXXX" I need the editors to be able to change the YYY-ZZ-XXXXX part. What I've been doing is just having two text layers, one with the non-changeable line and one with the editable line and just putting the source text of the editable line in the MOGRT. It works but sometimes the length of the second line is longer or shorter and I added a position property so the editor can nudge it into the right place. I feel like it could be cleaner/simpler.So I'm wondering if there is a sourceText expression that will allow for changing just the YYY-ZZ-XXXX part if everything is on one text layer

Hi everybody! Is there a possibilty to change the color picker in AE? Idk if this is new, or if I only noticed because recently I'm working with Illustrator a lot: There is no way to pick a color and then simply make it lighter or darker. I cannot chose grey, unless I put in exact numbers in the field... In Illustrator I can pick any shade of grey by simply staying on the left side of the picker. How can I change it to that picker? I'm pretty sure it hasn't been like this forever, since I change shades a lot... 

It didn't let me put a Image in this.In some of the beats there is Floating Squares not attached to anything? Is there something wrong with the audio? I've tried both MP3 & MP4 but the same thing still happens. Is it a setting I need to adjust? I have my graphs on Speed Graphs also.  Any Help Will Be Valued!