After Effects

When I need a layers opacity to turn on for a specific dropdown item I'll sometimes use this expression:dropdown = comp("CHOOSE LOGO HERE").layer("CHOOSE LOGO HERE").effect("Choose Station Logo")("Menu"); dropdown == 1 ? 100 : 0; However, what if I need they layer opacity to be 100 for more than one dropdown item. Say == 1, 8, 22 ? I can't seem to figure out how to get this to work. Any help?

Assalamu Alaikum.I have purchased an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.How can I install Adobe After Effects 2020 on my laptop?All the apps in Adobe Creative Cloud are of the latest versions.

Hello, I am new to After Effects and think that I'm going to start peeling the skin right off my face because of this, when I try to use the 3d tracking effect and click on the track markers no target appears and it only allows me to delete the track marks. I have watched every tutorial, read every post, and searched for every fix however, nothing has worked. Here are the things I've tried so as to not waste your time: Going to view –> show control layers (it is already turned on), clicking the analyze button under the 3d camera tracker section (it is grayed out anyway), making sure that "show track points" is turned on in the effects of the targeted video, and making sure that the active camera is turned on. Oh, and I am using 2d source instead of 3d solved because for some reason when I select 3d solved the trackers don't appear. You can find an attached file of what my screen looks like down below. After effects has been updated to the latest update and I am using a 2020 Mac

Im stumped as to why my text is not masking.I'm following a tutorial that uses the offset effect so that the text slides up from hiding. But when I reposition my text it still is visible even outside of the bounds of the mask. It seems to match tutorial so I can't figure out why mask isn't working. This is the tutorial I am following:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0bK8ug-7PM&t=193s This is my result:

Hi All, Just installed the latest AE beta to test out the FBX import. Created an animation with character in MixamoImports into AE just fine with character texture but without animation.Has anyone working with the latest AE beta had luck with FBX working properly?If so are there any tricks you've discovered that you would be willing to share?I'm on MacBook Pro M1 running the Sonoma OS Thanks so much,S 

Hello, I have Adobe After Effects 2024 installed on my Mac, and I'm unable to put the app in full-screen mode. Does anybody know why? Or is it supposed to be like this? Window options in apps I can put on full screen (Premiere Pro...): Window option in apps I cant put on full screen (After effects): When I click the "Zoom" option, it only zooms the app, but I can still see the dock and some parts of the desktop, which is quite annoying. App and Mac specs: After Effects 2024 version 24.2.1 (latest)Mac OS 14.3.1 (23D60) (latest) MacBook Pro 14"Apple M3 chip with 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine16GB unified memory512GB of SSD Thanks for help! 

Layers randomly disappear from the Timeline window, but the video is still viewable and playable in the Composition window. I need to shut down the Timeline, then reopen it, and the layer reappears. This happens almost daily. I'm on a Mac Mini M4 running Sequoia 15.2 and AE version 25.1.0ChatGPT responded: You're not alone—this issue has been reported by other After Effects users, though it's not extremely common. The problem seems to be a UI glitch where layers remain in the composition but disappear from the timeline panel.

I am creating a shape layer in After Effects, that I want to use as a MATTE layer in Avid to create different "looks" for how Archival footage is shown (i.e different shaped boxes etc). However, it only seems to work when I fill in the shape layer with a color. But, the issue is then the Color is represented in Avid on the footage. When I tried it with no color, it does not show anything in Avid. Please help!

I was having trouble loading a few thousand point features into After Effects without AE crashing. GEOlayers gives me the warning that says "You're trying to draw 3484 features with 3484." After I loaded the features in, After Effects became unresponsive, I got the spinning wheel of death and I had to force quit.How can I more efficiently load these 3484 points into After Effects with GEOlayers? I then need to continue editing. These are the things that I have tried so far:1. I have allocated as much RAM as possible to After Effects. Currently I have 6.5 GB available for AE.2. I have closed all other applications running on my Mac.3. I have reduced the resolution to "quarter."4. I am using my fastest external harddrive for the diskcache folder.5. My project AE file is on the external harddrive.6. I am using "Simplify Geometry (Current Zoom)"After I tried all these things I was able to load the point features without crashing AE, but I am not able to do any editing because AE is too slo

Hello, everyone! I'm creating a GPU effects plugin by modifying the Vignette_GPU example.I used the CreateGPUPPix function of PrSDKGPUDeviceSuite to change the outFrame buffer size. int bufferWidth = 2560; int bufferHeight = 1440; mGPUDeviceSuite->CreateGPUPPix( mDeviceIndex, pixelFormat, bufferWidth, bufferHeight, inRenderParams->inRenderPARNum, inRenderParams->inRenderPARDen, inRenderParams->inRenderFieldType, outFrame ); However, the problem is that the origin of the buffer is fixed to the top left of the sequence.The image below shows the problem I was facing, where the start of the outframe buffer is anchored to the top left of the sequence. The image below is an example of the typical buffer resizing I want to implement. How do I move the start point of an outframe buffer?Dear Adobe community, please help me with this issue.

I was editing in 3d layers (some) and after completing my edit I realized my composition was 3 min long where my video was 1 min long. So I decided to change the time but mistakely I made 1 sec instead on 1 min, and again I corrected it to 1 min and all of a sudden my layers gone missing and I am unable to play the preview of the video I edited. please check out the video I provided. I need to submit my work tomorrow.

Hi! I work a lot with synched files in After Effects, and sometimes when I open a new project file with a lot of clips I haven't synched yet I will have to go in to ~Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common and delete 'Media Cache Files' after I synch the clips so they load into the project file. But now when I go into ~Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common the only folder I see is 'Plug-ins'? Did they move the 'Media Cache files'?I've attached a screenshot how it looks for me now! Cheers!

hello, i have rendered to mp4 via both AE render and Media encoder but the files are rendered damaged with black screens. The same files can be renderered lossless to avi without issues. And if i convert those avi files to mp4, the result are damaged files again. I have tried to render another project in mp4 but they are damaged. i have uninstalled and installed AE back but it is still not working.Is there any way i can reset or reinstall the codec for mp4?

this preview options(?) help...! Spacebar with PLAY ONCE: it plays from the CTI to the Wort Area end WITH music, then it starts from the beginning of the Work Area WITHOUT music till the position of the CTI (why? 😕😕 ) Is there an option: From the CTI to the end of the Work Area with music and stops at the End of the Work Area? 

Hi Community. I have a short 48 frame animation, (using 24 frames setup) using random transparent keyframes to make a flasing effect using Redgiants Collision form. When I playback the animation I can see the flasginf effect. But when I scroll through the timelime, or use the arrows to go through each frame, the canvas is empty, only the first 3 frames are visible. And to make matters more complicated, when I export the PNG sequence, from the 48 frames, only the first 2 have the graphics with the flashing effect.    How ever, If I turn off the Collision form, and there is no FX, and just a circle, everything gets exported correctly. So Why does Collision form cause this issue?  Thank you.  

hello everyone! so recently my after effects effects and presets tab started glitching, basically everytime i try to search an effect with the word ''s'' or ''r'' the effects tab goes black and then i can't click on anything or drag any effects nor can i scrolll down . I have to completely close and reopen AE to make it functional again. Has anyone else been experiencing this? And is there a way to fix it? PS. I have tried almost everything, i even deleted everything off my computer and redownloaded them all nothings working, and i'm currently using AE 2024 !  

When I hit space bar to preview the timeline the visuals play for rounghly 2s before the audio kicks in. The audio remains in sync but there is always a 2s deleay before it starts.This is apparent even on all comps I'm working on and I've even tested it on a blank comp with nothing but an mp3 in it. the play head moves for 2s before the audio catches up.I have also tested this in a workspace that has 0 additional third party panels and the issue is still there.This issue is new to Ae25.I'm working from macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 on an M1 mac.Using After Effects Version 25.0.0 (Build 53)

I have 200+ layers, and my rendering is very slow. I want to speed up my render. How can I trim a layer for faster rendering? The layer is currently present from start to end, but I want it to be visible only during a specific time based on the animation. When a text or shape appears on the screen and then moves out, I want the layer to be trimmed accordingly. Thanks in advance for your help! 

Reproducible only on macOS Squoia - calling this ExtendScript function:var path = "~/Desktop/Scene01.idm"; var file = new File(path).saveDlg();resulting in a default file name inside the opened file-picker dialog that contains a duplicated extension name: "Scene01.idm.idm" instead of just "Scene01.idm". This only happens on macOS Squoia(the latest major version), and in addition - only for "non-standard" file name extensions(something that's not a "*.json" or "*.txt" for example). Attaching a screenshot for a demonstration of the resulting unwanted behavior.

I had been installing the Voukoder Plug-in on a friends recommendation but when I did it had crash with this message, now a couple weeks later it now says this: I have tried everything recommended here (reinstalling, reinstating subscriptions, etc) but it physically won't let me access After Effects.  

When I tried to work in latest AE (beta) on relatively large and complex project, it starts at some time do strange things.. I had imported 8 pngs with the same part of name, just different number, and from one point it every second one was replaced by duplicates of the first with no user activity. I had still 9 pics, but four of them was duplicated.On the attached picture is list originally imported pictures, everything worked for few hours, but from some time it was changed by after effects by files with those names174207076174207076174207084174207084174207086174207087174207087174207088174207088original pictures in source folder are still the same.. It was just replaced somehow in project after first render, which was correct. Then I made second render and I got duplicated pictures instead originals..It was second time I experienced this misshandle of files with similar names. I can try to send you project version before and after this change..  

Hello,I am trying to make a Video that has so charts and animations and I just can't work with this very slow speed i'm getting when I try to preview what I made! I tried every single thing I found online like Adaptive Resolution or skipping frames from the "Preview" Panel but it is still way too fast. For every time I pre-render 3 sec of my timeline I need to wait like 10 seconds! This is the PC I'm using: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/37767368Plus two 2K Monitors.Is there something I can do to enhance the AE experince? I feel like my GPU is never being used so idk...Thank you and have a great New Years Eve!

Hi, I'm mapping battles and have an issue when I end up having too many vertices in a shape layer. I need to sometimes have multiple vertices moved to the same position. When I do that manually with too many vertices, I end up having them all bunched up imperfectly on top of each other, roughly. Is there any way I can select multiple vertices and have them positioned in the same xy?If you look at the attached image, you will see that I have those 2 clusters of vertices that are fairly horribly imprecisely placed to each others position. Is there a way to do that precisely? Thanks,