After Effects

every time i press space to preview the preview instead of playing all of my footage it only plays one frame ahead and then freezes

Hi,So I recently installed optical flares all correctly on my imac pro and for some reasonwhen I go to edit the flare, all the previews are greyed out so I'm pretty much unable to choose a flare or edit my own.  Any ideas?

Hi, I am in great danger, I need some help. I need to cut this stroke where I dnt want it. but after watching several tutorials (mask and shape path- rotobezier on/off) am seeing birds and  stars around my head, no one can show me what I wanted. Is there any way I can cut/split/get rid of unnecessary anchor point like I do in AI.  Why am getting a rubberband like shape if I apply delete vertex tool?  Is there any way? :'( Please help me. :'(  

I've been having problems with After Effects on my Mac Studio for a couple of weeks now, the program often crashes with different messages, it won't let me open some projects I made a few months ago, I tried to update the operating system to Sequoia and also reinstall After Effects (last version but previous version too) but the result doesn't change... I'm attaching some screenshots with the details of the various crashes.I've to work... how can I do?Thanks in advance

  I'm making a motion graphics video and I imported a 3D model in .glb format into After Effects. However, I noticed that it came with its own type of lighting, making the 3D product packaging appear to be a different color, it changed from black to gray, as if it was overexposed. Any ideas on how I can fix this? I've tried using 3D lighting, but it didn't change much.

Macbook max M1, 64 GB, sequoia 15.3.1AE 25.3 can't rotoscop if clip is zoomed over 250

I am wanting to add a drop shadow to some text that has 3D Camera Tracker applied to it. I originally was creating another layer with the text then distorting and adding gaussian blur to give shadow effect however I can't apply the 3d camera tracker effect because it doesn't pick up the angle that I want the shadow to sit on resulting in the shadow moving though the scene when the camera zooms in on the shot.I know that you can add a drop shadow to the text itself as an effect however it doesn't look like you can distort the angle of the drop shadow to look like its laying flat on the ground. See video below:https://youtu.be/S0VLXeiCZyQ 

I am strugging to import my KML files from Google Earth pro into After Effects. I am unsure if the error message is from the KML import script or with the KML script itself. Or something else completley.  Every KML I produce I recieve the same error message.  The same script file is working fine on other team members computers. I am the only one with this message which is making me think the issue isnt with the script. The script below is from my Kml_GES_import_script: {// This script file will open a KML file and create a route path with Google Earth Studio project created with// with the Google Earth Studio .jsx file.// Note: 1) there is no elevation data contain in the file, all points are on the same 3D plane. 2) the KML route// is limited to about 30km area (limitation of After Effects).     // Developed by: Rob Jolly, Imagiscope// Videos: https://www.youtube.com/Imagiscope// https://www.youtube.com/c/ImagiscopeTech // This script is pr

My preview periodically stops to work. RAM preview is fully loaded, green, but when I hit the spacebar, it does not play back the composition. This happens randomly and with any project. I had the Adobe Team look over it, they do not know what it is. When I try to reset the audio output (which some of you here in the forums suggested), After Effects crashes. The only thing that helps is restarting the program. Since I am having this issue now every 3 minutes, this is not a workaround anymore. Anyone else having this annoying problem? What kind of bug is this? I cannot work anymore.  i9 processor, 24 cores2 TB SSD128 GB RAMNVIDIA 4090

I use After Effects and it continue to crash every time I launch it.But it works perfectly when I change my user to Administrator (Root user). I need to somehow provide some permissions inside my user session but I can't do it manually.How can I fix it?

Hello, I'm trying to make this effect with footage matted to a 3d logo in AE. Any ideas? Cheershttps://www.instagram.com/audramorrice/reel/DHQUICXy2vj/

He detectado que los portatiles HP Victus con procesadores Intel y tarjetas graficas nVIDIA RTX 4060 tienen problemas para para previsualizar videos en After effects y PremiereEl problema es porque la gestion de la tarjeta grafica. Los programas de Adobe usan la tarjeta grafica integrada de Intel y no reconocen la de nVIDIA.Se puede deshabilitar en al administrador de dispositivos pero esta solucion anula la configuracion de brillo de la pantalla.La solucion es cambiar la configuracion de la BIOS segun indica la imagen.Menú configuración -> Graphics switchPor defecto está en [Hybrid]  y tiene que estar en  [Discrete] 

Ever since I updated to After Effects 24.4.1, my keyboard shortcuts keep getting reset to the default whenever I quit the program. I migrated my settings when I ran the update and placed my .kys files in the 24.4 folder in the aeks folder on my Mac. I can't seem to resolve this bug so I'm wondering if anyone has any tips   Additional info Mac OS Sonoma 14.5 2020 5K Intel iMac AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB 64 GB of RAM CPU 3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7

I'm making a short video that zooms in on a large .png poster (the bottom layer). To zoom into it, I put a Camera in a layer and then a Null object to control the camera zooming in and down. When the scene settles on the bar graph, I overlapped a vector layer (Line graph) that is a visual copy of the graph on the png.  I then applied a trim path to vector so that a red stroke builds from left to right while the camera pans across the graph. I want to get the blue dot (Shape layer 1) that I placed at the begining of the graph to anchor itself to the trim path to draw the eye to the path. I cannot seem to make this happen, even though I have pick whipped/linked the blue circle to every layer in a bid to make it follow the trim path. Can someone give me some guidance please? Screen video attached.

Hello,I imported an Illustrator file with different shapes with gradients into After Effects. When I create shapes from the vector layers the shapes are turning gray and the gradients are lost. I already found some thing which helped others to solve this problem but I already checked them but it still doesn't work:All used colors are process colorsThe document color profile is RGBevery shape is on its own layerI created the .ai with the Video and Film template I created a PDF compatible fileI would be very happy if anybody could help me. Recreating the gradient in After Effects is not a solution for me. 🙂

hi, can i ask how to create glitch effects on TV ya? any resources, just only adobe after effects like this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdMYYHs-l6I&t=2184s 

Does anyone know why I am greeted with an error when attempting to import a .vpe file into after effects. Ive created a 3d image of an alley way, follwed tutorials online, although it seems like a straight forward thing to be honest. Firstly after efects does not see the file (greyed out), only the 3ds is available for import which ofcourse gives out an error.  Can someone help? 

Trying to copy and paste an 'ff' ligature to After Effects but it is not working. Most times this is my solve since After Effects doesn't have a glyphs palette. Any ideas why or how to fix the issue? Font is Mrs. Eaves from Adobe Fonts. Also, why has Adobe not added a glyphs palette to After Effects? This is a motion graphics software and type design should have more priority than this in the modern day.

I want to program a "highligh text" rectangle that growsI have managed to program my script to create a rectangle, but I need the anchor point to be placed in the left middle side of the rectangle, so the scale preset works good, I've been trying to configure it but cant seem to figure it out, if anyone can help! 😄

I have a mp4 that has 4 audio tracks and I need to select which one to use in after effects,Can I do this in app or do I have to export a temporary audio file every time.

I am facing an issue with After Effects Expression – maybe possible bug? Goal:I am creating a chat animation with bubble texts for each message. I try to write an expression so that each bubble text layer auto-positions itself vertically below the previous layer. So if a message is adapted, all subsequent messages auto-reposition. Expression:Initially I thought the expression for this should be fairly straight forward. For simplicity I call them “Source Layer” and “Target Layer”. The source layer has its vertical position “y”. I use a “property for expression - slider” effect in the source layer to calculate its height using an expression with “SourceRectAtTime” (and some other stuff).I see (!!!) the correct values in the source layer.In the target layer the “y” position is calculated with an expression referring to the previous layer with “index+1” adding “source-y”+”source-hight”.(Each subsequent Target layer hast the same functionality) Again I SEE (!!!) the correct v

Hello, thank you for this wonderful software.I encountered a problem today, I can not use After Effects 3D camera Tracker, after pressing analytics, it will always wait and later shows"time out obtaining dynamic link server connection"Mine is MBP 2017 16gb Mojave 13 inchesHere is what I have tried:rebootuse different wifi, check firewall (My firewall is always turned off)reinstall AE and rebootreinstall AE, Media Encoder, Premiere, and All media player in my computer, with quick time left only, and rebootreinstall all program in different languages, and rebootusing command line sudo open '/Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2019/Adobe After Effects CC 2019.app/Contents/MacOS/After Effects'after all above, I use different footage format (ProRes 4444, mov, mp4)reinstall entire creative cloud (including Ai, Ps, Acrobat, Dimension, XD, Prelude, AE, Pr, Bridge, Audition, Media Encoder) and use CC cleaner tool to clean all (latest version), and reboot!No luck, the problem remains same, I've