After Effects

hi, i'm taking an after effects course so i don't know much about this program yet. I was trying to create a moving one leg loop with "loop_out (" cycle ", 0)" but I got an error and already checked on several pages what it could be, but I can't find a solution yetDoes anyone know what i'm doing wrong?Thank you

Can I solve my problem, the After Effect application is modern, and I have not added any components. Windows 11 graphics card Nvidia 16 RAM. The problem with all projects. I am a subscriber to Adobe Creative and I pay for it monthly, I hope the officials solve my problem quickly

I have rectangular footage that I need to take multiple square crops from and to figure out what crops I want to take I am using the shape tool to draw boxes over the footage. I can obviously just create a new composition and try to match the scale/zoom and position but I'm wondering if there is a way to link the shape layers in the Cropping composition to the actual cropped compositions so that if I want to change the placement, it will carry over to the crops. I've attatched some screenshots that show what I mean (with placeholder footage). I've tried using expressions to link the position/scale but I'm finding it really confusing. Anyone have any ideas?

So wheni drag keyframes to where i want on the timeline i will clearly let go and then move my mouse but then the keyframes move to where my mouse is.  Only in 2022 does this happen and the only fix i have is to wait 3 seconds after i let  go...im not the only one am i?

Hey everyoneHow does one achieve the white border effect that moves around the edges of the rectangle? Is it trim path? Can someone help me, please?

I started this project in premiere pro. one layer is the effiel tower another is an artist already green screened and sized. i exported each layer seperately both in 1920 x1080. brought them into a after effects first the tower to use the 3d camera on to place the artist in a stationary spot afterwards.  do the steps, pick a position, create a solid and camera, precompose the solid, size the composition to match the 1920 x 1080, bring in the video of the artist, delete the solid. once it artist is now in the overall comp, its way bigger then it should be and if i scale it it becomes blurry 

I have a simple AE composition, blending 2 videos.  One of the videos is fully muted in AE.  I turned the volume off.  Additionally, I put in an audio transform on it to minimum decibels.  However, when I import my composition into Premiere pro, the muted audio is blended/mixed in with the composition If someone knows what I'm doing wrong, please help me, thank you.

I made a UI script, which worked great at first, now it works on and off!?  what might cause this?same version of AE, same project, same script.  But all of a sudden it seems to not fully work (and then occsaionlly it does) Any idea?  (tried it on a second machine ,and no luck) It's a script that renames comp names based on user input (plus changes type layers).I used ChatGPT, and it was working great.  Then it was like AE didn't like it anymore (or even earlier versions that I knew were working).  Something in AE seems to be fickle.  I'm going to try to start from scratch again. But is there a way perhaps someone can test it out, or some kind of extra code I could insert to kind've "reset" something in AE that the script is interatcting with when it reads comp names? Thanks,Gary 

I have this expression:// positionslet pX = transform.xPosition;let minX = 0;let maxX = 1920;// colorslet color1 = hexToRgb("E300FF");let color2 = hexToRgb("00FFA5"); linear(value, minX, maxX, color1, color2);I know the 0 and the 1920 doesn't make sense, what I'm trying to do is reference the position of X at 0 and at 1920, so the color value changes while the shape is moving in between the points.I thought of doing a control point at 0 and 1920 and use that as the reference, but it didn't work.So I would like to know if it's possible to reference a shape layer inside another's shape layer expression. Any other solution to this is really welcome!Thanks 😄

I'm sure, that it is a bag, but if not, help me.I'm trying to get sourceText keyValuesMy code works perfectly, untill i move my text layer in timeline.When i do, (when layer's startTime not at the start of comp), the keyValues is offseting!For example, here is the text in keys (the text = frames) "0, 10, 20, 30"If I shift layer by 10 frames forward, the result be "10, 20, 30, 30"If shift 10 frames backward, - "0, 0, 10, 20"How to fix it? Without offseting the layer to get the right value of course.try{ var comp = app.project.activeItem; var sourceTextProp = comp.layer(1).property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Document"); var textContent = ""; if (sourceTextProp.numKeys > 0) { for (var k = 1; k <= sourceTextProp.numKeys; k++) { var textDocument = sourceTextProp.keyValue(k); textContent += textDocument.text + " "; } alert(textContent); } } catch(err) {alert(err.toString + "\n" + err.line)} 

I'a trying to save a simple number animatiion with this code: num = ""+ effect("Angle Control")("Angle").value.toFixed(0) + "";function addCommas(x) {return x.toString().replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ",");}addCommas(num)but i cannot save it as an animation preset in adobe after effect, while on the video i just watched th guy was able to... Any idea oabout how to fix the porblem ?  link of vieo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYweBo9lgKM

Hi,  I am reaching out for assistance with an issue I have been experiencing in After Effects 2024. I keep encountering an error message stating “unknown exception” whenever I click on the Effects panel, try to nest a sequence or try to apply any effects.  I've taken the following troubleshooting steps: 1. Reset Preferences: I have reset the preferences during startup.2. Disabled GPU Acceleration: I disabled hardware acceleration in the preferences.3. Cleared Disk Cache: I purged all memory and disk cache.4. Reinstalled After Effects: I uninstalled and reinstalled After Effects, excluding Cinema 4D, as I do not use it.5. Updated Software: I ensured that After Effects and my mac software are both up to date. Despite these attempts, the error persists. I would appreciate any guidance on how to resolve this issue, as it has hindered my workflow significantly today and means I am stuck until this is fixed:(( Thank in advance for any advise and help! &#128

When I try to open an AE 2020 project in 2021, AE doesn't ask to convert the project from a previous version. Further, I get an error message that references a particular source file and ends with "Data File: Unknown." This repeats for all the source clips. I reinstalled 2020 and the project opens as expected. I then uninstalled and reinstalled 2021, attempted to import the projeject into a new project, deleted preferences, etc. No joy. Anyone else having this problem? I need to share this project with several other users and would prefer not to have to tell them to install an older version of AE. Thanks!

This problem has persisted for several months across many projects both old and new. I can create a text layer but the box disappears the moment is created and it will not accept text/ key inputs. The layer is visible in the comp window but there is no way to create new text nor edit older text from older projects.  Also, I can scub though the comp window but as soon as I try to preview anything it will not play a single frame and the green preview bar at the top of the comp window goes haywire - blinking off and on and randomly drawing lines all over the place. 

I use the Bodymoving plugin and often work with Lottie, so I convert all the texts into shapes and sometimes it takes a very long time.PS. I know about the existence of a parameter that does this when rendering in lottie, but in fact it is not implemented in the best way now

Hi! I have created an animation in After Effect of a calendar that is flipping through multiple pages, and have used the "CC Page Turn" effect to achieve this. Right now I have applied the effect to multiple pre-comps in which I have put the text and calendar-background. But now I want to turn this into a mogrt, and from my understanding you can't put a pre-comp into the motion-graphic panel and be able to change the text. You have to work from 1 composition. And I can't use multiple adjustment-layers since they affect everything below it. Is there a way to chose which layers the adjustment layer will affect? I feel like I have tried everything and can't come up with a solution. 

Hello to the Adobe Community, I updated my After Effect 23 to AE 24 and since that, i cannot launch it.When it don't crash at the loading window, It start in background task without me being able to open it. No error message or crash log, i tried everything : Restart, Reinstall (23 and 24 versions) and I even reset my computer and it still don't work. My drivers are up to date and i'm starting to be really desperate. I don't think it came from my computer because every other program like premiere, illustrator and my videogames works well. And my components should be able to launch AE : CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHzGPU RTX 2060RAM 16 Go If you have any advice or solutions to unlock the situation I will be very grateful

I started working on very large After Effects files, and I keep getting a message that the application is out of memory. I clear the cache often, and set the maximum to 500GB..I have 600GB free space on a 1TB iMac. I only have After Effects open, and allotted 13GB of 16GB total RAM memory (it does not let me go any higher) I have assigned the disk cache memory to a 1TB external SSD drive.   I have a 16GB iMac and Apple has made it so you can no longer upgrade. My question is what else can I do to get After Effects to run. I have no other applications open

Hi, I'm having trouble removing the presets I made. Both were only a test to see if I was to save it. I am still learning but I need to delete them due to mistakes made. They appear to be located in "user presets" in the "effects and presets". But there is no way for me to delete them there. Please let me know if there is any way to delete them for good, I tried to locate them on my computer and even tried to "manage effects"/"Browse.." in Ae/in Bridge but are nowhere to be found except for in the "effects in presets" shown below in picture. Which I don't want. Hope you can help or provide some info if I'm missing something, Thanks in advance!

I'm still a noob when it comes to After Effects, and I have looked everywhere on how to fix this issue. My last resort was asking on here. I don't know what information is needed to figure out the problem, so I'll explain what I can. I have windows 10. This stupid error only started popping up since yesterday, when I tried going onto graph editor to view the speed graph. On both the value and speed graph, the keyframes weren't visible. The one time they were, I only managed to modify one before After Effects crashed. I tried again a few more times, and got the same result. This isn't a problem with importing a composition, just editing the graph. Restarting or uninstalling and reinstalling has not helped. Has anyone else experienced this error? Because for some reason there's no trace of it, where I've looked. This is really frustrating and I want to fix it soon. Please help! Here's a screenshot of the popup I get:

Hola, cuando intento abrir el After effects, a veces me salta este error que dice "no se pudo cargar el paquete CEP (oplataforma comun de extensibilidad). Puede que tenga que instalarlo de nuevo" (dejo captura)probe borrando todo lo relacionado a adobe y volviendo a intalar de 0 todo y nada.      Las veces que por alguna razon si me abrió, anduvo mal, no me dejaba exportar con media encoder, no se sincronizaba,  y si tiraba la secuencia al ME, al momento que se abria el dynamic link, no cargaba.

Hi, I'm needing to take some footage that contains 48 frame handles (I know, right?) and reduce them to 8 frame handles, make the comp that duration plus one frame (for the slate), and place that footage into a precomp. I'm really having difficulty with it... Thank you for your time!

Hi.  Unable to find common/plugins folder to install third part plugins on my new Mac.After Effects 24.4.1Any ideas !Thanks

Hi. I am a videographer who uses the Legacy title from Premiere for Youtube video contents. I have a question though. If Legacy title tool, from Premiere, was supported in After Effect, I believe there will be various and creative tools put to usage as subtitles in videos. Is there any thoughts on making a Legacy tool for After Effects?

I'm rendering a simple project in AE 2023 and it takes forever! Like an hour for a 10 second high quality HD render. I've tried various simple projects and it's the same with all of them. I can barely edit a project in AE because it's so slooow.  I can do complex composition projects in Vegas Pro and rendering is fast as hell but AE is crazy slow. Any thoughts as to why?  i7 670032GB RAM6GB GeForce