After Effects

Hi!I can't figure out why when using SmartRender() my render doesn't update when I adjust the slider on the timeline. The value in this lineA_long shift = in_data->current_time / in_data->time_step;does change but the render itself doesn't update. When I use the deprecated Render() everything works fine. How can I ensure that the render is updated when the timeline time changes?This code is supposed to shift the image to the right as the timeline time changes. It works with video, but not with images. Perhaps I need to set the correct flag? out_data->out_flags = PF_OutFlag_DEEP_COLOR_AWARE | PF_OutFlag_SEND_UPDATE_PARAMS_UI | PF_OutFlag_WIDE_TIME_INPUT; out_data->out_flags2 = PF_OutFlag2_FLOAT_COLOR_AWARE | PF_OutFlag2_SUPPORTS_SMART_RENDER | PF_OutFlag2_DOESNT_NEED_EMPTY_PIXELS | PF_OutFlag2_AUTOMATIC_WIDE_TIME_INPUT | PF_OutFlag2_SU

 Good morning, afternoon, evening. I have a question in regards to Dynamic Link. I'm a small YouTuber focusing primarily on gaming. When recording my videos, I record in 3840x1080, so that when editing, I can make my template 1920x1080 and duplicate the file and use one for my face cam and the other as my screen recording via cropping. This works well, until it's time to add effects in After Effects via Dynamic Link. When After Effects imports my video, the part that I cropped out reappears. Could anyone give me any insight as to why this is happening. Thank you in advance!  

I've tried a few things like trim paths but im having trouble recreating this correctly

I restored my pc and suddenly my Motion Array stopped working. I use the free version of it.I reinstaled, repaired, I did everthing I could. I asked my friend to install on his desktop and it worked well with him. I'm getting this error on After Effects: "After Effects warning: The following plugins have failed to load. Please reinstall these plugins:C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore\MAPlugins\Distorter\Bulger.prmC:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore\MAPlugins\Distorter\Rippler.prmC:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore\MAPlugins\Distorter\Roller.prmC:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore\MAPlugins\Distorter\Stretcher.prmC:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore\MAPlugins\Filmroll\BasicRoll.prmC:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore\MAPlugins\Filmroll\BounceRoll.prmC:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore\MAPlugins\Filmroll\PushRoll.prmC:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\Med

Hi everyone, I hope you are doing well. I hope someone here will be able to help me. I am experiencing a very annoying problem in AE. When I preview a composition, about 1s into the preview, the audio skips forward slightly. It skips forward a different amount and at a slightly different place every time I preview, sometimes not happening at all. I am using the latest version (18.2.0), but this happened on previous versions. I even tried installing 17.0 to no avail. It happens on every project, no matter the project/composition settings or contents of the composition (even just a single .mp3 or .wav file). It doesn't affect audio-only previews (Numpad .). The info panel indicates that it is playing real time. Things I have tried:Purging all memory and disk cacheDeleting the preferences fileUsing both AE 17.0 and 18.2.0Using a different computer (it happens on my laptop and desktop)Every combination of 41/48/96kHz in Project Settings and Audio Hardware PreferencesBot

I need to track a long and continuous drone shot of a road in After Effects, which means that ever so often the tracked tracking points will eventually leave the screen limits and new will come to be tracked as well. How do I combine it all in ONE SINGLE 3D camera, which I need to export (or crate a script) to export to a 3D softuare (3DS Max in my case). I need to put a new 3D road on top of the existing one, captured by my  10-minute long drone shot.

I was trying to add gradient and its literally blank screen my eye icon is on everything is proper but at the left top you can see the gradient have been added but my compisition panel have been continously blank what should i do to fix this? I even tried adding a photo its still the same blank screen.

Hi, I would like to make IntelliStar v1 emulation. I need to get Interstate fonts for creating text (current conditions, local forecast, etc) and we need to get Allen Jackson narrations. Is there anyway on how to do this?

Hey everyone,I have a script that imports an .aep file into the active composition. The script works, but when I try to undo, After Effects throws this warning: Undo group mismatch, will attempt to fix. It happens whenever I use app.executeCommand or other app. methods inside app.beginUndoGroup and app.endUndoGroup. Code Snippet below;export const ImportPrecomps = (PrecompName: string, Alpha: number, Theme: number) => {try {const comp = getActiveComp();const myBin = getOrCreateBin("TestBin");app.beginUndoGroup("Import Precomps");let precomp = findPrecompInBin(PrecompName, myBin);if (!precomp) {const file = new File("/path/to/my.aep");const importOptions = new ImportOptions(file);app.project.importFile(importOptions);// Find the imported precompprecomp = findPrecompInBin(PrecompName, myBin);if (precomp) precomp.parentFolder = myBin;}if (precomp) {const newLayer = comp.layers.add(precomp);newLayer.property("ADBE Layer Overrides").property(1).setValue(Alpha);newLayer.pro

Is there any way to install the version 2022 vor Mac? i need it 

I have put a precomp inside a precomp inside a precomp. I get bad resolution after export, much worse then when the precomps where not inside each other this way. Is this to be expected? I do this way to get a cleaner workspace.

I'm sure this has been asked before but I search did not find it. I have seperate .obj and .mtl files. How do I import and attach the material?

Hello... how to loop composition with CC Bubbles effect in AE?

Hi guys! sorry about this simple question, i created a retangular shape layer and i need to animate her using trim path, like a loading bar, but when i try to do this, the bar fills sideways, like on this screen shot. I need the bar filled like a loading bar, i know i can use mate to use other shape layer to hide him and animate position to reveal the original shape, but i was wondering how i can do this with trim path! thanks

After effects seems to forget keyboard shortcut (cmd+m). For example I'm animating some graphic elements and everything is working well, but when I try to export the final animation, I'm pressing cmd+m (the shortcut I made, somehow this new after effects doesn't have it by default) it doesn't work, but when I just open the menu for keyboard shortcuts and close it, without changing or adding anything, it works. It's like I have to remind it by just opening the menu...Weird

I noticed someone else had a very similar problem back in February, but had just upgraded to CS3 and opened a 6.5 file. I'm working on a file I just began a couple of days ago in CS3 and have begun having the same problem today. The problem is that at seemingly random times, keyframes that I've been moving back and forth to tweak suddenly cease to be selectable. If I singe-click on them with either mouse button, nothing happens. If I double-click on them with either mouse button, the current setting dialogue box pops up. BUT--if I drag a marquee around one or more of them, they will get selected--I just can't move them. I'll drag a keyframe or keyframes one way, it won't be quite right, so I'll try to drag them back, and suddenly some of them won't go, and when I try to select them singly, they just stay gray. They show up in the graph editor, but I can't move them there either. I have no idea what's going on. Anybody else know what's going on? Thanks, Clint

Nothing is showing up in the composition panel in after effects.  I created a new project and added my text layers in the timeliness but it not show up in the composition window. It will not preview or anything. Zoom is fine and yes thing are actually added to the timeline to view (texts). Is it that the driver is not updated? 

I have a project and since opening and converting to the new version I cannot resave it.After Effects error: bad tracked memory ID ( 23 :: 35 )This is on top of the fact that I can no longer import pngs. Four days to a deadline this is a real emergency. Wondering wether the update hasn't gone so well or can I really not import png files any more???Can anyone help? I'm thinking a quick fix will be to continue with the previous version until the project is done but not sure how to revert back to a previous version...

When I make a new composition, nothing shows up in my preview window

Hi, Having really major weird problems with AE. I work with mapping, and have perhaps 200 vertices that I move around the map for frontline movements. If I don't close down AE and restart it every 15-30 minutes, I am basically wasting huge amounts of time just waiting for it to process moving vertices around. My mouse clicks take 2-3 seconds to register. If I move the mouse while it tries to register it, the vertice gets misplaced. So it becomes a complete torture. My projects use x2 Photoshop PSD documents that are basically images with some layers imported from PS as PSDs to AE. In total projects have 5 6 layers on average. What is wrong with AE? After I restart the app, it works normally and fast, for hence some time, and then it is back to a crawl. I have just bought a PC upgrade to help in working with AE, and it seems like a waste of money now too. Because AE just seems to ruin itself anyway. I have 64G RAM (had 96G before but bit slower RAM; but so

i need adobe after effect 2020 for my mac, because version 2024 and above is too heavy for my mac

Hello,I'm trying to design this responsive text box but can't get it quite right.I have a shape layer containing the following shapes - (Group 1) - - Color (Rectangle)- Base (Rectangle)- Stroke The "COLOR" shape is a thin highlight at the bottom of the box. I need to link the width of that shape to the width of the "BASE" shape. The "BASE" shape is controlled by an expression to make it responsive to a text layer. The main issue I'm having is the "BASE" shape is rounded. I can copy the same sourceRectAtTime expression to the "COLOR" shape but then can't shrink the height using the transfrom property without smooshing the rounded corners. So I'm hoping I can just link the X property in the "COLOR" shapes Size controller to the X property of the "BASE" shape.  

I'm totally stumped here, cannot figure out what is going on.  I have all my material options set properly and the light is correct.  Can't identify why I can see shadows in FRONT view but not ACTIVE CAMERA view.  Any ideas?  Here is a screen of my app:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/qaa6vziqutqs65s/CropperCapture%5B9%5D.png?dl=0   [Moving from generic Start/Help forum to the specific Program forum... Mod][To find a forum for your program please start at https://community.adobe.com/]

Hey everryone! I was wondering whether anyone could help me in this matter, I am quite puzzled to why the paint brush isn't working in after effects, whether I don't have the right setting or i'm pressing the wrong thing I don't know, sorry if this sounds like an easy question to some, anyone know where Im going wrong? tb Helen