After Effects

I'm mostly a Maya animator, and although I've been using AE for 20+ years it's mostly been as a compositing tool and never really had to do too much fine editing of animation. I'm now doing a full 2D/2.5D animation project in AE, and I cannot BELIEVE how absolutely rubbish the graph editor and motion editing tools are. I know this is a well-known fact about AE, but I'm still flabbergasted at just how pathetic the graph editor is and how even the most basic animation curve editing features are rudimentary beyond belief and totally lacking in user friendliness. I am mostly trying to work with Puppet Tool animation. First issue there is NO ABILITY TO SEPARATE CHANNELS on position pins, a capability that exists on just about everything else. Why is this missing? This then has the knockon effect of not being able to frame only one X or Y curve easily, since the button to do this automatically frames both channels. I have yet to figure out if there is an easy way to zoom in and out of curves

Reporting ”Your system has run out of application memory” issue on a brand new MacBook Pro Max 64 GB Ram while running After Effects. I knew about this error / warning message while running AE CC on a Mac Mini M1 / 16 GB ram, weas hoping to get rid of it when upgrading. But this seems to be related to Mac Os Monterey (an earlier OS versions). The bad thing is that at times it slows down a rendering process to the point that I have to force quit, loosing the rendering. That is annyoing considering the fact that I hace spend cloase to 5K Euros for the machine. 

Hi everyone, I don’t know if I’m making a mistake or what’s going on, but I have a precomp at 120fps and I did a generative fill, and it looks spectacular.However, outside the precomp, the sequence is at 60fps and it looks like this. Does anyone know how I can fix it??

I have a composition here of initially 2000p by 2000p images of pink squares, and have thinned them and made them rotate. However, they are folding in weird and unnatural ways. From what I can tell, they also vary depending on the composition frame render size (refer to the change in video scale on the right for all the screenshots. I also think this is NOT a Media Encoder issue and instead is only and After Effects issue because when setting the render quality for the preview to Full, this same thing occurs. What should I do? I clearly don't want the lines to crumple, but I also don't want to make the final render tiny.By the way, I feel I should mention that this is not the first time this has happened. This bug has occured to me many times over a long period of time.1080p render:270p render:

Dude I have a M2 Macbook 64 gb ram and ae caches so slowly I am considering self harm.  Went out got 2 nvme drives, one for media the better one for caching.  It is even worse.  I can do my work.  Installed reinstalled all that stuff, and it has been ongoing for a long time.  I have managed by other means but I am tired of it.  So what are good affordable alternatives to this adobe nonsense. 

I wanted to share some insights when animating random text characters I got using Character Value and Character Offset, which is probably a bug in AE. At some frames a few characters are getting cropped - either left, right, top or bottom. Suuuper enoying. What I figured out is that Character Value with anything higher than 0 will result in this big. 1 or 2 might be working, but mostly not. Now I think its even strange Character Value even exsist.. 

I am currently writing. a script to create captions in After Effects and it keeps bringing every line in with allcaps flipped on. What line of code do I need to add to ensure allcaps is turned off? Thanks in advance. 

This annoying tips are aimed at beginners, I have been using this program for more than 20 year. There seems to be no way to stop them from popping up? Any suggestions? 

Hi folks, not sure if it's possible, but I would like to use transform_world on top of each other. What I mean is to do first transformation, then save it and do other transformation on that result (in a loop). The reason is I want to do initial matrix transformation on one instance (translate,scale,rotation) and then take that result and do other transormation multiple times. Reason for this is to reduce time of matrix multiplication.Here is approximate code of what I have in mind (but not working as expected of course) // initial transform ERR(in_data->utils->transform_world(in_data->effect_ref, in_data->quality, PF_MF_Alpha_STRAIGHT, in_data->field, input, &composite_mode, NULL, &initial_matrix, 1L, TRUE, &output->extent_hint, output)); // take output and use that as input for(A_long i=0; i<100; i++){ ERR(in_data->utils->transform_world(in_data->effect_ref, in_data->quality, PF_MF_Alpha_STRAIGHT, in_da

I'm trying to render a video edit of multiple footages, however all of the footages have this "missing footage" scene after rendering out. I never had issue with rendering footages previously (e.g. mp4, mov format). Not sure is it because my footages are in AVI format?

Hi everyone,I'm experiencing an issue with Adobe After Effects where it reports running out of memory even though it's only using 5 GB out of the available 64 GB."Insufficient memory warning. RAM usage has been extended for previews. Adjust RAM settings in Preferences > Memory & Performance."Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance! Vera

I have an error off a freshly installed After Effects on a new box for AE 2025. I've tried rolling back to other 2025 versions, safe mode, etc. with the same issue. Attached is a screengrab of the error itself

I'm working on a project with multiple 3D objects. I created a shadow with a solid for one 3D object (the red one), and it worked perfectly. However, when I tried the same method with a different 3D object, the solid just doesn't recognize it. Any ideas on what the problem could be?

Hi, I'm trying to understand smartfx, specifically result_rec & max_result_rect.If we examine Shifter.cpp example in sdk, and let's say output comp is 1920x1080, and layer we applied effect to is also 1920x1080, and we use offset, it will offset pixels properly, but if we apply effect to 4K footage, the footage effect has been applied to will be cut off if offset is used.How to combat this? Thanks

I keep getting the error that Point On Path in the variable is undefined, no matter how complex I make this script. Can anyone see where I am going wrong?Code for reference:var path = thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 5").content("Ellipse 1").content("Ellipse Path 1").path;var trimPath = thisComp.layer("Layer 12 Outlines").content("Trim Paths 1").end / 100;var targetlayer = thisComp.layer("Layer 12 Outlines");var piont = path.pointOnPath(thisComp.layer("Layer 12 Outlines").content("Group 1").content("Path 1").path) targetlayer.toComp(piont)

Hey folks! How can I change the buttons display on this area? I always have to use a bigger area just to see / click and use all of the functions (and I aways need them), but end up with lower space to another panels.  If I could just make them in the bottom (and make a second line with the functions) would be perfect. 

src=wiggle(2,200);boundary = [135,135]; // size of boundinglayer/2clamp(src, value - boundary, value + boundary)how i do this in dynamic way , means if shape layer is rectangle and i want when ever i change height and weidth and bound upadated , balls are bounded inside the inner box because the box have stroke. bound also updated with stroke changes ,how can  ido that , can anyone give me idea?

Hi, the attached screenshow shows badly designed interface for importing files into AE. This is on WIndows 11 with dark mode.The blue text is hard to read, the white boxes are there for no reason, some texts are barely visible and elements are unevenly spaced without proper padding/margins.

Does anyone know how to change the color of the pen tools path? The actual path itself is different colors on several of my different files but I am trying to cut a path (see attached) and the path got changed to a light brown which I cannot see to well edit?

Composition panel flickering whenever I move mouse or play head All Settings correctdrivers updated cache emptied  video attached  help asap

Hello AE Community. I've scowered the internet to no avail, so I figured i'd ask here.  I'm running an old 2012 I mac at 2560x1440 resolution, and I just picked up a Acer 3840x2610 for a second monitor. I've moved the timeline to the second monitor and it's been great except the height of each layer displayed on the timeline is quite small on this 4k resolution Is it possible to increase the height/size of the layers on the timeline?  Thanks in advance.

É possível obter uma versão mais antiga do after effects? Mais específicamente o after effects 2023?

I Really Need Help With This It Happens Every Clip Every Time I Add It To A TimeLine