After Effects

Ae 24.6.2. Random crashes even when rendering. For God Sake fix the BUGS.

How can I pass arguments from osascript to extendscript, and how to access the passed arguments in extendscript?```osascript -l JavaScript -e "ae = Application('Adobe After Effects 2024'); ae.activate(); ae.doscriptfile('myjsx.jsx');"```1. How can I pass arguments in the above code?2. How can I access the passed arguments in my .jsx file?

Hi,I'm encountering an issue with the latest version of After Effects on Windows. When I attempt to launch the application, nothing appears on the screen—no splash screen or loading screen. However, when I check the Task Manager, I can see that After Effects is running, but there is no user interface or any indication that the program has actually launched.I've tried waiting, but the application never opens fully. I haven't received any error messages or prompts.Has anyone else experienced this issue or have any suggestions on how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you!

For about a month or so, sporadically AE will take video footage and render a few frames as negative, inverted frames. When watching the playback, if you blink you can miss it, but the it's definitely there. The way to resolve it is to delete the footage/asset, save the project, close AE, and then re-open AE, re-import the footage, insert the footage where it's needed, and then wait until the cache is completely rendered. It didn't do this before, and this wastes a lot of time. Thoughts?

hey all.  I've been deeply inspired by the styles of motion comic creation on YouTube.  I'm wanting to create a motion comic, with the panning zooming in and out on the panels in a dynamic way, and wondering about a workflow on that.  Does anyone have any experience in this? 

Hi! Simple question, and I can't find the answer anywhere. I have set work area points (default keybinds are "b" and "n") so that the AE will only render frames in that small area to expediate editing. But, it's ignoring them, and instead rendering the WHOLE comp, which is making editing slow to a crawl. Is there a setting that I managed to tweak that's doing this? Thanks!Edit: I've gone into the Preview window and set the Range to "Work Area."

Hi, I dnt understand something, After googling much I learn I can scale a comp using an inbuilt script called ' ''scale comp" , but no way I can make it exactly 1920×1080.  Either, it changes both (H and W) into 1920 or 1080! I can't believe there will not be a way for me to change a comp from 1080×1080 into 1920x1080 without doing it manually!! 😮 Too many layers, too many comps. I dnt wanna do it from square again! Looked for scripts to buy, but they want me to null all layers individually! crazy! Please I need help.

I'm trying to trigger animations in the position property of one layer using markers on another layer, but the expression keeps returning an error: "Undefined value used in expression (could be an out of range array subscript?)". Weirdly, the error just disappears every now and then until I hover over the timeline again. This error occurs in the first line of code, even when that line is commented out or when I delete the line. For reference, I just updated to v 24.6.2, but even when I rolled back to 24.6.1 the error occurred. If I end the expression with a fixed-value array, such as [5,5], the error disappears, but of course this makes my code redundant. The expression: /* 2 states: (1) Normal, for when in left or right view, and (2) Wide, for center view. */ /* This layer will ease() between Normal & Wide for the center values of the master controller layer. */ /* Variables */ control = thisComp.layer("BG_PosControl"); normal = [517, 0]; wide = [-639.5355, 0]; fade

Renders from After Effects are stamped with a date thats days in the future. Creates a real headache for production. Not good for our version tracking. This issue affects multiple artists on our team, using many different version of After Effects (2020 nd 2019). Its not a local issue. Please advise. Thanks for any help on this issue

I'm currently trying to toubleshoot the Camera Tracker not working in AE 24.6.2 on a Mac running Sonoma 14.6.1, and I came across a post about checking the premissions settings. In that post it said to navigate to Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore, except I don't have that folder. So I guess my questions are:1) Is this old info and does this folder not exist because it's no longer part of install?2) If in fact this folder IS supposed to be there, why don't I have it? What can I do to resovle this? And is this the cause to my issues with Camera Tracker?

HelloError when using the after-effect plug-in trap code form.If something is widened or enlarged, an error such as an image appears.Is there a solution?

I am trying to render a video with an effect that I made. I used fill color to switch colors every frame.But for some reason it doesn't render properly. I have done this effect before and it worked perfectly fine. But now for some reason it doesn't. Can anyone help me out with this? I have put the examples in the attachements.

always lags, get rid of this buggy POS. is it there just to trip my workflow and be generally awful? if it doesn't work, why add it. remove this laggy bs

Hello,    I have a fire effect.  I want to light the surrounding area to match the fire color as it burns/flickers. How can I do this please?  Is there a way to pick a point on the footage and tint the surrounding area to match as the color changes?

Dear all. I have a 4K composition like below But whenever i change the resolution from 4k to HD, it is cropped.I always change resolution by using Composition settings dialog box.Is it possible to automatically fit to the composition resolution without croped?? Thanks.

I'm writing a script that I'd like to validate that a piece of footage has been selected and do something based on that selection. However, I want to make sure that it's clear that the script is based on a single selected piece of footage. I'm trying to validate that a selection of ONE piece of footage is made, and write an alert message if there is "no selection" and if there are "too many selections". What logic block do I use to see if a footage file is selected? Cause this ain't it. 

Hello, so I've created a rectangle, and I'd like the top left & right corners inset, say...  8 pixels on both the left & right side.  What would be the best way to do so?I can use the pen tool and manipulate each anchor point individually, guesstimating visually how far I've inset each one, but is there a better way?  I'd like to be able to use something to inset the top left & right anchor points by, say...  8 pixels.  How would I do so?  I can select each one with the pen tool individually, and use the left and right arrow pad buttons to do a specific amount, but it seems very tedious.  Is there a better way?  I'd imagine there should be a way to select each anchor point, and specify it's absolute X/Y values, but it only seems to work for the overall shape?Thanks for any help!

Building weather mogrt and it works just fine.  Because of the number of dropdown choices and entries, it's LONG in Essential Graphics for Premiere.  Adobe as usual wastes incredible amounts of space in every UI, but just thought I'd ask if anyone knows of a way to do this better.  Grouping is fine but doesn't solve the problem, albeit a small one.  Thanks.    

Hello, So I'm animating a character with expression controls on a guide layer in a composition. So far so good, animation looks alright. But when I nest this animated composition into another one, the animation is not happening/showing up. Is there anything I have to enable in my main comp? I'm going crazy not knowing why this is happening. 

Some layers (preComps) in my master comp disappear when rendered or previewed at best quality. When working at draft resolution or half size everything is visible. I’ve been working on this project for a while and just yesterday the problem started. The problem persists when opening the project on a second workstation on a different network. I’ve tried purging disk cache, preference and saving back to CC 2015. I’ve also tried solo-ing various layers in the preComp - all without success.Any suggestions would be most welcome!I’m on an iMac 5K 27in late 2014 i7 with 32 GB ram. AE CC 2017, OS X 10.12.2.

HiWhen I track a scene in AE, create a Camera and text I want to export to Cinema 4D lite. The camera data doesn't export. There's no key frames in C4D, no movement. I've seen a few in here having the same problem, but no solution yet. Can anyone help me?

I have a 3D comp with animation in it.Now, if I nest several copies of this comp with collapsed transformations, then the very top layer influences the underlying copies, e.g. changing its time value (animated timeRemap, expression, or simply shifting the layer over time), makes all the underlying copies within the 3D container, use the time from the top one. Am I missing anything essential about collapse transformations + time property? Such behavior seems fundamentally abnormal, possibly a bug, however it should be tested by the other users, as it might be a local glitch.Here I add a AEP file made of solids alone.See yourself by shifting the "MOVE ME" layer on timeline back and forth. You can also try enabling randomization expressions in *T, *S, *E compositions, which will override the existing color animation and make it more obvious. Try adding AdjustmentLayer to split the 3D container, see how the mess spreads. Please, report back if you experience same thing.&nbsp

Is this image possible in Ae? 

Newbie here. I have this squiggle shape that I want to reveal, left to right, to simulate calligraphy. I have worked out how to key frame a mask using the pen tool. However, with such a complex shape, I would prefer to paste original shape into the mask, and then make key frames, deleting a few vertexes at each one. This would give me a lot more control over the shape of the mask than drawing it manually, and in theory this would save me a lot of time. Whenever I attempt to keyframe with this method, the mask does not animate, it just keeps the same number of vertexes as I have deleted. It will only animate when I draw & keyframe the mask manually. Is my idea possible??  

Hey, I've been using AE without any problems till now, I saw an update I did that and since then I'm not able to run AE. I keep getting errors and they are different each time.I tried re-installing, even installing older versions but it was no help.  I've attached the errors below.Would appreciate any help I'm not sure what else to do.