After Effects

I have shaky cell phone footage of a security monitor taken at 45° to the right. I need to extract that footage and display it as an ortho rectangle.I’ve already stabilized the footage with Mocha AE. My next step was to use Reverse Corner Pin until I discovered that it is Mac ONLY and I’m using After Effects on PC.Is it possible to do with vanilla AE or is there a 3rd party solution that will work with AE on PC or point me to a video explaining the process?

Basically what you can do with Perspective Corner Pin mode in Tracking is, say, you're recording handheld, and you have a TV on your video, you want to replace the screen of the TV with a footage, like this video:Adobe After Effects Tutorial: Perspective Corner Pin Motion Tracking - YouTube But what I need is different, I've shot a video of a TV, again, the camera is moving around, I want to change the perspective so that the content of the TV is shown without an angle.It's hard for me to explain so I'll show you with pictures.I want to turn this:Into this:And I did this easily with Photoshop using Select Tool -> draw a selection around the TV then using Move Tool -> Show Transform Controls -> hold Ctrl key and move around the corner points of the selection to the corners of the image. But how do I do this in After Effects?Thank you.

Hi Adobe Community, when I try to open an specific After Effects file it stops at 44% an then pops a window to Save a Copy, and when I save AFTER EFFECTS closes. The copy that is saved does not open, the orginal file does not open. I tried to import the original file on new AE document. I tried to use previows version of the software, tried to update drivers. I think the problem might be because the name of the AE file has this character: @. I have attached a picture of the exact moment when the program forces me to save a copy and then closes.What can I do to open this file, is a work file so I cant lose this file. Hope you can help me.Thanks in advance for your help!!! 

Is there a way, plug-ins included, to have markers from a precomp show up in the parent timeline? I placed markers in my precomp's workspace, not on individual layers in the precomp, and would like to be able to see them show up on the precomp layer in the parent. Seems like a useful feature but I don't see an automated way to do it. I keep having to recreate the markers and manually adjust them if things change. @10440662: Move this to an idea if there is no native way to do this because it would be a big productivity booster for me, and I'm sure many others.

I'm inserting images into after effects and they don't appear, does anyone know how to solve this?

I used the Roto Brush Tool to remove the background of a video. It worked. I also used the Refine Edge Tool to refine around  the hair lines. Then I got this red contour when propagated and rendered. What could be the possible cause? How to correct this? Thanks for any help!

PFA the video. The 3D layers are all messed up when it is getting rendered or played outside of the composition, but working the way it should animate when it's inside of the composition. I've tried all different versions of After Effects (22, 23, 24). All giving me the same issue. Any suggestion would be helpful. Thanks in advance for checking by. 

Hello,I was using the CC Bend it tool and I noticed that as it bends near the end of my composition, it begins to crop the graphic. I've already messed with the start and endpoints and have tried to use toComp(value) which gave me an error. I feel like it is something else. I think it's possibly another selection, but I'm not sure how to figure it out exactly. Has anyone seen this before? 

I am creating a landscape in illustrator which "stretches out beyond artboard", I need to import this in after effects without the artwork getting cropped(including the artwork as whole). How it can be done? Up till now I use to create high resolution artwork in Illustrator i.e 2000x4000 pixel, and than importing it into after effects (1920x1080 comp) and scale it there to animate. But it creates the comp unnecessarily heavy…any work around? thanks would appreciate a quick response.

Hi Everyone,I had a crash that required a reinstall on my Mojave Mac. I was using After Effect and have been for a while. I cannot upgrade the Mac because I have other apps that won't go past Mojave. I just want my previous version back...but it is no longer available to download."ProDesingTools" website does not provide previous versions anymore ...Any suggestions ?Thanks,Sébastien !

Whenever I tried to import the 3D glass bottle in After Effects, the materials seemed to be gone. The 3D model was created in Blender then exported as gltf or obj. But no matter which format, it seems to run into the same problem. I read somewhere that it has to do with my lighting settings when I import it into a composition. But I actually didn't add or touch the light settings at all.  I am wondering If anyone has experienced this before or know how to solve this? Thank you. 

I'm trying to make my own plugin, started with the skeleton plugin, copied it, renamed everything there, but get an error:"No loaders recognized this plugin, so the plugin is set to Ignore." The entry point Effect_Main is set, but never reached. I want to know the origin of this error. It looks, that AE reads the PIPl section and decides not to load the plugin for unknown reason. Why?What are the loaders?How to choose the loader?What is the algorithm of the loader to decide if it must load the plugin or not?Is setting Kind {AEEffect} enough to choose the right loader? (Seems not, what else?)

I'm trying to write a 3D importer that imports a custom 3D format, is it possible to make it so it behaves like the .obj importer? (Marked as 3D object, 3D transform, depth buffer, etc.)

THE ISSUE:For a while now I've been seaching for an easy way to add subtitles to my After Effects files. I know there are a few different ways to use free and/or paid extendscripts but the ones I've found all ended up with having hard-coded keyframes. When you've made some manual changes to your subs in AE and there were some last-minute changes to your subs you either had to manually do the corrections, or re-run the script with the new sub and re-do all you manual (formatting) changes.Wouldn't it be ideal if you could just import/link the SRT file into your library like you would with other kinds of footage?THE ANSWER:you can!Since the CC2018 version of AE you can import JSON files to create data driven animations. Well, isn't a JSON file basically just text? So this got me thinking; "what if I tried importing a SRT file instead of JSON?". As it turns out, if you omit the file mask in the import file dialog (All files (*.*)), you can in fact import *.srt files. Usingfootage("filename

ATTEMPTED TASKS:Complete In-App Tutorials to improve After Effects skills STEPS:Opened After Effects in Creative Cloud DesktopClicked on the Learn open from the Home Screen Clicked on In-App Tutorial  DESIRED OUTCOME:In-App tutorial load in the app with step-by-step instructions and file layers ACTUAL OUTCOME:A blank Untitled Project open in the app. 

Hello, I'm contacting you because I've noticed a bug in After Effects:My playback head no longer moves.Playback is fine, but the playback level is indicated by the red line (see attachment).It's a bit confusing.Has this happened to you before? How do you solve the problem?Thank you very much.

Hello! I made a video in After Effects and have been trying to export it as a GIF in Media Encoder. The colors look good in After Effects, but as soon as it's rendered it loses a lot of vibrancy. I've played around with color profiles and different exporting settings, but nothing seems to work. I have also tried exporting as an mp4 and then converting to a GIF, but that removes the color again. How can I fix this? Is there an issue with my color settings? I've attached a picture of the before and after.

Hi, I am curious.  In my animation I have 40 plus different shapes which need to be animated using path property. All need to be looped also.  I wonder do I have to keep pasting 'loop path keyframe expression' to them all individually?? what if it was 100! Or there is any way I can use a slider where I can write the expression and link path property to that instead of copy pasting so many times!  am I imagining too much! is it far fetched? Thank you.  

I have my mask on but it wont show any shape paths for any object i put in after effects but if i reset the settings it will work, since im working on a current project i cant get the paths back onAs u can see the. mask is on but no matter what i do it wont show the path of any selected object

Good afternoon, tell me what to do when I create a fill layer, an error comes out, I attach the video

Hello People, I tracked this footage inside After effects by creating a 3D solid layer to work on it inside cinema 4D. The aim is to remove the name from the original footage and replace it inside cinema 4D. Everything worked but, it came with this low white saturated material around the 3D solid I tracked. can anybody help me out? 

Hello! Does anyone know why the preview in my camera view is so different from the front view?I'm using the BANG plugin by Red Giant, and the camera's depth of field is off.Thank you! 

Hello,I'm reaching out because AE is continuously crashing, especially while using Trapcode Particular. I'm using the latest version of Trapcode (2024.2.0) and the latest version of AE (24.5).When I create a new project, this issue occurs again as soon as I start using Trapcode and making the particles complex. I have found that the plugin works better (and it seems that it doesn't crash) when "Rendering" is set to GPU (in the plugin options, not the AE project). However, my particles don't always look perfectly composed when the render is set like that.I'm already in conversation with Maxon to fix this, but I wanted to ask this community too, just in case you can help me as well. I've tried everything I found in these forums: updating GPU drivers, uninstalling/reinstalling AE and every plugin, continuously clearing the cache... But it crashes again and again, almost every time with the message shown in the attached screenshot. I can't work, and it's been frustrating.  Y

For the past year I've been having the same issue with After Effects & Media Encoder. Dynamic link server rarely connects, making Me redundant and having to export in Ae which takes 5x as long.  We've tried a variety of versions of the software and it's inconsistently working correctly. Probably exporting through Me less than 10% of the time.  The files have been dragged in from finder, Ae, and through the Ae - file - export channels and none make a difference. Mac & CC software all up to date. Currently on Sanoma 14.5 (23F79) and have tried all the suggested troubleshooting methods to no avial.  Is this being worked on to be solved, or will it always be an issue causing simple exports to take over 7 hours through Ae?! I can see it's been mentioned through these posts for years now.

I searched the web but did not finding the solution. I make a text box & want to dynamically hold texts within it. It uses a fixed font size of 50 but if there are more texts then font size will be reduced to fit all texts within the textbox. Any solution will be highly appreciated