After Effects

Hi. First of all, I used to have working After Effects (version 24.x.x and 23.x.x) on the computer on which I now have trouble installing it. After formatting and resetting my PC, when I try to get After Effects installed, I'm met with a message that says that my processor doesn't support AVX2. And that’s fine, because I don’t need to use the most recent version (25.0). I used to have After Effects version 23 and then 24 before and it was working fine. But now I cannot access previous versions and cannot install the 25th version of After Effects… Simply put it. Is there a way for me to access previous versions of After Effects, without installing the newest version first? Or is there a way for me to move the older version of After Effects from a different PC? (I have After Effects 25.0 on a different PC and access to previous versions there). (note: I would like to avoid just upgrading my processor just so it supports AVX2 and allows my Creative Cloud to download the new

I have a layer with multiple shapes in it.How to find the bounding box of a shape made out of bezier curves, like this one: I can see vertices and tangents info inside value property, but nothing similar to sourceRectAtTime for a layer. Computing bounding box of a concave shape is rather difficult.

I kept getting this message for my Textevo 2 script in After Effects, is anyone have the same issues? And if anyone know how to fix, that would be great because i need to use this script for my project, thanks!

Hey guys,I'm so so new to Ae. Just installed a couple of hours ago, and I'm trying to do the motion stabilization effect, but all I see as options/tabs is Preview, Properties, Align, and Effects & Presets. The "Tracker" option (the stabilization effect should be under this tab) is just not there. Can anyone please help me?  The footage I uploaded is not landscape, it's portrait. Don't know/think that makes a difference, but LMK!!

Just some simple question: Why are we still in 2025 when working on a project and importing another project into it or dragging something from an extension? After Effects stays unresponsive for about 5 minutes each time and every time we need to lose our precious time waiting for After Effects to work again, and not stay either with a black canvas or with a frozen one. I work daily with After Effects which stresses me a lot and makes me lose a lot of time.  

Hi, I'm trying to parent null object position to position of another layer (composition), but in expressions i got this error:  "object of type Layer found where a number, array or property is needed."There are no effects on both layers. To this null object is parent a position of puppet pin from another layer. How can I solve this, please?

Hi everyone, One of my favourite graphic designers, Brad Mead, made this fantastic work. Please see the attached video.I want to learn the name of this effect and how to make it.  Please help me.Thank you.

  Hi community. I have some questions regarding how to correctly mask simulations. In the first example below with layer 3 (oragne colour), ball action simulation is applied, and I tried to create a mask with my solid, but nothing happens. I tried with this mask, because it gives options for feathering. In the second example I precomposed (Green layer) the simulation, and again tried to make a mask with the precomp, but masking didnt work.  Witht the 3rd option, I did a track matt, and the masking worked so I got my star shape and bubbles masked into the shape. But the edges are hard, and no feathering options are available.  So what is the best method to mask a simulation, and be able to feather the hard edges? Thank you.   

Hey,I've spent most of my afternoon trying to fix a bug. Long story short, I've recieved a file from a mac which requires me to relink some assets. (I already had the assets from another project file I was working on) when I try to relink them I get the error "After Effects warning: Invalid ascent count '0'". This is happening on MP4s MOVs and PNGs, probably other file formats too... I have 500 files to relink...The strange thing is, in my other project file I can relink things fine. Also, I can directly import the files without getting the error and they work fine. So the files themselves don't seem corrupt. Is this a new bug? Or a long issue between mac and PC.(For context, these are a few of the files I'm trying to relink, I've tried coverting them to mp4, changing the name, everything... and always get this error) Any help would be amazing,Danny 

I'm looking to have a "stack" of flat shapes that are the same size, that may or may contain images/videos stacked up on top of eachother and then "explode" out horizontally or vertically and then stack up again. This would repeat over and over featuring a different card in the deck. Any thoughts on how to go about doing this?I've attached a video example of what I'm looking to do.

HelloI like very smooth motion curves! In order to achieve it, I (almost everytime) need to add an extra keyframe.So (almost everytime) I have  to repeat  these steps in my motions. Is there any (plugin/script) solution to save my life?

Is there a way to link After Effects files, so that I create myself an own library with assets?    For example, I have my main project and want to import 10 different AEfiles. The reason I want to link these files is that they always stay up to date, so that I can refine linked compositions later on and my changes stay up to date. Similar to linked files in Photoshop.[abuse removed by moderator]

Hello, I recently switched from mac to windows and have been having this weird issue with rendering. Anytime I try to render in 16fps, AE will render it in 30? Like I will be able to edit in AE with my frame rate set at 16, and then when it renders it converts to 30. I have no idea how to fix this and I've never had issues rendering in 16fps when I was using mac. Does anyone else have this issue or know how to fix it??

Olá,criei um projeto com um tamanho diferente da composição ,porém quando clico no arquivo ele diminui o tamanho da time line e eu não consigo mover a agulha 

When I create a mask in text layer from "Create", "Create masks from Text", it create an extra mask with extra vertex with no sense, different from the others shapes, I don't know why.Please, can you filter useless mask created with only one or two extra vertices, thank you.In the image you can see three mask path created from text layer with "s" character, the mask in red color is the problem, it only has one vertex (or maybe two), it is shown as one red dot in the screen (marked with the blue arrow), the green and yellow has the shape that I need, the font is Astallya Script and AE versión is 25.0.1

I've read that after effects prefers the OpenGL format for Normal Maps but it looks inverted on our tests, whereas the DirectX actually looks correct. We've checked it on multiple models, all with the same results, but everything I read contradicts this. Can someone confirm?

Sorry in advance this post will be long. While I was aware that when you work in 23,976 fps or 29.97 fps, playing with layer "time" like strecht, time-remap, reverse, always introduce weird behaviour like a non-existing frame at the end or start of that layer, I didn't know why and didn't investigate. Recently I started writing a script (I am by no means able to do it myself, but still understand the logic) by using AI, to batch reconnect footages with their color corrected versions. You know, a simple batch reconnect like EVERY other video app have, but not After Effects for a unknow reason! So far so good, I was able to write a script, with a score system drived by criterias, like : exact name, then a Levenshtein algorithm with threshold to match the names even if they are not exactly the same, duration, dimension etc. The script worked perfectly! At my work, sometime we receive the color corrected footages with slight differences in the names(no problem the script handle t

Hi, I have lots of texts/letters and I need to mask them all. last 2 days am just keep creating shape layers and placing/ dragging them above letters/word 😠 Is there any way I can make the shape layer to be on the desired layer? I cant select the letter and the draw the shape, because I dnt wanna animate the path of the mask. please help me. 😥😥😓

Is there any way to export multiple compositions exist in single project (.aep) to motion graphic template (.mogrt) in once/batch?

Hi,I need to change the text color of a logo animation. the Text animation is a individual comp, and it is in black color.. In the main comp there are many baby animations (like swirl/circle moving in bg etc) and also this text animation (in black color) included.  In the project panel I duplicated the main comp four times, where each will be different text color, RED, BLUE, GREEN.I named Main comp- text black (Original)Main comp- text RED (Duplicated from main comp in project panel)Main comp- text BLUE  (Duplicated from main comp in project panel)Main comp- text GREEN (Duplicated from main comp in project panel) here where I am lost-  when I open these individually and I see each carry that text precomp, which is in Black color.. My question do I need to duplicate the text comp in project panel also 4 times, and then bring them in each duplicated main comps so that one dsnt affect another when I change the color? or as I already duplicated the main c

Hi all, I want to do a blinking typewriter effect with the preset:Blinking Cursor Typewriting ConsoleI want to have a dot as the blinking cursor, but it is not available as an option.I can however edit the list via the Edit button on the top right.But everything I enter, will lead to the cursor spelling "undefined" Does anyone have an idea where I can define these custom characters?Thank you!!