After Effects

Need different Rect Boundary visual indicator to differentiate between Point & Paragraph Text Layers.As more AE users dive deep into Text Layer Scripting & Expressions, it'll be good to be able to select a Text Layer and immediately be able to tell if it's a Point/Paragraph Text Layer. My suggestion is to keep Solid Tiny Square for Point Text and Tiny Outlined Square for Paragraph Text. This has the added benefit of being a visual indicator since the Paragraph Text's visible Rect Boundary, when selected, isn't representative of its actual (extents) Rect Boundary which only becomes visible when a Paragraph Layer's content (Text Edit Area) becomes active.I'm calling it a Design Bug because I'm desperate to see this worked out.  😄In the 1960s, the current construct would have been OK but with current workings, this is a pain that hits users many, many times each day.    

Everytime I render a video from After Effects, I have to restart it multiple times after clearing MORE and MORE space off my machine because Aftter Effects has 'run out of memory'.I shouldn't need over 300gb to render a 30second clip! I render from AE to .avi and then I compress using Media Encoder to .mp4 but why does After Effects make exports so HUGE? Theres minimal layer minimal effects and its only 30 seconds but the render is over 300GB. I dont want to render directly to media encoder because the quality drops.What is the best way to render?Most of my content is for internet so 1080p or 4K.Should I just fully switch to fusion? And finally get rid of Adobe?Let me know!Thankyou

I've imported an Illustrator file into After Effects as a Composition with Layer Sizes Retained. There are 4 separate layers, but one layer is cut off slightly. The layer is entirely inside the artboard. In fact, it's inside another layer that is not cutoff. When I isolate the footage layer, the comp size is too small, but I have no idea why. I'm using:After Effects Version 24.6.0Illustrator 28.6iMac OS Sonoma 14.6.1 

so in general I wanted to do the same head tracking as it is in the first scene of this shorthttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/WjFmDfGXJnwbut when i apply it on my video it's all shakyI thought it was because of those black bars, but I removed them by cropping and still nothing please help me

I've been wracking my brains trying to understand what the issue is. I have a vector map of Russia done in Adobe Illustrator. I enabled Illustrator's Transparency Grid to highlight the problem. I have transparent areas for the lakes. But these lakes show up as opaque when my Russia layer is imported from Illustrator to After Effects via the Overlord plugin.Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me solve this mystery.  

recently, i downloaded a project file but i cannot open it. it will crash everytime i try to open that project file. I tried to open a project and import but it crashed without any crash announcementI can open other aep file normally without crash except that filecan someone help me with this?

Hello!I am trying to create the reveal logo effect - I use auto trace to trace the logo and then apply the generate stroke effect and it works perfectly. However the logo turns out white and in the original image it has two colors. How can I keep the colours using this method. Can I keep the colours of the original image when I use auto tracing or can I fill them somehow?Thanks!

I'm building some After Dffects projects on both Mac and Win machines.  It seems that after closing and re-opening the Windows project (might've been a crash, can't recall) I can an alert that the "Color Control" effect was missing. I am using it in this project. Seems a bit baffling since this is built into AE. Before anyone suggests re-installing AE (which is not the solution I'm looking for) I would love if someone (perhaps someone from Adobe!) could explain this and how I can get this back.  

Boa noite. Não me aparece a opção ESCREVER, em Efeitos. Como é que o posso obter?

Hey thereI'm working on a project supplied by another designer and it's using CC Cylinder, I'm getting constant crashes, A bit of background he had tiled it by using about 20 layers, to work around this I just rendered out one and brought that back into the project, but now even trying to render one is causing crashing 

AE 2024 crashes when saving project I have tried below mentioned things..1- Update After Effect2- Re Installed AE3- Update GPU driverPlz suggest any other sulution. 

Can anyone make a tutorial on how to make this lyrics effect on the fretboard part of the guitar?

Hello,I'm new to after effects but I have looked on so many sites and videos but there is no answer to my question. Please help!I'm currently working in After Effects, I have imported an illustrator file (all divided clearly into layers). Each layer in the Ai file has a vector path of a clover with a stroke of 5 - it is not a closed shape/path. I have brought the layers into my composition in After Effects successfully and now I would like to convert the shapes from my vector layers so that I can animate the path. BUT:My trouble is that when I "right click > create > create shapes from vector layer" (with my vector layer selected in after effects), my vector path is automatically outlined so instead of a path, I get an outlined stroke (filled shape). See image below. It's holding me up from finishing this project and starting others.How can I have the path remain a path so that I can edit it as a path in after effects?

So I bought red giants suite to test it's vfx suite and all I have have encountered is bugs. Not sure is the reason AE or RG.So I've been keying a lot and now I used primatte keyer in RG suite but it seems that it is the reason why I have the bug tho, at some point of the edit I get black screen and this happens when exporting too, tried multiple codecs, colors spaces, bits and everything and it just keeps happening. I'm working on a work gig and this is frustrating. I'm going to  upload a quick test I made where the bug happens in render. I have a core matte on the face so don't get distracted by it, otherwise the screen would be black.

Hey, I have a extension what I want to add to my After Effect but I can't find the extension folder. Its not located in CEP folder. I tryed to search it but theres no where to find it.

OK so I see "save current preview" is in the Composition drop down list ... but greyed out?? Please explain!! Is this coming back? Are you teasing us Adobe?????

My After Effects v22.2 is always crashing after the second or third time I save a particular project, no matter really what the changes are. At first it showed me a dialog box with either of these (not exactly verbatim, copied from my Google searches):After Effects error: internal verification failure, bad numeric conversion: positive overflowerror getting size of handle (and an endless number in brackets) Now it simply freezes around 64% saving progress for a bit, leaves behind these weird filesand soon crashes without any dialog. So far I have tried: installing an older version of AE, resetting the preferences, wiping the most recently installed plugin, different saving locations, cleared & changed cache location, deleted the comp I was making changes in most recently, imported the project into an empty project. Interesting as well is that this problem does not occur with other project files, so it has to be something wrong with the project I guess. Another in

Its not the wobble problem. I'll place a shape layer in one position,using a key frame to mark it, and continue moving my shape layer and marking the movements with key frames. When I go back to review my animation, the key frames at the beginning will have shifted in position from where I originally had them. When I edit these key frames back to where they belong, other key frame values are affected for some reason. I end up in a constant cycle of re-editing key frames. I read somewhere that time remapping may cause this problem but i haven't been able to find that forum again. Does anyone know why specifically this is happening and how i can fix my problem?[Moved from The Lounge​ to a product-specific support forum - moderator]

Hi all, I'm exporting a clip with ProRess 422 via MediaEncoder on all the default setting with the maximum depth and maximum quality boxes checked but the colours are still being distorted as you can see in the screenshots below. Please help! In after effects I just have an adjustment layer over everything with a lumetri colour effect, the values are also in a screenshot below.

Hello,Since today's after effects update, when I'm in my project in advanced 3D, it crashes my computer.All I have to do is open the project and after 10-15 minutes, my PC crashes. I tested on other compositions that don't use advanced 3D mode and I have no problemSorry my English is not good Thanks

Bug Report: After Effects (and Possibly Premiere Pro) - Freeze Issue When Creating a New Folder in Render Queue Issue Description: I've encountered a persistent issue with After Effects on my PC (and potentially with Premiere Pro as well) for the past few years. The problem occurs during the rendering process when I'm in the Render Queue. Steps to Reproduce:Open After Effects and add a project to the Render Queue.In the Render Queue, select the option to choose where to save the rendered file.In the file navigation dialogue box, attempt to create a new subfolder by right-clicking and selecting "Create New Folder."At this point, After Effects freezes and becomes unresponsive. Expected Behavior: The software should allow the creation of a new folder without freezing, enabling me to select the folder and proceed with the rendering process. Actual Behavior: After Effects freezes immediately after attempting to create a new folder, and it remains unresponsive, requiring

MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2019 (macOS Ventura)After Effect 23.6- 2,6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7- AMD Radeon Pro 5300M 4 GBIntel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB- 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 After Effects 2023 keeps freezing after a few minutes while working on a project. I didn't do any animation. Freezing cases can happen at any time, for example when I make a retangle, or when I leave it for a long time then I try to play the timeline, sometimes it can freeze.I've tried resetting preferences, but it doesn't work.I have also tried to remove third party plug-ins. I have tried various versions, 23.6. 23.0. 23.1.all the results are the same, the freeze error is always there, it's just a difference in time. but the worst is in version 23.6. what do I have to do?I have to force my computer to shut down, if this continues, my computer will be damaged.please provide a solution.thx.

Hey Guys, my AE preview functions normally for a few times. then when I preview using spacebar it loses the audio, and for the preview after that it doesnt preview at all. Whenever I press spacebar now it switches to the hand tool for the duration that I'm holding it and lights up the frame redner time as green. when I double press it goes back one frame. I didnt double assign anything, using 0 on numberpad didnt work. Reinstalled, cleared all settings, caches etc. all didnt work. Tried changing thw audio hardware output settings as it worked for some people, but changing it either crashes after effects or doesnt work.The bug in this video is the same one I have. The fix isnt working. I'd love some helphttps://youtu.be/kZDaOvIkxPE?si=RVhAx1dFbR76UppfI'd love some help.

Hey Community, I'm having a composition with 2 Levels. One is a 3D shape with depth and on top is a .PNG for it's texture. When I animate this 3D composition, it gives me a lot of artefacts. Am I doing here something wrong or is this an issue from Adobe?  Thank you very much. 🙂 

Hello, everyone. I'm new to AE plug-in development and stumbled upon a problem, so I thought I'd ask.I have an Effect Plug-In which I apply to a Text Layer, and that works fine. However when I click on "Create Shapes from Text", the Shape Layer gets created with the effect applied, but no shapes in it and I get this error:After Effects error : internal verification failure, sorry! {child not found in parent} ( 29 :: 0 )I'm guessing the problem is here (executed on PF_Cmd_UPDATE_PARAMS_UI):AEGP_EffectRefH  meH = NULL;AEGP_StreamRefH paramStreamH = NULL;ERR(suites.PFInterfaceSuite1()->AEGP_GetNewEffectForEffect(NULL, in_data->effect_ref, &meH)); ERR(suites.StreamSuite2()->AEGP_GetNewEffectStreamByIndex(NULL, meH, parameterName, &paramStreamH));ERR(suites.DynamicStreamSuite2()->AEGP_SetDynamicStreamFlag(paramStreamH, AEGP_DynStreamFlag_HIDDEN, FALSE, shouldHide));if (paramStreamH){     ERR2(suites.StreamSuite2()->AEGP_DisposeStream(paramStre