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Hello everybody,when creating a shadow catcher plane, it is not invisible, it is in dark grey color? How can I switch it to invisible with the shadow of 3d text objects? My graphic card is NVIDIA Quadro K2200 Best regards from GermanyKlaus

hi everryone I can't seem to get sound up on after effects, does anyone know how to? Helen

I'm being sent an AE source file, but when I open it on my computer, the compositions inside are showing as glitched .MOV files. However, the person who has sent it to me sees no issues on their end. Has anyone encountered this before? I have version 25.1.0 and working on a Mac, Sequoia 15.1.1 

Hey everybody, I'm a beginner and I recently discovered the pan behind a mask tool. Works fine so far, but the animation behind the mask looks very stiff. When I try to make it smoother in graph editor, both mask and element start to move. Does anyone know what i am doing wrong here? Thank you!

Hello, I have a vector map consisting of cmall circles ( a lot | 2000 of them).When I import it in After effects it's impossible to work with/make shapes from Vector layer/... I would like to put an expression on all circles that randomly pops the scale to 100% But now I can't even work with the circles. Is there Anything I can do? 

Time reverse keyframes should only affect selected keyframes 1 created three or more keyframes on a track2 select the first and the last keyframe3 invoke 'Time reverse keyframes See how all unselected keyframes are inversed too.

Hello!  I have few questions/issues regarding After Effects 2020 v17. If anyone could possibly provide me some insight, answers and/or solutions that would be greatly appreciated. I'm noticing a few issues with fonts. When selecting font choice under 'Character', at least 2 different instances (in the last 2 days) where installed fonts are nowhere to be found/seen in After Effects, but visible in every other application (i.e. Photoshop and Illustrator). I read a suggestion someone had made regarding the issue (which apparently isn't new or uncommon?) to uninstall and reinstall the font, to which does work. I'm not sure why this is now starting to happen, but it's frustrating to say the least.  The other issue at hand is when opening a template that alerts me to a missing font, when I search for missing fonts in the document - nothing appears? The search feature worked fine in the previous version v16.1.3 - I'm not sure why now it doesn't? I'm working on an iMac

I have a single shape... with a reapeater set to 20... 1 effect and 2 key frames. If I render out in After Effects I will get a memory issue like "Unable to allocate 2.0 MB of memory"  If I render with Media Encoder I get an export frame error like "Accelerated Renderer Error" or "Unable to produce frame" If I make the entire project in AE 2024 and replicate the exact same project from scratch I get an error that says "Image buffers of sinze 25073 x 24258 @ 8 bpc (2.3 GB) exceed interenal limits."I cannot export on this version. I have tried the following:Turn off Hardware EncodingTry to reduce the amount of memory allocated to other applications and set RAM to max 29gbMercury Transmit is disable it.Completly removed every single plug-in. Only had 1 to remove.I have pre-composed my sceneI have reset preferences for after effectsI have tried to lower the effectI have dramatically reduced the number of repeated objectsChanged all keyframes to linear.rem

I have 60fps footage in a 15 second compostion which I cut and applied basic effects too. The playback is a little choppy on quarter resoluition but that's fine. What I can't handle is it won't play the Mp3 128kbps file smoothly. As happens when rendering (in the composition not for export) it either stops (if "mute audio when preview is not real time" option is checked in previews) OR in my case, drops into slow bass play back - not sure what you call it. WHY when my bar is green is this persisting? I need to check the timing of the music and the footage has rendered. Audio is unrelated to fps so it can't be that?   

Hi I have script, which downloads texts from external api url and fill this texts into project TextLayer/TextDocument components.I have problem with some glyphs, that are not displyed correctlyfor example string from api (content utf8) is Rázová vlna by DRÉNis displayed in TextDocument as  R√°zov√° vlna by DR√âN part of code is simple: var textProp = layer.property("Source Text"); var textDoc = textProp.value; textDoc.text = content.value; // <--- here is content downloaded from api textProp.setValue(textDoc);  How can I fix this?When I write characters manually all is OK.Data from script are valid characters.Have you some hints for me?

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Hi, I have an issue when I try to Create a Reference Frame from Ae to open automatically in Ps.It pops up : "After Error: cannot locate an application to open 521psd.   (1::77)"I appreciate any help and your time. Thanks a lot.

I created a simple video - a black rectangle moves on a white background. And after reviewing a lot of instructions, I did everything step by step. It doesn't give anything. The site is still transparent. What am I doing wrong?

I have a scene in C4D lite that includes an animated camera aligned to an instance of a spline. The position property in the Align to Spline panel is keyframed, and the camera movement behaves as expected within C4D lite and looks the same in AE via Cineware. I also have a couple of Z-axis rotation keyframes on the camera itself, and all looks good until I extract the C4D camera in Cineware so that other elements there will react as if they're in the 3D scene. When I do that, I only see the camera's Z-axis rotation having an effect on the AE elements, and I only see dynamic keyframe data on the Z rotation. The spline based motion doesn't carry over. Is there something I'm not doing or is there a way to bake in that position data? I can't find any information on this that I haven't already tried. Thanks!C4D lite 2025.0.2 | AE 25.1.0 | MacOS 13.7.2 | 3.8 GHz 8-Core i7 iMac | 128gb RAM | RadeonPro 5500 XT 8GB

I've been having way too many issues with after effects. To list them all would take a life time to read but I'm TRYING to update after effects and it shows this:and this:Which is confusing af because all of my software is up to date. I've cleared as much storage space and disk space, files, and cleared all media and cache in my computer and after effects. I was about to render an edit and I closed out of it because I wanted to save it because I don't trust ae not to crash so I save my projects just in case. Anyway, when I went to save and close it, it gave me the (3 :: 0) error. I've gotten this before and I had to reset my preferences. I had to quit ae at that point, and I lost ALL of my progress. I've had my computer since December of 2023 and I'm getting really tired of missing footage, updates that won't work, crashes, and full storage. I ALSO have been editing on ae for 2-ish years and haven't been able to install ANY plugins except for saber by videocopilot. I can't get blurmocu

When I add deep glow to images, it turns transparent. Its fine with 'unmuly' unchecked but obviously I don't want a black BG. any ideas?

After Effect 25.1.0 - MacBook Pro M3 Max - Mac os 15.2 (24C101) - (all in French) I would like to report some recent bugs, minor but annoying. All concern the import and save UI. As they are not fatal, they could go unnoticed and persist for a long time. To import a media by double-clicking in the 'project' window, you have to do it twice, the first time the import dialog window opens and closes by itself immediately.Previously, you could retrieve the name of a file by clicking on it in the save dialog box. The file extension was automatically replaced by the After Effect extension (.aep). Now, the two extensions are kept one behind the other (for example file.prproj.aep), too bad.Some projects saved with custom workspaces no longer open (to the point of having to force quit the application). They remain available by importing them into a new blank project. Overall, it seems to be a communication issue between the interface of the latest Mac Os and the latest versio

Hi.In new After Effects 17.5.1I've accidentally rotated my scene using the new 3D 'rotate around the cursor' tool.I don't have a camera in my scene.How do I reset my orientation back to the default zero so that I am looking face on again??

i have serious error and i don't know from where and this is the error any help  

Hi everyone,I have a question regarding the process of creating Essential Graphics Assets. I mainly work with After Effects that was installed in the English version and have been creating assets for Essential Graphics which are shared with my colleagues. They, however, use German Version of Adobe Apps and my question is if the different App-language version may affect how well the Essential Graphics assets function? Do the assets created in my english AE version translate well and work as intended if used on the german version of other Adobe Apps?Thanks for the help and I am looking forward to your informative replies. Cheers,Erwin

Hi! I've been trying to manipulate a particle path by dragging the red circle on the video preview to edit the position value of the particle to make a smooth motion path. However, it makes very jagged lines and doesn't get that smooth transition between two positions. Instead, it makes a hard angle and two straight lines. Does anyone know how to make these smoother? Is it something to do with Bezier? Anything helps, thanks! It's this red thing I'm moving and making the path with but it doesn't make it smooth. Anybody know why or hot to fix it?