After Effects

I have a text layer above a shape layer. I add rotation keyframes to the shape layer and it works, now I want the text layer to rotate along with the shape. I drag the pick whip from the shape layer to the text layer though the text layer is still not animating/rotating. What do I need to do to make this work?

I’m trying to understand how and when you manually add keyframes.After turning on a stopwatch to start keyframing, I move the CTI, and I move the object in the comp window to a new location to animate it. When would you choose manually add a keyframe instead of  moving an object and letting AE do it for you?Thanks in advance

Having issues with Layer Comments not working as should after upgrading to AE 25.2.2 (Latest) on MacOS 14.7.4. Basically layers new, duplicated, or copied, are randomly not allowing you to click into the comment field. I've not been able to find any logic to it with even sometimes completely fresh layers not allowing comments. I'm seeing it most frequently though when duplicating layers, they'll retain the existing comment but not allow you to modify it. It's not greyed the field simply cannot be clicked into. Restart of AE doesn't fix it and nor does a full machine restart. Also, some layers that might be working fine will randomly stop working and you never get functionality back. This is some pretty basic stuff Adobe, like how do you break the comment field? Causing major workflow issues with handing off and documenting projects to other animators. FIX THIS!

I’d like to add a wave warp distortion effect to a bunch of stripes. The blue marking on the attached image is what I am trying to create. However, when I add the wave warp effect, it warps the individual stripes, not the image as a whole (See image). I have tried everything. I pre-comped the stripes (and didn’t have continuously rasterize on - see image); I recreated it in Illustrator and added it as an illustrator import; I even turned it into a JPEG and added it as a JPEG and it still treated the stripes individually (See image)! The JPEG scenario really confused me, as the stripes are “baked” in to the image. I am currently using AE 2026, so I tried AE 2024, and it still did the same thing. Am I just misunderstanding how wave warp works? I would think that with a JPEG, AE wouldn’t even be able to recognize it as individual stripes.  

Hiya!So when I preview my comp in After Effects it looks great, no glitches at all. But after I export it I go to watch my video and it has a lot of weird glitching. Some frames disappear, other frames only one layer of the comp disappears or looks slightly lighter, sometimes a layer will be cut in half, so the bottom half is visible but the top half isn't. I've been scouring forums and I can't figure out a solution. I've been exporting to lossless .avi files. I'm using Mercury GPU Accelerator (CUDA) to render. I've tried purging the cache and memory. Please help.Here you can see the effect I'm talking about:YouTube I was able to decrease the amount of flickering by unchecking "Include Project Link" in the output module, but there is still some minor flickering in the background layer.

The new Object selection seems to mistakenly take the bounding box of the initial selection as a boundary, while the ‘object’ has moved outside. This results in unexpected cut off rotoscoped objects. Original with the human to be selectedCut off object 

I’m assuming this may be a basic question and answered by anyone having gone through the first few levels of AE schooling but that’s not me. Consequently, I do not know the correct terminology to search the question to solve myself. I have a template that i’m trying to modify...Letterbox Slideshow - Free After Effects Template | MixkitThe same one my previous question was about.  My issue is when replacing the placeholder image with my own, I want to increase the size of the image on screen. I want it to fill the space more. Enlarge the image. The problem is that the placeholder is constrained by a mask (Mask 2) limiting it’s size and position. I have found the mask and increased the size (Window the image can be seen through) Seen here with a purple box…You can see i enlarged it to almost double the baby pic size. Roughly 50% more space below and 50% above. At this point i though i had my issue solved. When i click on the scene with the image i see the following with a set of tan colo

i got this 26::93 error from ae. it says i can’t find layer ID in composition. everytime i open my aep, and click “ok” it just crashes on me. what do i do? can someone PLEASE help immediately 

I am having difficulty retrieving the After Effects camera highlight gain, threshold and saturation values from the camera options, using the SDK. I can get these just fine:    bool   dof_on    = getStream(AEGP_LayerStream_DEPTH_OF_FIELD, 0.0) > 0.5;    double focus_dist = getStream(AEGP_LayerStream_FOCUS_DISTANCE, zoom);    double aperture   = getStream(AEGP_LayerStream_APERTURE,       0.0);    double blur_level = getStream(AEGP_LayerStream_BLUR_LEVEL,     100.0); But when I try to get these, I get an error saying they are undefined:    double hThresh = getStream(AEGP_LayerStream_HIGHLIGHT_THRESHOLD, 255.0); // 0-255    double hGain   = getStream(AEGP_LayerStream_HIGHLIGHT_GAIN,        0.0); // 0-100 %    double hSat    = getStream(AEGP_LayerStream_HIGHLIGHT_SAT,          0.0); // 0-100 % I am using the 2024 SDK I think - so not the latest but I hope that doesn’t matter. Is it not possible to get these from the camera? Thanks,-Richard

I just want to create rain in my scene.But my background is a painting I made, drawn in 3-point perspective, with the impression that you’re looking slightly upward toward the sky.When using the particle world effect, I want the rain to look like lines that are falling, but it appears they’re sort of radiating outward. For example, the rain particles toward the center appear vertical, but as you look closer to the edges of the screen, the particles should be more angled. So the entire rain scene is sort of cone-shaped. 

working Rigging armature animation on after effect but Shape key animation is not.please resolve this problem 

I'm trying to use Frame.io in the panel in AE, but end up going around in circles. When I click to log in with my adobe ID, it seem like I can log in, but then I get a message saying something about "unsupported account" and there's a button to click to go to a "v4 comments panel." I click that button and nothing happens. WTF? It does seem that I'm logged in though, I can click to see my account info and can start to create a new project, but when I try to confirm the new project, the dialog box just doesn't close and no project is created. Am I doing something wrong, or is this frame.io panel just broken?

Hello! I have a problem with my after effects. When I render mp4 it’s fine video, I mean no problem. When I try preview footage mp4 format image is distortion and black and white. If I put a photo on my composition preview it’s good.My spec laptop HP Pavillion 15DK is:Nvidia card geforce gtx 1650 Intel UHD Graphics 630 16GB RamTwo SSD one with 1tb and second ssd is with 500gbAfter effects is the latest version 2026.2.1I try to clear memory cache, I make settings and nothing. I roll back version and nothing. The problem persistent 

Left aliment moves the text to right side of comp and right aliment moves the text to left side of the com. How to understand this? Video is attached as well.  

I just DL a template from mixkit.co called Letterbox Slideshow. It comes with 10 scenes. I only need text on the first 3 but for some reason i cannot figure out how to remove the BOX that the text sits in. I have removed the text but the box is still there. There is no layer for the box. The box also has 2 rectangle narrow box designs that appear with it. It looks like it is part of each layer’s Media asset. I’m very new to AE and do not know how to dig deeper. It’s a free DL if anyone has some serious free time. I’m baffled. https://mixkit.co/free-after-effects-templates/letterbox-slideshow-592/  I’m trying to edit Scene 5 and here is a ss of the boxes that i need to remove.  

Greetings! I have which I had for some time and AE worked just fine. Then suddenly it began to misbehave - freezing after several minutes of work, just a rotating circle instead of cursor. The comp is not affected, just AE is freezing. So I have to force quit it. Although I am in Moscow, Russia, not everyone here is an evil pirate) so our company pays for a license, so I reinstalled AE via Creative Cloud, removing preferences and settings, to no avail. I cannot figure out what could be a problem, it began yesterday, and not going away( No changes in configuration or setup, no obvious trigger…. No error messages, no warnings...Also, if I need to quit AE before it freeezes, it starts to freeze then, and fun lollipop begins to rotate...

Create Composition can create a new composition in a project. What is meant by other two composition?  

 I'm using AE 25.5 on my new PC, and exporting mogrt won't do anything but give these temporary comps which is basically 640*360 version of the original mogrt. I've tried downgrading all the way to AE 24 and same thing happens, no matter how simple the mogrt would be(like only 1 line of text) I did find out that the mogrts are stuck in Temp>aegraphic>(randomfilename)>aemogrtFiles, but in .aeg and not actual mogrt. It seems like AE manages to make .aeg files, but fail merge it with the temporary comp for the preview and get stuck...How could I fix this?

I did simple Position keyframing to make a star move from the lower left to the upper right. The screenshot with the properties can be seen.  If I add the keyframes to the Position property under Transform: Polystar 1 layer there is no motion path. If I add the keyframes to Position under  the Transform layer then the motion path displays. What is the difference between using the Position property and adding keyframes these two different ways? After doing the Position keyframes to the Transform layer, I am having an issue with the Center Point for the Motion Path not being in the center of my shape so the motion path does not display for it properly as can be seen in the first screenshot. If I use the Pan Behind tool I move the center point to the center of the shape and then the motion path displays properly. Why is it not doing this by default? The shape is still not moving exactly along the motion path as can be seen in the second screenshot, how do I get it to do this? The only thi

Ahen rendering to QuickTime ProRes444, the processing is very slow. This is on a M3 Ultra with 96gb of RAM