After Effects

Hi guys. I'm developing an OpenGL-based AE plugin on a Windows and I've encountered some issues with window ordering in AE. For example, when my plugin opens a window using GLFW and I bring my window to the front above the AE window, if I switch to another application's window (such as a browser) and then switch back to AE, the AE window always comes to the front above my window. Is there any way to resolve this issue so that my window and the AE window maintain the correct order?

Hello everyone, since a year or more i deal with latency when running both AE and Premiere Pro at the same time as if Adobe was not allowing the RAM selected for adobe suite to apply to both program. I just realised i was right as i was displaying the detail of the memory use in AE. Basicly when only AE is oppened, the max autorized memory for AE is 27Go wich is right (in the 5th colomn of the picture down here), but when i open Premiere Pro it split this amount in 2, so both adobe program have a max memory of 13Go.. Any idea why there is this max split in 2 ? Max should stay 27Go as i could need like 20Go in AE and only 7 in Premiere... in the 6th colomn you can see AE is using 14Go so already blocked and lagging when Premiere is only using 5Go)Before a year ago i could run both program without lagIf i am wrong what solution do i have to work with Premiere and AE at the same time ? I really need this back and forth between both as i work on editing and FX at the same timeThank yo

O problema ocorre ao tentar importar um arquivo do Cinema4D e ao tentar criar um pelo After Effects, o complemento do Cinema4D ja está instalado no After Effects, mas eu não consigo Instalar o App da Maxon. 

On the AfterEffects timeline, there is a search box. I want to search on fill-color, how should I search? There are many shape layers in the composition, and searching for fill will show the stroke fill as well. Are there more advanced ways to search?

I am trying to export a very long and narrow resolution (24,720x96) composition for work. I read that exporting this as lossless .mov from after effects and then importing this .mov into Media Encoder would allow me to export it as H.264 with the dimensions I need.I was able to export as an .mov with the right size but when I pull this file into Encoder it is reducing the size down to 16,384x64. Anyone have any tips by chance to help point me in the right direction to figure this out?

My Logging file for my after effects problem that whenever I double click into a layer, it freezes my preview, more info in my other posts.   Title edited by Mod.

  Hello, I hope I can clearly explain the problem I encountered. I have a video where there is a multi-story building in the center, a little to the side. Accordingly, the side of the house is at an angle (as in the photo). And I have a 3D model of this house. The point is that I want to replace the house in the video with a 3D model (I use Element 3d). But as a result, the side of the 3D model house is at the same level as the front (as in the photo). I would be very grateful for your help on how to make the 3D model look more like original.I experimented with axes, camera positions, dimensions, but nothing came of it.   

Hi,I am trying to get as much information as possible about the expression .replace() . I looked the Ae expression documentation, forums, asked Adobe assitants, but never found official and complete informations about this expression. So If you have a link or informations yourself, feel free to let us all know in the comment, I'll actualise this post.Note that I'm not a pro and English is not my first language, so if there are errors, tell me what to change. Here are the informations I have already :// g : search (g)lobally for the string // i : search while been case (i)nsensitive var a1 = [numerical or alphabetical value]; var a2 = [second numerical or alphabetical value]; ... var b = [numerical or alphabetical value inside ""]; text.sourceText.replace(/a1|a2/gi, b) exemples :text.sourceText.replace(/e/gi, 3) // before : HELLO everyone // after : H3LLO 3v3ryon3 ______________ text.sourceText.replace(/e/, 3) // before : HELLO everyone // after : HELLO 3veryone _______

This glitch keeps popping up when i try loading videos inside of the project, In both After effects and Premiere pro. When exporting most of the bars dissapear, but they do appear in the video itself for a second. The screenshot is taken on a project made in After effects 24.05.0, Windows

Hey! Can't find anything about this online. Just the other way around.So, how do I import my After Effect-animation to Xd? And what format is best for that?  Thanks

I wonder if I could pick some expert brains here, as I am coming up blank on searches and youtube videos. Its about Expressions within After EffectsThe scenario.I am trying to automate some penalty graphics – so there could be 3 styles – Not taken, Missed or Scored, and I have 3 graphics for each option.I want to use Checkboxes (as cant find another way of comparing text fields). Checkbox will be ‘HomeFirst’ (so the pc knows where to put individual penalties, and then about 30 ‘Pen Scored’ checkbox, each representing a Penalty Kick (the HomeFirst checkbox will allow us to decide if Pens 1,3,5 etc are for the home team or away team).So I thought I could use an expression as follows(for Pen 1 graphic on home side)If HomeFirst = 1 AND Pen1 = 1 then Opacity 100% on HomePen1Score GraphicIf HomeFirst = 1 AND Pen1 = 0 then Opacity 100% on HomePen1Miss GraphicThat would mean if HomeFirst was 0, then Pen1 would be blank (ie not yet taken)If HomeFirst = 0 AND Pen1 = 1 then Opacity 100% on AwayPe

I've been playing around a lot with rotobrush 3 these days and have been very impressed with how easy it is to cut someone out, even if the footage was not shot with that in mind.   I've put together this tutorial to show off its ability to cut soldiers out from a jungle scene and then use the Colorama effect to fake thermal vision:

Hi, Each time I convert an Ai file into shape layer it changed it name with  an extra word 'Outlines' with it. I dnt want it. manullay removing it from many layers  is so waste of time. How can I get rid of it. Thank you      

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After a short searching, i couldnt find any gloss contour effect or layer style in AE So is thier any alternatives for that ?A couple of effects or external plugin etc... ?I dont know why a beautiful feature like this isn't included in the AE

Core i5 8th16 GB ram256 nvme 1TB HDD2 GB graphics card Quadro k2000 Are these specifications enough to run After Effects?

Using after effects used to be incredibely easy. I would use very complicated comps and 3D room building and plugins constantly, 3D texts etc. I have done way more complicated projects and it's worked perfectly fine. But recently all I'm trying to do is import previously rendered mov files into the timeline and it won't even play. Disk cache is empty. My performance settings are at where they should be (or at least they've never changed from what worked well for me before). I got irritated and thought maybe it's the project file itself. So I rendered everything I had so far, created a whole new project and imported the rendered footage. And it still can't play, pre-rendering is not working (glitches and breaks). I get RAM errors when there's nothing wrong with my RAM. Pressing play doesn't work sometimes. Sometimes the audio breaks and doesn't play. I have to turn the entire PC off and restart for the audio to work again. And it'll stop responding and force close when I try and mo

I have some 3d extruded characters (numbers) that I want to float into the scene from a distance from different orientations coming to rest in front of the camera. The issue I'm having is that when I ease the Z axis so they come to a gentle stop, the characters start to curve out of the frame. I can't wrap my brain around how to maintain linear motion on the z axis, but change the speed of the character. I've included the video for reference. I need the 2 to come to a stop simultaneously with the 1 without swinging wide. Note - I don't know how I managed to get the 1 to do this, and when I copy it and try to change anything it no longer works. What am I not doing here!? Link to video: https://imgur.com/6OjIAHC

Hello, all! I am experimenting with a new workflow and have come across an issue. I am a wedding videographer who works with lots of clips and do not want warp stabilizer and Neat Video bogging down my projects. Instead of transcoding all of my files in Media Encoder and then applying these effects in my Premiere project and then having to toggle effects off to allow smooth playback, I have decided to apply these effects directly to my log footage in After Effects and then use a script to render all layers seperately. This way I get my most hardware intensive effects out of the way when transcoding. So I imported all of my files and then opted to open each clip as a seperate composition; If I didn't do this I would have to either toggle visibility on each clip as I make my way down the layers, or add one layer to the timeline at a time as I go. With each layer as a composition I can simply click the next project as I go. I then complied all of the video files and newly created comps in

While editing I pressed ctrl + Z and not sure if I pressed another shortcut but shortly after I lost all the media in this window. When I play it still shows the video playing but I am unable to see it in the window highlighted. I restarted my AA, and reset workspace view... nothing worked. Any help? 

I'm trying to figure out why this blue line appeared around my composition window in After Effects. And I haven't been able to figure out the source. Has anyone else run into this issue?  

Hi Guys,I've written a script for myself to output a folder of presets into a comp, staggered at the current CTI point. SO for example I get a comp with 3s of each preset. Then I can render it out for a preview type file. Amongst other uses. It works great apart form one problem.If i have a mix of presets that use either a text layer or shape layer or solid, i cannot work out a way for the script to know which is which whilst creating the layer for the preset. Currently I am grouping the presets that I know are shape layers, solids/adjjustments, etc and text layers. But I donlt think this is ideal.Is there a way we can parse the ffx to find what layer type it was built to use. Or can you apply the preset in some way that that in applying the layer type is determined, just as if you did so in the GUI.Does anyone know how to solve this, I'm interested to hear a solution if possible.

Hi, Made a project with around 100 objects moving, with (shadow, wiggle, lightkey green screen clips moving with objects) effects - it's battle maps. Now naturally, there is no way for me to preview further updates that I'm making. Preview is near dead. And I am new to After Effect. My PC system:Ryzen 3950X4070Ti 64GB RAM (albeit I plugged in a bit slower 32G RAM which de-clocked the whole RAM setup)Nvme SSDs So my question is, having burdened the project as much with everything, how am I supposed to now tweak things and not wait for 10 hours for the video to export, to see what I've done? Turning off effects one by one is an option I imagine, but having so many objects, it's a bit time consuming. Is there a better way? Particularily, because now I have to add the heaviest effect, a number counter of army numbers that dynamically move with the armies. There is just no chance I can add and preview that on top of having all the other effects running. Thank y