After Effects

Hi,Whenever i expand my after effects to full screen, it turns black..When i minimize the window/make it smaller, what im working on appears.anyone know how to fix this?  thank you!

New to after effects, ive animated a text to bounce around the screen. For some reason I'm not seeing the motion path though, I have it turned on in the display settings to "show all key frames". Any help with how to mess with the motion path? When I've used AE in the path I was able to just see the path and modify it, now not so much. Is that to do with the version of AE that I'm using? Im on 24.5 Any help would be great. Thanks

Cuando uso el script Create nulls from paths me sale el trazo desplazado y no puedo hacer que coincida con la animación. 

does anyone know how to do this text? not sure if its the font or 3D 

Hi,I am doing a tutorial in AE and the person giving the lesson says to turn off the trim path before copying and pasting a copy into the other comp. His  timeline has 4 extra icons than mine. Therefore his Interface looks different than mine.He did this in AE 6 and I am in 2017 AE CC.I have done a screen cap to show the 4 extra icons, he has, that I cannot find. He gives no alternate way to turn off the trim path. Thank you.

 Hey, I am brand new to after effects and am trying to recreate this tutorial. In the video below the teacher moves the car to different positions, creating points of the path and the path curves to follow the points. Meanwhile when I follow the same steps, my path is a straight line and makes corners and doesn't curve. Cheers for any help.

Hello, when I start up after effects with a template for something I found online, I get this error.After Effects warning: This project contains references to missing effects. Please install the following effects to restore these references.6 missing effects.1) "Looks"2) "RSMB"3) "S_Blur"4) "S_Discort"5) "S_Shake"6) "Shine"I would love some help as to how I would go about installing these. Thank you for your help.

Hi, I am studying time expression.  as time expression  is different for   'Array values' so I need to understand it strongly. I totally understand scale. but position is giving me trouble. I experimented 'position' with   time alone, then with plus, minus , multipy and divide. I understand all besides time with divide. I took a 20 sec long comp, 24fps, so total 480 frame. so when I apply  multiply on X position like  [position[0] * time, position[1] ] , then box moves 22.5 pixel on each frame from 0 pixel. I understand this increment. I get why box  moves on X axis  22.5 pixel on each frame. but  when I wrote [position [0] / time, position[1]];then  x position shows  12960.0  and box gets kicked outta comp window!! 😮 😮but why? what is after effect doing when am writting  [position [0] / time, position[1]] , what's going on here?I dnt understand what makes AE produce

Bonjour, je possède After Effects 24.5.0. Lorsque je souhaite effacer un élément sur une vidéo (3 secondes) je reçois deux messages d'erreur :- After Effects (avertissement) : Impossible de créer le fichier de remplissagepuis,- After Effects (avertissement) : Erreur de remplissage basé sur le contenu : échec de l'initialisation. J'ai bien masqué mon élément avec un masque en mode soustraction.J'ai environ 200 Go de libre sur mon disque dur. La mémoire cache est vidée. Merci de votre aide ! 

I need to create the effect in this video on a static image of watercolor ombre stripes. I can't figure it out as I am a beginner with After Effects. Can someone tell me how? Or should I hire someone to do it? Thank you!!

so i need the smoke loop to match up in after effects - im using fractal noise and rising smoke i have used ctrl shift d to split a layer but want same frames to match, can i flip the layer ... im sure i done this befoe but jsut cant remember how... any ideas please 

Hello everyone, My name is Maxence. I'm writing to you because I have a question about an effect I saw in a video. After watching a tweet from Euro 2024 that included a video with a very nice effect, I'm wondering how to create it myself using the software After Effects. I am attaching the link to the tweet so you can see the effect in question. The effect starts at 4 seconds and ends at 7 seconds in the video. I would like to know if this effect has a name and how to reproduce it.For those who do not wish to access the tweet, I have isolated the sequence of the effect. Link of the tweet -> https://twitter.com/EURO2024/status/1814603112159846637 Thank you in advance for your help. I look forward to your responses. Best regards,Maxence

Hi, I am trying to do same animation from a gif using if else expression. I cant figure out what am doing wrong. I need guidance. :'( 

Im tryring to make a 3d logo from .ai file. Every path is on different layer on illustrator. Created shapes from vector layer in after effects, but once I make the layer 3d the C becomes wireframe, all other letters are fine. Using cinema 4D renderer. Any Ideas 

Hi Everybody, I set texture disc to the particle type from particle square because I wanted to rotate the particles, but now they're super tiny. The particle 'star' for sparkles I'm sourcing is like 1800x1800 and it shows up super tiny. How do I scale these particles? I don't see a setting to do this in the drop down.  

Brand new to animating and just getting started with After Effects. I had been using Adobe Fresco because it was so easy for me with no experience to make decent animation with. However, I would like the animations to look more pro. https://youtu.be/Ye3hNF7bRjI?si=gyoAPOjoO_13ELK3 This channel has a certain style where there is this dreamy look like all of his animations are in late afternoon summer sun or dusk. I saw one of his early animations and I believe this glowy atmospheric effect is applied towards the end of the project (after it has already been colored and animated). How is this done? What is this effect even called (so I can look up tutorials)? Is there  such thing as a plugin that could be used to apply this effect? Any help to get pointed in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!  

Hi, I'm a beginner After Effects editor who just switched over from Davinci Resolve. I have encountered this problem recently where for some reason the current time indicator (the red line) stops a few seconds after the video starts playing and then continues to play in a loop from the start. It plays for about 2 seconds before looping again.  I am not sure how to fix this problem as I have tried to purge all memory and disk cache and I have also played around with the preview settings in the preview panel. An example is attached.

Example This has been happening ever since like last week or 2 weeks. Now it’s happening again and idk why it’s like that. It either does this (video link), when I export it and watch the edit. It like glitches like that and/or reverse for a few seconds and then goes back to normal. I always clean my memory & cache, turn off my hardware thingy, etc. It still glitch.

Hi all, I typically don't post here for help and consider myself pretty capable of solving these issues on my own but this one has me stumped. At any given moment in a session After Effects will crash, start up, placing keyframes, applying effects, and even being idle. The most recent crash has yielded this error message:  I've dealt with multi crashes in the past, but this one is unique because after effects will consistantly give me the option to save my project prior to closing. I don't have any of the crash dumps but I'm sure I could force one if needed.My computer specs are:Windows 11GPU: RTX 4090CPU: Intel i(-14900KRAM: 64GBsMotherboard: PRIME Z790-P WIFI D4Thanks in advance for your help.

In classic form, Adobe adds terrific new features to After Effects with no documentation, no tutorials, nothing intuitive in the feature, but leaving its long-time devoted users frustrated and head shaking. I want to make some Bar Graphs and line graphs, but right now it's faster for me to build everything from scratch. PLEASE post up a quick tutorial or something to get us started. Thanks if you actually read this Adobe.  

...And have it look EXACTLY the same?OK so now that i finally figured out how to Export HDR files from After Effects I need to know how to make it match and actually look the same. I have done exhaustive testing and every color space and setting i try can't replicate the same video.The goal here is be able to roundtrip video out of premiere and into after effects and back into premiere and have it look the same. Does anyone in the community or at Adobe know how to accomplish this? First basic test is this: In Premiere create a 4K UHD sequence with 2100 HLG color space.Create Bars and Tone 2100 HLG color spaceExport as Prores 4444 2100 HLGI can import that file back into premiere and it has identical output levels as the source bars.So now Import that file into after effects and pick the proper HLG color space that matches Premiere's 2100 HLG (I dont know, i try them all and none work?, which one is it supposed to be?)Of course in a normal project you would modify the vid

Apologies for this noob question.Comp 1, I created a beam pattern from a solid layer starting from one end and finishing to another. After which I created a circle as the "ripple" effect from the beam. Comp 2, I imported Comp 1, duplicated it into two instances and then offset with a rotation. However, the solid layer of the comps are showing up as a background. Such that it is covering the other Comps from showing through. How do I make the solid layers transparent so only these beams and circles from each comp show up and not be covered by the solid layer underneath? TIA.

In my 2018 version of After Effects I am missing a number of tools in the Comp window including the 3D layer switch. Can anyone tell me how to turn it on.This is how mine looksThis is what I'm missingCan anyone helpCheers Flash

Hi all!  I have this expression entered for a simple number counter and it is working for any numbers from 0-199 but once it gets to 200 it changes to 20. From 200 to the number I want (332) it periodically changes the numbers to be two digits instead of three.  Here is the expression I have: effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value.toFixed(0) It will jump from this: To this:Then back to this: Is there any way for it to count normally or is this a bug from the new AE update?