After Effects

OK, here goes.Select an image, say a narrow street showing to the end.In Photoshop,select Filter > Vanishing Point.Go through the process of making the Planes required. Export for After Effects .vpe > Open After Effects, import the .vpe you just created.Double click the Composition folder > AAAARGHThis is where it goes pear shaped and is my question, See the attached screenshot.How on earth do I put the Planes into the viewport, is there an easy way to do this, I have tried dragging, fiddling with Parent / Transform settings. It is a nightmare to place the planes in the viewport, and I’ve never managed to make it fit nicely. Can anyone suggest a method?Thanks in advance. 

I tried to change the default output path that gets assigned when I add a composition to the Render Queue, so I edited the File Name and Location Template preset.I had previously set a template named Preview as the default, so I edited it and saved it under the same name:[projectFolder]\preview\[dateYear][dateMonth][dateDay]_[projectName]_[compName].[fileextension]I also made sure the preset was marked as the default.However, when I added a composition to the Render Queue, the automatically assigned output path still used the old value.I ended up digging through the preference files and found that the issue was in "Adobe After Effects 26.2 Prefs-indep-output.txt". When I changed the old template directly in "Output Module Spec Strings Section v28", the problem was finally fixed.That section seems badly broken. It contains a lot of empty entries, and the same template appears multiple times in different slots. In this case, the template I saved as Preview was defined six times.Here is t

Hello! I am having trouble turning a path I created and added to a shape layer into a line. I created the path in a shape layer and then pasted that path into the position of a dot i was hoping to follow the path. That worked and i made some edits to the path in the dot path. I am now trying to use the path from the dot to be used in its own layer as a a line following the dot. When I have copied the position keyframes from the dot and pasted into a new shape layer, the line does not show when I add a stroke or generate one.  I haven’t seen any other questions in these forums with a similar problem. More than happy to send screenshots if it helps!

# Adobe Community Forum Bug Report (Form Format)## Title:“Create Multiple Compositions” produces comps that render completely black — silent failure, no error-----## Issue:Compositions created by dragging multiple MOV files onto the New Composition icon in the Project panel (“Create Multiple Compositions”) render as completely black output. Preview plays back normally. The render completes with a success status and no error message, making this a silent failure.## Steps to reproduce:1. Import multiple MOV files into the Project panel1. Select the MOV files and drag them onto the “New Composition” icon (film strip icon at the bottom of the Project panel)1. AE creates one composition per MOV via “Create Multiple Compositions”1. RAM Preview any of the created comps — video plays normally1. Add the comp to the Render Queue1. Render using any format (ProRes 4444, PNG sequence, etc.)1. Check the output — completely black## Expected result:Rendered output matches the preview with visible vide

I cannot go more than about 10 minutes without half of my dynamic link clips unlinking. The strange things is all of my dynamic links go to the same AE file. This is absolutely madding and just another thing slowing down my workflow.  Premiere 26.0.2, MacBook pro m3 max sequoia 15.7.5

Can anyone help me how to fixed this. While importing Illustrator file in After Effects all my graphic layers has a white shape or block aroung the graphic. The following image shows the original file and the second image shows the screenshot after importing into After Effects.Img 1Img 2The Img1 is the final image and the Img 2 is the screenshot after importing in After Effect.

I recently upgraded to 24 and there are some bugs, but most go away by closing and reopening.  One just popped up that despite closing and opening and restarting, it won't go away.   The keyboard shortcut for split layer (Shift+cmd+D) doesn't work.  I went into keyboard shortcuts and it said that was the shortcut.  When I got rid of it and tried to reassign it to that, it turns out that it AE won't even accept that as a keyboard shortcut.  Can anyone think of a solve for this, short of uninstalling and reinstalling AE?   Title edited by Mod.

I’m having an issue with Motion Tools Pro v1.4.9. When I try to log in through the panel, I get the error: “Invalid server response: Missing token”. I’m using After Effects 2026 on a fresh Windows installation, so there should be no conflict with old cache or previous versions. Because of this error, I’m unable to access the plugin.

Uppercase * is not uppercase when used in linked text fields or essiential graphics. Bonus wish - let me disable caps lock, im sick of the diable refresh.Other then that i Love AE ;)

Imported my illustrator file in AE and all the vectors have this white block behind them. I did not convert them into shapes in AE neither did I use clipping masks in AI. Previous projects did not have this issue After Effects Version 25.5.0 (Build 4)My Hardware:RTX 4060, 32gig RAM

Hello all,This is a very trivial problem, but… how can I adjust the opacity of a 3D (native cube) mesh?I am using the advanced render engine, and the opacity control does nothing: either is fully opaque or is fully transparent.Thanks

Excuse moi… What the hell is that?! It’s the first time in 15 years in After Effects I’ve had this: Absolutely nothing special here. A fresh project with one video precomped, tracked, camera and text added. That is all. I cannot use Advanced 3D today because it messes up my font. Tried resetting AE preferences with Ctrl+Shift+Alt on load.  Tried resetting font preferences, choose other fonts. Tried changing Advanced 3D preferences.AE 26.0.0, 14700K, 4080, 64 Gb of ram

Hello, I’ve been working on developing a plugin using the AE SDK (essentially an AE-style plugin for PR). However, I’ve been unable to successfully compile Chinese effects names.Here is the command I’m using:cl /D "PRWIN_ENV" /I "$(AE_SDK_BASE_PATH)\Examples\Headers" /I "$(AE_SDK_BASE_PATH)\Examples\Resources" /EP "..\%(Filename).r" > "$(IntDir)%(Filename).rr""$(AE_SDK_BASE_PATH)\Examples\Resources\PiPLTool" "$(IntDir)%(Filename).rr" "..\%(Filename).rcp""-c"Even after adding the -c option, it still fails. I suspect this tool might not support it, because I know that Cnvtpipl.exe does support Chinese attribute names.

Opening someone else’s project I get “Could not create Essential Graphic parameter because it refers to a non-existent layer.”→ How does one find out why Essential Graphics failed, what the layer(s) might have been?Similar to when expressions break .. you can click the magnifying glass in the orange alert bar to go directly to the broken expression, or type “missing” in the search field to solo footage files that the After Effects project cannot locate.Thanks,Marc Chep

I need to reset an anchor point to the center of a shape. I can use the Pan Behind tool to drag the anchor point back, though I do not know how to get it right back in the center. Searching Google told me to hold down Command while dragging and it should snap to the center, though that is not working for me. What do I do to get the anchor point right back in the center?Thanks

I started encountering a bug yesterday where my after will not allow me to click on any effects or presets in the effects and presets window. I am still able to add effects by right clicking my footage and choosing effect.You can see in the screenshot that the create new animation preset button at the button is not appearing.The only way I am able to fix this is to reset after effects multiple times. I dont even know where to being troubleshooting or what information to provide.

 AE crashes during render after a few minutes. My comp is Intel TM i9-14900 3.2GHz, 96 GB RAM, £TB of storage available, 64-bit op system and processor

I am troubleshooting a MacBook with AE 2026 (completely updated) using significant energy over a 12-hour period, causing slow-downs and battery drain. (Activity Monitor → Energy → 12 hr Power). On this machine, it’s hovering right around 15%; while on my own MacBook, it sits at about 7%. The laptop is also very hot, with fans turning on intermittently. I have tried clearing all caches, reinstalling AE, updating it, and resetting the Mac’s SMC. It’s not actively using energy, but the 12 hr Power does not budge. What could this be? Laptop is a 16-inch 2019 MacBook Pro. Specs below, if it matters. Graphics:2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB Memory:32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 macOS: Tahoe 26.4.1

I have been editing this comp for a couple of days and when I went to edit opacity the scale from 0-100 was gone and so was the “Add: ▶” to add an effect. I am super confused and don’t recall doing anything to remove this, see pics (this was an existing comp that I no longer know how to adjust in terms of the amount. However, after hours I realized that I could use the Properties tab on the left side panel, but it is just inconvenient and hope to have it back. Anyone know how? I have to have this project done soon so any tips are appreciated!