After Effects

 In this tutorial, I’m breaking down how to recreate the classic vortex with any shape or logo with two different methods:*Method 1 - Maxon C4D Lite (Included with AE) I show how to take an image and convert it to a spline using the Vectorizer tool, then extrude this into a tunnel before applying a texture. Method 2: VideoCopilot Element 3D If you have a copy of this fantastic 3D plugin, you can use After Effects' own auto-trace to get your shape then extrude it and add textures in Element.  I think it’s highly likely that shortly we’ll be able to substance textures of extruded shapes directly in After Effects.  You can already do this using the cube and cylinder shapes.  I expect I’ll publish an updated version should that feature get released.  

 My Ae can only open up to here. Then this pops up every time I open it again. While this is what happened with Pr. 

Hi team — Starting a project per usual. Fine for the first hour or so. At a certain point the composition window freezes. Playing and scrubbing does nothing. I then quit, which freezes the app, making me Force Quit. This has been an issue in all versions of 26. Currently still causing issues on 26.2. I have 25.6.5 which continues to work well. Have cleared caches, checked disk settings, reset preferences. Any others experiencing this issue? This version isn’t usable. **Apple M2 Max96 GBMac OS Tahoe Version 26.3.1 (a) (25D771280a)

I open AE, drop a video file and a still picture into Project, drag the video to the Layer window, and it crashes. This keeps happening.

Holding Ctrl with the Anchor Point Tool snapping is a fantastic recent QOL improvement.However it isn’t fully finished.Hopefully some resource is still allocated to fixing stuff like this, where it is impossible to snap to the midpoint unless zooming in to extreme levels. see attached little game of avoid the magentic corner points! Assuming Windows display scaling is still causing problems

Sometimes when trying to select keyframes by dragging around them, the entire layer is selected and moves.This has been in the interface for a LONG time now and REALLY seems like a good thing to fix.From a QOL point of view, users need to be able to drag select keyframes.No User ever asked for a 20 pisels tolerance around a layer to selct the whole layer.I don’t know wher it originally came from but I think it has been in for over 20 years now.Attached intende behaviour, as couldn’t replicate problem

when I try to launch After Effects I get an error saying it can't continue due the the Common Extensibility Platform not loading. Ive looked up and tried all possible solutions and still hasn't worked.

I want to be able to put an image on the stage and right when I do it I would want it to fit to my stage automatically without me having to touch it. if anyone would be able to answer it that would be awesome.

Is it possible to make all keyframes default color of my choice?  

Please help me how to link Blender 3D animation project into After Effects for compositing and element addition (like Autodesk Maya LiveLink for After Effects)

What is the reason calling it Pan Behind Tool?  

After updating to After Effects 26.2, I noticed that some third-party plug-ins are showing garbled text in their UI controls.In my case, I can clearly reproduce this with plug-ins that include Chinese text, and I suspect it may also affect other non-English or non-Latin languages as well.What made me pay attention to this is the 26.2 release note saying:“Effect names are now correctly encoded for Unicode characters when accessed by third-party plug-ins.”So I’m wondering if this may be related.One detail that seems important: if I open project files that already use these third-party effects in Safe Mode (without loading third-party plug-ins), the Chinese parameter names display correctly. But in normal mode, some of those same labels appear garbled.I’m not the plug-in developer, just an end user reporting what I observed in testing, so I can’t tell whether this is an AE issue, a plug-in compatibility issue, or an interaction between both. But the behavior seems to have changed after up

In After Effects 25.3 on macOS, using mouse scroll or Option + mouse scroll no longer zooms in the composition panel. Instead, it pans the view, regardless of modifier key. This function worked fine in version 25.2. Tested on multiple Macs with clean installs and no tablet drivers.Please restore the ability to zoom with scroll in a future update.

If you want to change the position of the anchor point you have to use the anchor pt tool [Y]. But changing the [X, Y] coordinates of the anchor pt in the timeline will not change the position of the anchor point in the graphic area. So that what is purpose of anchor pt coordinates in the timeline ? Video also attached.  

The Perspective Offset checkbox in Turbulent Noise does not currently work. No parallax. It does wok as it should in Fractal Noise.

Intermittently, pressing the playback shortcut (Spacebar or Numpad Enter) fails to initiate a preview. On the first press, the UI appears to "stutter" but nothing happens. On the second press, the Current Time Indicator (CTI) moves back exactly one frame and playback still does not begin

Hola.Tengo el AEjuice Pack manager y lo utilizo muy frecuentemente. Cada vez que visualizo los efectos, me toca arrastrar la ventana del pack hacia un lado para poder ver la pantalla del after effects. Me parece que debería tener un atajo de minimizar. Este atajo se lo debe poner AEjuice o After effects??

Qualcuno mi aiuterebbe a settare bene After effect 2026 su un MacBook Pro M5 Maxgrazie mille

I’m just getting started with After Effects and so far I have been working with short clips and graphic files stored directly on my internal SSD. I do not plan to work on long projects, most of what I will do will be under 1 minute. The videos are imported at either 1080 or 4k. 1.) Based on what I described, and assuming there are no space limitations, is there any reason to consider working off of an external drive containing the media, or should the internal SSD be sufficient?2.) I might also be working on different computers at work, some with internal hard drives. Are hard drives fast enough to work from? Some drives might only be 5400rpm.Thank you

I add 12 repeater to a shape layer. Position works but rotation doesn’t work. How to fix it?Video is attached as well.     

After update to AE 26.2. i am facing sometimes bug that drag and move keyframes with mouse+shift does not snap even to frames nor other elements. It slide like on ice… pixel after pixel

Mi computador trabaja con Mac Os Catalina, pero adobe quito la opción de instalar versiones anteriores desde Creative Cloud directamente. ¿Alguien sabe donde puedo descargar las versiones anteriores de la suite?