After Effects

In After Effects 2025 and Beta, under certain circumstances, when adding an effect to a layer from an external composition using ExtendScript, the effect is duplicated, and the effects panel is activated even though the layer’s composition is not active. code used in the video:function comp(name) { for (var i = 1; i <= app.project.numItems; i++) { if (app.project.item(i) instanceof CompItem && app.project.item(i).name == name) { return app.project.item(i); } } return null; } function addShape(){ var shapeLayer = comp("Comp 2").layers.addShape(); shapeLayer.name = "Shape Layer"; var shapeGroup = shapeLayer.property("ADBE Root Vectors Group").addProperty("ADBE Vector Group"); } function addEffect(){ //comp("Comp 2").openInViewer(); comp("Comp 2").layer(1).Effects.addProperty("ADBE Point Control").name = "Position"; } addShape(); //addEffect(); BONUS:It may not be a bug, but it can be confusing.

I'm trying to export a project thats due today for my class but it won't show up no matter what I do. I've attached a video showing what I mean.  

Can you do anything right for once please?

1. AE 24.6.2 ;2. Win 11 Pro 64x 23H2, Intel i7 11thGen, GF RTX 3070 ;3. I have a 3D comp with two types of animation in it - for the layer transforms and for the effects. Here, I attach a AEP file made of solids alone.In every "Side_*" comp, there is expression-animated Fill effect so that every frame is distinct (tried key-anim, all the same). And, Sides are joined in 'Block' comp, where all those are parented to a key-animated rotating null.Now, I nest several 3D copies of this comp with collapsed transformations on top of eachother. 4. I expect to have a 3D scene where each instance is autonomous. Meanwhile, the result is that the very top layer influences the underlying copies, e.g. changing its time value (animated timeRemap, expression, or simply shifting the layer over time), makes all the underlying copies within the 3D container use the time from the top one - this true for the Effects animation, meanwhile, the transform animation is unaffected. See yourself by shift

Hi there,I have a 3D Camera Tracked scene that is very good, but not perfect.  I did advanced analysis and created a solid to place on the floor (which I added a grid to for reference).  It's very close (the grid looks perfect), but the text that I add and move up "off" of the ground has a very, very subtle jitter.  If it just drifted, that would be ok, but the jitter bothers me. Is it possible to simply use something like a keyframe smoother to just remove those micro changes and positioning?Thanks,-Stephen

My program crashed and when I reopened it, most of the layers were gone from the timeline and the ones left behind had renumbered themselves (1-14 - there used to be around 30 layers).When I scrub over the timeline, or play a preview, all the missing layers are still playing as though they are there. I just can't access or edit them.The missing layers weren't the top or bottom few, they seem to be deleted randomlyI don't have any plugins installed.  I've googled this problem but none of the solutions seem to apply to my problem.  Any help or advice would be AMAZING (please!)

Hi all, I have just downloaded After Effects as my school provides it.    I have been experiencing a constant issue of the app closing down after a minute or even 30 seconds and closing my project. My screen shows this white image and then shuts AE down straight after. I have a  MacBook10,1 23.8 MB of storage left & No hard drive,  It's really annoying lol so somebody please help a girl out, I just wanna do my school work & edit cool tiktoks.                Thanks!   Title edited by Mod.

Hi everyone,I'm importing my Illustrator files into After Effects and converting my layers to shapes to animate them. However, every time I do this, I get an unwanted outline around the layers, which seems to correspond to the Illustrator artboard. I’ve already tried importing them as "Composition - Retain Layer Sizes" to avoid this, but the outline still shows up after conversion.In the "Contents" section of each converted layer in After Effects, there's no visible layer that represents this artboard border, so I'm not sure where it's coming from.Any ideas on how to fix this and get clean vector shapes without the artboard outline?Thanks in advance!

Tenia la version AE 23 y me funcionaban estos plugins, cuando actualice a AE25 se desistalo la 23 y ya no puedo usar estos plugins, he estado mirando de descargar la version 23 y no se donde encontrarla. En la foto veran lo que me dice

 Hello everyone, i have a brand new MSI Cyborg geared with a fresh I7 Ultra 155h supported by 32 RAM gb, 2tb ssd and a Nvidia RTX 4060 8gb. Unfortunately i can't enjoy After Effects because it runs out of memory despite i have use the best GPU settings, and in 15 years it's the first time i face this kind of error. How can i fix it? Please help (error messages attached)   

I'm working on this project which need 3D lines rotating on itself. I can work on them without any problem. However, whenever I try to export them as a PNG sequence (with alpha) so I can use them without taking that much resources, AE gets into a memory leak problem which ends up in a Force quit. The COMP is using the AE renderer, not the classic or the Cinema 4D ones, as I need the lines to have volume/geometry The weird part as you can see from the screen shot too is. that although the system is saying AE is using 149GB of RAM,  AE is saying it's only 10% of the actual capacity (64GB). If the comp (1920x1080) is rendered in chunks of 100 frames per render, it goes through. Anything longer of a render (the actual comp is 2550 frames) goes into the memory leak problem.I'm running the Adobe suite in an Apple studio M2 Ultra 64GB RAM, with Sonoma 14.6.1. One external SSD 1030mb/s  for Cache, and another two (same specs) for reading/writing. They are connected via USB-

Hello AE friends. I have a question - I made a mask animation inside a composition. BUT, when I scale down the composition, my animation appears trimmed. WHY? Is there any way to fix it? Thanks

Hello dear after effects community, I've been working on a project in which I want the speed of my video to increase when the beat of the audio hits with sound keys, but I don't know how, can someone please help me with it? Thank you so much!

When I try to export the project as a MOGRT file it showing this error, anybody has this experience? and do you have any solution? following render filter type renderers are only supported via dynamic link :paint 

Hello,is there an easy way to export Premiere Pro Timeline markers to Ae?Premiere can export Markers to .CSV, .TXT & .HTML, the .TXT is not working, sp that leaves us with the .CSV & .HTML, but how can i use this information to convert them to markers in AE?

Your System Has Run Out of Application Memory- Still happening.  AE 24.4.1M2 96GBSonoma 14.5

I am making an after effects extension and want to create a button that will on click, allow user to save their project and then close and reopen after effects.

I have found a bug in command-line aerender in After Effects 2025 (and also the latest Beta), on Mac. OS: MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1.AE version: 25.0.1 (Build 2) If an AEP file has had its rendering set to "Mercury Software Only", rather than GPU Acceleration (Metal), then when I run a command-line render using aerender, it will hang forever, before it starts rendering out frames  Normally I would expect a file like this to render in a few seconds. Editing the AEP file and changing it to GPU Acceleration (Metal) and then re-rerunning aerender results in a render. Rendering in After Effects UI works fine. I have checked with Adobe After Effects 2024 and it renders just fine using aerender, this is only an issue in 2025 (and the current Beta). There is no additional info in the logs, the program just hangs.  I could write a script to update the GPU settings before each render but that would be tedious; I also assume other people will be affected by this a

Hi. I've tried to use the easy ease option but when I activate the graph editor it shows me 2 straight lines (red and green) instead of a white curve. What should I do to see the white curve?

Hi there. Apparently, the latest version of After Effects includes shortcuts to a bunch of Maxon stuff that I don't care about, and apparently there's no way to change that. That can't be right, can it? Specifically, I used to be able to press Alt+Ctrl+Space to bring up Video Copilot's FX Console -- now that's hijacked bu Maxon  Studio. I don't care about Maxon Studio, but when I go into modify keyboard shortcuts, it seems I can't remove anything associated with Maxon. Am I missing something?! Thank you!

I have Autofill v2 plugin. When I am trying to use it, I got error:After Effects error: AF Error: Unable to Init TLS OpenGL Context (512)After Effects version: 2024 24.3.0.50OS Version:  Windows 10.0.22631 Actual result: when I am trying to apply AutoFill V2 effect, I got error message: After Effects error: AF Error: Unable to Init TLS OpenGL Context (512). And I can't use this plugin.Expected result: no errors when I apply AutoFill V2 effect to my composition. Logs collected from After Effects: Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Set Layer Param Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Set Layer Param Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Set Path Param Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Nothing Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Set Layer Param Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Set Layer Param Ticks = 8

So, everything is in the flowchart and, I can only see 1 text I added in my layer thingie, but i can't see the whole thing. I need help to fix it so i can see all the layers i made again.  

Hey everyone,I’ve been working on animating some titles and graphics that required masks in After Effects. To get the masks to work properly, I ended up having to pre-compose every element that used a mask. This led to over 20 pre-compositions, which felt a bit excessive.I’m wondering if there’s a more efficient way to handle masks? After Effects isn’t part of my usual workflow, but I’m aiming to create some Lottie files for my website.Here’s what I did: after finishing the animation, I applied the mask to the pre-composed layer. I also tried using an adjustment or shape layer to create the mask, but the results didn’t translate well when I exported to Adobe XD.Maybe this issue is related to Lottie file specifics, but I’m sure there must be a better approach that doesn’t involve so many pre-comps. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!Thanks!

Hey guys I need HELP!!! I have finally learned how to animate cover arts and today I went to do my first official animation and when I changed the duration from the stock 30 seconds now everything in my work space plays back extremely fast, and it also exports extremely fast too. Even tho the duration is set to 2:16 when creating the composition it exports to like 3 seconds. Any advice helps!!