After Effects

I have rectangular footage that I need to take multiple square crops from and to figure out what crops I want to take I am using the shape tool to draw boxes over the footage. I can obviously just create a new composition and try to match the scale/zoom and position but I'm wondering if there is a way to link the shape layers in the Cropping composition to the actual cropped compositions so that if I want to change the placement, it will carry over to the crops. I've attatched some screenshots that show what I mean (with placeholder footage). I've tried using expressions to link the position/scale but I'm finding it really confusing. Anyone have any ideas?

Hello,AE version 24.5 (can't up/downgrade since I've many work-in-progress projects)Machine specsintel core i7 12400 12 cores, 24 threads64 gb ram1tb storage nvmewindows 11 pro Need urgent help, I searched this forum for the same issue and followed the steps for people who successfully fixed it, none worked (including booting the project from the original file location) Here's the project file. P.S I'm utilizing Joysticks and sliders plug in. My other projects that use the same plug-in setup boot up perfectly. It seems to be a problem with how AE handles this file specifically.  

After updating AE from 23.3 to 24.4 we are seeing that CC Ball Action is giving us very different results. This is forcing us to roll back our AE install. While we appreciate the new options in the plugin such as the Coloring options (crisp, medium, smooth) none of these completely match the results from the previous version. Setting the Color option to Crisp gives us something close to what the previous version did, but it's still different.  We've tested this issue on both Intel and AMD based computers, running Nvidia GPU's (2080ti and 3090 respectively) 

So wheni drag keyframes to where i want on the timeline i will clearly let go and then move my mouse but then the keyframes move to where my mouse is.  Only in 2022 does this happen and the only fix i have is to wait 3 seconds after i let  go...im not the only one am i?

Hey everyoneHow does one achieve the white border effect that moves around the edges of the rectangle? Is it trim path? Can someone help me, please?

I started this project in premiere pro. one layer is the effiel tower another is an artist already green screened and sized. i exported each layer seperately both in 1920 x1080. brought them into a after effects first the tower to use the 3d camera on to place the artist in a stationary spot afterwards.  do the steps, pick a position, create a solid and camera, precompose the solid, size the composition to match the 1920 x 1080, bring in the video of the artist, delete the solid. once it artist is now in the overall comp, its way bigger then it should be and if i scale it it becomes blurry 

I have a simple AE composition, blending 2 videos.  One of the videos is fully muted in AE.  I turned the volume off.  Additionally, I put in an audio transform on it to minimum decibels.  However, when I import my composition into Premiere pro, the muted audio is blended/mixed in with the composition If someone knows what I'm doing wrong, please help me, thank you.

I'm using the 24.6.2 version of After Effects and the 24.6.1 version of Premier Pro on a MacBook Air M2 with 16GB RAM and I keep getting this problem whenever I switch to another window and back to the programs. I was using both software perfectly fine until now, but it just started doing this thing where when I switch to any other window and come back it just freezes the timeline completely, and then any action that I do after that just crushes the application completely.Things I tried:1. Turning off GPU acceleration2. Clearing my cache and resetting preferences3. Playing around with the audio hardware4. Installing older versions5. Reinstalling the current versions6. Checking my RAM and GPU performanceNothing solved the problem so far, any help is appreciated!

I made a UI script, which worked great at first, now it works on and off!?  what might cause this?same version of AE, same project, same script.  But all of a sudden it seems to not fully work (and then occsaionlly it does) Any idea?  (tried it on a second machine ,and no luck) It's a script that renames comp names based on user input (plus changes type layers).I used ChatGPT, and it was working great.  Then it was like AE didn't like it anymore (or even earlier versions that I knew were working).  Something in AE seems to be fickle.  I'm going to try to start from scratch again. But is there a way perhaps someone can test it out, or some kind of extra code I could insert to kind've "reset" something in AE that the script is interatcting with when it reads comp names? Thanks,Gary 

Simplesmente está IMPOSSÍVEL utilizar o After Effects. Basta alguns clipes (não mais que uns 10) e alguns efeitos aparentemente "pesados" que o After Effects apresenta 2 erros AO MESMO TEMPO: "out of memory (79K) {esse valor entre parênteses muda conforme a situação}, e "unable to allocate 66, 445mb of memory" (o valor da memória nesse caso também muda). Plug-ins como o Sapphire por exemplo se recusam a funcionar e já apresentam esse erro logo de cara apenas ao adicionar o efeito. O mesmo acontece até mesmo com efeitos nativos do próprio After Effects (um pouco mais raramente, mas acontece), mostrando que com muita pouca coisa a memória ram do meu computador já fica lotada, isso se realmente a mensagem de erro faz juz ao problema que realmente está acontecendo com o software (tenho minhas dúvidas com relação a isso). Tenho um vídeo mostrando minhas tentativas de dar play na preview e acontecendo diversos erros do gênero ao mesmo tempo, impossibilitando a continuação do meu trabalh

I have this expression:// positionslet pX = transform.xPosition;let minX = 0;let maxX = 1920;// colorslet color1 = hexToRgb("E300FF");let color2 = hexToRgb("00FFA5"); linear(value, minX, maxX, color1, color2);I know the 0 and the 1920 doesn't make sense, what I'm trying to do is reference the position of X at 0 and at 1920, so the color value changes while the shape is moving in between the points.I thought of doing a control point at 0 and 1920 and use that as the reference, but it didn't work.So I would like to know if it's possible to reference a shape layer inside another's shape layer expression. Any other solution to this is really welcome!Thanks 😄

I'm sure, that it is a bag, but if not, help me.I'm trying to get sourceText keyValuesMy code works perfectly, untill i move my text layer in timeline.When i do, (when layer's startTime not at the start of comp), the keyValues is offseting!For example, here is the text in keys (the text = frames) "0, 10, 20, 30"If I shift layer by 10 frames forward, the result be "10, 20, 30, 30"If shift 10 frames backward, - "0, 0, 10, 20"How to fix it? Without offseting the layer to get the right value of course.try{ var comp = app.project.activeItem; var sourceTextProp = comp.layer(1).property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Document"); var textContent = ""; if (sourceTextProp.numKeys > 0) { for (var k = 1; k <= sourceTextProp.numKeys; k++) { var textDocument = sourceTextProp.keyValue(k); textContent += textDocument.text + " "; } alert(textContent); } } catch(err) {alert(err.toString + "\n" + err.line)} 

When adding a stroke to a shape, it'll dissapeaer if the shapes paths overlap.I tried offsetting the stroke, but I still cannot get it to function the way I want it to. Expected behaviour would be to have the trokes overlap one another, not vanish. If anyone knows any work arounds, I could really use the help. This is very frustrating. 

I'a trying to save a simple number animatiion with this code: num = ""+ effect("Angle Control")("Angle").value.toFixed(0) + "";function addCommas(x) {return x.toString().replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ",");}addCommas(num)but i cannot save it as an animation preset in adobe after effect, while on the video i just watched th guy was able to... Any idea oabout how to fix the porblem ?  link of vieo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYweBo9lgKM

Hi,  I am reaching out for assistance with an issue I have been experiencing in After Effects 2024. I keep encountering an error message stating “unknown exception” whenever I click on the Effects panel, try to nest a sequence or try to apply any effects.  I've taken the following troubleshooting steps: 1. Reset Preferences: I have reset the preferences during startup.2. Disabled GPU Acceleration: I disabled hardware acceleration in the preferences.3. Cleared Disk Cache: I purged all memory and disk cache.4. Reinstalled After Effects: I uninstalled and reinstalled After Effects, excluding Cinema 4D, as I do not use it.5. Updated Software: I ensured that After Effects and my mac software are both up to date. Despite these attempts, the error persists. I would appreciate any guidance on how to resolve this issue, as it has hindered my workflow significantly today and means I am stuck until this is fixed:(( Thank in advance for any advise and help! &#128

When I try to open an AE 2020 project in 2021, AE doesn't ask to convert the project from a previous version. Further, I get an error message that references a particular source file and ends with "Data File: Unknown." This repeats for all the source clips. I reinstalled 2020 and the project opens as expected. I then uninstalled and reinstalled 2021, attempted to import the projeject into a new project, deleted preferences, etc. No joy. Anyone else having this problem? I need to share this project with several other users and would prefer not to have to tell them to install an older version of AE. Thanks!

This problem has persisted for several months across many projects both old and new. I can create a text layer but the box disappears the moment is created and it will not accept text/ key inputs. The layer is visible in the comp window but there is no way to create new text nor edit older text from older projects.  Also, I can scub though the comp window but as soon as I try to preview anything it will not play a single frame and the green preview bar at the top of the comp window goes haywire - blinking off and on and randomly drawing lines all over the place. 

I have encountered an issue. After clicking on the Draft 3D or Advanced 3D button, a dialog box appears with the following content. The program doesn't allow any actions besides saving and closes. Sometimes, another error occurs. Please advise on what the issue might be and how to fix it. My specifications:Windows 10 Processor: i9900lk Graphics Card: 2080 Super 8GB RAM: 64GB My previous actions to resolve the issue:Uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe After Effects, including the Beta version.Installed the latest drivers for the graphics card, including the Studio version.Modified rendering settings in the project and adjusted values in GPU Information.Please help me!

I use the Bodymoving plugin and often work with Lottie, so I convert all the texts into shapes and sometimes it takes a very long time.PS. I know about the existence of a parameter that does this when rendering in lottie, but in fact it is not implemented in the best way now

Hi! I have created an animation in After Effect of a calendar that is flipping through multiple pages, and have used the "CC Page Turn" effect to achieve this. Right now I have applied the effect to multiple pre-comps in which I have put the text and calendar-background. But now I want to turn this into a mogrt, and from my understanding you can't put a pre-comp into the motion-graphic panel and be able to change the text. You have to work from 1 composition. And I can't use multiple adjustment-layers since they affect everything below it. Is there a way to chose which layers the adjustment layer will affect? I feel like I have tried everything and can't come up with a solution. 

Issue - Rendered proRes files have been logging that they are rendered in the future by one day every month since leap day.Adobe After Effects version number Version 24.3.0Operating system Windows 11Steps to reproduce - I am receiving the issue with both After Effects and Encoder when trying to render any project with Quicktime ProRes codecs.  For instance, render a ProRes 422, the render file date of a render from May 2nd will show its file date in explorer as May 5th, three days in the futureExpected result - Render date and time should show current date and time of renderActual result -  Since leap day, it seems that renders are showing one additional day in the future added per new month since february 29th

Hello to the Adobe Community, I updated my After Effect 23 to AE 24 and since that, i cannot launch it.When it don't crash at the loading window, It start in background task without me being able to open it. No error message or crash log, i tried everything : Restart, Reinstall (23 and 24 versions) and I even reset my computer and it still don't work. My drivers are up to date and i'm starting to be really desperate. I don't think it came from my computer because every other program like premiere, illustrator and my videogames works well. And my components should be able to launch AE : CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHzGPU RTX 2060RAM 16 Go If you have any advice or solutions to unlock the situation I will be very grateful

I started working on very large After Effects files, and I keep getting a message that the application is out of memory. I clear the cache often, and set the maximum to 500GB..I have 600GB free space on a 1TB iMac. I only have After Effects open, and allotted 13GB of 16GB total RAM memory (it does not let me go any higher) I have assigned the disk cache memory to a 1TB external SSD drive.   I have a 16GB iMac and Apple has made it so you can no longer upgrade. My question is what else can I do to get After Effects to run. I have no other applications open

Hi, I'm having trouble removing the presets I made. Both were only a test to see if I was to save it. I am still learning but I need to delete them due to mistakes made. They appear to be located in "user presets" in the "effects and presets". But there is no way for me to delete them there. Please let me know if there is any way to delete them for good, I tried to locate them on my computer and even tried to "manage effects"/"Browse.." in Ae/in Bridge but are nowhere to be found except for in the "effects in presets" shown below in picture. Which I don't want. Hope you can help or provide some info if I'm missing something, Thanks in advance!