After Effects

Hi, I love After Effects to death. If am chosen by heaven and  it asks me what earthy things u want- I would say After effects and my cat.  But the main villain in my love for  AE is the Expression 😐 . No matter what I do it seems like a bottomless pit. I buy books, courses, print pdfs... I read expressions from websites... I do understand Expression, Though I have no foundation in coding. But when I want to do something on my own I can not write anythng! I can not write any code which can bring what I imagined into reality and it is taking its toll on my mental peace., beacuse am serious about it. So, what is the best way to learn AE expression! I would be grateful if you could provide me some guidance.  😥I wanna be someone who can write AE expression like a pro. Thank you 😥

An After Effects project I had been opening fine the last few months now will not open. It loads to 70% and then I get a Not Responding error. I have tried restarting my PC, installing earlier versions of After Effects, and Safe Mode. Any help? OS: Windows 11  

there are plenty of issues with AE and there is a lot of frustration in the comnunity about AE being just not the tool a modern motion graphic / composition software could be!basically since years.seeing that other application of adobe are going well (Photoshop e.g. has integrated AI very well) it seems like that the people at adobe in charge for AE are really not making their jobs!this becomes very, very frustrating if you have to use that software on daily basis. so who is in charge? who is responsible for annoying a whole industry?there must be managers who are really not doing their job! or who have complety taken the wrong decision for years! who are they?     

Hallo zusammen,ich habe ein AE Dateien erhalten, bei der ein Rechteck (welches unter dem Text liegt) die Größe über die Schrifthöhe definiert wird. Solange kein Umlaut im Text vorkommt geht dieses auch prima. Allerdings soll sie die Größe immer vom reinen Buchstaben (ohne Punkte bei ÄÖÜ) berechnen. Gibt es hier eventuell eine andere Möglichkeit dieses zum umgehen? Beispileweise der 1 Buchstabe der Zeile oder ähnliches? margin = 20;text_width = thisComp.layer("TEXT_HEADLINE").sourceRectAtTime().width;text_height = thisComp.layer("TEXT_HEADLINE").sourceRectAtTime().height;box_width = text_width + text_height*0.4*1.6;box_height = text_height + text_height*0.4*2;[box_width, box_height]

HI allI've got a piece of Driver POV footage looking out the windshield of a car driving on a highway. I want to add some "trackers" (self driving car tech) in the road/environment if possible, without doing it by hand . So far, AE camera tracker has failed. I've also tried C4D camera tracker, but it seemed to only track dirty spots on the glass, not the road/trees. Any tips on this type of shot? I'm guessing mocha (free) is not appropriate for this kind of thing...thx!LML   

I promise that I've scoured the documentation and REwatched all the youtube videos and can find no mention of how the following might occur.I have a template file that I start with for every shot. I import in a tracked scene and I'd like that comp to replace a piece of footage in my work comp.By muscle memory I know to alt/opt drag the Camera01_3d comp over the Source Footage layer in the Work comp.Is it possible for Automation Blocks to accomplish this task? If so, how? As always, thanks!

Hi everyone,I'm trying to create an animation in After Effects where a shape layer (specifically a line with path animation or trim path) extends and retracts, simulating a stretching effect. I would like this animated line to interact with a maze (or other static objects) using the Newton plugin or etc...However, I’ve noticed that Newton doesn’t seem to recognize the Trim Paths animation and path stretch animation. Is there any workaround or technique that would allow me to simulate this interaction? Ideally, I want the line to collide with the maze walls as it moves through it.

I have created a slider control to count down from "£20,000 remaining" to "0 remaining" however the font is in a bold weight but I would like the word "remaining' to be in a light weight.  Here is my code:"£" + effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value.toFixed(2)+" "+ "remaining" Any ideas? New at expressions and coding!Thanks

I am using After Effects CC 2020And I also have media encoder 2020 installedWhenever I render a project to After Effects or Media Encoder, my GPU is not used during the render.My computer's RAM and CPU when rendering to After Effects or Media Encoder Not fully used.I rendered a project  in After Effects and Media Encoder and have attached photos of PC performance of both.No third party plugins are used in this project.I have also attached the photo of the PC specificationPlease guide me regarding this issue 

Tested On:24.6.2 (Build 2)Sonoma 14.6.1 24.3.0 (Build 50)Sonoma 14.5Windows 10 Pro 22H2 Project settings:Color Engine (OCIO color managed)OCIO config (ACES 1.2)Bit Depth (32)3D LUT (Trilinear)Working Color Space (ACEScg)Display Color Space (Any) When Importing Illustrator files with a gradient and then interpreting its color space as ‘-sRGB - Texture’ the gradient quantizes considerably. However, if you set interpret footage to ‘Preserve RGB’ and apply an OCIO color space transform effect (input : -sRGB Texture, output : ACEScg) it works as expected. They are essentially the exact same operation. Something fishy is going on in the interpret footage math. File attached.

When trying to export an MP4 out of AE: ( Even if the export is a flattened ProRes MOV as the source for exporting. - MOV still exports fine, and Media Encoder exports correctly.) I tried to export a composition that was 4100px X 180px. (Square pixels 30 fps) When exporting an MOV, everything works correctly.  When trying to export as an MP4 format, the resulting MP4's dimension is altered to 4096px X 180px.  Anything 4096px and below seem to export as an MP4 correctly. I then exported the same composition as an MOV - ProRes 422 and then imported the rendered MOV (Which was the correct dimension, 4100px X 180px) into the project and placed into a new Composition Settings from source: 4100px X 180px (Square pixels 30 fps).  When I exported that composition as an MP4 format (Not resizing or cropping, same as source dimensions/square pixels), the resulting MP4 was again 3096px X 180px Not the intended 4100px X 180px. Dragging any of the Compositions ment

So I'm a new user to After Effects and I've tried to give every folder I can permission but my videos still are not able to be imported into AE. It says it's a permissions issue, but I truly don't know what other folder I could give permissions to. It's really frustrating, I haven't been able to find any helpful tutorial online. I'm running on Winfows and I converted the video file into MP3 from OBS.

Hello everyone, First time posting. I borrowed this expression from another post and it works if I am only using 2 keyframes, but when I try to adjust the expression to include 4 keyframes so it can animate out, it breaks. I am basically trying to animate opacity keyframes using a slider. 0% to slider value to slider value to 0%.I posted a screenshot of my comp and the expression (with error)Thanks for the help!

Hi,I cant write expression. But I try to. I dnt know how can I write this, because what I wrote is not giving me my expected result. I want the circle to stay  beside the clock. and I linked the circle's Y position movement with the rotation of the clock hand. but the X axis of the circle is in weird position.  how should I write the expression to keep the circle's X positon fixed or whereever I want it or just beside the clock but only Y should be take its value from the rotation of the clock hand.Please guide me.     

Hi guys. I am trying to making a video with Element 3D in After effects.  As you can see in the picture down below, the text has depth of field. The view has perspective. I would like to make the depth of field gone, just like the video I attched in this post. Making it all in a plane, no perspective. Could you help me with it? Thank you!

1. I imported a PP nested sequence into AE.2. Did all my edits and then import that AE composition back into premiere.3. I did this instead of "Replace with AE Comp"  in order to have color grading flexibility.Since i did that premiere pro can't load AE comps at all most of the times, or when it does, when i try importing the one composition i mentioned above it freezes. Also i cant open this specific AE project at all, not even in Safe mode. Ive reset preferences but it didnt work. Is this a buggy way to use dynamic link or could it be something else.Premiere Pro 24.6.1After Effects 24.6.2Macos Sonoma 14.1.1 

I was working on a project and randomly I opened after effects and I got that error message and then immedietly crashes. I have cleared the cache, restarted my mac and those did not fix it. Does anyone know what the issue is and a fix?

In my color picker in after effects I type in C8102E as the hex code but it gives me pink instead of red.... How do I fix this? I changed precomp/project to 8bit instead of 16 bit. I changed color profile to Rec709 gamma. but that didnt fix the issue. I've fixed this once before but i cant remember what the fix was. does anyone know? I think the issue started happening after I upgraded to Mac Os Sequoia. It asked me if I wanted to either grant screen permission to AE for 1 month, or the other option just took me to system settings but showed that AE already had some permissions but I suspect that OS is hindering the screen recording of AE because when I use my eye droplet tool to sample a dark red it gives me a pink.

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Hi, I need some guidance from seniors here. If my AE comp height 1080, That means my Y axis limit is from 0 t0 1080. Right? that means My Sin wave's crest/peek will touch only two borders/egdes up and down where in Y axis down is 0 pixel and up is 1080. Then why the sin wave crossing the top/up edge here?? I already told the AE that value is 1080 in expression. then why its not listeing to the expression? When I specify the value in 'Expression' , the property that is linked to the expression must listen to that right? Please help me. Square's Y position must stay between 0 and 1080, I mean it must only oscillate in between 0 and 1080, nowhere I said go beyong that. then why its going?   

This is a weird one.We have a couple of projects that are in ACES, we're using Prores stock footage.Around 20-28th August something happened and all our projects just changed the Prores Mov files color space in OCIO from sRGB Color Picker (that we assigned) back to default Aces2065-1.It gets weirder.We're talking about a project on 20th that I worked on, saved (I always save before rendering), then rendered out.Now I open the project a week later and it's all wrong.The rendered files from that project rendered fine on the 20th - now the same project - that has NOT been saved after those renders - is wrong. All Prores MOV files are changed to ACES2065-1.ONLY Prores mov files changed - we have some Photo JPEG Mov files that kept their sRGB interpretations.It is bizarre - correctly saved projects changed their content.I thought that maybe the act of opening the project file does the mess, but if I open the same project file but from 18th August - all the Prores interpretations are still s

Inside a Composition, I have a layer with custom scaling keyframes, that flickers from -126 to +126.When rendering the composition, looks how it does inside of the composition.However.After changing the keyframes/ removing some and then rendering out the composition ( outside ).The changes don't seem to be applied and arent rendering out how they do inside of the composition.The effect on the composition that could be doing this is CC Force Motion Blur. Fix for now:Change the rendering quality, and it will update. Some screenshots below. The images show the time it's happening both inside and outside of the composition.The third is with the rendering quality reduced.  

Hello Designers,I have a small problem opening a new workspace for an L-shaped screen. The details sent by the company only provide a workspace of 2236 x 516 pixels. The shape appears uneven, so I need to create a design with a vertical part and a horizontal part. Can someone help me visualize this scene?Thank you.

A client gave me a 4K PSD to animate, however, the designs are all assembled as Layer Comps. I've never used PS Layer Comps, but PS won't export a single Layer Comp as an individual PSD without an error message due to the 2GB date limit. Is there a workflow for exporting PS Layer Comp layers to After Effects? Or to an Artboard? Thanks

Hey everyone,I just downloaded the Adobe CC and I'm trying to compose a simple 10 second GIF with motion text in After Effects (latest version), but find it painfully hard to work with keyframes since the playhead is always a second behind my cursor when I try to move it. My laptop is supposed to be good for small video editing, does anyone know what the problem might be that's causing the laggy scrubbing?My specs:Dell XPS 15, 4k screenRam: 16 GBStorage: 512 GB SSDProcessor: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8 GHzGraphics Card: dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Novabench scores:Overall: 1790Disk: 106 (Write speed: 279 MB/s, Read speed: 1019 MB/s)Ram: 246 (RAM speed: 19537 MB/s)CPU: 858 (Float Ops: 196299690, Integer Ops: 1187756840, Hash Ops: 1304070) whatever this means...GPU: 580 (Direct3D11: 65 FPS, OpenCL: 0 GFLOPS)I'm using AVI files for editing. Was using mp4 before and switched hoping it would make a difference and it didn't. I tried switching to the 2017 version of AE and it was doing the