After Effects

hi gues. when i want to use "typeswirter effect" in after effect , it get me this error:unable to execute script at line 1. after effects error: file is damaged.can anyone give me that "typewriter.ffx" file. thanks. (go this location on your pc)C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2024\Support Files\Presets\Text\Animate In

So yesterday I was able to edit perfectly fine without any issues but when I went back into the project today to continue my preview wasn't showing the work. I'm not sure what could be causing this as I restarted after effects multiple times, restarted my computer and changed the preview window through all the different cameras and qualitys. If anyone has any idea what could be causing this please let me know as I cannot find a fix. *Im currently using After Effects (24.1) and use a 2060 RTX Graphics card with 32 GB of ram*  

I'd like to manipulate the amount of greenery in a long still shot and adjust it where it is. Is there a way in after effects to do this seamlessly?For exampleif i wanted the vacant right sky to have some tress from the left.

Hello there!I created a path and wanted the path to have a color gradient. I found the option for it, but AE doesn't show me the right colors?It only shows the color which is put in position 0 of the gradient (I switched them and then the stroke was pink).See attached image for clarification.Did I miss something? Opacity is set to 100% for both colors.ThanksSteph

Issue - Since the introduction of Video Thumbnails for Essential Graphics, I have been unable to create a Poster Frame using a neat trick. You used to be able to place your custom thumbnail one frame outside the composition to create a nice looking thumbnail without it being visible when placing in Premiere Pro. But since the recent update, I'm getting a black thumbnail in Premiere Pro, which is also the case when you export the Mogrt file as a zip file. The weird thing is that the Essential Graphic panel still shows the thumbnail, but when I click export I get a black frame.Adobe After Effects version number After Effects 24.3Operating system Windows 11 22H2 and Mac OS 14.4.1Steps to reproduce - Place your thumbnail one frame outside the composition. Place the play head at -00:00:00:01 and set the Poster frame for your Essential GraphicExpected result - When exporting, I should render the chosen frame instead of a black screenActual result -  a black thumbnail

thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.rotation.valueAtTime(time-.1)thisComp.layer("Dark Blue Solid 1").transform.rotation..both the above expressions come back with : "Error: add() needs exactly two arguments" Is this a bug or? Literally can't see anything wrong with the above expressions

Hey! I'm building out a template right now for a client and trying to add font-change capabilities via slider expression where they can easily change the slider amount to change the font in all comps.  The slider expression works properly, but when I added it into the source text section it seems to now only read that expression and stops reading the other expression. The other expression is just a simple pick whip to a master text layer where the client can change the text and have all text layers auto-update to whatever they change it to. So basically, I am trying to get every text layer to 1. auto-update based on the master text layer and 2. give the client the ability to change fonts via the slider selection expression.  But it seems that the text layer is only reading the expression that is last. So if I put the font change expression last, then I can change fonts but the text won't update when I change the word in the master comp. And vice versa.&nbs

Thank you for your help with this. I'm new to AE and trying to learn some simple animations, like text bubbles appearing on screen. In the picture below, I have a Text Layer (God), and white Text box formed with a shape layer, and an image layer (drawing of God — no offense to anyone of religious persuasion, Ty). I'm trying to make these 3 layers behave as one so I made a precomp. I'd like that precomp to follow a very short curve, the way arriving text does on our phones. To do that, I created a path line as a shape layer and pasted the position data into the precomps position data. It works but it's a bit clunky. My issues is that the size of the 'bounding box'  for the precomp is way larger than the images as they appear on screen. That makes it hard to set the precomp to follow the path. I tried moving the anchor point in the precomp far closer to the images, but it'd be better to have a smaller bounding box to do this with. Can I change the bounding box size. In the image bel

I have a composition in After Effects named "Comp1." It contains a nested composition named "Comp2," which in turn includes another composition named "Comp3." Could you please explain how I can add a property to "Comp1" that sets a value in "Comp3"?I have tried using various expressions and Essential Properties. Essential Properties allow me to change values from parent to child but only work one level deep. I thought, "That's fine, I'll just add an essential property to the parent and then add that property to its parent." However, this approach returns the error: "Essential Properties are not currently supported in the Essential Graphics panel." In other programs, I could simply write the code "this.parent.parent.propertyName," but this syntax is not available in After Effects.I have consulted multiple AE certified professionals and every AI in existence, yet I still cannot find a solution. Does anyone have a suggestion for this problem?Note: I do not want to identify the top-level o

CreativeCow.net has a forum for After Effects for over 20 years and recently a poster came on there to share they are still using advice they recieved in 2014. When I took a look at their posts, I thought it would be a good topic for a tutorial, so here it is:

I have tracked a video in aftereffects but I need to replace the video with an image but keep the camera tracking on the image instead of the video. 

Pase de la versión 24 a la 23 y mi espacio de trabajo desaparecio!. ahora solo se ve la cola de trabajo y nada mas. Tambpoco me deja hacer nada mán.He buscado por todas las pantallas y no veo la interfaz, tambien lo he reseteado todo y instalado de nuevas pero nada. Alguien sabe algo?

I am trying to recreate this animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrbohqO7BJsBut when I pick whip the shape to another shape path, I get this error. Anyway to solve this? 

Hello, The problem is auto-trace does not creating a mask for the whole size of my video, just a part of it.I imported my video, used keylight 1.2Created a  rectangular mask, to remove walls out of both sides of green screen.Then I tried to use auto-trace, but it traced only a part of it (I suppose rectangular) P.s.I checked the beginning of the video, it traced ok.But it is true for only one frameHelp please, what I am doing wrong?Here is my options for tracing (sorry, it`s in Russian)I am using Windows 10 x64, intel core i5-3330 CPU 3Ghz, RAM 6 Gb , nvidia Geforce GT 640

Hello!I'm writing here because I noticed what I think could be a bug in the Italian version of Ae (at the moment running the 24.3 version). Selecting "font" from the expressions menu I noticed that Ae automatically use quotation marks (") as container of the font name BUT, at least in the Italian language, expression should use the apostrophe glyph (') to work correctly.Using the quotation marks expression simply won't work, giving syntax error on that code line, having to edit the text string manually. Is this something that could be fixed in a future update? Or is it something that can't be differentiate from language to language? Thanks!

This happens to me several times a day: When pressing space bar to play preview, the menu item "Use Display Color Management" switches to on.I then have to manually switch it back off.Later it will turn on again. The same goes for "Show Layers Controls" which turns off randomly. (But not on)Seems like something's going on in the View-menu.....I have not been near any keyboard shortcuts.(Besides, it would be strange if I was able to hit a pretty obscure shortcut several times everyday by accident.)After Effects 24.1MacOS 14.2.1(But this behaviour has been ongoing for years on all my Macs)

Greetings,  System Specs Intel I7 137000kIntel UHD Graphics 770NVIDIA GeForce RTX 406064 GB RAM2T SSD4T HHDAll drivers are up to date.I'm using two monitors one is hooked up to the motherboard HDMI port and the other to the NIVIDA Graphics card.  Issue:  In preferences under preview the only GPU information listed is for the Intel CPU GPU. I want After Effects to use my NVIDIA GPU. How do I fix this?  I'm eternaly greatful for your support.   

When using rotobrush if I click play, it works for a second or two and then display an orange bar saying I need to free up some memory, and then just loop back a second or two making no more progress. Quitting all other adobe apps allows this to procecss a little more frames, but eventually the orange bar still appear. Going forward frame by frame (PgDn) works fine. It never runs out of memory. I just get tired pressing PgDn. Why would "play" run out of memory? It's just repeating frame by frame automatically.

  I've just installed Adobe After Effects for future projects I want to work on and began practicing using it, I saw this tutorial on how to do an effect I liked and tried it out. While messing with the time settings I made my timeline look weird? It doesn't display seconds anymore, and I really don't know how to navigate this, any help on how to make my timeline display seconds instead of whatever this is? 

Hey Adobe Users So basically I reinstalled my Windows couple days ago Since then my plugins stopped working I can see them in the tab but can't open them. I have the last version of After Effects

Hello all, Has anyone else experienced a severe drop in application performance speed and responsiveness (lastest After Effects 22.6) to the point where event clicking/unclicking layer icons can take several seconds to take effect after updating their Windows 11 OS with the latest update? Literally everything has slowed down within After Effects including skipping from one frame in a composition to another.Also, render times have exponentially increased in time compared to previous. I have a solid PC Laptop with very high specs and before the Windows Update (2 days ago) After Effects was working speedily without any problems.I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed anything similar and if there are any solutions (apart from trying to revert back to previous Windows state)? Thanks in advance,

Why is it that when I try to generate tracking points, it just goes all over the place? As you can see on the attached video, it just can't track properly. Is it because the video is low res?

expression "parent.thisComp.name" I want get name from the parent composition. What can i do to make magic happen?

Hi, i am trying to use After Effects for projection mapping, however when i go to After Effects> settings > video preview, to Enable Mercury Transit the display box is empty. It isnt even showing the display on my laptop. I am using a Macbook Air with M1 chip running macOS Sonoma 14.4.1. Is there a work around for this? My composition settings match my HD projector, and frame rate is set to 30.   

Hi there! Wasn't there a tool to un-precompose with Automation Blocks? I remember asking for it before, but can't find it. In any case, can it be created for un-precomposing multiple layers at the same time?  It becomes very useful when I take a lot of texts from Pr to Ae an they come like this  And this are not in the same timestamps, each one is separated so the un-precompose should paste the elements on the same time too. Thanks a lot and sorry if this is a repeated topic. I tried looking for it