After Effects

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!

I'm still a noob when it comes to After Effects, and I have looked everywhere on how to fix this issue. My last resort was asking on here. I don't know what information is needed to figure out the problem, so I'll explain what I can. I have windows 10. This stupid error only started popping up since yesterday, when I tried going onto graph editor to view the speed graph. On both the value and speed graph, the keyframes weren't visible. The one time they were, I only managed to modify one before After Effects crashed. I tried again a few more times, and got the same result. This isn't a problem with importing a composition, just editing the graph. Restarting or uninstalling and reinstalling has not helped. Has anyone else experienced this error? Because for some reason there's no trace of it, where I've looked. This is really frustrating and I want to fix it soon. Please help! Here's a screenshot of the popup I get:

日本語版のAfterEffects 2024で、Cycore社の　CC～　エフェクトが英語表示名のタブに入っています。AfterEffects 2023までは日本語のタブに入っていました。英語表記になったことでエフェクトリストを圧迫しています。英語版で起動すると、英語表記になるためそのままの表示名です。現状日本語ユーザーに対して明らかに不要かつ問題のある状況であるため、速やかな修正を求めます。  

I’ve been having a problem with the preview window zoom in and out. I click it and it only pops up for a split second, giving me no time to click anything. It randomly does that, sometimes it's normal and then it's not.

Hola, cuando intento abrir el After effects, a veces me salta este error que dice "no se pudo cargar el paquete CEP (oplataforma comun de extensibilidad). Puede que tenga que instalarlo de nuevo" (dejo captura)probe borrando todo lo relacionado a adobe y volviendo a intalar de 0 todo y nada.      Las veces que por alguna razon si me abrió, anduvo mal, no me dejaba exportar con media encoder, no se sincronizaba,  y si tiraba la secuencia al ME, al momento que se abria el dynamic link, no cargaba.

Hi, I'm needing to take some footage that contains 48 frame handles (I know, right?) and reduce them to 8 frame handles, make the comp that duration plus one frame (for the slate), and place that footage into a precomp. I'm really having difficulty with it... Thank you for your time!

Hi.  Unable to find common/plugins folder to install third part plugins on my new Mac.After Effects 24.4.1Any ideas !Thanks

Hi. I am a videographer who uses the Legacy title from Premiere for Youtube video contents. I have a question though. If Legacy title tool, from Premiere, was supported in After Effect, I believe there will be various and creative tools put to usage as subtitles in videos. Is there any thoughts on making a Legacy tool for After Effects?

I'm rendering a simple project in AE 2023 and it takes forever! Like an hour for a 10 second high quality HD render. I've tried various simple projects and it's the same with all of them. I can barely edit a project in AE because it's so slooow.  I can do complex composition projects in Vegas Pro and rendering is fast as hell but AE is crazy slow. Any thoughts as to why?  i7 670032GB RAM6GB GeForce

hi. so I wanna randomize time remap in after effects on a video layer of 25 seconds. so I used the expression "random(0,25)". it works but it goes too fast, it jumps on every single frame. So i want it to go slower, so i tried the expression "posterizeTime(1)". Now it jumps every one second, that's what I want. the problem is it gives me freezed frames / static images every 1 second. and what I want is for the video to continue playing including the jumps. can anyone tell me how to achieve that keeping it simple... maybe adding somthing else to the expression I dont know? thanks

I want to design animation in after-effects that can be edited in PowerPoint for use in live production, as one (depending on the system in use) can't be editing and rendering during live production, is there any way around this🙏..I need a solution as soon as possible, please 

HelloI updated to Sonoma 14.5 last month and now have sat down to start a new animation job realise AE crashes every time I do a simple task such as drag a file into the timeline. I have logged all these crashes with Adobe with my email address and heard nothing back as of yet. I have followed the previous trouble shooting solutions offered on other threads which is to start up in safe mode, reset the preferences back and disable and plug ins (I don't have any). Yet it still crashes over simple things and the software has become unusable at a time I really need to be working. I was on AE 2024 and updated to the latest AE v 17.5.1 and same thing happens. I have never had a problem like this with AE ever and it's come at a really bad time. Please can someone from Adobe offer some solutions? My Mac spec is: Macbook Pro, Chip M1 Max, RAM 32GB.Thank you

Hey! I'm looking to create this animation effect for some video transitions in a project. Unable to find an explanation on a how-to. Is there a simple way to 'link' a video layer with dimensions of a mask/matte so they move togther (like in the example), or is the only way to acheive the video changing it's dimensions within the desired 'box outline' (as in the video changes it's centre point to fill the area proportionally) is to alter it manually and match the mask or matte keyframes with the video position keyframes. Hope that makes sense. Thanks!   

In most of my renders I get such noisy shadows or even the whole render. What is the solution!