After Effects

Good day. I have a problem where, when you place your functions that add controls to a panel in another file, then they don't work. Have a look at this example: This works fine (when everything is in one file):# myFile.jsx myButton.onClick = function () { var myWindow = new Window("dialog", "My Dialog"); var myPanel = myWindow.add("panel", undefined, "Panel Title"); myPanel.alignment = "fill"; localAddButton(myPanel); myWindow.show(); } function localAddButton(panel) { panel.add("button", undefined, "OK"); }But this does not work (when things live in different files):# myFile.jsx #include "otherFile.jsx" myButton.onClick = function () { var myWindow = new Window("dialog", "My Dialog"); var myPanel = myWindow.add("panel", undefined, "Panel Title"); myPanel.alignment = "fill"; otherAddButton(myPanel); myWindow.show(); } # -------------------------------------------------------------- # otherFile.jsx function otherAddButton(panel) {

Instead of copy-pasting your keyframes through the whole composition, use expressions to loop your animations!     Here's the walkthrough. After you've keyframed one loop of your animation... Alt + click (PC) or Option + click (MAC) the stopwatch next to the parameter you want to loop – scale, position, rotation, etc. Delete the code that displays in the expressions editor Replace it with one of the following expressions loopIn("cycle") will repeat your animation before the keyframes in your timeline. The animation will end at the last keyframe. loopOut("cycle") will repeat your animation after the keyframes in your timeline. The animation will end with your composition. loopOut("continue") will take the last two keyframes of your animation, and continue that stroke indefinitely. loopOut("pingpong") will carry your animation forwards and backward through the keyframed positions. loopOut("offset") will bring the entire animation along. The animation

Hello, Is there anything I can do to improve the performance of After Effects? It is extremely slow, so slow that at times is it almost unusable. It is particularly bad with plug ins such as the Red Giant suite such as Trapcode and Form. My machine is pretty good (see specs below) and all my other apps are blazing fast so it aint my machine. Is there anything I can do to improve it? Thanks in advance,David Specs:Mac Pro 20192.5 Ghz 28 Core Intel Xeon WAMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo 32 GB768 GB RAMMac OS Ventura 13.5.2 (22G91)

Hello! I am currently facing the following problem: I was cropping all my TIFF sequences in AE and planned to edit them in Premiere later. I created a sequence in Premiere from proxies (MOV files) that I later tried to replace with TIFF sequences rendered from After Effects at 24fps. The problem is that the mov is longer than the TIFF sequence even though it was rendered from the same After Effects sequence with the same frame rate. What could possibly go wrong?Here is a demonstration of the time difference between the mov footage and the TIFF sequence:note: the mov and the TIFF are stretched to 50% to achieve a 12fps rate. Here this is how it looks when I replace the mov with the TIFF sequence:note: the mov is time stretched 50% to make it 12fps. Thank in advance!

AFTER EFFECTS 2022I am trying to learn After Effects using the tutorial. In "Learn." It tells me to select a layer, which has a video. Then I am to add Effect > Distort > Mirror. No problem.Then I am told, "To the right of Reflection Center, click on the box with a target icon inside and then click directly in the center of the logo in the Composition panel."I have toggled switches/modes on and off, there is no box with a target icon to the right of Reflection. The first image is my timeline panel. The second is the tutorial. You can see in the red circle, there is a box with a dot in it. You can see on the timeline panel that there is no such option "to the right of 'Reflection Center.'"Help, please. Center.

Hello, I wanted to know about the Hardware side of the Media & Cache in After EffectsI will basically be working with 4K Log Footage and Tons of layers. I'll be working with a 5700x, RTX 4080, 32 gigs of DDR4 RAM and I have a sole 1TB M.2 for my operating system (where I have Adobe Softwares installed).My questions are about caching, I was thinking of getting this seperate Samsung PM9A1 2TB M.2 Gen 4 NVMe SSD (R&W Speeds are 7000 MB/s Read and 5200 MB/s Write). 1.  Is it okay to partition this and use it whole for both Caching and Storing Project Files? Will it become slow because everything is being done on the same drive?2. Or should I store all my footage on this (bcz I mainly wanna store 4K files on it and don't wanna waste storage space if it is overkill) and I can dedicate a spare 500 GB ssd for caching (which is 540 MB/s Read and 520 MB/s Write) Thanks in Advance!

When I import a video it looks like its in slow motion, I think its because my pc is not rendering the video in real time so how can I fix it?

I have this very crazy problem that when I place several PNG-sequences on the timeline, after working on the project for a while, some frames from a PNG-sequence appear on other places in the timeline in another PNG-sequence. This can also be seen in the final render with Adobe Media Encoder. The only thing that helps, to remove these wrong frames, is to use 'replace footage' and import the PNG-sequence again. I work with AE2020 on a PC. Someone an idea where this problem comes from and how I can prevent it?

How to continue tracking only by position in tracking motion, without creating another tracking and without applying scale and rotation, if the tracked point disappeared? 

Hi,i want to make a really simple clone of a xPosition animation from one layer (Layer A) to another layer (Layer B). Layer B sits somewhere in the timeline, layer A starts at the beginning and has to keyframes starting at 0. I need to clone layer B several times, so it would be handy to change the keframes and timing in layer A and all layers are synced. thx for ideas 🙂

Hi ,When I attempt tto render my file to Adobe Media Encoder (AME), the scale of the graphic is different to what it is set at in After Effects.Image attached shows the prob. Left is AE, right is AME, you can see the difference in scale of the graphic on the art board—the edge to graphic measure is a lot less in AME. I thought all I'd need to do is hit "Change Output Size To Match Source" in Media Encoder but I don't have the option to click that.Please advise what I should do? Thanks. Edit: I fixed it.

Hello, I recently purchased the Twitch plugin for After Effects 2024 and was working through the different configurations in trying to recreate a specific shake/blur that I had seen in this YouTube Video (been trying to figure out for about a month but am new to AE) at around 5-11 seconds. I was wondering if anyone would be able to identify the specific settings that may have been used in the transition, or if there was anyone I could contact about such an inquiry. I attached a few screenshots as well near the frames of the shake, if its any help. If not, due to the wide array of customization possible, I completely understand.Thank you for your time and assistance.

When freezing a roto brushed clip, the speed progressively slows down until basically zero.Is this normal or malfunctioning? Any fixes or ways to alleviate this? It ended up working, but why the absolutely drastic difference in processing speed between the beginning and end of the clip, not to mention the program constantly not responding and nearly crashing towards the end? Good hardware, recent fresh windows install, freshly installed AE earlier today, 2:45 clip at 1080 30fps of a person in front of a solid background, fixed camera, so clear sharp edges and not much subject movement and no background movement. The first minute of the clip freezed in about 10 mins with my GPU steadily around 20% usage even with multitasking (I always have a hardware monitor running), then left the pc alone to work and the next minute of the clip took an hour to freeze with GPU usage having dropped to around 5% when I checked it, another hour later at 15 seconds left on the clip it was freezi

Hello...I'm new to After Effects. In the Magnification Ratio Pop-up menu, can anyone please explain the differences between 'fit', 'fit to 100%', and 100%? Which of these shows how your composition truly appears within the aspect ratio that is set for the project. Thank you! 

Hi, Is it possible to have a relative path for our project media?When i made a collect file, all my medias are in only one folder and my after effect file use them.But when i copy my main folder (with my after effect file and all my media) the link is loosed and my new copied file use the absolute path and search in the old folder.For production reason, i have to copy them with a relative path but i don't know how...It would be great if someone have a solution for meMany thanksBen

You guys cleaned up the composition toolbar in version 18, and removed "controls with low usage such as Adobe Immersive Environment" Where are those controls now, then? I need to change the Adobe Immersive Environment view to180° Stereoscopic SBS so I can view it in VR through my HMD properly

I'm sure someone has mentioned this by now, but in case it hasn't come up.  AE 18 has a major problem.  If you switch to more than 1 view, then close AE and restart it, then create a new comp, it keeps the 2+ views but the buttons to go back to a single view disappear and cannot be brought back. See this screenshot to understand what I'm talking about:  I've tried resetting the workspace.  I've double-checked to see if there's a preference somewhere that's been disabled - I see no way to bring back the single view in this case.  The only solution so far is to delete my preferences and workspaces and start over. -Paul 

Hey! as the title says, after effects stops responding every time i open preferences/settings, or try to purge the disk cache. I've tried reinstalling several times, resetting preferences at start up, removing plug-ins, and installing earlier versions, but the same thing happens. i've tried to manually clear my cache, but cannot find it anywhere on my macbook. The supposed location i've found online is Users/<username>/Library/Caches/Adobe/After effects, but i do not have a library folder within my user folder, and i don't have the adobe folder in the 'caches' folder within my general library. i don't recall ever moving the cache to a different location. I barely have any space left on my macbook, as my ae cache is taking up all of it. any help is appreciated  I'm on a macbook pro 15-inch 2019, my OS is macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

After Effects: 24.3Windows 11I have the issues with the 3D Camera Tracker as I done it with multiple footages. It is not a shot after shot cut that could cause the solve to fail naturally, but one of the footage involves the camera points on the left side of the room to the door. Then it pans diagonally towards the central wall that has two lamps and some room decorations and finally pans to the right side of the room where the window is.I have it pre-comp and done the 3D Camera Tracking within that pre-comp with similar results. It also extends to Warp Stabiliser tool, which is bothersome.I also decrease the length of the clip around 3 seconds to attempt it again. But that surprisingly does not fix the issue,  which I find that to be very baffling. Please help me with this situation as my peers has no issues with this and they are inactive at the moment. Thank you.

sampleImage() uses a lot of RAM, especially when using a large radius, to the point of wildly exceeding "allowed" RAM usage. However, the only way to "reset" this high usage is to restart the program, simply closing the project leaves the usage high. Lowering the sample radius will temper usage.

Problem Description: I create a very simple path with a gradient stroke along it in Illustrator:  I save it as Illustrator 2020 format, then import that file as a comp in AE.I open the comp, set the (only) layer to continuously rasterise, and then scale the layer up or down: Random holes appear! Workarounds:Either: Turn off continuous rasterisation (which defeats the whole object of a vector workflow)...or...Save the file - attached to this post - in Illustrator as version 8 (I didn't test other version numbers; I chose v8 because C4D - and Maya maybe? - used to like v8, so I guess Adobe changed something in the file structure after v8) and reload it in AE. AE will compain, but it seems safe to ignore this message:I've tried this on a Mac and PC, on v.24 (beta) and v.23 (on the Mac). The results are the same. I have the latest Nvidia drivers installed. 

Hi guys, I have been using Bodymoving for a while and everything was alright until suddenly today all the files I exported has this color subtraction setup in the lotties (please see images) which i don't intended to have!I tried rebooting and updating the computer/software and the issue still remains...Did anybody have similar issue before and know how could i get it fixed ? Thanks a lot in advance!  AE File: please see attached file

I create a composition, create a form, make a duplicate of it, click on the pen tool creation and for some reason the form is drawn, not the mask

I am the owner of a Team Project. I received a new license today under the same email address but now I no longer see my Team Project. The other members see my name but cannot invite me again. How do I regain access to the Team Project?

Hello friends! How to make an object glow like this in after effects?