After Effects

Hi, I dnt understand something, After googling much I learn I can scale a comp using an inbuilt script called ' ''scale comp" , but no way I can make it exactly 1920×1080.  Either, it changes both (H and W) into 1920 or 1080! I can't believe there will not be a way for me to change a comp from 1080×1080 into 1920x1080 without doing it manually!! 😮 Too many layers, too many comps. I dnt wanna do it from square again! Looked for scripts to buy, but they want me to null all layers individually! crazy! Please I need help.

I'm trying to trigger animations in the position property of one layer using markers on another layer, but the expression keeps returning an error: "Undefined value used in expression (could be an out of range array subscript?)". Weirdly, the error just disappears every now and then until I hover over the timeline again. This error occurs in the first line of code, even when that line is commented out or when I delete the line. For reference, I just updated to v 24.6.2, but even when I rolled back to 24.6.1 the error occurred. If I end the expression with a fixed-value array, such as [5,5], the error disappears, but of course this makes my code redundant. The expression: /* 2 states: (1) Normal, for when in left or right view, and (2) Wide, for center view. */ /* This layer will ease() between Normal & Wide for the center values of the master controller layer. */ /* Variables */ control = thisComp.layer("BG_PosControl"); normal = [517, 0]; wide = [-639.5355, 0]; fade

I use After effect v24. Whenever i try to use 3D camera tracker and Warp Stabilizer, i get error: Unable to obtain dynamic link server. Please help me to solve this issues. 

Renders from After Effects are stamped with a date thats days in the future. Creates a real headache for production. Not good for our version tracking. This issue affects multiple artists on our team, using many different version of After Effects (2020 nd 2019). Its not a local issue. Please advise. Thanks for any help on this issue

I'm currently trying to toubleshoot the Camera Tracker not working in AE 24.6.2 on a Mac running Sonoma 14.6.1, and I came across a post about checking the premissions settings. In that post it said to navigate to Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore, except I don't have that folder. So I guess my questions are:1) Is this old info and does this folder not exist because it's no longer part of install?2) If in fact this folder IS supposed to be there, why don't I have it? What can I do to resovle this? And is this the cause to my issues with Camera Tracker?

HelloError when using the after-effect plug-in trap code form.If something is widened or enlarged, an error such as an image appears.Is there a solution?

I am trying to render a video with an effect that I made. I used fill color to switch colors every frame.But for some reason it doesn't render properly. I have done this effect before and it worked perfectly fine. But now for some reason it doesn't. Can anyone help me out with this? I have put the examples in the attachements.

always lags, get rid of this buggy POS. is it there just to trip my workflow and be generally awful? if it doesn't work, why add it. remove this laggy bs

Hello,    I have a fire effect.  I want to light the surrounding area to match the fire color as it burns/flickers. How can I do this please?  Is there a way to pick a point on the footage and tint the surrounding area to match as the color changes?

Dear all. I have a 4K composition like below But whenever i change the resolution from 4k to HD, it is cropped.I always change resolution by using Composition settings dialog box.Is it possible to automatically fit to the composition resolution without croped?? Thanks.

I have recently noticed that the "Properties Panel" seems to be interfering with triggering FX Console. In AE 24.6.1, the biggest offenders are text layers, and to a lesser extent shape layers. Their properties panels seem to somehow impede the launch. Layers/assets with less parameters such as video/solids/art, seem to be fine.Currently the only solve, is to temporarily close the Properties Panel, and/or disable its use all together. Which is unfortunate, as the Properties Panel is great!Additional Info: I've tried on (2) diff machines (Win10 & Win11) the latest AE Beta, and have similar results. AE23 works great! I've also sent an email to VideoCopilot, so hopefully something comes of that.MP4 screenshot should hopefully be attached for clarity.

I'm writing a script that I'd like to validate that a piece of footage has been selected and do something based on that selection. However, I want to make sure that it's clear that the script is based on a single selected piece of footage. I'm trying to validate that a selection of ONE piece of footage is made, and write an alert message if there is "no selection" and if there are "too many selections". What logic block do I use to see if a footage file is selected? Cause this ain't it. 

Hello, so I've created a rectangle, and I'd like the top left & right corners inset, say...  8 pixels on both the left & right side.  What would be the best way to do so?I can use the pen tool and manipulate each anchor point individually, guesstimating visually how far I've inset each one, but is there a better way?  I'd like to be able to use something to inset the top left & right anchor points by, say...  8 pixels.  How would I do so?  I can select each one with the pen tool individually, and use the left and right arrow pad buttons to do a specific amount, but it seems very tedious.  Is there a better way?  I'd imagine there should be a way to select each anchor point, and specify it's absolute X/Y values, but it only seems to work for the overall shape?Thanks for any help!

Building weather mogrt and it works just fine.  Because of the number of dropdown choices and entries, it's LONG in Essential Graphics for Premiere.  Adobe as usual wastes incredible amounts of space in every UI, but just thought I'd ask if anyone knows of a way to do this better.  Grouping is fine but doesn't solve the problem, albeit a small one.  Thanks.    

Hello, So I'm animating a character with expression controls on a guide layer in a composition. So far so good, animation looks alright. But when I nest this animated composition into another one, the animation is not happening/showing up. Is there anything I have to enable in my main comp? I'm going crazy not knowing why this is happening. 

Some layers (preComps) in my master comp disappear when rendered or previewed at best quality. When working at draft resolution or half size everything is visible. I’ve been working on this project for a while and just yesterday the problem started. The problem persists when opening the project on a second workstation on a different network. I’ve tried purging disk cache, preference and saving back to CC 2015. I’ve also tried solo-ing various layers in the preComp - all without success.Any suggestions would be most welcome!I’m on an iMac 5K 27in late 2014 i7 with 32 GB ram. AE CC 2017, OS X 10.12.2.

HiWhen I track a scene in AE, create a Camera and text I want to export to Cinema 4D lite. The camera data doesn't export. There's no key frames in C4D, no movement. I've seen a few in here having the same problem, but no solution yet. Can anyone help me?

I have a 3D comp with animation in it.Now, if I nest several copies of this comp with collapsed transformations, then the very top layer influences the underlying copies, e.g. changing its time value (animated timeRemap, expression, or simply shifting the layer over time), makes all the underlying copies within the 3D container, use the time from the top one. Am I missing anything essential about collapse transformations + time property? Such behavior seems fundamentally abnormal, possibly a bug, however it should be tested by the other users, as it might be a local glitch.Here I add a AEP file made of solids alone.See yourself by shifting the "MOVE ME" layer on timeline back and forth. You can also try enabling randomization expressions in *T, *S, *E compositions, which will override the existing color animation and make it more obvious. Try adding AdjustmentLayer to split the 3D container, see how the mess spreads. Please, report back if you experience same thing.&nbsp

Is this image possible in Ae? 

Newbie here. I have this squiggle shape that I want to reveal, left to right, to simulate calligraphy. I have worked out how to key frame a mask using the pen tool. However, with such a complex shape, I would prefer to paste original shape into the mask, and then make key frames, deleting a few vertexes at each one. This would give me a lot more control over the shape of the mask than drawing it manually, and in theory this would save me a lot of time. Whenever I attempt to keyframe with this method, the mask does not animate, it just keeps the same number of vertexes as I have deleted. It will only animate when I draw & keyframe the mask manually. Is my idea possible??  

Hey, I've been using AE without any problems till now, I saw an update I did that and since then I'm not able to run AE. I keep getting errors and they are different each time.I tried re-installing, even installing older versions but it was no help.  I've attached the errors below.Would appreciate any help I'm not sure what else to do.

I have shaky cell phone footage of a security monitor taken at 45° to the right. I need to extract that footage and display it as an ortho rectangle.I’ve already stabilized the footage with Mocha AE. My next step was to use Reverse Corner Pin until I discovered that it is Mac ONLY and I’m using After Effects on PC.Is it possible to do with vanilla AE or is there a 3rd party solution that will work with AE on PC or point me to a video explaining the process?

Basically what you can do with Perspective Corner Pin mode in Tracking is, say, you're recording handheld, and you have a TV on your video, you want to replace the screen of the TV with a footage, like this video:Adobe After Effects Tutorial: Perspective Corner Pin Motion Tracking - YouTube But what I need is different, I've shot a video of a TV, again, the camera is moving around, I want to change the perspective so that the content of the TV is shown without an angle.It's hard for me to explain so I'll show you with pictures.I want to turn this:Into this:And I did this easily with Photoshop using Select Tool -> draw a selection around the TV then using Move Tool -> Show Transform Controls -> hold Ctrl key and move around the corner points of the selection to the corners of the image. But how do I do this in After Effects?Thank you.