After Effects

I described the bug in this short screenrecording here. It's weird how this bug is very specific to the preferences panel.I tried to reproduce the bug with some other panels but I couldn't.

HiI'm making a ScriptUI panel. I have a icon button which is based on an png image I load:var button = container.add("iconbutton",undefined, imagePath, {"style":"toolbutton"});The image isn't a perfect square, so it contains transparent pixels. Problem is, when I click the button it gets the focus, and all that is transparent will be AE-blue until it looses focus again.Is there a way to avoid this? I tried using the "active" property, but that didn't seem to do much.If I just could control the focus on the button...Any help is greatly appreciated,Jakob

Hi there Adobe & Communit, i will try to remain calm.WHEN WILL NOISE WORK WITH 32BIT?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!What's even the point of offering 32bit Aces workflow when BASIC BASIC BASIC Effects that 95% of People who use this workflow will need, DONT WORK???????YEARS afer YEARS after YEARS of complaining within the community- nothing happens.How much do i have to pay you????Thanks.

Every time I try to import an Illustrator file as a composition, I get this: after effects error: could not convert unicode characters (23::46) This also happens sometimes when I import an Illustrator file as footage.

I continue having problems with Adobe After Effects version 24 not opening in Windows 11 Pro. I had this problem with every single version of Adobe After Effects. The Splash screen hangs on the Media Core step, and the application never opens. I've installed and removed all plug-ins via the folder and yet nothing seems to work. Is the best alternative to quit the Adobe subscription?

Hi, I want to save a string value in each effect, and this param will keep its old value when AE restart.I have tried PF_SliderDef "value_str" property, it lost old value in next app launch.It is there any way to do it? If i can save a custom model in project file will be great!Thanks for your help.

This is the first time since 2006 that I have elected to use AE, which is version 24.3. My comp has 55 layers, one being a 17 minute MP4. The rest are either shape layers or PNG layers. Issue - Yesterday, I rendered the comp with no issues. This morning I took a look at the finished MP4 again and decided to fine tune some of the rectangles I used to bring attention to what the narrator is talking about. When I opened the project and started scrubbing through the timeline, I noticed something wrong with the first instance of rectangles: they were duplicated, but shifted a few pixels to the right. Every one of the layers were duplicated on the monitor, but not in the timeline.  I did the following, which yielded no remedy: purged the cache; restarted app; restarted my laptop; opened the project on different laptop. I closed the layer eye on one layer and noticed that one shape would disappear, but the other is left there, yet there isn't a layer representing it.

Hi, do you have any idea how to achieve such an animated 3D fluid?https://ibb.co/0Mp6WSC Is it possible to achieve this effect in After Effects? (maybe some plugin)

Hi I have an ussue in after effects - all imported video footage is green, I found here some offered solutions but nothing worked, in additionit is not rendering properly (renders black, even if it is no video in the project at all)Im on MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)Big Sur 11.7.2 (20G1020)2.5 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i716 GB 1600 MHz DDR3NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GBthanks a lot

Hola, desde hace unos dias voy presentando el mismo error, after ffects no abre, cuando está en la pantalla de carga se queda pausada en: Limpiando interpolación másc. inteligente. De ahí no pasa aunque deje cargando durante horas, porfavor me pueden ayudar gracias.PD: Antes me venia funcionando con total normalidad

Hello, I have come across something that I either cannot generate the correct answer I'm looking for, or it doesn't exist. I am looking to simply take a sentence that starts on a few lines (two or three lines) at a certain font size, and then animate the text so it shrinks to fit on one line. My best visual example is this: (Start of animation: in larger font and dead center to attract attention)Here is the sentence that bleeds into more than one line. (End of animation: in smaller font at the top left of the screen to remind viewers of inital statement.)Here is the sentence that bleeds into more than one line. I have tried searching online but I can't find it, and I don't have the a ton of experience with after effects. So I hope that makes sense. Thanks! 

 Every time I launched AE, this alert popped up. I'm experiencing crashes a lot more than before, too.  

Hi. I want to move the puppet pin tools in the timeline, so that my animation is faster in that scene. I've tried to move them with the select tool, but it couldn't grab them. So how do I move them? 

After Effects 2024 crashes on launch. I've tried updating After Effects, running safe mode, fixing the permissions, and resetting preferences but none of the remedies work. AE 2024 crashes on my Mac Studio running the latest Sonoma (14.4.1)  Plenty of RAM (128 GB) and Video memory. I can get After Effects 2024 to launch on a different User Account on the same Mac (usually,) but I can't get to the bottom of my primary account's inability to launch this App. I've sent many, many of those crash reports to Adobe, but they go unanswered.  I had one response from here, but he appears to have given up since then.  I do have some issues even in the new account. I've attached a screen grab of an error I get.

Hey guys, I have a really big problem since a rather long period of time already. I'm owning a music YouTube channel and I'm creating audio visualizers for it regularly. It's nothing really special; just some kind of audio visualizer with a logo and background wiggle, nothing more.But still my After Effects program seems to have issues with it... every single time I'm rendering a project of this kind, it renders a REALLY big file, much too big! Like 80GB for a 3 min. video!!! I'm using QuickTime (H.264) in the rendering settings, and that worked perfectly in Windows 7 (max. 100MB for a 3-4 min. video), but since I'm using Windows 10 it doesn't seem to work properly any more. AVI is no alternative because it's even worse in terms of file size.Now, as a workaround, I render every project a 2nd time in another program called "Easy H.264" which renders the videos just perfectly fine, same as Windows 7 did in former times.What could be the problem now? How can I manage to get the normal fil

I have restarted my laptop. I have uninstalled and reinstalled. I keep on receiving the same message. It is not an issue with permissions as I am the only user on my computer. I also know AE is included in my Adobe Plan. Please help!

I have a customer that has a dropdown list with Pass, Fail, and OUO.  He would like the Pass to be BOLD and Green when selected, the Fail to be BOLD and Red when Selected, and the OUO to be BOLD and black.  I am having trouble with the scripting for this... Please help..Jill

  Hi. I am a newbie.I am trying to modify the POSITION animation curves. But when I go into the editor it also shows me the SCALE ones.I have tried to click or bring the cursor only on POSITION. but anyway it also shows me the staircase ones.How can I isolate them?sorry for the stupid question  

https://youtu.be/R5nt0lEXZEA Ever Since I made this video project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-9SI2dkmS4&ab_channel=UYSOCONSTRUCTION my After Effects has been very slow, to the point where working in it is impossible. I used to have no lag/slow problems with the software before (2020's) and my premiere pro never had slowing down issues, but simply put After Effects is my go-to software with any kind of creative project of mine. Is there anything I could do, or would a complete pc format be neccesary (or switching to an older AE version)? Thank you. 

Recently upgraded Mac to M2max Studio, under OS14.1.1  and I was finding when attempting to import choosing a folder containing a large number of image sequences within After Effects from an external drive, that it was taking a very long time to load the folder; the greater number of files within that folder the longer it took to load before I could select the first image in that sequence, ie. 3000+ images 30secs. However I realised that this was happening not only in After Effects but all other apps (just so happens AE is where I usually open images sequences into). So it seemed to be an OS Finder related issue. This has now been resolved...It was because my existing external drive (ssd) used to import was formatted under the older MacOS-journaled. However reformatting to APFS has now resolved the issue. I've always had a preference to work from external drives rather than clutter the internal system drive for over 20 years, especially with video and animation work

I'm looking for a script that will move position for a set amount per frame. For example, I'd like to move the y position by 45 units every frame...

Hello!I noticed a annoying bug visible only on an exported video.For my project, I use a motion graphics template to create an automatic outline for an image or video.On AE, there’s no problem. I can switch sources easily.But on the video, I can see the original source that I used to create the model.The problem can be solved by deleting the file replace the images in the AE project and replace the images again as I did.So ok, there is a solution but it is far from comfortable especially since the problem is visible only to export.Hoping this problem will be solved...

I'm an active duty military and needing assistance using adobe premiere cs6 and after effects.   I recently downloaded a video template from videohive.net.  When I open the project in adobe premire cs6 this message keeps appearing.  "After effects warning: This project contains a reference to a missing effect.  Please install the following effects to restore this reference.  Element."  So then I purchased adobe premiere elements and I am still having the same problem with the previous message.   The other problem I am having is with font substitution.  This message appears "This project uses fonts that are not currently available on this computer.  Font substitution will occur until the originals become available Bahnschrift."

Is there any way to change some text animation in a paragraph and have the paragraph automatically align after the text change? 

Hey all-- Wanted to share a project I've been working on, mainly in hopes that others end up contributing, as its open source!Trentonom0r3/AETK: A modern C++ framework designed to revolutionize the way developers create plugins for Adobe After Effects. Aimed at both newcomers and seasoned plugin developers, AETK provides an extensive suite of tools and abstractions that streamline the development process, enabling more focus on creativity and innovation. (github.com)I have a few sample projects made, including a recreation of the Grabba sample, showing an easier way to go about setting things up! #include <AETK/AEGP/AEGP.hpp> static A_long S_idle_count = 0L; class GrabbaCommand : public Command { public: GrabbaCommand() : Command("Grabba", MenuID::EXPORT) {} inline void execute() override; inline void updateMenu() override; }; class Grabba : public Plugin { public: Grabba(struct SPBasicSuite* pica_basicP, AEGP_PluginID aegp_plugin_id, AEGP_GlobalRefcon* glo