After Effects

Hello - when creating a shape layer or composition in my 3D space, the bounding box is off center. The shape appears to be outside of the composition it's in... If i create a basic shape outside of a comp it does the same thing. I'm working in 3D space with auto orient set to "orient toward camera" but this still shouldn't be happening. Seems like a bug? 

I have two shape layers set to the center of the comp, i applied the fromcomp expression to the transform position of the shape group (not the native transform position), to reference the position of the other layer (The Native Transform Position).I understand what world space and layer space is in After Effects and the expression seems to work fine, but when i move the layer the other layer with the expression goes in the other the direction.Why does it move that way. 

Hello, I'm a beginner in After Effects and Dimensions. I would like to make the effect of a letter expanding horizontally  - giving the perception that the letter moves sand while doing it. I'm not sure which tutorials/key words I need to study to learn how to do this. Is there any one that may give me advice?

Hi. I'm testing rendering 3D and seeing that Subsurface materials with subsurface don't produce accurate results. Is this probably a known current limitation, or am I missing a step or setting? The test render isn't the greatest example, but on the Redshift render, there is clearly subsurface scattering happening, but not on the AE render. 

Hi.There is some issue with the Adobe aftereffect rendering process, I'm trying to render in a 1695x1080px and set up the comp size accordingly but after rendering the video is coming out in 1694x1080px. I've also checked the media encoder before rendering and the resolution is changing there as well, which I'm unable to change back to 1695px.

After effects 2024Windows 11I was just opening After effects and all of a sudden it pops up a window saying something about project files error, and then somewhere in the text it said .old or something. It then closed and I reopened it and all of a sudden, my preferences reset to default, the color UI is back to normal, my shortcuts are gone, and my recent project file is broken, "cannot read."

After Effects is causing a memory leak. The problem started yesterday.I encountered a similar issue a few months back where Beta programs were the cause, I no longer have any Adobe Beta programs installed due to that issue.Starting in safe mode with 3rd party plug-ins and resetting preferences has made no difference.The issue starts once I open any project and continues until AE is terminated or crashes due to a lack of available RAM.I've updated the GPU driver and that has not fixed the issue.Windows 11 is also up-to-date.I'm working on a Windows 11 PC with the following build:Intel Core i9-12900K 3.2 GHz 16-Core ProcessorMSI MAG Z690 TOMAHAWK WIFI DDR4 ATX LGA1700 MotherboardGeForce RTX 3080 10GB LHR 10 GB Video Card64GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory I use Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign every day; none of these programs are having any issues.

can somebody help me or help me find a tutorial for this text effect. it looks like it is being scanned. i cant really describe the animation. 

Saludos, publico por primera vez para saber que tan seguro es actualizar a MacOs Sequoia mientras se este utilizando la versión 24.1.0 de After effects, no puedo actualizar AE por temas de plugins que necesito, anteriormente utilizaba la version 2020 de AE, pero con MacOS Sonoma, no podia abrirlo, y fue un verdadero dolor de cabeza. Quisiera saber si alguien ha tenido la oportunidad de probar y comprobar que por lo menos la versión 24.1.0 es compatible con MacOS Sequoia, o si hay algun link donde pueda ver la compatibilidad de ello, muchas gracias, estoy en medio de proyectos, quisiera actualizar Mac, pero no quiero arriesgarme de nuevo.

Hi all, I have two kinds of problems with this animation:1 - Moving the 3D camera forward is jerky.2 - The edges of holes in the “grid” where the cup lands are jaggedI don't have much experience with 3D compositions, so I'm asking for help in understanding what the problem might be. Could it be due to composition or software settings unknown to me? Or does it depend on the hardware? I hope not! These are the specifications of my pc:- Mainboard: ASUS PRIME X570-P- Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core 3.40 GHz- Ram: 64GB- Graphics: NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4070 GDDR6Thanks

Imported 4k video file, black in the preview pane.  Went to the visibility eye and there is no box there to click it! HUH?? 1080p video shows up imediately. The file is mp4. What gives here?

Like a person wants to make a short film and is still learning but does not even know the name of WIRE REMUVE AFTER SHOOTING APP when he is also ready to spend the money.Will anyone tell me?

Hi all,This is a problem that I have from day one. I have 3 displays conected directly in to 3 separate USB Type C connectors on a back side of my Mac Studio. Display properties shows always right order of screens, starting from left to right (1 left, 2 center (main display), 3 right).  But problem is that every time I restart my Mac output screen of Premiere or After Effects is placed on  left or right screen. If I open Video preview settings in AE or PP check box is on the same place that I have checked before but softvare changes monitor markings. Monitor that iss Adobe Monitor 2 now is showing preview on monitor 3. So every time I must start Preferences/Video preview and change monitor selection to get output on the same screen as before the restart. I have tried to deactivate "separate spaces" on other screens but that didnt help. Right now my settings looks like this: Can someone please help me out!?Thank's in advance

I have numerous green screen footage from .mxf files that are not being rendered. They appear in After Effects but not in the media encoder.  Any ideas?   

Hi, I am new to AE, and I would like to install the Sapphire Plug in but I do not know how to. I have seen many videos and tutorials and none work. I have already downloaded the plug in from BorisFX and I have seen the instructions but I do not quite understand. If anyone can explain how to intall it in easier beginner words, I would appreciate it. 

Hey i do not have the option to extrude this path i have imported in from Illustrator. I have followed many step by step tutorials on how to use illustrator paths in after effects but i cannot progress past the point of "extrude" becuase that option does not show up. I can even edit the path in after effects so i know it is not a bitmap image it is a vector path. Why cant i extrude them?

Hi all, is it possible to disable automatic caching in AE or significantly increase the time before automatic caching? Because now there is a limitation that after maximum 15 seconds caching will start, I don't need it and it constantly overloads my PC and disc because of which it keeps freezing when I don't need the cache.

After effect lugging / crashing after creating a shape/ video attached 

Hi, I'm running High Sierra and my iMac started to give up yesterday.  I unistalled AE, and because I don't have a version installed anymore, it won't give me the options to install pervious version.  The OS prevents me from installing any newer version that CC19. Any ideas how to get around this? I basically just need to collect and reduce a few projects onto drives to move onto a new machine. Thank you

Hello, I am creating an object instance during PF_Cmd_SEQUENCE_SETUP and I want to use reference counting to keep it around during PF_Cmd_SEQUENCE_FLATTEN, PF_Cmd_SEQUENCE_RESETUP and PF_Cmd_SEQUENCE_SETDOWN. What I do:Setup: creates the object instance and associates an UUID to it and sequence_data stores object instance pointer + UUID.Flatten: creates a flat representation of sequence_data (used for serialization). In my case, I put the UUID of my object in the flat data.Resetup: get back a pointer to the object from UUID or create one if not found (when loading from a file)Setdown: release the object if ref count goes down to 0. I am not sure how to do ref counting. For example, if I create a new project with a media, associate the plugin to a layer and then close the project, I got these numbers of call (in AE 2024 24.6.1 build 2):- Setup: 1- Flatten: 1- Resetup: 4- Setdown: 4 This works for sequence_data which is created in Setup, destroyed

Hi we are only just experiencing the issue covered in this : https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-bugs/file-is-damaged-33-7-if-project-contains-c4d-file-version-24-1/idi-p/14312811#comment-on-thisDo we know if this is still an issue in the latest versions of AE as we are fully up to date but just started to get this error with projects.Is there a fix? 

One feature I miss a lot from Nuke is the possibility to bake a texture to UV space. Lots of great comp VFX are created this way.http://www.xuanprada.com/blog/2016/2/22/bake-from-nuke-to-uvs I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to do this in AE. Plugin perhaps?

Hello, I really hope someone can help me. Please note I am working from a work issued macbook and Adobe account.  SPECS:MacOS Monterey 12.5.1MacBook Pro 16 inch 2019 AFTER EFFECTS:22.0.1 / 22.6 I was working from a mac with the exact same specs as above but due to an IT issue I had to swap laptops with a collague. I was given a wiped macbook so installed Adobe Cloud etc. Since working from this newly issued macbook none of the projects I created last week work. I get a mirage of error messages.  The projects were created and are hosted on Dropbox which we use for a remote network. I am accessing files from the cloud when I open the project. The error messages range from: After Effects reading from file .... 3::6After Effects Error 51::19After Effects Error cannot reopen open file 3:130After Effects cannot read file 86::1 I do not understand this as the projects were working perfectly. I since have changed the permissions on the mac so AE has full