After Effects

hey.  I'm experimenting with rotoscoping for the first time.  I know there's a little green in it, but my question is - how come i'm only seeing a small portion (square) of the full video size?  I'm sure this is a Newbie display question so thanks in advance 🙂  

Ae 24.6.2. Random crashes even when rendering. For God Sake fix the BUGS.

How can I pass arguments from osascript to extendscript, and how to access the passed arguments in extendscript?```osascript -l JavaScript -e "ae = Application('Adobe After Effects 2024'); ae.activate(); ae.doscriptfile('myjsx.jsx');"```1. How can I pass arguments in the above code?2. How can I access the passed arguments in my .jsx file?

Hi,I'm encountering an issue with the latest version of After Effects on Windows. When I attempt to launch the application, nothing appears on the screen—no splash screen or loading screen. However, when I check the Task Manager, I can see that After Effects is running, but there is no user interface or any indication that the program has actually launched.I've tried waiting, but the application never opens fully. I haven't received any error messages or prompts.Has anyone else experienced this issue or have any suggestions on how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you!

often encounter the problem that when I want to render from After Effects through Encoder, it doesn’t respond.•It opens, but the project for rendering doesn’t appear.•Or you drag and drop the project directly from AE, and it thinks for a while, then doesn’t respond anymore, or the project appears but when I hit render, it keeps thinking and says that such a project does not exist.•The same thing happens when I import the project directly into Encoder; it might say it can’t find it or, in general, the file I’m pointing to doesn’t load.I usually noticed that this can happen with large projects, with many compositions, or with effects like Posterize Time.

When using an OCIO config with file rules in place, it seems as though image sequences do not respect the file rules. For example, I've set EXR file types to come in as ACEScg. This works for single EXR files but not for EXR sequences.  This is what I have in the config for the file rules. As you can see, anything with EXR extension should be flagged for ACEScg while everything else will default to Raw.  file_rules: - !<Rule> {name: OpenEXR, extension: "exr", pattern: "*", colorspace: ACEScg} - !<Rule> {name: Default, colorspace: Raw} However, with this set, all EXR image sequences get missed and come in as Raw. Also, it's not just EXR sequences. I just did a test with PNG sequences and making a rule to interpret PNGs as "sRGB - Texture". Again, the single PNG comes in correctly while the PNG sequence gets missed and comes in as Raw. Since I can't attach the OCIO config or EXRs, you can recreate this by creating a custom version of the

For about a month or so, sporadically AE will take video footage and render a few frames as negative, inverted frames. When watching the playback, if you blink you can miss it, but the it's definitely there. The way to resolve it is to delete the footage/asset, save the project, close AE, and then re-open AE, re-import the footage, insert the footage where it's needed, and then wait until the cache is completely rendered. It didn't do this before, and this wastes a lot of time. Thoughts?

After Effects 24.6.2 (Build 2) When a layer is deleted, the Effects Control panel displays the effects of another layer in the composition, even though that layer is not selected in the composition.The expected behavior would be for the Effects Control panel to be empty. Interestingly, the bug fixes itself after a while. Composition hierarchy:Null 3 --> Effect > SLIDER 3Null 2 --> Effect > SLIDER 2Null 1 --> Effect  > SLIDER 1 

hey all.  I've been deeply inspired by the styles of motion comic creation on YouTube.  I'm wanting to create a motion comic, with the panning zooming in and out on the panels in a dynamic way, and wondering about a workflow on that.  Does anyone have any experience in this? 

Hi! Simple question, and I can't find the answer anywhere. I have set work area points (default keybinds are "b" and "n") so that the AE will only render frames in that small area to expediate editing. But, it's ignoring them, and instead rendering the WHOLE comp, which is making editing slow to a crawl. Is there a setting that I managed to tweak that's doing this? Thanks!Edit: I've gone into the Preview window and set the Range to "Work Area."

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!