After Effects

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.

Hi Adobe Community, when I try to open an specific After Effects file it stops at 44% an then pops a window to Save a Copy, and when I save AFTER EFFECTS closes. The copy that is saved does not open, the orginal file does not open. I tried to import the original file on new AE document. I tried to use previows version of the software, tried to update drivers. I think the problem might be because the name of the AE file has this character: @. I have attached a picture of the exact moment when the program forces me to save a copy and then closes.What can I do to open this file, is a work file so I cant lose this file. Hope you can help me.Thanks in advance for your help!!! 

Is there a way, plug-ins included, to have markers from a precomp show up in the parent timeline? I placed markers in my precomp's workspace, not on individual layers in the precomp, and would like to be able to see them show up on the precomp layer in the parent. Seems like a useful feature but I don't see an automated way to do it. I keep having to recreate the markers and manually adjust them if things change. @10440662: Move this to an idea if there is no native way to do this because it would be a big productivity booster for me, and I'm sure many others.

I'm inserting images into after effects and they don't appear, does anyone know how to solve this?

I used the Roto Brush Tool to remove the background of a video. It worked. I also used the Refine Edge Tool to refine around  the hair lines. Then I got this red contour when propagated and rendered. What could be the possible cause? How to correct this? Thanks for any help!

Hi, I c'ant open AE anymore. I think i deleted a file on my computer trying to make storage room available and now it's stuck. Everytime I want to open it, it says alert :  MEE_Plugins> <5> /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore And then can't open After effect following that...

PFA the video. The 3D layers are all messed up when it is getting rendered or played outside of the composition, but working the way it should animate when it's inside of the composition. I've tried all different versions of After Effects (22, 23, 24). All giving me the same issue. Any suggestion would be helpful. Thanks in advance for checking by. 

Since 2-3 days I'm facing alot of crash. Is it with other's as well or there's some problem with my laptop? 

Hello,I was using the CC Bend it tool and I noticed that as it bends near the end of my composition, it begins to crop the graphic. I've already messed with the start and endpoints and have tried to use toComp(value) which gave me an error. I feel like it is something else. I think it's possibly another selection, but I'm not sure how to figure it out exactly. Has anyone seen this before? 

I am creating a landscape in illustrator which "stretches out beyond artboard", I need to import this in after effects without the artwork getting cropped(including the artwork as whole). How it can be done? Up till now I use to create high resolution artwork in Illustrator i.e 2000x4000 pixel, and than importing it into after effects (1920x1080 comp) and scale it there to animate. But it creates the comp unnecessarily heavy…any work around? thanks would appreciate a quick response.

Hi Everyone,I had a crash that required a reinstall on my Mojave Mac. I was using After Effect and have been for a while. I cannot upgrade the Mac because I have other apps that won't go past Mojave. I just want my previous version back...but it is no longer available to download."ProDesingTools" website does not provide previous versions anymore ...Any suggestions ?Thanks,Sébastien !

Whenever I tried to import the 3D glass bottle in After Effects, the materials seemed to be gone. The 3D model was created in Blender then exported as gltf or obj. But no matter which format, it seems to run into the same problem. I read somewhere that it has to do with my lighting settings when I import it into a composition. But I actually didn't add or touch the light settings at all.  I am wondering If anyone has experienced this before or know how to solve this? Thank you. 

Hello, I have encountered a very odd issue where my main composition is unable to (0ms apparently) render a single frame and it appears black. When pressing space to playback, I receive the following error when pressed BEFORE the missing frame OR during export: After Effects error: bad checkout ID passed to checkout_layer_pixels (25 : 244). This happens on both 2023 (ran on rosetta so I can select more choice of 3rd party plugins) and the converted proj file on 2024.  I am on a 16GB MBP M1, Sonoma 14.1.1. The suprising part here is that the frame is totally fine in my precomp. It runs smoothly and renders it, so something is unable to communicate that frame back to my composition, clearly. 

I'm trying to make my own plugin, started with the skeleton plugin, copied it, renamed everything there, but get an error:"No loaders recognized this plugin, so the plugin is set to Ignore." The entry point Effect_Main is set, but never reached. I want to know the origin of this error. It looks, that AE reads the PIPl section and decides not to load the plugin for unknown reason. Why?What are the loaders?How to choose the loader?What is the algorithm of the loader to decide if it must load the plugin or not?Is setting Kind {AEEffect} enough to choose the right loader? (Seems not, what else?)

I'm trying to write a 3D importer that imports a custom 3D format, is it possible to make it so it behaves like the .obj importer? (Marked as 3D object, 3D transform, depth buffer, etc.)