After Effects

No documentation found of how to make that determination using ExtendScript.In order to work around that I'm currently using the following hack:const isTwoNodeCamera = camera.pointOfInterest.canSetExpression;Is there a better and safer way?

I have an audio clip as a layer in my project. Let's say its named "20240904-2210.xxx".I am trying to build a text expression that will take the 2024 and the 09 and the 04, and rewrite it to be: 2024-09-04.In JavaScript, I can just built a variable & then break it up with substr.But AE is saying substr is not valid.How can I break up the audio layer name into separate strings, such as strYear, strMonth, strDay?At the end, I can just do something like:  result = strYear + "-" + strMonth + "-" + strDayI know this must be super simple, but for some reason, I cannot figure it out.   😕😕

Hey, I'm currently attempting to load a model into element 3d, but whenever I do it, the textures dont load. They load in the scene setup but once I get back to my main composition it goes completely grey. Any help?

EGP Context - for Font Size, please replace displayed label, "Size" with Font Size. This seems trivial but gets me so many times and for Video Editors it's an unnecesary source for confusion. It's become a huge pain having to workaround this for occasions when it isn't necessary. 

Hi. I'm trying to maintain stroke width when scaling a shape, and I use the expression below (added to the "Stroke Width" property). It works when scaling with both axis constrained. However, if I scale the axis separately, the expression doesn't work anymore. Is there something I can add to it so that the stroke thickness remains the same when scaling them independently?value*(100/transform.scale[0]) Thanks

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Response to this error. I've seen other related posts and trying all the solutions none of them worked. I have a 4070 Super 12GB, so it's a nice GPU.The error is as follows:"After Effects encountered a GPU effects error on this frame. Possible cause: Out of GPU memory."The error comes out as soon as I open the project. I worked on this same project a few weeks ago and everything was working fine. 

Hallo ich habe ein Problem und zwar zeigt After Effects nicht die Ebenen an von einer Adobe Illustrator Datei und dazu wenn ich diese Datei/Vektor in After Effects runter skalliere werden die Vektoren verpixelt.. Ich bitte um Erklärung und ich bin neu in der Adobe Branche.  Dazu habe ich ein Video gemacht wie meine gesamte Vorgehensweise ist(Vom Adobe Illustrator bis AE). Gerne korrigieren und ergänzen. Dankeschön 

Hi there, I was wondering if someone has experience extracting different passes from an EXR multilayer sequence. I'm following a course for Blender + After Effects for 3D rendering and compositing. I rendered some 3d models in Blender, after tracking the 3D camera on an original footage I'm also using. As you'd see from the screen recording I'm giving you, I have the combined pass, but I also have the diffuse color, diffuse direct/indirect, Gloss color, gloss direct/indirect, AO, and shadow catcher. I synchronized the EXR multilayer sequence to match the AE composition settings for color and frame rate. However, you can see that the result renders in the viewport only until the 4th frame and then disappears, plus the 3d objects don’t have the proper color. If I use the option with the combined pass and nothing else, I can preview beyond the 4th frame, but all 3D objects disappear. The moment I introduce any other pass, I get a black screen beyond the 4th frame. I set the

In a fresh new project, collecting works as expected. However, once you go to collect a comp containing some asset(s), it seems to remember them moving forward and will start to ignore the For Selected Comps setting, even if you go back to selecting the empty comp(s). I've attached a very quick demo showcasing what I'm describing. I don't show it in this video, but I did test collecting the empty comp and it does indeed adhere to the footage listed at the end of the video. Opening that collected file shows all comps.   I've seen the "reduce project first, then collect" workaround recommended in the past, and that would work. Another workaround seems to be to close and reopen the project. That seems to make AE forget that you almost collected different comps before and it starts working as expected.Overall it seems like a pretty finicky bug that can be tough to expose consistently.   Tested on:AE Version 24.6.1 (another user confirmed on previous version and different OS)

The Camera Lens Blur effect that came with AE CS 5.5 and CS 6 doesn't look nearly as good as the old Lens Blur effect that came with CS 5; it's pretty much unusable for my purposes. Foreground elements that should be sharp render sharp, but with a blurry halo around them. The old Camera Lens blur does not exhibit this behavior, nor the Frischluft Depth of Field plugin.Here's an image showing the depth map and how the three plugins render it: CameraLensBlur.pngThe images are composited from 16-bit PNGs rendered out of Cinema 4D. There's a nasty halo visible around the foreground particle in the upper left in the CS6 Camera Lens Blur version. I saved the old Lens Blur effect as a preset out of a CS5 project and am, fortunately, still able to use that approach in CS6 since the "improved" version of the plugin looks pretty crummy (I skipped AE CS5.5). As a test I installed the demo of Frishluft's Lenscare plugins, and after inverting the depth buffer in the plugin I got a good result.The "

Seit dem update kann ein Null objekt an dem eine Kamera gehftet ist nicht mehr verschoben werden und ist in der MItte des Screens fixiert. die werte ändern sich und auch die Kamera ändert die Position, aber das null ist einfach nicht mehr greifbar mit dem auswahl tool. Was ist das Problem?

I've been having a major issue with After Effects since today with all types of files. Sometimes I can work, but often the program crashes abruptly. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it, and the update is fine. I have the Motion Bro plugin with the latest update... I don't know what else to do. Does anyone have a solution? I got a message once about a problem with the "fill" asset... but honestly, it doesn't change anything... Thanks for your help.

Hello, I'd appreciate any help with this... I have the most updated version of AfterEffects, but my video still renders as completely black no matter what I try! Here are my default settings: I've tried various things...Adding a solid layer, or rendering as losless (as mentioned here... https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/video-turns-black-after-exporting/td-p/12568192) Nothing works! Would appreciate any help here. Thank you.

So I'm working on VFX in AE with some Clog2 footage shot with the Canon C70. I'm not the color corrector nor grader. How can I output my effects with the color as flat as the Clog2 footage but still retain the color information of the VFX? Right now I have colorful effects on flat video which is really going to mess with the color grader's job.

Приветствую всех. Помогите решить проблему, может у кого-то есть!! Плагин Geolayers 3 в AE перестал работать. При загрузке карты в плагине она не открывается во вьюпорте AE. Есть ли способ решить эту проблему? Затененные страны отображаются, а источник самой карты (вода, земля) — нет.

Hi,I want to create counter with jumps of 2 numbers from 0 to 100, jumps like: 0,2,4,6,8,10....I know how to create counter with slider control etc.. but i need help how i can jump numbers..Thanks.

I noticed something: when I use a track matte on a layer and keep the mask I used, pixels remain around the effect where it connects with the mask. To remove these pixels, I have to use a choker, but only if the composition of these elements is separate. If it’s in a complex composition, then there’s nothing I can do. Here is a video tutorial I made about this. Can this be modified?youtu.be/HYAQQuNPfow?si=VygGuXVuRtdxj3au

Hi guys, please tell me how to solve it. We have a shape with X Position and Y Position, the Y Position value is set via slider control. How to make Y Position change from 0 to this value, but only without keyframes in slider control?

.glb files often appear completely white in AE after previously having worked.  Opened a project today and the .glb 3d object that was fine yesterday now has no material. The same file DOES have a material in other apps, so it's AE failing.  I've had this problem before and restarting would fix it, but that's not helping now.  Me and my colleague are both having the same problem, with Windows and mac. AE version 24.4 Seriously can you just roll out features when they actually work? 

After effecs version 24.6 renders darker videos when linearize working color space is on when using 32 bit per channel in color project settings.The solution was to go back to the 24.5 version of After Effects. Older versions never gave me this problem before. 

BugPhotoshop 25.11.0macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 Open composition on the timeline and select from the menu: Composition > Save frame as...Render out a 16-bit file with transparency (Tif, Psd...).Open a Photoshop composition.Drag the rendered file as a layer in Photoshop or place it from the menu - no transparency available! Bad. Please fix.