After Effects

this is my build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6ZZqTMI mainly play games but its 10x better than my low end old pc but ae seems to be slower. Preview takes long time to load even with simple effects like twixtor.

Hi everyone;In After Effects, how can I make a layer in one composition follow the change of this property: comp("Master_1").layer("Mask").content("Ellipse_2").content("Ellipse Path 1").size …but start from the beginning of its own composition, instead of syncing to the timeline of “Master_1”?Basically, I want the “size” animation to play from the start, regardless of where the follower’s timeline currently is. Thanks! 

I got a simple animation of a shape layer that moves into frame and its size is controled by sliders on its layer and also a couple of sliders on a "ctrl" layer as well. The feature I'm implementing at the time is to have a image file to be masked by this shape layer and also move along staying perfectly centered using sourceRectAtTime();. (this part I removed from my files for simplicity sake) But this image kept moving in weird pattern and on a uncalled time. I got a text layer checking for the values for the sourceRectAtTime(); and for some reason the animation I did from 0 to 10f is not accounted untill the playhead reaches the 1 second mark.that looks like a bug to me. I removed everything else but the things that are essencial for this layer to work. Tested on AE 25.5.0 (build 4) and AE 24 24.6.4(build 3)

In Photoshop I can copy a flat grayscale image with no transparency and paste it into the layer mask to create a mask from that image. Is this somehting that can be done in After Effects with masks?  Basically like this gif, only the ref would be the video  

So let me preface this by stating that I am an utter and complete noob.  I've been tasked with creating some training videos and I am working on the outro for those videos.  I found some how to videos on YouTube that show how to make text appear to vanish into dust.Video 1 - Ryan Shirley Video 2 - Smertimba Graphics Both show essentially the same steps and I have followed them exactly.  My end results, however, don't look like theirs.  The particles are restricted to the bounding box for the text object. How do I get the particles to move beyond the text?  I thought that is what CC Composite was suppoosed to do.  I'm sure I'm missing something.  Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone, I've recently encountered an issue in After Effects that displays Unknown BIB Error. CT bad param: invalid CTCapStyle, Brv, 0 (83 :: 3) when I try to paste any text from Illustrator, even after 'Paste text without formatting' is disabled. I've attempted to do it on other versions of AE installed on my computer (23.6.2, 24.1.0 & 25.3.2) and AI (28.7.1 & 29.6.1), but the issue continues. Basically whichever version it is, the same issue recurs even though it was working fine a few days ago, possibly after I removed a Helvetica Neue font after it was being misread as the default UI font for my computer (?) But I've tried out the clearing font cache and ArialMT methods but it didnt work. I work on Windows version 10 if it helps! 

Hola, guten Tag!I've worked with the Notch codec earlier this year and for the past few months, I've been getting these 2 error messages when starting AE. Note that I don't need the plugin anymore. It also seems to mess with my other plugins I'm using as they usually appear to stop working after 30-60 minutes (I tried resetting them and all) My launching looks like the following: <<*Launches AE*After Effects warning: The following plugins have failed to load. Please reinstall these plugins:/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/ NotchLCPremierePlugin.bundle/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/ NotchLCAfterEffectsPlugin.bundle*clicks OK*After Effects error: Couldn't find main entry point for NotchLCAfterEffectsPlugin.bundle (48 :: 72 ) *clicks OK*AE launches>>The problem I'm having then is, that the folder does not exist. I'm managing to get to the library folder and everything but after the "Common" branch, the

Is there any method to truly merge multiple selected shape paths within a single shape layer into one unified path, ensuring that overlapping or touching anchor points are combined into single, shared points (a boolean "Unite" or "Merge" operation at the anchor point level?

Here is a breakdown of the color issues based on version and color management settings: version 24.x / Adobe color managedAfter Effects (24.6.8) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (24.6.8) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to mp4 → ISSUE: The gamma is slightly different. (Is it forcibly converting sRGB to Rec. 709?) version 24.x / OCIO color managedAfter Effects (24.6.8) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (24.6.8) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to JPEG → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect.Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to mp4 → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect. version 25.x / Adobe color managedAfter Effects (25.5) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (25.5) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (25.5) direct render to JPEG → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect.Media Encoder (25.5)

[Note: I know they just announced that 25.2 is available for download, but Creative Cloud just gave me 25.3, so I'm not really sure what's going on (and maybe I'm not the only one)] Version: 25.3.0 (Build 71)Platform: Windows 11 Steps to reproduce: Hold mouse over composition window, hold down Alt and turn scroll wheelExpected result: Composition window zooms centred on mouse cursor locationActual result: Composition window zooms centred on centre of window For the 3-4 years I've been using AE, I've been holding down Alt and scrolling my mouse wheel in order to zoom toward whatever my mouse cursor is hovering over, both in the Composition window and in the Timeline. But after I updated to 25.3 yesterday, in the Composition window, Alt+Wheel now zooms in and out on the centre of the window and the Wheel without a keyboard modifier zooms in and out at the cursor point (which I only discovered by experimentation).But the Timeline zoom control hasn't changed: it still u

In many cases, the debugger comes up with a line number that does not exist. (e.g. an error on line 71, while the expression consists of 69 lines). It's hard to say when exactly this problem shows up, but it occurs a lot, so I guess more users have experienced this behaviour.

Thinking of buying a new computer for Adobe After Effects? After seeing countless posts on forums and Reddit asking about what computer someone should buy, I decided to break down exactly what to look for when shopping for a PCthat can handle After Effects.   I discuss laptop or desktops, Windows or Apple, graphics cards, storage, RAM etc... In order to determine what's important, I briefly explain how After Effects works, as that gives us some clues as to what hardware to prioritise (spoiler: it's RAM), I then try to answer some frequent questions: RAM vs CPU cores – which matters more for After Effects GPU choices – does Nvidia still beat AMD? Laptops vs desktops – is upgradeability more important than RAM?   Linked on the video page is a scoring spreadsheet you can use to compare potential computers Whether you’re a motion designer, 3D artist, editor, or student, I hope this guide will help you buy smart and get the most performance out of your budget.

Issue - typing in a new frame number in a time remap parameter in the timeline produces the wrong number. Steps to reproduce - 1. take a footage layer, set it to 'freeze current frame' 2.edit the frame number in the text field next to time remap in the timelineExpected result - it should show the correct numberActual result -  it shows the wrong number. the workaround is to carefully drag the text slider to the correct number.Adobe After Effects version - this bug has been present at least since 2020 until 2025Operating system - Windows 10 or 11GPU driver version (Windows only) - any driver version

every time i try and set it up it bugs and says error code 127, so then when i go and find error code 127 and see how i can fix it, it ends up telling me to go to the adobetemp which i cant find in files help pls   [moving to the correct community, as this is about After Effects and not about Lightroom Classic - Mod.]

Someone please help me for the past 2 days I've been stuck, I'm using the beta versions of premiere and after effects, whenever I try importing my project from premiere into AE, everything goes into after affects like the captions and sounds ETC, but my b roll/footage is just black and not showing up. Please help 

Due to some technical problem i had to delete the creative cloud and all adobe apps like after effects and photoshop.And when i reinstall them, i found that extenion tab is greyed out, how to fix that Please help !!!

I'm testing scriptui panels by launching them from VSC, the problem is when the panel loses focus it goes behind the main window. The only way to get access to the panel is to shrink the main window to reveal thepanel hiding in the background, supoer nnoying. The panel works fine and stays on top if it is run from the file/scripts/run script...   Is there any way to force the panel to stay at the front?   Mac OS 15.5AE 25..5VSC 1.105.1ExtendScript Debugger 2.1.0

I've been editing a video for a day and this morning when I went to play "Cached Preview Needs 2 or More Frames to Playback" pops up. I've tried purging and putting it in Quater or Custom but nothing works.I've tired putting more ram in but whenever I change it and look back it goes right back to 0 and I don't know how to fix..    Title edited by Mod.

I render out a lot of image sequences at work, b/c if you have a small change in the middle of an animation with lots of layers and effects, overwriting a few frames is a lot faster than a whole mp4. It drives me crazy that I can't patch up a few frames in the middle of a sequence with media encoder. I have to take the time to let AE render them, or downsave to another version which is inefficient.Why isn't there the option of using the same frames numbers as the after effects comp that's been exported? I officially request this option in future updates. Unless anyone knows of a work around? I haven't been able to find one.

Hello,I’m new to After Effects plug-in development.In my plugin, I need to perform strict RGB value comparisons in an 8-bit environment, so I also want AE to automatically convert input to 8-bit when the project is set to 16-bit or 32-bit color depth.However, I’ve noticed that when AE automatically converts 16-bit or 32-bit images down to 8-bit for an effect that only supports 8-bit, it introduces subtle noise or dithering artifacts.I tested several of AE’s built-in “8-bit only” effects and saw the same issue — the colors contain subtle noise, and sometimes the noise even evolves, like in this GIF.My plugin needs to calculate and output precise HEX color values, and several internal steps depend on exact 8-bit operations and strict RGB comparisons.So my question is: is there any way to avoid these noise artifacts during AE’s automatic 16/32-to-8-bit conversion?

What is the point of AEGP_GetLayerToWorldXform matrix? What does it give me? It's a really confusing name, does it transform the layer-space coordinates to composition-space? What does "World" mean? Is it supposed to be used to make an effect work in composition space instead of layer space?

I cannot download after effects, It only shows "free trial" or "buy" options on creative cloud app, but I have After Effects on my plan. When I try to purchase, it gives an error: "This purchase is not supported. You already own After Effects." But I cannot use After effects. 

Does anyone know if there’s an expression or plug-in that can translate text in AE?