After Effects

Hace dos actualizaciones (24.4.1) Al querer exportar un video con Media Encoder empezó a tardar en añadirse el proyectoa la cola, luego no me dejaba abrir la configuración de exportación porque nunca se llegaba a activar el Dynamic link, sin embargo sí podía exportar. Ahora con la vrsión 24.6 dejó de funcionar incluso el panel de previsualizaciones (de la composición y de las capas en sí), no puedo ver nada y sin embargo me pone que se tarda en renderizar cuando antes fluía sin problema. No sé que está pasando pero no puedo hcaere nada si no lo veo.

Part tutorial, part investigation of a classic effect.   After finding out that the DVDs for Star Trek: The Next Generation included an extra where the elements used to make up the iconic transporter look were shown, I decided to see if I could recreate them within After Effects. The original footage in the extra is not quite complete and is in SD quality. I saw it in a roundtable video on YouTube and the compression has not helped it either. So the challenge was can I use just the included effects in AE to get close. And you be the judge (although I think I got it).   In TNG VFX Supervisor Dan Curry's book (Star Trek: The Artistry of Dan Curry) he breaks down the effect into 4 parts: The Shower curtain Swirling particles The Power Pellet The fading out   Using his notes and the clips from the roundtable extra, I used Shape layers with dashes, gaps, repeater and Pucker & Bloat settings for the initial particles. Fractal Noise supplied the shower curtain and CC Pa

Hello, in PremierePro, I use the combo PF_CHECKOUT_PARAM/PF_CHECKIN_PARAM in various places (SequenceSetup, SequenceResetup, Render, ...) to get/set (read/write) paramaters value but in AfterEffects params paremeter is NULL in PF_Cmd_SEQUENCE_SETUP, PF_Cmd_SEQUENCE_RESETUP and PF_CHECKOUT_PARAM crashes the plugin. Is there a way to get/set parameters values outside of Render ? Thanks in advance David

Hi,My comp is 4000x4000, 30 fps. at 12.26 time  my frame is 386.so I created one light flickering animation with 3 frames, first and last color same, middle is another color. gap between them is 10 frames. so I want the light  flickering loop animation to stop exactly at 12.26 (time) frame (386).after some study I came to learn that  --- loopOutDuration(type = "cycle", duration = 0)--- this is the expression I have to use in such case. and in '0' I have to write the time I want the loop animation to stop. But if I put '12.26' in '0' flickering stops. nothing happens. if '0' remains flickering going on till the end. what am doing wrong? Please guide me. :'(     

My rotoscope renders to mp4 are coming out with white cutout and black background. I am selecting RGB with Alpha. What am I doing wrong? thanks,Geoff

Anytime I have AE open, it causes my fans to roar. I owned a 4 year Corsair One that didn't cause my fans to roar. I upgraded and built a new PC and for some reason the fan performance is loaded with my upgraded PC than with my older system13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K 3.00 GHz64.0 GB4 ASUS TUF Gaming TF120 ARGB Chassis FansASUS ROG Strix LC II 360 ARGB All-in-one AIO Liquid CPU CoolerWhat can I do to help with the fan noise? Any tips?

When I try to run After Effects, I get a message saying that there was a conflict with the last session and it won't run. I've tried all four options below, but none of them solve the problem.Uninstalling and reinstalling After Effects using the dedicated uninstall tool that comes with the Adobe program installation does not resolve the issue. So far, I've tried to resolve the issue by1. uninstalling and reinstalling After Effects using the dedicated uninstaller tool2. uninstalling and reinstalling After Effects using a dedicated uninstall tool and reinstalling the 2023 version (I reinstalled After Effects, Media Encoder, and Premier Pro all to the 2023 version).3. uninstalling and reinstalling all Adobe programs, including After Effects and Premier Pro, and Adobe Creative with a dedicated tool4. uninstall all Adobe programs, including After Effects and Premiere Pro, and Adobe Creative with a dedicated tool, then find and remove all Adobe-related .json files and reinstall them.None of

I've been using AE for a few years now, but since I'm self-taught I struggle a bit with the vocabulary and how to search the "right" words to find useful results. I hope I'm communicating my question in a way that makes sense, and please feel free to educate me on the correct terms if I'm not using them correctly. When I use a mask, the handles(?) usually move as a straight line as I adjust it as seen in photo 1. However, sometimes they just stop working like that and only one side will move independantly, photo 2. I'm sure I'm accidently hitting a hot key or something that enables/disables this function, but I have no idea what it is or even how to properly search for a solution online. How do I enable and disable this function? Thanks everyone! 

Managed to resize font for menus, but cannot work out how to resize fonts for left hand side,Name Type File Size etc, and also trying to increase size of icons in timelne,  Audio, Solo, Lock Shy, Motion Blue etc. They are just too small to view properly. Any advice please.

Hi, I am seriously wondering if there is any way I can change this weird yellow color of pupet pin in Ae.and also any way I can make this weird yellow color circle bigger? My eyes are hurting, they are so tiny. Thank you. 

I'm currently running After Effects CC 2017 on my Macbook Pro; specs are below.Macbook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)OS: 10.10.5Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR2I've updated After Effects CC 2017 and I also emptied out my Media and Disc Cache.Whenever I try to auto-trace a text layer AE immediately freezes up and crashes before I cannot even click on the Auto-Trace dialogue box before the crash. I attempted this within my project which has gotten fairly big and in a brand new AE project with just a single text layer. I haven't received any error codes just the dialogue box that says that the program quit unexpectedly.

Hi,I'm wanting to track hands in a golf swing during the various stages.The problem is that the hand will change the appearance during the swing as it has to rotate in 3 dimensions. Normal motion tracking simply goes offline as the track point changes state.Would it be just easier to track the hand frame by frame or is there yet an easier automatic method?Source material: Luke Donald - slow motion golf swing - YouTube Cheers!

Is there anyone who knows about and could explain why the option "Create Camera from 3D Model" under Camera options, is greyed out and doesn't seem to get to work?  I understand that AE should be able to process c4d, glb, and obj files for 3D modeling, but do they need to be prepared in a certain matter for it to function, and if so how?  With or without cameras from their separate programs does not seem to make a difference, nor does it pre-composing them. For example, adding basic lights and cameras in c4d or blender exported as glb file won't make it function. Is AE not picking up on the saved camera and lights from these files overall or does something need to be prepared beforehand?I cannot find that much regarding this option in the AE user guide or any other place online so was hoping some friendly soul here had a good explanation. Here's a bit but I do not understand why it won't work: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/extract-and-animate-came

How can expression to a layer comp that when have image in comp opacity 100 and when doesn't have any image in comp opacity 0?

After effects (24.1) keep crashing when I switch language from English to other language by input language hotkey (I'm using Thai language, by the way) The app was totally fine when I type the text somewhere else (like notepad) then copy and paste the textor even I switch the language by using taskbar, the app still working Thanks in advanced

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Omino diffusion plugin showed up and was working... then an error occured and AE crashed.  On relaunch, Omino diffusion disappeared from effects list.All other Omino plugins, colorizer, snake etc are still present in the effects list. The location folder is program files, Adobe, support files, plugins, omino suite.aex files are present in there. Why has it ghosted itself?

Hey guys! For some reason, I'm unable to expand of the tools in the Composition or Effects. I click on that arrow on the left side of the function, but it won't open the drop down menu. Anyone else experiencing this? I fortunately know the keyboard shortcuts to pull up Opacity / Scale etc, but if I don't use the keyboard shortcuts, it won't open 😕😕 Not sure why this is happening.  Let me know if anyone is also experiencing this! Thank you!

I created a graphic template in AE with multiple text layers, and each has a bounding box. For flexibility, I have determined it's best not to have the bounding boxes for daily use, and just have unbounded text for each layer, but I can't figure out how to remove the bounding boxes. I could create all new layers, but I have so many effects and dependencies on each layer already, it would be a huge hassle. Any idea? Thanks.

Hello. I would like to remove the Lavalier mike and its cord from this clip. Normally, it would be a straight forward issue that can be solved easily. However, the woman’s hands keeps interfering and a simple removal is not possible. I will appreciate it very much if someone shows me the steps to take to remove tha mike and its cord while keeping the hands.

I can't copy and paste text from Illustrator to After Effects. I have tried one of the most used methods to solve the issue, opening the project from the After Effects panel rather than directly opening the project. It works till I copy 1 text, when I proceed to copy & paste other texts, it doesn't work again. I can't keep opening the project again & again to copy each text. Any NEW METHOD/SOLUTION would be appreciated. It's been a while since I have had this problem.

Hi Adobe and AE-Community, I am working on AE 24.1 / Mac OS Ventura / New Mac Studio and since 12 months I can't find any solution to one of these topics. AE behaves weird and seems to be defectively programmed. I do have serious problems to simply just work my job. I am on AE for 16 years now, so I usually find solutions to problems but in this case, I don't know that to do anymore.I also tried to contact the support, but since 4 weeks nobody answers anymore,Please help me out before I go mad ;--) Preview Errors:1 Preview is often stuck and unable to show anything and there is not even a progress bar,the only thing possible, to get it working again, is purging, saving, reopening the project. 2 When stopping the Preview, the Preview switches to half size view, or quarter size view,The Preview is getting smaller in the top left corner and remains like this for a while until it snaps back to the natural view. 3 It often takes ages to get a simple preview of a simple c

Hi allI have created a morph video. The video is supposed to have a pink background, but when I add the pink background the morph doesn't work. I followed this tutorial: https://youtu.be/cRmKfClMWIE?si=1yzxljNO5dIEL5JR I did choose QuikTime, alpha & RGB and animation as output.... but it still doesn't work. kindly assist.  In other words, I need export the video with another colour background and not the normal black upon creating the composition...

In 1995, I produced a music video without the use of a computer.  I was revisiting it and looking back, I wish I paid more attentuion to one recurring scene that was of a crazy wild video of tv snow feedback with an overlay of a circle mask of the singer.  The bacjground of the video feedback is mostly on the bottom of the screen and I wish I filled the screen with it. I also would like to increase the size of the overlay (singer) to a larger circle. Is this possible?  Keep in mind that the video is constantly moving and coming at you. if it is possible, I would duplicate this layer and isolate the singer in the circle as an overlay and then use the original frame to add more of the noise feedback. I attached a scfeen shot.  Thanks for any suggestions. Tony