After Effects

Img 1 are the details in AE and bodymovin was unable to export the stroke start length and width into json file, is there a way to do this or can I convert the whole stroke path into shape keyframes? Img 2 is the outcome of json file, as you can see they are not in water drop shape.   

The latest update seems to have drastically reduced the render speed on my system. A usual render of the type I'm doing take 1.5 to 2 hours, same render on new version taking roughly 5 hours. The AE file is pretty simple, mostly using Displacement although there is a fair amount of scripting holding it all together. On Windows 11, Intel i7-3700K 3.4GHz. 128GB RAM. Nvidia RGeForce TX 4080 GPU. Any ideas?

Hi!  As you read in the title, I have a problem when rendering from After Effects through Media Encoder on a Mac M1 (more specs down below). I have seena couple of threads about the topic with different answers, but none of them seem to work for me. First of all, when I press File > Export > Add to Media Encoder Queue..., it doesn't appear in the Media Encoder queue. In order to have my file in the queue, I need to add it to the AE native Render Queue and then press Queue in AME. By doing this, it does appear on the Media Encoder queue. Then, as soon as I press render, I get the ⚠️ icon and when I press on it to see the error, it says "Could not read from the source. Please, check if it has moved or been deleted". I'm attaching the Renderer I'm using as well.  I have the latest After Effects and Media Encoder (23.3). These are my Mac specs:Apple M1 Pro, MacOS Ventura 13.2.132GB RAM If anything else is needed, feel free to ask! Thank you

Hello, When I apply a mask to my object the color of it is changing although the opacity is 100%. The mask is turning grey or blue as per the photos attached. Do you have an idea how can I solve the issue?    

How would one go about using iterate_generic to draw multiple transform_world using multiple threads?xform_data is my struct of parameters. I am trying to deploy it as such: suites.Iterate8Suite1()->iterate_generic( numThreads, &xform_data, MT_Xform );   PF_Err MT_Xform(void* refcon, A_long threadInd, A_long iterNum, A_long iterTotal) { // Use transform-world in here data->p_suites->WorldTransformSuite1()->transform_world... }  But I am getting no speed increases at all. Any suggestions? Part of it is the lack of documentation, so any help is appreciated. 

so in after effects, when i am editing and i go to the effects and presets search bar and i search something up, nothing ever shows up. say i needed to add motion tile to my clip, i search it up in the effects and presets search bar, but it says no reasults found, and in order to add it i have to go into to effects, stylize, the motion title. it takes up alot of time this way, so how do i reset it so that i can just search up the effect in the search bar? thank you.

I recently installed ITC Garamond in my computer. The font did not have any issues being installed and was validated. The font shows up in Illustrator, but it is not found in After Effects or Premiere (the two programs I use most). Any help would be appreciated. Running Premiere 12.1 After Effects 15.1 (all other apps most recent update as well) and macOS High Sierra 10.13.5.

Now I am having this issue.. can anyone help??

I noticed that my little icons next to source name and parent link have disappeared, any idea on how I get those back? I circled the area I'm talking about. This is totally driving me crazy!

Hello, first post on this sight Like a few other people I've seen, I'm having issues with opening after effects as it keeps saying that the Sapphire plugin does not exist. I've tried basically everything, reinstalling, deleting sapphire folders, and even the "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/" thing, but for me it does not show a plugins folder. Are there any updated solutions to this?

I had imported a mobile phone 3d model and all was working well.  Then, after displaying correctly for a few seconds, it suddenly appeared like this.  For a while it was rendering correctly, then startedflickering.  I started playing around with keyframes and rotation, and now it suddenly won't render correctly at all.  Any idea what's causing this? 

I am trying to use Roto Brush tool on a composition. Usually, after selecting the Roto Brush Tool (Alt+w), all you need to do is double click the layer you want to use the Roto Brush. But somehow after I double-click the layer, the Roto Brush Panel does not appear.  How to make the Roto Brush panel appear if double-clicking it is not working? I don't know if this info is useful or not, but I use Windows 10 and I kept hearing 'bling' sound after double clicking the layer for Roto Brush. If this is a bug after i update After Effects, do I have to uninstall the update?

I’ve tracked different surfaces and I can’t apply Corner Pin (Support Motion Blur) without the image becoming pixelated or disappearing. It works fine with Corner Pin and everything works and looks as it should.I’ve successfully used Corner Pin (Support Motion Blur) with some layers but not others - I can't find the reason why this should be the case.  Can't see what I’m doing wrong to prevent all my tracks/pre-comps having Corner Pin (Support Motion Blur) applied.Windows machine, using Mocha AE and latest After Affects 2023.  Resolution of video clip and comp is 2704 x 1520, resolutions of my pre-comps are the smae - content within them are just .png's and .jpg's.Thanks in advance for any help or guidance.

Adobe Photoshop has these very handy keyboard shortcuts like:- "X" to toggle between the Fill and Stroke options of a layer. - Shift X" invert the color options between Fill and Stroke- "/" to toggle between Stroke and no Stroke or Fill and No Fill But I can't find the same options in After Effects. Am I missing something? Or is it not possible to set keyboard shortcuts for commonly used actions like this in After Effects? If not, are there any third party options that can enable such shortcuts in AE? I already have the great (and free!) "FX Console" which is fantastic for commonly used actions like calling up any effect in a split second. I use it all the time. But I really wish there were keyboard shortcuts for things like toggling Fill/No Fill and Stroke/No Stroke options.   

I recently purchased the new Macbook Pro M1 Max and I have had nothing but issues with Adobe.  Please note: I try all the exact same things I will mention on my Macbook Pro 2018 (same version of Pro and AE and same clip used along with the same project) and it works 100% fine - just slower.  Mainly, when I "replace footage in AE" from Premiere, it opens up AE and the video doesn't show up and gives me an error of an unsupported file type with a censor color bar as the video.  So I grab the drone 4K footage and put it in manually.  Once it's in, I 3D track the layer, but it will ONLY give me the "tripod pan solve" option and I am not able to 3D track the land at all.  Again, the old computer works perfectly fine.  I've looked up a ton of Tracking tutorials (been 3D tracking for years now with no problems) along with uninstalling all adobe apps, and even factory reset the computer to start from scratch.  Yet both the censor bar video and tracking errors

Hello Hello, A few days ago I did the AE24 update.Since then, after working in AE for 15min. or so, a bug appears.When I select a layer, and than select the effect on the layer - the composition jumps into a precomp thats in the initial composition.Is there a solution for this issue?I have to restart everytime this happens, but after 15min. it starts having the bug again. A link to a video to show what happens.https://streamable.com/umyydy Thanks!

Another question ragarding .replace: I want to remove the line breaks before and after all "'*" characters in a layer source text:"Text 1*Text 2*Text 3"should turn into "Text 1*Text 2*Text 3". I've recently learned that .replace only affects the first instance, and needs to be complemented by a /g (as in "global"). However, I can't find out exactly how to make this work. This is my best attempt:text.sourceText.replace(/\r*\r/g, "*")  but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong here?

Hi, I am trying to stretch text in an after effects file. I converted my text layer to a shape layer and added a path keyframe. However the bounding box for each letter does not show up. I can manipulate the whole word but not the individual letters. Does someone know how to fix this?

Hi, I'm seeing this "Mercury Software Only" option enabled, every single time I open After Effects. I'm constantly switching in every session. Is there any way to make it default to CUDA?   

I want to ask, why when I finished rendering with the h.264 file format, the result was stuck like an image and there was no animation running and only sound. However, if I use the quicktime file format, the video can run smoothly. Is there a solution so that you can still use h.264 again, because the results of the h.264 file format can save storage. I've downgraded AE but still no results. Thank you

I´ve recently updated to After Effects 2023. I wanted to animate a 2 node camera like I used to - by creating a null object and parenting the camera to the null object. Since the update I can´t connect the camera to the null object anymore - is there a new way to do it in AE 2023? I couldn´t find any tutorials that cover this topic. Thank you!   

Hi, So, I'm brand new to After Effects and animating in general. I have this project for my Motion class where we need to animate a title sequence. I chose the 1960's Ocean's Eleven, where the dots form numbers and then turn into the numbers and become more intricate patterns. Thankfully, I only need to really do the first minute or so. Here it is if anyone wants to look at it. https://youtu.be/xnG3OjIcN8M?si=rytrrjVTRrst_fEj If anyone could give me any advice on how to make dots move like the pattern in the beginning, and how they disappear and reappear one by one, that would be a great help.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. But I have a 3D scene with a world map and an aircraft following a path (red line) along that map. After applying auto-orient along path to my aircraft, the plane faces the wrong way. So I set the Z rotation manually to 51º to make sure it's pointing in the direction of travel. But the problem is that after applying auto-orient,  the aircraft develops this unwanted jerking motion now and again as it turns. See pics of my project below and attached animation. Thank you very much in advance to anyone who can help me troubleshoot this issue. 🙏🙏🙏  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRGPFBk6YA  

Hello Dear After community  I'm very familiar with Premiere pro and I've used a lot of text presets in Premiere (like Mogrt files). But I can't seem to find similar text presets for After effects. Do you use some text presets on after ? I don't mean templates ... but just pre-made effects Can we use Mogrt in After ?  Thanking you in advance 

I'm running into trouble where, my MP3 files are not lighting up, so they're greyed out and not adding to my timeline or the little menu that holds all the files! The only up-side is that I have to physically import all the time via "opening the file" from my documents (on the computer, not the shared libraries).