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Hi everyone,I'm running into a frustrating color management issue in AE (latest version).Setup:Project: Working Color Space = Rec.709 Gamma 2.4, Linearize working color space = ON Footage: HEVC 4K clip. Interpret Footage shows Media Color Space = Rec.709. I tried both "Embedded" and overriding to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 Output Module: Output Color Space = Rec.709 Gamma 2.4, Convert To Linear Light = Off, Preserve RGB = OffProblem: In the Composition viewer everything looks correct (thanks to the view transform). But every export (H.264, ProRes, etc.) comes out washed out / low contrast.If I check Preserve RGB, the export matches the viewer perfectly.Theory vs Reality: In theory, AE should be doing: Source (sRGB/Rec.709) → Working Space Linear (1.0 gamma) → Output Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 (with gamma encoding on export).But the final gamma encoding step on export seems to be failing, so I get linear-looking results instead.Has anyone seen this specific issue? Any reliable workarounds besides always

Hello All!  I've recently ran into an issue that is quite frustrating. Any insight would be much appreciated!  Issue: The 3D camera tracker is not working as expected. After its analysis process, it simply does not display any of the track points. Additionally, it's having difficulty analyzing clips in detail. (A hard time tacking floor and wall surfaces but has many track points on trees.)  Context: I regularly use this feature of after effects but I noticed the issue happening after the more recent update. The only way I am able to view the track points is when I click the "Render Track Points" option in the effect options. With that said, these are unclickable or useable points. They are just juxtaposed on top of the clip. I have read many threads and have attempted their solutions. Nothing has worked yet. Below is everything I have tried so far.  Troubleshooting Attempts: Confirmed the "Show Layer Controls" option is enabled Confirm

3d Camera Tracker Error 'unable to obtain dynamiclink server connection'. I have re-installed and updated to the latest release. Please note I do not use dynamic link ever! 2017 Imac Monterey Vers 12.6 64GB Ram, Radeon Pro 580 8 GB. Any assistance here would be greatly appreciated. My productivity vs cost of Adobe subscription has been seriously compromised this year. Rich.   Title edited by Mod. to include After Effects version

I'm having a bit of trouble exporting a video. In the animation there is a box with an email address that comes up, and it transitions into the next shot by spinning on the Y axis (this is in a pre-comp). In the first picture I've attached you can see everything looks fine, but for some reason when I export the video the email addresses disappear just as it spins to transition out.
It's strange how when I'm editing it everything is fine in the preview window but you can see in the pictures I've attached it's rendering it out differently. For security reasons I’ve censored the email addresses, but you get the idea.It if helps, the email address layers are text layers and has the following effects applied: Animation: Slider, Cursor On/Off, Cursor Shape, Cursor Blink SpeedHope someone can help - thank you! 

Hello community,I am planning to upgrade my workspace setup and looking to buy a pre-built configuration to avoid assembly issues. I found this specific build locally: https://nextlevelpc.ma/pc-gamer/98158-pc-gamer-amd-ryzen-7-5700x-rtx-5070-12g.htmlMy main concern is RAM preview performance and multi-frame rendering in AE. The specs list a high-end CPU and GPU, but I want to make sure the motherboard/chipset won't bottleneck complex compositions with multiple heavy expressions and 4K assets.Has anyone run a similar setup from this site, or noticed any compatibility quirks with Adobe's latest dynamic link updates on these specs? I want to make sure it's stable before making the purchase. Thanks!

I did my searching and found nothing so far.The Issue:In a comp view pane, if you use the hand tool or shortcut to move the comp view around, is there a way to recenter the view to default?  This would be useful, if I have three or more comps that I want to click the tabs to compare for differences.  As it is now, each comp has an view offset setting remembered.  I would like to recenter the comp view for one or all comps.Is this possible?Thanks!

Hello there,I am new in 3D modelling and I am looking to experiment 3D models and animate them frame by frame for a video.My question is, which Adobe software should I be experimenting with? I know with Adobe Felix you can import a model and arrange it but is it only for still images? or can you potentially use it for frame by frame animating?I know its unlikely but is there anyway you can import a 3D model into After Effects and animate it there?Thank you for your help guys!

I’m new to expression controls in After Effects, so please be kind if I am missing something here.I am trying to rotate a bezier triangle distributed around a circular path.To do this, I set the copies property expression to a Slider Expression Control (with a bunch of math to make the slider go from 0 to 100% of the maximum number of triangles that can rotate around the circle.)When I create a second repeater, I open the Transform Repeater Rotation control and click the spiral button to drag it to the previous Transform Repeater control Rotation value. (so they both rotate the same)But now, I want to add a value to the control, so I should be able to expand the Rotation Control and see the expression under it. Clicking on the expression allows me to edit the expression. HOWEVER, I can only see half of the expression level under my rotation. It’s not clickable or accessible. All you can see are the tops of the word “Expression Control” because the line is ½ height or smaller. I have tr

Hi,using Essential Graphics, can’t make parametric connection between text size and leading.I am using this expression in Source Text:text.sourceText.style.setLeading(text.sourceText.style.fontSize);Looking for solution to solve that problem.Thanks.Tom

All of a sudden AE is giving me a "not enough available space" warning but the cache drive has 4TB open  and it's just set to 100GB default. This just started. Reset prefs. I change the it another drive (at 1TB open) and it does the same thing. Even if I turn the the cache size to 20GB it still does it. No clue.

Hi everyone,I'm trying to identify the name of this visual effect/style. It has a retro pixelated, old video game / low-resolution look.Does this effect have a specific name? Also, how would you recreate it? Is it mainly done in software like After Effects, or does it require specific plugins, shaders, or AI tools?I'm referring to the pixelated retro effect used throughout this video.Thanks in advance!

I’m specifically trying to recreate this here where futuristic code seems to be eating away at the screen, this background loading animation is used in a few other places as well.https://streamable.com/850t1sWhat I can’t figure out is how they managed to,make the little ‘x’s change into another symbol, then to an ‘M’ symbol. have the symbols move around and eat away at the screen.Is there a way to achieve this via expressions?Bungie game studio released their game Marathon this March, with it some amazing animation styles worked on by brilliant people. I’ve been going through their in-game animations and there are a lot of things I can’t figure out how they managed to do, mostly the 2D stuff.  

I have a project with several comps that are each about seven seconds long.When I try to import a new PSD into the project as a composition, it is forcing the new comps to be two frames long.When I try to import individual footage layers into a composition, it looks like it is making each layer a two-frame image sequence.For over two decades, a PSD imported into After Effects for me has always been the length of the last created composition. Any suggestions on how to fix this? 

When creating multiple masks on a layer, it comes in very handy to be able to lock a mask, to prevent it from being changed accidentally.

If I change the position of one point, the position of the opposite point changes at the same time.There is no button anywhere to disable this, so it is a program error that is inconsistent with what the user is doing  

Hi everyone,I am working on a stateful GPU Particle System plug-in using the AE 2022 SDK. Because the plug-in is stateful, every particle's state at frame n depends on its state at frame n-1.I am using a caching technique that stores previous states, which works perfectly during a standard serial preview. However, if the user jumps randomly to a later frame (or to the end of the timeline), the cache is invalidated, and I have to run a naive loop through all previous frames to calculate the current state.During this loop, I need to sample a layer that might be animated. This requires checking out the layer for every frame within the loop. My current approach is:Call checkout_layer inside PreRender().Inside SmartRender(), for every cycle of the frame-calculation loop:Call checkout_layer_pixels().Process the layer data.Call checkin_layer_pixels() to free the memory.The Issue:When testing with a large layer size, the plug-in crashes. After debugging, I found that the GPU runs out of memory

Hi guys, just wondering, is it possible to use one layer animation to mask out another layer? If so how do you do this please?Would be very grateful for any help on this one please.

This, from 1:19 to 1:26 ty!  

This is opposite of what most people would want to do, but I would like to add a piece of 24 fps footage to a 30 fps comp so that 24 frames still takes 24 frames, meaning the footage will play back a little faster and run a little shorter. In other words, at 24 fps, 120 frames takes 5 seconds to play, but I would like to drop it into a 30 fps comp so that it takes 4 seconds. I know I can time remap it, but it would be neater and more precise if I could just tell it to align the frames as they are. Thanks!

After Effects 26.3.0 + Media Encoder 26.3.1 cannot export projects stored on SMB NAS unless Media Encoder is started first after every rebootSystem InformationComputer: Mac Studio Processor: Apple M2 Max Memory: 64 GB Operating System: macOS Sequoia 15.7.7 After Effects: 26.3.0 Adobe Media Encoder: 26.3.1DescriptionSince updating to After Effects 26.3.0 and Adobe Media Encoder 26.3.1, we are experiencing a reproducible issue when exporting compositions from After Effects through Media Encoder.Our production workflow uses an SMB network-attached storage (NAS) where all After Effects projects and assets are stored. Multiple designers work on the same projects, so moving projects to local storage is not a practical option.This workflow has worked reliably for a long time and only started failing after updating to the current versions of After Effects and Media Encoder.Projects stored on the internal SSD export correctly. The problem only occurs when the project is located on the SMB netwo

With the introduction of AE2026, the encoding of the call AEGP_GetEffectName changed. I found it strange for an old function to simply start returning “different values”, but I updated my plugins accordingly. The strange thing is that now, at least in the latest update of AE 2026 (26.3), all this was rolled back, and the function now returns the same encoding it did in AE2025.Is this going to stay like this from now on? What was the unintended change, 26.0 or 26.3?I also would like to know the exact version when these changes occur so I can update my plugins accordingly. 

When I duplicate layer the old layers no longer stay selected. Only the top layer stays selected leaving a bunch of interleaved, unselected layers. The old behavior kept the old layers selected so you could drag them anywhere in the layer stack. Please fix.

Bonjour, comment rendre réguliers des zigzag entre chaque point selon que ces derniers sont éloignés ou rapprochés? Exemple bien moche pour un simple rectangle ! Merci d’avance 

Necesito saber si desde la ultima version de After Effects [26.3] los plugins EFX [Chromatic Aberration, Keying Alpha, Render Elements] dejan de ser compatibles. Sucede que al instalarlos y correr el AE salta cuadro de error.POR FAVOR SI ALGUIEN TIENE ESTE DATO ME PODRAN RESPONDER?MUCHAS GRACIAS!!!I need to know if the EFX plugins [Chromatic Aberration, Keying Alpha, Render Elements] are no longer compatible with the latest version of After Effects [26.3]. When I install them and run After Effects, an error message appears.PLEASE, IF ANYONE HAS THIS INFORMATION, COULD YOU ANSWER ME?THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!      

after effct 24.3.0 이 필요합니다. 프로그램 다운받을 수 있게 부탁드립니다 아니면 after effct 24.x.x 라도 좋습니다. 제발 부탁드려요. 원도우(window user)입니다.