After Effects

I recently reinstalled all the MacOS Monterey (12.7.6) into my Mac Pro 6,1 (Intel Xeon E5 3,5GHz) and reinstalled all the Adobe Creative Cloud apps. The 2024 apps like Photoshop or Illustrator works with any issue. But the 2023 apps like Premiere, Media Encoder or After Effects (in his last working version for my mac) crashed when I try to open it. It's a very strange bug, because they fail in the launch, that's meaning the app crash before the window of the app appears. I clicked in the app icon, the app is jumping in the deck and a few seconds after apperars a crash inform with any information about the crash.Before the reinstalled of the OS system all the apps was working perfectly. Any Help? 

Hi I'm using After Effects version 24.5 and since I downloaded a font I now can't use any text in AE without it crashing. I've deleted that font, reset the fonts panel, deleted my cache, reinstalled AE and its still happening. I'm using a 3xs PC. 

After Effects 24.5 is now live Great news! After Effects 24.5 is here, packed with exciting new features to bring your scenes to life. With Shadow Catcher and Animated Models support, creating more realistic and dynamic scenes has never been easier and the new presets are just amazing. Dive in and let your creativity soar! Here's what's New   Shadow Catcher Create realistic composites using a 3D shadow catcher layer to capture shadows cast by overlying 3D models.         Embedded 3D Model Animations Support Access embedded animations in the imported GLB or GLTF models and select one of them to play back in your composition.           Get depth data from an Advanced 3D Scene Extract depth data and use the map to create more realistic composites by simulating real-world camera settings for 3D renders.         OBJ Import from Libraries Drag and drop 3D mod

Hi!I'm fairly new to AE and mocha and hit a speed bump.I've created/tracked a plane in mocha AE and I'm trying to apply a shape layer to move just like the plane, see gif:I made a shape layer right over my hand, but when I apply the tracking data it gets offset (and the height scales strangely). When I try to move it to be over the hand it gets clipped, see images:Image 1: shape layer is offset: Image 2: layer gets clipped:The tracked plane and shape layer are acting the way I want them to, just not in the right place. I've tried moving the entire shape layer as well as editing the point of origin but to no avail. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?Thanks!

Hi guys,I'm in need of some help, I have a few occasions where we have several compositions in one after effects file, the import window doesn't let me use shift or command to select more than one composition at once?I'm editing at a mountain bike race and have over 100 lower thirds and about 10 individual stage results graphics I need to import. Do I need to do them one by one or is it possible to import several at once? Will be doing this several times over the year so would be great if I could simply select multiple compositions and import them at once.(Sure I'm just missing something very basic) On the image above, I can't shift or hold command to select more than 1 comp at once.

Hello! I installed a plug in for After Effetcs. I followed the toturial many times and I believe everything was done right. However, the plug in doesn't show up in the extensions.

Hello everyone I've been working on this animation project where I have to change hands positions from one state to another, using toggle hold key frame I change the opacity from 100 % to 0% without going through all the scale to down to 0%. This way I can change the state position of the hand without animating each finger by itself as it will be time-consuming and in practical terms, speed up the process, and I was wondering if there is any way I can link each state to a slider control con I can animate this steps back and forward with the slider from 1 to 2, where 1 is the first state and 2, the second one. I don't know if I explain myself correctly (I Hope I do) thank you in advance and any suggestion is welcome.  

I have two SSD drives I use on my computer. One is for the Windows OS (where my Adobe programs are installed to) and the other is my where I keep my project files (and only work from this drive). I always set all my Adobe cache file locations to the same folder on my SSD drive that has my OS/Adobe apps. I'm wondering if I'd have better performance if I moved the cache file folder to the other SSD, where my apps are not located? However, that would put in on the same drive as my project files (which I've read you don't want to do). So which is a better location, the OS drive or the projects drive (without my OS or apps)? I also have other internal SATA drives I could use, if that's a better option.

Scripts that are working in 2023 are not working for me in 2024. It appears to be some javascript array methods that are causing the issue. I wrote a simple script to test and am getting the same results: works fine in 2023, does not work in 2024 or the latest beta. This is on an M2 Macbook Pro. Not sure if this is related to AE itself or something to do with my setup. // testing script function testForEachMethod() { var testArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; var result = []; // Using forEach to iterate over the array testArray.forEach(function(element, index) { result.push("Element " + index + ": " + element); }); // Display the result alert("forEach results:\n" + result.join("\n")); } function testIndexOf() { var testArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; for (var i = 1; i <= 6; i++) { // Loop through numbers 1-6 and use indexOf to determine if that number is in the array if (testArray.indexOf(i) === -1) { alert("Value " +

I recently installed a USBC audio interface M-Audio Air 192|6. Ever since then, After Effects has developed a glitch. It looks like it's trying to use the 192|6 for a mic input also. All I want this for is a digital audio output. The glitch is occuring when the mic can't be found, and it intermittantly cuts out, slowing the playback audio. This mic indicator will disappear and reappear when the audio cuts out. and is not present at any other time other than when AE is playing audio. The machine runs flawlessly with every other program.Any ideas?

Hi everyone, I created a 3D object on Adebode dimension and I rendered it as an OGJ file, but when I imported it on After Effects the files did not display texture just black something that I am unable to add color to. I have added pictures of the exported obj files and what they displayed on After Effects.Please it is urgent.

Annoying that the tool panel is only available in this flavour. I use an ultra widescreen and have my video on left half and all tools/panels right half. The width of the tools panel is obnoxious. Also, do not like the properties panel keep opening when i already have what I need with character and paragraph panels.

I have applied an effect to my text but the panel where I can change opacity, the start ect is not showing. Can someone tell me what's wrong please?

Bonjour, Je rencontre un bug un peu ennuyant sur AE, j'ai ajouté non pas sans mal cette cascade d'eau sur mon plan en utilisant l'effet "4 coins" pour l'adapter en continu à mon plan, après quelques heures j'ai plus ou moins reussi à l'adapter à l'ensemble du plan mais avec quelques tremblements... Comme c'est de l'eau j'ai de la chance qu'on dirait des bourrasques de vent, je laisse donc et j'en arrive aux masques, j'ai des éléments qui passe devant cette cascade que j'aimerais masquer, je peux le faire, sauf que le masque est totalement décalé par rapport au tracé, je vous glisse une image. Je peux également le faire en désactivant la déformation 4 coins, mais j'ai peur que tous les masques se redécalent une fois que je réactive le Fx 4 coins.... Que faire svp ? j'ai du mal m'y prendre quelque part non ? 😔🤔 🤔

I'm rendering my compositions but nothing is happeningNothing is happening

Hi I do my speed ramping in AE then export using media Encoder to PP but whatever export settings i try my video quality always suffers with respect to its color profile. I attached an image with an example. It looks like each color tone is broken and not blended property. It may have something to do with the color bit depth. What export settings can fix this? I tried using dynamic link but its extremely slow even with my fast PC. I film with an FX3 in 10bit slog3 4k. The original footage looks great it only degrades after exporting from AE.

Hi all, I'm creating a lower-third speaker template in the Khmer language to be used in Premiere Pro. For lowerthirds, they place an honorific (simillar to Dr., Mr. or Mrs.) in front of every name, but they requested the font weight and size to be different than the name for distinction purposes.  Because you can't change the style of individual words without changing the style of the entire template in Premiere, I created two text boxes with editable fields (one for honorific and one for name) and linked their anchor points so that the name's x position would change based on the length of the honorific. But I'm having trouble with the y positions.  In the Khmer language, they have words that act as descenders and ascenders in the font, which change the height of the text box based on what's in it. Unlike in English where the baseline remains the same even with a difference in ascenders and descenders, Khmer's text boxes don't behave the same way. I'm trying to make it so tha

Hello! Good morning. Does anyone know if the Drop Shadow plugin works in Adobe After Effects 2023? Or does it only work for old version?  How can I enable or open Drop Shadow for after 2023?Thanks! 

Hi Everyone, I'm wondering whether there is a way to parent or pickwhip, or an expession that allows effects to procedurally update when it's layer scales or changes. I have a stroke which has Roughen Edges applied to it, I've sent the style to how I like but when the shape changes/scales I lose the look I've set. Is there a way to automate this so the effect updates to the scale? I don't want to precomp as I still need control of the shape within it's original comp. Any help would be greatly appeciated! Thanks

Hi everyone ! i work every day with After, one day stop showing image, i open a project or create a new and no show image on canvas. I tried to update the graphic card and windows and the same after effects, but nothing worked. This is the information of my graphic card.Fast Draft: Available Texture Memory: 1220,00 MBRay-tracing: CPU(GPU not available - incompatible device or display driver)OpenGLVendor: ATI Technologies Inc.Device: AMD Radeon R9 200 SeriesVersion: 3.0.13506 Compatibility Profile Context 23.20.15007.1005Total Memory: 2,98 GBShader Model: 4.0 or laterCUDADriver Version: 1.0 (5.0 or later required)Devices: -Current Usable Memory: -Maximum Usable Memory: -Please help! i need work !!!thanks!

Hi, I need to group two diffrenet objects/shapes from  different groups. Ae says I cant, But I need to. any guidance how can I do it? Thank you. 😥  

I've been using After Effects professionally, every day, since 2003, and I've just about had it with this software. i9-9900K, 64GB, 2080Ti. Several fast SSDs. Yes, I clear the cache every 10 minutes. And the performance is just completely awful. Adding/editing text is a nightmare. Moving a layer's anchor point is horrendous. Editing bezier handles on masks is excruciating. Sometimes I'll release the mouse button and whatever I had been dragging will continue to move with my cursor because of the extreme sluggishness. God forbid I have more than five layers in my timeline -- this crud gets slower than molasses. I don't know how you've managed to make the performance increasingly worse since 2015, but you've found a way. I regret ever choosing a profession that requires that I use this trash 8-10 hours a day. Thanks.  

See image below. I had this in the BUG section but no one from Adobe apparently looks in that folder! Issue: Save new project in folder A. Save another new project in folder B. Go to use Open Recent of project in A. Make changes and Ctrl-Shift S to save under ammended name, and it save not where the file resides but where I last saved a file in folder B. This is nonsense! If I use Open Recent, then when saving WE SHOULD ALREADY BE IN THAT FOLDER WHERE OPEN RECENT FOUND IT!!. I lost work because of this BS. I made changes to a file Open Recent, Saved As a new file but didn't realize it went into a totally different folder of a project I worked on recently. That project was finished, packaged and archived, with the work folder deleted. SAME FOLDER THAT AE SAVED AS TO, and I didn't realize. It also save a back-up file in that other folder. PLEASE FIX THIS!!!    In the screengrab above you can see what I mean.