After Effects

 Steps to Reproduce the Bug: Create a composition and add a single layer.Add a Dropdown Menu Control effect to the layer and then rename it.With the 'Menu' sub property of the Dropdown Menu Control effect selected, run a script to update the menu item names using setPropertyParameters.var dropdownMenuProperty = app.project.activeItem.selectedProperties[1]; var updateNames = ["New Item 1", "New Item 2"]; dropdownMenuProperty.setPropertyParameters(updateNames);What should have happened?The script should update the menu items without altering the parent effect's name.  The variable dropdownMenuProperty should still reference the menu property. What actually happens?Although the menu item names are updated successfully, the Dropdown Menu Control's name is reset to 'Dropdown Menu Control' and the variable referencing the menu sub property is now undefined. A varient of the following error is also thrown:Exception has occurred: 1 After Effects error: internal verific

Hi all,I have a bit of a dilemma which Im trying to diagnose but having trouble (hence this post)Im building out a template for my lower thirds and Im trying to add in a checkbox that will change the position of the lower third comp to move the comp higher when there are subtitles present. So the idea is that, I have subtitles in the video, in my essential graphics panel, I have a checkbox which when enabled, will move the comp higher. Here is the expression I have to far:if thisComp.layer("CONTROL").effect("Checkbox Control")("Checkbox") ==true) (transform.position(960,398)}else {  transform.position(960,540))}Hope this helps. I effectively want to have it where when the checkbox is clicked, the position should be (960,398) and then when disabled, (960,540)However, im getting errors and so Im turning to the community for guidance. Any feedback is welcomed! Thanks.

I am trying to animate a long string of numbers around a tight Archimedean spiral mask path by using this expression I found… Source text:rate = 100; // characters per secondtxt = “31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602……..and on and on”;txt.substr(0,timeToFrames(time*rate*thisComp.frameDuration)); The path is set to “reverse” with text aligned right so the numbers appear at the centre and fill the spiral. The expression works for me, but all the text disappears once a certain number of characters have appeared on the spiral:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ivuzj0gxyeYIkJSeYAnmlQ1Foldf0G-5/view?usp=sharing My first and last margins are set to 0.0 and I haven’t used a text box – I rechecked the the text layer is set

Hi, I'm trying Track Camera in AE and from one of the targets I R click and create camera and sold but the solid is so small I can't see it at all, I precompose and change the size of it but it's still ridiculously small I can hardly see it? How do I fix it? Screenshots attached  

I don't know if everyone is having this problem, but After Effects is absolutely impossible to work. I'm working using simple shapes, a gradient layer and a text layer. And After Effects is just slow with something so simple like that. Inside the program, the mouse movement gets really laggy, it takes forever to render. And I'm not using external files, I'm not using adjustment layers and I'm not using any Motion Blur. I'm feeling After Effects is getting worse and worse on each version Adobe release. And there's no way the problem is my computer, since I'm using a Mac Studio with M1 Max, 64Gb RAM and 4T storage. I can't find a resonable explanation for all this lag on every project. Honestly, I'm starting to think about migrating to another software, since Adobe seems to just ignore all the After Effects problems.

I have macos 10.15.7 Catalina and the latest version of after effect does not work with my mac so is there any other version that does work and how do I install it?

Could you help me with my problem, I'm already giving up a little. What happens is that when I try to import a 3D .OBJ or glb file I get this window. I am currently using version 2024 and I have tried doing this in version 2023 but I still get the same problem. Thank you, I hope someone can help me with something effective.

AE Legends please help me! The selected rotoscope area doesn’t match the final output. Also the rotobrush only responds to user inputs by making small and random changes to the rotoscope rather than doing exactly what the brush dictates. I have been trying for 3 days to fix this. Maybe I just can't rotoscope this clip? Arrgh!

Hello, Recently I've been having some trouble with my Sapphire Plug-in, more precisely, the S_Shake effect. Whenever I try to render my composition, it always fails when it gets to the part that contains that effect.  Also my After Effects displays some sort of error when the rendering fails, that says: Sapphire Plug-ins error Error: Out of memory allocating temp image handle of -1792071600 bytes. *a picture of the error is attached* Please help me, I've tried a lot of different methods to fix this for the past few days, like clearing the cache, disabling the gpu rendering and using software only, rendering through AE's rendering queue and AME etc. Also my storage is far from full and I've got 23.1GB of available physical memory aka RAM. My laptop's specs are specified here:Asus Rog Strix G17 Processor: Intel i7 10th generation (i7-1070H CPU @2.60 GHz, 2592 Mhz, 6 cores, 12 logical processors)Installed RAM: 32 GB64 bitNVIDIA GeForc

I searched online and found that the Preserve Underlying Transparency should be next to the composition and represented by a T symbol.However, I cannot find it for my PNG files. I believe I have alpha channel fully enabled. Any reasons and solutions to this?Thanks in advance!

Hey so I want to check out the Help docs from time to time but keep getting this error pop-up "The help system was not initialized." No matter what I choose from the help tab menu. Tried re-installing vanilla, didnt help. What do I do?

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

Using the most current versions of AE and AI. I'm finding that Illustrator files are not updating in AE when I edit them. They seem to only change after the first edit and any future edits won't update. Any help appreciated! Thanks!

I downloaded an animation preset, but the minute I add a background image, the text renders fine, but the animation elements just disappear.Newbie here, please helpe me out good people! Screenshots attached! The first image is with the background image, the second one shows the animated elements when the background is hidden.

No puedo abrir cinema 4d, reporta el programa estos errores.  

I have such a problem. When editing an AE file, I experimented with fonts. Exported the file to mogrt. After that, I changed the font, but when exporting, the warning about used fonts contains the previous unused font, although the new one also appeared. I attached a photo. Instead of Kollektif I installed georgia. How can I make the program forget about the unused font?

Whenever i click some alphabet, it didn't happened anything in my after effect, like... it reject everything on my keyboard

Hello, I have problem with After Effects toolbar. I have English version , but toolbar panel is on Russian language and it doesn't work.  I wanna to change language and make it works! Thank you!

最近，同时打开 After Effects 2023 和 3ds max 时会出现错误。当我创建一个新项目时，创建的实体层不会显示。在合成窗口中，仅显示所选材料的转换点，颜色与软件界面的颜色相同。单击时间滑块时，窗口会闪烁黑色，并且在释放鼠标时会恢复为软件颜色。当我先打开 After Effects 2023 一切正常，然后打开 3dsmax 时，After Effects 2023 中打开的项目的合成面板会卡住，无法播放，无法滑动播放，没有声音，有时屏幕会变黑。除非我关闭了 3dsmax 软件并重新打开 After Effects，有时甚至需要重新启动我的电脑。 我尝试了以下步骤：更新显卡驱动程序并更改为旧版本驱动程序，在项目设置中更改为Mercury，禁用硬件加速，清除所有缓存，禁用所有效果插件，禁用脚本编写和访问网络，但这些都没有奏效。 我看到其他人在其他论坛上遇到同样的问题，但没有解决方案。 窗户11 处理器： 13900k 内存：96G 显卡：3060Ti，当前驱动为551.61Win11的中央处理器：13900K内存：96G显卡：3060Ti，目前驱动在551.61   

Hi,I created a path based on the positions of two other layers using the fromComp expression (code below). It worked fine until I parented those source layers to null. Once they were parented the position of created shape shifted. I know it happens because the position is now related to null's position but I don't know how to fix it. Is there a way to write this code to include this related position? layNum = thisLayer.name.split("-")[1];liEx = effect("link-extremes")("Slider");l1 = thisComp.layer("Left-stripe-"+layNum);l2 = thisComp.layer("Right-stripe-"+layNum);p1 = thisLayer.fromComp(l1.transform.position);p2 = thisLayer.fromComp(l2.transform.position);createPath([(p1-[liEx,0]),(p2+[liEx,0])], [], [], false); 

Hi all, I'm trying to make this mask very featheredm my settings are in the screenshot and as you can see, the feather isn't working.

A no-particles flame effect you can pull off with no plugins.   There's some really cool VFX in the Captain Marvel movies, but my favourite is the firey aura that appears when Carol Danvers starts to use her powers. The process involved was shared in behind-the-scenes videos when Captain Marvel (2019) came out. In a nutshell, the VFX team recreate Brie Larson in 3D, and used the 3D model to drive complex particle simulations. Which apparently took months to refine. It's a bit of a shame they didn't consider using just After Effects to get a similar result! A similar effect can be seen in Netflix Sandman series (Rose in the garden).   Obviously what they did was way more complex and stunning, but in this tutorial, I show how to use a few, simple included effects to create the look of energy emitting in waves from a figure. I start using the rotobrush tool to quickly isolate the hero from their background. Then using the Find Edges effect, I get outlines for all their detail. C

Je suis sur un Macbook Apple M3ProSonoma 14.3 (23D56)36 Go de RAM Au lancement du logiciel, tout se charge et s'affiche correctement SAUF mon onglet/panneau bibliothèque qui lui "glitche" systèmatiquement ou presque (cf l'image capturée en PJ).-> J'ai tenté de relancer en mode sans échec, ça réinitialise mes préférences au passage et des fois ça s'affiche correctement mais ça finit par re-glitcher au démarrage suivant ...-> j'ai désinstallé-réinstallé After Effect, ça peut solutionner temporairement le problème mais ça finit toujours par revenir... Ca arrive aussi avec la bibliothèque Illustrator, mais jusqu'à maintenant jamais dans Photoshop qui tourne parfaitement 🙂 . Et sinon tous mes logiciels Adobe sont bien mis à jour régulièrement. Voilà je n'arrive pas à cerner d'où peut venir ce satané bug !