After Effects

As you'll see in the screenshot, the motion path for my puppet animation is missing the handles I need to curve the path. I'm using the Legacy puppet engine, but tried it with the Advanced engine and still don't see the handles.

So I have a solid that I want to replace which is at 4 second time mark and ends at the 5 second time mark.I want to replace my footage onto this solid, but when doing so will cause this to happen:Before:After:The footage I'm replacing is placed at the start rather than where the solid is, how can I replace the footageso that it starts where the solid is?Thank you for your help!

I suddenly get these error messages and either a file opens with missing layers or all layers are gone!!!! 

Is it possible using the cartoon effect to create white edges with transparency? I only see how to make black edges with white filler. The project I'm working on is a blueprint graphic. I want to have interview footage start as a still frame (white outlines of the person on the blue paper). As they begin speaking I will blend in the original footage, then as they finish it goes back to white outlines. Any tips are appreciated.thx,Steven

Seriously adobe: What we can do? I´m unable to work. This is serious.Crash evry 10 inutos (ram, memory, you already know what we are taking). You are about to make us really looking for an alternative. this is nuts.

Hello,Every time I use rotobrush in AE or remove tool in PS it crashes and restarts my pc. It only happens when I apply remove to a large area or when I add more than, say, 60 frames in the timeline using the rotobrush tool. I upgraded my cpu and went from 16GB to 32GB ram and it keeps happening.

After Effects Version: 22.6.0(but, occured same issue on 24.X.Y)OS: Windows 10 ProOS Version: 22H2OS Build: 19045.4529CPU: Xeon W-2123 3.60GHzGPU: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000Third party plug-ins or panels: Occurs whether there or not I am developing a panel application using CEP for business use, plagued by a strange problem.If I open multiple panels and close the first panel that I open, the last panel that I open also closes by itself.I cannot attach what I'm actually developing, but the same problem occurs even in a very simple application like this sample. index.html <html> <head> <title>Test1</title> </head> <body> <div style="color: white"> ABCDE </div> </body> </html> manifest.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <ExtensionManifest Version="6.0" ExtensionBundleId="tests" ExtensionBundleVersion="1.0.0" ExtensionBund

I'm trying to figure out CC Bend It. When I apply it to a layer it automatically erases half of the image. I'm attempting to animate a still graphic of an elephants trunk (on a separate layer). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Any tips to smoothing out these keyframes (position) so it is a smooth line instead of jaggy? This is the result of a motion track, a slow zoom into our production shot live, and I am replacing the product label. It is looking good but in th render I can see the new label slightly shifting, and the zoomed in screengrab below shows the kayframed path  

Hello Everyone, Yesterday I encountered a strange problem. When I started rendering the video I was working on, the estimated time was about 5 hours. After a while, it changed to 10, then 15 hours. Now it has been 16 hours of rendering, and there are still 11 hours of estimated time left. What is going on? I'm pretty sure I used all the right settings for this, but anyway, here is the information. Video:- Total time: 2h30m- Complexity: Its a podcast video, with music playing on the background and a couple of channels of motion graphics looping. There is also a layer or two that are reacting to the audio amplitude.- The teaser I made for instagram: the rest of the video is the same. https://www.instagram.com/p/C-GwWzJo2vS/ My PC:Ryzen 7 5700x32 gb RAM 3600mhzRTX 3060TI2TB SSD NVME M2 Windows 11After Effects 24.5.0   Thank you!

Hello,I am currently working on a project using the After Effects SDK, but I have encountered an issue. The SDK I downloaded does not include the crucial AfterEffects.lib file, which is essential for the proper functioning and compilation of my plugin project.I contacted Adobe support, but they informed me that they are unable to provide the AfterEffects.lib file directly. They suggested contacting the plugin manufacturer, but I am developing my own plugin and thus need this library file to proceed.Could anyone guide me on how to generate the AfterEffects.lib file from the provided SDK source files? Alternatively, if someone has faced a similar issue and found a solution, your assistance would be greatly appreciated.Specifically, I am looking for:Detailed steps to create the AfterEffects.lib file using Visual Studio.Any available sources where I might be able to download this library.Recommendations on how to proceed if the library cannot be generated from the SDK.Here are the steps I'

I'm working on a simple 'fake' globe effect using a bulge adjustment layer with the center parented to a globe composition layer's position. However, when I try to move the globe's position, the bulge does some weird warping and then settles back into place once the globe is done moving. I have gone through and adjusted the bulge's radius animation path so that it stays within the globe layer throughout the animation. There doesn't seem to be a clear reason for why it's doing this. I don't think the radius is the cause, as the weird warping occurs when I move the globe in position only. Please help! Thank you!

Hey guys, as you can see in the title I have a problem with the frame-rendering time:  When I apply a bit more complicated effects (e.g. Pixel Motion Blur) in my project, the time for the frame-rendering gets extremely high (up to 1s per frame), even when I set the workspace bar very low, like 1-2 seconds. I already activated Mercury-GPU-Acceleration (CUDA) and Multi-Frame-Rendering, set the Disk Cache up to several hundred GBs (I know it doesn't have to be that high but just in case), of course updated my graphic drivers and gave After Effects 11 GB of my RAM.The thing that's weird is, the Task Manager shows only a pretty low utilization when actively rendering complicated effects: around 40% CPU, 70% Memory, 30% GPU and 0% Disk. My specs are the following:Windows 10 HomeNvidia Geforce RTX 2070 SuperIntel i7-8700k16 GB RAM200 GB SSD on which I installed After Effects 1.8 TB SSD on which I put the Disk Cache I hope you can help me with this problem, thanks

How can I change which way the text is wrapped around the cylinder, without changing the orientation of the actual cylinder?In other words, the effect wraps my footage around a cylinder that is standing up and down (portrait), but I need it to wrap it around a cylinder that is lying on it’s side(Landscape) I am fairly new to after effects but I’ve adjusted just about every paramter of the CC Cylinder effect I can think of and can’t seem to come up with an answer for this… The top image is how mine is wrapping around and the bottom image is how I want it to wrap around.

Hi, I dnt understand something. I was wodering what this 270 x270 mean. I took a 2d shape it says 270 x 270. I took a 3d shape it still says 270 x 270. I change position, scale, path, but it dsnt change. no matter how many shapes I draw it still shows 270x270. I am becoming mad for not figuring it out. Please help me to be sane again. what is it. what its telling me? 😮 Thank you. 😥😥😥😥        

Please help: where can I find the AE CS6 SDK for Windows?Thank you very much.Wolfgang

HiWhy "app.project.file" is working with after effects 2023 but not for 2024 as it gives me null to a saved project??Thanks    

Hi,I downloaded this preset from Motion Array. 12 Free Modern Titles - After Effects Templates | Motion Array I copied the folder into my Adobe After Effect CC 2018 user presets folder. Then I went to After Effects and tried to look for it under Effects & Presets. But it won't show. I tried "Refresh List" but the downloaded preset still won't show. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!DeAnne

After Effects froze my whole computer tonight. I did a force restart and when I came back up, I was greeted with these 3 errors (see attached screenshots) and After Effects refused to open. Errors:After Effects can't continue: internal structure inconsistency (g) ( 25 :: 2 )After Effects error: globals unborn. ( 21 :: 3 )After Effects can't continue: unexpected failure during application startup I uninstalled AE then reinstalled it. Errors persisted. I used CC cleaner. Errors persisted. I can't get back into normal AE 23.6. Please help!!!! Mac OS Sonoma 14.0, 64gb ram. update 10/15/23 this is the 3rd time in a 1-2 week span that AE has crashed on me and now i cant get back in again becaus of global unborns. I cleared the contents of the preferences folder and the media core folder. Then tried to open AE. The 3 errors persisted and AE wouldn't open. So I went to adobe live chat. the minute they remoted in, I could open AE again. But the minute I ended the live remote, I couldn

Hello, If I have an item selected in the project panel in AE. Is ther a way to get the filepath of the selcted item and use that path as a variable. Ultimately I'd like to pass that variable (the filepath) as a string into the system.callSystem(); object as a way to quicklook the selected item.  Is this possible? and if so what is the method to read the filepath attribute from whatever item is selected.   Thank you in advance for your help on this.  

I'm trying something called a hyperlapse, I will post the tutorial at the end of the post in case that will help fix my problem. I have precomped my footage and added 'Warp Stabilizer VFX' in the 'Track and Stabilize' extension window when you right click the footage, I have been trying to fix this issue for a while now and have updated my AE to the very latest update. When I apply the effect and choose my smoothness % it says 'Initializing..' I left it for a couple of hours, came back and it still says initializing, not sure why.PC Specs:Windows 10Intel i3 12100FAMD Radeon RX5600XT16GB RAMTutorial that I followed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-KboEVKCes&list=LL&index=3&t=798s 

Computer has been running all adobe apps no problems for 6 months. Windows 11, all apps are up to date. No changes were made but now every time I try and save my work after effects crashes. If I run as an administrator I can save my work but I can not drag and drop a file from windows explorer into the porject panel (not allowed). Also happening in Photoshop, what is going on and how can I fix it?

Hello AE Community, For years I have used the Mister Horse presets. Recently, I changed to a new computer and need to add the presets again. Unfortunately, our IT blocked Mister Horse’s company’s servers. They said that someone from Adobe needs to confirm that it is safe. For credibility purposes, I’m hoping that this post catches someone’s eyes from the Adobe team, and that person can reply confirming that Mister Horse is safe. Appreciate any help.