After Effects

So I have this expression in one of my projects: style = comp("Templates").layer("First Line Second Line").text.sourceText.style And I noticed that it seems to capture everything except the character widths. Is that a bug or is there some additional step required to bring that property over?

Hi! I'm wondering if anyone can help me to loop this background where it doesn't show it starting & ending. I'm new to after effects & I'm trying to make motion graphic backgrounds for my church. With it showing where it starts and ends, it won't look that great. I've looked up many tutorials but I feel like none of them are really all that helpful. Thank you for all your help in advance! Attached is the video of my design. 

So im watching a tutorial on how to use 3d cameras and i cant Curve the path of my 3d camera to make it curved like this As you can see i cant see the keyframes to drag them and put them in a curved way The guy from the video im watching (a 3 years old video) has the keyframes in the line while mines are in a box and i cant manipulate them.(the photo with red circles is from the tutorial) He has the keyframes there but mines are in a box and cant be manipulatedIM USING THE LATEST VERSION

Hi!  My dear Macbook Pro goes through a lot of pain (the fans feel like it's going to explode, painfully slow) anytime i open After Effects. Not to mention whenever I have to use the type tool. It's truly a horrible experience. Anyone has figure out a way to fix this? Is anyone that wants to use this app "forced" to get a Mac Studio? I wonder. Thank you! 

All 3D .GLB and .OBJ are importing as INVISIBLE and cannot see them, even when adding a light source. I created them in AI and Dimension so know they work perfectly in other programs. All controls for the 3D layer are there but it is transparent. Can anyone maybe think of a reason why this wouldnt be working? Thanks!  

If you're running into a problem where After Effects displays a message on the Composition panel that says Display Acceleration Disabled, follow the suggestions given in this post to fix the problem.   macOS:• Make sure your MacBook is connected to the power source• Go to Preferences > Display and toggle Hardware Accelerate Composition, Layer, and Footage Panels• Go to Preferences > Video Preview and toggle Enable Mercury Transmit   Windows:• Update the on-board and dedicated graphics drivers of the computer. If this happens after updating the graphics driver, reinstall the previous version of the driver NOTE: Nvidia driver version 442.92 seems to cause this problem on many systems. If you have installed this driver, please reinstall the previous version • If your computer has Nvidia graphics, make sure to update the GeForce Experience software as well• Go to Preferences > Display and toggle Hardware Accelerate Composition, Layer, and Footage Panels• Go to Preference

Hi, I opened a mogrt-file in after effects and got a converted after effects file after that that I worked from. That file has been acting weird and faulty when it comes to playback/flickering and I do not know why and how to fix it. Can someone hep? Many thanks.

Hi All, can anyone confirm me on Cinema 4D and Magic Bullet plugins are part of adobe after effects installation suite as I can see that its plugins are got installed in our system on installeing the after effects application

Hello, does anyone know what's the problem here? I see the error there, but I don't understand why it appears and how I could fix it.  

Looking to select what I am searching for in a comp. I have multiple object layers, each with several groups each containing strokes, of which i want to change color. So I search and see the all, but is there a way to select them all at that color level so I can change them in one shot, instead of selecting them all with ctrl-select

Hey,I want to see the track mattes of the layer I've selected but i can't.. 

I have to create an animated infographic showing the numerical results of a parliamentary election.I'm at a loss as to the most efficient way to do this in After Effects CC. Using the graph below as my model, I need to make a semi-circle with 491 colored dots showing the alloted party seats. Is there a more practical way to do this than having to manually create these 491 dots? I'm thinking that I should be using the Elipse tool to create the semi-circle? But is there some kind of plugin that would allow me to batch create these dots or divide the semi circle into dots? Thank you bery much in advance for any help with this.  

I've got a looping composition using time remap and LoopOut.The composition moves randomly from one position to another, then stops (for a random amount of time), then moves to another random point (like a bug crawling around). I'm using this expression for my position:moveMin = .3; //minimum move time moveMax = .7; //maximum move time pauseMin = .1; // minimum pause time pauseMax = .5; // maximum pause time minVal = [transform.position[0]-200, transform.position[1]-200]; maxVal = [transform.position[0]+200, transform.position[1]+200]; seedRandom(index,true); // set pre-run for endT endT = - random(moveMax); j = 0; k = 0; while ( time >= endT){ j += 1; seedRandom(j,true); startT = endT; if (j%2){ endT += random(moveMin,moveMax); k++; }else{ endT += random(pauseMin,pauseMax); } } if (j%2){ seedRandom(k,true); endVal = random(minVal,maxVal); seedRandom(k-1,true); startVal = random(minVal,maxVal); ease(time,startT,endT,startVal,endVal) }else{

I am using a template created by another party, so I am not completely familiar with every detail as of yet.  With every font selection, why is my text all upper case when my caps lock is off?

I tried importing glb files into After Effects Beta. When I drag it into the composition, it's just a blank screen. Works great in Substance and in Stager.Has anyone encountered and solved this problem? Are there any limitations file size, texture map size or amount of polygons&

Hi, I create a rotation of legs from left to right, so when it rotate to right, the right leg has to be in front of the left leg so I use Z position to make the right leg in front of the left leg. But no matter I increased the Z position of right leg, it just being bigger close to the camera but still not covering the left leg. I attach the video of my problem, please help, I'm so frustrating .. thanks

I'm trying to type math equations and add it as a text but I didn't find any font that can do that, Also I tried to write it in Microsoft word's plugin "MathType" and it worked but when I try to paste it in After Effects it won't work,Is there a way to type math equations in After Effect or is there a MathType plugin for After Effects?P.S. I'm trying to type equations like the following picture:

You see the problem in the screenshot below. An animation made in Photoshop is being overlapped in After Effects. When playing the animation in AE it looks like its fading each frame in and out.When purging all Memory and Disk Cache in AE the problen often dissapears, but sometimes it just dissapears on the frame I am and is then on different frames. Closing and opening AE does not help, neither does reimporting the file.This has been happening with different projects and files in After Effects 24.0.3    

PSD file import as comp not working anymore and crashes AE...

Can someone solve this mystery? I am having trouble finding the solution to Gradient Fill handles. In some shapes, I can see them, but in others, I cannot. These controls do not behave consistently, as they appear and disappear without any apparent reason. Can someone please help me with this issue?

i just observed a wierd behaviour of nearestKeyIndex with negatively stretched layers and am wondering whether this is intended:setup: put a footage inside a comp, time reverse the layer, lay some position keyframes on that layer.1- expression: add a slider control to the time reversed layer, with expression: "transform.position.nearestKey(time).index;",  scroll the CTI along the timeline and read the slider value: the first key on the timeline has max index, the last key has index 1...2- script: var L=app.project.activeItem.layer(1); L.transform.position.nearestKeyIndex(L.containingComp.time);     If the CTI is placed after the last position key on the timeline, it returns L.transform.position.numKeys, which is expected. But anywhere else it gives 1 !So, for expressions it is more or less ok, but it means that whenever one uses a "nearestKey" expression one should actually check the strech state of the layer...(if (layer.inPoint<layer.outPoint) {this} else

Hi there,I'm trying to use a Google Earth Studio (GES for time sake) project in AE. The GES prject consists of only 2 key frames, one at the beginning and one at around 12 seconds. I added track points in GES and labeled them which converted them to Null objects and connected text titles in AE. So far, so good. As you can see in th video, the titles seem to shift during the camera movement, only to go back to their initial starting point. I exported the GES project with both, global and local coordinate space but had the same outcome with each. Any idea what went wrong?

Hi I'm building a C++ plugin and I'm trying to setup a user defined class that I can then use in my main cpp file. I'm using Visual Studio.I'm testing this with a small project based on Skeleton sample project.I have made a completly basic class with a header and a cpp file like this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/header-files-cpp?view=msvc-170 The header file is located in the folder called "Header Files", just like the other header files. The cpp file is in the root along side the main cpp file. I get this intelligense error:"Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression StateError (active) E1696 cannot open source file "my_class.h" TestPlugin" If I try to build I get this error:"Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression StateError C1083 Cannot open include file: 'my_class.h': No such file or directory TestPlugin" Is there anything I need to do to create my own custom headers and classes? Thanks,Jakob

Hi,I'm trying to rig a layer in After Effects with the Puppet Tool to give it a bouncy movementHowever, the puppet tool interprets each segment of this layer as a different object, shown here:I want the layer to be treated as a single object by the puppet tool. How can I do that, if possible? I tried this both with a pre-comp and rendering it out as a PNG image. Both cases treated the segments separately. 

Hi everybody. Please help a beginner to solve this problem: How to synchronize the frame change with music in AE?For example, if I want to synchronize the Scale, then I link this parameter to the audio keys with synthesized sound keys. And how do I synchronize the change of frames in a composition or even the change of compositions combined into a precomposition??thank you in advance