After Effects

I have not worked on writing a script for a couple of versions of After Effects. I'm on a Mac using AE 2024 and can't find the extended scripts editor anywhere. I checked the documentation and searched the forums, and I found nothing. I've reset preferences, uninstalled, and tried everything I can think of. The only post I found on the missing File/Scripts menu item was a post from Dan Ebberts about something in the upper left corner using a Windows machine. I would love to know where it went and how to find it on a Mac.

Hello everyone!I'm trying to make a video with this style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xGjcIYnxwYThe problem is that when I try to import XML file (with subtitle timings) to After Effects, I get error ''After Effects: AEGP Plugin Pro Import: One (or more) VIDEO footage files missing. ( 5027 :: 12 )''This timelapse video doesn't actually show what happens between exporting and importing the XML file so there might be something I'm doing wrong or not doing at all.This stuff is very new to me and I'd be really grateful if there's someone who can help me with this.Thanks already! 🙂

The title explains the issue. Block dissolve works to gradually dissolve a clip over the course of 30s, yet at the 14s mark the position of the blocks abruptly change position and I would like the clip to continue gradually fading away blocks in their present positions. Can any one help?

Hi Forum. Is there a method for AE to make keyframes in between the first and last frame in the timeline?In my example, I made a keyframe on the first position, and then each time I moved the shape, and added a keyframe manually, until the last frame. So if I make a keyframe on the first and last position in the timeline, is there a method AE can create the in between keyframes, so I dont need to do this process manually? I was asked by a colleague, that he needs 50 frames of a shape animation, but instead of a lineal transition, the shape needed 50 keyframes to move in a interval movement, like a click click click movement from let to right.   

Hello! I'm trying to replicate the text animation from this video, does anyone have some insight on how to do it? It doesn't look like it's made with path animation, looks like some kind of mask fading in and out. Any tutorials, tips or ideias on how to do it?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksDN7MwwW5gThank yoU! 

so i finished rendering an edit but 5 minutes after, after effects gave me a message saying something about the disk cache and now all of my projects are gone and its like my whole after effects has been reset. is there a way i can get my projects back? theyre still in my files but not on the actual program. please someone help !! (i also deleted a bunch of stuff to get more storage but my projects arent back)

Ok well I am truly stuck here as AE won’t open at all in either the previous version or the latest version. Here is what I have tried so far:-I was using AE’22 and tried to install a some new plugins:https://www.plugineverything.com/repeaterhttps://www.plugineverything.com/qca3Andhttps://www.plugineverything.com/displacer-pro -I followed the instillation instructions and suddenly After Effects won’t start.Each time I get a log error asking me if I want to send a report, etc. -I go to the plug-ins folder and remove all of the new plug-ins and restart (didn’t work)-I delete AE22 and reinstall it (didn’t work)-I delete AE22 reinstall it and restart first (didn’t work) -I deleted AE22 and tried to upgrade to AE ’24 (I restarted first but - (didn’t work)-I removed all versions and tried to reinstall AE22 but first removing the previous settings and preferences (didn’t work)-I removed all versions and tried to reinstall AE24 but first removing the previous settings and pr

Hello, I am having issue with adobe after effect. For some reasone whatever I do, software is choosing wrong GPU in my case it is using integrated one, instead of GeForce RTX 3050 Ti. I did read some posts already, and there were ideas to update drivers, set up after effect in windows graphics settings to appropriate gpu and change settings in NVIDIA Control Panel. But all of that didnt help to resolve my issue. Is there option to set up graphic card manually? I am using After Effect 2024, Windows 10, MSI laptop.

I have an image sequence that I'm rendering with pixel motion blur and it looks fine when I preview in AE but I get large, black blocky artifacts in the renders.  If I disable the motion blur there are no artifacts in the render.  The behavior is the same in 2023 and 2024 versions of both AE and media encoder.  I have also tried both hardware and software renders. Any suggestions? Thanks

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TLDR: I made a script that un-precomposes precomps and returns layers with the correct in and out points. I made a full tutorial attached to this post with a link to buy in the description.If you use the Dynamic link from Premiere Pro to After Effects with (for example) captions/text you'll notice they become precomps inside of After Effects. This is irritating because you cannot target the text properties directly, you have to go into the precomps.I know this is a very, very niche solution but it saves you from copying/pasting layers out of precomps or having to go inside of them in the first place.I originally used the unprecompose plugin from aescripts to solve this problem but I kept having to use the UI pop up with a list of options... This script instead allows you to bind it and select the precomps to unprecompose, that's it! All the best and I hope it helps.https://youtu.be/l7KO2xdxwaU 

Hey Support Team,  I downloaded an after effect template from Motion Array and now i encountered a problem: I would like to use a title from the After Effects file (template) more often but with different content. But if I change the content of one title, the content of the other titles changes automatically. I have duplicated the titles and worked on them, but it just doesn't work. It's probably because of the links between the sub-compositions. Unfortunately, I don't know how to remove these links. I have been doing research on the net for a long time, but have not found an answer. Therefore I turn to you now, maybe you can help me. I would be very happy about an answer. Regards,Leonie 

Help me plsafter effects error: TAO: OpenGL error: Could not allocate texFBO

Hello all,I’m a little stuck here. I’m trying to take my 1080x1080 (square) composition and resize it to 16:9 and 9:16 aspect ratios without having to manually go in and resize everything. First,I go to file>scripts>scale composition> adjust width to 1920px>scale. After,I go to composition settings>adjust height to 1080>Ok.  But, when I do this the composition seems to scale in and not fill the frame with the new aspect ratio. My layers and such are cut off...

Hey everyone, I have this problem, I have imported an illustrator file on AE.I'm trying to convert the layers into a mask, but I can't. I can only convert them into a shape layer, and when I'm trying from a shape layer, I have a rectangle around my shape, but not actually the shape itself. How can I fix this, please? 

So my AE crashed and it stated "the crash seemed to happen because of the keylight (1.2) effect Would I like to disable this effect? I can renabled this effect later." in which I figured ill disable it until my project was done. It now tells me its missing and I cant find anybody talking about this or anyway to reinstall this effect. Anyone by chance able to help?  

Hi there, Does anyone know how to recreate the confetti at 0.10 https://youtu.be/gfD-UgNi_I4?si=u22GhycsmnufTrVv in this video. I'd really appreciate any advice! 😃

For the last 2 months, I have been getting this error occasionally when I try to save or render files in After Effects. This error can occur both in newly created files and in old files.Solutions I tried:- updating programs to the latest version,- deleting and reinstalling applications,- formatting the external disk,- buying a new external disk,These methods did not workSystem: Mac Mini ( M1)

Hi,I'm trying to make my slider control have a random value when you check the checkbox control and when you uncheck the value to use is that of the slider control.   Here is one of the code that i try but my slider doesn't change anything anymore only the seed random (the one suppose to choose a number randomly)  seedRandom(index, timeless = true);var randomizedValue = random(0, thisComp.layer("Control_Snowflakes").effect("Change_Shape_MID")("Slider"));if(thisComp.layer("Control_Snowflakes").effect("Randomizer")("Checkbox") == 1){randomizedValue}else{thisComp.layer("Control_Snowflakes").effect("Change_Shape_MID")("Slider")}var storedRandomValue = thisComp.layer("Control_Snowflakes").effect("Seed Random")("Slider");if(thisComp.layer("Control_Snowflakes").effect("Randomizer")("Checkbox") == 1){seedRandom(index, timeless = true);var newRandomValue = random(0, thisComp.layer("Control_Snowflakes").effect("Change_Shape_MID")("Slider"));value + newRandomValue - store

 I like this style of editing and would like to learn how to do it. does anyone know how?https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nMJDKDwW7jc 

I'm working on a .jsx and I've hit a wall with adding an expression to an expression selector.This is the chunk of code I have that gives no errors, but doesn't actually add the expression to the expressible selector.... function createLabelsTextLayer(comp, labels) { var textLayer = comp.layers.addText("Labels"); textLayer.name = "Labels"; var textProp = textLayer.property("Source Text"); var expression = '["' + labels.join('", "') + '"]'; textProp.expression = expression; // Create a single position animator var myAnim = textLayer.Text.Animators.addProperty("ADBE Text Animator"); myAnim.property("ADBE Text Animator Properties").addProperty("ADBE Text Position 3D"); var expressionSelector = myAnim.property("ADBE Text Selectors").addProperty("ADBE Text Expressible Selector"); var expSel = expressionSelector.property("ADBE Text Expressible Amount").expression; var expression1 = "wiggle(5, 50)"; expSel.expression1 = expression1; // based on lines var bas

I can't play through my sequence in Adobe After Effects my time bar keeps resetting mid session when I try to preview.

Hello, I'm a beginner in scripting and trying to create a script to apply set of expression control and text animator. I want to add text animator property to selected layer, however I keep having error with the codes below. selectedLayers[0].Text.Animators.addProperty("ADBE Text Animator");selectedLayers[0].Text.Animators.addProperty("ADBE Text Position");    //error on this lineWhat is the correct code? Thanks a lot.

I wanted to make a audio spectrium template using AE so i can use it in premier pro, but so far the only problem i have is that i cannot drag the audio layer (located under audio spectrum) in the essential graphics box because it is not supported yet, so my question is does anyone know how i can go around this mabye use something else instead of the audio layer to make this work in permier pro? 

Hi. I've made an "write on" animation using thicc plug-in. I want to use it as an intro for my videos. After rendering and exporting file to another editing program (like capcut or davinchi resolve), a dark-gray outline appears. But if I import it into Premiere Pro, it seems to working fine. Are there any solutions to avoid this artefact outline? Thank you.