After Effects

If you use paint, does AE blend the paint color with the solid layer in the background? 

I have a paint effect which is automatically set to grey. I don't like the color so I added the fill effect after grey on the layer name-PC. I set the color to white, but this doesn't change the color at all. I change it to red, and it becomes a darker red, almost like it blends the grey and red. I just want the font to be white. Why is my fill effect not filling?

Is there a canonical way to make sure an ecw element receives draw calls? It seems like warp stabilizer just updates the label of a button repeatedly. I just don't know how to make sure an effect plugin consistently receives UI interaction commands.

Hi. I have an issue with a text wicht I am copying from google sheets to after effects.If I type manually the text with special characteres, it does work ( the font installed, Gotham XLight, has all characteres I need ), but if I copy it from google sheets to after effects, it swapps all special characters.And if I try select all the text I pasted in AE and change its fonts to another, the special character still remains Myriad pro. Even If I try select only the special character to change. Does not work.The only way I found to make it done is type it manually. Its funny that I have another text with special characters thats works fine, no issue.  I would apreciate if someone have any ideia about it.  Tks 

Hello, I am trying to make a MOGRT for some editors to use throughout a project.I need to have the text animation visuals match up with a design, which has a faux 3D style extrusion.I also need to use a bouncy animation, which uses expressions to give an overshoot animation effect.I was told yesterday that the animation needs to feel more 3D, so I need to add a gradient to the text extrusion effect to make it look more 3D. This is where the problem is at the moment. I cannot seem to get the animation to work accurately with any kind of gradient. None of the gradients will move with the text, and as it is a template, it needs to be flexible, so in some instances, there will be 2/3 lines of text. I have attached an example of the broken gradient approach.  Is there any way of getting the gradient to work over different lines of text? I am currently using 3 ramp variations which turn off and on, based on how many lines of text there are.In the last example, you ca

Youtube content creator Boonelovesvideo recently posted this Youtube tutorial about how to illustrate an animated frontline moving across a battlemap. What I'm having trouble understanding is how he sets up the animation with a "map anchor". He uses the Geolayers 3 plugin which I don't have. But can anyone take a look at his video and help me understand how he anchors the Solid Layer to the map. Just asking here because I already asked him, but he hasn't replied yet. Thank you very much in advance to anyone who can help us understand how to do this in After Effects (without Geolayers 3).

for some reason, any time i use motion tile or atleast try to; it refuses to go any higher than 100 for some reason and i can't figure out why this is happening or how to fix it. if someone could lmk, that'd be great. ill attach a video so you'll get a clearer image / understanding ( ae 2019 )  i clicked the wrong topic and its not letting me change it 😭😭 my bad

This is my first time using after effects, I'm trying to blackout someones teeth to make it look like they have no theeth. Any ideas on how to do it? I tried using the paintbrush but that doesn't really work because of the mouth closing. 

I have a main comp and sub comps as scenes. When i make a change in a sub comp i want to see how its final will look from the main comp, as it interacts with main elements too. This helps with editing stuff with accuracy to match timings of some things on the main timeline. Now heres the kicker. I was able to right click and select New Viewer.....and i got this to work.....but forgot the actual keyboard / mouse click combination of how it should be done. Now im trying it again and the 2nd viewer is just replicating the 1st viewer and vice versa, theres no clicking the viewers tab upper bar and selecting the comps name etc that works, it works, but the 1st viewer also changes to the chosen one, so all i have is clone views. Last week i could do this successfully, by shift clicking on the comp which i want to open in the new viewer or somethign and it worked...i even saved the dual viewer layout as a new workspace. When i activate that workspace it defaults to only one viewer even t

When I'm trying to zoom using the dolly towards cursor tool, it doesn't zoom out from the center of the screen because of this cross to the right here, it zooms out from that instead. Does anyone know how I can move that cross so I can zoom in and out wherever I want on the screen?

Hello, I have a question to consult, I use the mouse to select the key frame, I want to get the value of these key frames. I tried it myself, but it kept showing no current context. I wrote that in the first step I get the active item through AEGP_GetActiveItem, in the second step I get the type of the item through AEGP_GetItemType, and in the third step I get the composition through AEGP_GetCompFromItem. In step 4 I get the active layer through AEGP_GetActiveLayer. In the fifth step I get the location attribute stream through AEGP_GetNewLayerStream. In step 6 I get the number of keyframes by AEGP_GetStreamNumKFs, and in step 7 I get each keyframe by iterating >AEGP_GetNewKeyframeValue. But when I run in AE, when I use the mouse to select the keyframe execution code to get the value of the keyframe, it shows an error such as no current context.

Hi, how can I snap only to the seconds in the timeline? I am not interested in the range between seconds.  Thank you  

Hola ¿que tal? a ver si alguien me puede ayduar.... ya no se que más hacer.actualmente tengo instalado en mi PC After Effect Versión 17.0.6,  anteriormente tenia instalada la 16.1.3 para ver si podia solucionar mi problema, pero al contrario me arrastro el supuesto error o problema. Lo que me ocurre es que abro after, trato de importar algun material, y me salta el "Informe de Bloqueo de after effect", antes podia importar el material epro cuando iba a intentar guardar, ya sea con "ctrl +  S" (en windows 10) o yendo a file, save as, me hace exactamente lo mismo, ya llegue a un punto donde no puedo ni trabajar con el programa, intente instalar versiones anteriores como la de 2018 que esa me funcionaba, pero actualmente ya no la veo disponible para descargar, y TODAS las versiones que bajo me hacen lo mismo.  Ahi adjunte una foto de las caracteristicas de mi PC. Acá dejo el "informe de bloqueo " que me aparece.... 

I've been having a very specific problem that I can't seem to find any explanation for. When I have a small animated composition that I put into a larger composition and then put that smaller composition on a 3D plane in the larger composition, it's perfectly fine and works great.However, as soon as I turn on the continuous rasterization for that small composition in the large composition, it yeets itself off the 3D plane and the cube symbol showing that it's a 3D layer doesn't dissapear but becomes a sort of compound arrow. This is a problem because one of my assets is looking comically blurry next to my other ones without the continuous rasterization. It only happens when the composition is: animated, continuously rasterized inside a larger composition, and on a 3D plane. If anyone knows how to solve this problem, I'd really appreciate your help. Thank you!  

I have tried uninstalling and then reinstalling, but that didn't fix it. Can anyone help me out?

AE ERROR How to fix Crash HELP PLZ CPU i9 14900kGPU RTX 4070 TI SUPER 16GRAM 64 (16x4)

Recently I tried to move my team to work on team project mxing after effects and premire.I've tried working with 2 different machines but now the project won't stop refreshing the render time on the same frame (while idle).This causes a lot of problems, I can't change text or move mask with double click, because everytime I try the program just refresh the frame and send me back....Tried to change the project back to regular after effect file and this still happens...even deleted everything related to premiere.If this thing happen to anyone or think what could be causing this I would love to hear

Hi I am decided to install adobe premiere pro or after effects 2024 on 8gb ram 7 gen cpu upto 2.64 ghz or gpu with wd blue 512 gb ssd so please launched the version which is best suited and run on all older system because of new feactures enjoy .I already install indesign photoshop please give the solution because I have this pc not other .

So, let me start this off that I had an issue with my pc, BSOD etc. Got it fixed and was told it was a faulty part. As they fixed this issue, they upgraded my PC to windows 11, which is where my issues started.I had no issues with AE before besides some rare crashes on windows 10, but now I can't even use my project file without it crashing not even 2 minutes after startup. Usually loads one frame of the preview or not at all.I've restarted, redownloaded, tried different versions, limiting my other apps RAM use, pretty much everything online would tell you.. so now im clueless. Especially when my PC can run higher applications such as call of duty, so why is after effects having issues?I haven't been able to use it in a few weeks now, and its extremely disruptive. What do I do, do I need newer parts? Please let me know !Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400F @ 2.60GHz 2.60 GHzRAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable)GPU GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Good day,   I'm finally expanding my horizons and learning Ae. I have been using Pr and other Adobe products for a decade now, but new to Ae. I'm creating a new project and when I went to play it, it won't play (meaning that the playhead does not move). I did research and saw where changing the audio source could help. I did and it played, once. I saw where purging memory and disk cache would work, but that didn't work. Here are more points:   1. A couple of times as I was researching this issue, without engaging with Ae, the audio would play, but only a portion. A few times it played back at a slower rate. I would look over and the playhead was still at the beginning point of the composition. It never moved.  2. I tried a new composition and added a video. I tried to play that, it did, for a moment, but at a slower rate.  3. For some reason I do not have the option for MME, which I see people recommending.  4. The audio settings are the same as I have in

Hello, I wanted to make  a video transparent from Avee Player in After Effects, but I couldn't do it. Can someone please help me? After converting it to transparent, I will convert it to gif and upload it to Adobe Animate 

A bit of background:I have 10 compositions that contain 5 text layers each (I will call these comps 'sub comps'). The content of each comp varies, but the text layers are the same in each sub comp. I have 'pickwhipped' the 'source text' parameter of each text layer to another text layer inside of a 'Master' comp, and now changing the source text in the master comp automatically reflect changes in the sub comps. This is all well and good, but let's say that I want to duplicate this little system, WITHOUT having to re-pickwhip all text layers to a new master comp? In other words, when duplicating the sub comps they will remain linked to the first Master page and not a new Master page. What I would like to do is duplicate the 10 sub comps and have them link to a new duplicated Master page. Is there a way to achieve this?

Hey y'all, I'm really stuck.   This error keeps popping up for me and I have no idea how to solve it. It'll appear as I'm trying to play a sequence with an image in it. I made other sequences with images in them a few hours ago and rhey're all fine. But now when tryong to add anything new, it gives me this error and doesn't go away at all - no matter how many times I hit 'okay'. Any ideas?   Thanks!   Title edited by Mod.  

I can't change any text properties of a text using the STYLE commands.I must be using it totally wrong.Why doesn't this work? thisLayer.text.sourceText.setFontSize(50);Whatever the syntax of the STYLE commands is, I find it completely incomprehensible.None of the documentation on the internet works for me.Even chatgpt gave up.Is there anyone who can show in babysteps how to set omething correctly?(please mark variables with a _ somewhere or else I get confused to see variables among the commandos)