After Effects

Hi,My problem:I am making an animation for my internship program with the DUIK Plugin. This requires for me to have different layers in Photoshop for example the forearm, shoulder, toes etc. All these paths are in different layers. The file size is a normal A4. I can not give screenshots seeing as this is a project not meant to be seen yet.This file needs to be imported into After Effects. Every layer needs to have the same size as it is seen plus the anchor point needs to be in the middle of the object itself. Problem is, it imports and the layer is the same size as the composition, not the layer itself, plus the anchor point is in the center of the composition. This makes it almost impossible to animate.Funny thing is, only today has this been happening to me. Two days ago everything worked perfectly.I have searched this forum and I have come across the possible solution of my problem. This was to say: "Retain layer size" when importing. But, Nothing happened. Seeing as earlier on ev

Hello I want to achieve some sort of whiteboard animation. First I draw the lines with trim paths and then later I fill the areas with different colors.  The "filling" with colors should look like as someone is coloring them with a digital pencil. Its a line that is "drawn" by the trim path function and I use a mask to make the edges look sharp. (see attached file.) Is there a possibility to change the colors of the whole shape into different areas?For example from this: to this:  The idea is that all the different colors are drawn at the same time. But each field or shape gets colored differently. Is this possible with masks somehow? I didnt find anything on google or youtube.  Thanks for any help. 

I get the following error(s) everytime I render my project...  After Effects warning: Could not open the file 'F:\AE\Adobe\After Effects\22.0\Disk Cache - USERNAME.noindex\9c\9c68e7c7-378e-c09c-69ce-e77dd9536bde.ADBE ICV.B300E02.AAAAAI8AmAA=.aecache'. I get sometimes 8 or even 20 lines of this pointing to different .aecache files.I still get my .Mov file at the end without visible errors but the long strings of errors sometimes crashes AE during a render. I have tried:Changing the permissions on the scratch disk.Using a different scratch disk.Baking all expressions to keyframes The scratch disk is a seperate, fast ssd card from the application and job folders. This has been happening for about a month I update software and OS as they come... PC specs are:Ryzen 3900x, 64gb ram, 3 nvme drives (1 for OS+apps, 1 for working files, 1 for cache), twin rtx 2070 supers.I've updated all chipset, OS, graphics, Software to the latest this morning and no change.

Hey everyone! I am quite new to animation, and i was just wondering if you could give me advice on how to do the below ( at 2.09) How long do you think something like this would take a designer also. I'm very adept in photoshop and illustrator, but not so much in animation software like after effects.   Thankyou!! 🙂 

When I attempt to access my installed extensions, the pop-up panel meant to show up via Window>Extensions does not show. Here is a video demostration of the issue.

My After Effects is crashing after I aded an adone named GeoTracker to composition. I tryed to start AE in safe mode, degrade the graphic and reinstall the adone. Nothing helps, the error remains. Please help.     Title edited by Mod.

Hi there, I'm animating a circle using the radial wipe effect. When I apply the effect to the layer, the center point of the wipe effect is different from the anchor point of the circle (I need the center point of the wipe effect to be centered with the circle). Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks!

Hello i just started reading a book called "The power of expression" and in a example they use the index like this:offset = 150;[position[0]+offset*index,position[1]];i just wanted to know why they put de 0 and the 1 in semicolon.

MY after effects crashes just as I open it and it then generates a crash report on to my desktop, ive tried reinstalling it a hundred times and also tried updating and enabling my gpu but nothing seems to work

Hello, I just bought After Effects but at the time of payment the money was debited from my card but the program appears as if I had not purchased it, giving me the purchase option again but it won't let me download it. I have proof of the transfer but it still won't let me download itHere I attach the screenshot that the corresponding money was debited, I don't know what I can do about it since there is no email I can write to and I am desperate, just today I had the whole afternoon free to start but they just scammed me

Every time I open up AE I get a warning that a certain plugin has failed to load.  The error reads as follows After Effects warning: The following plugins have failed to load.  Please reinstall these plugins:C:\Program File\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2024\Support Files\(Media Core Plugins)\Common\TransmitDV.prm This warning has not interrupted or dampened my workflow in anyway, I just get this messaged whenever I open up AE, and I'd like to figure what's going on so I can take care of it before it becomes a bigger problem.   I have a feeling that it's got something to do with the dynamic link between Premiere and After Effects, because when I follow that file path the error gives me, the specific plugin file says it's actually a Premiere Pro Plugin.   any and all help would be greatly appreciated, thanks! System Specs:OS: Windows 10Processor: Intel i7 - 10750 CPU @ 2.60GHzGraphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SuperRAM: 32

Bonjour à tous,Je rencontre un problème que je n'arrive pas à résoudre depuis quelques jours.En effet, j'ai fait une animation basée sur le plugin "Saber" mais lors du rendu, un message apparaît au bout de quelques minutes et interrompt le rendu. J'ai essayé de le faire via "Media Encoder" mais aussi via le moteur de rendu "d'After Effects" mais rien n'y fait ... le même message apparaît encore (voir ci-dessous): "Saber a rencontré une erreur irrémédiable.Veuillez compresser le fichier suivant et contacter l'assistance( support@videocopilot.net ) ..." J'ai envoyé un mail au support de "vidéo copilot" mais je n'ai toujours pas de réponse.Pouvez-vous m'aider à débloquer cette situation et m'expliquer ce que je devrai faire à l'avenir pour éviter ou corriger ce problème? Voici les informations principales concernant l'ordinateur que j'utilise:Édition: Windows 10 FamilleVersion "After Effects": 17.1.3Processeur: Processeur Intel Core i7-9700KCarte mère: Rog Strix Z390-E

The question says it all! I'm creating render slaves, and I have .aom files that I've exported from my licensed version of AE that I'd like to be usable for the render slaves without engaging the UI, as they are ae_render_only_node.txt clients.Where should I put the templates so that they are discoverable by After Effects CC 2017 (latest)?The command line I'm using would look like this:aerender.exe -project "[project path]" -comp "[Compname]" -OMtemplate "***path to aom file??***" -output "[output path]\[#####].png" -s [startFrame] -e [endFrame]The .aom file would be the exported custom template I made within AE.Any suggestions?

Why is there always an audio panel or propertie panel opening in my after effects interface? That's f*cking annoying... WHY is after effect opening panels without me wanting it? It mess up in my interface, organisation and workflow,... is that once again a "new" feature? Pleeeaaase Adobe, STOP macking changes in our work routine WITHOUT ASKING! Every two week I've to go search the internet to get my interface or tools, or plugins, and so back to normal... Is'nt there any feed back or listenign of the everyday users to all those nonsense so called upgrades???? So if someone knows WHY (the f¨ck) is that happening and HOW to STOP this... Please let me know &#x1f605🙏

I am trying to combine two clips with camera movement, one with greenscreen-elements removed, one without.  If you saw any of the behind-the-scenes work of how they shot 2020's Invisible Man, you have an idea of what I'm trying to accomplish.  In that movie, they had an expensive robot camera that could perfectly replicate camera movement across multiple takes.  One take would have greenscreen-suit guy doing something, one would just be the background. I've tried doing this with a programmable gimbal.  The problem is that while multiple takes are close, they aren't exactly the same.  And if you mask something from the top clip, you can definitely tell that the bottom clip doesn't perfectly line up.  I guess a thousand-dollar gimbal just isn't capable of the same level of precision as a million-dollar robot camera. So it occurred to me: is there a way to use After Effects to perfectly synchronize the two clips?  Then I could remove the greens

Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for days now. I've searched everything I can think to search and can't find a suitable answer. I have a function that hides a child panel. This works fine, but leaves a space where the panel used to be. If I manually resize my docked window it fixes the issue, but I want it to do this automatically without manually resizing. Is there a way to force the docked window to resize? Or is there some other way to do this? I'm using .layout() and an onResize function to accomplish what I have so far. I've tried playing with the windows max size but again, this doesn't show until a resize happens and it only affects the inner elements, not the actual docked window size. I've tried using a notify("onResize") but it always throws an error saying notify is undefined. I'm missing some fundamental understanding here, but I don't know what. To summarize what I want to do: When a button is clicked in a docked window, I want to hide a panel in that

Hey guys I constantly get this error and it has already become annoying that appears while I am working, the error appears and sometimes I have to restart After Effects to be able to move on ... Any idea what could be causing it?thnks

I have a comp called "conversation" that has a pre-comp called "caption". The caption pre-comp contains a text layer ("caption-text") and a shape layer bg ("caption-bg") that acts as a speech bubble for the text and resizes depending on the text layer size. I want to be able to access the the dimensions of "caption-bg" from the "conversation" comp, its parent. Is there an expression to look inside the contents of a pre-comp and access its layers? Maybe something like this in the "conversation" comp? captionLength = layer("caption').subLayer("caption-bg").sourceRectAtTime().length

Having an issue with the clone stamp.I've got the layer I want to work with. I've made sure I am in the layer, not the composition. I've selected the clone tool. I hold down the Option key and click where I want to clone from. I see the crosshairs come up. After clicking I let go of the option key. I click where I want to clone to and drag my curser. I see the crosshairs moving where I previously clicked, but nothing is copying over to where I am dragging my curser around. My brush opacity and flow are at 100%. I go down to my timeline. I can see that a "Clone 1" was made in the effects on my current layer. I check my stroke options again there. Opacity and flow are at 100%. I can see the path my stroke has just taken. But nothing has coped over. I am left with my original image.Any ideas as to what setting I am missing? I've searched through many tutorials and forums and have not found an answer that has worked yet.Thanks!

I downloaded a Creative Cloud Trial.  Ready to begin using AE CC2014 it wouldn't launch on my PC that meets all specs.  I restarted my computer, contacted support to which I lent my computer screen to who after doing several things I'd already done told me the file was corrupted and that I should uninstall and reinstall and restart my computer.  I took the time to do that --again, and it still won't launch...any help here for getting it to launch.  When I click on AE, it simply spins for about 4 seconds then stops.  HELP!

Hey, I have an image I want to use for the background of a quick animation I'm doing for a video. What I want to do is animate this image so it slides downward in a continuos loop but not have it slide off screen, I'm not sure how I would even start this or if its even possible.  I just think it would look better than just having a still image behind the animation. If you need more info or anything let me know, any help is appreciated.

I want to rotate three words around a null object. Easy. Parent the words to the null and hit one rotation property. Then, apply this "value - parent.transform.rotation" on each word's rotation to keep them upright. I then wanted to make it look better by having lines between the words. The points of each line are references using thisComp to point to the words as shown below: p1 = thisComp.layer("Word1").position;p2 = thisComp.layer("Word2").position;pts = [p1, p2];createPath(pts, inTangents = [], outTangents = [], isClosed = false) This does not work because the expression can't use thisComp to connect the lines. This is because the line points then go to 0,0, which is what the anchoring values become when parented to the null. Now I need a better configuration or expressions to make it work with just a null, three words and three lines. I am trying to create a fluid triangle shape based on the layer's position but only needing one rotation property to the keyframe ins

Context:I am trying to integrate Meta Co-Tracker (as of now, maybe will look for better ones too) in After Effects to track 2D points in one click with a single go, will explore more, or if you've suggestions let me know.Currently, I managed to get the tracked points data using .json to AE shapes (Please see preview video).Problem/Question 1:I think creating this entirely AE plugin/script not gonna work due to performance reasons (or my cognitive limits), so can I create some GUI python program and link that to AE via SDK ... like Mocha, or Element 3D as they do their processes standalone and then export desired that data to AE which is efficient.Problem/Question 2:There are many plugins in AEScripts.com where they are using AI within AE plugin only, how they are doing it as a user don't have to install additional libs, python, etc? or is it doing some python process at the backend using SDK?Current Progress Preview: https://vimeo.com/910721332/4b71632738

I have a project where I am using CC Radial Fast Blur to achieve a desired look, but it requires a massive Grow Bounds to make it look right and that has both increased my render time and the chances for a crash. I was wanting to ask if there is some alternative to CC Radial Fast Blur that would look the same but be dirctional rather than radial. I have tried experimenting with the various other blur effects but the Brightest zoom option that the Radial Fast Blur provides is not found on any of the other blurs.

The first image is his workspace and the second is mine.