After Effects

So, I'm importing layers from Toon Boom Harmony into After Effects for compositing. All the layers have the exact-same export settings. Regardless, 3 of the 11 layers import with "Alpha Ignored" while the rest are "Premultiplied." I've tried changing the file type for one of the layers just to test, and it still loads in with "Alpha Ignored". Is there a way to force Premultiplied imports in AE or some other kind of workaround, because I don't think the issue is in the settings for Toon Boom since all the export settings for all layers are the same. I don't really know how helpful the TB screenshot is, but you can at least see the file type I'm working with.

Hello,I'm encountering issues with a script I've been working on for After Effects, which is designed to offset a layer's anchor point based on its rotation and position relative to a guide layer. The script works as expected when the layer has rotation only on one axis, but it fails to produce accurate results when the layer has rotations on two or three axes.Here’s the code I'm using:var layerPosition = layer.position.value; var currentAnchor = layer.anchorPoint.value; var guidePosition = guideLayer.position.value; var guideX = guidePosition[0]; var guideY = guidePosition[1]; var guideZ = guidePosition[2]; var offsetX = guideX - layerPosition[0]; var offsetY = guideY - layerPosition[1]; var offsetZ = guideZ - layerPosition[2]; var layerOrientation = layer.orientation.value; var layerRotationX = layerOrientation[0]; var layerRotationY = layerOrientation[1]; var layerRotationZ = layerOrientation[2]; var thetaX = layerRotationX * Math.PI / 180; var thetaY = layerRotationY * Math.PI

Hi everyone, I'm trying to learn basics of plugin development in After Effects, trying to create a simple text, or rather draw pixels on screen, but not sure how to do that. I was trying to implement drawbot, but to many things I do not understand 🙂 If someone could give a simple example of drawing sample text on screen, that would be awesome. I couldn't find an example / sample project in sdk. Thanks a lot in advance!

Hola, no encuentro la forma de que aparezcan nuevamente los manejadores de mis trazados, estaba usandolos normalmente, y de la nada desaparecieron, no se si toque una tecla o algo que los hizo desaparecer, pero si me aparecen por ejemplo los manejadores de mi trazado de moviemiento.

Whenever I open an AE project from windows file explorer, the entire AE window resizes. This does not happen if I open the window via AE's open menu. The expected result is that the AE window should not change size when the project is opened. For example, if AE is maximised before I open a project, it should not shrink in size when I open a project from Explorer. Given the place I'm at now has us opening (and thus resizing) things literally hundreds of times a day across our team, its incredibly frustrating. Given we're also working to incredibly tight deadlines (we're in news, so timeframes of mere minutes is not uncommon), this issue actually has a measurable impact on our ability to turn around critical content as efficiently. There was a similar post about this on the old uservoice page, but I can't find it here. Its been an issue for at least the last few versions of AE, and I can't understand why Adobe hasn't fixed it yet. I've only noticed the issue on Windows 10,

Hey,I am building a complex 3D scene based on C4D capabilities and I have at least 2 questions:#1 I imitate convex object by layering multiple layers of the same masked image.However, seems I have hit the limit of 40’ish layers where I get those black artifacts, even my Comp’s Settings for Render Quality is set to 99% – it renders ok in precomp, but that’s not enough to render the final image. Unfortunately, that’s the limit of render quality value, can’t overdrive. Or, is there a way? How would you fix it?Or, perhaps there are other approaches in creating 3D bulges/hemispheres, that bypass the use of Advanced 3D Renderer, which at the moment seems little of use in creating quite complex hand-drawn environments. Classic 3D renderer, seems, has no issues of rendering this particular image, yet it lacks the geometry and shading options the C4D counterpart has for the other objects in the scene; afaik, can’t combine results from different renderers. #2 Issue: When

So I have this ancient logo for my agency that was made eons ago. I am trying to bring it into After Effects to do some animating with it but it just comes out blurry. I've tried continuously rasterize (in Ae) and document raster effect settings @300ppi (in Ai) but neither one helped. Any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated

hello, I am trying to export for web. My final product needs an alpha channel because it is used as a border for live feed. Every time I export I get file sizes anywhere from 200mb+. My intention is to get 50mb and below. I know it can be done because I have files that are less than 20mb and have the same animations. The person I got the files from will not share their wisdom. I am using Adobe After Effects, usually with the saber plugin. What can be done to achieve the goal of 50mb or less with alpha channel?

When I import TIF into AE, the content shown in the picture below does not appear. My image is imported into AE as a whole (the second picture is the state I opened). I am sure that there are three layers when I open it in PS. What is the reason? 

Hi I am new to After Effects (Great experience so far) but have an issue dont know where I did wrong and unable to find solutionWhen I worked on the compostion everything was fine but now when I reopen the project, I am facing 2 problems (observed so far)1: The file names changed be itself.12w → w (composition)12w.png → [12-12]w.png (source file) 2: the original duration of the file/composition geos 0:00:00:01 and that length does not work for me. Max stretch is 9900 which makes it 0:00:03:09. That length also dont work for me plus that huge stretch doesn't make sense. I am basically creating whiteboard animation and when I copy mask path to another file (human hand), everything goes wrong. (Needed to mention that I already created some similar animations successfully)

Hi all, I'm trying to super-impose something into the river in this clip and make it look like its "behind" the railings. I've tried rotoscoping everything that isn't water and putting that on top but the results have been quite poor. Any other ideas?

Hello, it seems i can't change colour of text after i have added a mask and changed/animated the text position. Before this it does change. I want to add the option to change the colour of the text when adding to a template. Any ideas? It might be something simple i haven't turned off or on. It's the SNE2 Composition. Thank you.

Hi, We have a problem with Adobe After Effects. It randomly logs out of the account and closes the program, asking us if we want to save before it does.  Can someone help us? Thanks.

I've been having issues with After Effect (version 15.0.1), on my newly purchased computer. When I open a project, and move around on the timeline, it causes my computer to crash within seconds, in a way I have not experienced before. - My 2nd screen goes black, and the computer freezes. Most of the time the computer restarts on its own. Sometimes it just freezes, and there is no response when moving the mouse, or pressing the keyboard. I have tried letting it be like that for 15 min, and with no sign of unfreezing I have to shut it down manually.I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but no changes. I have not been able to replicate the error in the 2017 version of After Effect.I cannot replicate the error in the 15.0.1 version on my laptop. So I'm thinking it might has something to do with graphic card of the new computer.Computer specification:Graphic card: GeForce GTX 1080 TiWindows 10 ProProcessor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-7960X CPU @ 2.80GHzRAM: 64 GBHas anyone experienced somethi

Hi, When I finised rendering AME I can see some of the comps are blurry and some are not. flowers I have drawn in AI. later converted in shape layer in AE. But the comp 'Bee' I drew in AE., its not blurry at all,  all the comps are 1920x1080. I dnt understand why its happening. Please help me.  

Hey all,I am trying to animate a character walking through a webpage. I have a video of the webpage movements and clicks etc and want to animate a peacock over this video. What is the best approach, animate the character in Animate or in AE? The video is 11min long. I have tried to do this in Animate, however ran into issues with saving an opening. I would lose my work every time I closed the app and layers would be invisable when opening. The communiy suggested this could be due to the warp tool or even the camera tool I used. So, I took the animation into AE which is new for me and although I have managed to rig a character, I can't figure out how to animate it, scale, move, etc without the rig messing it up. I'm new to animation and not even sure if AE is the right software to get the job done. I wanted to reach out and see what suggestions people have before I commit more time to possible mistakes. Many thanks!

My audio is not working correctly in AF.  It plays normally in the clip, but in the final comp and preview, it has an echo, like it's playing from the clip and final comp at the same time.  I've checked the settings and can't figure it out. 

When I try to render my video from After Effects the audio is not synced. I have visuals that go with music and the final render is always not lined up properly. I also have tried using Media Encoder, and while the music is synced, I still have a couple of problems. When I use Media Encoder, some frames end up not in the final video either, and some clips freeze and hold longer than they are supposed to be. Anyone run into this and is there a solution?

Hallo zusammen, seit einiger Zeit habe ich ein Problem mit einer  Pfadzuweisung. Immer wenn ich Strg + M zum "auf die Renderliste" anfügen verwende, wird der Ausgabepfad auf eine Verzeichnis geleitet, das ich so nicht gebrauchen kann und deshalb gerne dauerhaft ändern würde. Ich bekomme das einfach nicht hin. Es springt immer zu diesem Ordner, wie kann man das ändern? Ich habe mir ein Template mit einer Ordnerstruktur angelegt, was AE bei jedem Starten öffnet, so brauche ich nicht jedes Mal die gleichen Ordner neu anlegen, nur dieser Speichpfad will nicht, was ich gern will :-). Vielen Dank für eure Tipps.Bea

My after effects has been lagging so much for the past few days and I am suspecting that it's because of the recent 24.5 update since I'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with my laptop. Just want to make sure if anyone else is having the same problem?

After Effects will only import a single dng sequence.I shoot a lot of video as Adobe Cinema DNG and in the past I've imported hundreds of such video clips. Normally, upon import of the dng image sequence, After Effects automatically launches Adobe Camera Raw which allows me to grade the image. I click OK and After Effects brings in the dng image sequence. I can create a composition and export as an .mxf file through Adobe Media Encoder. This workflow I've used for years, hundreds of times, without a problem.Now, however, After Effects freezes while importing a dng image sequence.With a new project, I can import one dng image sequence without issue. When I try to import a second dng image sequence, After Effects freezes or hangs on import. It freezes trying to launch Adobe Camera Raw, which never opens. It's as if it can't talk to Adobe Camera Raw the second time.All my Adobe apps in the Creative Suite are up to date, as is my Nvidia driver. Loading a previous version of Adobe Camera Ra

Hi, I am experimenting expressions. so I have done bar animation  with digits.  Suddenly I feel like why not making the digits start animating from invisible to visible.  I mean when the bar animation will start the digits will come into existance. then I link the opacity of the digits with trim path 'end'. But the opacity is not producing what I imagined. Then I realized opacity is taking trim path's movement exactly on same increment. I mean when trim path end value is 10 the digit's last opacity percentage will mimic that. because both range from 0-100.then I multiply the opacity expression  *10.  beacuse I knwo I can apply basic math on expression. Am I  thinking right? or totally miscalculate it?    or there is some other way I can pull what i imagined. Please guide me. I want the opacity of digits to start from 0 - 100 as the trim bar progresses, both (opacity speed and trim path's speed need to be same). 

Hi all BIt of a novice on expressionsI have a lot of text I need to animate, what i'd like is an expression which uses the inPoint and endPoint of the layer to play the text Animator and animate the words in and out. Mainly so that I dont have to adjust the distance between keyframes depending how many words are in that text layer, meaning the speed of the animations are consistent/standardised. e.g A text layer with 1 word will take 0.1 seconds to transition, 5 words will take 0.5 seconds, and a layer with 10 words take 1 second.I'm currently using this bounce expression on an Expression Selector in the Animator-delay = .00; myDelay = delay*textIndex; t = (time - inPoint) - myDelay; if (t >= 0) { freq =0.0; amplitude = 250; decay = 10; s = amplitude*Math.cos(freq*t*2*Math.PI)/Math.exp(decay*t); [s,s] } else { value }this basically does what I'm after (though has unnecessary bounce code in there as dont know how to remove), but I'm struggling to

Hello everyone,I've recently started working with the team project functionality for After Effects. One thing I cannot find support on is managing version control for After Effects teams projects. There are materials for PremierePro but does that exists for After Effects? Is there a way to manage versions, revert to previous versions of a team project in After Effects? Help would be greatly appreciated.