After Effects

I want to keyframe audio going from silence to some audible level. I set the stop watch for audio levels at the beginning of a wave form and drag the level slider down, and move the CTI later into the track and increase the audio at that point by dragging the audio level slider,, though when the CTI hits the waveform it is still playing the audio even though I tried making the audio silent at the first keyframe. What do I need to do to make the audio not audible on the first keyframe? Thank you 

If you are using After Effects to layout and position content being able to create a grid system like in Photoshop can be useful.I created a scriptUI panel to create rows and columns by making guidelines. You can download it on gumroad: https://thepixelsmith.gumroad.com/l/AfterEffectsGridBuilderIt’s pay what you want (gumroad doesn’t let me just do free stuff) so just type in zero. 

Hi Everyone, I’m having a weird problem. A certain expression works on AE GUI but it does not work when rendered with aerender.I am trying to create a dynamic creative app for my agency. Basically, I have an aep template that has a json object. I modify the json and render via aerender.I can change text, images, videos, text style, etc dynamically. Here’s the problem:I can’t change a shape’s color with aerender. The json is parsed correctly (textboxes show the values correctly, and even hexToRgb conversion is done correctly). But the shape does not seem to pickup color. When I open the AE GUI, it runs correctly. However, aerender does not render correctly. I tried different methods, including putting the expression in shape’s fill color, using a color object, linked with the shape embedding the shape in a comp and using tint / fill effects. All these methods I mentioned work in AE GUI with no problem. However they don’t work in aerender. The color code comes from the json correctly, bu

Hey everyone,Wanted to share something I built and get honest feedback from this community.A few weeks ago I was working on a really messy After Effects project — dozens of nested precomps, broken expressions, mystery effects buried 5 layers deep. The kind of timeline that makes you want to start over.I downloaded one of those free unprecompose scripts you can find online. It could batch un-nest, which was great, but that's about it. It dropped some of my effects, didn't preserve everything cleanly, and worst of all — every expression that referenced layers inside the precomps just broke. I spent hours afterward manually fixing thisComp.layer() references one by one.So I decided to take that simple script and turn it into something that actually does the full job.What I built — Carpenter's Un-Nester Pro:Batch un-precompose with proper preservation of effects, masks, blending modes, 3D properties, time remap, track mattes, audio with level keyframes, and parent relationships Recursive m

Antes de que transcurrieran los 7 días de prueba desinstalé la aplicación desde Adobe Creative Cloud , ya que en el mensaje cuando dabas de alta la prueba decían lo siguiente:   "Puedes cancelar en línea, en cualquier momento y sin gastos" No se si se tiene que cancelar la versión de prueba desde otro sitio, ya que no veo que se especifique correctamente.El hecho es que mas de 7 días después me han cobrado los 24,19€.  

Can you save a single composition from an After Effects project so it can be opened inside a second project? Deleting a couple hundred files from a large AEP to reduce it to a single comp is not realistic. Just need to move one composition into another project where it would be useful without having to migrate the entire original project. Reconnect the media and done. Possible?

Hi everyone. So eaerlier this evening I downloaded Sapphire plugin for AE; I was having some issues with it and a friend suggested just redownloading it, so for some silly reason I just decided to delete all of the Sapphire files (plugins, etc) off my laptop. However, since I did that, every time I've tried to open AE an error message appears saying: "Can't find Sapphire bundle in /Applications/BorisFX/Saphire 2022 Adobe/config/sapphire-ae64.bundle: file does not exist. Please reinstall Sapphire Plug-ins to fix this problem." I feel like I've tried everything: I've cleared ALL Sapphire plugin folders, I've reinstalled AE several times, I've reinstalled the sapphire plugins (and yet again deleted them) and literally nothing has worked. As far as I can see, there are absolutely no remaining Sapphire or BorisFX files or folders. I've tried clearing/resetting AE preferences. Nothing's been working, and I know people have had this issue before as I've googled it and trie

After opening a 3rd party project, probably made where text writes right to left, I can’t get After Effects 2026 to type Left to Right. (The same thing has occurred in the Beta version) How can I get the Latin text engine back? It is NOT a setting in the character or paragraph dialogues, and I’ve tried “resetting” both of those. I’ve also attempted the switch opening a project that use to work properly to reset it. That didn’t work either. I’m on a Mac running Tahoe. I’d prefer to not trash the preferences and lose my workspaces and keyboard shortcuts. Thanks!

If I want to test a work, is it possible to lock the existing keyframes (KF) and add new temporary KFs with different color?   

I made an animation preset for creating captions (followed tutorial). I’ve got a black rectangle shape that populates custom text. However, I want to adjust the opacity of the black rectangle shape only. I’ve tried adjusting the “Amount to Tint”, but that doesn’t work (and inverts both color mappings simultaneously). Same for the effect opacity. DOes anyone know, based on how I built this animation preset, how I can adjust the opacity of one of the color mappings? If not, what would be the best way for me to create what I’m after? Thanks all! 

A client has requested that I use Adobe After Effects version 24.6.8. However, despite reaching out to Adobe support via phone and email, and even discussing the issue during a video session with an Adobe expert, I have not been able to obtain the installer.I would greatly appreciate it if you could share it with me.Thank you very much.

You can send this to Adobe Support:Hello Adobe Support,I am facing repeated crashes in Adobe After Effects during normal editing and especially while working with heavier compositions, 3D camera, and Element 3D. The application suddenly closes without any warning or error popup.I already performed several troubleshooting steps:Reinstalled NVIDIA Studio Driver using DDU clean uninstall Checked RAM using Windows Memory Diagnostic (no errors found) Checked CPU/GPU temperatures and voltages (normal) Cleared media and disk cache Reset After Effects preferences Tested GPU acceleration settings Reinstalled GPU drivers cleanlyThe entire PC is now stable, but only After Effects crashes suddenly during use.Crash log message shown:“After Effects error: Crash in progress. Last logged message was:<16796>  <5> CenterAnchorToContentBoundsTimestampGetNextNIM_SetStreamFPV(2)”The crashes happen more often during:3D scenes Element 3D usage heavier compositions preview/renderingPlease help ide

Usually we call “Bounding Box”. What is purpose of having different name?  

I upgraded from 16GB to 32 GB of RAM, but AE still crashes after the 30 minute mark. I have BCC Sapphire 2025 and flow installed and am currently using AE 2025, but i'm not even working with a crazy heavy workflow.i precompose basically everything i can and have turned off hardware acceleration, ive uninstalled and reinstalled sapphire, ive tried the audio hardware trick, and i purge my memory and cache every 15 minutes, but STILL, my playback will just randomly stop working and i have to manually crash AE. PLEASE HELPPP!!! i need to know if I’m doing something wrong. LAPTOP SPECSProcessor Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 275HX (2.70 GHz)Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.4 GB usable)Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU (8 GB)Intel(R) Graphics (128 MB)Storage 663 GB of 954 GB usedDevice ID C2693164-56F9-46F5-B554-7DA305981479Product ID 00342-21497-29339-AAOEMSystem type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processorPen and touch Pen supportAFTER EFFECTS MEMORY USAGEInstalled RAM: 31.43 GB Cu

I have recently got my pc fixed, and After Effects was working fine but clicking on "clear cache" when I had low storage is when the crashing problems started.I had my SATA cable changed, and my memory is working fine with the AF files backed up and collected- AE is up to date- I have Windows 10 on a custom build- 16 GB of RAM- 172+ GB of storage What I have done:- uninstalled and reinstalled After Effects- disabled "Enable Compressed Frames (Lossless)"- restarted pc and ran AF in safe mode (didn't change anything as I don't have any third-party plugins) I had different types of issues, some being.-Sometimes I hear 4 rapid beeps that start quiter and grow louder, then don't see any problems until it suddenly closes after less than a minuteAre the 4 beeps a warning message? I haven't heard it before, and now I hear it while having these issues every time I start AF-I hear 4 rapid beeps, then my monitor screen turns black temporarilyturns back on, then the error "After Effects can'tconti