After Effects

Hi everyone, so this is a problem that's completely stopped my progress in an animation that I'm working on for my showreel. Basically, there's a room with a character in it and I need the animation to start from a very strong close-up of the character's leg, which is animated using the Puppet tool and end on a quick zoom out which would reveal the whole character.So naturally i zoom in with the camera and turn on continuous rasterize on the leg, so it doesn't loose quality. What I found odd and extremely troublesome is the fact that the puppet pins don't rescale accordingly to the camera zoom, so when it's zoomed in, the pins "disattach" from the leg, and stay in the same place on the screen, which obliterates the animation. An additional problem is caused by the continuous rasterize option, which when turned on, seems to be disabling the animation overall, immobilizing the leg. I'd like to ask you for any advice on that. In case there's no fix and it's just AE nature (

Hello, fellowsMy name is Daniel and I edit VR videos and post production.Since I am not comfortable with AE, I edit VR video with Premiere Pro, and only use the After Effect if necessary. Recently, I happen to learn about VR Comp Editor in AE, and the experience so far has been great.Than I realized something today, that it makes the video blurry. Here are two samples of my work. (Exported frame from Premiere Pro)As you can see, the picture on the right has more detail on the leaves.While the one on the left is slightly blurred out.I have no idea why this is happening. Could it be that I have set 'Add 2D Edit' wrong?I mean, I once set 'Comp Width' to 4096, since all of my videos are 4096 x 2048, but it doesn't seemthat it works better than the other. Is it normal to lose some detail in video?

Hello to anyone reading, I made a big screw up and I'm wondering if there's a way to recover.I have a two and a half minute video that I accidentally trimmed to the middle off with lots of images and movement across it. I've reset the time to it's proper settings but the images and such outside of the previously trimmed to area are now just incredibly small slivers.Is there a way to restore my video in any semblance to what it used to be without redoing all the work? Thank you.

how to make stipple effect like this? 

When i search effects panel for Chroma Key, it shows as Missing > Chroma Key. Ofcourse because of this its non draggable and unusable onto the footage. Keylight is there in the list.

I recently tried installing the LottieFiles plugin for After Effects. In the Creative Cloud app, it says the extension is successfully installed, however nothing shows up in Window > Extensions in After Effects. I tried installing via ZXP and the ZXP manager also shows that it's successfully installed, however I'm still not seeing anything in the Extensions menu. Anyone know what's going on?

Whenever i got to open my project, and After effects error pops up saying "After Effects effect "BCC Directional Blur" has global outflags mismatch. Code flags are 100 and PiPL flags are 6108214" (25 :: 16) How do i fix this, anyone know?

Hello everyone,I am seeking advice on whether I should purchase an Intel ARC A750 8GB DDR6 Graphics Card for my system, which includes an Intel i5-12600K processor, 4x16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200 RAM, and an MSI MPG A750GF 80 Plus Gold PSU. Thank you in advance for your help.

Hi, on one of my comps i have a brush stroke like stock clip.....im using it against a solid...so its a wipe on brush stroke. Ive done it, set a luma key to remove the black bg and its ok. Now i want the same stroke to unwipe itself. This is where i dont know what to do. I tried laying a dup clip of the same and trying out some blending modes to see if it will do the stroke again, but this time with invisible ink, ie cancelling out the existing bursh stroke below it. Im imagining i can expand this above clip a little largerand make it into some sort of mask which can wipe out the shrunk (smaller sized) stroke below it. Just a wild guess theoroctically. Dont know how to do it. Anyone who can point me in the right direction ?

My question is can you track the camera movement of green screen footage when you don't have track markers? I have major handheld camera movement of a subject in front of a green screen but the track markers didn't show up. Trying to find out if I'm able to track the footage Within Adobe 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!