After Effects

Hello, I've tried everything to get the spill off the apple,the top and legs/shoes but it's not working.Does anyone have any ideas on how to remove spill from reflective surfaces? 

When enabling Mercury Transit in After Effects, the sent Video Preview does not contain any Alpha Channel information even if the entire composition is empty. The transmitted video sends the composition overlayed over the previewed composition's background color.This is occuring on Windows, AE 25.3.0. I am checking Mercury Transit using the NDI for After Effects plugin, and monitoring both the NDI Studio Monitor and an NDI Source.Not sure if this is more a bug or a feature-request (having this be toggle-able would be great).  

Hi,I'm working on some text for a video and when attempting to play back or render the video with the text layers, After Effects glitches out constantly, with random text layers flickering in and out of places they shouldn't be. I've tried restarting the program, but this only caused the issue to spread to other parts of the video. This is happening when playing back in After Effects, rendering in After Effects, and rendering in Adobe Media Encoder. It's a very frustrating problem, especially as I spent hours making sure the text was frame-accurate, only for After Effects to crap all over my work.Below is a video showcasing the problem, and also an image showing the project itself, to clarify that the text layers are not overlapping and that this is not a user fault.Google Drive VideoI hope someone can help.Thanks in advance.

I have a cup with a video of steam rising from it. I keyframe the cup so it scales up and then I parent the steam video to the cup so they both scale up.What happens if you have multiple properties keyframed on an image and you parent it to something else, does it copy all of the keyframed properties? So if the the cup was keyframed to scale, rotate, change position and opacity, does the steam do all of these things also? If so, is there a way to control what is copied when parenting or does it just copy all the properties?

Here is a breakdown of the color issues based on version and color management settings: version 24.x / Adobe color managedAfter Effects (24.6.8) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (24.6.8) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to mp4 → ISSUE: The gamma is slightly different. (Is it forcibly converting sRGB to Rec. 709?) version 24.x / OCIO color managedAfter Effects (24.6.8) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (24.6.8) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to JPEG → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect.Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to mp4 → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect. version 25.x / Adobe color managedAfter Effects (25.5) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (25.5) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (25.5) direct render to JPEG → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect.Media Encoder (25.5)

This is a problem I never used to get, but on 2025 and26 if I leave AE open for more than 20 mins without cleaning my cache, apparently even the most basic of comps will decide it needs all 128gb of ram on my machine and I get this dialogue box that takes literally 150+ presses to dismiss. This is insane. At least make it so that the pop up gives me the option to clear cache or can be dismissed without machine my enter key for 2 mins.   AMD 5950, 4090, 128gb ram, windows 10, AE 25/26 all versions 

The new tools are promising, but not very intuitive. With the old root brush double clicking allowed the painting to b started immediately, but with the new tools that is not always the case. This causes a lot of confusing clicking and double clicking, opening and closing panels. Please make a clear UI for the object selection / root environment. When a footage layer is selected, choosing one of the tools should open a panel where the rotoscoping can be done.

When trying to "replace with After Effects composition" I get the error message above.  I have seen many others with the same issue and logged out and rebooted as suggested and it still doesn't work.  I am using version 17.0.1 of After Effects and 14.0 of Premiere Pro.  What do I need to do to get this functionality to work?  Seems it's going on for years...?

I'm creating a line animation using trim path feature. the image was created in illustrator. for example. in the animation the line is growing/extendiing from left to right. is it possible to reverse the direction to have the animation go from right to left?? w/o going into illustrator and redraw the line in different way?? no matter what i do with the starting/ending point setting it ALWAYS goes from left to right...any thoughts??my illustration is actually a lot more complicated than just one line. so to redraw the whole thing would not be efficient...

Estou com esse problema, estou tentando baixar o After Effects, mas ocorre um erro de instalação de AVX2. Teria alguma versão para AVXE que rode tranquilamente no meu computador 

Every action I take causes the project cache to constantly refresh, and even moving the mouse cursor slightly makes me wait 20 seconds. This isn't work—it's torture. Here are my settings

Since updating to AFX 26.2.1 I would get the message “File is damaged and can´t be opened”. I had to re-install the 2025 Version which still worked. But now I am getting the same message with this Version that still worked the other day. I already uninstalled and reinstalled it serveral time and deleted the preferences. still no luck. any ideas?Running a Mac Book Pro M3 with SequoiaThanks! Daniel

Issue:After Effects crashes and displays the error message:"After Effects can’t continue: Encountered a GPU or graphics driver issue."This does not happen immediately on launch, but rather after opening a project and working on it for a few moments.Steps to reproduce:1. Open an existing After Effects project.2. Begin interacting with layers — for example: moving a layer, applying an effect, or previewing.3. The preview screen suddenly turns black.4. After a second or two, the error message appears and AE shuts down.Steps already taken (none resolved the issue):1. Clean installation of the latest NVIDIA driver for GTX 1650 SUPER (using “Clean Installation” option).2. GPU tested under full load with FurMark — stable temperatures, no crashes.3. GPU acceleration disabled (Mercury Software Only) — issue persists.4. Ran Windows Memory Diagnostic — no errors.5. Deleted disk cache and user preferences.6. Clean reinstallation of After Effects via Creative Cloud.7. Ran sfc /scannow — no issues f

Animated text flickers when exported. I am using Adobe After Effects (Beta) version 26.3I have 7 different text layers appearing in this animation, when I export it the text that is on the top of the screen flicker. I am exporting these and uploading the export to a Premiere Pro project and that’s where I first noticed the flicker. I tried exporting it in .mov and h.264 but both of those are giving me the same result. And when I open the export outside of Premiere Pro I still see the word flickering. At first the word that was flickering was the “HOME”, but once I exported a couple different times not changing anything about the export settings, then the word “HOME” stopped flickering and the word “THE” started to flicker. Now I can’t export without one of those words flickering. I’ve added a link for reference: Also just wanted to mention this isn’t the first time I have this issue. I’ve had this issue in different projects that had a text layer involved. In past projects the first ex

Added a master property control to the a threshold effect Level Value.Did not work at all with the project in 16 bit. Values were all over the place.Kind of works with the project in 32 bit, but the slider doesn’t work properly, neither does entering values manually.See attached video to see the janky behavior.

I want to make it appear as if water is spraying from an open hole on the top of a container. I found a video of spraying water and placed it above where the hole is located.  I created a mask to limit the part of the video that displays of the water, and I changed the blending mode to lighten to remove the background so only the spraying water displays.  the base of the water where it is starts small and turns into the giant spray is too wide. I want to transform the base of the spray to make it seem like it is smaller and actually coming out of the opening on the container. I tried applying a transform effect to it and I played with skew but that doesn’t seem to get me what I need. How is this done?Thanks in advance 

I animated a .png of an item falling, and rotating as it falls until it hits the floor. After the animation ended, I moved the CTI a few frames ahead and rotated it a bit to add a new keyframe, and moved the CTI again and rotated it again to make it seem more like a bounce when it hit the ground. I want to make the bounce seem a bit more natural. I spent some time online and I read about Expressions, and I copied some Bounce Expression that I found, and I want to paste it so I press alt and clicked on the Stopwatch for  Rotation to paste the Expression since this is the last thing that I added to the animation. The Expression editor opens withtransform.rotationWhen I paste the following Bounce Expression after this it just gives me an error. “This project contans an expression error: error 1 of 1. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance! e = .5;g = 20000;nMax = 9;n = 0;if (numKeys > 0){n = nearestKey(time).index;if (key(n).time > time) n–;}if (n > 0){t = time – key(n).time;v

As mentioned, my After Effects starts to slow down over time if a project has been open for a while, not matter if it’s heavy or as simple as just trimming a video. I notice the timeline doesn’t move smoothly anymore and if I right click anywhere or open any window within the program, it simply freezes for at least 10 seconds or more.My only fix so far has been to save the project when I notice the stutter and simply close and open again, but as you can imagine, it’s very frustrating and slows down my workflow by a lot, despite having a good build.My PC build:Windows 11 ProRyzen 9 9950x3DRTX 3090 FE64GB RAM DDR5 6000 CL30Everything is up to date with their latest drivers, I tried both using a separate SSD dedicated just for AE’s cache and not. Was told to try switching the layout from standard to something else, didn’t work.Was also told that the Character tab seemed to cause this issue, didn’t seem to fix it by removing it. As mentioned this happens whether the project is heavy or eve

Hello all,I opted for the 1 week free subscription of After Effects, and I was charged a full month upon purchase. I had money deducted from my account. I checked and learned that it might be possible as in that I will get refunded when I cancel the membership. I did not cancel the membership as I intend to continuing using it. I was charged again when the week trial ended. 

Hello, I would like to install the 2022 version of After Effects but I can't find it between the older version option. I can only install the 2024 and 2023 versions in the Creative Cloud app. Can you please help me install the 2022 version? Is this still possible? What are my other options if you can't install it using CC apps? Thanks for the help.I need it for creating AET templates.

In this After Effects tutorial, I'm diving into the legendary slitscan effect. While Doug Trumbull used a massive mechnical righ and long-exposure photography to create the "Ultimate Trip", I'll show you how to build the same look much more easily using Essential Graphics, the Offset effect and 3D layers.In this video, I cover: How to use the Offset effect with a simple expression for continuous motion. How to use Essential Graphics to control the speed and images 3D layers to create two infinite plains.  

In Windows in two places it shows apps. If you want increase font size which is more effective to Ae?  

Hello Adobe Community !I’ve been working with After Effects for years, and like many of you, I’ve had to constantly upgrade my hardware just to maintain a normal level of productivity—without seeing any significant improvements (though a more powerful processor and graphics card do really help me work normally).But in recent months, I’ve had to revert to the computing habits of the 2000s, using heavy 3D software, because After Effects—despite a complete reinstallation of Windows 11 Pro less than a year ago, the installation of a high-performance NVMe SSD (Samsung 990 Pro), major operating system updates, and the precaution of working on version 24x, the most stable version I’ve ever had, significantly slows down my entire machine after 2 to 3 hours of work.After that time, I have to shut it down via the Task Manager to restore my PC’s usual fluidity; otherwise, everything becomes slow, laggy, and impossible to use.The mouse freezes or becomes extremely slow; every movement, every edit,