After Effects

Hi, I am trying to control the camera in my nested comp with the camera in my "Main" comp, I have the following expression applied to the nested comps camera's position- CL = comp("Main").layer("Camera 1"); CL.toWorld([0,0,0]); And, this to it's orientation: CL = comp("Main").layer("Camera 1");getGlobal Orientation(CL, time);function getGlobalOrientation(aLayer, aTime) {C = aLayer;aTime = (aTime ? aTime : time);ghi=normalize(C.toWorldVec([1,0,0], aTime));def=normalize(C.toWorldVec([0,1,0], aTime));abc=normalize(C.toWorldVec([0,0,1], aTime));A=abc[0];B=abc[1];C=abc[2]; D=def[0];E=def[1];F=def[2]; G=ghi[0];H=ghi[1];I=ghi[2];OrX=Math.atan2(-B,C);OrY=Math.asin(A);OrZ=Math.atan2(-D,G);degr=180/Math.PI;OrX=OrXdegr;OrY=OrYdegr;OrZ=OrZ*degr;OrX+value;return([OrX, OrY, OrZ]);} The position works, but the orientation is throwing up an error on line 2. Have tried changing settings to Java from legacy Thanks for any help  

Hey,so for some reason when i import a new illustrator composition since today I can only select the foremost element because its size is the whole frame.Do I have some settings wrong?Thanks (heres some example pictures with the characters arm)  

Hi, A bit of an odd one but I have recieved a bunch of still images taken from a DSLR and the client wants me to stich it together to make it into a video. Not sure why they couldn't just film the scene. I don't even have any info on what the camera setting are. So great start! Either way, I've imported the 58 stills into After Effect making it a image sequence, setting the comp and interpret setting to be 25fps. But for some odd reason it plays back super fast and jittery. I'm guessing the jittery look come from the fact that there is zero motion blur or maybe the camera shutter speed wasn't quick enough to capture additional frames (tbh, there is slight jump between frames). I've tried adding motion blur to the clip, i've played with the different frame blending options, i've tried different field options and still these burst of images are not creating a decent video. The only way I could get it looking somewhat natural is by setting the framerate to 14.5fps

Hi!I cant import 3d models into AE 24.1 (or the beta version), because it seems that Trapcode plugins want to use the models and they are not properly imported and cant be displayed. Meaning: As soon as I drag them into my comp, its displayed as 2 d layer called "3D Model for use with trapcode" Any Idea how to avoid that problem (without de-installing Trapcode suite) thx,Christof

Hello guys!I am writing here because I have a doubt about how to set up a proper workflow in ae, to export a h264.I enable the working color space as Rec709 gamma 2.4 because my final output will be an h264 1920x1080 which will be played on computer monitors. Is it correct? I mean for a file that is hd and will be played on computer monitors is rec709 2.4 a good choice? I am asking this because so far I know that h264 does not support embedded profiles, so no matter what I put in output color space it will always be rec 709 gamma 2.4 (right?)Than I import my footages, mostly jpgs srgb-2.1, and do all my work and then render queue time: now if I render straight an mp4 with output color space the same as the working color space (Rec709 2.4) I've got correspondence, once I reimport in AE the mp4, between my comp and the mp4 but got slightly different result if the mp4 is played in vlc (brighter, perhaps gamma issue?).I came to a workaround by rendering an mp4 from render queue but se

I work on After Effects software and in one of the cases I created a 3D object in Cinema 4D software.When switching back to After Effects the object view changed its angle without me putting anything down.There is no way to change the angle.I would appreciate your consideration, thank you.

Anyone had to deal with this error ever?  I was following this Youtube tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11WSYRe--FY&t=620s 

I have been trying you use the plug-in Sure Target 2 in After Effects CC 2019 (16.0.1) and I keep getting the expression errors (3 to be exact).1-Error at line 1 in property `Target Position Z` of layer 2 (`Null 1`) in `Comp 1`2-Error at line 1 in property `Target Position X` of layer 2 (`Null 1`) in `Comp 1`3-Error at line 1 in property `Target Position Y` of layer 2 (`Null 1`) in `Comp 1`If anyone has some type of answer to help me get this plug-in working properly it would be greatly appreciated.

Bonsoir,Connaissez vous un moyen de mettre tous les effects settings d'un layer vers essential graphique de manière automatique avec un script ?Merci

I'm trying to rename a shape in a shape layer. "Ellipes 1" and "Ellipse 2" just aren't very easy to keep straight.This OUGHT to be possible. In fact, I believe I've done it before.It IS possible, isn't it?

How may one create a wind effect in After Effects, whose shape we can change, for instance warp like around a cylinder, a pole/tower?Essentially a way to control a wind-like effect, and make it change shape at will, while it also is animated of course and looks like wind.

Im trying to do something audio related and my comp is set to 29 fps and yet the preview still renders it in 60 fps. any ideas on how to fix this?

What kind of timestamp is this? What is the function? And how to convert into this?

Crafty Art All In One Invitation Card Maker Tool ?

Hi there, I downloaded AE 2024 and not all of my plug-ins, custom LUTs and effects carried over. I tried to manually copy them in and the next thing I know, I can't run After Effects. Now I can run parts of it but Lumetri won't work. At times it says "not able to acquire aefx suite." I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times, trying to start from scratch. I've even tried older versions. I feel screwed and do not know how to fix this. Can someone share some info for how to completely wipe AE as if it's never been used before on my PC? Or share how to fix this "not able to acquire aefx suite" problem? Thank you.

I'm trying to send an After Effects File to someone so they can use it in Premiere Pro.  However the person does not have After Effects, only Premiere Pro. Does this work?  Additionally – I know I can use Adobe Dynamic Link, but I am also doing a test on my own and the Adobe Dynamic Link is greyed out in "File."  When I try to just drag my AEP into the projects panel, it gives me the notice that the versions of the apps must be the same. I currently have AE 24.1 and PP 24.1. Any ideas on why this is happening?

I made a black to white blend in Photoshop to apply to the background of my video (subject is closecut), at the size of the composition at 300 ppi. I imported it into AE, and set it to multiply. I overlayed it a few times and offset it, in the hopes of making it smoother... but it produces this result. Is it my render settings, or content?I've had other flat colors and blends that have given me this artifacting in the pst as well.           

Hi, I am uploading information into my after effects animation via CSV. Some of these contain numbers and I would like to change the color based on if they're negative or positive. my script so far is as follows var textcolor = thisComp.layer("Testgame4.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Difference")("Difference 12")if (textcolor < 0 ){textcolor.fillColor = hslToRgb(C20621);}else { textcolor.fillColor = hslToRgb(44C206)} but it keeps throwing an error one way or the other. Sometimes it's expecting a semi-colon where there is one and other times it's expecting a parenthisies where there is one.  Any help would be appreciated as this would save a ton of time while creating content. Cheers!  

Backstory: We're not talk about CREATING a new alpha channel from scratch the usual way in After Effects. Instead, the question is this: Does anyone know how to take a simple black and white channel (for example, the blue channel of RGB) and ADD it as an alpha channel to a video that does not already have an alpha channel? We consulted Adobe tech support and they had no idea how to do this. We're not experts, but it seems like there should be a solution somewhere.

In this tutorial there is a step that says to drag the handle of the second Position keyframe, but there IS no handle. I've tried repeating all the steps in case I missed something, but what I'm being told to do just isn't there, or there are steps missing from the tutorial. 

I have a HP Zbook Fury with an NVIDIA RTX A3000 Laptop card which I can't use in the Adobe programs. In  After Effects the card isn't detectable at all. (Photoshop finds the card in the Graphic Processor Compitability Check and also under Settings/Prestanda. But it is nowhere to find in the info panel or in the documents bottom left corner. And also PS runs really slow.) I have spoken to the HP suppoert and tried everything they suggested without success. They asked me to ask Adobe to see if you can help out. Do you have any ideas how to make it work? Thanks!

Hi, I have a problem with video rendering in After Effects 2021. At the end of a rendered video I hear a small sound glitch, like a 0.5 second loud white noise, like when you plug in headphones. It happens often, with different projects I was working on. It is really annoying, I spend 30 minutes rendering the final video, only to find out that there's this sound glitch at the very end of the video. Did anyone else experience it? I tried muting the audio (setting the audio level to -80dB) in the top pre-comp, the one where I render the video from, 1-2 seconds before this glitch should happen in the rendered video, but it is still there in the final video. I use default setting for Audio: 48,000 kHz, 16bit, Stereo

Bonjour, Connaissez vous une méthode ou un script qui permet de changer l'ordre de groupes de layers. Je m'explique, j'ai 3 layers (A,B,C) puis 3 layers (D,E,F), etc. Je voudrais changer l'ordre en conservant l'ordre dans les groupes. Par exemple changer l'ordre des layers A, B, C, D, E, F en D, E, F, A, B, C.Si vous avez une idée je suis preneur ma comp contients plus de 200 layers et j'aimerais trouver un moyen de le faire automatiquement.Merci

I am modifying sequence data in my render thread of a multi-thread plugin. I set PF_OutFlag2_MUTABLE_RENDER_SEQUENCE_DATA_SLOWER and subsequent calls of the SmartRender function have access to the sequence data. However, the sequence data access from the UI thread for PF_Cmd_USER_CHANGED_PARAM or PF_Cmd_UPDATE_PARAMS_UI never contain the changes. What do I need to do to pass them back?

Hello, I just want this to loop on a duration of 20sec, I know it's probably very easy to do but the fact that there is perspective in it makes it a bit different compared to a "normal" flat pattern so I can't manage to find how to do this. The only effect I applied on it are autoscroll (horizontal) and motion tile, many thanks for your help !