After Effects

Welcome to the May edition of our Community Recap. This month, the release of After Effects 24.4 brought exciting new features and improvements. Your creativity and attention to detail continue to amaze us. Let’s celebrate the standout moments and achievements from May! Community Highlights The May release of After Effects was amazing. Several new features were added to help you improve your workflow even more. My favorite features in this release were Reverse Paste Keyframes and Multi-Layer Keyframe Copy-Paste. Not just that, but a number of bug fixes were also included.  Top troubleshooting topics from May 2024 Issue: UI performance is slow when Faux Bold/Faux Italic is enabled. Users are getting performance issues when editing a test layer with Faux Bold/Faux Italic enabled. Status: A bug has been filed and, the team is working on a fix. Tutorials posted by the community members Ending a Loop Expression This tutorial talks about how can y

It is extremely unfortunate that I need to make this post. I have done EVERYTHING imaginable and recommended to fix my issue yet it still persists. I cannot drag files from the project pane into my timeline. This issue occurs with all file types. I have removed and disabled all of my plugins. I have installed and reinstalled after effects. I have reset my workspace. I have installed the most recent NVIDIA GPU studio driver. My after effects is up to date! I cannot believe that an application I have been using since 2016 is virtually unusable. This is really disappointing to me. Adobe may lose a long-term subscriber. 

Hi, I had AE 24.3 then installed update to 24.4.1 and ALL workspace setting has been reseted to default. All custom shortcuts gone. Why working with AE is such a friching pain when it comes to updates!

everything plays normal in after effects, but when I export it out and view it on mp4 my video are in slow motion, but the time duration are the same. how do i fix this? i've tried different codec and the export resolution and the fps are the same as the composition.

Hello everyone,I have my project settings set to "sRGB IEC6..."Whenever I import a quciktime mov or mp4 video file it will assign a "rec.709 gamma 2.4" profile ion the color management. I have to manually go into the import settings of each file and re-assign the sRGB profile.how can i tell after effects that all imported video files will have the srgb profile by default? My research showed me that AE should automatically assign the working space color of the project (which is sRGB) but it doesnt... Does anyone have an idea where to make imported color space for footage back to sRGB by default? THANKS

When trying to import .mov files to After Effects CC 2020, I get the following error:   After Effects error: Could not open source file. Please check that file exists with correct permissions. (86 :: 1)  This is then followed by: After Effects error: file 'filename.mov' cannot be imported - this 'MooV' file is damaged or unsupported. I am using After Effects 2020 v 17.1.3My OS is: macOS Catalina v 10.15.6My QuickTime version is: 10.5 I have seen windows users who don't have QuickTime installed run into similiar issues remedy it by downloading QuickTime. As I have QuickTime installed, this doesn't work. I have uninstalled and reinstalled QuickTime and AE, both to no avail. I also downgraded to the previous version of a AE which gave me the same error. Moving the files to the desktop, renaming them and moving them back to their original folder seemed to work for other people who have encountered this problem, but not for me.  The files in

I have encountered on my mac computer a problem with green screen flickering. I tried reinstallation, empty memory cache and preferences. Its anoying since when i want to render this material it is all black no matter if I render it with ae or media encoder. Please help!  

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I was working on a linked AE project from Premier. Spent a few hours making changes to the AE project. Saved. Popped back over to premier, and the link was broken. I saved my premier and AE projects and closed. Once I reopened premier, the AE file was no longer in the folder, and the only auto save versions were from yesterday. I'm on a Macbook Pro. Please Help.

When using a dedicated monitor for live preview before rendering, the text always looks fuzzy as compared to the original. I thought it was the resolution so I went from 1080 to 4K and same issue. The original is too large to upload so please try my Drive acct. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JIzTQRhhQk3eUQ4UPI3BK1kU_tQppB25/view?usp=drive_link  

Hello, I am having trouble exporting a transparent video from AE. I have made the background transparent on my video as well as the fill (only a short animation of the stroke), Everything shows up correct on the AE preview with the right transperincies the problem is the export. When I add it to the render queue I make sure to change the settings to: QuickTime, RGB + Alpha, Apple ProRes 4444 and it still comes out with a black background... I've tried compressing the file after and selecting preserving transperency, but still black.  Please help! Thank you. Additional Info: I am trying to make this transparent video so I can then upload it to WIX as part of my web design project.   

  How can I create a subtitle effect that starts after 13 seconds of the video?13~19sec(Smoky dark red subtitles appear in the background of the man) 

I have an arrow that I need to appear from the bank of the water and rise up which I have done. I have Shape Layer 1 that the arrow comes up from. The red arrow is set to Shape layer 1 and the Alpha Matte is inverted.I have Shape Layer 2 which is the blue square above the arrow. I want the arrow to disappear behind that box. I want to make a continuous loop of the arrow rising and dissappearing. Best practices?

Hi zusammen, ich habe aktuell folgendes Problem:Seit 3-4 Wochen ist AE extrem langsam bei einfachsten Textanimationen. Insbesondere bei 3d-Texteffekten (Animation Composer aber auch bei den "herkömmlichen" Texteeffekten).Es wirkt so, als sei der Rechner "verstopft" und kommt mit den kleinsten Animationen nicht klar. Gilt auch für komplett leere Projekte wo ich nur zum Test eine Textanaimation ausprobiere. Effekte ohne 3d, etc. laufen hingegen flüssig.Task-Manager zeigt immer nen Peak in der CPU-3D an... Hat er vorher aber auch nie gemacht....  Rechner ist knapp 1 Jahr alt und an der Hardware kann es nicht liegen, da es bis vor dca. drei Wochen noch sehr flüssig lief und ich auch keine EInstellungen verändert habe. - Speicher auf Festplatten sind gerade mal zu 10 - 15% belegt. - Disk Cache und Footage auf unterschiedlichen Platten hinterlegt (so wie es Adobe empfiehlt) - Grafikkarte ist ne GeForce RTX 3080 (Treiber aktuell - Studio)  Ich hoffe irg

After Effects 24.5.0 keeps crashing everytime I initialize After Effects Camera Tracker.I tried several videos with different codecs and also tried to disable all third party plugins and effects.What may be going on here?

I want to upgrade my laptop. I am currently using Macbook air 2017 with 8GB RAM. After effects running very slow on this machine. I am thinking to upgrade to Macbook Pro M3 Pro 18GB RAM. Please feel free to suggest any better laptop.

Hey all,I have a compositions named from P1 to P10 (I'll call them "Parent" compositions) consisting of shape "RandShape" and  composition named "C" + number according to the composition in which it is located (I'll call them "Child" compositions). Compositions "Child" consisting of shape "ParShape". I need to change ParShape's color to RandShape's color. RandShape's color generates randomly. Any ideas how to do it with script?

I found this color blending formula on a blog: where a1, a2 are the values of alpha channel of image below and above(divided by 255), C1, C2 are the color channel values.I was excited, but as I tried to dive further into the formula and do some experiments, I encountered some problems. As the formula suggests, when a1 = 1 and a2 = 0.5, if you swap the color of two blending layers, as long as you keep the alpha channel value unchanged, the result is unchanged. However, when I do an experiment in AE, there are some subtle differences:At first the alpha value of layer 1 is 1 (“不透明度" for "opacity"), the information showing the original color value. Now we change the alpha value of layer 1 to 50%:then we swap the two layers and change layer2 value to 50%, and change layer1 value to 100%:As you can see, the values of final results have subtle differences, but it shouldn't happen according to the color blending formula. Why is this?

Hello,i have a problem with AE 2024 with the Rotoscopy tool, it keeps constantly crushing and im not able to finish my work, could this pls be fixed? has anyone had the same problem?thx in advance.Rafael S.

In this tutorial, we're going to travel from one point in space to another. Is this true,scientific representation of travelling through a wormhole? Probably not, but it's based on some concepts for tranversible wormholes. This video builds on previous tutorials and assumes you're comfortable with creating a 360 space scene. Let me know in the comments if you'd like me to do more tutorials around this (360 stars tutorial: https://youtu.be/xG0GQLHRvHw  ).   I start with two separate comps, each showing a different universe or region of space. Then using the free 3D Precompose script from Video Copilot, I link cameras in each comp. And then use a 3D mask to cut a hole out in one comp to see the other. Then I dress up the look of the wormhole using an adjustment layer with a reuse of the same mask but altered using Essential Graphics. I use the Bulge effect for distortion, but this is 2D effect, so I reuse the formula I came up with for the Black Hole tutorial ( https://youtu.be

I cannot make this work like in AE if I want to get the state of the current layer (index 0). I invoke it like A_Time curr_time = { host_time, ae_data.in_data->time_scale }; A_Time one_frame_dur = { ae_data.in_data->time_step, ae_data.in_data->time_scale }; suites.ParamUtilsSuite3()->PF_GetCurrentState(ae_data.in_data->effect_ref, 0, &curr_time, &one_frame_dur, &ae_state);Returns different values on every frame. In PP however I always get the same state. Is it supposed to work in PP?