After Effects

After Effects sometimes lets me save as but more often than not, for the last couple of months or so the naming/title part of the save as window is completely greyed out and it won't let me do anything. This is driving me mad as my work completely revolves around working in Adobe and this is slowing me down so much.

In AE 2024.4.1 Settings (that incidentally opens a window entitled 'Preferences'), the option for Use Label Color for Layer Handles and Paths does not work for mask paths when it's deselected. The handles become grey but the mask path colour remains the colour of the layer, it doesn't turn to the neutral grey. I do recall this setting working in previous versions of AE. Doesn't help with a current project consisting of multiple coloured dashed strokes each with their layer colours matching the shape colour, the mask path is almost invisible. This would seem to be an essential functionality bug that needs immediate attention?  😉 Mac Studio M2macOS Sonoma 14.5 

Hello all, need help.Someone knowswhy my environment layer is greyed out?thank you.

Render Issue: After rendering the project in Ae, Me, and Pr in H.264 file format, there was a Green glitch in the video sometimes the video stayed empty or blank screen. I tried changing the export format. I used HEVC (H.265) The output looks good. I just wanted to understand the issue. Thank you!

hello!! so i have been using after effects for 4 years now as an instagram editor using my macbook pro. recently in march, i changed my project format to h264 for a youtube project i helped my friend work on. however, after changing my settings back to default so i can continue to make videos for instagram, i noticed washed out colors after rendering. after some research i learned that it was a quicktime error that is common with animators or video creators. the solution i saw was to leave it alone and it'll look like what i saw on adobe, but when posting my videos to instagram, they looks exactly the same as they did on quicktime. i do not plan on using h264 in the future so im not sure what to do to get my videos to look like how it used to look. here is an example using my pet tortoise

Hello all,  I am working with one of the videos from NASA Studio:  https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3816/ (second video 0:40-0:56) And my goal is to create a "growing" line that goes around the equator and the moves with the sphere as it rotates. I was able to do it for the 60th south latitude (3D Tracking - create camera and solid - pre compose the solid, trim path line on a new layer and delete the solid). But for the equatorial area I can't sem to get it right - probably because the change in rotation is bigger?  Does anyone have an idea? Thanks! 

I rendered my clip in aftereffects, and all the PNG images were getting wired background even though the images were transparent. For example in the picture below the mouse pointer is a PNG transparent image but it's getting a pink background. 

System specs:AMD Ryzen 7950x64GB RAM DDR5 @ 5600mhzRTX 4090Windows 11AE version 24.1 Steps:1. Open AE, blank project. 2. Create 16K x 16K comp3. Create a white solid at comp size4. Apply Lumetri Color to it5. At this point it will instantly say to render with software only6. Change any setting in Lumetri i.e. ExposureAE crashesBefore anyone wonders why you need 16K comp... Had a job where client wanted endframe of animation at very high res so we tried 16K x 16K. If Lumetri was applied to any layer it could not render the frame. One more problem we had was that AE couldn't even handle 16K 32bit EXRs (literally hit the internal memory limit) so we used png. 

Greetings! I'll get straight to it. Up until yesterday, I could render everything just fine. No issues. Come today, everything I put into my render queue has the last frame black. No matter what output settings, when set to the whole composition, its last frame is black. I've ensured that the contents extend beyond the time needed to export - there is content in the frames. FPS matches for each individual composition within the entire project. Anything that allowed me to alter fps, I made sure they all matched up.I'm trying to loop this footage and its ending with an empty frame. I get I can change the export to "custom" and manually change the end point, but that should not be the case for this software. I export 50+ files at a time and I cant manually make this edit each time. That shouldnt and hasnt been the case up until now. How do I tell this software to go back to what it used to do, and not produce a final black frame?I can and have created a brand new projects.

going to try to keep concise.  got the classic low memory error in after effects today. won’t preview more than 2-4 frames. it was in a very light weight project (no 3D in project. all standard built in effects.) opened the same project on a different machine and no issues at all. i have 3GB of 64GB dedicated to OTHER programs so 61GB dedicated to AE. tried multi frame rendering on and off. adaptive resolution. clearing cache, etc. restarted. tried to use an older version of AE. cache is stored on D drive with 2TB SSD storage. nothing worked. only solution was opening on a different machine. problem machine:windows 1164GB ramthe machine it worked on was an old mac pro. 

HelloHow to make offset for anchor point by scripting like what PanBehind tool works, for example i want to offset the anchor point by 15 pixels to the left and keep the layer at its exact location in composition.Thanks very much  

how make two same timeline panel for help to manage keyframe edit graph for example one timeline for path and the second one for position and other things

I got this video that i wanted to recreate but i don't know what is the effect name called or how to reproduce it, can you help me to identify the effect and the steps how to reproduce it, below is the screen shoot of the effect that i wanted to recreate  The effect is the white halo thing that i circle, and if it wasn't clear enough here is the video link https://youtu.be/y3g2Ck2gLGQ?si=l3tK7Pq2q-WLtFD4&t=485 at the time stamp 8:06 

Hey there, i am trying to render my after effects compositions and after i exported them they always turn out with a grey overlay which covers the footage and moves. Does someone know whats the issue is? 

I tested render quicktime + rgb + alpha + animationI got it.Here only  QUICKTIME + RGB + animationWhat i have do to repair it?

I've used Dan Ebbert's trigger animation with markers expression for years and I occasionally have an issue where an animation...glitches for lack of a better term... for a single frame during a render. When I preview the animation in AE, it plays fine. It only seems to happen once if I have multiple comp markers setup for animation. This is the code I've applied to the Time Remap property of my precomp.try{ //Trigger and Retime Precomped Animations: Apply to Time Remap action = comp(name); n = 0; if (marker.numKeys > 0){ n = marker.nearestKey(time).index; if (marker.key(n).time > time){ n--; } } if (n == 0){ 0 }else{ m = marker.key(n); myComment = m.comment; try{ actMarker = action.marker.key(myComment); originalStart = actMarker.time; originalEnd = originalStart + actMarker.duration; newStart = m.time; newEnd = newStart + m.duration; linear(time,newStart,newEnd,originalStart,original

Hi all,New strange bug in After Effects: I track a shot as usual, analyzing seems to go fine but the solve seems to be done too quick and I am presented with a handfull of static trackerpoints. There is almost always a horizontal row of points in the top left corner, as shown in attached image.To my knowing I changed nothing since a week or so, when I last used tracking successfully.Any ideas?

Hello,I have a problem and I didn't find any answers anywhere so I hop I could find one here.I wish to create a new composition to prepare a little animation to import it in another composition. Habitually I have no problem when I do that but this time, when I create a new empty composition I find a picture on my screen but there are no layers in the timeline (and I didn't used the shy layer in any composition of this project).This picture appear only when I use the this parameter: 1000px X 1000px and square pixel....While I was writing I have fund another way to do what I want but the ghost still here. For example, whan I have increase the composition size (2000px X 2000px) the picture desapear but if I reduce to the original size the ghost come back. Very strange thing...

Hello, I'm making a lino print style animation and need to do the sea! Here's a rough mockup of what I'm trying to achieve. What I want to do is be able to take a video or Cinema 4D animaiton of an ocean and apply effects to simplfy it. Imagine if the see was printed in 3 colours. The main body of water, hightlights and lowlights. I would then reflect the sun in the highlights.I've played around using levels, posterize, thresholds and blurs. But can't seem to achieve the look in my still. What I get are shapes that are either complicated and wouldn't be achievable in the lino-print style world. Or too rounded edged and no longer feel like water. I really like this animated gif style. Although the edges are too soft. I have this as a source video, and I can add the sun and reflection in after. I just need to achieve the simple sea; Does anyone have an ideas? Or can push me the way of a tutorial?Thanks,Ryan 

I have CC 2018, but it seem After Effects is looking for some animation presets in the 2017 folder. Here is what the error says specifically: After Effects error: File not found: "/Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2017/Presets/Image - Creative/Bloom - brights.ffx".(3 :: 0) I see this file in the 2018 folder. How can I make it look there?

Hey, I haven't found tutorials for that.I would like to animate multiple caracters and wondering a way to do it easily.It's a run so I would like to have more participants.I've already animate one caracter. For that i drawn it on illustrator then animate it in AE. The second step would be to duplicate this composition and change, for exemple the tshirt color, the leg size.Is there a way to do that easily by reusing the composition without start from zero for each caracter ? Thanks for your help

Whenever I try to load one of my projects and work on it the preview doesn't play. I started working on this project a couple weeks ago before I went on vacation and when I returned the project didn't load the preview whenever I tried to work on it. I've had this exact same issue before except this one I haven't been able to fix. Updating/Reinstalling my drivers, resetting the preferences, clearing my ram cache, clearing data cache, anything you can think of I've probably tried. Its only the one project file that doesn't work. Even after exporting the composition and putting it into a new project the preview still wont load. Also whenever I try and close out of the app after opening the project then my After Effects freezes and stops responding. Once again not an issue with an other projects. If anyone has any ideas or solution please leave your help. I'm going insane trying to figure it out. PC Specs: Intel i7-9700KNVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super32G of Ram(Using Version 24.4.1