After Effects

Hi Everybody, I have a situation where I need to extract a pine needle wreath from a white background. It's a pretty clear pop, except for the shadows. The shadows are not budging and I can't seem to find a way to remove them with out it affecting the core of the wreath, and trying to 'garbage matte' the stems of the tree back in would be...horrendous. At that point it's cancel the wreath, insert snowflake instead.  I've attached an image to demonstrate what I mean, if anybody has any suggestions, I appreciate it. Thanks for reading!

a low level exception occurred premiere in ae.adbe text ErrorCan anyone give me a solution to apply this transition on the clips without getting this error. 

I learned Premiere before After effects and the import will not reveal MP4 video. Instead its black. Audio is working. 

Hello, it seems i can't change colour of text after i have added a mask and changed/animated the text position. Before this it does change. I want to add the option to change the colour of the text when adding to a template. Any ideas? It might be something simple i haven't turned off or on. It's the SNE2 Composition. Thank you.

I'm currenly working on a script which uses Dropdown Menu Control effect. I can use this Match Name : "ADBE Dropdown Control" to add Dropdown menu to a layer.But If I want to check whether a layer contains dropdown menu using this same Match Name it doesn't work well. I've tried alert the matchName of existing Dropdown Menu. It randomly changes something like "Pseudo/@@qpFySX4lSVK41BTpoPU+jA"  How to verify If a layer or multiple layers have dropdown menu added in it by it's matchName?

I'm quite experienced with AE. I've encountered a strange bug on a AE expression. I had to use a hack to solve it. I'm almost sure that such a hack wasn't necessary in the past. => Can someone try to reproduce the bug? Faulty AE version = 24.4.1 (Build 2). You'll find the AE project here:project1---bug-and-hack.aephttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1i57JibETwyXtdY-zNZ-ZXJqTZRxkIz-h/view?usp=sharing --- --- ---The project contains two basic "1920x1080x25fps compositions". One with the bug (called 1---Bug), and one with the hack (2---Hack). BUGGY EXPRESSION FRM = 0.04; if (time < outPoint-FRM) { RESULT = 22; } else { RESULT = 88; }  HACK EXPRESSION FRM = 0.04 + 0.0001; // This +0.0001 is the solving hack. if (time < outPoint-FRM) { RESULT = 22; } else { RESULT = 88; }  ANALYSE OF THE PROBLEMIt seems that an operation such "time-(outPoint-0.04)" return a number with lots of decimals (something like -0.040000000000000924). M

Hello After Effects community,I'm reaching out for help in creating and animating a "blurred light leak" effect that is commonly seen in modern designs. I've attempted to make this effect from scratch in After Effects, but I haven't been able to achieve the desired result. I've attached some images of the type of blurred light leaks I'm trying to replicate. I am not sure that "blurred light leak" is the good name for this effect but I have attached pictures below: Does anyone have any suggestions or tips on how I can create this effect in After Effects? Any guidance or resources would be greatly appreciated.Thank you in advance for your help!

When I explore an AE project, it always shifts part of the left side to the right. This is a problem I've never encountered before. Can anyone help me, please?

Version of the app: After Effects v23.6Platform and OS version: Macbook Pro M2 Max @ MacOS Ventura13.5.1Basic steps to reproduce the problem: Doesn't happen most of the time but there are times that it happens when I export directly to After Effects even Work Area Start is at 0:00:00:00 then exports after the 5% duration of the video. It's quite an annoying experience especially when I'm exporting a heavy project, expecting it to be a complete export and getting a video where the first part is missing.Note: I'm always checking the IN and OUT before exporting.Right now I encountered this again with a lower-third I'm exporting for my client.- 1st image: Before exporting- 2nd image: Imported the MOV to my project to double-check if everything is on point and unfortunately, it isn't.Expected result and actual result- Expected Result: Should be a complete export especially since I'm always checking the IN and OUT before exporting- Actual Result: Getting an exported project with the first pa

As mentioned in the title.Happens every time I open AE then it resets to the default workspace.Dunno what's going on and want to get this fixed esp making my preferred workspace as MY workspace. Thanks in advance! 

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to fix preview settings on AE. For example, videos that have been formatted are showing up unformatted on the preview, same with applied effects etc. Its not like this once the video is rendered but i would like to fix the preview settings so it shows the final version. It used to. I closed and re-opened and can't get it back. Ive tried clearing my cache and updating system. Please let me know! Thanks

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Hi! So while i was working on a project i accidentally clicked a bcc 3d effect which usually makes my ae 2022 crash (it did). When this happens usually I'm able to open the project back up and everything works perfectly. This time however it continues to crash after every attempt to open it back up again. I uninstalled bcc but after that and restarting my laptop it didn't work. I'm starting to think maybe I should just untinstall/reinstall ae itself but im hoping someone has a solution to this. (Below is one of the messages that pops up. I think it's different every time). Also for reference I have a Macbook Pro 2019 Ventura 13.3.1 and am using After Effects 2022 

Estou editando um vídeo no after e as vezes aparece uns cortes com tela preta no vídeo. O que poderia ser?

Hello, Recently filmed a news pundit scene against a green screen. Just today someone helped me key out the green screen in After Effects with Key Light. It seemed to work well. I imported the comp into Premiere Pro and it worked fine on my PC at work. However, when I open the same project file on my Mac, the background is now gray and the intended background isn't showing up (see attached images below). What could be causing this? I tried playing around in both programs to no success. Thanks in advance!

Hey Community, I saw a tutorial, that used Simple Choker to work with.Isnt it a basic tool? I thought I had it.But it disappeared. Can I redownload it some how?Or is it a buy-plugin? Thanks in before

Recently updated after a while... For the VERY reason things like this rear their heads.Updated to 22.6.0 and am noticing a MASSIVE performance hit.  i9, 128GB, 3080, m.2 SSDs for days.  Task monitor has CPU useage through the roof when AE is sitting in the background idling.  Whole computer is seizing up to the point where mouse and keyboard response is affected.  Have seen similar behavior on multiple well-spec'd systems with this update.  Unbelievable. 

So i stmbled upon this issue today and i have no clue how to fix it. Whenever i try to use rotobrush the add icon appears for few seconds and thenit dissapears and it tuns into regular round brush. I tried checking if i have any other buttons active or anything also updated and tried to clear the cashe and the problem still persitst. I tried checking it on files i managed to use roto before and the problem is always the same.Do you know what could be the issue or what i missed?

Everything was allright… and now I cannot read any preview without this message and stop.I have the latest CS… updated yesterday.Please help !