After Effects

I download new fonts and install them. I open After Effects, and it recognizes the fonts. I try to select this font, click on it, but it doesn't open. How can I fix this?

Hi, I’m investigating speed differences between Fractal Noise and Turbulent Noise. There’s a lot of decade-old videos on YouTube and documentation on the web saying that Turbulent Noise renders faster than Fractal Noise. Even the most-up-to-date official AE help pages say that "The Turbulent Noise effect takes less time to render." ( https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/noise-grain-effects.html ) However that is not my experience at all on my M2 Mac Studio running AE 2025, where Turbulent Noise performs worse than Fractal Noise. I have significantly faster (up to 3 times faster) renders with Fractal Noise versus Turbulent Noise. An Adobe Community thread from 2017 mentions that Fractal Noise was a new addition to the GPU accelerated family in 2017. ( https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/fractal-noise-bug/td-p/9294540 ) I examined my GPU usage in Activity Monitor and found that Fractal Noise utilizes my GPU much more effectively than Turbulent Noise. So I'm wo

I'm trying to zoom out with the character staying in place, but as you can see in the video, the character follows the camera. How can I lock it in place?

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after rendering my video is about 1.5x faster than the preview. I've already checked and the preview plays 20fps, as my comp is set to 20fps aswell. I reinstalled ae on my new pc as this happened on my old pc aswell and the problem is still happening please help

About two days ago I was working on an edit in After Effects 2020. I opened Google to look for an image and suddenly both After Effects and Google crashed (at least I think both did — I’m not 100% sure). I didn’t panic because crashes happen sometimes, but after that, AE wouldn’t let me reopen my project. I thought my laptop might’ve overheated because the fans were going crazy, so I let it cool down. The next day, I opened After Effects again — it worked fine at first. But when I tried to open my project, it just wouldn’t load. What’s weird is that I can make new projects and open them with no issues, but my older projects won't open anymore, except I've tried opening a project I've made in August and that worked but the one that I need doesn't open I’ve tried everything I could think of:• Resetting my AE preferences (like six times)• Restarting my laptop• Updating my system• Basically every fix I found online Nothing works. I’ve never had this issue before and I have n

Hello Everyone, Hoping to find a solution for this issue here. I just updated my AE to version 25.2 and when I opened my project it gave me a message that Deep Glow effect is missing. I manually checked and saved the effect in the plugins folder as what was suggested in tutorials but it still showing as missing when I open After Effects. Anyone had the same issue? 

I've been getting the following error when opening After Effects: "After Effects warning: The following plugins have failed to load Please reinstall these plugins:" The supposed location is not there, and the only found effects are for Premiere and not AE. They also don't show in the effects manager panel to turn off. I don't use them/know what they are for, but it leads to my AE crashing continuously while working.  I reinstalled AE and deleted my preferences and I'm still having the issue. Running version 25.6 and Red Giant/Universe is updated as well, been an ongoing issue for 4+ months. Thank you!

I have a simple line animation (with expressions) that simulates a waveform audio visualization.Is there any way with expressions to include it in a (responsive time with intro/outr) mogrt, and be unaffected when I extend the unprotected area ?

After Effects 25.6 decided to stop working and it is racking my brain on what happen. I have manually trashed the preferences, unistall/installed AE and all my adobe apps (including cloud), and have deleted the few plugins/extensions I do use (Artlist.io and Animation composer) and have restarted my computer. Tried the tips in this post but none of those plugins are used on this computer. The beach ball of death pops up during the repair options and I have to force quit the app everytime.  The same happens with previous versions of AE now but AE Beta seems to work just fine. Running on Apple M2 Max64 GB MemoryTahoe 26.1

First of all, credits to Lemon Visuals on X for this vid. I would like to replicate this text animation but I'm not sure howhttps://x.com/LemonVisuals/status/1520085512576507909?t=9PFUAQQ4mvRUcGAiWXhkuA&s=19

Hi. So I have a video layer in a pre-comp that has the Add Mode applied. When I place the pre-comp into the main comp.....the Add mode doesn't work. Now the thing is, I want to make that layer (pre-comp) a 3D layer so I can't use the "collapse transformations" option. Does anyone have any suggestions please?Thanks for your time!

I'm looking for a plug in or script that could help with a very specific issue. I have an object that is out of focus and I need to replace what is behind it. I'm aware of the regular methods and techniques to achieve this, but I'm looking for a faster way. I'm looking for a way to use a filter such as Stroke or Edge Finder in conjunction with a mask to create an outline on the layer. I want to mask the object at the point of the last solid bit before the blur begins and apply a filter that creates a stroke on the mask. Instead of using a single color the stroke, I want to have it sample the color of the pixels of the image at the edge of the mask and expand them outward. Basically, I want fake a "Strait Alpha" so I can defocus from there. Does anyone know of anything that can help achieve this? Thanks.

Hi.I'm getting a crash everytime I export my animations from after effects. I've updated all my graphics browser, my BIOS, turned off multiframe rendering, turned off GPU excelerator, I uninstalled then re-installed After Effects and Media Encoder, I exported with Media Encoder but still I get the same problem. I export with after effects and still get the same problem.Please help. I have no idea what to do now.I have Windows 11, 32GB of ram and 4GB GTX 1650 GPU with an Ryzen 5 5600 CPU. My pc specs are good and drivers and software is up to date. 

Hey guys, running into a weird issue in after effects 25. when i try to preview a small project, hitting play just freezes the video on one frame. switching between comps doesn’t update the image either, though the rest of the panels still work. the preview panel button changes from stop to play, but nothing moves. only restarting ae helps. anyone know how to fix this? My pc: rtx 5070 ti, ryzen 9 9950x3d, 64gb ram

Hi,I would like to be able to select a group of path points in a precomp and then manipulate them as a group -- rotating the group for example.  Is this possible?  Thanks!  

I’ve spent the past few hours trying to troubleshoot an issue where my position keyframes keep bouncing back and forth on one specific slide, and I can’t pinpoint the cause. The issue is with the spotlight gradient composition moving from the first keyframe to the second. I’ve already confirmed that all keyframe interpolation is set to linear and checked for any hidden bezier handles that might be affecting the motion path. I've checked the main comp panel as well as the value graph. I’ve deleted and rebuilt the keyframes multiple times, restarted both the software and my computer, and even updated the program, but the problem persists. None of the other keyframes are doing this, so I’m completely stumped at this point—has anyone run into this before or know what might be causing it? Maybe I'm not looking closely enough? Let me know if there are more helpful images I can attach. Thanks!

  In this video, I dive into how to create cinematic, documentary-style spacecraft shots in After Effects, inspired by Apollo 13, Europa Report, and For All Mankind.   We’ll explore camera movement, light bloom, starfield backgrounds, and lens defects. My goal is to combing lots of small tricks into make the 3D render feel real. Along the way, I’ll also share tips, failed experiments, and resources like Jarle’s handheld presets.  

Hi all,Here's the bug:https://youtu.be/nwpme8zh1rkAny workaround is appreciated. 

Yes, I have this bug too.  What is this thing? From the limited info here, some say "bad fonts" and others say during rendering. Well, I have no fonts installed, just stock AE useage. I would get this pop up during playback and sometimes rendering.Doesn't crash.  But will reappear after a while.I timed it out, and it's every 5 mins... MMMmmmm    the same 5 mins as my auto save.My auto save just happened to be maxed out at 50 saves, (long session) and all new auto save back ups  would have to delete one, and then save one.I'm not sure, but I'm thinking now, the maxed out auto save might have a bug? I increased my auto save to 100, and so far, no BIB Error code.I'll check when it hits 100 and see if that big comes back. Just wild speculation, but there might be a pattern. Thoughts?? 

Hi Everyone!  I have Been working with adobe products from the Macromedia Flash & Action Script days.! Usually i come up with simple scripts to speed-up my work. i went a step further and curated some of the scripts i have and have a working "plugin" - basically a ScriptUI panel.  Simple text Animator - it basically exposes the TextAnimator options that are available with a textlayer. Here i plan to add more types of animations, this was inspired by animation-composer. There were system (not PC) restrictions to install plugins from market. Autofade is a simple script that will fade-in and fade-out any layer. this button will just add that expression onto opacity property of the layer. Easing Curves - This is again just exposing the functionality within graph editor for easier access, this was inspired by Flow plugin - which again due to system restrictions i was not able to install plugins. Composition Creator - Full fledge video assitant - from script

Hi! I have a weird problem with my After Effects. I've never used it before and I also tried downloading a bunch of different versions to see if it helps. But it didn't. The problem is that there is a rectangle within the bigger rectangle. I can't select anything on the bigger one and it will only show on the smaller one. That makes it very difficult to work with.Let me know if there are more photos needed to explain what I mean!I hope someone responds cuz I need after effects for school 😭 

Hi guys, below each effect, there is a Compositing Option. I can not find matchname for this, I want to export the effect opacity value to json file. 

EN:Hello! I need help compressing a GIF.I am currently creating some Artworks for Steam (in After Effects). In order to upload the files to Steam, they need to be less than 5MB.At the moment, when I try to export them in Photoshop, the smallest file size I can achieve is 10.59MB.Compressing it on websites such as ezgif greatly reduces the quality in order to achieve the file size I need.If anyone would be kind enough to help me, I would be very grateful. (I'm using a translator, by the way). ES: hola! necesito ayuda para comprimir un gif.Exactamente estoy haciendo unos Artworks para Steam (en After Effects). Para poder subir los archivos a Steam necesito que pesen menos de 5MB.En este momento al intentar exportar en Photoshop, lo minimo que puedo conseguir es 10.59MB.Al comprimirlo en paginas de internet como por ejemplo ezgif baja muchisimo la calidad para poder llegar a el peso que necesito.Si alguien es tan amable de poder ayudarme se lo hiper agradeceria.

I imported my file like normal, making sure the video is in an accepted format. However, I cannot drag and drop anything into my composition. I click and hold, attempting to drag the clip to my timeline from the project panel, but nothing happens. I have never had this issue before and I've been using AE for years. I uninstalled it from this computer (Windows/PC) last year and was only using my MacBook to edit. Since reinstalling AE to this computer, I cannot edit anything because I can't drag files into my timeline. Does anyone else have this issue and/or know a fix?