After Effects

I copy-pasted a path from Illustrator in After Effects's empty composition. After I deleted a text (it was also a path), only the one closed path started having properties I would be giving it. Those others aren't displaying at all. How do I change it?

Not sure if this is possible or not, but when sending a shot with GFX over to my colleague it would be good if they could have full access to the raw video file to colour grade without affecting any other layers such as text - is this possible in one export through dynamic link? (we work from seperate SSD's as oppossed to a server, if that changes anything)

Is there a way to resolve this or a workaround that would allow us to quick preview within adobe libraries, I have an extensive list of MP4 files that I would quickly need to see the first few seconds or even listen to the first few seconds before importing to my project. 

Hello,Would anyone know how I could animate these roots in After Effects? I've tried to use the trim paths option but that doesn't seem to work (I'm assuming because of the gradient I've applied) but I might also be using it wrong. Is there any other way I could animate the roots to give an effect as if they were growing deeper? Cheers 

Hello. I'be provided a video where you can see my comp jumps to black, eventhough I have plenty of footage inside of my comp.Any ideas? -Gilles

I opened 2 views in 3d mode and the camera and its angle is supposed to be there but its not, how do i fix that? 

HiUsing a composition as a property in essential graphics doesn't always work when scale is set to "no scale". In most cases it doesn't work.I have included an example I have a main comp "01 main" and a master comp "02 master comp".In the master comp I have one layer which is a third composition called "03 square".I use that composition as a master property by dragging that layer to the essential graphics panel. I call the new property "Animated comp".I then set "Default scaling" to "No scale".I add "02 master comp" to "01 main" and drag a fourth comp "04 hexa" to the "Animated comp" property in the timeline.Nothing changes visually. This WILL work for any of the other three default scaling options, but not for no scale. I have tried to purge the cache, didn't do a difference. - Jakob

 Im absolutely baffled by what should be the simplest task. I've made this simple shape via a line + an ellipse in the same shape layer. I need to be able to treat the shape as one object so that I can animate the rounded tip of the shape (the position of the ellipse) and the line will stay attached to it. The opposite end of the line needs to stay put as the ellipse moves around. I also need the line to contract/expand as the ellipse moves. Thanks!

I want to make a tongue that would be above the mouth itself but the mouth has a line around it (another stroke) and the borders of the mouth overlap with it and look weird. So i want to put the toungue in between these 2 parts of the mouthWhen i try to put it in between the strokes it starts looking weird  

Hi, Doing my first CG project.  It is personal project, where I am trying to add a robot cat to real footage. https://youtu.be/9ujmIVTZmA4 I am currently working in Unreal Engine, but people seem to think I will be better off exporting the animation and mesh, rendering in something like Blender.  For now the link shows things in UE via screen capture.  When I render it, depth of field should end up looking more proper, and planning to add shadow catcher via a ground mesh that I created in SynthEyes that approximates the ground surface (somewhat uneven). For now, I am trying to see what to doa bout the leaves.  I imagine there is some way in AE to add random variation around a point that would mimic the movement? Since the leaves here are blurry, that should maken things a bit easier, since I don't need sharp in focus leave movement. Curious what the pros here would do! -----As an aside, would love to hear ideas about how I can actually

Hi,I'm to incorporate OCIO into my workflow which requires heavy use of text. When it comes to using white text, it turns out to be grey instead. I'm rendering out from Maxon redshift and using the ACES 1.3 CG v1.0.Basically, I want to view pure white text within an OCIO setup.Is there a workaround for this issue using the new OCIO effects?

How do you make it look like a line that you can move (and also other layers looking like a line too)? In my AE it doesn't look that way  

When I place a composition with protected regions into another comp, I can scale the comp and the regions stay intact, but if I move the protected region areas separately (as you can) they content don't move accordingly. So It's impossibe to see where the animation will happen - they end up in different places than the marked area. 

Hello. Please, help. I asked GPT about this problem, but it always made mistakes.My question to GPT:Help me write an expression for After Effects. There are two layers. The bottom layer is a shape layer. The upper layer is a text layer. First condition: I need the text layer to split into two equal lines if its width is greater than the width of the shape layer below it. After that, and only after the first condition is met, the second condition should come into effect: if the width of the text layer after splitting it into two lines is still wider than the width of the shape layer, then let the text be scaled down until it fits within the width of the shape layer.GTP answered:To achieve your goal in After Effects using expressions, you'll need to apply a series of expressions to your text layer. Here's how you can do it:1. Split Text into Two Lines if Necessary: You'll use an expression on the `Source Text` property of the text layer to split the text into two lines if it's wider than

Hi there,I encountered a very strange issue when adding items to the Render Queue via script. Most of the time the script worksgreat, but if the render should start for example on frame 3, 4 - 8, 9 - 13, 14 ... it starts one frame before ...Here´s some background: I have to render about two hundred separate clips from one Comp in After Effects. To automate things I created Comp Markers from the Edits and wrote a script that adds new items to the RenderQueue for every Marker. It is not the prettiest script but it worked ... only issue is the weird behaviour with certain start points.At first I thought it might be some kind of rounding error since after effects uses seconds and the render queue uses the current time settings, but even if I hard code said frames I get the same result ... One thing I found out: if I change the fps for the comp the pattern of problematic Starting Points shifts....So here´s the script I wrote:[code] { // RenderQueueFromMarkers_v01.jsx // // This script re

Issue - In specific AE files changing the comp frame rate causes the UI to freeze/hang for typically between 2 and 10 seconds.After Effects version - Beta 24.0.0 Build 44Operating system - Win 10Steps to reproduce - In the file Template-v01 open the example comp Aspect Ratio Guide-1920x1920. Open composition settings then change the frame rate using the dropdown or typing into the box.Expected result - The frame rate dropdown will update and the UI is instantly responsive.Actual result - In Template-v01 the UI will hang for a short while. In Template-v02 the frame rate changes without impacting the UI. Please note that in the Template-v01 file I have had inconsistent results with creating a new comp and attempting to repro this issue. Notes - If I remember correctly I imported the original Template-v01 file into a new blank document, and the issue did not appear in that file. My thought is that this is possibly related to saving the template file up a version (e.g. Beta v24)

Hey, there. I use AE on my Dell XPS 15 9510 laptop. Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H.Whenever I try to export project files with 3d files (glb format)  with the new advanced 3d renderer, my laptop shuts down. I rarely have problems exporting really heavy and long comps with the regular classic 3d renderer, but whenever I try to export files with  3d files in the render queue, my laptop shuts down after a 100 frames or so.  The 3d files I use are not that heavy around 20-30 k polygons at most. Does anybody know what may be causing  the problem? I assume it might be a power supply or overheating issue. I would really appriciate itIf anyone can suggest a method or way I can use to meke the exporting process less demanding . Cheers, Toni 

I need to remove old scripts from the Window menu. When I go to: Applications/Adobe After Effects 2024/Scripts/ScriptUI Panels, all I see are the default ones that are shipped with AE. However, in my Windows menu you can see there are many that are installed.They were all installed using File/Scripts/Install Script UI Panel...How can I remove these old scripts?  

Hello there!so I'm making a keyframe less animation,a very simple one.just scaling in and out. (Well, for now. maybe it will be larger one day).I already got the animation itself,but i want different easing.any idea?thats the codeease(time,inPoint,inPoint+1,[-100,-100],[0,0])+ ease(time,inPoint+1,inPoint+2,[100,100],[0,0]);

Hola me podrían ayudar al instalar la ultima version de after effecs me sale el siguiente mensaje " no puede continuarAfter Effects: error inesperado durante el inicio de la aplicación", alguien sabe como se puede solucionar, gracías

So i made i mouth using pen tool which is basically a stroke only. I want to create a line around it so how do i do another stroke over this one? I tried dublicating this shape and using the copy as a line around but it doesn't really match the borders, maybe there is some way to make a figure a bit bigger than the previous one and put it right around it? 

I am quite new in 3D, taking advantage of the new 3d features in after effects I wanted to export the white edges of the logo made in blender, using the “freestyle” options.When rendering through blender if these strokes appear along the edges of my model. But when importing it as .obj or .glb these white strokes disappear, I don't know if there is any way to include these strokes in the model as such, because what I understand is that the “freestyle” strokes are not attached to the model, but when rendering in blender. Any way to solve it?Thank you very much 

Hello,I extensively incorporate time displacement effects in my work, as you can witness on my Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/francois.vogel/).However, I've encountered some challenges with this effect in recent software updates. Regrettably, these issues are not consistently reproducible, making it difficult to demonstrate them. I'm hopeful that this project will help illustrate the problem:https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/b6637f9f-4fe3-4a87-7db1-41828591a10aThe primary concern revolves around time displacement. On occasion, a layer within the precomposition fails to manifest its effect on the main composition. To address this issue, you often need to clear both the memory and disk cache, which is quite frustrating and a huge waste of time considering the loading of all the images needed for a time displacement effect.I hope this can be solved soon !Best,ƒrançois

Our video editing team is using Adobe Creative Cloud Feature Restricted Licensing - Isolated (aka: All Apps plan with feature restricted licensing). We recently renewed our annual license for 2024 and the video team wanted to upgrade to After Effects v24.1. I created 7 packages on the admin console > downloaded each package seperately > uninstalled After Effects 23.? on each computer and installed After Effects 24.1. No issues or errors were encountered during the install. The issue now is every time a user opens After Effect they receive the attached 2 warning messages related to the Mocha plugin. These messages did not appear with AE v23. I have tried the suggestion in another post to right click AE > run as administrator and that did not help, they still receive the attached Mocha warnings. Is there a known fix for this, other than reverting back to AE v23?  Thanks,Scott

When using the rotation tool (W) to rotate a layer, after completing a full lap (360deg) the value resets to 0 instead of 1x+0.0Once the rotation surpasses 360deg, the value snaps back to 1 lap plus however many degrees rotated.I encountered it after trying to rotate a layer 360 degrees over time. Since the value resets back to zero no extra keyframe is being set.