After Effects

Yes, this has probably been asked but I can't see a post so can anyone help?I have a clip from Premiere Pro that I want to export to After Effects to create a composition and replace it.  I try to export it and I keep getting a message after the wheel of death has been in operation saying "needs After Effects 2024".I've clicked on the After Effects and it said I do have 2024.  Can anyone help and explain in instructions as if they are speaking to a toddler?  Thanks.

Hello,I am using AE v24.0.1 and I'm having an issue with the font. I have attempted on 3 different templates and thought it might be an issue with the templates but I don't know if that is the issue or if it's AE itself causing the issue and if there is a way to fix it. The issue I'm having is in the edit comp folder, I am changing the font type from Times New Roman to Bebas Neue Regular. It changes on the text but when I open the Final Comp render, the font reflected is Times New Roman. I've tried using different fonts that are Adobe or original fonts but I still continue to have the same issue. I've watched the template developer's tutorial videos and am doing everything they are doing but it still will not stay with the Bebas Neue font that I want.

I consider this a bug.  I have a composition, with a live text layer, I save a frame as Photoshop Layers.  I open up the file in Photoshop, and the text layer is no longer live and editable.  This is ridiculous.  Is this a suite of software or just some random grab-bag of programs bundled together?  Adobe, fix this in the next couple weeks, and then send me a certificate for pointing out a great improvement to your software.  Thanks!

My AE crashed while I was using the Roto brush tool. Now it's not working at all. When I select the roto brush tool, the roto (circle) curser doesn't show, it stays as a mouse pointer and acts as a selection tool as though it doesn't recognize that the roto brush tool has been selected. When I try to draw, it selects the video instead. My computer has plenty of storage/ ram. I restarted my computer, uninstalled/ reinstalled AE etc. and I still have the same problem. I can't find anyone else having this issue. PLEASE HELP! 

I started a new project in After Effects and when I created a text layer I tried to test the Fixedsys font. Basically only with that typeface the text is automatically modified in such a way that the letters overlap each other, unable to form words. For now I have "solved" it by increasing the space between characters, but I would like to know if this also happens to any of you and if there is a solution other than the one I have given. Thanks in advance.

Can't update my illustrator files anymore ? If I save a new version in illustrator , when I go back to AE it give me an error ....After Effects error. File exists but couldn't be open for reading ( 3 ;; 0 ).Illustrator 2024 and AE 2024

I have the latest Macbook pro M2 with a 16GB RamI've been trying to install Adobe after effects and it keeps telling me the laptop is not compatible.I have updated to the latest OS Sonoma V 14.0 and it still doesn't install, says that I need to update.How to solve this.    

I have been using after effects for the better part of a year, and for the last 2 months it has been excruciatingly slow, I use quarter, and even then it's 5 seconds for one frame, and when I check what frames take the most time, it's usually just text with glow even though I havent had a problem with it ever. Also when I render frames, the previous as to what I just render get un-rendered? It also crashes a lot on random. I reinstalled after effects several times, I restart it every 5 minutes, I purge and clear media and disk cache all the time, and then when I open the memory details, it says that there are two instances of ae running and that exceeds the allowed ram? I checked the task manager and only one instance of ae is open, so If there is anything I can do, pleast tell, thanks

Hi All,I am facing an issue with After effects.I am unable to change renderer options to Cinema 4D in composition.It is giving me below error despite installing latest version and Cinema 4D plugin along with installation.Can someone please help. I have uninstalled and re-installed After effects along with Cinema 4D add on numerous times. Thanks.

I hope someone can help me. My After Effects 2024 occasionally encounters issues with the videos I add. After a while, black frames appear, sometimes with parts of the video still visible, or the entire video turns completely black. Another problem I'm facing is that I can't open preferences. As soon as I try, After Effects freezes and I have to close it. I'm working on a Windows 10 Programm.

I created a mouth using a pen tool (the dark red is fill and the light red is stroke). Then i wanted to animate it using trim paths so that mouth would disappear in the corner. However instead it looks like this (weird). Is there some way to edit this shape so that it can appear and dissapear in a different way with trim paths? 

Hello, I'm having issues exporting this simple gif. I've tried everything from lowering the frame rate, this animation loop is 2 seconds and exporting as a video, to trying in Photoshop, but something is always wrong. I'm unsure when every time I export this GIF out, white dots show up in the gray of the speakers. Can anyone help, please?   

I am so stumped with this it's not even funny... Someone so graciously gave me the information in order to get this expression to work: t = time-inPoint; animIn = framesToTime(6); // 6 frame starting animation animOut = framesToTime(6); // 6 frame ending animation stVal = [10, 10]; // Starting Scale endVal = [-248, -248]; // Calculate ending scale as 10, 10 animEndStrt = outPoint - inPoint - animOut; // Animations sclUp = easeIn(t, 0, animIn, stVal, [258, 258]); sclDn = easeOut(t, animEndStrt, animEndStrt + animOut, [0, 0], endVal); // Combine the animations sclUp + sclDn My only issue here is I am unable to adjust the ease amounts for the scale property; this is a simple scale in, and scale out animation for subtitles that can be repeated multiple times throughout the project. scale property keyframes I am trying to use for the expression animation(Keyframe1: 10 - 6frames - Keyframe2: 258 - end of layer - Keyframe3: 278 - 6 frames - Keyframe 4: 10) I will normally

I downloaded adobe after effects 2020 but after 2 months i wanted to upgrade to adobe after effects 2024 and when i un installed after effects 2020 I also un installed the adobe folder, When i finished installing adobe after effects 2024 the adobe folder wasnt there

I have to update a project made by another workmate, he is not available, he have this character hair bouncing a bit when it moves the head and the hair have this expression and show me this error and this is the expressionfreq = 3;decay = 5;n = 0;if (numKeys > 0){ n = nearestKey(time).index; if (key(n).time > time) n--;}if (n > 0){ t = time - key(n).time; amp = velocityAtTime(key(n).time - .001); w = freq*Math.PI*2;value + amp*(Math.sin(t*w)/Math.exp(decay*t)/w);}else valuefreq = 0.2;amp = 80;s= amp*Math.sin(freq*time*2*Math.PI);[s,s];

The subject doesn't do the issue justice.When I load a project, After Effects doesn't begin to render the preview for a long time. Not that it takes a long time to actually render, but it doesn't begin the preview render for SEVERAL minutes.This has also extended to the final render as well. Sometimes, when I tell AE to render, it will act like it will start rendering - the Render button and Queue in AME buttons are placed by pause and cancel, but the render progress bar doesn't change to the blue/grey striped working bar for an indeterminite period of time.Yes, some of the projects I'm loading aren't small, but they aren't the largest I've ever opened. Granted, there are quite a few expressions, but I would anticipate that would affect the actual rendering and not when the application begins the render.For example, I just opened a small composition with only two pieces of footage and no expressions from the project right before starting this post. There was no preview loaded (just all

I was using AE just fine yesterday, turned off my computer last night and there was a cumulative Windows update. Booted today and I cannot get AE to load. 2020 or 2019, tried clearing the prefs, updating AE, reinstalling and even system restore to before the update last night. It keeps hanging on the "Cleaning Up" part when it loads, sometimes it hangs on cleaning up "Anywhere" sometimes "AEDynamicLinkServer". Need some help ASAP...

Hi All, Tbh I'm not even sure how to search for this.  But Basically I found a tutorial to create a simple flag waving animation with displacement maps from other footage.  It works, but I'm not really liking that the surface its mapped to in my 3D rendering software (Lumion) is static and thus creating a weird mix of movement/non-movement.  I found a better stock footage element of a white flag waving on a black background, and I want to use this instead.  The displacement map simple approach isn't working, and I don't know what the official process for this is called so I'm coming up empty on searches.  Any help or pointers would be appreciated!  Thanks! I've attached screenshots of what I mean.

I want to create transparent shadow catcher. To do that, I need to set Accepts Shadows "Only".However, I have only option "Only - Disabled" and it's not transparent.Does anyone know how to fix this problem? What did I do wrong?!

Hello!I wonder if it is possible to skew a trimed stroke ?like this reference:

Hi gang; So I need to create a Null layer from within my plugin, and link a point parameter to it. I've never done this before but my understanding is that it needs to be done via Javascript. I thought I had the creation part done but it crashes upon execution. This is what I have:  AEGP_SuiteHandler suites(in_data->pica_basicP); A_Boolean outAvailablePB; AEGP_MemHandle outResultPH; AEGP_MemHandle outErrorStringPH; const char* javascriptCode = "var comp = app.project.activeItem;\r\n" "comp.layers.addNull();\r\n"; ERR(suites.UtilitySuite4()->AEGP_IsScriptingAvailable(&outAvailablePB)); ERR(suites.UtilitySuite4()->AEGP_ExecuteScript(NULL, javascriptCode, true, &outResultPH, &outErrorStringPH)); A_char* result = NULL; ERR(suites.MemorySuite1()->AEGP_LockMemHandle(outResultPH, reinterpret_cast<void**>(&result))); ERR(suites.MemorySuite1()->AEGP_FreeMemHandle(outResultPH)); ERR(suites.MemorySuite1()->AEGP_FreeMemHandle(outErrorStringP

Hello everyone ! How can I make a GPS line follow a moving camera (POV)? I want to imitate the design of a GPS app. Like the attached example. Thank you  

I have a simple scaling animation, with 4 total keyframes for subtitling. I have been searching the internet far and wide to find a way in which I can have the keyframes/animation automatically crop to the desired text duration, instead of having to select the two scale keyframes for each and every line of text and adjust them manually. The included photo is just an example of two lines of text. The four keyframes just scale the text from small to large, then from large to small at the end. I hope this makes sense, and appreciate any advice!

Last week I replaced my 2017 iMac with an M2 Ultra Mac Studio with 128 GB RAM. It struggles to even play a 4K .mp4 clip in real time. In my comparison tests, it was rendering comps in approximately the same amount of time as my old iMac (2017, 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, with 64 GB RAM). I currently have 16 GB RAM reserved for other applications (112 GB for AE). I have tried with and without Multi-frame Rendering turned on. I have not migrated my files from my old computer, so these are the results right out of the box. I'm using the latest version of AE (23.5.0). I was expecting previews to be about 5 times faster, but hoping for more. At first I was just terribly disappointed, and thought I made a huge mistake investing 8K in new computer equipment, since After Effects is my livelihood. But now I'm assuming that AE is just not operating right. I have read mixed comments about whether AE is optimized for the M2. Does anyone have any up-to-date information on that? Or maybe k

My special fonts are misconfigured, while the most basic fonts are pixelated. I don't know what's going on.