After Effects

Every time I export my file via Media Encoder (as an .mp4) or the Render Queue (as a .mov), my video comes out either white (.mov) or just black (.mp4). I have 4 Spot Light layers in my file that look amazing in the AE working file, there's nothing wrong there. When I export, they disappear. How can I successfully export this will all the Light Layers appearing as visible, as they do in my working file? For reference, I have the camera angle/view set to "Front" I've included photos of my timeline and layers below. 

Dear After Effecters!(I am using After Effects CC v16.0.0) First of all - thanks so much if you are able to help me! After selecting the 'T' text tool and holding on 'T' to change to Vertical Text, as I type 'ABC' it appears sideways not vertically, as if it's just been rotated - does that make sense? I cannot seem to get it to type vertically A and then B underneath and then C. Like this:-ABCI cannot do it. The letters are rotated 90 degrees as I type. I have held the mouse button down on the 'T' tool and switched to vertical typing, but it's sideways (rotated 90 degrees, not with one letter under the next).  Hope that makes sense! I have searched for an answer and video after video tells me to 'just click and hold the 'T' tool and switch to vertical - but that doesn't work for me. Thanks SO much if you're able to help. - Rory Skywalker

Eu acho que o pixel motion blur nao funciona como esperado numa sequencia com alpha e aplicando uma mascara. Ele simplesmente aplica o motion blur, mas ignora a mascaraClaro que ha um workaround, mas com o plugin Reel Smart Motion Blur, isso nao acontece.Obrigado

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Creating any Cinema 4d lite project out of Premiere Pro and After Effects via dynamic link freezes AE when trying to close it, as I outlined in this thread. Even when using AE and C4D only, AE freezes upon closing. In both cases, I can always close the AE project window, but AE freezes when trying to close the AE program window. I have to shut AE down via task manager. It all worked flawlessly until PP/AE V23 and Cinema 4d lite R25. Since the AE update that included Cinema 4d 2023.1.1, AE freezes upon closing. I am desperately trying to find a solution as I need this for my professional work. Adobe already tried twice to help via remote support but could not find the cause of this problem. Maxxon thinks it is an Adobe but and does not want to help. Therefore, I am hoping someone from this community has a brilliant idea. What I tried so far:Multiple new installations of all programs, including removal of old versions and not migrating old settings.Delete AE

I've set up a comp 2400px x 800px ( odd size I know but its for a website)When I use Media encoder, set to H.264 with the Gamma correction LUT, I get the exact colors in the output that I'm seeing in after effects, but if I change the height of the comp and absolutely nothing else, when I render it again (exact same setting) the colors are all darker. Ive repeated this at many different sizes and it happen every time, over 578px no problems, under 578px and the colors shift.

Heii I wanna make a svg animation with the tool "lottie". I created a waving flag with the effect "wave wrap". Unfortunately "lootie" doesn't support this effect. Is there a possibility to convert the effect to a path? Or do you have another idea?

Hey everyone,  For 3 days now, After Effects started randomly crashing, doing the most simple things. I don't have the same problem with other Adobe products (I'm using Photoshop and Ilustrator everyday). I upgraded the drivers, scanned the memory trough memory diagnostic and other program ( i can't recall the name anymore) and nothing wrong came out. Cleaned the cache, boosted the performance trough Auslogics and everything i could find on other forums. Still crashing. I suspect my RAM hardware may be teh problem, but it doesn't seem to affect any other activity on the pc. I leave here the dmp file, i really don't know how to read it: https://we.tl/t-E0VtrO27Kz I'd be thankfull if someone could help me, thanks!

hi, i just made a character and rigged is. This was all done in 6000x6000pixel composition. I now need to scale it down to fit a 1920x1080 composition. I already tried connecting all the layers that are not parented to and null and scale it down, but that doesn't work for me. Is there something i am not doing correct or is there another way of doing it?

Hi, I've just upgraded to an Apple M2 MAX laptop (from a 2019 intel one), and would like to know if version 23 of After Effects (and Premiere) work better and is more stable than version 24? I'm about to install the apps, so would appreciate a heads up before I waste my time installing 24 (which I've read has many problems, or did at least). Cheers.

I want to get the position of the mouse when the user clicks in the comp window. I can get the mouse position using OS calls, but I want the relative position, exactly like PF_Param_POINT does it when you press that target button next to the parameter value. I though about geting the size and position of the comp and then calculate the mouse position using the OS mouse calls, but I don't know how to get the position and size of the comp. Another option would be to add a hidden PF_Param_POINT, and force the activation of the pick tool from the parameter, but I didn't find a way to activate it without user input. Any ideas?

whenever I use after effects specially Mocha it crashes down and says my 16 Ram isn"t enough

인텔 맥과 최신버전 애프터이펙트를 사용하고 있습니다.어느 순간 애프터이펙트에서 키프레임을 삭제하거나 타임라인 확대 축소를 했을 시키보드를 두 번 누르는 것과 같은 현상이 발생합니다.키프레임을 삭제 할 때는 두번 누르는 꼴이 되어 해당 레이어가 아예 삭제되어undo를 한 번 해야되는 불편한 상황이 이어지고 있습니다.혹시 같은 현상을 가지고 계신 분이나 해결하신 분이 있을까요?

Hello, I've been expieriencing a lot of bugs and errors especially connected to low memory warnings and the disability to preview my work even if its only raw audio footage on 23.4 (tried to downgrade onto nearly every other version but it did not help). A lot of friends told me that older AE versions (2021,2020) work better in that case. I've tried to downgrade but the only options I get on creative cloud are all version until 22.0. So here's my question: Is it still possible to downgrade onto 2021 After Effects versions? I'd be helpful for any kind of help.

Working on some tests recently-- trying to open a dialog box in Global Setup for the user to enter a value, and then store said value. The box opens, but each time it defaults to "Dialog was Cancelled," without having the opportunity to enter any values. I'm not sure if this is an issue with the dialog code, or perhaps theres some caveat to doing this in global setup. Any suggestions would be appreciated! This is the code I'm using for the rough test;// Dialog procedure function INT_PTR CALLBACK NumberDialogProc(HWND hDlg, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { static int* pNumber; switch (message) { case WM_INITDIALOG: pNumber = (int*)lParam; return (INT_PTR)TRUE; case WM_COMMAND: if (LOWORD(wParam) == IDOK) { BOOL success; int number = GetDlgItemInt(hDlg, 1001, &success, TRUE); if (success) { *pNumber = number; EndDialog(hDlg, IDOK); } else { MessageBoxA(hDlg, "Please enter a valid number.", "Error", MB_OK | MB

Is there any way I can parent or link similar effects together such that I don't have to manually change every layer's effect everytime I have a change? Thanks for the help!

I want to contain this foam effect so that it stays within the frame. I will be using this comp in another one in several places so that the foam looks a single molecule. So when it drifts out of frame, it cuts it off in the other comp. Is there a way to make it stay in frame?  

Hi I am trying to turn this PNG to a spinning 3d logo. I have trouble when I go to auto-trace it. The holes in the B are not there they are part of the logo. I want it to be able to see through. Any help would be awesome. 

So when I Open Recent and get file... make changes... save... it doesn't save in the folder it exists in - but saves in the last project folder I was in beforehand. So many times I save a file and can't find it all because it saves to the last folder I was in, not the folder Open Recent pulls it from. So annoying PLEASE FIX!!! 

Since 23.6 I'm getting multiple crashes per day, on different projects. 16 inch 2019, 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7Ventura These are super ugly crashes and they're ruining my deadlines.