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Previously requested but wanted to add a few addendums to this really desired item:Love the increasing native 3D capabilities of After Effects and I really wish the workflow of nesting compositions to build complex animations was reflected in the new Advanced 3D renderer. I would love to be able to select or reference a composition from the project panel to be used as a 3D layer's texture.As an animator / designer for screens for live events, we often use After Effects not only to build out large pieces of content (multiple synchronous 4K+ feeds) but also to previsualize in real-time what our content will look like. This is super helpful because we don't have to round-trip still frames or large renders between AE and another DCC. However, creating these previsualization setups can take a large amount of time, much of which having compositions UV-mapped onto 3D objects would save an immense amount of time. For instance, for a curved screen we often are cutting up a composition into mult
In Element 3d by Video Copilot, there is the option to use comps as materials for 3d models.It would be extremely useful if it were to be possible to set comps/precomps in the same active comp as a 3d model to be the material for that model or a texture for one of the materials in the 3d model.Do you (viewers of this post) think it would be useful/cool?
Hi SDK team and fellow plugin devs,I'd like to get a definitive answer on whether dynamically toggling PF_PUI_INVISIBLE on PF_Param_GROUP_START topics is part of the supported PF API surface, or if it's effectively undefined behavior.ContextI'm building a native PF effect (AE-style, AE SDK 25.6, Skeleton-based, universal binary) that exposes a variable number of editable sub-groups in the Effect Controls Panel — up to 100 topic groups in the worst case. The pattern I'm using is the textbook one:1. At PF_Cmd_PARAMS_SETUP, declare all 100 PF_Param_GROUP_START / PF_Param_GROUP_END pairs (each enclosing ~10 child params) with ui_flags |= PF_PUI_INVISIBLE on every entry.2. As the user creates events, dynamically clear PF_PUI_INVISIBLE on the relevant GROUP_START/GROUP_END/children via PF_UpdateParamUI() during PF_Cmd_UPDATE_PARAMS_UI.3. Same call also reasserts PF_PUI_INVISIBLE on the still-unused groups, with force_update on every tick.Initial render is correct: only the active groups are
When importing a .psd file as a composition, I receive the message: "Encountered errors while importing selected items. 1) After effects error: Illegal XML character “” in string “[file path]”. Layers appear offline. When I close and restart app, everything is online. Also occurs when right clicking imported psd footage>Create>Convert to Layered Comp.I already checked that there are no illegal characters in filename of layer names.Version 26.2.1 (Build 2)MacbookPro M3 Max, Nov 2023, Sonoma Version 14.6.1
I have an image and a video that I positioned on the comp after scaling both down so they are positioned how I want them. I now want to scale both items down so they are real small so I can keyframe them both scaling up together. I will use parenting to get them both to scale up together How do I scale both of them in proportion to a small size? Is there a way to group them both to do this? They are not yet keyframed Thanks
Hi guys ! I have an Intel Core Ultra 7 265F, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 with 32gb and my After Effects is still very slow when editing. I’ve tried every tips AI gave me but it sadly doesn’t change anything… I use Twixtor, Sapphire and BCC a lot, which would be a reason why it’s slow but i don’t know… Thank you so much for your help. 😁
Hi, I have a problem that already fixed by myself but better if it's fixed by the developers.So when i update my audio on a comp and then go outside the comp, i see my waveform still used the old audio waveform not the new audio that i just puted in to the comp.The solution is to turn off and then turn on again the audio icon on the comp and then it fixed, the audio waveform just updated.i Think the old version doesnt have this kind of problem before, so please help us fix this little bug, cuz this bug sometimes anoying for who dont know yet.
Make the (popped out) composition window fit to screen size by double clicking the top of the window (like every other window on windows). This would create a more focused view and would help with bigger projects on two screen setups.
Hello there :)I’ve been working on my desktop PC for about 4 years now and despite some issues with an SSD NVMe and a recent problem with a a damaged USB PCIe expansion card that caused my PC to lag as hell before I identified the problem and removed it, I am quite happy with it. I produce music and am a motion-graphics designer, so I use lots of softwares and plugins and the PC is quite robuts to handle it, even on tight schedules for my clients and big renders (over 4K with plugins such as Element 3D or Deep Glow, Shadow studio, Handy cam, etc.). I’ve been watching a lot of tests that point to the RTX 5070 as a great solution for 4K editing and was wondering if anyone had any experience with such an upgrade, especially 3060 8Gb to 5070 12Gb.I also read there were some issues with the 5070 and so far, most of the time, my philosophy has always been “as long as it works”, don’t update / upgrade.But if it can help me improve my workflow and gain some rendering time, I’d be curious to kn
I would like to report a problem in the Japanese version of After Effects v26.2.The new "Quick Apply" feature does not support partial match search for Japanese characters. It only returns results for an "exact match," which significantly hinders the workflow.In the "Effects & Presets" panel, partial match search works fine in Japanese. Please update Quick Apply to support the same Japanese search behavior as the existing panels.
As of AE version 26.0.0 renders that should be rendered to an interlaced format end up as incorrect.The duration of the export is correct, though the content is playing at 200% and the rest is filled with a solid black (No transparancy)This workflow has worked for me for 20+ years. Unless I’ve fundamentally messed something up in my workflow this seems like a pretty severe bug, as the reality is that most of linair television still runs on interlaced.Create new composition at 25 fps (in PAL-cases) Add content Add composition to render queue in Render Settings change Field Render to Upper Field First Change output to Quicktime (422, 4444, animation; all have the same outcome) Render
I get this error. No clue on how to solve it.
In After Effects when you convert an audio to keyframes and need to set markers on the beats it's kinda annoying to set markers on all of the beats manually. I know you can make an autobeat marker script for AE but this would be nice for beginners. A built-in auto beat marker.
Hello, I've tried everything to get the spill off the apple,the top and legs/shoes but it's not working.Does anyone have any ideas on how to remove spill from reflective surfaces?
When enabling Mercury Transit in After Effects, the sent Video Preview does not contain any Alpha Channel information even if the entire composition is empty. The transmitted video sends the composition overlayed over the previewed composition's background color.This is occuring on Windows, AE 25.3.0. I am checking Mercury Transit using the NDI for After Effects plugin, and monitoring both the NDI Studio Monitor and an NDI Source.Not sure if this is more a bug or a feature-request (having this be toggle-able would be great).
Hi,I'm working on some text for a video and when attempting to play back or render the video with the text layers, After Effects glitches out constantly, with random text layers flickering in and out of places they shouldn't be. I've tried restarting the program, but this only caused the issue to spread to other parts of the video. This is happening when playing back in After Effects, rendering in After Effects, and rendering in Adobe Media Encoder. It's a very frustrating problem, especially as I spent hours making sure the text was frame-accurate, only for After Effects to crap all over my work.Below is a video showcasing the problem, and also an image showing the project itself, to clarify that the text layers are not overlapping and that this is not a user fault.Google Drive VideoI hope someone can help.Thanks in advance.
I have a cup with a video of steam rising from it. I keyframe the cup so it scales up and then I parent the steam video to the cup so they both scale up.What happens if you have multiple properties keyframed on an image and you parent it to something else, does it copy all of the keyframed properties? So if the the cup was keyframed to scale, rotate, change position and opacity, does the steam do all of these things also? If so, is there a way to control what is copied when parenting or does it just copy all the properties?
Here is a breakdown of the color issues based on version and color management settings: version 24.x / Adobe color managedAfter Effects (24.6.8) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (24.6.8) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to mp4 → ISSUE: The gamma is slightly different. (Is it forcibly converting sRGB to Rec. 709?) version 24.x / OCIO color managedAfter Effects (24.6.8) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (24.6.8) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to JPEG → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect.Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to mp4 → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect. version 25.x / Adobe color managedAfter Effects (25.5) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (25.5) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (25.5) direct render to JPEG → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect.Media Encoder (25.5)
This is a problem I never used to get, but on 2025 and26 if I leave AE open for more than 20 mins without cleaning my cache, apparently even the most basic of comps will decide it needs all 128gb of ram on my machine and I get this dialogue box that takes literally 150+ presses to dismiss. This is insane. At least make it so that the pop up gives me the option to clear cache or can be dismissed without machine my enter key for 2 mins. AMD 5950, 4090, 128gb ram, windows 10, AE 25/26 all versions
The new tools are promising, but not very intuitive. With the old root brush double clicking allowed the painting to b started immediately, but with the new tools that is not always the case. This causes a lot of confusing clicking and double clicking, opening and closing panels. Please make a clear UI for the object selection / root environment. When a footage layer is selected, choosing one of the tools should open a panel where the rotoscoping can be done.
When trying to "replace with After Effects composition" I get the error message above. I have seen many others with the same issue and logged out and rebooted as suggested and it still doesn't work. I am using version 17.0.1 of After Effects and 14.0 of Premiere Pro. What do I need to do to get this functionality to work? Seems it's going on for years...?
I'm creating a line animation using trim path feature. the image was created in illustrator. for example. in the animation the line is growing/extendiing from left to right. is it possible to reverse the direction to have the animation go from right to left?? w/o going into illustrator and redraw the line in different way?? no matter what i do with the starting/ending point setting it ALWAYS goes from left to right...any thoughts??my illustration is actually a lot more complicated than just one line. so to redraw the whole thing would not be efficient...
After effects is great... But some times I need a tool that is light weight IE starts up lighting fast and is easy to jump right into... to convert or compress a movie file to differnt formates... Or create a fast simple animation that is a simple tween. or text fade in.... Aftereffect is great for high power video work... But I miss flash for faster animation work... Or It would be help to have a super light weight converstion and compression tool where you can convert and compress files...
Estou com esse problema, estou tentando baixar o After Effects, mas ocorre um erro de instalação de AVX2. Teria alguma versão para AVXE que rode tranquilamente no meu computador
Every action I take causes the project cache to constantly refresh, and even moving the mouse cursor slightly makes me wait 20 seconds. This isn't work—it's torture. Here are my settings
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