After Effects

I'm trying to modify a template I downloaded to make a pie chart. I would like to set a text layer to be in the center of a pie slice and I've tried writing the following code to accomplish that: var C1 = thisComp.layer("Data control").effect("Chart value 1")("Slider"); var C2 = thisComp.layer("Data control").effect("Chart value 2")("Slider"); var C3 = thisComp.layer("Data control").effect("Chart value 3")("Slider"); var rotation_in_degrees =(C2+C3+(0.5*C1))*3.6; var rotation_in_radians = rotation_in_degrees * Math.PI / 360; var base_x_position = thisComp.layer("Chart 1").effect("Radial Wipe 1")("Wipe Center")[0]; var base_y_position = thisComp.layer("Chart 1").effect("Radial Wipe 1")("Wipe Center")[1]; var pie_chart_radius = thisComp.layer("Chart 1").content("Ellipse Path 1").size[0] / 2 [base_x_position + Math.acos(rotation_in_radians) * pie_chart_radius, base_y_position + Math.asin(rotation_in_radians) * pie_chart_radius, 0];The problem is that this returning an error:Error

Hi everyone!I am trying to set a shortcut for the "Add Keyframe" in After Effects CC 2014.through the shortcut txt file in AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\13.0  but I can't seem to find it there or I am missing something. Any help? Script or something?  I have cc 2014 and cc 2019 but I use cc 2014 because it loads up faster than cc 2019. Thanks

Good moring guys, I'm trying to script that would stretch out the distance between my selected keyframes proportionately, similar to alt click and dragging but faster.Here's the feature I want for the script:1. It would stretch out from the point of the last keyframe2. It would reselect the keyframes, so that you could stretch it again if you needed3. I want it to affect every keyframe I selected from different layers.  I got 1 and 2 to work but can't find a solution for 3var comp = app.project.activeItem; if (comp != null && (comp instanceof CompItem)) { var layer = comp.selectedLayers[0]; if (layer != null) { var keys = layer.selectedProperties; if (keys.length > 0) { app.beginUndoGroup("Stretch Keyframes"); var stretchFactor = 0.8; // Change this to your desired stretch factor var keyData = []; for (var i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) { for (var j = 1; j <= keys[i].numKeys

Hi, I need help with my script. - I want it to split the text paragraph layer into 2 lines in separate layers. (It already does it but only works for 1 line, and I want 2)- Also place the buttons side by side.If someone can figure out how to do this, please help me re-doing it or explaining me, I would really appreciate it <33 // Function to add or update text in the composition function textEditor(thisObj) { function updateTextInComp(text) { var comp = app.project.activeItem; if (comp && comp instanceof CompItem) { // Check if a text layer already exists var textLayer = null; for (var i = 1; i <= comp.layers.length; i++) { if (comp.layers[i] instanceof TextLayer) { textLayer = comp.layers[i]; break; } } if (textLayer) { textLayer.property("Source Text").setValue(text); } else {

Hey there I can import a 3'840 x 2'160 video into After Efffects, but once I drag it into the time line (either from the project or the Findet) its resolution drops to 1'920 x 1'080.I created a whole new project with 3'840 x 2'160, yet the resolution drop keeps happening.Note: I am all new to the Adobe Creative Cloud.I am learning autodidactic and am a slow learner (not a small one). I searched the internet and read every single thread regarding the topic « Resolution »  in After Effects within the Adobe Community. CheersHoward

Hell all,I just got a new computer for my work. It is a 2020 iMac but has Sonoma 14.1.1 OS installed. My work currently only uses Premiere 2022 and After Effects 2022 and has not switched to a newer version yet. However Creative Cloud does not offer older versions before 23.0. Is it forever unavailable now or is my computer too up to date to support them? If I transfer the older apps, such as Premier 2022 and After Effects  2022 from my older computer through a hard drive they do not recognize that each app is installed and Dynamic Link does not work. Is there any solution to this?

I have been using after effects for a month or so but i recently have been running into an error. Every time I open a layer panel, the preview freezes and it doesnt unfreeze until i save my projects, exit AE and go back into the project. I used to use AE 2022 and this bug would still happen, so I uninstalled it and got AE 2021. The bug is still here so i figure this must be something with my computer.  My info: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor, CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics. I have put a video for visual detail to explain what Is going on.

Save Frame As -> Photoshop Layers doesn't work for me, the AE just freezes on 25%.I have a pretty simple compoistion with a couple nested others, and just a couple effects. The only special thing is a C4D as a layer in one of the compositions

 After the last 2 updates, Premiere pro and After effects just started doing this random thing at random and it can last 3-5 seconds and then everything goes back (very rare but it can just freeze). What's weird is that my friend doesn't have this problem, so I suspect it's something to do with compatibility with a 4k monitor or my computer, but I haven't done anything recently.Have you experienced something similar?

I have been experimenting with this great expressions trick, of controlling the size of vectors with a gradation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UaZNcVobhg I have a multible layers but want to bring them in one at a time without having to key every object, and Iwas wondering if I could do it in a simular way to this guys tutorial? Or is there simular trick?  Thank you. Julian

Hi community,To be honest, it has been a couple of years that I am not wrapping my mind around the following question. I amnot finding precise tutorial videos on this topic. The basic dynamic workflow between PP and AE is clear.  Slect your clips in the timeline > right click > replace with AE composition.Simple.Easy. The question is for the following scenarioI work on PP and edit my video. Then comes to the moment where I want to add some motion GFX in different parts of the video. I select the clips and do "replace with AE composition". But here comes the wall I keep on bumping my head on. I refine my video work on PP and realize I want more motion GFX. And I don't know how to bring more elements to my existing AE project dynamic link where everythings fall into place in the timeline of PP.Any thoughts?The photo is an exemple. I have dynamic link at the beginning of my timeline. Then the second circle to the right is what came up afterwards. And teh circle at the bott

Hello community, When click add to Media Encoder queue ( or CTRL + ALT + M), Media Encoder launches, but the video I want to render does not show up in the box on the right. Normally it would be there after a few seconds waiting.I have waited for 15 minutes now and it's still not there. I have tried re-installing adobe after effects and adobe media encoder. They are both the same (latest) version.  I also tried other files that previously DID work, but they also dont show up in adobe media encoder.How do I get the video to show up in the right box where I can change the export format and the locatiions etc? Thank you in advance for any help 🙂 

 

Hello! So I downloaded this program today and I'm not entirely sure how to use it. I made a video in Adobe After Effects and it played both the audio and the video in the preview. I intended on saving it to my phone camera roll so that I could text it to one of my friends, so I rendered it as an MOV or Quicktime file. But when I went to watch the version I saved to make sure both the audio and the video would play, only the audio played and the video was just a black screen. I can't find any answers on this. Please help!

"After Effects" with MAC M processors is impossible. It is very slow, in HD-only projects, even writing text is not fluid. Previously I worked with Windows and everything was much faster.The rest of the ADOBE applications (Photoshop, Premiere...) work very well, the problem is only with After Effects. After Effects 24.0.2Macbook Pro M1 MAX 

HelloOn the Adobe site it mentions 2 ways of importing a CA scene into Ae. The first way is to simply drag the CA scene onto the Ae project window. This gives the error message: Failed to connect to Adobe Dynamic Link project (86::1).The second way is to choose File - import file. This results in the error message: The project could not be opened. A Youtube video from 2016 (I am using cc2019) recommends choosing Export - PNG sequence and WAV and saving it. All the PNGs are then listed plus the WAV file. However, when in Ae I choose Smart Import.jsx and drag it down to form a comp, only the visuals are on display and the WAV Is absent. If someone could please explain why this is happening I would be very grateful.ThanksGeoff Axon

lorsque je finis dinstaller after et que je lance ce logiciel  on me sort cette phrase  After Effects ne peut pas continuer: échec inattendu au démarrage de l'application mac

Bonjour tout le monde,Je me permets de vous écrire afin de vous demander de l'aide parce que je galère depuis plusieurs jours.J'ai un Macbook Pro Retina 2012. Mon mac à 10 ans et fonctionne encore très bien.J'utilise la Creative Cloud depuis plusieurs mois. Les logiciels que j'apprends, fonctionne très bien aussi.Depuis peu, j'ai un problème avec After Effects. En effet, mon mac tourne sous Catalina 10.15.7 et les mises à jour ne se font plus. Donc, de ce fait, j'ai opté pour la version 2019 d'After Effects. Cela a très bien fonctionné durant tout un temps. Mais, il s'avère que j'ai dû refaire une installation à cause d'un bug.Depuis, cela m'est impossible de l'installer à nouveau.Voici le message qui s'affiche:After Effects (avertissement) : Echec de création du répertoire /Users/Sylvie/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/16.0/Espacesdetravailoriginaux. Vérifiez la protection ou les autorisations du répertoire parent. Est-ce que quelqu'un parmi vous pourrait m'aider ? Je

Hi, fairly inexperiended AE user, I know the basics and can usually overcome most issues from google but failing to get any answers to this one. So I have downloaded a template to from a subscription website. All was going well and i was able to adapt to my needs except for 2 mysteries. It comes from needing to extent the overall comp size to 0:01:45:00 from about 0:01:06:00 I have 2x issues at this point where the comp originally ended.1: Theres a Fade to black, i just want to move this to the new end. However I cant find it any comps, or any layer. I've tried deleteing every layer and it doesnt vanish, ive looked in every compostion and cant see any visible effects or keyframes. Where could this be coming from?2: All the effects suddenly end. This all seem to come from a layer called Scene control, I just need to strech the time so they carry on to the new ending but again theres no visible effects / keyframes to adjust. Time strech didnt change anything.Not sure what you need suppli

Hi there, I believe I have found a bug in Premiere. In our plugin, we store a part of sequence data on the heap and have a pointer to it in sequence data. We implement FLATTEN commands to save this to disk, which works great in AE. However, in Premiere, the FLATTEN command is never sent, unless during the session the user has clicked on the UI (CUI or a button). If not, then when the project is saved and closed, instead of giving us a flatten command, Premiere saves the unflat sequence data to disk as if it didn't need flattening. Then, when we re-open the project and it calls SEQUENCE_RESETUP, the stuff that was on the heap is now junk data, and reading from it sometimes gives a bad access error (which crashes Premiere). This really seems like a bug to me, but maybe I'm doing something wrong. I setPF_OutFlag_SEQUENCE_DATA_NEEDS_FLATTENING, PF_OutFlag2_PPRO_DO_NOT_CLONE_SEQUENCE_DATA_FOR_RENDER, and PF_OutFlag2_SUPPORTS_GET_FLATTENED_SEQUENCE_DATAin Global

After updating to version 23.0 something got wrong with the RAM preview. It that doesn't function as it used to, and the preview is extreamly slow, to the point that it is almost impossible to work.I tried cleaning the cache, and enabled multy-frame rendering, but it didn't change much. Something is wrong...Looking forward for a fix!(Windows 10)

In typical Adobe style, over at Work with Data-driven animation it says Data SourcesYou can use data from almost every possible source such as:Device Generated Data Files – Data from devices such as fitness trackers that record activity through sensors and store them in different file formats. This time-varying data includes - speed, altitude, distance, heart rate, and various other parameters of user activity.User Generated Static Data – Global static data such as survey results that can be changed to drive graphics. A user created data file could provide a workflow for global data.URL – Live data from websites such as entry and exit path of a user navigating through a web page.Metadata - Data embedded in Video File Metadata.But there is absolutely nothing about how to use a URL as a data source.Am I missing something?Can I use a publicly accessible URL to a JSON file as a data source?How?

Hi!I want the small black circle to follow the path of its surrounding outlined circle, which, in turn, should follow the path of its surrounding outlined circle, and so on. I've tried everything I know, but nothing works. 😩 Can someone help me, please? Thank you! Chris.

Hi all, I'm currently animating a logo to go at the end of a promo video we are making for a new business. The grapphic part of it looks like the windows logo. The animation involves the squares coming together to create one larger square THEN I would like to create the gaps inbetween. I had originally tried deleting part of the path to create an open side, which works but I think I can only delete one of the sides. I'm now trying to use the trim path on just the stroke while keeping the fill. Not sure if this is possible or if not can someone sugeest another way please? many thanks

I have a major problem with the VR comp window in AE2018, that was also an issue with skybox suite V2 in AE2017.After I add enough edits to enough comps, I can no longer expand the window to view these edits, so I cannot hit "open Output/Render" on the comp I need to, to apply changes.https://imgur.com/8PTjXuWSee this picture. I can go into my 3d edits for all of my layers, but I cannot see any options for "RUSTIC 2.7K" I have more comps below this, but I cannot expand any further to see them.This window really needs reworking to allow for more and more comps. For instance, if I undock the panel, it SHOULD allow me to expand the width, and the one column would convert to two or three depending on size.As it stands right now, I cannot expand past my computers screen resolution, so I cannot see my edits. This video has a Wednesday dead line and I have no idea How I can commit the changes I have made through the VR comp panel.Thank you.