After Effects

Hi,I'm fairly new to AE. I am trying to bend the bevel of my text in this project, so it's angled like the animatic below. I cannot find any easy solutions for this online, so any help is appreciated, thanks! 

Hi guys, I'm a novice when it comes to expressions. So what I want to do is trigger an animation on the Opacity setting going from let's say 25% to 75% taking .5 seconds, when one layer overlaps another. Right now I've got the overlap working but it snaps from 25% to 75%. And I'm guessing I'd have to use a for loop statement for this. I don't think just a linear() statment will work. I tried looking up for loops online but I mostly get the loopOut statments. Any help would be appreciated. Right now my code looks like this and I'm using sliders to adjust the opacity, duration and layer selection of the overlap.  var lyr = effect("Collision Controls")("Select Collision Layer");var lyrCol = lyr.transform.position;var nA = effect("Collision Controls")("Collide ON");var nB = effect("Collision Controls")("Collide OFF");var dur = effect("Collision Controls")("Duration")var Alpha = thisLayer.sampleImage(lyrCol, [1,1]) [3]; if (Alpha < 1){ nB }else{ nA } Thanks!&nbsp

Perhaps its simply a misunderstanding in how things are supposed to function, but how exactly do you use render options suite and such when dealing with a worldH?I understand this gives the source pixels and not the effects altered pixels. Essentially I have a function that pulls frames at 't' time, and I'm able to extract them for passing into another function.I have a second function essentially doing the reverse that replaces pixels of a given itemH (in both cases its the compItem). This works sometimes?However, when I try to access multiple frames by running my single frame function in a loop across the duration, it ends up leading to a crash. I assume this is probably memory or lifetime related, but I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions regarding these issues, or suggestions regarding how to better get pixels from multiple frames.Essentially I create a class using my itemH, and then in a loop I pull the images at different times using the 'frameAtTime' method.Code links

Hello Community! How can I pimp the following expression with a linear interpolation 5 frames before the marker?  if (marker.numKeys > 0) { nearestMarker = marker.nearestKey(time); if (nearestMarker.time > time){ nearestMarker.index - 1; } else { nearestMarker.index; } }  I want to have a smooth transition between the previous and next value 5 frames before the next value.  Many thanks!

Is it possible to activate a video using an audio track? There is video and there is sound. While the audio track is silent - the video is not displayed when sounds start playing - and the video starts being displayed.Purpose - speech animation. When there is a conversation - the character's mouth animation is activated when the character is silent - there is no animation.

Dear Community, I am facing a challenge to extend the range selector by a whole number after each marker. My value jumps back to zero exactly on the middle distance between two markers. I would be very grateful if you could help me adjust the following expression so that the value on each next marker could be increased by a whole number (see marker comment). Best,Alex  

Hi,So i am very new to everything after effects and have been trying to learn how to do some 3D camera work for a map video clip, I am sure i am missing a step somewhere but i haven't been able to work it out through watching many videos and reading many similar posts. Simply i have charted out a camera movement and when i render it is not rendering that movement (27 second clip below) I appreciate any help, Thanks.https://streamable.com/k4opamAfter Effects 2020Windows 10  

As you can see in the image posted here, After Effects 3D camera tracking automatically chooses the worst possible data points in the image to track. I've tried manually deleteing all data points on the person but it automatically chooses new spots on their body to track instead of the many tracking points we placed on the green screen.  Is there a way to manually choose tracking points as I would when tracking motion? I've looked around and cannot find a proper answer anywhere other than to use Mocha, Blender, SynthEyes, or another third party camera tracker.  Thanks for your help with this.  

I have no idea if this is gonna make sense or not, but when i open a masked layer and i draw over it, it just goes over the mask ? Maybe its supposed to do that, but i saw a video and it was different, like, it didnt draw over the mask,,, so how do i do that?? im trying to redraw some stuff except trying to make sure that it doesnt draw over the layer is kind of annoying ... this is an example i really hope this makes sense fjhsjdk...  like isnt it supposed to cut off where the mask ends??... help    

Is there a way to create a new layer at the start of the work area instead of the start of the timeline?

Hello,I want to separate the subject in my 360 video from the background, and then substitute the background with a clean plate so that I can make the subject appear into the 360 scene with some interesting effect, some time after the viewer starts watching.I tried a 2D VR edit, a 3D VR edit, VR converter and a few other things, but if I use the rotobrush tool to extract the subject from the background, that works only inside the Edit. As soon as I go to the Output, the background that was supposed to be transparent returns, and I can't overlay the rotoscoped subject over anything else because all the transparency is gone. If I forego the entire VR workflow and work directly on my equirectangular footage (i.e. rotobrush), then as soon as I apply a VR effect like VR Digital Glitch the background returns again and the transparency is lost. I also tried precomps in case the VR effects are not reading the right material but it made no difference. After spending a few weeks on this I am sta

Hi there so I have a question what's the point of purging the memory (getting rid of the green lines) in after effects 2024 when after you do so the lines re populate meaning they fill back in using the ram cache and if they automatically do that every time I make a change and such what's the point of having that numb pad 0 button to render the timeline? I'm making a shiny metallic 3d text using 4 lights and the cinema 4d renderer and I notice my memory usage goes from 7gb and climbs to 25gb and just sits there and during this time the green bar is populating and I haven't even hit the numpad 0 button to do this ? It gets to a point where cinema 4d render crashes and the program just hangs up on me. I know you need a lot of ram since after effects is a ram eater but one 3d text doing some motion? I thought 32 gb would suffice. I remember seeing a window pop up when I first opened ae 2024 and rendered something it said something about if you want to shut off auto cache or something go t

When I'm on Classic 3D, Geometry options are disabled and so I can't have "thickness"; when I'm on Cinema 4D, Geometry options appear but it disables all the light transmission options. What can I do? Mac M1.Please see the two screenshots below. 

Am I the only one who's PC has become very slow after upgrading my CC softwares? Everything crashes and the rendering is taking much much longer than it used to be, and I keep getting a notification that the process can't be completed because there's no enough RAM though I'm using a gaming PC with 16 GB Ram!

Hola a todos, tengo una duda, estoy animando trazados en after, y quiero que esas animaciones sean un loop, pero after no deja utilizas por lo menos las expresiones basicas de loop que vienen dentro de él, me sale errotr. Conocen alguna manera o alguna expresion que pueda usar para conseguir creer un loop con los trazados

Im working on a thing in after effects. It's a 10 second long clip. Problem only appeared once i installed Sapphire plugins for it. First i had the same issue with premiere it just wouldnt open the software at all. Then i updated my drivers and premiere and after effects could both open. But now this certain project won't open. So i'm using these sapphire effects but the file is only 419 kb. help me please. Is there any more info i need to provide to have this problem solved? ty.

Hi Im making falling leaves in after effect with the particle world effect.  I have made a compisition that gradualiy showing falling leaves but i want the leaves to stop comming down after a while? How do i stop the particle flow? Thank you have a good friday   

So let's say you have a sequence completely made up of multiple sequences inside of it. Perhaps this is an animation for a lower third or something, or anything else where you'd have to change elements and reuse the whole sequence. Now imagine that you want to duplicate the sequence to reuse but you'd also like to change things in the subsequences inside of it. How can I duplicate a sequence while also duplicating and linking to new duplicated subsequences inside of it? For example, if I changed text in a subsequence after duplicating the sequence, both the original sequence and duplicated sequence would show the edited text, which is not wanted. This is also something I'd also like to know for Premiere Pro, if possible

 I know that I can fix the above problem by playing with the anchor point of the shape, but I don't understand why I get different results every time... Sometimes even when I apply a repeater to a copy of a shape I animated, the result is different. Everything is the same but the result is different. Sometimes it is really tiring to deal with anchor points all the time. I may even have to redo the whole animation from the beginning. What to pay attention to when using the repeater or before using it.

Bonjour, je suis un débutant after effect. Mon problème est celui-ci :Dans After Effect 2024, quand je mets en lien des calques solides avec un objet nul, ceux deviennent invisibles et c'est gênant pour avancer dans mon projet.J'ai esssayé avec after 2023 et le problème est le même.Merci pour votre aide

Hi,I've looked everywhere, and I can't find a reason or a fix for this:WARNING:After Effects warning: logged one error  warning: The file '/Volumes/CACHE/AE/Adobe/After Effects/15.1/Disk Cache - Mac Pro.noindex/0c/0c637efc-3230-7121-164b-eea61c835bef.ADBE ICV.7789645.AAAAAHAIABA=.aecache.tmp' could not be found.My cache is a separate 500GB SSD drive. It was cleared before this render. I'm rendering in aerender.AE CC 2018Mac Pro 2 x 3.33GTX 108096GB RAMOSX High Sierra 10.13.6Thanks,Eric

Hi guys,I'm working on a script to help standardize naming conventions in After Effects projects at work.The script works on my PC, but not on my Mac- its throwing me "Unable to execute script at line 1. ) does not have a value" whenever i try to run it.If any of you scripting wizards have any idea whatsoever of what could be wrong, I'd be forever grateful."object"!=typeof JSON&&(JSON={}),function(){"use strict";var rx_one=/^[\],:{}\s]*$/,rx_two=/\\(?:["\\\/bfnrt]|u[0-9a-fA-F]{4})/g,rx_three=/"[^"\\\n\r]*"|true|false|null|-?\d+(?:\.\d*)?(?:[eE][+\-]?\d+)?/g,rx_four=/(?:^|:|,)(?:\s*\[)+/g,rx_escapable=/[\\"\u0000-\u001f\u007f-\u009f\u00ad\u0600-\u0604\u070f\u17b4\u17b5\u200c-\u200f\u2028-\u202f\u2060-\u206f\ufeff\ufff0-\uffff]/g,rx_dangerous=/[\u0000\u00ad\u0600-\u0604\u070f\u17b4\u17b5\u200c-\u200f\u2028-\u202f\u2060-\u206f\ufeff\ufff0-\uffff]/g,gap,indent,meta,rep;function f(t){return t<10?"0"+t:t}function this_value(){return this.valueOf()}function quote(t){return rx_escap

I was trying to automate the location of the layers in a Pre-comp, so each layer in the composition will be moved to begin when a property of the layer (like rotation) reaches a certain value.   From some research, I learned that there isn't a feature to let me listen for events every time a property changes. I wonder if anyone has done something like this and has a solution that I can use as a starting point.I'm new to the AE scripting, and so far my script can only move the layer at the wrong time, only when the code is executed. var comp = app.project.activeItem; var preComp = comp.layer("Pre-comp name"); var currentTime = comp.time; if (preComp != null && preComp.source != null) { var layers = preComp.source.layers; var arrayLength = layers.length; for (var i = 1; i <= arrayLength; i++) { var workingLayer = layers[i]; if (workingLayer.transform.rotationY <= 90) { workingLayer.startTime = currentTime;

hi everyone, I installed element 3d on my mac with after effects 2023... but in the presets (when I click materials) nothing appears.. someone knows how to fix this? or have some presets that do like the "gloss" effect that i'm searching?? 

How is this done: Line following a point with waves? I've spent hours on it, and neither wave warp nor displacement maps work.  Creator: https://dribbble.com/shots/19960714-Changing-together