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Hi all, Since the latest version of After Effects, I’ve been experiencing an issue when working with layers.When I select a layer in the timeline panel and then try to move it manually in the Composition panel, it doesn’t move the correct layer. Instead, After Effects seems to switch the selection in the timeline to a completely different layer—almost as if an “auto-select” option is enabled.I have already searched extensively online and checked all possible settings, but I cannot find any auto-selection option that could be causing this.When I open older projects that were saved in a previous version of After Effects, this issue does not occur.Has anyone experienced this before, or does anyone know how to fix it?
Maybe I`m wrong on this one, but so far in three years I`ve worked with AE I never really understood why making Null object, Solid or Adjustment layer creates a folder in Project panel. Those are internal objects like Light, Camera or Shape but creating them doesn`t make them appear in this folder like it`s an external media file.Is there any upside for this behaviour? Or making this folder “invisible” in a panel would make no difference?
There are two QOL improvement suggestions for columns in timeline.First, I recommend erasing “No Matte” & “None” from Track Matte and Parent columns so it will be much easier to search for dependencies when working with A LOT of layers.Secondly, in the Layer Switches panel there's a small gap at the end of it which also can be resized but doesn't make anything wider aside from the gap. It's common when you switch between devices (PC, laptop) and these columns appear in different sizes on the same project, so you have to always adjust it so it doesn't take up necessary space from the timeline.
Whenever you're changing a percentage, position, or any value field, it's too short to show the whole number. I really hope you'll make it bigger so you don't need to use arrow keys to see the start/end of it.
Based on my extensive, house-to-house, global research - each After Effects user has about 12 billion Expressions, in text files, scattered on their systems.Converting these text files to FFXs is a good step upwards to making these Expressions more easily deployed and this accounts for the new/old Quick Apply feature; to increase its efficacy. A huge issue is the sheer number of text files involved - so, I was wondering if TeamAE is able to provide a Script UI to convert Expression Text Files into FFX. The Script UI would include relevant checkboxes and perhaps drop menus to allow for tagging each Expression and for renaming purposes.
I have a simple animation that consists of an image rotating. After it rotates several times I would like it to move. Should I be placing a Position Stopwatch/keyframe at the very beginning of the timeline along with where the rotation starts, or do I just place the starting Position stopwatch/keyframe wherever I want the movement to start?Thanks
I have been this issue for long enough but havent found a way to fix this yet !Im using AE 25,My GPU is an AMD rx 9060 xtAll my drivers are updatedI tried to reinstall both Red giant and AEI only have 1 monitorIf anyone could help me it will be very appreciated !! 🙏🏼
Por favor, preciso versão 23 do after effects, que suporta Rosetta.
I have the TranSMaxX Nostalgic Polaroid Photo Slideshow with Cinematic Flares template from Videohive. There is lorem ipsum background text that I cannot find or delete. Has anyone used this template and knows where that layer is hidden?" I’m a long time AE user and I’ve never had such a hard time finding a layer! Thanks!
when I try to launch After Effects I get an error saying it can't continue due the the Common Extensibility Platform not loading. Ive looked up and tried all possible solutions and still hasn't worked. Everything from reinstalling to granting Read/Write permissions and still does not launch.
In this tutorial, I’m breaking down how to recreate the classic vortex with any shape or logo with two different methods:*Method 1 - Maxon C4D Lite (Included with AE) I show how to take an image and convert it to a spline using the Vectorizer tool, then extrude this into a tunnel before applying a texture. Method 2: VideoCopilot Element 3D If you have a copy of this fantastic 3D plugin, you can use After Effects' own auto-trace to get your shape then extrude it and add textures in Element. I think it’s highly likely that shortly we’ll be able to substance textures of extruded shapes directly in After Effects. You can already do this using the cube and cylinder shapes. I expect I’ll publish an updated version should that feature get released.
My Ae can only open up to here. Then this pops up every time I open it again. While this is what happened with Pr.
Hi team — Starting a project per usual. Fine for the first hour or so. At a certain point the composition window freezes. Playing and scrubbing does nothing. I then quit, which freezes the app, making me Force Quit. This has been an issue in all versions of 26. Currently still causing issues on 26.2. I have 25.6.5 which continues to work well. Have cleared caches, checked disk settings, reset preferences. Any others experiencing this issue? This version isn’t usable. **Apple M2 Max96 GBMac OS Tahoe Version 26.3.1 (a) (25D771280a)
It would be really nice if After Effects could export files in Avid's modern codec DNxGX. And also that Media Encoder can do this. And also that Media Encoder can export DNxGX with alpha channel.
I open AE, drop a video file and a still picture into Project, drag the video to the Layer window, and it crashes. This keeps happening.
Holding Ctrl with the Anchor Point Tool snapping is a fantastic recent QOL improvement.However it isn’t fully finished.Hopefully some resource is still allocated to fixing stuff like this, where it is impossible to snap to the midpoint unless zooming in to extreme levels. see attached little game of avoid the magentic corner points! Assuming Windows display scaling is still causing problems
Sometimes when trying to select keyframes by dragging around them, the entire layer is selected and moves.This has been in the interface for a LONG time now and REALLY seems like a good thing to fix.From a QOL point of view, users need to be able to drag select keyframes.No User ever asked for a 20 pisels tolerance around a layer to selct the whole layer.I don’t know wher it originally came from but I think it has been in for over 20 years now.Attached intende behaviour, as couldn’t replicate problem
when I try to launch After Effects I get an error saying it can't continue due the the Common Extensibility Platform not loading. Ive looked up and tried all possible solutions and still hasn't worked.
I want to be able to put an image on the stage and right when I do it I would want it to fit to my stage automatically without me having to touch it. if anyone would be able to answer it that would be awesome.
Is it possible to make all keyframes default color of my choice?
Please help me how to link Blender 3D animation project into After Effects for compositing and element addition (like Autodesk Maya LiveLink for After Effects)
What is the reason calling it Pan Behind Tool?
After updating to After Effects 26.2, I noticed that some third-party plug-ins are showing garbled text in their UI controls.In my case, I can clearly reproduce this with plug-ins that include Chinese text, and I suspect it may also affect other non-English or non-Latin languages as well.What made me pay attention to this is the 26.2 release note saying:“Effect names are now correctly encoded for Unicode characters when accessed by third-party plug-ins.”So I’m wondering if this may be related.One detail that seems important: if I open project files that already use these third-party effects in Safe Mode (without loading third-party plug-ins), the Chinese parameter names display correctly. But in normal mode, some of those same labels appear garbled.I’m not the plug-in developer, just an end user reporting what I observed in testing, so I can’t tell whether this is an AE issue, a plug-in compatibility issue, or an interaction between both. But the behavior seems to have changed after up
It would be great if Mesh Warp’s grid could be defined manually, without having to match comp/precomp sizes.
Hi: Up until the latest update (2025) for After Effects. I was able to change my Theme UI Color. This link shows a video of how you used to able to change the Theme UI Color: (Mod note: Link removed) I contacted an Adobe Agent and he said several changes were included in this latest update of After Effects. He said to file a feature request here in hopes of getting that feature back again. The After Effects Version I am using is: 25.0.0 (Build 53) and I am running it on a PC with a Windows 11. This may not seem like a big issue to some people but it's something I got used to as part of my workflow. If you could bring this feature back it would greatly be appreciated! Mod note: Please do not condone the use of internal engineering tools like Console. The link showing how to change engineering settings in the UI has been removed. The text was also modified. Thanks.
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