After Effects

I used to just copy docakble scripts into the ScriptUI Panel folder manually. But I tried the 'install ScriptUI Panel' menu option today. Restarted Ae and it worked fine. But when I looked in the ScriptUI Panel folder there's no copy of my script there ??? On install a dialog said the script was successfully copied to my preferences folder, but i can't find it anywhere and I can't find any other copy with the same name or any hidden files. what's going on? how do I remove a file I can't even find ?Ae 25.5 on Mac OS 15.5

Bonjour,Je souhaite installer la version After Effects 23.1, mais elle ne semble plus disponible dans Creative Cloud. Pour des raisons de compatibilité avec certains plugins et projets, j’ai besoin spécifiquement de cette version.Pouvez-vous m’indiquer comment y accéder ou s’il est possible de la télécharger via un lien direct depuis mon compte Adobe ?Merci d’avance pour votre aide,Cordialement,

Hello,I am struggling to get this expression to work. I thought someone might be able to help me. I want a text layer to move y position depending on an if-else statement. If the text field is one or two line heights or not move to y1 or y2 position... Right now, this code works, but instead of moving the y it displays the y position with the text value. (example: some text1820) I am not sure what I am doing wrong.  Thanks! var l = thisLayervar tx = l.text.sourceText.value; var h = tx.split('\r'); var n = h.length; var y1 = transform.yPosition = [1920];var y1 = transform.yPosition = [1920];var y2 = transform.yPosition = [1820]; if (n > 1) {[value + y2 ]; } else {[ value + y1 ];}

Hello, I have a Asus TUF 15 with 32gb ram, with a Nvidia RTX 3050, 12th gen i7 12700 and the After Effects 25 wont open. I tried every single version of the after effects 25 and it doesnt open in any circumstances.  Can someone please help? i need to work in a project and I need to use this laptop to work on it 

When doing renders from the command line it seems that I can not get the -reuse flag to work anymore after After Effects version 2021.Is this functionality no longer supported? Or am I doing something wrong? It works when I have an instsance open of After effects 2021 or earlier and use this command:"/Applications/Adobe After Effects 2021/aerender" -project "/Users/macbook/test.aep" -comp "main_comp" -OMtemplate "h264mp4"  -output "/Users/macbook/test.mp4" -reuse But when I try this with After Effects 2022 or the llatest beta version:"/Applications/Adobe After Effects 2022/aerender" -project "/Users/macbook/test.aep" -comp "main_comp" -OMtemplate "h264mp4"  -output "/Users/macbook/test.mp4" -reuse It doesn't render and gives me this error:"aerender SYNTAX ERROR: Illegal argument flag: -reuse" Any help would be greatly appeciated. 

Hi,I need some guidance. How can I have a blurry end in stroke after applying Trim path animation? I have been trying for hours, studying motion blur, trying masking, feathering masks, Echo effect and what not 😠...  but am rowing like a rudderless boat.. am going nowhere. I want a blurry stroke end when the trim path animation stops.. but every time my trim path animation gives me a hard edge and no aesthetic view.. What can I do?? 😥 Please guide me..  

There does not seem to be a way to import any of the Procreate export options into AE. The most likely option (because it has an option for transparent background)  is called Animated PNG, a format I have not seen before. I'm using a new Macbook pro and the Animated PNG does play from the finder by pressing the space bar but not by opening it in Preview even though all the frames (layers) are there.  When I import it into anything and I have tried AE, Premier, Quicktime and VLC player but all you get is the first frame appearing in the timeline. The only way I have found is to export all the layers as a sequenced image file, but I must flatten all the layers and it's a very laborious process. Of course, I have written to Procreate to ask if they can in the future develop other export options, but I also wanted to see if this Animated PNG is one that can be opened as a moving image file at some point?

I'm in an animation class where the teacher showed us a way to create a .PSD file with multiple layers and import it into After-Effects as a sequence so it plays the layers like frames for an animation, but I'm not able to re-create it from home. I have a .PSD with layers named from 001 - 030 that I attempt to import into my After-Effects composition. I checkmarked the Import as Sequence, the Create Composition, and the Force Alphabetical Order boxes and set AE to import the .psd as "Composition - Retain Layer Sizes". I've tried about as many variations of this as I can, but when I import this I end up with a new composition that somehow uses all of the other files on my desktop (where the .psd is located) instead of the frames of the .psd. What am I doing wrong and how can I make this work? Thanks in advance.

I developed a plugin whose functionality requires reading and judging precise RGB values, and ultimately calculating and exporting HEX color data.Therefore, I want all internal computations to be performed strictly in an 8-bit environment.However, when an After Effects project is set to 16-bit or 32-bit color, AE automatically converts the pixel depth for plugins that only support 8-bit input.This conversion introduces unwanted color noise (as shown in the GIF below), which is not the behavior I want.In addition, my plugin contains many functions and processing steps, and I don’t want to duplicate the same logic two more times just to support 16-bit and 32-bit modes.So, my question is:Is there a way to make the plugin compatible with 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit projects while still using a single shared set of functions?For example, could I convert the 16-bit or 32-bit input down to 8-bit inside the plugin itself?Letting After Effects handle the bit-depth conversion automatically causes

Hi, I'm having a problem with CC Particle World that I'm unsure how to solve. I am trying to do a "laser printing effects". I have a shape layer with a path. I attached the null object to this path to follow the trim path end. Then I attach CC Particle World producer positions to follow the null. It looks fine, but when I add the camera and start rotating the producer position is off. Is it possible to ensure that the producer is always positioned on the surface of the shape layer, regardless of the camera's position and rotation?I would appreciate help with that. I attached the project file.   

TL;DR: when a "stock" composition is shared between multiple projects, how do you efficiently make improvements/fixes to the stock composition and reflect those changes in whichever project you're working in? Longer question: I use After Effects to create simple animated diagrams like this one: https://coder-mike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Main_2.mp4 Across all of these "diagrams" there are a lot of similar elements such as "a rounded rectangle with text in it that appears using a zoom effect" or "an arrow that animates from its base to its head", and I've used sub-compositions to represent these and used master properties to cover the variation between them (e.g. the text content of the rectangle, or its size and color). This works well when an element is repeated within a single project, but when an element is used across multiple projects then the workflow becomes more complicated. I have a separate "Library" project with all my reusable elements. (To il

Hi everyone,I’m running a setup with one main workstation and six HP T430 zero clients.The zero clients connect via Remote Desktop, and each user works under their own Windows account.Main workstation specs:Model: HP Z8 G4OS: Windows 10 ProCPU: 2 × Intel Xeon Platinum 8158 @ 3.00 GHz (2.99 GHz)RAM: 256 GBGPU: 2 × NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 (8 GB VRAM each)Storage: 256 GB SSD + 8 TB HDD (Western Digital)The problem occurs with Adobe After Effects 2023 — performance is extremely poor.I often get “Out of Memory” errors, the system freezes for several seconds, and all zero clients disconnect.What’s strange is that the GPUs are almost not being used, while the CPU and RAM are fully loaded.I would expect the GPUs to handle more of the rendering and preview tasks.Interestingly, other Adobe apps like Premiere Pro 2024, Photoshop 2024, and Illustrator 2024 work flawlessly and run smoothly.My questions:Has anyone experienced a similar issue?Is there any specific setting in After Effects, Windows, or

Hi, I've basically been given two different illustrations where the strokes are curved differently, and trying to find a way to animate between the two. I can accomplish that by keyframing the path of the first stroke, then copying the path of the second stroke, and pasting it further down the timeline. However, when it's transitioning, there are some sharp corners that form, that don't really fit the fluidity of what I'm going for. I'm guessing this is in part because the first path has more points than the ending path. Is there any way to remedy this besides going in manually and adjusting the anchor points? Some sort of smoothing method?Thank you. 

Bunun Çözümü NEDİR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When using the Roto Brush effect, 'Reset' should initialize the effect to the state it was when applied to a layer for the first time. But unfortunately it does not. Reproduce:Choose the Rotobrush tool, start painting on footage. Hit reset. See how the paint strokes still remain.

This is a very simple and straightforward composition with simple effects like levels and only keyframes of scale and position. It was doing okay the previous day and then one time I purged all memory & disk cache then this happened. I'm only having problem with this project. What seems to the problem?PC Specs:PROC: AMD Ryzen 7800X3DGPU: NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti SUPERMOBO: AORUS ELITE WIFI7RAM: 64GB (4X8GB CORSAIR DDR5)

I imported an illustrator file into Aftereffects and then noticed I needed to make some adjustments (these adjustments were mainly putting shapes into new groups so that I could manupulate them in Aftereffects better.)I have live update enabled in Aftereffects , so after I finished my adjustments I clicked save on the Illustrator file. When I went back to Aftereffects, I saw that the shapes I placed into the new groups were gone completely, and only the old groups remained. I tried looking in the composition and the file layers in imported files column, but no luck. Reload footage seems to be disabled.  Is there any way to fix this? I know a quick fix would be to re-import the scene, but I want to know for the future in case I'm deep into a project and have to do this without reseting the transforms and layering done within Aftereffects.

I stopped using after effects for about a month, tried opening it and had this problem, not really sure what could be causing this problem, ive uninstalled after effects and creative cloud as a whole but that did nothing. Ive tried starting in administrator, deleting my preference folder, allowing all adobe software through my firewall. I cant really think of anything else to try so if anyone has any ideas please let me know, if you need more information let me know.Thanks   Title edited by Mod.

Hello, I have a question and I hope somebody can help. I'm trying to open an After Effects file of an animation I've made in 2023. When I open it, the loading bar gets stuck at 97% and also the program doesn't respond so I have to force quit it.I already tried to empty the cache, download an older version and open the file in it, restarted my macbook, but nothing seems to work.Is there anything else I can try? Hope there is a solution for it.

this is my build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6ZZqTMI mainly play games but its 10x better than my low end old pc but ae seems to be slower. Preview takes long time to load even with simple effects like twixtor.

Hi everyone;In After Effects, how can I make a layer in one composition follow the change of this property: comp("Master_1").layer("Mask").content("Ellipse_2").content("Ellipse Path 1").size …but start from the beginning of its own composition, instead of syncing to the timeline of “Master_1”?Basically, I want the “size” animation to play from the start, regardless of where the follower’s timeline currently is. Thanks! 

I got a simple animation of a shape layer that moves into frame and its size is controled by sliders on its layer and also a couple of sliders on a "ctrl" layer as well. The feature I'm implementing at the time is to have a image file to be masked by this shape layer and also move along staying perfectly centered using sourceRectAtTime();. (this part I removed from my files for simplicity sake) But this image kept moving in weird pattern and on a uncalled time. I got a text layer checking for the values for the sourceRectAtTime(); and for some reason the animation I did from 0 to 10f is not accounted untill the playhead reaches the 1 second mark.that looks like a bug to me. I removed everything else but the things that are essencial for this layer to work. Tested on AE 25.5.0 (build 4) and AE 24 24.6.4(build 3)

In Photoshop I can copy a flat grayscale image with no transparency and paste it into the layer mask to create a mask from that image. Is this somehting that can be done in After Effects with masks?  Basically like this gif, only the ref would be the video  

So let me preface this by stating that I am an utter and complete noob.  I've been tasked with creating some training videos and I am working on the outro for those videos.  I found some how to videos on YouTube that show how to make text appear to vanish into dust.Video 1 - Ryan Shirley Video 2 - Smertimba Graphics Both show essentially the same steps and I have followed them exactly.  My end results, however, don't look like theirs.  The particles are restricted to the bounding box for the text object. How do I get the particles to move beyond the text?  I thought that is what CC Composite was suppoosed to do.  I'm sure I'm missing something.  Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone, I've recently encountered an issue in After Effects that displays Unknown BIB Error. CT bad param: invalid CTCapStyle, Brv, 0 (83 :: 3) when I try to paste any text from Illustrator, even after 'Paste text without formatting' is disabled. I've attempted to do it on other versions of AE installed on my computer (23.6.2, 24.1.0 & 25.3.2) and AI (28.7.1 & 29.6.1), but the issue continues. Basically whichever version it is, the same issue recurs even though it was working fine a few days ago, possibly after I removed a Helvetica Neue font after it was being misread as the default UI font for my computer (?) But I've tried out the clearing font cache and ArialMT methods but it didnt work. I work on Windows version 10 if it helps!