After Effects

Hello everyone, I'm attempting to store some per-instance data with sequence data, but I have encountered several issues when using the sequence. The most weird problem is that, when I first apply my plugin in a completely new project, the command selector was sent commands in the following order:1. Global Setup2. Parameter Setup3. Sequence Setup4. Sequence Flatten5. Sequence Resetup (in the main thread)6. Sequence Resetup (in another thread)if I remove my effect and purge the cache, AE will call Sequence Setdown twice, like:7. Sequence Setdown (in the main thread)8. Sequence Setdown (in another thread) The first question is why Sequence Flatten and Resetup are called when first applied to a layer. And then why Sequence Resetup and Sequence Setdown were called twice in different threads. The final question is how to use sequence data correctly. Thanks.

Hello. I'm writing a script where pressing the "+" button adds rows and pressing the "-" button removes rows.When adding rows without limits, I need to implement a scrollbar, but I'm having trouble with the implementation. Can anyone help me?Thank you 🙂 function setSettings(){ function createDockableUI(thisObj) { var dialog = thisObj instanceof Panel ? thisObj : new Window("palette","Settings", undefined, { resizeable: true }); dialog.onResizing = dialog.onResize = function() { this.layout.resize(); }; return dialog; } var dialog = createDockableUI(this); var group1 = dialog.add("group", undefined, {name: "group1"}); group1.orientation = "row"; group1.alignChildren = ["left","center"]; group1.spacing = 10; group1.margins = 0; group1.alignment = ["right","top"]; var plusBtn = dialog.group1.add("button", undefined, undefined, {name: "applybtn"}); plusBtn.text = "+"; var minusBtn

Im just wondering, how it works?var sliderX = myLayer.Effects.addProperty("ADBE Slider Control");sliderX.name = "Size_X";var sliderY = myLayer.Effects.addProperty("ADBE Slider Control");sliderY.name = "Size_Y"; sliderX.name = "tmp"; // ERROR here, ReferenceError: Object is invalid

When I upload the video to the after effects, it is converted from mp4 to avi. And the sound of the video sounds wierd . vocals of the audio sounds very muffled. pls help 

ok so im trying to animate my illustrator file in after effects but when i import the file i just get this and no layers. the layer folder only has the illustrator file.

Hi there, I've created a 1x1 resolution Mogrt for premiere and Im trying to find a way to have it always aligned with the top right corner and have its anchor point to also be in the top right corner of the mogrt in order to have it scaled properly.Is there a way to add the control in after effects essential graphics or is it done in adobe premiere? If its possible at all.Thanks in advance. 

Hola1 Quiero aplicar el efecto CCKalei sobre un objeto solamente, pero lo hace sobre toda la pantalla. Saben como podria solucionarlo? Muchas gracias 

 Hello, I have been trying to figure out how to fix this script because I want it to be dockable, but it only shows a blank window without the layout. I need help. Mathias has been helping me, but I honestly don't know what I am doing wrong. I am very confused. If someone could re-do it for me or help me find the mistake, I would really appreciate it ❤️// Function to add or update text in the composition 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 { textLayer = comp.layers.addText(text); textLayer.property("Position").setValue([comp.width / 2, comp.height / 2]); textLayer.startTime = comp.time; } } else { alert("Please select or

I have a gradient ramp, and I want to link only the vertical axes of the Start and End to a single Slider control. And I want them to stay 100 pixels apart. How do I do this? Thank you.

Upon rendering, my layer glitches and disappears for 6 frames, then goes back to normal. It is fine in the timeline and in playback. I tried clearing my cache and disk, and the problem remains. There are no changes in opacity or scale. PLEASE help, I've tried everything that I know.

Hi guys, I am wondering is it possible somehow to save an application specific data (after effects) from buffer to some json, or binary file to restore it later and use again. For example coping the lyaer, storing the data about the layer, and later restoring the data to clipboard and pasting the layer again to timeline? It is pretty easy with texts using some node js libraries, but what about complex objects, like ae layers?

Bonjour à tous, je suis tout nouveau débutant sur AE, j'utilise assez facilement PS et PE. Sur AE, je veux supprimer un objet sur une video, j'arrive à faire, mais au moment de généner le calque de remplissage, au bout de quelques pourcentages générés, le apvé CAF mémoire insuffisante apparaît. Malgré mes recherches, je ne résous pas le problème. Merci de votre aide

Hi there,  Has anyone had this issue with grainy edges of things (see the left side of the white box)? I must have accidentally checked a setting somewhere. These artifacts also appear when I export.  I'd appreciate any help. Thanks,Matt Matt

Hi guys, good morning. First of all sorry for any word that might be wrong here, I don't use After Effects in english so I need to translate by myself. I am having an annoying issue when trying to just watch and visualize my work. This rendering frame time at the bottom keeps getting too high and my program starts to glitch and get too slow, I can't visualize what I am doing and I get frustrated. I am new to AE and have been using for less than a month, I learned how to animate and use a lot of cool and interesting features, but I simply can't explore the program the way I wanted because of this issue of this frame rendering rate getting too high. Even my laptop gets glitchy, and I don't know what to do, this isn't supposed to happen. My laptop configs are:Intel i5, don't remember which one but remember it's more than 10.000RAM: 24gbGPU: 1650 GTX Since I am starting to work hard as a videomaker, I don't think I can deal with this problem for too long as I need to send pr

After Effects 24.01, Win 10 x64For no reason I can figure out, from time to time, I've been experiencing this issue with the Align panel that it simply does not do things correctly. It gets lost in the spacing of things.I've attached examples of this, all the text layers are copies of each other with no difference say for what the text says and all the anchor points are attached to the high left corner of each, but this CAN happen with shapes, imported images and pretty much anything I can think of aligning.      

After Effects (Beta) 24.1 Missing Noise HLS It's a mystery, as it appears in Ae 2024 but not the related Beta?  Is this intentional?

Hi, i need to work with a vendor that still uses After Effects 2022, however i accidentally updated my After Effects to 2023 and now i cant get a download link to After Effects 2022 anywhere, even Adobe Customer Care can't provide me with one as it's already at end of life. Any suggestion to where i can get a download of After Effects 2022?

Hi, I'm looking to create a looping animation that randomly selects images to appear in a set position - no scaling or moving, purely images that will randomly replace each other. In this instance I have 20 faces, all the same size. The idea is for the faces to constantly change and be randomly replaced by one of the other faces, in an endless loop. Each instance would be for a set period of time - always .1 seconds. Assuming this will be an expression that I'm not smart enough to figure out - thank you!

What would be the best practice in terms of converting a video from 19.5:9 to 16:9? I am creating an app preview video for the app store and need to accomodate for the 5.5" phone size. I am new to After Effects so purchased a template from the community which has made things a lot easier and I've learned quite a lot. Apologies if my terminology is confusing.  I went into the composition settings and changed each layer comp to one of the presets Social Media 16:9 Portrait. However, since I have layers within layers, I've started to run into issues. I'm not entirely sure how to properly scale the mask layer either. Ideally, I'd like to run something like the Scale Composition script but that locks the proportions.  Am I on the right track in terms of converting the aspect ratio or would you reccomend another way? Here's an example of the layers/comps if that helps. Thanks in advance.  Project Timeline: App Store Preview_iPhone XComp: App_Content_01Comp:

Hi, I create a loopout for my scale. But at the beginning i want my loopout scale to go faster asn gradually go slower. Is there a way that at 0 to 1s the loopout stay the same and 1-2s the loopout slowed down? Thank you for your help.

When I go to a solid layer settings the option "Affect All Layers That Use This Solid" doesn't appear in my After Effects 2023 version 24.0. In this version, whenever I go to a solid layer settings and change properties or not, After Effects automatically duplicates a new solid layer of the previous solid layer. Does anybody know what is happening and why is not showing the box "Affect All Layers That Use This Solid"?

Thanks in advance! I'm an invitation/brand designer specifically for events. I do logos and graphics, mainly in Illustrator, plus a little photoshop and InDesign.  I would love to add some special effects to my invitations, e.g have them sliding out a virtual envelope, or have some sparkles, or music in the background. I am not sure where to start with this, I'd appreciate any advice. 

So. I am extremely pressed for time, stressed out of my mind and forced to spend the night in AE to meet a deadline Monday morning. I've just finished up a particularly complicated composition, but as I try to render it out nothing happens. The program won't give me any prompts or info, all I get is a taunting (super loud, I might add) sheep sound and I'm about to smash my MacBook to pieces.Whoever thought adding this sound effect has clearly gotten the wrong idea about consumers want to hear when their software doesn't work. Please remove it. I'm so angry of I'm about to completely lose it.(This is a forum staffed mainly by users like yourself that would very much like to help you. Adobe staff does not come by here except on their own time. Frustration under a deadline is understandable, but you are venting at those who can help. Choice words redacted so you can get the assistance you need. -- Moderator.)

I would just like to say KUDOS and THANK YOU to the engineers for the improvements to the roto brush in 24.0.1. Just last week I was working on a project with footage submitted to me by a student. Done on a phone with poor lighting. Subject skin tone is very similar to the wall behind her. Other difficulties as well. It was very hard to roto, and I was despairing of getting it to work... I thought I might have to redesign this entire project because this footage is practically unroto-able by someone like me who doesn't have time to manually do this frame by frame. Then I updated... and tried again... AMAZING. It found all the edges almost perfectly!! WHAT??? Even the places where the colors were hard to distinguish. Of course, it needed tweaking as it usually does. But not a ton. The point is, it made the footage usable! So thank you! This update was right on time for me. That is all.

So I'n trying to make an eye blink by stretching the eyelash and the skin above it to make it look like its closing but I need it to be a line to move a whole section rather then placing 100's of individual points to move the eye. Any way I can move a larger section?