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The horse video inside the TV screen is a separate layer and I enabled it as a 3D layer. How do I get my xyz arrows to show, as well as the 9 square dots bordering the edges of the video? I searched the FAQs and cannot find anything so I'm probably not referencing the feature correctly. What toggles on this visibility? I have the layer selected in the timeline panel and am in active view. I can only go by guesswork in resizing and re positioning this video without the arrows and borders showing. Sometimes I get this feature, sometimes I don't and I would like to know how to toggle it on and off when desired.Thank you,Chris

Hey! I am blessed with the task of reformatting pre existing Motion GFX clips (10s and 15s) to various aspect ratios.   I'm about to render approved comps and there is a line in the spec page that reads "Content must be at 30 FPS, and bitrate between 60-120 Mbps."  I thought it was a mistake, but then again never had to render out such large AR's before, so when I went to customize, I saw AE only goes up to a target bitrate of 50 Mbps...Am I reading this wrong? Or am I reading into it too much?   some source refs that were sent to me are like 6 mbps, so I'm just confused. Thanks!

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Hello, i recently downloaded a newer version of ae. 2022 to be exact. It is telling me that i have to enable "open using rosetta'' thing to get my plug-ins back, but for some reason i dont have this option ...  ( i have macbook pro M1) (macOS Sonoma)

It is not working as a dockable panel, and it is launching two windows. I NEEED HELP! // Function to add or update text in the compositionfunction updateTextInComp(text) {var comp = app.project.activeItem;if (comp && comp instanceof CompItem) {// Check if a text layer already existsvar 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 create a composition first.");}} // Create UI panelvar win = new Window("palette", "Text Editor");win.size = [400, 300];win.alignChildren = ["fill", "fill"]; // Titlevar title = win.add("statictext", undefined, "Text Editor");title.alignment = "center";title.graphics.font = ScriptUI.newFont("Ve

I'm pretty new to abode after effects I just wanted to know if fitting to composition ruins my video quality. I will give 3 examples then can someone tell me if either one ruins the quality or all.1. Fitting a video thats 3840x2160 into a composition thats 1080x19202. Fitting a video thats 1080x1920 into a composition thats 3840x2160 3. Fitting a video thats 1920x1080 into a composition thats 1080x1920 (rotating the video by +90 degrees) 

So this is a really unique issue. I'm using RubberHose on two work computers, one of them runs butter smooth, no issues. The other however, runs like crap. Both of them have identical specs and have been kept pretty much identical for the duration of their life.The issue I'm running into; whenever I try to move the control points of a rig through rubberhose, it lags really badly on one computer. The same for changing any kind of values or anything within a comp.So far I have;Uninstalled After Effects, restarted, deleted everything related to it and reinstalled it.Purged my cache and such.Reset all of my preferences.Deleted all the plugins and re-installed them.They both have;32 GB of RAMGTX 1060 (6GB of Video Ram)Intel i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHzSSD's which AE, the projects and caches are located on.

Hi! !After Effect almost always crashes at startup it takes me between 4-5 time until I stop getting the error.The error I get is a script error and always with those two scripts commandLineRenderer and 1_startup the are located in startup folder within the scripts folder.The guides that dealing with this problem saying to delete them and it only made things worse.

Hey Guys! I am fairly experienced with AE and have had no issues running the software with heavy effects and editing on my MacBook Pro before. I started a new project with footage taken the same day. What's strange is that my new project won't preview in real time. It is extremely laggy and basically plays a frame a second. This is just a raw 4k clip with the same fps settings as my composition. No effects, lumetri, text, or anything. Just a 7 second raw clip. It plays back perfectly and fast when I'm dragging my mouse and the bar is green, but the preview remains super slow.I've cleared my memory and disk caches, made sure my RAM allowance is high, restarted the app, remade the comp and project again after deleting the project, uninstalled the app completely, and made sure my preview settings were matching. I can't figure out what the deal is. I've never had an issue before and can't find any tutorials or videos that fix my issue. The same clip plays perfectly in premeire pro.&nb

I've been trying to find a script for this or an easier way to do it, but I couldn't find anything, hence why I'm here! So I do a lot of 3D compositing in After Effects, where I work and manipulate multiple render passes for each clip.Usually, I have multiple 'takes' of one 3D scene, where lighting, grading, and compositing are exactly the same, but the cameras/animations are different - this means that in After Effects I usually end up copying a composition with all its effects and layer structure, and then replace the footage in the duplicated composition with a new batch of source render passes.E.G. in 'Comp 1' I use footage "render_1_beauty, render_1_reflection, etc". Then I duplicate the comp, make it 'Comp 2', and replace the footage in it with "render_2_beauty, render_2_reflection, etc". Of course ultimately I tweak each composition for minor details and adjustments, but the general structure is usually the same. What happens is because I do heavy compositing, the amou

I can't stabilize any 360 footage using the 3D Camera Tracker from VR Comp Editor. 95% of the time, I run the analysis to create the camera for stabilization, it fails with the incredibly non-descriptive and undocumented error message "unable to acquire rendered frame." The error appears for videos of any length and any resolution. It also appears at various progress stages of the process and even within the same file (it can be at 5%, or at 55%, or at 98% completion).At this point, I've exhausted any possible solution I could find:Reduced the Comp width down to 260 pixels and aspect ratio to 1:1: it speeds up processing but doesn't guarantee success even with a 6-second videoConverted the video to sequences of JPEGs and PNGs: the success rate is slightly higher (the process is likely to complete than not) but this slows down the process exponentially (a 20-second video takes 5+ minutes to get converted into images then takes longer to analyze and re-encoded)Played with every combinati

HiI have a project were I try to put one layer (dot) on another layer (circle) with an expression. My plan was to 1. Find a random position for the dot layer.2. Check if that position is on top of the circle layer, using sampleImage.3. If it isn't, run a recursive call of the function. It doesn't seem to work. I'm almost sure the expression is correct, but AE keep crashing. As if I had made an endless loop recursive call. Of course I could be missing something. The expression looks like this: function findPointOnLayer(targetLayer, functionSeed) { seedRandom(functionSeed, true); var rndX = Math.random(); var rndY = Math.random(); var posX = thisComp.width * rndX; var posY = thisComp.height * rndY; var p = [posX, posY]; var sample = targetLayer.sampleImage(p, [0.5, 0.5]); var sampleAlpha = sample[3]; if( sampleAlpha < 0.2 ) { p = findPointOnLayer(targetLayer, functionSeed+1); } return p; } var circleLayer = thisComp.layer("circle"); var seed =

Wondering if anyone has information regarding how to set instance data within an indirect interface (class) built in an externalobject?I'm following the samples provided from the ESTK SDK, but they don't give any information on how to set instance data from the constructor.Calling from extendscript, everything "works", but the value returned for "dllpath" isn't what I set it to.Instead, it comes out as "dllpath".Not really sure where to go from here. I've attached my .cpp file I'm working with, and this is the extendscript function I'm using;```function initExtension() {    // Initial alert to indicate function entry    alert("Entering initExtension function");        try {        // Log to check if we reach this point        alert("About to initialize ExternalObject");         // Initialize ExternalObject        var helloWorldDll = new ExternalObject("

This is my first time using AE and so far its going good until exporting comes around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGANvIjrRW0 I exported it the same way he did but once I put into Premire Pro the video jumped from 30 seconds to 12 minutes. The exported video goes one frame every second making it really slow while the audio is perfectly normal. Have I done something wrong with the keyframing or is it just a bug?

I am working on a 15-second ad and I initially made it into a 1080x1080 format, and then converted it to a 1920x1080. It exported fine as a square, but when I try to export in the 16x9 format it goes about 1/3 of the way through and then stops. I'm not able to export the second 2/3 separately, either. I've never had this problem before. Have tried updating, restarting, copying into new project, etc. Please help!

Hi all.I have code that imports a file into a projectvar fileDepthSourceName = srtCarentFolder + "/Source_Crop.png" app.project.activeItem.saveFrameToPng(0, File(fileDepthSourceName)) // $.sleep(5000) f_ImportAsFootage(fileDepthSourceName, "Import");The last line of code sometimes throws an error.If before the last line I put the line  $.sleep(5000) then everything happens normally. It seems like a string f_ImportAsFootage(fileDepthSourceName, "Import"); call occurs before the file is created. Is it possible to replace the string-- $.sleep(5000) ---into an infinite loop, the exit from which is possible after receiving the object of this file?

HI  has anyone else had issues with version 24.01 of afx having missing links when reopening a project and the files are still in the same links?It can find the file when we manually relink but then looses it again when reopening the project.

Hi. I just started learning After Effects & co, and I need to make a 3D animation of a protein molecule. Proteins are flat ribbons that are normally in a coil format (see image for reference). Is there an easy way for me to do that without paying for a licence or buying objects pre-made? I do need to manipulate the structure, i.e. untwist the coil etc. I have access to the full Creative Cloud + Blender.

I'm new to the world of CC everything, as such, still learning best practices for managing updates & such.I'm curretnly running AE 23, but wish to upgrade to the newest 24.0.1. However, just to be safe, I'd like to NOT uninstall the older version.My question is, if I simply install the new version of AE, will the CC installer app still migrate all of my custom settings, prefs, plugs, etc?Thanks!

Is there a way to duplicate a comp using True Comp Duplicator and not have all folders in the project open and expanded when it's done?

When I keep my After Effects window small, everything is fine. However when I scale the window up past a certain point, the preview window is incredibly juddery and jerky when I scrub through a composition.What's going on here? Is this a bug?Video to demonstrate: I'm on a 2019 Mac Pro with macOS 11.6.2, After Effects v22.4. Screen is a 5K monitor at "most space" resolution.

Hi, I have a "problem" with After Effects disk caches that don't get emptied from the application itself, but have to be emptied manually. They eat a lot of hd-space (multitude of GigaBytes).What I found, that at least when I select clip(s) in Premiere Pro and make then an Adobe Dynamic Link => New After Effects Composition, this procedure starts to pile cache files to a location:/Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/11.0to a folder called: "Adobe After Effects Disk Cache - <computername>.noindex"That cache does not get emptied from anywhere in After Effects, selecting to empty the caches in AE does not remove them. So, I found them with a laborous manual search.Now, I suppose (but don't know) that this folder can be deleted without any harm? Secondly, I would expect After Effects or Premiere Pro to be able to find and empty these caches on demand. This is not the first time I've noticed Adobe applications start to eat mysteriously hd-space, but it is

Might not be the right arena for this this question but I'm going around in circles trying to find a good old fashioned set of contact details.....Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Hello! I'm having an issue where when I add a null object and add motion tile and blurmocurves, the reflecting isn't working. Motion blur won't come on either. I've tried adding the effects to both the clip itself and to the null object and nothing is happening. I haven't had this issue before so I'm unsure what to do. Thanks (:

I use After Effects 11 on Windows 10. Is it worth installing Quicktime on Windows 10? I'm asking because of the security hole. In the past, I always rendered in Quicktime format. What are the alternatives?