After Effects

Complete beginner here...do be kind. When I import a video clip into AE to stabilize camera shake, the image is tiny. I'm assuming I need proper settings on my dslr, which I did set according to the manual. Do I need to alter them at import? Any help greatly appreciated.

Hey all! I have the following expression in a template:comp("_CHANGE_LANGUAGE_HERE_").layer("Story01_End").text.sourceText.split("§").join("\r"); text.sourceText.style.setFont("Oswald-Bold"); The first part grabs a text from a tsv file, selects a language using a dropdown and adds line breaks based on the "§" symbols in that text. That works fine. We've recently added a new language that requres a different font (Omnes vs OmnesGreek, both from Adobe Fonts), because it can't display the greek letters. So I'm planning to change the font to the Greek version, if the dropdown "GR" is selected. However, as a basic proof of concept I'm trying it without any of that logic here, just trying to override the font panel font with the new font (in the example Oswald-Bold is selected, that's a copy error but I can't edit the code snippet, ignore that). But this doesn't work. With the first bit of code, I can change the language and it supplies the text from the tsv. As soon as I add

I am trying to make it particles look like they are shooting out from the large circle like shape at the bottom, and I am using CC Particle World due to it having the look I am going for. The particles' emitions are tied to music, and this is causing me an issue. I can set the producer to be the shape of the large particle so that the particles shoot off at the correct angles, but then the travel for those particles is very long making it not actually match with the music when the particles appear. I can set the producer to be smaller, but then the particles shoot off at the wrong angles. I wanted to ask if anyone had any advice or solutions to fix this problem. Thank you! 

I'm trying to import a stepped sequence into After Effects, with one frame every 10 frames.Is there any way to import this as a sequence, ignoring the missing frames and showing the last frame for the duration of missing frames?So if I'd have frame 0,10,20 etc. frame 10 would show for 10-19 in the sequence. I know I can do this manually by dropping all frames on the timeline, cut and sequence them, but I'm hoping for some script or quicker way to do this. Thanks

I need to zoom in to see where is the model

When importing from After Effects, the psd file comes as a photo but does not open as a composition. I check the layer layout and there are no problems. 4 studies have the same problem, but one does not. Why could it be? They were all prepared the same way.

I'm having the hardest time applying the tracking data to a video file that is supposed to go onto a phone. After using Mocha to track the screen, when I create the tracking data and apply it to a solid or a video, the content moves into the frame correctly but it won't track throughout the rest of the shot. Appreciate any help!

Hi! I love the new built-in feature "create nulls from paths." However, sometimes I get an issue where the newly created nulls are not where they should be. Please see the examples below, where the front leg of the bicyclist kicks out four misplaced nulls. Anyone else having this issue? Any workarounds? Fixes? Advice?Thanks!

(Images attached below) I recently updated my version of after effects to 24.3, but now it won't open and all i'll receive is this message stating my last session crashed:It gives me about 2 seconds before this screen will pop up, giving me no time to interact with any of the options above:When I view the report It looks like this, and I'm not sure where to go from here:I can't open any past version of After Effects as the same issue occurs. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and every other Creative Cloud app works just fine. I also have no plugins so I'm not sure what else could be causing the crashing. If anyone knows what could be the issue please let me know! Specs:64-bit operating system, x64-based processorKolink Citadel Micro-ATX Case16 GB RAMWD Blue SN570 1TBIntel(R) Core(TM) i5-10400 CPU @ 2.90GHz

Arguably the best video use for AI generated images is Matte Paintings. While you can use generative AI for all sorts of things, it often has limitations for films, movies and TV show, not to mention web content - mainly because its static and a bit lifeless. AI video generation looks impressive, but that could be a while before it becomes main stream. In the meantime, the artists who create matte paintings have been finding ways to get movement and life into their artwork using techniques perfected for over a century of movie making. In this video, I take an image generated by Adobe Firefly and animate the clouds, add water, make the leaves on the trees flutter, animate a 3D camera to push in and even add stock footage of birds! All to bring the scene to life. And as always, I'll try to introduce you to tools in After Effects that you may not be familiar with, like the liquify effect, adding layer markers and track mattes.

When I run after effect this message appaers ! I can't work since 1 week. I can't find any solution on the internet... I use after effect 15.1.2 and for the moment I can't change the version (I'm french)

Hi, im using your SF-Subtitles Plug-in on After Effects. After the last update(24.3), it stopped working. I'm encountring an error which says "Unable to execute script at line 27. Uncaught JavaScript exception: (object Object)I tried some of the possible ways which i saw here or other helpful websites. (like delete and install again, changing between "Scripts" and "ScriptsUI Panels" folders.) but nothing change. It's because of the latest after effects update i guess but i had to do it bacuse when yout hit G button on keyboard you couldn't reach the pen tool before this version.That was a huge problem too.. Anyone experiencing same? Can you show me a possible way ASAP please. I got a long video to sub 🙂

Hi Matthias and communityI was wondering if the linking of spreadsheets to After Effectsin Automation Blocks works like in Premiere PRO or if there arelimitations. I would like to drive colors text and other things witha spreadsheet. (i know there is the free JSON script but I wouldprefer to work with a CSV file) thanks for the help or linking toa tutorial.Sandro

Hello! I have followed numerous tutorials on YouTube to extrude a 2D PNG into a 3D object so I can make it rotate, but no matter what I do, whenever I duplicate the layer enough times to make it 3D, the object has a weird line going through it from the side view. It looks like the layers are perhaps not close enough together. It does this with ANY 2D PNG I try to use. It looks like this before and after exporting. Changing blend mode did not help. I reset and updated all my preferences and nothing. It looks fine from every angle but the side, so  I can't rotate it! HELP!! Tutorials used:One Two M3 iMac Sonoma 14.2

I have managed to create a working scrollable container that gets it's height dynamically increased, but as soon as i dynamically populate content, it kind of not render more than ~90 rows of content. The script reports number of rows correctly, and even scroll scrolls the proper amount. However after these ~90 rows nothing is being displayed there. I have even tested if these rows are there, and the script sees them. They are just not displayed for some reason 😕😕 Trying to troubleshoot it, but cant find any information about some hard limits i might not know of. Do anyone know of such limits of panel area? Perhaps its not just height but the total area like width*height that after reaching some threshold is being cut off?  

Hi guys,i installed after effects 2 weeks ago.And I wanted to install some plug ins but there is one problem.I don't have the file support files.I watched YouTube videos how to install plugins and you need the file support files but I don't have it.Why and how can I install plugins?

I'm doing some online training for After Effects but they're using AE2020.They refer to 'Compositing Options' applied to individual effects (here to apply effect specific masks) which are visible under each effect in the layer dropdown. See image for ref.Can someone point me to these 'Compositing Options' in AE2024 please?Thanks,Robin 

Hi everyone, Is there an issue between the essential properties and source text (that has been put in Essential Graphics)? If I make a text layer in an otherwise empty composition, and I put the source text property of the text layer in Essential graphics, I can edit the text via the Essential Graphics panel.But if I want to edit the text via the Essential Properties panel, and push to primary comp, I get the following error "After effects error: internal verification error (unexpected match name searched for in group (29 :: 0)" and it deletes the text layer, and sometimes AE even crashes completely.  The problem also occurs with text labels from the Animation Composer plug-in, but with those text labels it gets even weirder, 'cause when I want to edit the text in the textlayer itself (so going into the label composition, not via the animation composer of essential properties/graphics panel) it shows the text I type backwards, and after that it gives me the sam

Hi, I'm trying to make an animation with one shape layer that rotates, and another layer that moves with the rotation, but horizontally. Is there any way to parent the rotation property to the other shape layers horizontal position? To explain the attached photo: I want the lines under the round shape to move when I rotate the round shape, like a scroll effect horizontally. Thanks!/Jo 

Almost every second time when I am trying to select an output folder for my render, After Effects suddenly freezes and then crashes. I have absolutely no idea what may be causing this bug, but now I have to remember to save my project every single time I use the built-in file browser in case it freezes again, which happens almost on a regular basis. This is seriously frustrating.

Ive been trying to do the "Isolate elements with the Roto Brush" tutorial. When ever I get to the part where I've used the roto brush, anything else I click on immediately leads to AE crashing. I'm currently using the latest M1 MacBook Pro 13inch computer and everything(Adobe software included) all seems to be up to date.I'm not sure what to do?

Hello, I'm in the process of creating travel maps using Adobe After Effects. I have now had to extend my composition from one minute to two minutes and have therefore also manually extended the various composition elements. Everything worked fine, only the water layer disappears after one minute, the rest of the map stays the same. Does anyone have any idea how I can make sure that ALL layers get extended? I have no clue why just the one layer disappears...

I don't understand how to make blocks that are 2 levels below the main composition play an animation when they cross the middle of the top composition?I tried expression writing from the top composition to get low blocks coordinates, and from the lowest block to get its position[0] in the composition of the top level - nothing works!Can anyone help, at least with advice or direction?Sample project included.

Hi!I have a variable for example 'POS'.And there is a composition 'ONE', where on a layer is placed a composition 'TWO' with some layers inside and an animation on its timeline.I need that as long as the POS variable is less than 1000, the animation in TWO is paused at 1m frames.If POS is more than 1000, then the animation in TWO starts from the first frame until the end.Tried 'Time remap' on comp "TWO" with '<1000'  - 0; and  with '>=1000' - value;  - doesn`t work correctly, `cose TWO starts playing not from 1st frame.

My after effects was working perfectly fine 2 days ago but now when I try to start the application It shows this error: Did I accidentally delete something or do I have to update it?