After Effects

When I pull in an image sequence or a single image, everything comes in black.  Nothing shows up. If I save it out and bring it back in, it sometimes has the images.  Images are very simple png with an alpha channel.  If I render a video, then only one of the images shows up. Rendering also (occasionally) crashes the computer (threadripper, A5000, 128G ram, don't think the computer is the issue) giving erro 3. 

Hi there,Since my colleagues and I have updated to CC 2019, our AE project (that contains text) imported in Premiere is broken. Not completely, we can still edit the text but Premiere changes the font. Anybody as the same issue ?Thanks y'all,Valentin

whenever i try to move the center point via the numbers its in red and resets back to default

hey guys, having a drift problem where the layers in the comp gone mad and all of them drifting , since this is a cam rotation heavy 3d scene, i think all the chaos caused from the arrangement error is ofc from my side, so how can i fix it ? do i reset all comp anchors? delete all the keys from cam rotation? what? 🙂 cheers and a good day   

In addition to taking a long time, I got this error before completing the render.

Essentials:AE Version: 23.6OS: Windows 10 22H2Graphic card: GeForce RTX 3070RAM: 32 GB I tried to open the keyframe graph editor to ease my keyframes a bit more. But when i press anything on the graph the programm stops noticing my inputs via mouseclick or keyboard press. The software seems like running though, because i can see the green render bar growing after a while. But nothing i can click. This problem just occured in one file. I tested if the bug appears when i try a new project and it fortunatley worked like intended. Then i tried to replicate the original project and the problem occured again. To be clear: this project is as small as it can be, 4 comps, 1 Illustrator-Comp and very simple animations. Can someone help me? Thank you 

Hi,This seems basic, but I can't figure it out. I can't change the value of my text Master Property, via Extendscript. I tried treating the property the same way I would treat the Source Text property of a text layer, but After Effects doesn't like this.var newText = new TextDocument("This is new text.");var myLayer = myComp.layer("Title Text"); //This is my comp with the master properties.var myLayer2 = myComp.layer("Text 1"); //This is my text layer.var myProp = myLayer.masterProperty("Text");var myProp2 = myLayer2.sourceText;myProp2.setValue(newText); //This is changing the text of the text layer and works.myProp.setValue(newText); //This is changing the text of the master property and doesn't work.The error I get in Extendscript is "After Effects error: invalid text layer."I would appreciate any help.

Hola, Estoy aprendiendo a usar after effects. Cuando pongo un efecto, siempre me crea una ventana de efectos de 200x200 pixeles, y para cambiarla, solo encuentro que puedo hacerlo en Preview region, ¿existe alguna otra forma de cambiarla que sea más sencilla y precisa?Y no me deja crear capas de efecto mayores a 1024 pixeles, ¿cómo hago si tengo una composición más grande para crear un efecto?

Hello everyone!After updating After Effect to version 23.4, I met a very serious problem that didn't happen to me in version 23.3. When rendering the same project in version 23.3, I met a problem where all my RAM was eaten up by After Effect, and only about 5-10s after starting rendering, the app will inform me that there is not enough RAM for the app to render. This didn't happen in version 23.3 since Ae only uses about 10GB of RAM to render or so. What should I do about this? Do I need 200GB RAM to be able to render in Ae? I don't want to use Media Encoder since it's slow and the Dynamic Link won't always work.My NVIDIA driver is Studio Driver and it's up-to-date.I attached my system info in the post. 

Hello, I applied bend on a layer and parented that to another layer. My knowledge tells me parenting controls movement of other layer/s as well. Then why tht's not happeing now. :'( I keep trying and trying nothing seems work. Thank you (am using AE 2023) 

I'm on a Mac, macOS Sierra 10.12.3. Using AE 14.1.0.57I want my OpenEXR image sequence imports to default to having "Preserve RGB" checkedI am editing the oEXR line in Interpretation Rules.txt. The file I'm using is here:~/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/14.1/Interpretation Rules.txtI've edited the line from this default:*, *, *, "oEXR", * ~ *, *, *, P, *, *to this:*, *, *, "oEXR", * ~ *, *, *, P, "pRGB", *This seems to be the correct syntax judging by the other formats in this file that specify a profile. I've already tried intentionally creating a syntax error in this file and confirming that I get an error on AE startup, so I am certain this is the right file.However, when I File -> Import an OpenEXR image sequence, the "Preserve RGB" check box in Interpret Footage for that footage is *not* checked.Please advice.Thanks,Michael

Bonjour,J'ai un nuancier que j'ai importé dans Photoshop (un fichier.ase) et j'aimerais l'utiliser dans After effects.Comment je peux faire ?Il n'y a pas possibiliter d'importer un fichier ase dans AFX et dans photoshop je ne peux pas mettre mon nuancier dans la bibliothèque. Merci pour votre aide

I am developing a plugin using SmartRender.I have applied the plugin under development to a 1920*1080 image with a 960*540 composition.When using 'checkout_layer_pixels' to get 'PF_EffectWorld', I was provided an image of 1154*650 and could not get the entire image.Is there any way to get the entire image applied?Also, this problem can be solved by setting the size of the composition to 1920*1080 and I believe the problem is related to the size of the composition. 

This probably have a YouTube video explaining it but I cant find it.I have a text that I want to animate, to be scaled up to 120 then down to 100 and to be fade in from 0 to 100I want to do this to a paragraph but what I want is to get the animation to happend each time the range selector add another word, I wan't the animation to happen to that new wordLike, I want the animation to happened to each word when it's turn comes.I hope that wasn't too confusing and thank you all in advance!

Hi all!I need to export an MP4 video size 600x655 in After Effects to add to a website.When I go to export, it doesn't allow me to export in 600x655 but only 600x654 or 600x656. I don't understand why. If I export one pixel smaller I see a black line, if I export it one pixel bigger it's too big to upload on the website.Does someone have a solution for me? 🙂

Hello,I created a diagram in AI and Animated a little part in AE. Now I want to rotate and duplicate that around a circle. How can I do it in AE like I do in AI (360/x, then CTRL+D). Any way?    

Let's say that I want to animate a character's hand. For that I have drawn multiple hands doing different gestures that I have imported in After Effects as PNG. All the hands are in one precomp that I will animate alongside my character in my main comp.Now, in my precomp I have all of the hands in the same spot and I need to have one visible at a time. So one hand at 100% opacity and the other at 0% opacity. I could do that manually, setting all the keyframe and painfully change them all if my main animation were to change. But, I KNOW that I could set up a slider on a control layer and with an expression assign each value of the slider to a layer, wich would be at 100% opacity while the others would be at 0%. This way I could just move the slider with one keyframe and easily switch the layers. Thanks in advance for the help, I cannot for the life of me find the expression I used last time or the project in wich I used it.

layer = app.project.activeItem.layer(1) timeRemapProp = layer.property("ADBE Time Remapping"); timeRemapProp.removeKey(2) tvalues = [0,1,1.5]; times = [0,1,6]; timeRemapProp.setValuesAtTimes(tvalues, times);It set time correctly, but than i want to change startTime of layer:layer.startTime = 10;Everyting is finelayer.startTime = 30;After this second keyframe time changes to 0.5 second (should remain 1) and 3rd to 5.5second (should be 6)https://youtu.be/k3-M94R7z7s Any ideas why that happening?  

Hello All,Due to me being a novice to not onle expression writing but After Effects in general, I will do my best to clearly state my issue.I've attached a video so you can see the concept of the "Time Machine" effect. It was painstakingly made in PowerPower.I'm sure you Big Brains can come up with a much eaiser way to accomplish my goal. I'm oopen to any suggestions. Lets begin...My objectives:Use Slider Controller to increase the number.Use the effect Animation Preset "Transition - Movement > Slide - Drop" to bring the text into position.Use the expression "loopOut(cycle)" --or a variation of that expression-- to repeat the animation.Have the duration(or the frequency or amp) of the animation linked to the Slider Controller. The animation should repeat every time the number increases. I thank you for your time and assistance!  

I know this has been posted before, but all previous posts didn't have solutions. When I render directly from Premiere, or AME, my iMac (27 inch late 2014 4GHz Quad-Core i7 with 32GB DDR3) goes to sleep as soon as the composition gets complicated (requires more abilities to render). Yes, all power settings are on maximum and prevent the computer from going to sleep, but the problem is recurrent. Once I press spacebar, the computer wakes up and AME continues rendering. I have a 34 inch (3440 x 1440) extended display attached. I am suspecting that the Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (Metal) is putting pressure on my AMD Radeon R9, and forces the computer to sleep. Would be grateful for any tips.

HiI'm sure this used to be an option in the preferences however I could be mistaken.. Is there a way to "Specify output file destination" as in AME? It's a pain having to navigate to where I render on every project Thanks

I have upgraded my hardware recently to more of a gaming type of build, but somehow after effects runs worse than it did when I was using a old laptop on its last legs. My current specs are an AMD Ryzen 5800X with a 3060 Ti GPU and 32 GB of ram. After effects is constantly "Not Responding" sometimes even after doing nothing and it being idle. I have what is essentially default settings with only about 6gb of ram allocated to other processes and 150 GB of storage on an SSD for media and cache. As an extra that may be helpful my after effects is installed on a SSD and my computer has had performance issues in the past when trying to use programs such as Unity.

I have set my workareastart 2 frames ahead, still, I am getting a negative value error when Exporting it as JSON with Bodymovin.I am quite new to error so I might be making some simple to fix mistakes.Any help is appreciated.    

Hello,I am learning to use after effects. When I put an effect, it always creates an effect window of 200x200 pixels, and to change it, I only find that I can do it in Preview region, is there any other way to change it that is simpler and more accurate?And it doesn't let me create effect layers bigger than 1024 pixels, how do I do if I have a bigger composition to create an effect? Thanks in advance for any help.

While using after effects, I notice when i am trying to apply a effect to a layer and will take me out my pre compose layer and select anothor layer. i tried to re-install to see if its a bug but the problem is still happening