After Effects

I am working on this very heavy project with Adobe Character Animator linked files (but all ghosted because I am using rendered versions), lots of layers, lots of time remapping. Big (more than 4K screen recording video's). after effect error; Cached preview needs 2 or more frames to playback.I'll be honest, my MacPro is old (2013), 3GHZ 8-core intel Xeon E5, 32 GB 1866 mhz DDR3 with an AMD Fire Pro D500 3GB graphics card. If I make a whole new project, things are fine. But opening this one, no playback possible. What could be the problem?

Hi everybody! I'm looking for using an expression to change the style of my font but gradually like how we can do with position, opacity etc... on the text animations provides by After Effects.I'd like to have different font styles for a sentence. And use a Slider to change the style of the characters of this sentence gradually.I created a text layer with multiple letters. Each letter got its own style.Then, I create another text layer with my sentence. I created a slider effect on this text layer and put this expression in the source text panel:thisComp.layer("TextStyle").text.sourceText.getStyleAt(effect("Typo")("Slider"));When I move my slider, all the sentence change its style! Perfect. But now, I'd like to have this change gradually, maybe on 2-3 letters to have something smoother etc... But what I have to add to this expression to manage it correctly??? Thank You in advance for your science!!! PS: Im' french 😉

Hi everybody, Hard to explain but very simple:I made a composition where I animated a text.I put this Comp in another one. I duplicate it multiple time.I add a sourceText in it. I change the sourceText during time.I would like my duplicated comp to change its text too. I have this but it doesn't work:"thisCompLayer = comp("CompNAME").layer("LayerNAME");NewTime = thisCompLayer.time + thisCompLayer.startTime;comp("CompNAME").layer("SourceTextLayerNAME").text.sourceText.valueAtTime(NewTime)"

Good day! There is a constant problem with after effects. With the project open, if I minimize the program or open some folder, everything freezes. A black screen then appears and the program must be closed and reopened. 

Hi, I've been making a heap of stinger transitions for content creators and I've run into an issue.I can't get rid of this small black line around where the stinger animation ends, and the new scene begins to show, as you can see here.  From what I understand it's a transparency line where the 'cut out' starts/ends - but is there any way to close this gap? Blur or choking doesn't do the trick, nor does pre-composing the animations. I've made the entire thing in AE.  Happy to share more info? Thanks!

Looking for help!  Currently running After Effects (17.1.3) on a 2019 iMac.  In a comp of mine dynamically linked to Premiere Pro, I have a photo parented to a solid rectangle that is supposed to quickly enter the frame from below, slow to a crawl (still moving straight upward) for two seconds, and then quickly accelerate (upward) again to exit the frame.  The keyframe that separates the quick entrance from the beginning of the crawl (We'll call this Point A) is set to 'Easy Ease In' and the keyframe after it that separates the crawl from the quick exit (We'll call this Point B) is set to 'Easy Ease Out.'  For some reason during the slow crawl, rather than travel directly from Point A to Point B at a constant speed, the photo/rectangle leaves Point A, backtracks (reverses) suddenly for an instant, and then continues forth again toward Point B.  Between the keyframes (Point A and Point B) on the graph, accurately mirroring this, the objects' y-coordinate rises l

So i'm working on a script with AI help and i managed to make this script work as a dockable ui panel.What this script does it retrieves the path points and its tangents position value in comp space and layer space.You select the path, select an option from the checkboxes which value you want to get and you hit the "Get Path" button. After this you see all the position values for all points from the path in the text boxes.That the script only recognise the Layer Transform control changes and it calculates it to the comp space where the path point is. thats good.But Issue is its not calculates the Shape Group Transforms position, scale, rotation and skew when they are changed.And i cant figure it out with AI tools.(function (aGbl) { function mCreateUI(aObj) { var mPorW = (aObj instanceof Panel) ? aObj : new Window("palette", "Get Path", undefined, { resizeable: true }); mPorW.orientation = "column"; mPorW.alignChildren = ["fill", "fill"]; mPorW.spacin

Hello, I am trying to draw some shapes, but its invisible. I can see the outline but no color. Plz help me.  

Greetings. I need technical support! I encountered error 0xc0000142 in after effects and media encoder. It all started after changing the video card from RX 5700 xt to geforce 3060. I tried many different ways to resolve this error that are recommended on the Internet, but nothing worked. Run as administrator, run in compatibility mode, run after a clean boot of windows, scan system files via the command line, re-register windows dll files, check disk, update all drivers to the latest version, update directix, update visual c++, enable net framework 3.5, Updating the net framework, reinstalling programs that generate errors and reinstalling the operating system did not give any result. Perhaps someone has already encountered a similar problem and knows how to solve it.

Unsure if this is a bug, or intended behaviour, but when copying an essential property and pasting onto other layers that share the same essential property, that value doesn't get pasted. Similarly, when copying an expression only from an essential property, it's also not pasted when other layers that share that property are selected. The workaround for this is to select that property on each layer (rather than selecting the layer itself) before pasting. This is quite inconvenient, and doesn't follow the convention for other property types.

Why does the hand part open in a new composition after running the rubber hose script? The shoulder and wrist parts are shown in the composition I am working with, but the hand part is shown in a new composition.#rubber_hose

Estava renderizando um projeto feito no after effects no media encoder, e tive um problema grave. Após exportar, o arquivo final fica com 1kb de tamanho, e se apresenta como corrompido, impossibilitando obviamente sua reprodução. Sempre utilizei os dois aplicativos citados para fazer os materiais e nunca tive problemas, porém, há três dias o media encoder apresenta esse erro. Tenho demandas para entregar para os meus clientes e estou em desespero. Detalhe importante: comecei a ter problemas após a atualização dos programas para a versão 2023, não sei se essa atualização pode ter alguma relação. Desde já, agradeço.

Hallo Adobe Community,bisher habe ich versucht, mir selber zu helfen und das Internet nach einer Lösung abgegrast. Ohne Erfolg.Deshalb meine Frage an Euch, ob ihr mir helfen könnt?Ich habe ein After Effects Problem, bei einem einfachen Filmprojekt, bei dem ich mehrere Hundert Ebenen nutze, mit Speicherlastigem Bildmaterial. Ich nutze After Effects 2023 in der Version 23.6.0 (Build 62) auf einem M1 Mac Book Air von 2020 mit Apples Sonoma 14.0. Die Sache ist die, dass, nachdem ich mein Projekt gespeichert hatte und erneut öffne, der Fehler Überlauf Verhältnisnenner werden konvertiert. (17 § 19) erscheint. Wenn ich dann an meiner Unterkomposition "film" arbeiten möchte, werden mir die untersten Ebenen quasi "entfernt" bzw. "vorenthalten" oder "abgeschnitten" (Siehe Screenshot)Das seltsame dabei ist, dass ich den Inhalt davon im Vorschaufenster noch sehen kann, auch wenn ich den Film exportiere, sieht man alles, was ich in diesen unteren Ebenen angelegt hatte. Ich kann nur in der

Hi so I'm a beginner (low key) in video editing and I'm making a video in after effects. I've done stuff on AE and Premiere before and never had any issue rendering with media encoder. But for some reason the video I made won't render. I use h.264 and the settings of my composition but when i try to export it, I get a mp4 file of 0:00 seconds that is just the first frame of mu whole composition ? I literally tried everything I've found on the internet : purge, changed my settings, ect. i really can't find the source of my problems and it's starting to annoy me A LOT. So please can someone help me ? I'm putting screenshots of everything so that you can tell me if my beginner a$$ just made a very dumb mistake in my settings lol.Thank you to anyone who can help me with that. 

Puget Benchmark 0.96.0 for After Effects 24.0.0 (Build 55) benchmark does not complete because it says frames have dropped: "Error only 53 frames have played out of the total 100"I have 16GB 4800MHz DDR5 RAM.12GB allocated to After Effects and 4GB for the Operating SystemWindows 11 Pro  22621.2428Intel Arc WHQL Driver 31.0.101.4887I am able to run all of the rest of the Puget Benchmarks except After Effects which always fails due to these errors.

Hi there,I've bought a new Latop (Ryzen 5800H, onboard graphics, and Geforce GTX 1650) and tried running the Puget Benchmark Test with Adobe AE 18.2.1 (I read before, that the test doesn't work with 18.4 at all).Right at the beginning I get error messages, but the test succeeds ("Couldn't rename projekt").Mid test during the Cloud Lightning Project, I get this error message (picture), when I click ok, nothing happens, the test doesn't stop, nor does is cancel itself, or something like that.What could be the problem? p.s.: On my older (intel i7, GTX 1050ti) system, I had no such issue, except, that the Benchmark ran for hours (and not for the 15-30 min) and had to be stopped by me.  

Hi, I would like to setup a rendering server, ideally with several After-Effects versions in the same major. It is currently possible to install from Creative Cloud Desktop 1 version per major (I currently have 24.1, 23.6.2, 22.1.1, 18.4.1). In the major 23, there are the versions 23.0, 23.1, 23.2, 23.2.1, 23.3, 23.4, 23.5, 23.6 and 23.6.2 .From the Creative Cloud Desktop, I get a message than installing a second version of the 23 major will uninstall the previous installed version, so I can't have 23.0 and 23.6.2 installed at the same time. Is there a way to install several versions in the same major version ? I would like to install 23.0, 23.1, 23.2 and 23.6.2 for example on the same computer/server. Secondly, since we cannot download the previous versions of After-Effects (prior to the previous major), is it possible to download the current installers officially from adobe (for 23.0, 23.1, 23.2 etc..) so that we could still install them later if we store the

when trying to install a plugin for adobe after effects.. the files i install. like Deep glow or Twitch has just turned to crap and isn't the correct file type or what it opens with.. im genuinly confused and dont know what to do.. i had accidentaly pressed something i believe, other than that i dont know  they arent meant to be like that but this  that logo for the plugins are meant to show up or something. but it just isnt doing it. 

So I recently rebuilt my work computer ( I do video editing ) and I have not been able to get after effects to stop crashing a few minutes into each project. Also when it crashes its almost as if it clears the save from the "recent projects" home page that pops up.  System:CPU: I9-13900KGraphics Card: Asus Strix 1060 6GBRam: Corsair Vengence 64GBSamsung 1TB NVME as my main drive. Tried just about every setting in the multitude of troubleshooting guides. Nothing has worked, the only thing I can look for now is for someone to analyze the crash dmp file. Please if anyone else is having this issue and got it resolved let me know of a way I can try something new.  This could be a hardware problem but it doesnt point to that as my computer isn't crashing with any other application. And yes I have re-installed multiple times and that did not work either. 

Hello, I am trying to use the option of "contextual alternates" in AE.I have the option here for Photoshop But can't find a similar button to this in AE, tbh I wouldn't be surprised if it's not natively in AE, but maybe there are plugins or some trick to get that option working? Atm, my only solution is to create the text in Photoshop and copy-paste it into AE, but that is deff not an optimal solution long term. Any suggestions?

Hi gang; I would love some guidance here. As we know, there are two ways to check out a layer. One is the old-fashioned way like so: AEFX_CLR_STRUCT(checkoutLayer); ERR(PF_CHECKOUT_PARAM(in_data, SKELETON_CHECKOUTLAYER, in_data->current_time, in_data->time_step, in_data->time_scale, &checkoutColorLayer)); ERR(PF_CHECKIN_PARAM(in_data, &checkoutLayer));The other, is the method used for SmartRender plugins where you check them out in PreRender like so: ERR(extraP->cb->checkout_layer(in_dataP->effect_ref, SKELETON_CHECKOUTLAYER, SKELETON_CHECKOUTLAYER, &req, in_dataP->current_time, in_dataP->time_step, in_dataP->time_scale, &in_result)); UnionLRect(&in_result.result_rect, &extraP->output->result_rect); UnionLRect(&in_result.max_result_rect, &extraP->output->max_result_rect); And then when we are ready to use it in SmartRender, we call it like this: ERR(extraP->cb

I've just swithced to a M3 iMac and am getting the "low memory" issue for my preview renders.  It is happening on comps that are not demanding at all. Maybe a layer of video with one or two animated text layers.  Nothing special and something my previous iMac had no problem with.  Purging memory and cache will fix it temporarily but only enough to preview the current timeline. Then if you make changes or swicth to a new comp the propblem reoccurs.  Eventually it just devolves to only previewing 6-8 frames. Oddly enough you can hand scrub through the timeline and fill it in all green but when you hit play it erases those frames and only  renders a few seconds. I have tried restarting both AE 24.2.1 and my computer. I also tried the Ae Beta 24.4. which still had the same problem. Anyway, just putting this out there for the information to be used to find a solution. In reading through other posts I did try starting a brand new project and it seems t

I have a 6-layer PSD that I imported into AE. Though it comes to my seq. as a composition, I precomposed it for the shatter 3d effect. I did my tweaks and it behaved as expected. Then I got the notion to make a part of the logo move from off-screen to on-screen inside the comp using the shatter effect. I can NOT see the movement in the full comp. I can see the move in the PSD comp, where I have the 2 keyframes. Is it that you can not mover elements inside of the comp if the shatter has been applied?

I'm making a short film for a friend of mine, and I want to record a clip (on a tripod) which I later want to insert in a another clip (camera hand held), inside a phone which a person is holding. Does this make sense?  I know I have had this problem a few years ago, and luckily the clips was done hand held, so it was rather easy. I'm trying to find this post without luck, and I can't find any tutorials on Youtube. I guess there is, but I can't seem to find any.  I need to watch tutorials to see if I can pull it off, if not I have to film something else. Can anyone help me find a tutorial?