After Effects

Hello I'm having this problem where the shadow is showed only on a part of the 3d objectBut when I move it to the right it dissappearsIm using environmental light and everything has cast shadow on 

 freshly installed and its not working

I'm getting this error when loading some, but not all projects. This error is only incurred when clicking on the AE project file from within Windows Explorer. When the project is opened from within After Effects the projects open without error. Why? Needing a computer engineering degree appears to be a prerequisite for working with the Adobe apps.

Hi there, I have a 24bit/48k .wav audio file (music) that I've been using for years in Premiere. I've just started some social ads in AE but whenever the audio is in certain Comps, it jumps in volume by about 5db at around 7seconds - this volume change also renders in final renders. In the Comps in question, there are no keyframes or effects on the audio file, nor keyframes on any other layer at that point. I've removed and re-added to the comp, purging Memory & Cache, and restarting AE. But no joy. If I add to a new comp, there's no volume change so clearly something is causing this - does anyone know how to it track down? Have never seen this before. Any help much appreciated. Cheers, Ben

Bonjour, j'utilise habituellement une extension du nom de "shake sauce" qui permet de creer des tremblements rapidement, cependant, depuis 1h, je ne parviens plus à l'ouvrir sans avoir toucher ou modifier aucuns fichiers, de plus, aucun message d'erreur n'apparait.  Je vous avoue être un peu perdu, j'ai vu des solutions sur windows où il faut changer un code source nous-même mais rien sur MAC.. Je vous remercie d'avance pour votre aide ! 

Why is the viewport in AE more saturated than the input and also output it exports on Mac M2? I work in ACES and have my monitor set to Rec709 and the Color Profile of the Mac is set to Rec709 Gamma 2.4.I get the same result if I change the color profile, change the monitor settings, or change the color workflow in AE... the viewport is consistently about 10% punchier and more saturated than it should be.This is also regardless of the files I'm using. Arri, Red, PNG, Stock footage, etc... All the same.When I preview the files in Finder they look normal. I drop them into AE, they look 10% punchier, I export and they look normal again...What's happening in AE? 

Hello everyone I'm new to After Effects and I try to animate a path or vector, which should be animated like it is drawn. I followed this tutorial and was able to create that animation with the pen tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYWGWATVWVI)So when it is a straight line I can use the pen tool and let ae draw the line with the trim function. But now I want to outline a more complexe shape which I draw free hand with my graphic tablet. I tried to import a Illustrator file, but I wasn't able to add the trim function to it.  1. Can I draw free hand with the pen tool?2. How can I animate a line which I draw free hand with the brush tool? (The animation should also be like it is drawn.) 3. Other options? thx for any help. 

Recently my after effects has been automatically creating new compositions every time I import footage into a project. This becomes very annoying as I'm always importing lots of footage and always manually deleting the new comps after effects is making for each piece of footage. I've looked through the preferences, but there doesn't seem to be an option that controls this. This wasn't happening when I first starting using this version so I think I must've changed some setting but dont know how to change it back. Any idea how I can stop after effects from automatically creating new comp when I import footage?[Moved from After Effects Resources to the much more active After Effects support forum - moderator]

I have 1min of footage, I want to create an expression that creates a loop that advances forward one frame with each iteration.I tried unsuccessfully time remapping with  LoopOutDuration(type = “offset”, duration = (4/24)).What I’m looking for is if “n” is the duration of the loop and “a” is the first frame of the loop, say n = 4 then what I need is:abcd bcde cdef  …. till the end of the footage.If I could get that to work I’d be very happy.If I could also get it to ping pong then I’d be extremely happy, e.g.:abcdcba bcdedcb cdefedcAny answers gratefully received.Chris-----I should have kept looking: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/23446#23446 f = timeToFrames(time); seg = Math.floor(f/5); phase = f%5; framesToTime(seg + ((phase == 4) ? 2 : phase))Currently fiddling with this.Does the travelling loop but not the pingpong.Praise be to Dan.

Hi I submitted a feature request for this, but wanted to reach out to the community to see if anyone has found a work around for this?Also I wanted to encourage other users who feel the same way to submit a feature request as well.Feature Request/Bug Report Form Here is what I submitted to Adobe.How would you like the feature to work? User can choose a custom destination folder for all render logs.  This folder can be selected as a global preference in the After Effects general preference menu or chosen through the render queue drop down menus for project specific or template based destinations.Why is this feature important to you?For my job at World Poker Tour we animate graphics to follow the actions of each hand we cut into each show.  This becomes hundreds of After Effects projects by the end of the season.  Now with no option to choose where these log files go or to not create them at all, we have hundreds of folders cluttering our very organized file structure.&nbs

hello, I have a problem with my CTI.When I first opened my after effect, the red line CTI is doing fine, but after few minutes when I play preview the video & audio is playing but my CTI doesn't move.Could anyone help me with this problem?

Hi, I need to download After Effects version 23.6.2 for my workflow. I cannot find this version in the Creative Cloud app under “Other Versions.” Is it possible to download this specific version? I would greatly appreciate your help!

I can't be able to expand my workspace to the native full screen on my Mac despite pressing the green button, please fix this as soon as possible because it becomes tough to work in such a small area

An interesting development in the world of AE amongst its community members in recent months has been the release of quite a few free and paid After Effects scripts and Extensions (CEP). These are interesting times indeed because for those technically driven in the art of AE can and should take advantage of AI-assisted Coding Assistants -  the sky isn't the limit but you can certainly take flight and have a jolly good time. Here's a quick look at a script I imagined, desgined and crafted with the help of a couple of Coding Assistants. ACDC - a famous rock band and now aka Align Clone Distribute Clone empowers users to quickly and (hopefully) intuitively align and distribute layers and groups of layers quickly with pixel-perfect accuracy. ACDC is part of a script package named, MAG - Make Ae Great. Post your Qs or thoughts or even samples of your AI-Assisted Tools you've developed for AE. 

After the latest update unmult no longer works correctly. Glitches during render, but the glitches are not visbile during ram preview. fix. now. plz.

Thefinal frame of my animation is still showing a motion blur. How do I remove this efect on the final frame?

I have a 1920x1080 .mxf in a 608x1080 Comp, to crop it and to make a vertical promo.When I add Lumetric Color to this Layer, it scales the layer horizontally to fit in the Comp size.This is strange behaviour. 

Hi everyone,I'm trying to upload my finished video using after effect on Behance. I wanted to upload it as a GIF but the size is too big and I couldn't upload it as a result (the outcome of downsizing of my GIF file through both photoshop and website was not smooth). So I decided to put it as a normal H.264 in Behance. However, as you can see in the photo that I attached, there are black lines on the side. I adjusted the size few times and the bottom thin line has disappeared but the ones on the sides do not seem to disappear. The pixel size of the uploaded image is 2720 x 1555 px. If I encode it as GIF with the same size black lines are not appearing. I also tried encoding from Vimeo but somehow whenever I encode the video becomes too small with bad quality. I prefer to upload it as GIF but would be happy to upload it as H.264. I have been struggling with this problem for more than a month and still couldn't find the solution. If anyone could help me out I would re

For many videos now I have had a black frame problem in After Effects. Random black frames appearing in the preview window and export. As well as random frames from a different part of the video, although that is less frequent.It seems like it would be a frame rate problem, but it still happens when frame rates are all matched. As I edit in Premiere and then export, which is then brought into After Effects. I also bring in separate videos in the an After Effects comp for B roll that will have the black frame problem, and the frame rate of those videos is not something I have control over. That is unless I exported a copy of the video from Premiere and changed the frame rate settings before export. This would be tedious to do, and there is no guarantee it would work.But if this problem does not happen in Premiere it seems like it is a problem that can be fixed in After Effects. Regardless it seems like something that should be possible to fix.Can Adobe fix this problem for future update

Hello! Some days ago i've found that my after effects eye dropper isn't working properly. I know that it's an old issue, but is there any fix? I need to use ofter to pick colors, and the hex numbers wont match them, unless the color that I want to pick is inside my composition (on project thumbnail it keeps getting the wrong color, same at motion tools plugin that collect the color palette).

Hi Forum. I'm adding an ellipse shape, and adding some points to the shape. But when I delete the points on the shape, rather than the shape splitting like it would in Illustrator its resulting in making a line across the shape still connecting the ellipse. I'm trying to achieve result A but I am getting result B as shown in this example. Thank you.  

Hi,I'm filming an object on a green background from several directions at the same time using identical cameras, so I get pretty identical videos. In After Effects I remove the green background (keylight1.2)My problem is that the software doesn't do it simultaneously, it only works on one video at a time.I enabled multi-frame rendering, also search for a solution in the web but didn't find one CPU amd 7950x, 128 GB ram Thanks in advance  

Can you please support color management when enebleing Mercury Transmit.I will not get the second display to convert to the Display color space.

Trying to Launch AE after install to Tahoe. All of my other applications work. Upon launch I get a message about possible corrupted plug-ins and if I want to start in Safe Mode. I cannot even select safe mode as it just spins so I force stop the application. I uninstalled and re-installed, same problem.   

I feel the noise() expression function is poorly documented: noise(valOrArray)    Return type: Number.Argument type: valOrArray is a Number or an Array [2 or 3].Returns a number in the range from -1 to 1. The noise is not actually random; it is based on Perlin noise, which means that the return values for two input values that are near one another tend to be near one another. This type of noise is useful when you want a sequence of seemingly random numbers that don’t vary wildly from one to the other—as is usually the case when animating any apparently random natural motion. Example: rotation + 360*noise(time) What exactly does "for two input values that are near one another" mean?     Is it "noise(val)" with val changing in two subsequent calls?     Or is it "noise(val1, val2)"?The function declaration indicates that two or three arguments can be specified,     but only an example of a function call with a single ar