After Effects

I’ve been working full‑time in After Effects for years, and recently a client who runs a Korean movies website: https://tvmon.com.co/ asked us to create a branded homepage video.The project itself was straightforward: a logo reveal, bilingual type, and a dynamic grid of thumbnails. But during editing I ran into one of the strangest technical issues I’ve seen in a while. The animation looked perfect inside AE’s preview and even rendered fine through the internal Render Queue, but the moment I sent it to Adobe Media Encoder with multi‑frame rendering enabled, random flickers and one‑frame freezes started appearing in the grid comp. What makes it maddening is that the problem isn’t consistent—different frames glitch on each render, and sometimes the flicker is subtle, sometimes it’s obvious. I suspected collapsed transformations combined with time‑remap and expressions using valueAtTime were clashing with AME’s evaluation order, but even after baking keyframes, disabling Posteri

Can anyone help me find a specific effect I'm looking for? I was trying new stuff from the effects panel on a shot for an animated music video, and found this really nice effect (see picture below, first with and second without effect - it's applied to the orange solid colors of the animals). When I clicked away I couldn't find it anymore and the name is not in effect controls as it's composed of three effects, so it doesn't use its own name there. Does anyone recognise the effect? I would be soo grateful to know which one it is!! The effect is composed of "animated shape control", "(radial blur)" and "(calculations)" (as seen in picture).  

hi ı making land videos from after effect. when ı start ae ı add mocha and ı am drawing with tool after ı make track but  after ı have a problem. Mytimeline red and stopped track. what ı will do ?

I want to extend this layer in the timeline. But it does not move after certain point. How to fix it? Video also uploaded.  

Hi,I am facing this problem where AE doesnt start due to CEP error. I've given Read & Write access to all users in Adobe folders in preferences and documents but still no luck. Even tried reinstalling multiple times and also different versions but getting same error. Please help as I feel I have tried everything that i found on internet and its impacting my work. Thanks

Bom dia!Preciso das versõesanteriosres do s aplocativos. As que funcionem no Ventura 13.7.8 (22H730)

I have a very crazy bug that I've never seen before. It is Mac platform specific under AE. I've reproduced it on multiple Macs. But it renders fine under Windows. I have this issue where, when it hits a specific frame where a sub-comp appears, it causes the layer underneath to shift left by about two pixels. Even if I pre-render the sub-comp and bring it in as a ProRes4444 file, with alpha, and turn of the sub-comp layer... it still causes the left bump in the render. This problem does not appear when I do any form of RAM preview in the viewer. No bump shows up. ONLY when I send it to the Render Queue does it cause this problem. This problem does not appear when rendering from Windows AE. This is a critical flaw. I'm luck as I happen to have access to a Windows workstation in our studio as well, otherwise it would be a very serious problem for me meeting deadline.

meu after esta mandando essa mensagem de erro com frequencia.

As of After Effects 2025 and 2026 Beta, plugins are still unable to draw any custom on-screen UI at the native resolution of most Mac displays, in HiDPI aka Retina resolution. Steps to reproduce:- Install FxFactory 9 https://fxfactory.com/download/ - Launch FxFactory and install FxFactory Pro (trial version OK)- Launch After Effects and apply the Trackable PiP plugin found under the FxFactory Pro Video category:- Select the effect name in the inspector to display its custom on-screen UI:- When the on-screen controls appear, notice how pixelated they appear: - This is especially obvious in the row of buttons displayed below the image. It is 2025... Retina displays have been around for a while 🙂 And Premiere Pro has been supporting Retina-resolution on-screen controls for a while, by reporting the backing scale factor (using Apple’s terminology) via DRAWBOT_SurfaceSuite2->GetTransformToScreenScale(), which returns 1.0 on 72dpi displays, and 2.0 on HiDPI/Retina displays.  It can be ea

Hi everyone,I’m getting bright speckled dots around the edges of a masked phone screen, but only after exporting. Inside After Effects it looks clean, but when I render it out, random white/green dots appear around the edges.This happens even without using Mocha.. just a basic mask or tracked insert.Has anyone seen this before or knows what causes it?

In a linked in learning course, there was this example expression...  It wasn't really explained well... the syntax for the b variable of the array index ([1]) on the wiggle function perhaps just shows my lack of javascript (?) familiarity.. but can someone explain how this index on the scale property is being 'used' by the wiggle function?  Perhaps asking a slightly different way... why does removing the array index ([1]) from the wiggle function cause an error on the FIRST line of code? while omitting that b= assignment statement altogether resolves the error?  It seems counter intuitive for modification in the second line like above to cause an error to the first line, and I'd like to understand what is going on so if/when I encounter other errors, I have a better understanding of how the system as a whole is functioning. 

I imported my illustrator file like always, composition-retain layer size and all that jazz, but for some reason my illustrator layers have this weird space around them and are behaving like images. I can change things in the illustrator file and it will update in after effects. I can't convert the logo into a shape. I don't know how to fix it. Both apps are up to date and I've tried restarting them both.  

I'm getting this error in After Effects and I have no idea what else to try. I've already tried recovering it in every possible way and nothing worked. My PC froze and I had to restart it, but the project was still open, and when I booted back up this error popped up. I can’t afford to lose this project — I’ve put five days of work into it.

IOS 15.5 (24F74), After Effects 25.6.0Instead of Roto-brushing I am just drawing a box without selcting anything. I did everything ChatGPT asked me to do - delete cache, reset the settings and it is still the same... please help!!

Hi, I’m on a Mac and After Effects keeps showing a playback error and then crashes whenever I switch to another application and return to AE. It happens consistently during previews.Why is this happening and how can I fix it?

Can my gtx1060 3gb support advanced 3d? 😞

Is there a way that I can convert my 4K 1:1 video so that it can be shown in a full dome?Thanks in advance.

Hi, I’m developing a plugin for After Effects and I’d like to use a custom user interface instead of Adobe’s default one.How can I integrate a custom UI into my plugin?

Hi Community,Is it possible to isolate a person rapping on stage? The reason for this task because the footage wasnt shot well and needing to isolate the person to keep her on a transparent background with her rapping audio. Any good turtorials I can follow? The edit is on Premiere although I figured for the task is best done on after effects. Many Thanks

I found a bug in my plugin that was clamping the results when I was using a mask. I've seen a bunch of forum posts about this. Here's a good guide on how to solve it. # Buffer Expansion in After Effects SmartFX Plugins ## Table of Contents 1. [Overview](#overview) 2. [The Problem](#the-problem) 3. [How Buffer Expansion Works](#how-buffer-expansion-works) 4. [Critical Concepts](#critical-concepts) 5. [Implementation Guide](#implementation-guide) 6. [Common Pitfalls](#common-pitfalls) 7. [Real-World Example](#real-world-example) 8. [Debugging Tips](#debugging-tips) --- ## Overview Buffer expansion allows After Effects plugins to return pixels beyond the original layer boundaries. This is essential for effects like: - **Edge extension** - Extending colors beyond alpha boundaries - **Blurs** - Gaussian/box blurs that extend beyond input - **Glows** - Light effects that extend outward - **Shadows** - Drop shadows extending beyond layer - **Morphological operations** - Dilate/erode

ive been given a brief recently which has given me quite a bit of grief in the past. it seems easy on the surface, but have always found it very time consuming, I think I’ve been going about it in the wrong way all along. So one of my clients is a race car brand, and they often give me long shots where the cam is following a car, and I need to put trails behind it, which are left on the ground behind it and stay there afterwards for the duration of the shot.So I’ve been doing it with paths, going towards the end of the clip, and seeing where the dirt trails are that the car has left, putting the paths with the pen tool, then manually keyframing those points every 10 frames to make sure things stay stuck to the ground ( I do this by looking at identifiable pieces of the ground and making sure points are close to them at all times).I know this sounds insane, and it kinda is, but I had to resort to doing this because 3D camera tracking these shots just isn’t working for me. The path