After Effects

I'm working on a plugin that deals with Alembic 3D files. I can parse the geometry in the .abc and load it. What I really want is for that data to populate a dropdown menu in the plugin. But I can't seem to make the dropdown menu dynamic. So, when I select my .abc layer in After Effects comp, I can't get it to populate the dropdown with info from that file. This reminds me of how "Visible Layers" in the Mocha plugin works. It dynamicly loads info from Mocha, but it's in a popup menu. What is that technique called?

So any clip i use position keyframes that are easy eased or seperated keyframes aswell, or anything like that it shows a very glitched graph like this, I reinstalled after effects, tried to do a new project etc but i dont know how to fix it, and it was normal before.

So I have a stroke animation animating with vegas with a 3D camera in the comp. Problem is as my camera starts to move, my strokes start to flicker/jitter. I am using Continous Rasterization on my layer and this is the result. Although If I turn OFF the Continous Rasterization the problem goes away but I lose my quality and thats not what I want. I want to animate my layers with vegas only and without losing quality. Any potential fix for this or any other workaround?Comp settings:-1920 x 1080-24 fps-32 bpc   

Hello!I work with the latest version of AE (18.0.1.) and now am trying to paint some  simple dots on a solid (after double clicking on it), but the size of the brush won't change when I open the brush window. On the screenshot you can see the window, it seems to be dead, doesn't react on clicking on it. Does anybody know the problem and has a solution? Probably it is something completely obvious, but I jaust cannot see it 🙂Thanks and cheers!

please help me thoroughly , how to make this type of reel 

In the video, i've used the typewriter preset on the "running". However, i cant use it on the "down" because it starts typing from the d (i want the ball to reveal it as it bounces). Ive tried reversing keyframes using the assistant but that just looks like the text is slowly being deleted. How can i make it so the "down" is revealed backwards?

Hi everyone, I've run into the same problem with the Ae Roto Brush a few times now and it's more or less making it impossible to use the tool at all; Whenever I finish rotobrushing a video clip and go back to the composition window, when I change anything in the composition that somehow triggers the Roto Brush to completely restart the propagating process, which can be very time consuming. Those changes don't even need to be something related to the rotobrush, even stuff like adding a text layer or just looking at a different part of the compisition can trigger this to happen.  Has anyone had this same problem? 

I now open the project and it crashes after a while. Sometimes it crashes directly. My driver is the latest version, and AE is also the latest version. I don’t know what the problem is, so I can only come here for help.

I want to create a sphere with TC Form, with an exact number of 36 customized particules (each particules representing a Football Club Logo). I managed to put all my logos in a comp, setting this comp as a texture in TC Form with with Time Sampling set on Split Clip - Loop, and the number of clips set on 36. But there is always duplicates in my sphere and some logos missing, never the exact 36 logos. Any idea how to fix this ? Thanks !

Hey guys, I've been using bodymoving for a while now. Usually for .json files.Today I needed to export an animation as a rive project then tadaaa.Bodymovin is asking me if I have enabled "Preferences > Scripting & Expressions > Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network? Well duh, I've been using you since I don't remember when?And yes it's checked and enabled and whatevered.I am using AE 23.5.0 anybody have this issue?Thanks in advancedB.

Hi team,we are facing this issue while trying to process video fileswarning: Audio conforming failed for the following file: "xxxx" Do we have this fixed this in any new versions/ What is root cause for this

Please fix the confusing migration confirmation dialogue box (popup), which is is needlessly unclear and needs revision. The migration confirmation dialogue asks a yes-or-no type question and provides a very clear negative option for a response. However, it provides two options for a positive response (I think), but which are bewildering. Each button just shows the application name and a version identifier: After Effects (25.3) and After Effects (25.2), Illustrator (29.7.2) and Illustrator (29.7.1), etc. Is this the new version and the version I was using last? Is this two versions where settings were detected? What version am I using when I see this? (Hmmm. I don't know. I can't check without answering first.) What happens when I select either version? 

Last 4-5 days, I can't open my AF. It is always showing (Crash repair options). But after that I cann't click any option. What should I do? Is there any solution?

Quiero descargar la version mas antigua que pueda proporcionar adobe. 

I was given .mov files and they imported washed out in after effects. I used an adjustment layer to fix the colors and it looked good, but when I was ready to export, the colors were messed up again. I've tried following things from gpt, like trying to interepret the footage, change the color profile settings, all sorts of stuff but nothing is working. It's tough to find anything about this online and I need to get this fixed.  Im running the latest version of AE. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've stumbled upon these really useful functions, but they only seem to work for me in expressions, and when I try to use them in my script, I get the function undefined message. It would be really weird if they didn't implement this feature for scripts..Am I missing something?

 Just curious, how would you pros rotoscope something like this? The blacks in this stock footage is 100% black, no amount of color correcting can bring up any kind of contrast between the background and the subject. I'm honestly surprised how after effects even found some kind of edge to grab on to. But obviously, the mask is all over the place. Is my only option hand masking this? This is a super slow motion shot so I feel like im in for a long night...  

I tried to search so much about toCompVec, fromCompVec online.But, I found nothing usefull.So I am asking what does exaclty toCompVec and fromCompVec do????I know how toComp and fromComp, it takes a vector(point as mathmatical representaion) and just see What is the visual equivilant vector in the other vector space(trying to explain intuitively without linear algebra details).So what does toCompVec do exactly, in math language or after effects.Thank you!

I have been working in the same project file containing numerous compositions of varying sizes but minimal complexity for the past year without issue on my M4 MAX Macbook Pro until installing After Effects 25.3 last month which caused AE to freeze during every attempt to open or import it.  After trying all of the usual troubleshooting steps (reset preferences, start in safe mode, clear caches) I uninstalled After Effects and installed a previous version.  This worked and I was able to open the project file and continue work as usual.  After updating to macOS Sequoia 15.6 I tried installing After Effects 25.3.3 to see if the latest update might have remedied the issue but was met with the same spinning ball that never completes opening or importing the project.  I reverted to 25.2.2 but that version was no longer able to import or open the project.  I uninstalled all of the fonts in the Creative Cloud app just in case that might be the culprit but it did not ma

Hi everybody! I'm havin issues with a rather complex MoGrT involving a heap of expressions. There are randomly ocurring glitches in the resulting videos, where results of expression calculations seem to get lost. I consulted Copilot and they seem to think that there might be issues with my inconsistent use of .value. But even though using .value obviously makes a differencethrow typeof(transform.opacity) // -> function throw typeof(transform.opacity.value) // -> numberthe returned value of both these statements is the same:transform.opacity.value // -> 100 transform.opacity // -> 100 Copilot claims that "Both work, but .value ensures you're getting the actual value, not the expression object." So would I be right in understanding that omitting .value will trigger an re-evaluation of the expressions for transform.opacity, while using .value retrieves a (formerly stored) result of said expressions?

Hey there! I am working on a project, where I am doing an 3D phone advertisement in after effects. I have to track some text next to the phone. The text is on a white shaper layer and I animated the size of the shape layer (disabled constrain proportions), set the first value to 0 and then to 100 so it kinda swipes in. I duplicated this layer and put it on top of my text layer and set the track matte of the text layer to alpha, so that it also swipes in. But when I turn on 3D-Layer the text disappears and moves behind the shape background and when I move it in front of the shape layer it works but stays there forever and the track matte isn't working anymore...Is there any way to fix this?

My adobe After effects is giving out this message on startup and it closes. i used to use this it started happening now i cant find a fix please help.

After years of using After Effects, the recent update seemed to be corupted. I uninstalled After Effects but now it won't download. stops at 1%.  Is After Effects down for everyone or just me? It's Sunday and I've been trying to install After Effects since Friday.  I need to have this project done by Monday morning. I don't think I'm going to make my deadline. Is there anyone who can help asap?

However many times I click on the master motion blur icon, it does not turn blue. There is a simple moving from one point to another. Even if I click the layer motion blur, it appears grey. Either the state of the switch is with a grey background or not, but never blue. 

During the preview video Current Time Indicator (CTI) is not moving, but the thing that move is that Redline, does anyone know how to fix it? it is so annoying to see that Redline.