After Effects

Hello!I'm working on my own motion blur tool, and I've hit a snag with what looks like a precision limitation within AE. In short, the plug-in is able to do up to 2048 samples. It even processes that amount. BUT, there is no visual difference from 512 samples and above, like in the attached image. It's a rectangle that flaps up-and-down 30 times a second, which renders identically between 512 and 2048 samples. I'm using "A_Time" to determine the temporal sampling, which should technically give me a microsecond of precision.A_Time time_val; PF_FpLong exact_time = (PF_FpLong)in_data->current_time / in_data->time_scale + sample_offset; const A_long high_scale = 1000000; time_val.value = (A_long)(exact_time * high_scale); time_val.scale = high_scale; And my debugger tells me that the desired amount of sub-frame positions are being calculated and rendered, but it seems that they're either discarded in the final render or snaps to their closest valid values. Is this simply an inherent

He instalado AE por primera vez y al intentar arrancar sale una ventana de error. He mirado muchas posibles soluciones que he encontrado por la comunidad y ninguna ha funcionado. Mi sistema es un Mac Mini M4 Pro, MacOS 26.2. Adjunto imagen de errores

I'm getting extremely frustrated with Adobe products and I'm hoping that I can't be the only one. I have a brand new Mac Studio 4M and I thought that would take care of After Effects crashing and completely glitching, but NOPE, here we are. I'm still experiencing the same problems I did on my 2017, and now I just lost hours of work because it froze before I could save anything. When I am running through it, it slows down and the audo and video lag. EXTREMELY annoying.I feel like all I am doing is complaining about Adobe, but man--I thought the new comp was the answer here, and it just appears the products cannot perform properly.

My 12 year old is just starting to use Adobe After Effects. Are there any free plugins he can use as a novice. He has found Sapphire plugin which looks great but we can't afford that at this stage. Any help most apreciated as i don't use AE. Thanks

Hi all,  I am creating a flickering text animation using text animators (opacity). I have the same text repeated 5 times on each line. With the text animator set to random, the flickering is great, however, each line (separate text layer) animates at the same time, how do I make each separate layer flicker different characters to the other layers at any one time?Thanks

I'm a bit of an AE noob, but could not find a good answer on how to accomplish this. I have created it in the video, but using a white circle moving along a path to make it look like the object is being "traced" with that circle. Is there a way to make this work with a layer mask and having that mask object move along this path. So when I export it for use it can be placed on any background?

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Hi all,  Pretty new to AE, what I am trying to do is have text move down the page but have its colour change as it passes through an invisible shape (rectangle). Can somebody suggest the best way of doing this?Thanks

Quick question about the GPU API. Does AE force CPU rendering if buffer expansion happens? Done some testing with debugging and it seems like SmartRenderGPU never gets called when expansion happens. Do I have to do something specific or anything, or is it not possible?

Hello, my preview has often been freezing and bugging out when I press spacebar to view the preview. It's not all the time, but it happens a lot. Additionally, my audio is bugged (and I assume the audio is connected to the problem) where when I press play the audio doesn't play immediately and instead buffers for a second or two before cutting back in and correcting itself. I've tried practically everything and went over my audio hardware multiple times, making sure my output is to the right source— my headphones that aren't bluetooth. The only solution to the freezing is to restart the program and I've went over some of the many threads that discuss this problem but haven't been able to fix it. I'm relatively new to after effects, but my specs are good and this error didn't occur on my macbook pro with worse hardware.I truly would appreciate any help or suggestions for other places to look. 

I want to animate a rectangle with no fill and at the ends with red dots and where the rectangles intersect so I can add nulls and move the position of the rectangles to create this animation of the concorde visor retracting into the nose. All the parts that interconnect. These form the mechanics of the mechanism visor retract mechanism. I can get the position of white lines using the beam effect in AE as then you can animate the start and end positions of the beam but using rectangles it is hard to work out how to do the same, such I can that parent bars together or set nulls to animate the working mechanism of the visor retract. I have tried merge paths of the line over a rectangle to take the difference as a mask, and that wont work as the line is very narrow (and has no volume) against the filled rectangle. Also the create nulls from path feature but that will obviously create 4 nulls for each corner of the rectangle and I want to only manipulate 2 ends.  How is

I've never had this issue before, and it's driving me nuts. The shape fill window is overblown and blocky with this one project. I first started having this problem on AE 25.6, so I downgraded to AE 25.5. It happened again, so I went down to AE 24.5. I didn't have an issue for a few hours, and now it's happened again. The color picker is also not working. It doesn't select the right hue. I've tried trashing my preferences, emptying my disk cache, restarting After Effects. I've also tried exporting an XML and importing the timeline to a new Premiere file, and starting a new After Effects, and doing a Dynamic Link that way, and the problem keeps coming back. The shape fill window looks normal when I start a new After Effects file without the Dynamic Link, and just doing a simple shape.  I'm on Apple M4 Pro, Sequoia 15.6.1. Has anyone had this before and tried fixing it?  Thanks!

I have an active Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, but in my Creative Cloud app I can only see the newer After Effects versions (2024 and later).I am specifically looking for After Effects 23.6 (2023) because of plugin compatibility and project stability. This version is no longer shown under “Other Versions” for me.Is there any official way to download or enable access to this older version, for example through Adobe Support?Thanks in advance for any help!

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Je rencontre un problème depuis la dernière mise à jour d’Illustrator. Lorsque j'importe un fichier .ai contenant une défonce, un “trou”, dans After Effects, les paths ne se comportent plus comme prévu. Les deux tracés ne fonctionnent plus ensemble comme la délimitation d'une seule forme avec soustraction, mais apparaissent comme deux contenus superposés. Il est impossible de les animer comme si le second tracé était soustrait du premier.Ce problème n’existait absolument pas il y a quelques mois. Cette mise à jour d’Illustrator empêche également, par exemple, de copier-coller une forme contenant un dégradé vers InDesign.Adobe est de plus en plus cher et son workflow fonctionne de moins en moins bien.Cela devient vraiment pénible...Merci par avance de votre aide et du temps que vous consacrerez à me demande.Bonne fetes à vous.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hello,When I import an Illustrator (.ai) file

Is that font changer or something else? Im trying to make this over the last week and i could't. Its so butter smooth.

Hi,my coworkers and I collaborate on AE projects (no team-projects) using Sharepoint. This workflow works really well with Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign but After Effects doesn´t seem to like it. We work with MacBooks and always collect/package all media on the sharepoint but more often than not After Effects just loads the file for 10-20 minutes when my coworkers open the project. Other times the start-up time is quite short but the media is missing even though the files are collected.  We already tried this workflow (which works but is to time consuming):1. collect files and save it on the sharepoint2. If someone else needs to make changes they copy the whole folder to their local drive and when finished they collect the files again and save the new version to the sharepoint replacing the old folder Is there a better and less time consuming way to do this? Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,🤓I'm having an issue with the expression editor in After Effects. When I open the expression panel to write expressions, half of it appears black and I can't see what I'm typing properly.My Setup:After Effects 25.6.0Windows 11Display scaling: 125%Monitor: BenQ ultrawideWhat I've Tried:Removed the DPI scaling override settings in AfterFX.exe properties - this fixed the black expression panel BUT now the entire UI is too small to work with comfortablyThe Problem:It seems like I have to choose between:Having a readable UI with 125% Windows scaling (but half-black expression panel)OR fixing the expression panel but working with a tiny UI at 100% scalingIs there any way to have both a normal-sized interface AND a working expression panel? This feels like a bug Adobe needs to fix.Has anyone else experienced this? I suspect it might be related to display scaling or DPI settings, but I'm not sure how to fix it without making the entire interface too small to work with comfo

Is there any way to make the shatter effect work in a way where as individual pieces have been shattered for longer, they either change color, or decrease in opacity? Almost how CC Particle World works. If not, is there any workaround I could do?

i have a project with hundreds of dissolvesi need to import all of the timeline into after effects to work on each clip.right now cross dissolves doesnt not cross over to after effects as opacity keyframes.i`m looking for a work around here, because manually doing so to each layer is literally totureany ideas ?

I just rendered a composition of mine, and going back on the project it now refuses to play, and shows me just a grey screen (see below). When I move across the timeline it shows a black screen instead I tried restarting AE, restarting my computer, but those didn't work I tried previewing other projects and they worked just fine Also, when I try and close after effects while on this broken composition, after effects freezes and i have to force quit. I'm on an M1 chip Macbook Pro, 16GB memory, Sequoia 15.6.1 ^ When scrolling through the timeline ^ When idle