After Effects

Is there any method to truly merge multiple selected shape paths within a single shape layer into one unified path, ensuring that overlapping or touching anchor points are combined into single, shared points (a boolean "Unite" or "Merge" operation at the anchor point level?

[Note: I know they just announced that 25.2 is available for download, but Creative Cloud just gave me 25.3, so I'm not really sure what's going on (and maybe I'm not the only one)] Version: 25.3.0 (Build 71)Platform: Windows 11 Steps to reproduce: Hold mouse over composition window, hold down Alt and turn scroll wheelExpected result: Composition window zooms centred on mouse cursor locationActual result: Composition window zooms centred on centre of window For the 3-4 years I've been using AE, I've been holding down Alt and scrolling my mouse wheel in order to zoom toward whatever my mouse cursor is hovering over, both in the Composition window and in the Timeline. But after I updated to 25.3 yesterday, in the Composition window, Alt+Wheel now zooms in and out on the centre of the window and the Wheel without a keyboard modifier zooms in and out at the cursor point (which I only discovered by experimentation).But the Timeline zoom control hasn't changed: it still u

In many cases, the debugger comes up with a line number that does not exist. (e.g. an error on line 71, while the expression consists of 69 lines). It's hard to say when exactly this problem shows up, but it occurs a lot, so I guess more users have experienced this behaviour.

Thinking of buying a new computer for Adobe After Effects? After seeing countless posts on forums and Reddit asking about what computer someone should buy, I decided to break down exactly what to look for when shopping for a PCthat can handle After Effects.   I discuss laptop or desktops, Windows or Apple, graphics cards, storage, RAM etc... In order to determine what's important, I briefly explain how After Effects works, as that gives us some clues as to what hardware to prioritise (spoiler: it's RAM), I then try to answer some frequent questions: RAM vs CPU cores – which matters more for After Effects GPU choices – does Nvidia still beat AMD? Laptops vs desktops – is upgradeability more important than RAM?   Linked on the video page is a scoring spreadsheet you can use to compare potential computers Whether you’re a motion designer, 3D artist, editor, or student, I hope this guide will help you buy smart and get the most performance out of your budget.

Issue - typing in a new frame number in a time remap parameter in the timeline produces the wrong number. Steps to reproduce - 1. take a footage layer, set it to 'freeze current frame' 2.edit the frame number in the text field next to time remap in the timelineExpected result - it should show the correct numberActual result -  it shows the wrong number. the workaround is to carefully drag the text slider to the correct number.Adobe After Effects version - this bug has been present at least since 2020 until 2025Operating system - Windows 10 or 11GPU driver version (Windows only) - any driver version

every time i try and set it up it bugs and says error code 127, so then when i go and find error code 127 and see how i can fix it, it ends up telling me to go to the adobetemp which i cant find in files help pls   [moving to the correct community, as this is about After Effects and not about Lightroom Classic - Mod.]

Someone please help me for the past 2 days I've been stuck, I'm using the beta versions of premiere and after effects, whenever I try importing my project from premiere into AE, everything goes into after affects like the captions and sounds ETC, but my b roll/footage is just black and not showing up. Please help 

Due to some technical problem i had to delete the creative cloud and all adobe apps like after effects and photoshop.And when i reinstall them, i found that extenion tab is greyed out, how to fix that Please help !!!

I'm testing scriptui panels by launching them from VSC, the problem is when the panel loses focus it goes behind the main window. The only way to get access to the panel is to shrink the main window to reveal thepanel hiding in the background, supoer nnoying. The panel works fine and stays on top if it is run from the file/scripts/run script...   Is there any way to force the panel to stay at the front?   Mac OS 15.5AE 25..5VSC 1.105.1ExtendScript Debugger 2.1.0

I've been editing a video for a day and this morning when I went to play "Cached Preview Needs 2 or More Frames to Playback" pops up. I've tried purging and putting it in Quater or Custom but nothing works.I've tired putting more ram in but whenever I change it and look back it goes right back to 0 and I don't know how to fix..    Title edited by Mod.

I render out a lot of image sequences at work, b/c if you have a small change in the middle of an animation with lots of layers and effects, overwriting a few frames is a lot faster than a whole mp4. It drives me crazy that I can't patch up a few frames in the middle of a sequence with media encoder. I have to take the time to let AE render them, or downsave to another version which is inefficient.Why isn't there the option of using the same frames numbers as the after effects comp that's been exported? I officially request this option in future updates. Unless anyone knows of a work around? I haven't been able to find one.

Hello,I’m new to After Effects plug-in development.In my plugin, I need to perform strict RGB value comparisons in an 8-bit environment, so I also want AE to automatically convert input to 8-bit when the project is set to 16-bit or 32-bit color depth.However, I’ve noticed that when AE automatically converts 16-bit or 32-bit images down to 8-bit for an effect that only supports 8-bit, it introduces subtle noise or dithering artifacts.I tested several of AE’s built-in “8-bit only” effects and saw the same issue — the colors contain subtle noise, and sometimes the noise even evolves, like in this GIF.My plugin needs to calculate and output precise HEX color values, and several internal steps depend on exact 8-bit operations and strict RGB comparisons.So my question is: is there any way to avoid these noise artifacts during AE’s automatic 16/32-to-8-bit conversion?

What is the point of AEGP_GetLayerToWorldXform matrix? What does it give me? It's a really confusing name, does it transform the layer-space coordinates to composition-space? What does "World" mean? Is it supposed to be used to make an effect work in composition space instead of layer space?

I cannot download after effects, It only shows "free trial" or "buy" options on creative cloud app, but I have After Effects on my plan. When I try to purchase, it gives an error: "This purchase is not supported. You already own After Effects." But I cannot use After effects. 

Does anyone know if there’s an expression or plug-in that can translate text in AE?

Rendering with AE 2024 (v24.6.1) ... the colors are strangeRendering with ME 2024 (v24.6.1) ... no problemRendering with AE 2023 (v23.6.9) ... no problemhttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13UH07Fz5iIKh7Ucwi3Lrq0eeKbpFO2oT?usp=sharing  It was fine until 10 days ago, so I think it's a bug in v24.6.1I tried it in safe mode but it didn't work

Hi,I am working on a project for one of my clients to create/ identify automated plugin/tool for Adobe After effect language localization ie. to convert the content in Adobe After effects to different languages.Could someone point in the right direction as to where I find an automated plugin for the same?If not,  just a sample plugin to get started with the project?Any help would be massively appreciated.Thanks in advance.Kritika!

Hi, I need some help or some advice here.  I keep trying to do content aware fill on this scene on the rotoscoped out subject, but everytime I try to do it I crash around 25-35 percent.  I will note that I always crash while using the Object mode, which is the mode I need. I have tried rendering with Edge Blend and it renders perfectly. I have also tried splitting the clips into 1 second portions and it still doesn't help. I can't consistently generate an error code, but I have received an error code and it did mention something like "No Memory left." I have turned on a setting that utilizes all of my memory towards After Effects while rendering.  I have attached a screenshot of what my project looks like, and what my PC specs are. I am running the most updated version of AE and I am running on the most updated version of Windows 10. If anyone has any advice please let me know!!!!!!

Searching for info on a keyboard shortcut for navagating between the layer keyframes .. such as position, scale, rotation, etc .. It is way too tedious to click on the little triangle and back to editing.Tried to search the Forums and found nothing.No custom options either.

While opening AE received the following warning:After Effects warning: The following plugins have failed to load. Please reinstall these plugins:[insert long list here] clicked through OK Was then greeted with the following error:After Effects error: Couldn't find main entry point for [plugin name] (48:: 72) I followed the path to investigate:/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/ But found that there is no Plug-ins folder in the Common folder. After a search on Adobe Community I have found fixes for PC users, but not for macOS users.  my details:After Effects 25.2.0Apple M2 Max96 GB MemorymacOS Sequoia Version 15.3.2

I need to render a bunch of UHD TIFF sequences to an intermediate format for use in other compositing activities.  There are no effects of any kind, just a straight image sequence render.  I've tried Quicktime DNxHR and ProRes and both take 90+ minutes to render a 12,000 - 15,000 image TIFF sequence.  The exact same render job takes ~10 minutes in Resolve. So, cleary I have something set incorrectly in the AE export. Any suggestions on where to look?

I wanna install Adobe Aftter Effect 20th version form Creative Cloud, but the version is not available anymore.I am using MacBook Pro M1 and there will be some compatibility issue for sure if I use recent versions.So, is there any option for this one?

Hi, I'm using AE on a PC. When I use Roto Brush 3.0 and mask a person with say a white background the mask only lasts for 2 frames before selecting the whole screen. When I change the selection to Roto Brush 2.0, it renders properly. I've tried multiple videos. I've tried reinstalling. But I still get this issue which means I can't use roto brush 3.0.  Are there any suggestions to fix this? Thanks,  Dom

When using 'Run script file' the script works fine, but when I use it through scriptsui panel it appears blank Here is the script:  (function combinedPanel(thisObj) {// Build UIfunction buildUI(thisObj) {// Use dockable panel if available, otherwise floating windowvar win = (thisObj instanceof Panel) ? thisObj : new Window("palette", "Project Organizer", undefined, { resizeable: true });// === UI Layout ===win.orientation = "column";win.alignChildren = ["fill", "top"];win.spacing = 10;win.margins = 10;// --- Title ---var title = win.add("statictext", undefined, "Import your Assets");title.alignment = "center";title.graphics.font = ScriptUI.newFont("Segoe UI", "BOLD", 14);// --- Import Assets Button (icon) ---var iconPath = File($.fileName).path + "/asi_images/importIcon.png";var importBtn = win.add("iconbutton", undefined, iconPath);importBtn.helpTip = "Click to import your editing assets";importBtn.preferredSize = [48, 48];// --- Template Button ---var templateBtn = win