After Effects

 My Preview Pane is stuck like this. I have reinstalled AE, restarted my PC, looked through the Window Tab at the top, and the Preferences.

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

Hey, something weird that is worth saying happened today at work.Working on a project with a team, and one 3D layer wasn't centered properly when I opened the main project on my AE. (25.1).I upgraded to the latest AE 25.5, and I could see the layer at the correct spot as it was supposed to be. Any info on what is causing that ? (4K comp with a camera in Classic 3D, layer in question was a 3D text layer). Thanks!

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 ! 

Dear Adobe After Effects Team,I am writing to report a persistent and long-standing bug in After Effects (on Windows) concerning the Render Queue's Output Module presets.The Problem: When I create and save an Output Module preset for an OpenEXR sequence with the Channels set to "RGB + Alpha", the checkbox for "Use Comp Frame Number" does not save correctly.Although I check this box and save the preset, after I close and restart After Effects, the preset reverts to having this option unchecked.Key Detail: This bug appears to be specifically tied to the "RGB + Alpha" setting. If I save the exact same preset but with Channels set to "RGB" only, the "Use Comp Frame Number" setting saves perfectly and persists after restarting the application.Steps to Reproduce:Open After Effects (on Windows).Add any composition to the Render Queue.Click on the Output Module preset name (e.g., "Lossless").Set the Format to OpenEXR.In Format Options..., set Channels to RGB + Alpha. Click OK.Check the Use Com

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

After effects error while saving project file in external ssdAe: 2024getting this error (img), while trying so save the project file in external ssdPlz help, ask for any details

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.