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I’m trying to use trim paths on a vector image to trace the path of a box. Instead of trimming the path of the box, the entire box is filling up with the outline color. Not sure what’s going on there. I’ve attached a video for reference. Thanks and stay curious!

Hi, I would like to add in a text with bullet point, but I cant seem to get it with the right formatting. I did attempt to format it in illustrator (using tabs and paragraph spacing) before copying and pasting, but to no avail. anyone knows how? 

This is a tough one, this 32bpc sequence does not want to look correct when dynamically linked or exported as tiff 32bpc...It keeps getting blown out. When I tried to snapshot what it's supposed to look like.... the snapshot also looks the same so I can't even snapshot the proper intended end result.I took a photo of my screen with my phone to show how its meant to look, but when shown here it looks exactly the same…?  If I change to 32bpc in Color Settings- Bit Depth, then the footage gets washed out… edit: Can anyone link me to a tutorial to learn about these colour mgmt intricacies, they are my weak point

Football stadium ribbon spec:Use Quicktime with the Animation codec (and an alpha channel), for maximum quality.Render File Type: MP4 (Show Control)Media Software: Daktronics Show Control.This is all they have given.After Effects templates have been supplied. I have set up the animation but can’t get to grips with the render requirements. Venue response when sent over:  ‘Please render the ribbons for Show Control NOT Disguise.’Does anyone have experience in this?

I'm one of those crazy people who primarily uses After Effects for compositing. (And has since 4.1.) As I move to an M1 Mac, I'll lose compatibility with two plug ins I use often: Red Giant Light Wrap and Red Giant Edge Blur (from their long-discontinued keying suite). I can license Boris BCC and Sapphire and together (for thousands of dollars) can get replacement plug ins. Along with a lot of stuff I don't need. And for a few thousand dollars. These are basic effects built into Nuke and I would love to see Adobe include them in future releases. Light Wrap in particular is invaluable although for me Edge Blur is what I am having more trouble replacing. Thanks!

Hi!In my company we are thre people with the Self-Service-Subscription But I am the only one who can’t update anymore. There is no new version in the CC, nor in the direct Link: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/desktop/troubleshooting/fixed-and-known-issues/fixed-issues.htmlany solution?Thanks a lot!

I am working on a project in After Effects v23.0. If I go to File > Save As > there are no options to save my project to Creative Cloud. I am only provided the option to save a file on my computer.  How can this be resolved? Thank you. 

Why AE is still in 2026 absolutely garbage and unoptimized? Why at more than 70$ moth is still full of bugs? Why rendering is still underusing the machine? Why adobe? Why dont you destroy the program and rebuilt from zero? Years, more than 12 years working daily with it and every day I have to FIGHT with the software, every day. Every day I discover a new tricky way to solve a NEW problem. 

Sooo, I am struggling with this animated logo I did for a client and they asked me to deliver a .WebM (which is a new type of file for me). Somehow it shows a grey outline to the animation which is not visible on the original .mov (pro ress 444 alpha). I tried multiple ways of exporting it into WebM but whatever I do it keeps showing this outline. How-the-hell do I remove this and make it a clean animation like the original?? I got asked for WebM by developers but open to any alternative if that's what it takes 🤓 Thanks! 

Am I blind or going crazy? It’s been a while since I’ve worked with non-square pixel footage, but didn’t the Toggle Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction button used to be at the bottom of the comp window? Where’s it gone? 

I am relatively new to AE, but havent had this issue before. I have a few files that simply crash when trying to open on mac. They get to about 40% (although that varies slightly file to file, but seem to be in that region), but then just get the spinning beach ball and they dont progress. I have a PC too, so installed AE on that and the file opens instantly with no issue. Resaved the file from the PC version, tried to open that on Mac but crashed again. I have tried;• Opening file from different locations on the computer• Safe Mode• Empty Caches• Reset Prefs• Uninstall, restart, reinstallBut nothing works. Baffled, especially where it opens immediately on PC, which would rule out file corruption. Files were all created on the same Mac that now wont open them.Any ideas?

Hi everyone,I’m having an issue with preview playback in After Effects. The composition starts caching normally, but when I play it back, the preview still stutters and some of the cached frames seem to be rendered again instead of playing smoothly.I’ve already tried lowering the preview resolution and clearing the cache, but the behavior is still there. The composition is not particularly complex either.Is there a Preview or cache setting I should check that could be causing After Effects to rebuild frames during playback?I found this related discussion about cached frames being re-rendered during Preview.

currently my project is just two solid layers and two text layers with no animation, my preview resolution is set to third. Despite this when I want to playback the project by pressing the space bar it just buffers/freezes and cant seem to play it back for me. I have cleared the media disk cache very often and even made it so it will use my ssd to store cache instead of my local drive? For context I have a macbook pro 2019 which I recently updated to Tahoe? its an intel core aswell which ive heard might not be good for adobe? as you can tell idk much and am not a tech person im just a graphic design graduate tryna develop my skills and get a job in this crazy job market.anyways, if anyone could help me figure out how to fix this/make my ae run a bit smoother it would be great thanks! 

I am using Advanced 3D to make an animation of a smartphone. The phone is a glb Model. Animation works fine. But when i use Depth of Field in the 3D camera, the model parts get slightly see-through. For example, looking at the back of the phone the front screen is suddenly slightly visible. This is not happening when DoF is turned off.Any suggestions how to fix this. I need DoF for this animation.So far the new 3D options in AE are pretty great and render fast, but there are still a lot of quirks and annoying things that don’t work or need complicated workarounds (no motionblur, not working with adjustment layers, etc.)