After Effects

Is there a way to make a composition to go to a random frame and stop. I want to have a grid of these random compositions in a larger main composition and each one will be stopped on a random frame. I'm going to place earch random composition into the grid manually, so there's no expression needed there. The random composition doesn't need to find out how many frames it has either if that makes it more complex, I'm fine entering that into the expression manually.  This has to be easy but I'm not good at writing expressions and all of the expressions I've found stop or go to a random frame but not both and trying to combine them hasn't worked for me. 

After Effects of Media Encoder is now rendering my files to .aep.AME suffix on the file name.  It happened after I installed the latest version.  How do I change it back and why did it change.

I'd like to achieve a water surface effect similar to that one. Can anyone guide me?

Hola, estos ultimo días he notado que after effects se bloquea con cada que paso del programa a otra aplicación, ya sea el explorador de windows o el buscador de internet, he tenido que devolverme la versión 2020 para no tener problemas de rendimeinto y me parece muy raro por que mi pc tiene buenos componentes, Ryzen 9 5950x, 64 gb de ram, 2 tarjetas graficas rtx 2060 super.  en ocaciones la pantalla de previsualización se queda en negro y en otras ocaciones reinicia el pc, y solo me ocurre con la versión 2024, ya intente cambio de drivers, reistalando el programa, cerrando otras aplicaciones, pero en definitiva no se porque el rendimiento de after 2024 es menor en mi pc que la versión 2020. alguien podria ayudarme a solucionar ese problema? 

Hello, I am trying to make a 3D model spin in After Effects. I was successful with the first model, however, there's a particular body type that doesn't seem to like spinning. I can't tell if the parts are clipping into one another or if there's something else going on, however I have tried fixing it by turning off shadows and lights but that doesn't seem to be the case. 

I am trying to export my video in 1500 x 1080 using a 20 frame rate but it will not let me export it in 20 due to a "settings mismatch." It says it will do this due to "format constraints" but it will not tell me what needs to change. Can someone help me? 

For several months now, AfterEffects has made my whole Macbook crash. It freezes the IOS system and then restarts). I work daily with this program, which shuts down every hour or two. Lately, it even corrupts the current AE files I'm working with after crashing. –> "After Effects error: file is damaged ( 33 :: 7)"I deleted the app and all caches and reinstalled AfterEffects without success.I also updated the latest IOS and AE versions several times, but the problem continued.Any hints on what to do and or how to fix it?Eternal thanks for any help!!

Hello,I am writing to the Adobe Community as I am desperately looking for free footage of gps tracking :Description of the footage : "On his screen, you can see a red dot moving on a map (fully digital or basic satellite view of a field/country area) where other red dots are moving more slowly".The project is a short movie that I am working on and we would really love to have some materials (the footage) to strengthen the somewhat futuristic/technology-based dimension of the movie.The context is a mad scientist that has marked/GPS tracked a dog, and this shot of the gps tracker would serve follow the dog as he escapes into the fields (while being GPS marked).As 100 % of our very limited budget has been used, we are looking for free option with of course a huge thanks and credits gratification were you to help us find / created / obtain such footage.Thank you so much in advance.May the Adobe community be blessed.

 

After Effects Crash whenever I save any project files, stuck on "generate recovery project" bar Hi l'm on the latest version of after effects, this has been occuring since yesterday. Whenever open a project file that was not created today & attempt to save it, it pops up with "generate recovery project" bar. Same issue happened yesterday & I've tried using an older version of after effects & it's still happening.Thanks for the help!

Hello,  I am having troubles with saber, whenever I try to use it for text there is a hard line on the edge. Not sure if I am missing something. I just bought Element 3D, followed a couple of tutorials and I cannot make it work because of the harsh lines I always get around texts. I have tried pre-composing, and creating layer masks from text and still the same. I am trying to achieve what is on the image with the Motion text. HELP!!! Thank you K

Hi allJust started After Effects, which I havent done for a few weeks. In opeing a project I get a window saying no colour space is assigned and there is an issue with Camera Raw. After setting to Rec709 the project opens. I can make changes but when I go to render, the program freezes on the project queue screen and then wont do anything until I try to shut it down and it then crashes. Not had this before and I have projects that need rendering out. Any ideas?ThanksSteve

AE's Range Selector's exceptional features has also let to a lot of confusion for some users. There are lots of tutorials but most still have gaps on how it works and why it does what it does. I'm hopeful this video rundown and the accompanying Logic Table will help lessen/remove the confusion.The video uses Responsive Features (Expression-driven) to create a visualization of the Range Selector and the different Shapes and built-in Eases (Ease High/Ease Low).Post your Qs below if you have any and I'll do my best to answer them.

Bağlantıda metin animasyonunun nasıl oluşturulacağına dair herhangi bir fikir bulamadım. Yardımınızı sabırsızlıkla bekliyorum. Bağlantı:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NbaYHBKWiEgSAlRldH6rhZ9ptgQZYo9K/view?pli=1

I have a simple video in which three images should slowly move from the right to the left, without any transition nor complicate elements (the most complicated thing is the opacity that goes to 0%). However, when I render the video, the images move in a choppy way, it's not smooth. I'm rendering with the default preferences (see image below), I have the latest version both on After Effects (16.0.1) and on my Mac (see image below). Does somebody have a solution?

I am trying to import a psd file into after effects and it is not coming at the right size. The psd file is exported from illustrator then imported into ae. In illustrator, the image is 1366 x 768, which I've saved as an ai file and exported as a psd file. When I import the ai file it comes in at the expected 1366 x 768 but when I import the psd file, it comes in at 2849 x 1065. Does anyone know why this is and what I need to do to make sure it comes in at the artboard size?

Hello, I'm a complete novice when it comes to After Effects.I want to make an edit to a sports video & was hoping that someone could help me with creating it. I want to make a football player electrified by lightning.Can I do it with a video? or would I need to take a still & just have the still electrified? Btw, I have NO CLUE how to do any of effects.I can do edits & produce videos, but this is a whole new world to me. Any help would be appreciated.Thanks in advance.ohiosportsnet@yahoo.com 

How can I get the file to display? I want to animate 3D models in AE and managed to import a .map from the game halo 2. It was all black though, after messing around the interface a bit I managed to get some VR features up which made a 3D scene and camera and stuff but it was still black. If you guys are curious how I did this I renamed the .map to .json then AE told me to rename the file to .jsx then after that I imported both those filles, played with them, and then I was like I wonder if I can just directly import the .map, and I go to file, import, file, and its there in my project panel, I drop it into a composition and nothing, it's black.  I want a version of AE that fully supports the import of these files. I was looking through the halo infinite files in their folders and I saw that there is a .json file, that's what lead me on this wild chase. It appears like AE was used to create some of halo infinite.  My point is, I need these features to do what I

Hi guys! someone can give me an head start to how get closer to this kind of background gradient flow shadow colors, really smooth! can someone give me a light? really thank you!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtQ3Li_vSEs

hi, I have tried all the numbers of universe in 'offseting' but no way I can fix this error, Like 'Papa Roach' I am singing 'this is my last resort', Adobe AE community forum is my last resort... please help.how can I make this glitch gone, plaeas help... I want a smooth flow, Thank you.  

I need help i tried everything

I tried to open After effects and all of a sudden this appeared, Ive tried all the options in the first crash repairscreenshotI've tried:used the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Toolchecked to see that it is updatedcleared my cachedisabled all plug-ins by deleting themuninstalled and reinstalledand ran in administratorNothing works, no matter what I click, it goes to the second loading screenshot and then after a while disappears and does not open.How do I fix? 

Hi; new at AE. I created this simple animation of a circle following a path (Ad Comp 1 on Vimeo ). I now want to zoom into the animation, have the circle animation start but then the circle stay in the center of the screen as it continues to follow the path (Ad Comp 1_3 on Vimeo ). A little like this video that someone posted asking a similar question but it wasn't answered (I ATE EVERYONE ?! SOLO AGARIO GAMEPLAY (Agar.io) - YouTube ) I'd rather not render the composition and use the motion tracking, I figured there's an easy way to do this since it's already a shape. I created the animation by drawing the path and then creating a null layer following the path and then the circle is connected to it. Or parented I guess.  (See attachment on layers).I need to do like 10 of these, different path being followed so I was hoping something easily repeatable. I've read bout "Basic Object Tracking" but I can't find it, only find 1 point motion tracking and that only works when the composit

Hi If I create an AEGP using the c++ SDK. Is it then possible to detect if a new project have been opened or created? Either by some type of event or in the IdleHook? Somewhat related: Does the events descriped here work in AEGPs? https://ae-plugins.docsforadobe.dev/effect-ui-events/effect-ui-events.html  Thanks,Jakob

Hi,I have a custom workspace set up in AE. However, every time my project autosaves and sometimes when I import new assets all the panels resize, some crush up to one side, some spread wide in the middle. On some occasions, panels will even disappear.It used to be that I could reset to saved workspace and it would correct itself - though this is tedious when I have to do it after every autosave - but since the CC2018 update, this no longer works. It seems like AE isn't saving my layout but is saving this squashed and stretched layout instead and I can't overwrite it.I have also saved it under new names and that doesn't work.It's beginning to drive me mad, not to mention interfering with my workflow.Any help is gratefully received.Thanks