After Effects

I was trying to make a montage on after effects and all of a sudden I experienced this glitch when I played back the video. The resolution and fps of the compostion was 1280x640 60 fps and the clip's resolution and fps was 1920x1080 50-60 fps (sadly not constant it was variable framerate I think). I thought it was a glitch because of compostion settings but when I made a new compostion with the exact details (dragged the video to the make comp button) it still showed the glitch. The glitch occured multiple times and seemed to divide the video in two halves. Here's a picture of a non glitched frame, and of a glitched one non-respectively. Please help, The same issue occured in Premiere Pro though I don't have any screenshots. Hardware:I5-4300U - CPUIntel HD Graphics Family - GPU8 GB DDR3 - RAM1920x1080p 75 hertz - Display

Hi everyone. Trying to figure out how to implement motion blur for my plugin. In a nutshell, exactly what code I would need would be CC Force Motion Blur. I don't really at all understand how concept of motion blur should work, so any help would be much appreciated. Even better, code example would be great. My plugin mostly uses transform_world. Thanks!

How do you expand the buffer correctly, because I always get the "invalid max_result_rect" error from AE and how do you SAMPLE in that expanded buffer? What do you do with Distortions or Blurs? They are supposed to sample out of bounds. This little issue here is just beyond my capabilities I swear. I just can't comprehend the fact that I managed to implement GPU Acceleration for CUDA, OpenCL, Metal and DirectX, and I can't do something as simple as expanding the buffer and sampling out of bounds. You all should really update the SDK with a sample plugin that does this, there's only Resizer which is a non-SmartFX plugin, that does not help at all, yk??Please provide example codes!

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? 

My question is fairly simple but haven't found a good solution yet. The image below shows all key-frames have been placed on a layer I am wondering is there any ways that can quickly space out those dots evenly. like this image below:I use photoshop / illustrator as well. they have a series of buttons like this: Does After Effect has something similar tools like that as well? if not, how can i quickly achieve the evenly space out dots.Thanks, Appreciated

I am trying to get a shape layer to orient along the path but i need to use expressions (i need it for a setting in stardust) .I can get it working if the path rotates in only 1 direction using these expressions on either the x, y or z rotation)delayT = framesToTime(effect("Orientation Delay")("Slider")); // seconds // Pilfered from dan Ebberts - https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/auto-orient-y-only.html p1 = thisComp.layer("Spin Controls") .toWorld(thisComp.layer("Emitter Light").transform.position, time); p2 = thisComp.layer("Spin Controls") .toWorld(thisComp.layer("Emitter Light").transform.position, time + delayT); delta = p2 - p1; // comment out the orientation required xOrient = radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(delta[2],delta[1])) + value; // yOrient = radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(delta[0],delta[2])) + value; // zOrient = radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(delta[1],delta[0])) + value;  However once i want to add say rotations i

Hey! Does any of you kind people have any experience with using the bodymovin plugin to convert AE animations to JSON files? I'm just doing a basic handwriting effect and plays out perfectly on AE. But when I export it, the things a mess. It writes all at the same time and misses out half the letters? Any help would awesome. Thanks folks!Gareth.

Also I'm not talking about the setting "Hardware accelerated composition, layer, and footage panels". Premiere Pro has the abillity to disable it but I can't find it on After Effects. GPU Accelerated UI Rendering causes the premeire pro/after effects window to lag when dragging it around or hovering over most UI buttons have "phantom" effects. It also makes the timeline and other stuff very slow. I never had this problem in Premiere Pro v24.

Hello,so I’ve downloaded an episode of a TV-series and when previewing all I hear is the background sound, not the voice of the actors. I’ve tried using .avi .mp4 but nothing seems to work (I‘m not really good at codecs and conversions). Help me please.Thanks in advance,alisic.kevin

Hi community,   After Effects 23.2.1 is now available for download from the Creative Cloud desktop application. This release contains critical bug fixes.   What's fixed? Fixed an issue that could cause layers and keyframes to update slowly while being moved around the timeline. Fixed an issue where MXF files with non-English filenames failed to import, instead showing an error - "Failed to import. Unsupported format or damaged file." Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to crash when using Roto Brush version 2.0 and Quality set to Best on macOS Ventura (version 13) on Apple silicon hardware.   How to update After Effects to version 23.2.1? Open the Creative Cloud desktop application and click the Updates tab on the top left. Find After Effects in the list and click Update. I don't see the update in my Creative Cloud desktop application. What should I do? Click Help > Check for Updates from the Creative Cloud desktop application to refresh it.   NOTE: Upda

Hi, I copied pasted the 'path' of the 'Line layer' into circle's 'position; property to animate it along with the line's path. but the scale gets bigger once I paste it.. Why does this happening. I drew it in Illustrator then used overlord (App) to bring the path into AE and scaled it a bit before I animated the 'Line' layer using trim path. Please help me.    

When I use duik, I select the desired hand shapes and start the generation by selecting the wrists from within the humanoid. As in this picture, there is no automatic connection between the bones and the illustrator layers. I have been repeating it like in the videos but I am not getting the connection. What can I do, how can I fix this? y.t. videostep 1step 2   

It's really starting to get old dealing with Adobe and their buggy products. My workflow is constantly getting screwed up by some stupid flaw in the software. Used to be having the top end Mac that's less than a year old would mean something. It's just one thing after another and it doesn't end with every update. What are we paying for? What are their developers doing to the software? This isn't how it used to be when you paid once and you got a version. Now it's like we're getting punished for having a monthly subscription. As I work on a tight deadline today, The new issue is you can't get the dropdowns to work. You can click on them. They'll flash for a sec and then they'll disappear. I'm on my third restart and it keeps happening and I'm about a half hour behind because of this. This is almost as fun as yesterday when the timeline would start but not stop until I forced quit. It just kept playing the timeline over and over on loop. At what point designers do we say e

My mac is no longer compatible with after effects, how can I download an older versions which worked fine in the past? 

Hello!  I've used AE quite a bit for fairly simple 2D animations. Now I need a very simple 3D object (a propellor) to spin, and the hub it's on to spin as well. The style of artwork is very simple vector ... an outline and a color inside. Two questions:1. How best to make this simple 3d shape?2. and... to match the rest of the artwork , it really needs a stroke (like some of the 3d cars you see in Family Guy, for example). Is this easy? it seems hard considering that the 3d object is rotating, now does the stroke stay on the perimeter?

 

I've got footage that I took via hand held so it is pretty unsteady.  But I have a gray plane (F-22 in this case) against either a nice blue sky or white fluffy clouds.  In both cases, it seems like it would be easy to track.  Many frames have motion blur due to the fact that I can't keep the camera steady but even with the nice clear clean frames, the tracker has problems.  There are times when it can go for 30 to 60 frames which is great but there are also times when it stops after eacy frame and I need to adjust it. I've set the options so that it stops tracking if confidence is below 80%.  I've tried RGB, Luminance, and Saturation.  I've tried with and without "Enhance Before Match".  I often set the point on the nose of the plane and set the inner square to about half way up the nose and the bigger square to be about twice as large as the inner square. Nothing I've tried seems to make a significant difference.  I'm wondering i

This is a new issue between 2024 and 2025 — when I copy from premiere timeline and paste into after effects it is encasing every clip copied into individual precomps. I want to keep files as native as possible between the two program's timelines. Is there a way to turn off this aut-enveloping of pasted files? (I would love to ask an adobe tech support person if this is a new intended behavior... and if so please don't. but since adobe has hidden all of their methods for contacting support — pushing all of us into this virtual lord of the flies system... i'm not holding my breath)

Dynamic Link between After Effects (25.1) and Premiere (25.1) is broken. I used to be able to drag an AE comp directly into the Premiere project panel to create the link—but now it does nothing. I can create the dynamic link in Premiere using File -> Adobe Dynamic Link -> Import After Effects Composition, but then anytime I make an edit to the comp in After Effects it goes Media Offline in Premiere. I've tried deleting Disk Cache for both programs, and restarting programs and computer. This is an integral part of my workflow and is really slowing me down right now. Please help. Computer specs:Apple MacBook Pro M3 MAX48GB MemorySequoia 15.3 OS

TL;DR After Effects is causing my external cloud drive to download all the files from the server at once, and I need to know why. I'm having a bit of a niche -- but serious -- issue that I need help with. My job uses a cloud service called Box Drive, which is a lot like Google drive or Dropbox. The drive is installed on my system and located on my operating system, so although all its files are on the cloud, from any software's perspective, they are just files that are located on my local drive. Box Drive will automatically download the files whenever a software requests access to them. The problem: I've been using Box with After Effects successfully for years, but this month, an issue started where everytime I open AE, Box attempts to download all files from the cloud at once (hundreds of terabytes worth of files), resulting in freezes, errors, and an unusable machine. This kind of problem can occur when some software is "scanning" the files, for example, if an antimalw

When trying to navigate within the VR comp editor using the orbit tool, it throws this error.  I can navigate by changing the rotation on the VR Master Cam Controller null, but not the orbit tool.  The footage I'm using is 7680x4320, and I'm on an iMac Retina 27-inch 2019 machine.  Any help is greatly apprecaited, as there seems to be next to no information regarding this error when searching both Adobe support threads and the internet in general.

Hey does anyone those how can I recreate this holographic sun-ray effect around my subject in After Effects?I'm working on an edit where I want an iridescent, holographic glow to radiate outward like sun rays but only around the subject, not affecting them directly. I found Chromawarp in Sapphire and played with Warp Amp & Frequency, but I'm struggling to refine the effect so it smoothly surrounds my subject without looking too distorted. maybe I should use displacement maps or radial blurs to achieve that fluid holographic light refraction? I remember seeing this effect and loving it, and l've noticed it appearing more in edits recently. I'd love to achieve it on my own, so if anyone has any tips or guidance, l'd greatly appreciate it! Thank you!

After Effects worked fine in the gratis test phase.Now I have bought the Adobe CC Pack.All the other creative cloud apps are working fine (Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, ...) but After Effects is crashing on every startup.Here is my crash Report:<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE AdobeCrashReport SYSTEM "AdobeCrashReporter.dtd"><crashreport serviceVersion="1.6.2" clientVersion="1.6.2" applicationName="After Effects" applicationVersion="15.0.1" build="73"><time year="2018" month="3" day="4" hour="11" minute="58" second="58"/><user guid="bc6cd8d5-0fe5-4cc3-8e0b-11a770ab01c2"/><system platform="Windows 10 Pro" osversion="10.0" osbuild="16299" applicationlanguage="en-us" userlanguage="da-DK" oslanguage="de-DE" ram="16265" machine="Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz" model="Intel64 Family 6 Model 78 Stepping 3" cpuCount="4" cpuType="8664" cpuFreq="2400 MHz"/><crash exception="EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" instruction="0x00007FFDC6ACFF79"><

My after effects was perfectly running fine yesterday. Today, one of my projects that I was working on crashed it and now the whole AE is not starting. I updated the graphic drivers to the latest, updated windows 10 and also made sure the  AE is also updated.  I even uninstalled all of CC apps and CC and used the Adobe clean up and re installed it and still not working. I tried ALT+SHIFT+CTRL on launch and reset preferences, still the same.  The crash report mentions the below.  Process: AfterFX.exe [21640]Path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2020\Support Files\AfterFX.exeProduct Version: 17.1.1.34File Version: 17.1.1.34Code Type: x64Parent Process: Adobe Desktop Service.exe [10720]Date/Time: 2020-08-23 00:35:14 AUS Eastern Standard TimeOS Version: 10.0.19041.292Report ID: Time Awake Since Boot: 1765 secondsCrashed thread: 16 [4944] THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMALException Code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATIONException Parameters: User-Mo

Whenever I place the effect on the text from the animation presets, the effects never appear in the effects control. It's Decrease tracking or all of them non of them show up