After Effects

How do i create a 3d path from a shape (ie a circle) for an object to follow?It is easy to do with text as it has more advanced path options but i cannot figure out how to do it with an image. I create a circle shape layer, enable 3d and change the orientation. I then convert it to a bezier path and pastethe position onto my object. But when I do this, it just is inserted as a 2d path (ie before i had changed the orientation). Ive seen a lot of people post the same problem and the answers always suggest either: using the pen tool - i want a perfect cicrle and this is very hard / time consuming to achieve using a null object - same as above and also less orient options than a path. it seems like this should be simple? can anyone help?

I'm working on a plugin where very small differences in keyframe timing affect the final result.From what I understand, keyframe times in the SDK are represented by A_Time:typedef struct { A_long value; A_u_long scale;} A_Time; For example, suppose I have a 60 fps composition with a duration of 666 ms. A keyframe is intended to be placed at 13.947372 ms.Since AE uses a time scale of 30720 ticks/second, that time corresponds to:13.947372 ms × 30720 / 1000 = 428.46 ticksBecause only whole ticks can be stored, the keyframe becomes:428 ticksor428 / 30720 = 13.932292 msWhen I later retrieve it:A_Time kfTime;AEGP_GetKeyframeTime(stream, keyIndex, AEGP_LTimeMode_LayerTime, &kfTime);I only receive those integer tick values. The original time of 13.947372 ms appears to be unrecoverable. My question:Is the integer A_Time representation the fundamental precision limit of After Effects, or is there any SDK/API that can recover keyframe times with greater precision than the tick values

After Effects version 26.0 freezes when I use the 3D camera with two views. After Effects version 26.0 freezes when I use the 3D camera with two views.Since version 24, After Effects has had this problem of freezing the view on two screens when using the 3D camera. At first, I thought it was due to my PC's configuration, but I recently upgraded it and the problem persists. I've reset the After Effects settings several times and it's still the same. Now, something strange is that if I work with only one view, After Effects doesn't freeze, so I only work with that single view currently. Screenshot of the frozen screen:PC specifications:Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro version 10.0.26200CPU: Intel Core i7-10700F 2.90GHzRAM: 32 GB DDR4Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070SSD: 1.8 TB

New to AE and I have been following this tutorial to get my mouth syncing working.  Unfortunately nothing shows. Anyone got any ideas of what I am doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.  

Hey guys!I saw a really cool text transition in a Minecraft video (0:20)And I'm trying to recreate it. The creator mentioned they only used Premiere Pro and After Effects for their editing workflow.The effect is a fast camera fly zoom to the sky where a 3D text (like "INTRODUCING") appears in the middle of the screen, perfectly locked in place with zero jitter.I tried using the 3D Camera Tracker in After Effects, and also tried 2D tracking (Position + Scale), but because of the repeating Minecraft textures and the fast camera rush, the text constantly jitters, shakes, or the tracker points just slide off the blocks.How is this transition actually made? What is the proper, clean workflow in Premiere or AE to get that rock-solid, smooth look without any shaking?Thanks in advance!

My computer has 32.0 GB RAM but I often see 92% of RAM is used when I worked with certain Ae. I wish to increase the RAM. Is 64 GB enough for Ae or I have to go for 128 GB. 

Hey there, I updated my AE and my User Animations presets are gone. Is there any way to recover them? Cheers,Rui

Has anyone figured this out yet? I am in ACEScg, I have to use a brand colour given to me by a client. R255 G79 B64 #FF4F40This is supposed to be the method to make it work. It doesn’t. Why is there not a simple solution for this? Maxon made it happen in C4D. The maths must convert somehow, but how?

WARNINGI recently purchased an expensive new Mac Studio M4 for my work as a motion graphics artist. specs PROCESSOR AND GRAPHICS 065-CGWJ M4 MAXWITH 16C CPU, 40C GPUMEMORY 065-CGWP 64GB UNIFIED MEMORY  I needed a reliable, powerful main machine for my work having previoulsy been using a 2017 Imac which has been great for the past 7 years, but started to slow down noticably in the past year or so. I have been using the new Mac Studio machine over these past 2 weeks for some important element 3d/4k work which I began on my old machine. Unfortunately I have been plagued with constant freezes, crashes and GPU memory failures when attempting to render even png sequences from After effects desite paying extra for 40 cores of GPU . . . .(see attached images)  I have never seen these errors appearing on any project on the much older and less spec 2017 imac in all the years of intense After effects work i put it through, And, moreover did not expect to see err

 Hello,I am using Adobe After Effects 2026. I am unable to see the dropdown menu for changing the mask mode (e.g., Add, Subtract, etc.) on the 'Mask 1' line of my layer. Can you help?

Just seems like an easy win when people keep asking for it.  It's just basic functionality really. 

Hello, Issue Description:I have searched for this issue, tried multiple troubleshooting ideas, but cannot seem to find any similar issues or fixes that work.I press play in the preview buttonAE proceeds to cache all of the frames in my workspace (full green bar)The play icon is displayed but I see no playback/no audio, and timeline marker does not moveThe timeline marker just appears to freeze as shown below. You can see the preview status (square) acts as if it's playing, and all frames are cached, but the playback is just frozen.If I press the stop preview button, the timeline marker will jump back 1 frame specificallySee below screengrab from this frozen preview:It happens at any playback resolution (full/half/quarter/auto) and any location in my timeline.  The weird thing is I can get RAM preview to work properly upon my first initial startup of AE. Once I make more than a couple edits to my comp and try to preview though, the freezing playback issue occurs again. On

On the project I am working on I used the auto tracing along with the generate stroke effect on the hands of the logo. I notice the tracing isn’t as clean as I would like and the lines aren’t dark enough for me to properly see them. I changed the size of the pixels and the brush hardness. 

The MIR effect doesn’t work for me. Every time I apply it, the whole comp goes dark and I get this error: “After Effects error: MIR: OpenGL error: Could not allocate texFBO (glFlush()) (512) (25::241)”. This only happens with MIR. Other Trapcode effects like Particular and Tao work fine.I’ve already tried reinstalling different AMD driver versions (clean installs), reinstalling Windows, installing OpenGL compatibility packs, and using older versions of the plugin and After Effects. Nothing helped.I use a single monitor, my GPU is an RX 580 8GB, and my CPU doesn’t have integrated graphics. Other effects that use OpenGL work normally. Tech support told me there have been issues with AMD drivers, but if that was the case, old versions should have worked — and they don’t.I don’t know what else to try. Has anyone run into this and found a solution?

Hello,  Im trying to open in after effects 24.6.2 a file from 24,0 but I´m getting the following error message. Is there any chance that I can open? I have the same problem with all files.Thanks!

I'm experiencing what appears to be a VRAM memory leak in Adobe After Effects.When working on a project, GPU VRAM usage gradually increases over time, especially when repeatedly adjusting effect properties or previewing the composition. The VRAM is not properly released, eventually reaching the full 16 GB capacity and causing After Effects to crash due to running out of GPU memory.What's strange is that even after closing the project, the VRAM usage remains high instead of being released. The only reliable way to free the VRAM is to completely close After Effects.Here's what I've already tried:- Purging all caches- Switching the renderer to Mercury Software Only- Reinstalling the GPU driverThe issue still occurs. I have also observed similar VRAM behavior in Premiere Pro.My system:- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16 GB VRAM)- CPU: Intel Core i5-14400F- RAM: 48 GB- Windows 11 25H2- After Effects version: 26.3Has anyone experienced a similar issue?Is this a known problem with After Effects,

I'm trying to find an effect that is equal to Flip Horizontal.I want the objec to flip from one side of the screen to the other. What Effect can I use for this?

After effects recently did an auto update and now I see the New viewer option is gone??This is a crucial funtion I need to see how my precomps update in the main comp.  Is this a mistake? Has it moved somewhere else?? After Effects 25.2.2 

When I hit play, it starts playing after 2 seconds or so when I use the Studio Display XDR speakers. If I change the speakers to MacBook Pro speakers or my audio interface, the latency goes away.

Dear all,I am hyper-new to After Effects but I could not refuse this job as it is for a friend so I need to learn this and just do it! I have gone through all of the ‘Learn’ in-app tutorials but, regardless, I am stuck. The project is about animating music notation transformation over a musical score. The process is therefore something like this:prepare the notation file in the music notation program export it in SVG (or PDF, but I prefer to work in SVG, unless you think PDF is better for this) import SVG in Illustrator (Ai), adjust the colours and layers (every object that needs to be moved on its own layer as instructed). animate in After Effects (Ae)Now, since the Ae canvas is in 1920x1080, I’ve created an Ai document with an dartboard of the same size and imported the SVG in it. I manipulated it as needed, then saved it as an .ai file. In Ae, I’ve created a new project, then pressed Cmd-I to import, selected the .ai file and, from the dropdown, changed the type to ‘Composition - Re

 Mi pc no soporta la ultima version,tengo una i core 7 de segunda generacion con una tarjeta nividia 960 drr4,me dice q probando un after effect mas antiguo de la version 23 me puede servir,como puedo conseguir esas versiones antiguas??

Whenever I click the dropdown to change the font for text, it glitches, won't let me, and says that error, "After Effects warning: cannot create font [insert font]" (a few different fonts have been cited). I'm by no means talented with this software, I'm a Premiere woman, but I've tried all the basics. Trash preferences, clear cache, new project, restart AE, restart computer, etc. Is anyone familiar with this error?

I undocked the Lumetri window because I wanted to drag it to the right side of the screen (it appeared on the left). I positioned it where I wanted, but as you can see, the window doesn't have a "dock window" option, so now I still have a separate window. 

IssueAfter Effects 26.3.0.87 hard-quits while idle in the background (no render, no preview, no user interaction; focus in another application). Exception 0xc0000409 FAST_FAIL_STACK_COOKIE_CHECK_FAILURE (stack buffer overrun detected, fail-fast via int 29h) in dvacore.dll. Captured twice via WER LocalDumps in different projects: both minidumps show the IDENTICAL WinDbg failure hash {b7cd505e-b164-73b2-29c1-7bd10998cdc0} and identical faulting address dvacore+0x340e1d, so this is one deterministic defect, independent of project content.Faulting thread (both dumps identical, export symbols only):  dvacore (fail-fast at dvacore+0x340e1d)  dvacore!dvacore::threads::MultiTenantRecursiveMutex::UnlockFromReading  dvacore!...::ScopedReadLockWrapper::~ScopedReadLockWrapper  MC!MC_Stuff::IsInMemory  MC!MC_Stuff::~MC_Stuff  MC!MC_Stuff::`vbase destructor'  BEE!BEE_WorkQueue_RegisterListener (+0x4eab)  BEE!BEE_ItemFinder::GetItem (+0x13940)  BEE!BEE_RenderState::WorkQueue_SetItemCurrent (+0xe46b) 

the problem started with me changing the all the files from C: drive to another drive, not only did it lost its application logo, but also frequently crashes when trying to mask, the masking feature only has box select and not auto or custom part select, is this problem beacause i moved the file from the C: drive to E: drive, both the drives are of the same nvme and are only seperate beacuse of partation, so why does it glitched so much