After Effects

Using After Effects 17.5.1 right now, and noticed that there is a new "feature" that turns Alt+Mouse Scroll Wheel into a camera dolly tool when your timeline has a 3D Layer. Normally when you use Alt+Scroll on the Composition Panel, you zoom into the cursor position on your composition. I use this all the time while I'm working because it takes so much less time than using only your scroll wheel or the zooming keyboard shortcuts "," "."and then finding your Comp POI with the Hand Tool. With this new version of After Effects, this functionality is lost once you add a 3D layer. I never have needed/wanted to use the camera dolly tool in this way. Is there a way to turn this off?

This seems like a fairly obvious and simple question, but I can't find the answer anywhere. I'm relatively new to AE--I come from the audio world in which it is possible to trim an audio clip right down to the teensiest waveform--in literally any DAW that exists. So why wouldn't it be possible to do that right within AE? We recorded the audio for our current project in ProTools, separately from the video, and now it's about half a frame off from the video. Ultimately, it will be hard to notice, but even so, it's eating me up--there's gotta be a way (other than going into Premiere---we don't have any cuts, just one shot with green screen and animation, so it doesn't make sense to link to Pr).

Any one knows if those blast smoky kind of bursting effects from hollow knight game can be done in after effects? Or are they hand-animated?  Hollow knight fx clip https://youtu.be/A6lFn1m3DBI?si=blIqMq8hAy4M_J48

Hello,   Mukesh Karkey here , My After Effects previews are incredibly slow. I’ve heard adjusting settings can help, but what are the most effective ways to get faster RAM previews? [Title edited by moderator]

Hey folks, recently I've found something weird inside AE project.The thumbnai, of "project" tab show colors washed out. I'm using sRGB workspace because i work with many compositions from PS and AI, so its the best way to keep colors consistent. But i've found this color mismatch today, and it looks weird. If I change the color workspace from my project to none, it shows the real color (like the library or if I use overlord to send the color palette to AE project). And here's the doubt: If I set the color workspace to sRGB, the color palette looks the same as Illustrator, but if I change it to None, it looks more saturated (but the thumbnail keeps the real color). image 1: color workspace sRGB -color palette from libraryimage 2: same color palette trough overlord - and srgb workspace (the real color)image 3: none colorspace - color palette from libraryimage 4: same color palette trough overlord - and srgb workspace (over saturated color)How can I fix this, or i

US = Guys, I made a 3D text in After and when rendering, After does not use the memory in the render in the composition that has the 3D text... in the other one that does not have 3D text it uses almost 70% of the memory. What could it be? (macbook M4) PT =  Galera, fiz um texto 3D no after e na hora de renderizar o after não usa a memória no render na composição que tem o texto 3D .. na outra que não tem texto 3D ele usa quase 70% da memória. O que pode ser? (macbook M4)

when working in the Advanced 3D space, the Clone Brush will only paint once on a layer that is a Composition. attempting to use the clone brush again, has no effect. have a Comp with one Precomposed layer, set current comp to use the Advanced 3D renderer.On the Precomposed piece of footage, open the layer window. use the clone brush in the footage window (alt click to sample and then draw a stroke) - clone brush works attempt to clone again. clone brush will not draw again on that layer. The clone brush will not be able to draw more than one clone stamp brush stroke. The brush tool can continue to paint, but not the clone tool. Footage layers are not affected by this as the Clone brush can paint on those without issue, it's only on Compositions. if there is only a single brush stroke on the layer, the clone brush will not draw. having the clone stroke in the effects-timeline selected should replace that currently selected stroke, but not here. switchi

I am using the Track Motion feature to straighten out a video that goes out of balance at different points. I am using the method that was provided to me here: https://www.reddit.com/r/videography/comments/1n4ircl/comment/nbmlnd8/ The method seems to be working, but I'm not sure how long it's supposed to be taking. For a 45 minute video, to do both track points, it takes about 4 hours to process. I am making the tracking box as small as possible, and clearing cache/memory before processing, using a video that was converted to ProRes 422. My computer specs are below: ProcessorIntel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz (1.99 GHz)Installed RAM32.0 GB (31.8 GB usable)System type64-bit operating system, x64-based processorEditionWindows 11 ProVersion24H2OS build26100.6584ExperienceWindows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.234.0 So am I getting the best processing time I can with my specs, or should be this working faster with some tweaks?

I've got some guide layers in my comp, and on playback within After Effects, they aren't showing. I can see them when paused. My understanding of guide layers is that they show within After Effects, including on preivew, but won't render upon export. At least…that's how they've worked in all my years of experience! Anyway, I'm sure I've got some box checked that I don't know about that's responsible for this. Let me know what you guys know. Thanks!

I am running scripts in After Effects, and the progress dialog appears to allow to long a string in the dialog title. See the attached screenshot.  Script to run so you can repro: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nqqe8xyfkxpsmvy2l9fsi/Copper-Kings-100-Section-Animation-2026.jsx.zip?rlkey=9are1z8p593z722om2e9iykvw&dl=0  After Effects 25.4.0 (build 86)

I am facing a problem of sx32w.dll Boris fx ( after effects )I removed the Boris fx plugs and the error still didn't go awayHelp me!

Hey, I’m having an issue in After Effects.I’m trying to use the Crop Edge effect from Effects & Presets, but it’s not working properly. It seems to be locked at 5%and I can’t crop any further. Do you know how to fix this?screen record video link-https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j7WcGh2YdTNEKjA8Da8RAvJCV3_1kwT4/view?usp=share_link

Hi every one. I want to make a website to edit the after effect projects (.aep) files and then render them to make online videos.the scenario is :1- i make some editable aep files and put them into the server in a website2- users get online and put their data into inputs in website (text, logo and  etc.)3- the server must gets the data from user and update the aep files with new data from user4- server renders the data with aerender to make video outputs for user.and the AE must be installed on the server.Are these steps right? can i edit/update aep files with new data with EXTENDSCRIPT?I want to make something like renderforest.com website.another question is how can i make editale aep files? any approach or help or startpoint or anything will be great.thanks.

Better Forum Post Subject: After Effects Crashing on Basic Projects (High-End PC)Hi everyone,I'm experiencing persistent crashes with After Effects, even on very basic projects. I've been unable to pinpoint the cause and am hoping someone here might have some insight.My system specs are as follows:Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KS (24 Cores, 32 Logical Processors)Graphics: 2x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090RAM: 192GBMotherboard: Z790 AORUS MASTERI've attached the crash logs and screenshots of the error messages. If anyone can take a look and has an idea of what might be causing this, I would be extremely grateful.Thanks in advance for your help!

I consistently experience a problem when trying to select a font for a Text Layer using the Properties Panel or Character Panel. Typing anything in the font combobox to search for a font produces the following error:After Effects warning: Unknown BIB Error. bad INDEX offset array, CT, 0 (83::3)Dismissing the error by clicking OK, the error immediate pops up again, rendering After Effects unusable from this point forward. Additionally, if the project is not saved and an initial save prompt is displayed in the middle of the infinite loop of the above errors, saving or dismissing the Save As dialog will cause After Effects to then crash. Steps to reproduce:1. Create a text layer.2. Open the Properties Panel or Character Panel3. With the text layer selected in the timeline, focus the font combobox in the Properties Panel or Character Panel and begin typing. The "INDEX" in all caps makes me wonder if it's a property of a particular font that is trying to be read during enumer

This is something I use constantly to navigate quickly around the stage to zoom in and out of specific areas so I am just super confused why, after all these years, that would be removed unless it was a mistake.

I want to paint a simple white stroke as the top most layer.That way, it doesn't matter the layers bellow. It could be a shape layer, a text, some footage. Anything would be coverd by that white paint stroke. I've found a way:I create a Solid Layer and place it as top layer. Then I double click on it to open its layer panel, select the Brush Tool and stroke away. Finally I just click the "Paint on trasparent" check box and voilá. That white stroke is over everything else.Only problem is: I can't be accurate. I'm not painting directly on the screen. I'm painting on a separate panel that doesn't show all the content bellow (all the layers bellow). So there is a especificaly spot I need to paint over but is hard to get there.I have to paint over there to see the results over here. There is got to be a smarter way of doing itIt's hard to be accurate when you're blind. I need to paint specifics spots of that of that W letter.

Hi, Hope someone can enlighten me with this codec. The job I'm working on will be displayed on a giant screen. Clients requested that the export should be HAP. I understand this is a Mac feature, not sure how I can have this via After Effects, I did search online and did'nt get much info, can anypne please advise how we can export from AE or Premier? Im on windows. I saw this would you advise I dowloand it?https://autokroma.com/AfterCodecs/ Thanks in advance! 

I was on AE25.1 and project load time was just fine (note, this is the time in the startup modal before the full window loads). I updated to version 25.4 and the startup time jumped to >10s. I imagine this is intentional on Adobe's side—maybe some kind of scan was added— but this needs to be fixed/optimized. I even tested the Render only mode and it too experienced significant startup costs.Running on Mac OS Sequoia Mac Mini

Current behaviour:Manual selection with Mouse = displays layer Info in the Info Panel(This is very cool)Switching to the next layer above or below with a keyboard shortcut = Does not Update Info Panel. Expected Behaviour:When a layer is selected the Info panel always shows its information. Why this matters:Cycling through layers using keyboard shortcut and the info being displayed in the Info panel is a fast way of assessing and choosing layers, especially if they do not have meaningful names ThanksTris (P.S. when will keyboard shortcut moveing the timeline to Layer In and Out properly update the timeline marker? This has been a bug for a decade!)When are you going to stop forcing me to tag and remove the title character limit!? 

I've never had this problem before so I'm a bit lost to whats caused it. When I try to use a 3D layer and I select the layer my composition displays this.And if I rotate it and unselect the layer, it becomes distorted like this I've tried to find other people who have this problem but their "solutions" don't seem to overlap with mine. I've got classic 3D on, active camera and 1 view- which seemed to fix similar issues. I'm not really sure what to do.

I've been using After Effects 25.1 recently and noticed a recurring issue when importing .mp3 files—they often get automatically truncated. For instance, a 30-second audio file might only import the first 5 seconds. Even after clearing the cache or renaming the file and re-importing, the problem still occurs. To work around this, I’ve had to re-export the audio through Audition before importing it back into AE, which resolves the issue. Is this a known bug in this version?

Hi, dear community, I'm familiarizing myself (sloooowly) with various TRACKING methods in AE.(Yes, MOCHA is by far the most reliable tool, but still ...)After running 'TRACK CAMERA', when I- draw a shape layer onto an object (frame around a monitor)- and then toggle the layer as a '3D layer' --> it jumps to the right (see attached video). I have already tried centering the anchor point in the shape; to no avail.The footage / clip in the COMP is not scaled in any way.  Many, many thanks in advance & with my very best greetings from Switzerland,Sandro