After Effects

Hi everyone,I am receiving the message above in screen crab when I activate the 3d effect on any layer, the message appears, and the rest of the work stops. The message is showing that "Cannot create font 'Tahoma", but actually, this is an incorrect message. I don't have the font Tahoma installed in my system.If one has the same glitch or something, please guide me on how to get rid of this issue. It is very annoying, and I am also not able to work on 3d in AEs.

Estoy aprendiendo a hacer un tipo de edición y me sucede que quiero hacer la capa del texto matte alpha de la capa luz pero no tengo forma de hacerlo a menos que retire que la capa sea 3D. Como muestro en el video, en el tutorial la persona tiene sus capas en 3D y le aparece para convertir sus capas en matte alpha pero yo toda capa que esta activada en 3D me quita la posibilidad de convertirla en matte alpha. De que forma podría solucionar esto?

When exporting a video in After Effects 2025, is there a way to reduce the file size without changing the canvas size? I tried lowering the bitrate, but it still says the file size will change when I export it. Why is this?

I'm new to AE.  I want to create a moving mask which follows a shape (a human body) so that I can mask out the background and replace it. How?

Hi, I want to loop the start and end of trim path but randomly for each line.. like line 1 start it's loop at 2 second, line 3 at 4 second. and none of them will overlap with one another's animation timing, I mean suddenly line 2 start its loop and line 3 and line 1 are not looping, again when line 1 looping line 2 and 3 not animating. . they will happen solo at their own time. And I want this to continue for as long as the main comp goining on, say 20 second, each line will be in a loop but different timing... . How can I write the expression? Thank you. 

I'm working on a plugin that deals with Alembic 3D files. I can parse the geometry in the .abc and load it. What I really want is for that data to populate a dropdown menu in the plugin. But I can't seem to make the dropdown menu dynamic. So, when I select my .abc layer in After Effects comp, I can't get it to populate the dropdown with info from that file. This reminds me of how "Visible Layers" in the Mocha plugin works. It dynamicly loads info from Mocha, but it's in a popup menu. What is that technique called?

So any clip i use position keyframes that are easy eased or seperated keyframes aswell, or anything like that it shows a very glitched graph like this, I reinstalled after effects, tried to do a new project etc but i dont know how to fix it, and it was normal before.

So I have a stroke animation animating with vegas with a 3D camera in the comp. Problem is as my camera starts to move, my strokes start to flicker/jitter. I am using Continous Rasterization on my layer and this is the result. Although If I turn OFF the Continous Rasterization the problem goes away but I lose my quality and thats not what I want. I want to animate my layers with vegas only and without losing quality. Any potential fix for this or any other workaround?Comp settings:-1920 x 1080-24 fps-32 bpc   

Hello!I work with the latest version of AE (18.0.1.) and now am trying to paint some  simple dots on a solid (after double clicking on it), but the size of the brush won't change when I open the brush window. On the screenshot you can see the window, it seems to be dead, doesn't react on clicking on it. Does anybody know the problem and has a solution? Probably it is something completely obvious, but I jaust cannot see it 🙂Thanks and cheers!

please help me thoroughly , how to make this type of reel 

In the video, i've used the typewriter preset on the "running". However, i cant use it on the "down" because it starts typing from the d (i want the ball to reveal it as it bounces). Ive tried reversing keyframes using the assistant but that just looks like the text is slowly being deleted. How can i make it so the "down" is revealed backwards?

Hey everyone,I’m having a weird issue in After Effects and I’m stuck.Every time I try to export a composition using Render Queue, I get this error:“After Effects error: An unexpected error occurred while exporting a composition. Error Code: 19972.”I’ve tried restarting AE and my computer, clearing cache, and changing the output format/folder… but it still happens.Has anyone run into this before? Any tips or fixes would be amazing!Thanks a lot 

Here it is: https://youtu.be/OXCNKZnXjeYThe two color properties are master properties. The two comps have the same fps.

Hi everyone, I've run into the same problem with the Ae Roto Brush a few times now and it's more or less making it impossible to use the tool at all; Whenever I finish rotobrushing a video clip and go back to the composition window, when I change anything in the composition that somehow triggers the Roto Brush to completely restart the propagating process, which can be very time consuming. Those changes don't even need to be something related to the rotobrush, even stuff like adding a text layer or just looking at a different part of the compisition can trigger this to happen.  Has anyone had this same problem? 

I now open the project and it crashes after a while. Sometimes it crashes directly. My driver is the latest version, and AE is also the latest version. I don’t know what the problem is, so I can only come here for help.

I want to create a sphere with TC Form, with an exact number of 36 customized particules (each particules representing a Football Club Logo). I managed to put all my logos in a comp, setting this comp as a texture in TC Form with with Time Sampling set on Split Clip - Loop, and the number of clips set on 36. But there is always duplicates in my sphere and some logos missing, never the exact 36 logos. Any idea how to fix this ? Thanks !

Hey guys, I've been using bodymoving for a while now. Usually for .json files.Today I needed to export an animation as a rive project then tadaaa.Bodymovin is asking me if I have enabled "Preferences > Scripting & Expressions > Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network? Well duh, I've been using you since I don't remember when?And yes it's checked and enabled and whatevered.I am using AE 23.5.0 anybody have this issue?Thanks in advancedB.

Hi team,we are facing this issue while trying to process video fileswarning: Audio conforming failed for the following file: "xxxx" Do we have this fixed this in any new versions/ What is root cause for this

Motion tile stopped working like it used to. If I change the output width or height over 100, over a turbulent displaced effect, it just crops everything... It works fine on 2024 😞

I have had After Effects for months and never had an issue with it. For some reason, when I booted it up today, it opens then crashes immediately. I then recieve this error message:Process: AfterFX.exe [20632]Product Version: 17.5.0.40File Version: 17.5.0.40Code Type: x64Parent Process: explorer.exe [5468]Date/Time: 2025-08-29 14:30:04 GMT Summer TimeOS Version: 10.0.26100.4768Time Awake Since Boot: 94 secondsCrashed thread: 55 [23032] THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMALException Code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATIONException Parameters: Access violation reading location 0x00007ffd4c956458Exception Message: 3221225477 The instruction at 0x%p referenced memory at 0x%p. The memory could not be %s. I'm not techcnical, so I have no idea what this means. I really need help as I have many projects to finish. I have tried updating my drivers but nothing has worked. I have not tampered with the files, they've been untouched for ages. Thank you!

Please fix the confusing migration confirmation dialogue box (popup), which is is needlessly unclear and needs revision. The migration confirmation dialogue asks a yes-or-no type question and provides a very clear negative option for a response. However, it provides two options for a positive response (I think), but which are bewildering. Each button just shows the application name and a version identifier: After Effects (25.3) and After Effects (25.2), Illustrator (29.7.2) and Illustrator (29.7.1), etc. Is this the new version and the version I was using last? Is this two versions where settings were detected? What version am I using when I see this? (Hmmm. I don't know. I can't check without answering first.) What happens when I select either version?