After Effects

Hey Yall Im having trouble figuring out how to add a keyframe, fill to this clip. where at the end it fills with color, I can get it keyframed with a solid color but I'm having trouble blacking out the 3 spaces in the middle of the logo... I need a way to post this looking professional so if yall could help me that would be great!

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone had any tutoails or guidence they can send my way. I was trying to create a splash explosion similar to this only in after effects  https://stock.adobe.com/video/water-splash-underwater-explosion-or-object-hitting-the-water-surface-3d-render/379479518#token_type=bearer&expires_in=86399996 I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to do it. I have been watcing a few red giant turoals but I was not sure if there was a better toolset or plugin to look into. Or ateast get somewhat close to the effect 

Bonjour! Il y a quelques semaines je suis passée d'un laptop à un Pc fixe plus performant. A chaque fois que je travaille sur des projets avec des effets (exemple CC particule, Bend it) le logiciel freeze, s'arrête instantannément ou met un message d'erreur. Bien souvent c'est le AfterFX.exe qui tombe en panne. J'ai déjà fait toutes les manipulations nécessaire : mise à jour des pilotes, installation et désinstallation, reboot, retour à Windows 10, retour aux version antérieurs d'After effect. Le problème est toujours là.Elodie29026523q639 a signalé le problème récement ici, mais j'ai bien un seul pilote installé contrairement à elle. Mon nouvel ordinateur : Je tourne sous Windows 11 Professionnel 24H2 26100.4946Carte graphique : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TI SUPERPilotes à jour : 581.15Processeur :  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700KFRAM : 32Vram :16J'ai envoyé un rapport d'erreur avec mon adresse mail après un crash.Merci d'avance pour votre aide!

I'm currently rendering a shot. Tons of FXs so it is taking a while. I accidentally pressed the spacebar and AE switched from the Render Queue panel to a Comp Timeline. EA is still rendering but I can't see the progress bar or the time remaining. How can I switch back to the Render Queue panel? I tried hitting the spacebar but it does nothing. Help, please. I'm using After Effects v18.4.1 because of some compatibility issues.

This bug causes incorrect color space to be exported when working with ACES CG. The project must be set up for ACES workflow. ACES 1.2, 32-bit, ACES CG. I work with EXRs that are also in ACES CG and are interpreted correctly. If you export the composition and leave the color management in the export tab set to “Working color space - ACES CG,” an incorrect color space is exported, namely ACES 2065-1. To work around the bug, you have to explicitly select ACES CG for it to work. Thank you for fixing it. 

It is well known that not all effects work when working in 32-bit mode in After Effects. Some colour modes are also affected and cannot be used in 32-bit mode, because otherwise the highlights in the footage will be greyed out.However, this bug also affects Add mode. This was never the case before, but since the latest updates, it has become a bug. The last version where I used it correctly is 25.1. thank you

Hallo,ich schreibe bewusst auf Deutsch, da ich ein deutschsprachiges After Effects habe und leider keine Idee habe, wie die Bezeichnungen der Tools auf Englisch heißen. Vielleicht liest ein netter Mensch mit, der ebenfalls ein deutschsprachiges After Effects hat und sich besser auskennt als ich. Ich möchte gerne zu Weihnachten eine 3D-Animation erstellen, bei der Weihnachtsgeschenke (vielleicht so 15 Stück) explosionsartig erscheinen und durch die Luft fliegen. Ich bin komplette AE Anfängerin und habe mir mit Chat GPT eine Anleitung erstellen lassen. Leider will es trotzdem nicht klappen. Ich habe Particle World gewählt, habe mit Alt die Geschenke dupliziert, habe sie unter Texture auch zumindest eines ausgewählt. Es bewegt sich rein gar nichts. Explosion habe ich eingestellt und auch Texture Square. Velocity 3, Gravity 0. So wie es mir die KI gesagt hat. Gemini hingegen behauptet, es würde ohne ein Plugin nicht klappen, leider ist dies kostenpflichtig und ich kann es mir überhaup

I’m on version 25.4 and was able to import QuickTime (MP4) videos from a coworker yesterday,  they screen recorded them on their iPad. But when I try to import MP4s recorded on my own iPad, After Effects gives me the error: “The source compression type is not supported and this ‘MooV’ file is damaged or unsupported." The videos aren’t corrupted, they play fine in QuickTime and Preview.  When I tested the same files in After Effects 24, they imported without any issues. Does anyone know what’s causing this and how to fix it? 

cada vez que estoy en after effects y utilizo la herramienta o scripts de motion tool se cierra, dando un mensaje de error.

In one comp I already use Null A to drive the size/scale of a group of elements. I also need a Null B to control the opacity of many layers (bars, logos, etc.) without: pre-composing those layers, orpick-whipping opacity one by one (sometimes 50+ links).Ideally, I could bulk-link multiple layers’ opacity to a single controller (null/effect controller), with a quick way to (re)connect/disconnect layers, and have it coexist with the existing parenting for Scale (a kind of “multi-control”: parenting for Scale + global controller for Opacity).An explanatory video is attached to the ticket to show the current setup and the desired outcome. video explanatory and desire result 

Hi, I'm using Ae version 23.2 and Animate version 23.0.1 (which I believe are the latest versions) however I am unable to import .FLA files into Ae. This appears to be a known issue in previous versions going back to threads in 2020 - surprised it's still an issue with the latest versions. In any case, can anyone help?  I have restarted my machine and also uninstalled / reinstalled both apps. Same error which reads as follows  'An error occured while importing this file. Please try again.' Ae tries to import the .FLA file for around 30 seconds before bringing up a box with this error message every time. (I've attached a screen shot). Please help 😉 

Hello, how are you? I am having a problem that I believe to be a memory leak, both in Premiere, but mainly in After Effects.Any simple task causes After Effects to consume all available RAM. For example, a simple animation of a shape's position without any effects attached consumes 23 GB. Can anyone help? I've never had problems like this before... I feel like I could do more when I had 8GB of RAM lolMy setup is a Ryzen 5 5600 | 32 GB RAM | GeForce 2080 graphics

In After Effects, I animate bars (shape layers) with Trim Paths to change their length. I want a logo (or a null) to automatically follow the bar’s tip, with no manual Position keyframes. I’m looking for a native or expression-based solution to fetch the path tip position according to Trim Paths (End/Start) and attach the logo there (ideally with matching orientation/tangent).Goal: I only adjust Trim Paths (or bar size) and the logo instantly follows the bar’s end. video explanatory and desired results  

In AE 2025, when I switch from an external app back into After Effects and try to click on a property in the Essential Graphics panel (e.g. a text field), there’s a delay of a few seconds before it becomes active.Thanks,Gali

I have Adobe Creative cloud, and I downloaded Adobe Animate, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Media Encoder on my MacBook Air.And everything that I downloaded seem to work perfectly fine except for After Effects!When I tried to open After Effects, an error popped up saying, "After Effects warning: Metadata Browser is missing." So I clicked 'ok' but then another error popped up saying, "After Effects can't continue: The Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite couldn't be loaded. You may need to reinstall." Then the software quit on itself and said "After Effects can't continue: unexpected failure during application startup"I didn't know what Metadata Browser or CEP was, but I did what it told me to do and I uninstalled After Effects then reinstalled it. Then I tried to reopen it but it didn't work and the same things popped up again. So I kept reinstalling it, I tried to turn off my computer then reinstalling it, I tried to reinstall both After Effect

hi guys, does someone know how to show my Distribute layers in AE? It is hard for me to space graphics because the absence of this feature. please Help

Good evening, I spent some time looking for a solution, but I did not find anything on the Internet. Please advise! After adding the Bend effect, and any other distortion effect. The anchor point of this effect is not attached to the figure, and when moving the figure, the points remain in place. While the figure can be at the other end of the composition.The effect is as if it is attached to the center of the composition, not to the figure. Even if I attach it to it.

Sorry if this is a stupid or obvious question.  Usually, you hit f4 to bring up the track matte column, right? But ever since switching to MacBook 15" where the f keys are substituted by the touch bar, that short cut won't work.  (even by holding function key).  I also can't access it by right clicking "switch" and selecting "column," as shown on a track matte tutorial.  I'm on the latest AE, by the way.  Can anyone tell me how to bring up the trkmatte options?Thanks!

Issue:When previewing a composition in After Effects, the video continues to play, but the red timeline indicator (playhead) gets stuck or freezes. This issue did not occur previously.Steps Taken to Troubleshoot:Ran After Effects in Safe Mode with no third-party plugins.Installed the latest NVIDIA Studio Driver instead of NVIDIA Game Ready Driver.Rolled back to After Effects v24.6.5 to test for version-related issues.System Information:OS: Windows 11 24H2After Effects Version: 25.2CPU: Intel Core i7-12700HGPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060RAM: 16GBAdditional Notes:The issue persists regardless of project complexity.Attached a video showing the issue in real time.

Hi everyone,I’m facing persistent lag and extremely choppy playback in After Effects 2025. My laptop is fully updated and has solid specs:32GB RAMRTX 4060 (8GB VRAM)1TB SSDI’ve already tried every optimization tip from YouTube tutorials—disk cache settings, GPU acceleration, resolution tweaks, etc.—but nothing seems to help. Even simple compositions stutter badly.Is anyone else experiencing this with AE 2025? Could it be a bug with the latest version? Any insights or fixes would be appreciated! Want me to tailor this for a specific forum like Adobe Community or Reddit?