After Effects

is there any way to have a second alpha track matte for another layer?One way would be a pre comp, but is there any way without a pre comp?

created a map graphic in illustrator and want to convert vector to shape in after effects to extrude using cinema 4d but coming up with this error - After Effects error: TDL: outline contains triangles that are too small to be rendered. Check for very thin triangles in original artwork. (88::3)Have tried simplifying the illustrator file (deleting unneeded points, simplifying number of points) and purging memory and disk cache but no luck 😞 any thoughts? Thanks

Bonjour,Après de multiples essais dans Ae 2025 : Import texte vectoriel depuis Ai (manuel ou via overlord) dans une compo en HD 1920x1080 - 29.97 i/sParamètre "intégral" activé dans AeRasterisation activé "soleil" dans AeLa forme (texte) reste pixellisée !? (J'ai testé aussi avec un calque texte)Quelqu'un connaît le problème svp ?

I have my label colors set to highly saturated color because that's how I want them. But now with Ae2025, if I select the 'Dark' theme, all of these colors are darkened as well. If I wanted the label colors darker I would make them darker in the Label preferences. At a minimum, this should not be the default behavior. Ideally you should include a switch to make it optional. Please fix this!

I have custom render settings and output modules, but Creative Cloud does not transfer them to updated AE versions. What can I do?

I have the new MacBook Pro M4, I had a Macbook Pro 2021 (intel) where I downloaded and installed CC. Now, I am trying to download AE and nothing happens, (when I transitioned to this new laptop all the apps including AI tranferred and downloaded with no problems using the Migration Assistant). I checked the compability specs and its says Mac Sonoma and others and I have Mac Sequioa, which doesnt seem to be listed), could that be the issue of why I can't update or download new/existing Adobe Apps? Note: I usually use CC and all Adobe Apps on desktop PC at work, I want to use on Macbook Pro for convience and pratice at home, and I am the owner of the account as well.

ERROR :- advance 3d is not supported by the current hardware Device I Have Imac 2015 27inch software Version :- Af V2025.2.2  When i Imaport Glb File of A Car in Timline is not AppearsAlso When i open AF I Shows Pop up Error "advance 3d is not supported by the current hardware " Whats the Solution of this error kindly Help Me to Solve the Issue 

Is there a way to take a precomp and eliminate it and simultaneously move all the elements within it up stream to the parent composition while maintaining all keyframe data?Funny enough, I've never had to do this until now, but another way to ask this is: can one simply move items out of a precomp into its parent?Thanks forum.

I can't open the script Animated Typeface.jsxbin in the latest version of After Effects 25.4. However in the version 24.6.8 I was able to open the script. The message that appear says: Unable to execute script at line 215. JSON is undefined.  

In the last few days, After Effects has been horribly distorting audio on the timeline. This applies to both MP3 and WAV files. The audio renders properly. These are the Preview settings, if it matters. Any suggestions? 

Hello! I'm new to after effects but I'm having a hard time following tutorials and how to use the software, does anyone have a tutorial on how to learn it easier? I'm a visual learner btw !

Bonjour, Sur la dernière version d'After Affects 25.3.2 sous windows, lorsque j'applique n'importe lequel des effets "tremblement" (position, rotation,taille...) rien ne se passe.j'ai tenté d'appliquer les effets sur tout type de calques mais aucun résultat.  Auriez-vous une explication ?

my project use deep glow and some color key effect, i edited on quarter resolution but whenever i change to full its getting flicker? anyone know how to deal with?

Hi, Is it possible in After Effects to change color of the text then goes back to its original color after the word was mentioned by the audio script? It's like a karaoke style but instead of staying to one color following the script. It should go back. Sample is this https://www.instagram.com/p/DNgCTVcxwaa/?hl=en , from "It took me...." text effect around 8 seconds. 

\\so when i go to open after effects it gives me this and it says also gives me plugin errors so ik its about plugins but idk how to fix ive tried restaring pc, reintsalling ae, deleting plugins but its even the plugins that come with ae i get an error so please help 

Posting this incase others are having similar issues or know solutions - I utilise MacOS Applescript in an Ae product (BlenderAe) from the command line https://ae-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/introduction/overview.html#running-scripts-from-the-command-line-a-batch-file-or-an-applescript-script and some users are reporting that it's not working with Ae2024 but works perfectly fine with Ae2023 on the same machine. In my own tests I was able to replicate the issue - DoScriptFile was indeed freezing up and not reaching Ae2024 until I added it to the 'Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access'. But this solution did NOT work for the users that reported the problem, and even re-installing After Effects 2024 hasn't helped them. I'm currently waiting for them to try `sudo tccutil reset All com.adobe.AfterEffects` from the terminal. I don't have the latest mac to test personally atm, so any other ideas on fixing this would be appreciated.

After installing the 25.3 update After Effects will crash on trying to open projects. I have tried creating new projects, saving them and opening those also causes After Effects to crash. I have tried rolling back to 25.22 and the problem still persists. I have also tried completely reinstalling the entire Creative Suite and it didn't resolve the issue. In event Viewer the General Application Hang summary states "The program AfterFX.exe version 25.3.0.71 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel."The details state - APPName AfterFX.exeAppVersion 25.3.0.71ProcessID 0x70e4StartTime 0x1dbe166abcb23d6TerminationTime 269ExeFileName C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2025\Support Files\AfterFX.exeReportId 3fed1eaf-b201-bc7d-028b477b5791HangType UnknownI am running Windows 11 Pro - Version 10.0.26100 Build 26100My machine is a Dell Latitude 555

Hello AE team In the c++ SDK, if there are two characters and text is set as default left to right, we receive all text paths as expected. But if the paragraph options is set to right to left (as customers working in Arabic or Hebrew are) the first (right most) path is ignored.  This affects the very popular VC Saber and a bunch of my text based plugins. Attached is a visual example; the left column is LTR, and the right column is RTL. The first image is the plain text layers, and the second image is with saber and textbox 2 applied. Note how the first column is missing the first (rightmost) character. As a temporary workaround, a dummy character can be placed as the first character but it's a hassle.  Tested on AE 2023 to 2025. Since there's only one version of AEGP_TEXTLAYERSUITE1, I suspect it goes back to whenever RTL text was introduced. Any feedback is appreciated. 

Sat down this morning to the new update. Project freeze up after replacing video footage, like replacing source footage and reloading it from the same name. After that, the project goes F'all to hell. Previews not updating, audio not playing, hanging... PC win 11Ryzen 9950x256 gig of ram x870e godlike2x 4090sseperate cache drive Tried removing prefs, turning off plugins, clear cache and comformed mediaThe workaround is to never overwrite footage, which is ridiculous 

In After Effects when I click on the extension to try to open it, the extension does nothing does anyone know how to fix this. And i'm on version 18.2.1 if anyone asks.

I have an image sequence that I have reversed (CTRL-ALT-R)When I animate the position I can't see the motion path or the position of the keyframes. When I reverse the layerr again (ie back to normal) the keys and motion ttrail becomes visible. Is this a bug?

Intel i9 13900ksRTX 409096GB of DDR5 6000Mhz RAMSamsung 990 Pro After Effects it constantly crashes.  tried reinstalling After Effects, installing older version, clearing cache and all other settings. I've reinstalled video drivers and older video drivers,  

On cleaning up smart mask intepolation it stops and don't work any more i did every thing to do some thing with that but i need help