After Effects

Hello, I wonder if anyone could help me. I want to add footage as a texture to the surface of an extruded 3D shape layer. For example, if I have some footage tilted in a 3d plain I can extrude elements from within the footage.  Many thanks.

I would like to create a credit roll in AE in which cast members are listed as actor <separator> role pairs, with all pairs horizntally centered and aligned on the separator (probably an ellipsis, but I haven't decided yet). Is there a way to do this without manually shifting each line to get the separators to line up? AE does not seem to have a sophisticated tab feature. And if I did resort to manually shifting each line, what would be the best way to d it?

When opening an After Effects project saved with an english AE, in a German language version, the Fill effect gets reported as missing. (The German version obviously has the “Maske füllen” effect installed) AE Version 25 (German)MacOS 14.7.8 We tried to open the same project with AE 23.x (German) and it worked without problems.

its not about capslock and i deleted and re-downloaded After Effects. still not working   

While i was the program suddenly forze, blocking all my computer and forcing me to restart the pc by holding the power button. After that event every time that i try to just open the app my computer stops working: the screen goes completly black and unresponsive, without any blue screen or error pop ups. Even if i manage to close the app before the screen goes black the computer stops working, freezing on my desktop. The crash is not even reported in a Crash log (the log folder for the version 25.4 is empty) I work on an Asus Vivobook pro 15, Windows 11 on the latest version, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 laptop GPU, processor Intel core ultra 7 155H. Everything is updated to the most recent version.

I'm trying to start off small with house mapping. I have a video I made and would like to project it on the door from the side. I can not figure out how to warp the video so it looks flat against the door. I have looked at tons of how to videos and found nothing I can learn from.Can someone help me or if you know a simple how to video that would be great..

Export error Error compiling the movie. Rendering error A rendering error was returned. Writing with export module: H.264 Write to file: / Volumes / Extreme SSD / PROGETTI / NICNACS / EXPLAINER VIDEO / esp / Explainer Video - NicNacs - 2.mp4 Write file type: H264 Near the time code: 00: 00: 57: 23 - 00: 00: 58: 10 Rendering at offset: 57.920 seconds Component: H.264-type Export Module Selector: 9 Error code: -1609629695

I am having the exact same issues. Just navigating the UI causes freezing and the beach ball.  MacBook Pro, 64gb RAM, M2 Max Pro and I can't even do basic AE work that was easy and quick to do 10 years ago.  Adobe's quality control is absolutely unacceptable. 

 The options appear but there is nothing at the side to edit does anyone know how to fix this please?

My device is weak and I can't use the 2025 version of the app. I need the 2019 version. If anyone can help, I would be grateful.

the sapphire plugin doesn't work cause whenever I use s_shake after effects crashes and it exits out ae please help     

Adobe ponete las pilas. muchas herramientas de IA que nadie pidió pero una herramienta fundamental alta para la mierda.

Hi AE wizards!I am trying to create a simple lowerthird .morgrt with the top text layer and bottom text layer in one text box. So when people use the template to change the text, the text box will resize accoring the whichever text line is longer. Text is left aligned and the height of the box is fixed so only the width needs to adjust to the right. Font size is also not adjustable.     I am familiar with the below expressions for a single text layer. I am wondering if it is possible to manipulate this to adjust to two layers instead? Shape layer expressions:Size property:s = thisComp.layer("Firstname Last Name");w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width;h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height;[w,h] Position property:s=thisComp.layer("Firstname Last Name")w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width/2;h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height/2;l=s.sourceRectAtTime().left;t=s.sourceRectAtTime().top;[w+l,h+t] Here is what I have experimented with two layers but I keep getting an error in the expre

Hi, I am in great danger, I need some guidance from seniors.  😥 I have two separate comps. I have animated a particular layers 'position' in one comp. and I want to copy paste those keyframes and want exactly same movement in another comp's another particular layer. But when I copy paste that things get messy. Please tell me how can I solve this.  😥 😥

Hello. I've just installed After Effects on a new work computer, and I'm having issues getting the Preview window to play or show anything (see images below - the second one is where I have taken it off full screen then made it full screen again). The preview doen't show when not playing, and doesn't play at all. If I have music and play, I can hear the music play but the timeline won't keep moving along. I've tried all the usual stuff (purge cache, uninstall/reinstall, change system setting to be adjust for best appearance, etc.) but nothing has worked.The audio only has one driver (MME) and doesn't give me the ASIO or any other option. I can export and render without any issues, and when the cursor is over the preview area, the preview tab tells me the info about what is there (where the cursor is). Also, After Effects always freezes on exit, and I have to force quit it (I presume this is related some how?).  Thanks  

Inspo Vid:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_myHyrVpIkwProblem vid:https://drive.google.com/file/d/19-digTkzO9m8rIxL40qsvXRQggFCx4M2/view?usp=drive_linkNeed help with points follow nulls.What I've done so far:1.) Create a shape and turn the path into bezier points.2.) Selected the new path and toggled points follow nulls.Instead of the nulls appearing in its own layers, they appear in the effects tab instead. Managed to do it correctly before with the nulls showing up, but I don't really understand how it might be appearing in the effects tab instead.  Any help would be appreciated, thanks! 

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.