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Basically if I try typing settings into an effect manually, try to use the effects and presets panel search bar, or the text tool, it doesn’t work. I’m able to click on the search bars, but it’s like a hold instead of a toggle and doesn’t let me type anything in. I’ve tried resetting my preferences, safe mode, disabling my plugins, and nothing will work

Went blank two days ago, randomly. Ive updated drivers, re-installed AE multiple times, and still the composition window is blank. If I hit spacebar to preview the animation, the compostion window shows itself and it’s content. When stopped, nothing shows. AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5975WX 32-Cores256 GBWindows 11 ProAE 2026Dual 3090s with latest drivers

Is it possible to detect only the upstream instances of the same effect? I am trying to make a displacement effect that uses a noise for randomized displacement and I want it to accumulate the displacement of the other instances and use it in the calculations. Basically:First instance --> Displaces layer based on original X/Y(unaffected by its own displacement)Second instance -> Detects the displacement the first instance produced and adds it to X/Y which will then create a displacement that moves the layer in a completely different direction than the first instance. (this instance must only be affected by the displacement of the first instance)It is easy to detect all the instances, but I can't find a way to make the last instance not be affected by its own displacement. Basically all the instances start with the same X/Y and only add to them the displacement created by the upstream instances. Is there any way to do that? I need to find a way to tell the last instance say: "Hey!

Tenho um plugin externo de estenção chamado Brazu Motion sempre funcionou numa boa. Recentemente eles atualizaram o plugin que preciso acessar pelo navegador, porém o after 2026 esta com incompatibilidade no plugin por que toda vez que eu clico nele só carrega e faz nada. Ja configurei a aba de scripts mas nada resolveu. Gostaria de saber se alguém ta com esse tipo de problema e conseguiu resolver.

Hi all,I'm trying to make my cep-panel tablet friendly and I've realized that when I click and drag the tablet thinks my panel is a web browser hence it tries to scroll the page instead. Is there anything I can do to disable the scrolling feature in my code? Something I need to add to the manifest file, html, js…?Thank you

Hello Adobe Community !I’ve been working with After Effects for years, and like many of you, I’ve had to constantly upgrade my hardware just to maintain a normal level of productivity—without seeing any significant improvements (though a more powerful processor and graphics card do really help me work normally).But in recent months, I’ve had to revert to the computing habits of the 2000s, using heavy 3D software, because After Effects—despite a complete reinstallation of Windows 11 Pro less than a year ago, the installation of a high-performance NVMe SSD (Samsung 990 Pro), major operating system updates, and the precaution of working on version 24x, the most stable version I’ve ever had, significantly slows down my entire machine after 2 to 3 hours of work.After that time, I have to shut it down via the Task Manager to restore my PC’s usual fluidity; otherwise, everything becomes slow, laggy, and impossible to use.The mouse freezes or becomes extremely slow; every movement, every edit,

No plugin, I have a feeling it's related to the puppet tool.I can't continue my work and considering to finaly switch to another software, the past 2-3 years of unstability drives me nuts.

Is there any element in Effects in Presets to turn this object into glass like? What I want is to make this object into transparent to see what is inside it.   

Hey, I’m trying to figure out how to make this frame effect. I know how to do the coloring and glow, but the problem is I can’t figure out how to create these kinds of pixelated edge particles. I can't even find an effect that could do it. If you have any ideas, I’d be grateful! 

I know this question has been asked a million times, even i've come up against it before and somewhow managed to solve it but with every AE update i find myself back at square one again trying to remember how to fix it again. So, for the umpteenth time... how do i stop colours getting washed out when i render out in After Effects?!  Here's some results from a test i've just made of a particular colour (#FF3E24) with screenshots taken in Illustrator and After Effects and then screenshots taken from MP4's outputted from both AE via the render queue and Media Encoder.  For Illustrator i always use sRGB profile, likewise the working colour space in AE project settings i also have set to sRGB and as you can see in the results the colours match between programs. When i output MP4s both via the render queue and Media Encoder however the colours wash out.  Current settings are:MacOS Ventura 13.5After Effects 24.0.1Media Encoder 24.0 AE Project Settings:&

Is this an After Effects job or some other software?

The script is able to select layers by name without any issues. But when I attempt to generate a list of layers based on their names, it only shows the last layer instead of all the layers. How can I fix this? 

I’m running into an issue importing a GLB file into After Effects and would appreciate any guidance.Setup:Blender 5.0 (exporting GLB / glTF) After Effects 26 (importing GLB) Character animation includes: Armature (bone-based body animation) Shape keys (eye blinking on head mesh) What works:The GLB imports into After Effects The armature animation plays correctly If I export multiple actions, AE detects multiple animation clipsProblem:When exporting a single combined animation, After Effects shows only one animation (as expected), but: The shape key animation (blinking) does not play at all In Blender, the animation plays correctly (body + blinking together)Export settings (Blender):GLB format Animation: ON NLA Strips: OFF All Actions: OFF Shape Keys: ON Always Sample Animations: ON Force Sampling: ONQuestion:Does After Effects currently support shape key / morph target animation in GLB files?Or is it limited to armature-based animation only?If shape keys are supported: Is there a spe

I'm trying to import a glb file which has vertex animation created in Blender.Following are the kinds of animation I tested but didn't work in Ae:- Animated modifiers like Simple deform (Bend).- Object deformed by traveling on a bezier curve.- Object with shapeKeys.

Hi, I wanted to ask, why sometimes the inserted expression is not visible? For this example, yesterday, I added expression to this layer and today I would like to adjust some settings, but I can see only TimeRemap and not the expression, even though the expression is still working. I’v tried to click on everything I could to open it, but nothing 

working Rigging armature animation on after effect but Shape key animation is not.please resolve this problem 

I have been using Adobe products for about 5 months and I am concerned about the question why the right mouse click to select a tool does not work? It works correctly in Photoshop, Illustrator but does not work in AE. This did not happen today or yesterday, it has not worked all this time. Is this a problem with my laptop or does it need to be enabled somewhere in the settings?System info    OS: macOS v26.3.1, RAM: 32,00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10

Buenos dias! Desde Premiere Pro estoy selectando la opcion en un fragmento de video de "Reemplazar con composicion de after effects." Una vez en after effects, realizo el pre-composed del video para generar una nueva composicion (con todos los atributos), selecciono en advanced "detailed analysis”, selecto ademas "specific angle of view” y lo pongo en 40, y asi y  todo siempre me aparece el error de layer must match. Corrobore que ambos videos en ambas aplicaciones estan en 2160 x 3840, 29,97 fps. No eniendo como puedo hacer para trackear un video y poner un texto u otra cosa que trackee un video. Espero me puedan ayudar, ya los videos de youtube y las respuestas anteriores en la comunidad no me sirvieron

Is it possible to duplicate this composition window? I want to move this graphic to 2nd monitor while graphic in the main monitor is intact?   

I'd like to extend my composition by basically shifting everything after a point by a defined duration... is there a way to do this? Similarly, I imagine there could be cases where I'd want to 'cut out' a range of time.  

When adding a light, the environment changes to just show whats lit leaving everything else in black shadow. I want to change the shadow color to a sky blue so it looks like the objects are in an infinite blue space. While still having the use of the light. What’s a good work around/solution to this? I’ve added a blue solid in the background to show what I’m going for. 

Hi..I have a composition that has 3d elements (OBJ files exported from Autodesk Fusion)…. nothing too complex.. I don’t think, anyway.I am working w/ three monitors. After Effects on one where I primarily have my timeline full screen.2nd screen has my 4 camera views.3rd screen is used for other stuff.. e.g., Chrome, Slack, etc. Inconsistently, but regularly, scrubbing the playhead position on the timeline will cause After Effects to stop responding… looking at Windows Task Manager, I can see that it is still plugging away, CPU <20%, memory ranges depending on what I’m doing, but changes periodically tell me that it’s still breathing.I can hang like that for minutes… sometimes a few, sometimes 20 or so.. How do I determine what the root cause is?  I’ve tried various suggestions I’ve found online.. nothing really seems to make a difference… aside from avoiding scrubbing in the timeline.  

Using the latest version of After Effects - both my main Desktop machine (Windows 11) = and laptop (Windows 10) are freezing and crashing. Graphics and Video. No other app is causing this. Most often triggered when TAB through windows to different apps. Please sort this out. Not acceptable.

Hi everyone,I recently updated After Effects, and performance has been much worse than before. It got very slow, and now it doesn’t even open — even though it was working (just slowly) last week on the same machine.I have 16GB RAM, and while I know that’s not high-end, but I used to run Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator (and sometimes even InDesign) simultaneously on an older, weaker laptop without major issues, so this is a beyond disappointing.I also upgraded to this laptop just last year, so replacing it isn’t really an option — especially when the issue seems tied to Adobe’s updates rather than my hardware.What’s frustrating is that I can’t access older, more stable versions through Creative Cloud. I’m paying for a subscription, and part of that value (from a user perspective) is being able to use versions that actually work on your system.If anyone from Adobe happens to read this, I’d really appreciate being contacted directly to possibly get access to a 2022 or 2023 versi

I've found a number of tutorials on this subject, but they all reference earlier versions of AE and don't apply to the current one.  In particular, they end up modifying the AdobeCleanFontSize property which I'm unable to find in AE 2025.  I'd also like to increase the size of the UI icons.  Any tips greatly appreciated.