Questions

Hi,I want a shape layer to take its position value from its  'skew' property. so I write expressions but its not working. I know am making some kind of mistakes as am still learning.  shape layer's (shadow of mountain)  X value should be fixed only Y will move according to skew. But no way its working. Please guide me. I tried manullay to animate the position value. but  no beauty in the movement. My eyes hurting seeing my own work 😠 please guide me. please.  

I opened an after effects file from the 'Edit original' option in Premiere, made some edits, saved the AE file and the AE file completely disappeared. The file is nowhere to be found in Finder, trash, or on google drive in general. Help anyone?

After effects 25.1 오류 노트북에서 작업하던 aftrereffects 파일이 안에 구성물들까지 다 깔끔히 들고와서 새 데스크탑에 After effects를 설치했는데 NVIDIA GRAPHIC은 업데이트하였는데 그 이후로 저 알림이 뜬 후에 작업을 편집할수없습니다 혹시 해결방안을 아시는 분이 있나요..?

 im changing a layer to a 3d layer here,  but it is giving me an icon i havent seen before, with 3 arrows instead of the usual one with a little cubewhen i rotate the layer it also doesnt seem to behave the same,  as in,  the comp will rotate, but the images inside the comp remain fixed as though they were not 3d  any ideas?

Hi all: Thought I would start with I figured to be an easy tutorial with some scrolling text, like hacker terminal FX, and with that being said, I was following along and had to put some expressions in the postion area. Well one of them is really not liked by the program and seeing I am just starting out, I have no clue what it wants or how to go around it--this is what I was to imput:pLine=this.sourceRectAtTime(time).height;scaler=(transform.scale[1]/100);value-[0,pLine*scaler];SO basically as the text scrolls, it updates and scrolls up, but that surely doesn't happen at all. The program does like the first line, and only the first line.....so dunno what to do, just thought this would be a first fun outing. It just says that sourceRectAtTime() is not a function....of what?? Best regards,AJ 

It is so cool these days that Adobe After Effects supports 3D objects directly. Being able to import GLB, GLFT and OBJ models makes animation so much easier. But if you are not a 3D model creator, making a colour change to a downloaded model is not something that you can do in AE. Except, you can.   There are a couple of different ways to apply effects to models and I break down what you need to do for each. Starting with the simplest option of an Adjustment Layer combined with a Track Matte. Then I compare this to using an Ambient Light as an additional light source set to a colour of your choosing. Personally I thought this yielded a better result.   Next, I take a look at remaking the textures using Element3D and to be honest, I think the result was a little disappointing compared to what you can now do natively. I still love Element3D, but on this occasion, it didn't hold up in comparison. So finally, I demonstrate how to use Blender to create a 3D Luma Matte versio

Once I use the Roto Brush to highlight an object, I am stuck with the error message: "Roto Brush 2 Initializing Adobe Sensei Propagation Module". The preview does not progress past the first frame and AE will usually crash if I try to click anywhere. I have seen the same problem fixed by transcoding from MP4 to QuickTime, but this has not changed anything for me (unless I have misunderstood what this means). I have previously used the Roto Brush without much difficulty and on MP4 files from Premiere Pro, so I don't know what has changed. AE Version 23.6.0Windows 11Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8350U CPU @ 1.70GHz 1.90 GHzInstalled RAM 16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable)

When i click new project, there are no panels at all, it is just a black screen

When I add a 3d element in glb format I can't see it in the workspace, I need a quick solution to the problem plz! 

ever time i start up ae I get crash in progress last logged message was: 4716 <GPUmanger>  <2> sniffer result code 3. I even tried downgrading my version. Still same error

I am trying to make a parallax scene, i did setup the scene, converted them into 3d, arranged every image and bg in 3d space and when i used the camera to create a parllax effect. So i noticed as the camera is getting closer to scene my images are floating on the floor, which kinda looks bad. Can anyone help me to solve this issue, ASAP !!!!P.S :- I added the video too, in which if you focus on the bottom of images(legs) are floating on the floor as the camera moves.

hey (: i have a drone shot with a driving car across it (top to bottom). i want to have the car "revealing" text "written" on the road but i cant seem to get it perfectly like i want.heres an image of the relevant part of the shoti tried using all adobe softwares like many tutorials said - combing Illustaror and photoshop and after effects and premiere but i just cant actually get it the way i wantthe most frustorating part is that i did that 4 years ago! so any help would be much appriciated  thank you ❤️

Hello AllI have a question when using c++ to develop AE export plug-in,Set the mask in AE and use AEGP_GetLayerNumMasks to query the number of masks,The return value is 0,The specific code is as follows：AE Version: 2025System version: M3 Pro,macOS 15.3 A_long numMasks = 0; RECORD_ERROR(suites.MaskSuite6()->AEGP_GetLayerNumMasks(layerHandle, &numMasks)); for (int i = 0; i < numMasks; i++) { AEGP_MaskRefH maskHandle; RECORD_ERROR(suites.MaskSuite6()->AEGP_GetLayerMaskByIndex(layerHandle, i, &maskHandle)); auto mask = ExportMask(context, maskHandle); masks.push_back(mask); RECORD_ERROR(suites.MaskSuite6()->AEGP_DisposeMask(maskHandle)); }Has anyone encountered similar problems?

When I trim my layers, There are still greyed out areas that show and I can adjust itHow do I disable this

I know this has been posted before, but I've been having major issues with runaway memory use in AE 23.1. I'm using a M1 Max 16 inch Macbook Pro with 64gb. Running a fairly simple project with some pre-rendered .movs with alpha channels comped into scenes using Illustrator assets. Will run fine for 20-30 minutes before the system gets overloaded and I'm out of memory. You can see how much was getting used when it last crashed - 432gb!! Wasn't an issue before M1 native update... looks like I'll be going back to an older version of AE for now 

So I've been having this problem where some of the png images in a sequence are missing. When importing a png sequence from another software (Toon Boom Harmony) I faced this problem. So I attached some files to demonstrate the problem. In a 24fps file I numbered every frame with a total of 68. I exported them as a png sequence and everything was alright until I imported it in AE in 24fps composition. Few images were missing, making the footage not 68 frames long in AE

Hi. I'm having some strange behavior when I use applyPreset on a duplicated layer. I have a duplicated layer,  and I use applyPreset on it, but the preset is applied to the originial layer: var originalLayer = app.project.activeItem.layers[1]; var duplicatedLayer = originalLayer.duplicate(); var presetFile = new File("the/path/to/my/preset"); duplicatedLayer.applyPreset(presetFile); //The preset is applied on originalLayer Is this a normal behavior? If it is, is there a workarround?

I'm not in a position yet to post a thorough bug report on this, but has anyone else been encountering problems with exportasmotiongraphicstemplate() lately? Problems started with the move from AE 23.x to AE 24.x, when AE began insisiting the project be saved between exports, which really limited the utility of the operation for batch MOGRT export scripts. It seems that AE was marking the project as dirty each time it reopened the project after exporting a MOGRT. I was able to work around this by incorporating a save operation, but now the MOGRTs sometimes end up corrupted, with Essential Graphics controls in Premiere being blank or not working correctly (menus appear to have no entries, default text values are blank). And now AE is simply crashing when I try to do a batch export. Is anyone else encountering any of these issues?

is it safe to download saber plugin from https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2016/03/new-plug-in-saber-now-available-100-free/  

Hi, I would like to make Weatherstar XL v1 emulation but if you need tweaking animations, you need current conditions, latest observations, regional forecast, 36 hour forecast, extended forecast, radar, tides, and almanac. Use Adobe Illustrator to make Weatherstar XL icons (1998-2006). We want you to install Akzidenz-Grotesk and more fonts! I also added date & time on the top-right corner. but I added ad crawl. I found a tutorial. Is there anyway on how to do this?

Hi I'm new here! I’m a video editor working with an agency, and I’ve hit a roadblock while creating a dynamic gameplay video for a client (snakeaimtool.pro) where I need to anchor effects like heat distortion and UI overlays to the game’s crosshair. Despite trying standard workflows, I’ve hit three stubborn issues and would love guidance. First, motion tracking struggles with rapid camera movements. The crosshair jitters or loses alignment during quick pans, even with AE’s Camera Tracker and 3D Camera Tracker. Manual keyframing fixes misalignment temporarily but creates choppy results. Could planar tracking (e.g., Mocha AE) or specific plugins improve stability for such fast-paced footage? Second, effects gradually detach from tracked points. Heat distortion and UI elements drift over time when parented to nulls derived from tracking data, especially in scenes with motion blur or compression artifacts. Are there compositing techniques, blending modes, or matte adjustment

Is it poosible to make multiple nulls with keyframes as one preset?

merhaba. prof bir after effect kullanıcısı değilim. fakat yaşamış olduğum sinir bozucu bir problem mevcut. caps look tuşu açık kaldığın da ön izleme ekranı kararıyordu. bunu öğrendim ve sorun giderildi. fakat mouse imleci hareket ettirdiğim de calışma ekranım sürekli flash çakar gibi git gel yapıyor ve deli oluyorum. güncelleme getirdiklerin de hep birşeyleri bozmak zorundalar mı? bu konu hakkında yardımcı olabilecek birileri varmı ? teşekküler

Hey everyone,I'm working on some simple Lottie animations and have already created an animated design using circles with different stroke sizes around them. I animated them with keyframes and now want to recreate the same animation but with different shapes—hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs—instead of circles. I know that in After Effects, you can replace footage and images, but I haven't found a way to swap out shapes while keeping all existing keyframes intact. Does anyone know a way to do this?If there's a plugin that could make this process easier, I'd love to hear recommendations. Thanks in advance!

Hey all! I'm kind of a madman and I've finally gotten a pretty good release going for my new plugin-- You can write extensions entirely in python using any GUI framework, script in python, run from a separate process, etc. This is NOT a wrapper around extendscript, but around the c++ SDK. You can check it out and find installation instructions on github here:https://github.com/Trentonom0r3/PyShiftAE/releases/tag/1.0.1 There's extensive documentation, so hopefully things are simple to set up! More details in the README, but you can run a simplepip install PyShiftAEto get the ball rolling.