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Hey everyone, im new to after effects, I want to learn it in the shortest period so that i can start practicing, please help with tutorials or something alike. Looking forward to hear from experts like you guys. cheers. I aim to create short form videos(for social media) and documentary style videos(for youtube) in the future. any leads would be highly appreciated. 

Hi,I'm writing an ExtendScript script, where I change text inside of nested compositions.The nesting looks like this (the green arrows show the nesting):So I've got composition "01_CONSULTING_A" which contains composition "EDIT STATEMENT 1" which contains composition "EDIT TEXT Statement 1" which then contains a text layer. In my script I edit that text layer to another language, which of course also changes the length of the text and thus the width/height of the text box.In "EDIT STATEMENT 1" there's another composition called "POSITION Arrow". Here I have to change the position so that it lines up with the end of the new text. Here's the problem: I don't seem to be able to get the correct X and Y coordinates of that text layer inside of the "EDIT STATEMENT 1" composition so that I can use those coordinates to position the arrow. I already found out that I apparently have to get the relative position of the layer in the "outer" composition. But I don't even seem to be able to get the

I'm very new to After Effects, but I'm hitting the ground running with a big project.  Goal: I want an animated pill bottle to rock/rotate up and down,  as pills and coffins fall out of the bottle, landing at the bottom of the screen in their own unique places.  Images I'm Using:  - Back of the Pill Bottle- Front of the pill bottle (Partially transparent so we can see the pills behind it)- Multiple images of pills- Multiple images of tiny coffins I can make the pills come out of the bottle looking naturally by placing the pill & coffin images between the back of the pill bottle and the partially transparent front of the pill bottle. The only way I've been able to get all the images to rock up and down in unison is by parenting everything to the Front of the pill bottle image. However, by the time the bottle needs to rock back up to shake out more pills/coffins, any pill/coffin that has already begun moving toward the floor, begins to rot

Swap textures on 3D models for animated precomps, with only a tiny element of Blender needed.   In this tutorial, I build on the technique I demonstrated in "Animate color changes of 3D Objects in After Effects" ( https://youtu.be/r1e9kYNXgxU ) to create a 3D Luma Matte copy of a mesh / model. By setting all the textures to be black except for the screen, it's possible to use this as a track matte within After Effects. Unfortunately you cannot apply mattes directly to 3D layers, but with a little extra set up, you can create a precomp to drive this. All you need to do is link the camera from one comp to another.   I break down all the steps, from importing your model Blender to editing the materials in the Shading area's node editor, then bringing these models in After Effects and linking them to a null object. Once that's done, we create a precomp for the screen, position it correctly and finally look to apply the luma matte using the Set Matte effect and a Glow effect for

I've been working with ExtendScript Toolkit CC and up until today my calls to system.callSystem() were working fine. I've changed nothing, but suddenly today these calls (and any other calls to System object methods) are failing with 'System is Undefined' errors. I'm on latest MacOS, and CC 2017. Any ideas? Thanks.

hi there,i have a project with many compositions, all with the same setting, fps etc. but there is just one composition i cannot open anymore. while double clicking on it , after effetcs freez and blocks.any idea ? running on win 10

I have a few pre-comps to use as titles in other comps. Each pre-comp includes a text layer and a control layer with a "Font Size" slider. The Source Text of the text layer has the following expresion:text.sourceText.style .setFontSize(thisComp.layer("control").effect("Font Size")("Slider")) .setAutoLeading(true) ;Changing the slider in the pre-comp's control layer works great. I've added the slider to the Essential Graphics panel and it works great there too. However, when I add the pre-comp to another comp and try changing the Font Size in the Essential Properties, nothing happens.I tried enabling the Font Size Adjustment in the EG panel, by that doesn't show up in the Essential Properties list. This is why I implemented the slider.  I exported it as a MOGRT and tried it in Premiere, and it works fine there too. So why is it not working in AE? I'm on AE v23.1.0

i have this message in after effect after choose ( enable per character 3D

Hi, I'm developing a tool in which I need to retrieve the cache folder directly from the user's preferences, but I'm failing at it. Already tried many keys. but no success. Is there a way to retrive this directory dinamically using JS? Thanks.

Hi, No way I can make the cc bend work. what I did so far is- 1- First I applied cc bend only to stem (pink flower stem) it does not move all those petals along with it though they are childrened (!!) to it.2- Then I think maybe I need to precomp the stem. I did that. same result. Bend does not move all those pink flower assets with it though they are attached with the stem. 3- later I think maybe I have to precomp the pink flower petals, eyes, everything .. and if I attched it to the stem, then it will bend along with the stem!! NOTHING WORKS!! 😠 please help me. I want bend to  move all those pink petal elements... It should move all those. They are parent child... What am doing wrong?   

I have created a counter in a composition. I also have keyframes with interpolation of Hold. I want to copy and paste hundreds of this keyframe and configure it so that each keyframe has a value of +1 of the prior keyframe. I could do this manually, but is there a smarter way to do it? Thanks for help!

I have a tripled layered audio spectrum, but it it only showing sort of inside a circle. I don't have any masks or anything on the image. I added three images to show one of the audio spectrums and how I it set up. Also, if I increase the maxIt's weird because if I enlarge the mask/helmet it will not get cut off at all. I attached the images below:

Hello!I'm new to AE. How do I sharpen an image that I've increased in scale and not looks distorted. Thank you!

How to set media encoder to high priority? If I close AE, I can't get to this dialog. I also do not see any changes inside of the Windows task manager performance graphs. I would also like for Me to use more of the available ram. This image shows only 82 are allowed and only 4 is being used while I encode big h.264 files. Latest AE and Me. Windows 11.Threadripper PRO 7985WX 64-Cores512 GB RamA6000 32GB GPU

This is a problem I've never been able to resolve in After Effects. This is my method I use for illustrating invasions on maps:[1] Start with a base layer vector map and remove the ocean color using the "Linear Key":[2] Duplicate this map layer twice. This first copy right above the base map will serve as a matte for all other map layers (states/countries) above it so that they can be colored in without the color spilling over into the ocean part (except for the invasion mask layer which will use a copy of the invaded country as a track matte.)[3] The second copy of the map will be right at the top using a blend mode (Multiply, Color Burn, or Linear Burn). Like this all states and invasions below can stay in Normal blend mode, and there will be no spill over between states. Here are the layers in question:I added a Turbulent Displace effect on the invading layer:   [4] Now I pre-compose the map into a new composition, add a null-parented camera, and check that all l

I do a tracking in a video in after, I create a tracking solid, so far so good, it follows the right way, then I create a new solid, add 3D element and place a 3D object in the scene, everything appears fine. BUT WHEN I MAKE THE PARENT OF IT IN TRACKING THE 3D OBJECT DISAPPEARS!!! I've tried everything I can imagine but I couldn't solve it. HELP ME PLEASE 

I'm trying to animate a numbers counter showing the historical progress of time 1834 to 1934 where the counting up is driven by audio ticks. To do this,[1] I added an mp3 audio file to my timeline[2] Converted the audio file to keyframes and noted the audio threshold as "3"[3] Added a text layer and option clicked Source Text[4] Pickwhipped Source Text to Audio Amplitude I'm not sure what I need to do next,  but I have two major problems:[A] I'm seeing single digits instead of the yearly counting up that should be going from 1834 to 1920. [B] And I have a huge set of decimals when I entered these two integer numbers. Thank you very much in advance to anyone who can help me resolve this.    

Guys, hello, faced with this problem, on the previews from time to time on different footages missing frames, they are deformed, etc. I switched to official software, the same thing. Started AE in safemode and turned off plugins. The footage itself is not defective. I mean every foootage have this bug.Several dozens of times reinstalled Windows and downloaded different plugins, the problem remains.A little input:4070I7 12700kf32 gb DDR5Also turned off XMP profile on the RAM and turned off the overclocking of the processor, the same crap happens.Who has faced, please help, I pray, there is no strength any more to solve it.

 I have an nvidia rtx a5000 card. When I installed the latest version of the driver, I started getting this error. ae does not start and closes. After Effects error: Crash in progress. Last logged message was: <33240> <BEE_MiscTasks> <5> Set Artisan Task: Classic 3D  I switched to Cinema A4 and I get the same error.

If anyone could help me figure out this glich with the coin rotating? The file has three layers, the flat image of the coing front/back and then an extruded circle shape to be the coin. All layers are 3D. The front and back are parented to the 3D shape. I'm not sure why this is happening? All the shadows and lights are turned off. The layers are not overlapping. 

I looked up how to slow down footage in AE and found the 'Time Strech' Tool. The tutorials I found said to bring the percentage down to anything below 100%. In my project however, the footage needed to be above 100% in order to slow down my footage? Has it always been this way? Or did it change or do I have something wrong with my set up?

I am not using any 3D in my graphic, so I'm unsure how to fix it.

HELLO , I have a problem with a mosaic of 30 logos in After Effects. Only 6 logos are displayed and duplicated to replace the other 24. I have already purged the cache, restarted the computer and reset the preferences without success. The names of the images are not similar, which rules out any confusion due to file names. (the names of the logo images were similar ( logo(1) logo(2)..) but I renamed them differently and the problem persists Could you please help me to solve this problem or provide me with additional advice?  Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi there. My colleagues and I are a bit stumped over why one machine seems to render much faster that the other two. We have three Mac Pro's, one each here. They're the same hardware specs, the software is the same. One of them renders out after effects file much, much faster than the other two, infact there's a horrible lag on the other two machines when trying to edit a file generated by the other 'faster' machine, and we can't figure out what it is.We've been through the files, turned off all effects to the point where we're basically dealing with 2D text and some shapes but still this awful lag...Specs on all machines is:Mac Pro (Late 2013)  Model Identifier: MacPro6,1  Processor Name: 8-Core Intel Xeon E5  Processor Speed: 3 GHz  Number of Processors: 1  Total Number of Cores: 8  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB  L3 Cache: 25 MB  Memory: 32 GBrunning latest Mojave and After EffectsThe files don't employ any third party plug-ins either, although w

Hi i was trying to open AE when i suddenly get an error out of nowhere. its telling me that there are multiple copies of a plugin in my drive?? (actually it duplicated every single effect).. i dont know why or how that happened. my AE was working perfectly two days ago. ive searched for a solution everywhere and nothings working:/  ive restarted my computer, checked for the duplicates by going on the mediacore folder but theyre nowhere to be found.  please if anyone could help me find a solution..  also i dont really wanna uninstall after effects as it'd delete everything and ive downloaded a lot of plugins/presets etc and i dont think i can find everything ive downloaded anywhere 😞 ps. i have AE 2018 ps. 2 i also have AE 2017 but its never given me any issues before.. idk