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Is there way to make highlight of playhead on timelime less contrast (like in previous version)? I have badly visual recognition what keyframe is there... 

I converted one screen recording into 3d, changed its geometry curvature and animated it as you can see in the attached video. But while rendering, this particular layer is getting disabled, and all other effects are working properly. Can anyone help me with this? It is breaking my flow. I would be grateful if anyone could help resolve this asap.

I may have to go back to a previous version where Intrepret Footage works correctly.  I have tried everything, and it's an After Effects problem.  Works as it should on my Mac running High Sierra, but AE 2024 and 2025 have deep problems when dealing with proper interlace now. There are more bugs with this interlace business I will explain if this topic progresses; having to Reload Footage for Intrepret Footage Upper/Lower field and OFF (progressive) changes to take effect - this is a huge problem for me.  Running Sequoia 15.1.1 on Macbook Pro 2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB with 64GB or RAM. Everything works reliably as it should in After Effects 17.6.0 (2020).  I'll be grateful for any help, ideas or suggestions.

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After Effects 17.5.1 is now available for download from the Creative Cloud desktop application. This update provides fix to crashing bugs and improvement to general quality.    What's fixed? Fixed an issue that prevented using the Option/Alt key as a tool modifier key on 2D layers in 3D compositions. Fixed an issue that prevented the keyboard shortcut Alt/Option to not engage wireframes interactions in 2D compositions. Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to crash when creating a new layer viewer while the Paint tool is selected. Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to freeze when moving the cursor over the Footage panel with the Pen tool selected. Fixed an issue that caused black frames when exporting a composition to QuickTime with the Avid DNxHR 444 codec with an alpha channel. Fixed an issue that caused import to fail for QuickTime ProRes files. Fixed an issue that caused garbage pixels when exporting a composition to QuickTime DNxHR 444 with uncompressed a

Hi all, happy new year. I have 30fps footage and every 5th frame is a duplicate, which makes me think this footage was originally 24fps. I tried creating a 24fps comp and dropping in the 30fps footage to see if it would get rid of the doubles, but it didn't work. Is there a script, expression, or shortcut so that every 5th frame is deleted automatically? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

URGENT HELP REQUIRED PLEASE - AFTER EFFECT WILL NOT OPENI have uninstalled and reinstalled, followed suggestions on the Dicussion forum and still no luck.  

Never had any issues running AE before. Suddenly experiencing 10-15 second delay in every action I try to take. What's up with that!?!?! 

I know I must be doing something wrong and I just can't work out what. The transpancy exports just fine but the glow ends up grey and washed out on lighter backgrounds, unless it's on pure black and you can see the colour (but it's still washed out). I've managed to export the original file via After Effects as a MOV file with the settings in the screenshot. I was originally having issues exporting the glow with the right colour but these settings ensured it kept the right colour glow. However when I export to WebM via Media Encoder my "glow" ends up grey and washed out, rather than the colour matching the lights. I've tried so many different settings and I just don't know what to do. I might have to try not exporting the Glow (it's a solid colour circle with a Gaussian blur effect, 60% opacity and Overlay)

Hello AE community! I am an amateur AE user so please bear with me. - I am using Rubberhose 3 plugin with an Illustrator Artwork.- I would like to rig the artwork itself and not create a new hose because i like the artwork and i don't think i will be able to mimic the same using a hose from scratch.- I am adding puppet pins to the Illustrator Layer in AE. Here is the original Artwork (a tail) - Here is how it looks after the Puppet Position Pins i add in AE- When i create a new RubberPin (Base : Tip) for the given layer it ends up being completely distorted as following  - If i replace the Puppet Position Pins with Puppet Starch Pins (except for very the first and the very last pin) and then add RubberPin then the artwork remains normal BUT this makes the puppet too rigid to wave using RubberHose styling such as Wavy Gravy.- I have tried playing with the lenght of the hose, roundness etc but I cannot make the Rig work with RubberPin Hose and AE Puppet Position Pins.

I'm having a recurring issue where I open a particular AE file, and either the Composition Panel is immediately white, or after a few seconds it turns white, and then I can no longer scrub along the timeline and the program crashes within a few seconds. Sometimes my screen will go completely black for a second upon opening, and then when the screen comes back, the Composition Panel will be white.  It seems to be an issue with one particular project file. While I've been using AE on this computer for a few months now, this project file is the first one where I've really been using it intensely (aka, dozens & dozens of pre-comps). This also happened shortly after I started a LinkedIn Learning AE course, which involved downloading a number of AE files from old versions of AE. Not sure if that is at all related. The issue seemed to be fixed a month or so ago and I worked in that project for a few weeks without issue, but I just now imported the comp into a premiere proje

Hello Community,Please see my screenshot below, I can't figure out how the position property in a group transform is derived.  I understand the relationship between the composition coords and the layer coords re. anchor points and position; but the group position property is confusing me; I can't relate its coords to the layer or the comp.  I've searched for info but to no avail.  Please adivse or point me in the right direction.  Thanks in advance for your help!  

In general, I did the animation of the shape, and now I need to add this effect as in the video https://youtu.be/XWw6sxAQYDY?feature=shared , I tried to add blur and glow, but they went beyond the boundaries of shape 1 (I created two shapes: shape 1 and shape 2, shape 1 is the main animation and shape 2 is trail, and blur and glow 2 trail shapes went beyond the boundaries of 1 shape). Can you tell me how to make sure that they do not go beyond the borders? 

Hi, I'm new to C4D lite. I built a simple text animation in the software, when I brought it into AE, the live link was disabled, and I couldn't edit nor even scale the imported file.I went through some tutorials and discussions online, but there's no " enable live link" option in my C4D preferences. I don't know what to do. I opened a new Maxon C4D file and created a cube to test it out, this time AE didn't even show the C4D panel in Effect Control.I'm sooooooo confused right now and hopefully, someone can help me. Thanks soooooo much!!!!

How do i create a 3d path from a shape (ie a circle) for an object to follow?It is easy to do with text as it has more advanced path options but i cannot figure out how to do it with an image. I create a circle shape layer, enable 3d and change the orientation. I then convert it to a bezier path and pastethe position onto my object. But when I do this, it just is inserted as a 2d path (ie before i had changed the orientation). Ive seen a lot of people post the same problem and the answers always suggest either: using the pen tool - i want a perfect cicrle and this is very hard / time consuming to achieve using a null object - same as above and also less orient options than a path. it seems like this should be simple? can anyone help?

Hello community! I'm working on a 3D comp with a bunch of black tiles scattered along the XYZ axis, which are supposed to get whiter the farther away they are from a camera that moves along the Z axis. The way I want to achieve this is with some sort of white 3D cube parented to the camera which has 0% opacity at Z position 0, and progressively reaches 100% opacity at its maximum Z position (let's say 5000, AKA the opposite end of the cube). Is there any way to do this? Thanks a lot in advance! I've attached an image that better showcases what I want to achieve for the cube so that you can get a better understanding of what I mean, & a handmade reference of the final result.

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I am trying to use an expression to set a text layer to the name of the comp,  but the text is somehow getting reversed.    I am using this expression for the source text :  thisComp.name  - but when it appears in the comp,  some of the characters are swapped around.   See attatched where the yellow text is the dynamic live text generated from the white comp name below. But notice how the yellow text has swapped the "010" and "0500".  Maddening.... 

Hello everyone,I’m new to After Effects and I’m encountering an issue with the vectorization of texts and tools. Just to clarify, I’m only referring to native After Effects tools and texts (not projects imported from Illustrator or Photoshop).Here’s the situation: only solids, rectangles, and rounded rectangles appear to be vectorized. Texts, however, are not. The Continuously Rasterize button is grayed out, and I’ve set the resolution to Full. I’m also using the latest version (25.1) and haven’t changed any default settings.Could you please let me know if I’m missing something or if there’s a specific step I should follow to resolve this issue?Thank you in advance for your help, and have a wonderful day! 😊

Hello everyone, I’m creating this topic about an issue that has been discussed many times before: preserving colors for videos shot on an iPhone in HDR (15 Pro Max, in this case).I’ve watched every YouTube video imaginable: some are outdated, while others offer slight improvements but don’t achieve perfection. First point: all the tutorials I found were for Premiere Pro, not After Effects. I understand that most professional editors will use Premiere Pro instead of After Effects, but as a motion designer, I strongly prefer the latter. So, let’s get straight to the point: attached is a sample footage shot last week https://we.tl/t-ex5ol0a1vBHere’s how the colors look in the Photos app on my Mac/iPhone, or when I play the video in Preview or QuickTime (although they appear darker in the screenshot).  Now, here’s how they look when I import the video into After Effects without any adjustments. The colors are completely washed out.  Next, if I try to

I'm having a minor interface inconvenience. I don't know if it's me or After Effects... I am working on multiple comps, and switch between them via the Timeline Panel. The problem is that there are certain Comps/Timelines where the search box panel in the timeline is always activated when I switch to it. Meaning I might quickly switch timelines, hit the keyboard shortcut for a ram preview - but nothing happens because all I've done is type 0 into the search field. I have to click away, then hit 0 again to get my preview. I might then work on other comps with no problem, but the search panel on this particular timeline will always be pre-selected when I return to it. It's a minor frustration. Anyone know what's going on?

It's hard to rotate where you want in AE? It needs to feel more like Blender and such??I'm trying to just see if it's aligned with the green but it's extremely difficult.I'm on a 5950X with AMD RX 7600 on Windows 11 x64, NVMe, 64GB RAM, etc. on the latest drivers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO8D6kj1cS8

Hello, I am using adobe after effects 2025 and I want to be able to move this raindrop over to the left but everytime I do, it wont attach the straight path and the other drops with it. Once i select everything and move it over, only the path of the big raindrop moves but it moves in a diagonal. I am not even sure if this makes sense as I am new to after effects. I have attached images below.