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I'm sorry the title is confusing. I'm not sure how to describe this more succintly, but an example will tell you what I'm after:  I have a shape layer, a rectangle with rounded corners. I want it anchored from the top edge and I want to maintain the same radius of the rounded corners no matter what size changes I make to the rectangle. The size property seems to ignore both the layer anchor point and the (smaller) shape anchor point. Changes to the size property are anchored in the center of the shape. All I can get to work is an expression. It works great, but there must be an easier way that I'm missing! Can anyone tell me an easier way? Here's my expression solution:  On the Rectangle Path 1 > Position propertyx = content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").position[0]; y = content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").position[1]; y += .5*content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").size[1]; [x,y]Essentially I have the shape positioning

Adobe needs to address some basic issues in its software. A particularly frustrating one is that when you create a shape from an Illustrator layer with transparency, After Effects completely ignores the transparency. This seems like a simple fix, especially considering both programs are from Adobe. As paying subscribers, we expect essential improvements like this instead of having to rely on paid plugins to fix something that should work natively.

I didn't have any issue until one day while my AE project is set to full, this error pops up: I've already tried all the fixes. I emptied the disk cache, cleaned the database and cache, increased my maximum disk cache size (it was originally 100GB, I set it to 200GB), in the Memory settings I increased the allocation from 56GB to 58GB of RAM to be available for AE (I have 64GB of RAM total, so the max AE allows me to set it to is 58GB), and in the Project Settings I'm using Mecury GPU Acceleration (CUDA). Why am I still getting this error when 3GB is not the max amount of memory I allocated to it?

Hello, I have some questions about extending a 20-second video clip to 60 seconds while maintaining its original speed.Using "time remapping" and dragging the last keyframe makes the video slower, and "time stretch" has the same effect. I also tried a loopout expression, but it just causes the video to restart at the last keyframe.I’d like to know if there’s a way to extend the video to fit a 60-second composition without changing the playback speed. In the screenshot attached, you will see my current timeline setup. The initial lenght of the video is 20 seconds. If you need more information, please let me know. Thanks!

Problem:I'm unable to resize the switches column. To be more accurate, I'm able to resize it, but the minimum width lets a lot of space on the right side.The problem occures only with this one. The other columns don't have any empty space (marked red in the image)  What I tried:Hovering over the intersection between two timeline columns at the top of the timeline, the mouse cursor changes to a double-ended arrow, I drag to the left until the column width doesn't change any further.Resetting the preferences and uninstalling (with deletion of the preferences)/reinstalling of After Effects. Expected result:Being able to reduce the size of the column to the first switch on the right side, so that there is not this much free space. I don't want to get rid of the switches entirely, just of the free space next to them. 

I have animation about 2 minutes long. It consists of 10 photo frames where each frame shows a simple animation. The camera moves from frame to frame and when the camera focuses on a frame, the animation is played for that frame. Is it possible to start playback of a pre-comp at a certain time in the main comp?

I am attempting to wiggle position of layer but in a staggered motion, not smooth, so each new wiggle generated position would appear, hold, then reappear in new wiggle position at a rate of every .5s...

Hey everyone! Recently worked on this AE project, I've tried to render it at least 4 times, all to no avail, besides taking forever to render, I keep getting hit with this message. Tried opening it with VLC  (and it just shows a black screen), changing the project settings, clearing cache, rendering with or without media encoder, and it just doesn't show me the video, either black screen through VLC, or hit with this message. The only thing I can think of is the project is pretty heavy and it has a Saber plugin but that's about it.   Any help would be appreciated!

HeyI have an issue latly where whem i for example zoom out and change keyframe the whole video is coruppted and went into a black screen as you see can someone help me out 

Hey guys. For some time now, when I download scenepacks from youtube, using chrome youtube downloaders, when I import my scenepack in mp4 into after effects, I just can't see it, it looks like an mp3 file, even though I can play it and see it outside of after effects. Does anyone know how to fix this? I tried using yt-dlp but it's the same, will you give me an idea how to fix it, or any other youtube downloader that will work? Thanks in advance!PS will show how the file looks like in after effects at the bottom in the attachments 

Sometimes certain characters won't work in After Effects, and are changed into Myriad Pro. In the example, the letter capital "L" won't work, but will work perfectly well in Photoshop and Illustrator. In other fonts other letters won't work. Sometimes a letter will work in one AE project but not in another. After Effects 24.1.0 (build 78)Windows 10

Hi, I'm having trouble figuring out an 'easy' work around for a problem I'm having. I need a stroke outline to animate before a 'M' letter fills in. This stroke outline needs to be offset, so the 'M' shape/letter doesn't look bigger when complete (stroke animation and M letter fill in will happen simultaneously). Easy enough.When offset paths is on top of trim paths in order, this offset is fine and looks correct. However, this means I cannot change the first vertex point for trim paths to start and end from.When I put trim paths above offset paths to fix this first vertex point problem, the offset paths breaks and produces double lines that are no longer where i need them to be, 'inside' M letter shape.Is there something I'm doing wrong or is there more steps I need to take, to be able to control stroke offset and where trim paths starts from. I need to do this for a bunch of layers for a logo design so was hoping there was a fix for my issue going forward. Thanks, G

for some reason it wont cover the entire shape just the rectangular size in the middle, anybody have any ideas on how to fix it?

 Anyone know how to do it or what it called this transition? Thank you!

im trying to do an effect where i made 3 masks of a car and have them shatter but some reason on the first frame they just instantly become a bunch of epices with 0 animation.  i googled it and watched like 10 videos about it idk what im doing wrong. please help

when i try and use 3d tracking the points show up but no targets or anything show up and i cannot select tracking points. i have show layer controls on and im on active camera and have detailed analysis on, ive tried in many different projects with different footage and watched a bunch of videos and looked at other posts about it and have tried everything. please help

Reporting ”Your system has run out of application memory” issue on a brand new MacBook Pro Max 64 GB Ram while running After Effects. I knew about this error / warning message while running AE CC on a Mac Mini M1 / 16 GB ram, weas hoping to get rid of it when upgrading. But this seems to be related to Mac Os Monterey (an earlier OS versions). The bad thing is that at times it slows down a rendering process to the point that I have to force quit, loosing the rendering. That is annyoing considering the fact that I hace spend cloase to 5K Euros for the machine. 

Hi everyone, I don’t know if I’m making a mistake or what’s going on, but I have a precomp at 120fps and I did a generative fill, and it looks spectacular.However, outside the precomp, the sequence is at 60fps and it looks like this. Does anyone know how I can fix it??

Dude I have a M2 Macbook 64 gb ram and ae caches so slowly I am considering self harm.  Went out got 2 nvme drives, one for media the better one for caching.  It is even worse.  I can do my work.  Installed reinstalled all that stuff, and it has been ongoing for a long time.  I have managed by other means but I am tired of it.  So what are good affordable alternatives to this adobe nonsense. 

I wanted to share some insights when animating random text characters I got using Character Value and Character Offset, which is probably a bug in AE. At some frames a few characters are getting cropped - either left, right, top or bottom. Suuuper enoying. What I figured out is that Character Value with anything higher than 0 will result in this big. 1 or 2 might be working, but mostly not. Now I think its even strange Character Value even exsist.. 

I am currently writing. a script to create captions in After Effects and it keeps bringing every line in with allcaps flipped on. What line of code do I need to add to ensure allcaps is turned off? Thanks in advance. 

This annoying tips are aimed at beginners, I have been using this program for more than 20 year. There seems to be no way to stop them from popping up? Any suggestions? 

Hi folks, not sure if it's possible, but I would like to use transform_world on top of each other. What I mean is to do first transformation, then save it and do other transformation on that result (in a loop). The reason is I want to do initial matrix transformation on one instance (translate,scale,rotation) and then take that result and do other transormation multiple times. Reason for this is to reduce time of matrix multiplication.Here is approximate code of what I have in mind (but not working as expected of course) // initial transform ERR(in_data->utils->transform_world(in_data->effect_ref, in_data->quality, PF_MF_Alpha_STRAIGHT, in_data->field, input, &composite_mode, NULL, &initial_matrix, 1L, TRUE, &output->extent_hint, output)); // take output and use that as input for(A_long i=0; i<100; i++){ ERR(in_data->utils->transform_world(in_data->effect_ref, in_data->quality, PF_MF_Alpha_STRAIGHT, in_da

I'm trying to render a video edit of multiple footages, however all of the footages have this "missing footage" scene after rendering out. I never had issue with rendering footages previously (e.g. mp4, mov format). Not sure is it because my footages are in AVI format?

Hi everyone,I'm experiencing an issue with Adobe After Effects where it reports running out of memory even though it's only using 5 GB out of the available 64 GB."Insufficient memory warning. RAM usage has been extended for previews. Adjust RAM settings in Preferences > Memory & Performance."Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance! Vera