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Hola, compré un video para editarlo en After Effects, pero al querer abrirlo me sale este mensaje:  Advertencia de After Effects: El archivo "....Laep"  está bloqueado. No puede guardar ningún cambio en este archivo. Hello, I bought a video to edit it in After Effects, but when I want to open it I get this message: Warning of After Effects: The file ".... Laep" is blocked. You can not save any changes to this file.

I want to create a 3x3 square grid with a total of 9 squares. There will be a single photo overlapping the entire set. I want each individual tile to flip over one at a time (like a playing card). How would I go about doing this? To test out the flipping motion, I tried setting the track matte of the photo to the 1 shape. But when I try to rotate the X or Y axis, the square doesnt stay stationery and "flip" over. The whole shape moves.  

When I draw new shapes, the anchor point doesn't auto-center like in previous versions. I've checked that this option is turned on in the Preferences. What's also weird is that I'm unable to alter the anchor point using third-party plugins, the anchor point doesn't budge, but the same script/plugin works on other types of layers. Is this a bug or have my settings/preferences messed up some way? I'm using After Effects 2025 (25.1.0 Build 68) on a MacOS (Sonoma 14.7.2)

 Try to work and stare at this UI for long hours, seriously. Take the Effect panel as an example; every effect has a highlight, making it seem like everything is selected; why?I'm trying to stick with AE 24 until there are some updates on the new Spectrum UI, but it's been months, and these changes make AE 25 horrible to work with. I can't even enjoy new features because it's awful; the visual contrast is gone.I hope there's some update planning for this because it's unacceptable

EDIT After trying the whole "reset your windows" package and getting the same error, I finally managed to hit the right google search and found this reddit topic where the user reported a very similar issue to mine and resolved it by turning off HAGS (Hawdware Acceleration GPU Scheduling) in Windows Settings. Did it and seems to be working fine now. Will report if the issue gets back somehow. Anyways, it's really sad that I needed infinite google searches and reddit help instead of simply getting even REPLIED by someone from Adobe or AE Team. Ironically, I pay Adobe monthly for a stable use of it's softwares, not reddit. I'm relieved that my issue seems to have been resolved, but not with help from Adobe.Sad to say without any sarcasm: Thanks for nothing, Adobe. TLDR: If you are experiencing the same issue as I am, try turning off this particular windows setting called Hardware Acceleration GPU Scheduling. Hope it helps! -------------------- Hello, pe

This clip I have (inlcluded below 1 frame jpeg) is about 20 seconds long and I cannot seem to remove the text from the bottom right. I've used content aware fill and that always leaves artifacts and just doesn't do a good job. When the guitar moves up and down, there's always a smidge of the white left here and there. Also, have tried cloning and just trying to paint it out - but it never looks perfect. I'm new to this and this seems like a miniscule problem for which I'm probably missing a simple solution. Thx if you could help

The UI scaling options have been requested for years and completely ignored. The font is very very small and I struggle to read it which affects usability of the software. Adobe recently added a high contrast option to Premiere beta which makes it very slightly sharply in contrast but not much. I am aware of a method to make the font slightly bigger in some parts of After Effects but it's not really an intended feature. Adobe software is also very flat in design to the point that it can be hard to tell panels apart. I noticed this particularly in Animate. You are basically looking at a grey soup. Unlike free software like Blender or VLC there are also no theme options really besides very slight variations on the grey. This lack of accessibility could essentially lock out anyone with eyesight issues, And anyone with progressive eyesight issues such as due to age, who may find themselves unable to do their job because they can't see the software whereas with more accessibi

So sometimes I get to mousing around a bit fast, and I might miss the comp I'm looking to double click, and instead I activate the double click import, which opens a bright white window on my nice dark grey screen, and requires I drag my mouse over to close it, then trundle back over to the Project window to find the comp I was trying to open in the first place. Usually only happens when I'm in a hurry, because of course. All I can find is people who like this feature that I loath, and nothing suggesting a way to turn it off. Is that because I'm the only person besides my business partner who hates it? I mean, CMD+i is RIGHT THERE if I need to import something. Literally 30+ years combined of the two of us never wanting a double click import, and as I get older and my icons get smaller, I'm really hoping there's an option to turn it off.

I have been having this grave problem for quite a whileUsually before I would just track my video and place pictures on it and it would follow the track pointsNow regardless of the fact that there are track points when I add an image and select the 3d for it it seems as if it's not tracked at all and is just sitting in one position of the composition not at all moving around on the track points I added it onI have only found solutions for this in two other places where this problem comes from directly importing from premiere pro but in my case the video that I am importing was shot in my camera to my sd cardI really need to track objects and do not know what to do.PSThe video I'm using is reversed in the composition then trackedPlease help 

Counting out the "History", how can I revert an easy ease keyframe to a normal keyframe ?Thanks in advance.

We have photoshop for Windows on ARM and it's wonderful. Could we start to get the rest of the suite, assuming that it is not currently planned? The Microsoft Surface Pro X is an excellent machine with a GPU that can compete with the Apple M1. I know the Microsoft/Qualcomm SQ2 is lacking in CPU compared to the M1, but it's still more than powerful enough for this, considering how wonderfully Photoshop runs on WoA. After all, the GPU is the generally primary component required for video and image processing. Since the ARM64 libraries clearly exist for OSX, they can certainly be ported to Windows DLLs. I support ARM products no matter what company is using them, but it's frustrating to constantly be looked over until Apple does the same thing someone else does and THEY get support first and THEY get praised instead of the actual pioneer. That complaint aside, as it's personal opinions and frustration not meant to detract from an excellent ARM SoC (The Apple M1), I think th

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/rampaging-t-rex-9fca9a76d0c04cceb2a76c8b501a8cb0 i imported this glb model with animations into after effects but when i go to the animation options they dont show how do i fix this?

Hi,Magic Lantern was a Canon DSLR hack that offered dual ISO recording. This created a high frame rate .mov in which alternate frames were +2 and -2 stops around the set ISO. These two streams could later be blended to yield a faux HDR result.I shot a short film with this 12 years ago, and post got temporarily shelved.  I'm back on the case now.So far:Import original up/down 50fps footage. Put into two separate 50fps compositions. Give one a one-frame offset. Change compositions to 25fps. Both comps look great - one up and one down.Now, I can blend these two using AE's HDR Compander, but there's a temporal offset of 1/100th between the two exposures, so anything moving has a ghost. The only fix I can think of is rendering one of the 25fps compositions as a series of tiffs, and then to reimport it. I would then halve the speed of the footage using Time Stretch and AE would generate the missing frames. From there I'd extract those in-between frames as a fresh 25fps comp that would b

Hi does anyone know how I can get the fill and stroke bar at the top of the panel? I need to make a stroke line connecting the texts Like here (attachment), I dont know why i dont have it.(The youtube videos top toolbar layout is how I want it) But I really have no idea, I tried tweaking with the window setting, but I can't find the setting that enables it.

Hi! I've been working on this animation, but I can't seem to find a solution for my problem. In the gif below you see the transformation I'm looking for, but while maintaining stroke width. This is an imported path from illustrator, modified to shape layers. In numerous tutorials, I see that to achieve this, you need to create a null layer, parent this shape layer to that null layer, and add an expression to the stroke width property of the shape layer. It does seem to work for proportional scaling, but not for unproportional. Can anyone help me find the answer? Thanks!- Joppe 

Hey I am very excited to be here learning about after effects and design.Hit me if you would like to learn together and we could connect and probably grow together. Regards

Hi, I learnt here ( in adobe community, from an expert) that I can save script in notepad adding ' extension .jsx' . and use that from File- Script- Run script file. Is there any way I can move that into Ae window panel and keep that floating like other tool/plugin in my customize workspace? OR that is possible only for commercial plugins/tool? Thank you.  

Hello, I have layers of varying dimensions (160x600 1080x1080 320x250 480x320 728x90) roughly between 80 to 100 layers. Is there a way to have these layers populate into a grid with even padding around each layer, attached is an example. I'd rather not use expressions as I'm sure it will bog AE down;  it it doesn’t have to be created in After Effects. It could be done in InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop and once in AE replace these placeholder layers with my comped layers. I've had a Google, but the only real solution appear for CSS and website design. I'm here to ask if someone has seen or used such a grid layout before. Thank you

Hi community.  Recently Rick Gerard provided me with an expression using create nulls with paths, to move with 1 pixel increments using Null paths.   rNull = thisComp.layer("Null Left");strtPos = rNull.position;endX = 126,spd = 1; // number of pixels to move per frameStrtTime = 0; // Start on Frame 40;eTime = endX/spd;t = timeToFrames();mov = linear(t, StrtTime, StrtTime + eTime, 0, endX);[strtPos[0] + mov, strtPos[1]]; This animation below is correct. And is using the right null    For the following animation below, I changed the expression into the left null (deleting the code from the right null), so the green line is going in reverse, which is correct, but when it starts to expand from the centre of the line towards the right side, the line is cut short, not an even animation. (Not enough frames im dont know....) . see Example below:    My thoughts to emulate the blue line animation would be, having 2 d

Hi community. Ive came across a tricky situation in AE. I need to animate a bipolar line, from left to right. (I've uploaded an example, please see the GIF).first question is, does AE move the Shape line in 1 pixel increments?  Second question is, why does it make that smoothing transition, and not sharp edge like in the example Ive uploaded. Its half pixel smooth, then pixel sharp, then pixel smooth again, then pixel sharp again. Whats the best method to animate a line, perfect pixel by pixel. I need to animate from 0 to 100 a line, and each pixel needs to be perfect without any smoothing on the edges of the line.  Thank you.   The line animations look not smooth in their transitions. https://limewire.com/d/a0db155a-9dd8-4d23-88b8-2cee71b8e5e3#1tr_M9VsiGp_oW5VW46eLvv7RMPr77Nmyv9SUANpnY0 https://filebin.net/w7hxnrslcma5fbtp

After Effects 25.1.0Windows 11 Short version - using a script to set output file names for items in the Render Queue causes any output names from comps that have periods in their names to be truncated from the period on. I've written a scriptUI panel that adds selected items from the Project panel to the Render Queue. It takes the comp name as the base of the output file name, and has options to prepend and append user-defined strings to the file name (stuff like version number, date etc). It also generates a drop-down with all the output templates so the user can select a template and apply it to all the items being added. It also can set a folder to save the output in. To programatically set any folder other than whatever it defaults to when simply adding an item to the Render Queue, you have to create a new File object and specify the path and filename. My problem is that any comp that has a period anywhere in the original comp name will have everything in the na

I've observed an unusual behavior within my After Effects user interface that occurs when I have multiple CEP extensions opened consecutively. Here's the scenario:Opening Multiple Extensions: Whether docked or floating in the UI, if I open multiple CEP extensions (let's say three), everything appears to function normally. If I then close the last opened one, all is good, which is Normal. However: But:The issue appears when I begin closing one of these extensions that isn't the last one opened. If I close the first or second opened extension, it triggers an unexpected behaviour: the content of the last opened extensions disappears, and their functionality stops. Why does closing any CEP extension affect the last opened one? This may be related to the HTML engine, but I'm unsure. How can this issue be resolved? Thank you very much.

I'm in the newest version of AfterEffects (v.25.1), and I'm trying to set up a MOGRT that's relatively complex on the backend, and I need some help getting the code to work. I'll try to explain what I'm going for. I have a template for a lower third graphic, and I want to be able to select specific sections of text by using sliders, and then apply preset custom formatting to that text by using a dropdown menu which lists four possible formatting options. Here's what the Essential Graphics setup looks like:  As you can see by there being 5 different groups, I want to be able to make up to five text selections, and have these same options for each one individually: 1) start index of the text selection, 2) length of the text selection, and 3) ability to choose what formatting preset is applied. (For example, I want to be able to select the second word in the lower third and make it italics, and also select the fourth word and make it smallcaps, etc.) I have code that w

I have an issue with my trapcode particular plug-in. Every time I open the designer I get the below message and then when I close out of the designer my after effects gives me another error and crashes. I reinstalled Red Giant and made sure Trapcode was only in my AE 2022 folder. Does anyone know how to fix this?  

When using Increment and Save, AAE creates a new file (with an increased version number in the filename). I am wondering if that is considered a "new" file by the cache management algorithm. If so, doing that often will quickly eat up cache space as all the caches from the previous versions would be kept indefinitely (until deleted manually) as they all are considered separate documents. Can anyone shed some light on that?