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Hi Folks Can anyone help me with the attached error I am getting while importing PNG files in Adobe After Effects.  

What is the technical difference in Animation & Add? Because both have same dropdown menu.    

I have an After Effects project that was built on a MAC and  sent to me by another editor. I have a PC. Any one know  how to convert a MAC AE project to windows. Is there an app? or can it be converted in the PC.

I have a bunch of PNG image sequences that I'm trying to preview in AE and it won't render multiple frames simultaneously.  There are no effects applied, only a scale.  Successive frames have no dependence on each other so I don't understand why it can't render several at the same time. My CPU is i9 14900k with 128 GB RAM.  I have AE set to render multi frames simultaneously but every time I render a preview it chugs through the images one-by-one, using very little CPU and taking forever. How do I make AE render multiple frames simultaneously (like it did back in the day...)?

I have keyed some RED .r3d footage in AE. If I render a ProRes 4444 with alpha directly from the AE render queue (so just rendering within AE) it outputs fine, though is rather slow. If however I try to render that same comp in Media Encoder by clicking "Queue in AME" the resulting ProRes file looks like the below image, like the keyed out background is instead just washed out rather than removed.Another thing to note - the view on my keylight effect is set to "Intermediate Result", which I always use by default. However, if I change this to "Final result" and export through Media Encoder I do now get a transparent keyed area BUT  I now have very harsh pixellated edges and chatter:Even more bafflingly if I bring this ProRes back into AE those edges and chatter don't appear to be there at all and it looks absolutely fine!The footage is log but the AE working colour space is set to Rec.709 gamma 2.4. My working theory was that it was perhaps a colour space mismatch between AE &

Монтирую подкаст, делаю для него анимированные субтитры, заказчик попросил у всего текста сделать фон. В минутном видео по 130 фраз, которые я вручную добавлял фон для каждой фразы индивидуально.

I'm following some of those time displacement typography tutorials. They work fine with text, but I can't get them to work on a linked object, e.g. a jpeg Does this only work on type / shape layers? 

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!!!!

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.

How to make this on UI script?