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Hey, i want to animate my illustration but i can`t use some features in After Effects because my text like an image i think. My illustration was import from Adobe Illustation to After Effects and i can`t animate my text. Thank you

Hi guys, unfortunately, the installation of After Effects via CC always fails. Here are the details from the error log: Exit Code: 183 -------------------------------------- Summary -------------------------------------- - 2 fatal error(s), 1 error(s), 5 warnings(s) FATAL: Error (Code = 183) executing in command 'RunProgramCommand' for package: 'AdobeAfterEffects22AllTrial', version:22.4.0.56 FATAL: Error occurred in install of package (Name: AdobeAfterEffects22AllTrial Version: 22.4.0.56). Error code: '183' ERROR: launchedTaskWithLaunchPath. Exception while fetching terminationStatus WARN: Attempt to register application "/Applications/Adobe After Effects 2022/Adobe After Effects 2022.app/Contents/AEGPUSniffer.app" failed WARN: Warning (Code = 186) executing in command 'RegisterApplication' for package: 'AdobeAfterEffects22AllTrial', version:22.4.0.56 WARN: Attempt to register application "/Applications/Adobe After Effects 2022/Plug-ins/Format/ProImport/Pro Import AE.plug

Hey there! I am very bad with expressions, but let me try and verbalize my idea here.  I'm looking to essentially create a template for a project where a lens flare will fade in quickly as it passes over a layer of text, fading out between letters. It would need to be something that can be dynamic in the sense that I can change the text layer to anything I want, but the lens flare will show up as it moves past the text. An example would be: I have a sunrise matted behind text, and as the sun shines through, the lens flare appears in the foreground in front of the text, but disappears as the sun goes between the letters. The background is black to paint a bit of a picture there.  Hoping this is something I can do instead of manually changing the opacity for every export I'll need to do. Thank you in advance for your time and help!

When a third party plugin is selected in the Effect Control Window), all mouse events appear to be handled by the third-party plug-in for its own on-screen controls. In this scenario, if I switch to the hand cursor to pan around the frame, it doesn’t work! Presumably, if the events are going to the third-party effect they cannot ALSO be handled by AE for it own functionality.  There are at least two good solutions to this problem:1) Any time the user switches to the hand cursor, disable third-party on-screen controls and thus allow the user to pan around the frame as usual. As soon as the user switches back to the arrow cursor, give control back to the third-party plugin. 2) As long as the third-party effect title is selected in the Canvas, disallow anything but the default arrow cursors. Allow the third-party plugin to capture events, change the cursor to whatever it wants, etc. Either one of those two are acceptable to users/developers. 1 is probably a better UX.&

Hey all I'm trying to create a particular (no pun intended) look in after effects. Basically a sphere which looks like the attached but animates. I want the spheres circle shapes to conform to the surphase of a sphere and to flock and flow in waves across the surface. I've been playing in particular trying to get this effect but so far no joy. Anyone with any ideas? Any help would be much appreciated. 

Hello, I recorded the screen of my computer with Nvidia Replay! which enable me to record multiple audio tracks (in my case : the sound from the computer in 1 audio track + my voice through a external microphone (Blue Yeti) in a second audio track) When I open the MP4 file in a video play for example microsofts Films & TV app, I can manually switch between the 2 tracks. But when I want to import the video file into after affects, it shows me only the 1st track (Gameplay/discord audio) and not the voice recording. It is impossible to get the 2nd audio track with it. I spent ages trying to figure it out but I have no clue what to do.. I know after effects is for doing effects after however no matter what I do I cannot get any video with two audio tracks to both appear. My friend said this wasn't normal and he could! Thanks for your help guys, I hope I'll get some support with this! 

I have tried the camera tracking method but I keep getting the analysis failed message so Im needing help, I'd like to paste a poster permanantly on the red circled area and have it be there as the camera tracks back and forth.   and forth.

So I tried to copy from my 14.1 backup and it will not see it.I have a purchased theme that uses it a lot and I don't knowthe right plugin to select so I can copy and paste the settings.This worked great in 14.1.. any tips?Thanks,Sam

I am trying to make an edit but it seems  like one of the effects are making these lines appear. Anything that can make them go away?

when i want put more thane one point by puppet tool it is do not allow me , i wanna make same this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSaWtJd8hc8 and this what happin with me https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b4kv9iYtdjrRVIE_3CkMsjYaRqzN8tMj/view?usp=sharing

Hello! I have a very strange issue trying to use the puppet tool. I need to pin the top of the tail, but it's not possible, cause the only region I can make pins is this yellow area:So the shape would be broken if I drag the pin:Please help, I'm desperate)It happens with all the layers. I tried to create a shapes from vector files, but it's size is very unconvinient to work with:  

Hi there! I have some problems while recording an animation using puppet transform. 1. When I recording puppet transform at some layer, the animation that was done at the other one layer didn't playing, so I can't properly animate without seeing a base animation I was made before on other layer. How to make the animation that was done before on other layer playing while I'm recording at other layer? That's the first one question. 2. Is there any way to see an object that I'm transforming with puppet tool while I'm recording? Not to see an grid or contours of object, but the all object I transforming in real-time? Thanks a lot!Sorry for my very bad english!

I create 360 3D video from 3D scene.how to add a 3D thumbail like we can see on Quest 3 ?  

As the name is stated, This is an example (1) EPIC AIRPLANE WINDOW TRANSITION - ADOBE PREMIERE PRO TUTORIAL (2017) - YouTube This isn't mine by the way I was wondering if I can do this in After Effects for a stinger transition for OBS regarding streaming, if I can do that, this will be cool asf to pull off,Basically have my "Window" on my Gif offline banner to open a window with my scene in the window and get "Sucked in" into the window and putting my next scene full screen,I want this also in reverse, but I wouldn't mind learn it myself 

So i have been using PT_autoexpres plugin for ages. For simple wiggle, loop operations. But.. all of a sudden the code does not work anymore. I am stumped however how to fix it.  On the first line i know get: Error: undefined value used in expression (could be an out of array subscript?)'Wig Amt - Position' links to an expression control slider . The code is:freq = 1;amp = thisLayer.effect("Wig Amt - Position")(1);result = wiggle(freq, amp);[result[0],result[1],value[2]];

i have this image with a null layer attached but when i move the position of the image the null layer doesnt follow so when i want to use the null layer its not rotating the image from the center how do i fix it?

I was making a Lottie animation with Bodymovin AE extension. There is a frame sequence of images (1000x907) which expected to be exported to a *.mov video. The height of composition containing the frame sequence is also 907. But the exported video is of dimension 1000x912. I asked ChatGPT and it says it maybe "due to the video codec's requirements that the dimensions be multiples of specific numbers, commonly 2, 4, 8, or 16." Is this true and inevitable? It there some setting to stop this behavior or I have to adjust the image size to meet the requirment?

Hii guys,Whenever I install any plugin in my after effects its not showing in effect and preset pannel of after effects can anyone resolve these issue.Currently i am using After Effects 2024 version in Mac Air M2.

I want to create a text animation using animator, where each character pops-up from 0% scale to 150% and then back to 100%. Attached is my current best attempt. I have to mask out characters because by default they are 100% scale untill range is applied to them.How do I do this without masking? Also, how to make scale animations overlap, so multiple chracters are affected at the same time?

I’m part of a project management agency that handles multiple After Effects projects. Recently, a German-based company, Kopf oder Zahl (https://kopfoderzahl.org/), assigned me the task of creating a 3D model for a "German Coin Game". The issue is that I’ve never created a 3D object in After Effects before, nor have I tried anything similar. I’ve watched several YouTube tutorials, but none of them have been particularly helpful for my specific needs. Can anyone guide me on how to approach this? Are there any plugins, tips, or beginner-friendly resources that can help me get started with 3D modeling in After Effects? I’d appreciate any advice or step-by-step guidance. 

Lately i have been getting this errorl; after switching from AE 23 to AE25. I have never been able to open AE25 as i am prompted this error code below.                                    I understand that the error has something to do with the path below, however i can not conclude a fix. Hopefully someone can help me with this utterly annoying issue. Tyrell 

Hi,I am creating some animated text in AE CC to be used in PP CC. I am able to set the properties I want for the essential graphics panel, but I can't find a solution as to how I can change the font size, the font, letter spacing etc in PP. Those properties don't show up when I click the "solo supported properties" button in the essensial graphics panel in AE.Any tips?Thanks!

I want to export text wrapped on a t-shirt in JSON format but the wrap effect on the text disappear on IOS platform. 

I am exporting to Render Queue and I have tried AVI, Quicktime, and H.264. H.264 doesn't allow RGB+Alpha from what I can see. With Quicktime I have tried Video Codec: Animation and Apple ProRes4444 but the .mov files created only plays the sound (playing on Windows Media Player and I also tried importing to Premier Pro). With AVI I chose the Video Codec none, as I am unsure what the other codecs are - but I still get the same issue.  I have also tried using the Media Encoder and used QuickTime with Apple ProRes4444 XQ with alpha and the depth as 16-bpc + alpha but again, the same issue. I'm assuming using an Apple coden on a PC could be the issue, I just don't know what else to use? All tutorials are saying the same thing (mentioned above).

Can you please tell me how I can continue tracking if the point I'm tracking is out of sight, but not by creating another tracking, but by continuing on the same track, so that I can then link it to one null?In the screenshot I have shown which point is out of sight (number 1) and which one I want to continue tracking (number 2).Somewhere I saw that there is a second track point to continue tracking, it's like if I add a checkbox for tracking Rotate and scale.Thank you in advance, I hope you can help me with this)