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Hi! I have created an animation in After Effect of a calendar that is flipping through multiple pages, and have used the "CC Page Turn" effect to achieve this. Right now I have applied the effect to multiple pre-comps in which I have put the text and calendar-background. But now I want to turn this into a mogrt, and from my understanding you can't put a pre-comp into the motion-graphic panel and be able to change the text. You have to work from 1 composition. And I can't use multiple adjustment-layers since they affect everything below it. Is there a way to chose which layers the adjustment layer will affect? I feel like I have tried everything and can't come up with a solution. 

Hello to the Adobe Community, I updated my After Effect 23 to AE 24 and since that, i cannot launch it.When it don't crash at the loading window, It start in background task without me being able to open it. No error message or crash log, i tried everything : Restart, Reinstall (23 and 24 versions) and I even reset my computer and it still don't work. My drivers are up to date and i'm starting to be really desperate. I don't think it came from my computer because every other program like premiere, illustrator and my videogames works well. And my components should be able to launch AE : CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHzGPU RTX 2060RAM 16 Go If you have any advice or solutions to unlock the situation I will be very grateful

I started working on very large After Effects files, and I keep getting a message that the application is out of memory. I clear the cache often, and set the maximum to 500GB..I have 600GB free space on a 1TB iMac. I only have After Effects open, and allotted 13GB of 16GB total RAM memory (it does not let me go any higher) I have assigned the disk cache memory to a 1TB external SSD drive.   I have a 16GB iMac and Apple has made it so you can no longer upgrade. My question is what else can I do to get After Effects to run. I have no other applications open

Hi, I'm having trouble removing the presets I made. Both were only a test to see if I was to save it. I am still learning but I need to delete them due to mistakes made. They appear to be located in "user presets" in the "effects and presets". But there is no way for me to delete them there. Please let me know if there is any way to delete them for good, I tried to locate them on my computer and even tried to "manage effects"/"Browse.." in Ae/in Bridge but are nowhere to be found except for in the "effects in presets" shown below in picture. Which I don't want. Hope you can help or provide some info if I'm missing something, Thanks in advance!

I'm still a noob when it comes to After Effects, and I have looked everywhere on how to fix this issue. My last resort was asking on here. I don't know what information is needed to figure out the problem, so I'll explain what I can. I have windows 10. This stupid error only started popping up since yesterday, when I tried going onto graph editor to view the speed graph. On both the value and speed graph, the keyframes weren't visible. The one time they were, I only managed to modify one before After Effects crashed. I tried again a few more times, and got the same result. This isn't a problem with importing a composition, just editing the graph. Restarting or uninstalling and reinstalling has not helped. Has anyone else experienced this error? Because for some reason there's no trace of it, where I've looked. This is really frustrating and I want to fix it soon. Please help! Here's a screenshot of the popup I get:

Hola, cuando intento abrir el After effects, a veces me salta este error que dice "no se pudo cargar el paquete CEP (oplataforma comun de extensibilidad). Puede que tenga que instalarlo de nuevo" (dejo captura)probe borrando todo lo relacionado a adobe y volviendo a intalar de 0 todo y nada.      Las veces que por alguna razon si me abrió, anduvo mal, no me dejaba exportar con media encoder, no se sincronizaba,  y si tiraba la secuencia al ME, al momento que se abria el dynamic link, no cargaba.

Hi, I'm needing to take some footage that contains 48 frame handles (I know, right?) and reduce them to 8 frame handles, make the comp that duration plus one frame (for the slate), and place that footage into a precomp. I'm really having difficulty with it... Thank you for your time!

Hi.  Unable to find common/plugins folder to install third part plugins on my new Mac.After Effects 24.4.1Any ideas !Thanks

Hi. I am a videographer who uses the Legacy title from Premiere for Youtube video contents. I have a question though. If Legacy title tool, from Premiere, was supported in After Effect, I believe there will be various and creative tools put to usage as subtitles in videos. Is there any thoughts on making a Legacy tool for After Effects?

I'm rendering a simple project in AE 2023 and it takes forever! Like an hour for a 10 second high quality HD render. I've tried various simple projects and it's the same with all of them. I can barely edit a project in AE because it's so slooow.  I can do complex composition projects in Vegas Pro and rendering is fast as hell but AE is crazy slow. Any thoughts as to why?  i7 670032GB RAM6GB GeForce

hi. so I wanna randomize time remap in after effects on a video layer of 25 seconds. so I used the expression "random(0,25)". it works but it goes too fast, it jumps on every single frame. So i want it to go slower, so i tried the expression "posterizeTime(1)". Now it jumps every one second, that's what I want. the problem is it gives me freezed frames / static images every 1 second. and what I want is for the video to continue playing including the jumps. can anyone tell me how to achieve that keeping it simple... maybe adding somthing else to the expression I dont know? thanks

I want to design animation in after-effects that can be edited in PowerPoint for use in live production, as one (depending on the system in use) can't be editing and rendering during live production, is there any way around this🙏..I need a solution as soon as possible, please 

HelloI updated to Sonoma 14.5 last month and now have sat down to start a new animation job realise AE crashes every time I do a simple task such as drag a file into the timeline. I have logged all these crashes with Adobe with my email address and heard nothing back as of yet. I have followed the previous trouble shooting solutions offered on other threads which is to start up in safe mode, reset the preferences back and disable and plug ins (I don't have any). Yet it still crashes over simple things and the software has become unusable at a time I really need to be working. I was on AE 2024 and updated to the latest AE v 17.5.1 and same thing happens. I have never had a problem like this with AE ever and it's come at a really bad time. Please can someone from Adobe offer some solutions? My Mac spec is: Macbook Pro, Chip M1 Max, RAM 32GB.Thank you

Hey! I'm looking to create this animation effect for some video transitions in a project. Unable to find an explanation on a how-to. Is there a simple way to 'link' a video layer with dimensions of a mask/matte so they move togther (like in the example), or is the only way to acheive the video changing it's dimensions within the desired 'box outline' (as in the video changes it's centre point to fill the area proportionally) is to alter it manually and match the mask or matte keyframes with the video position keyframes. Hope that makes sense. Thanks!   

Hey guys, im new to after effect, and i would like to know how to make effect like on picture, could anyone help me with that?

Evening, folks! I'm a little frustrated right now. I bought Red Giant's »VFX Suite« and only installed the awesome Supercomp plugin, but after the installation After Effects performance already went south immediately, without even applying the newly installed plugin. Even in low-res rendered RAM previews only 7(!) fps play back. After uninstalling Supercomp, everything was normal again, and after a reinstall, it became sluggish again. Somewhere AE and RG fight it out, but where? Looking at the performance monitor, neither CPU nor GPU nor RAM nor anything else go through the roof when After Effects decides to linger.Someone here have some experience with it - or ideas out of the blue?Here are my specs (it's an old horse, but it does the trick   😞 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz / 4 coresMemory: G.Skill / DDR3 / 16 GBytes / UDIMM / 4x 4096 MBytesGraphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760System: Windows 10 / Adobe After Effects CC 2018In the *aex I work wi

I have a 2021 M1 Mac Book Pro running Sonoma 14.0 as the OS. I've never experienced this issue before I updated my OS. I have uninstalled After Effects and Media Encoder and reinstalled older versions because I thought it might be specifically a CC issue. When I try to render my After Effects comp out of encoder I get the prompt ' "Adobe After Effects 2023" would like to access data from other apps. Keeping app data seperate makes it easier to manage your privacy and security. '  Regardless of whether I select 'Allow' or 'Don't Allow' the prompt continues to pop up over and over again non stop.  Encoder will not render.

I'm just going to say it, the workflow sucks as it is.I'm using 3DS Max and AE for high end mo-graph work. There are no import rules to file types to interpret imported assests.  3DS Max has this.  Import a JPG and it's ACES/SRGB automatically by a rule I set.  Don't have to set every gosh darn asset in huge projects.  EXR's are linear and so on. It's confusing as heck (Basically I have no idea) if I should uses ACES 1.2 or 1.3CG.  I am importing 3D EXR files from a CG program.  So CG would make common sense, but it's not the default.  Do I care to know every in and out of this?  Heck no. The output color spaces change between versionsn of ACES.  No ACES/sRGB on 1.3?  Do I know which sRGB I should pick?  No not really.  Why are the ones I need not at the top of the list?And the  big kicker, Make a white solid #FFFF in an ACES project and you get a light grey solid.  That's a deal breaker.  How to

Hello After Effects community! I'm looking for some insight from the scripting experts here that I couldn't find with my usual searching. I'm currently working on a script that at its core will create several shape layers arranged in a specific way to generate templates, though the exact details don't matter for this question. One part of my script is currently adding two different shape groups to a single shape layer. When a script generates new shape groups it'll place them BELOW the previously generated shape group. I want to know if there's a way for the script to then re-order those shape groups after generating them so the group created second is on top of the group created first? I've tried things like the .moveToBeginning() method that works for layers, but no dice using that on a shape group (well, either that or I did something wrong which isn't out of the question). Here's a demo code snippit that's been re-formatted to run on its own to show what I'

I have the M1 Macbook pro and I have installed the After Effects beta version, and has been using stock effects up until tonight when I decided to install some free plugins. After installing them, I attempted to load AE and it gave me the error message "Last log message was: <29403> <SonyRawDecoder> <5> Found compatible GPU device for SonyRaw decode support."   I've tried deleting all plugins & scripts I've downloaded, and even uninstalled and reinstalled AE. Still getting the same message. Please help as I've got multiple projects I need to finish ASAP and this is nothing other than horribly inconveinient.

Anyone have a solution for this cutoff? It's really ugly 😞 

My muscle memory is reminding me that double clicking lines of type in the Timeline used to make the type in the comp viewer go into editable mode.  Now, double clicking does nothing. So where does one go now to restore the previous behavior? Thanks, Marc ChepAfter Effects v24.6.2

(AE 2021) trying to content aware fill a subject out of this footage but all it does id generate a fill layer that completely empty, practically useless. Ive watch many tutorials and I follow their instructions exactly yet i get the same error. I've also tried an older version of AE and it still doesn't work. I've only seen one other person online with this issue and that question is unanswered. I'd appreciate if I could get some help. Heres some before and after images, as you can see the fill layer is there but its a png for some reason and it does absolutely nothing 

Hello,  I'm trying to export an animated GIF from AE but I'm getting this strange orange pixel effect shown below in the top left of the still. It seems whenever I use a feathered mask or an opacicty drop, this happens.   I also tried to export a mov file from AE to import into Photoshop to create the GIF from there, but PS said there was not enough memory.Any suggestions much appreciated. Thanks,