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I have a text animation I have done that uses the Character Offset.  Currently it randomizes the text using all of the letters in the alphabet. I have Character Range set to Perserve Case and Digits.  What I want is it to use the same letters I have in my source text so I don't get random letters.  Lets say it says "WELCOME HOME"  It would randomize the text using only the letters that exist in this text, not other letters like V or Z.  I am a bit rough on my scripting as I have not done this in years with After Effects and every thing I have tried, including other examples I found, doesn't seem to work.  Can anyone give me insight as to an expression that can do this?  Thanks a lot!

okay so, i have an AI file with about 400-500 red dots, the dots are already in the shape of a heart, however i need them to start off as just random dots and then they slowly starting forming into the heart, but not a solid heart, it still has to look like dots made a heart.instead of doing this by hand, what can i do? see attached for the storyboard.instead of doing this by hand, what can i do?

Need import c4d null animation to Ae as bezier, for example with 2 bezier keys at start and in the end instead of a bunch of baked keyframes 

I’ve been having an issue with After Effects where my project files keep crashing whenever I try to open them, but this only happens if I have the Boris Continuum plugin installed. I’m currently using Boris Continuum 2024.5 with After Effects 2019. As soon as I try to load a project that uses the plugin, After Effects crashes instantly.I’ve already tried reinstalling both After Effects and Boris Continuum, but no luck so far. Has anyone else experienced something similar or have any ideas on how to fix this? Any help would be really appreciated! Thanks!

 I'm working on an animation. However, the keyframes stop moving in the main comp at exactly 2 minutes, while in the pre-comp they continue to play. The main comp and all pre comps are over 2 minutes long. How is this possible? How can i solve this? 

Hello everyone,I have a question to a problem I am facing:I created an animation and I need to render it to the exact format size 42240 x 96 px.It's for a sports stadium.However AE doesn't allow any composition above 30000 x 30000 px.  Do you know of any way to achieve this format size, maybe in combination with Media Encoder, etc?

After effects is eating away at my application memory. For some reason when ever I try using the content aware fill effect, it will analyse up to 37% every single time then show up with "Your system has run out of application memory" as seen in the attached photo. Before pressing generate, I had 120gb storage free on my mac and by the time it hits 37% and forces me to quit it has eaten up 45gb of starage and says that after effects is using over 100gb even though it is a very simple 10 second composition with nothing else done to it apart from this effect which won't work. Im running a fairly new M3 chip with 18gb of ram. If anyone could suggest any potential fixes asap that would be greatly appreciated,Cheers.

I am operating off a Macbook Pro M2 Max 96GB, 2TB that is ridiculously slow in After Effects. The RAM will be totally maxed out after a few minutes when performing even the simplest of tasks with just a few layers. This has been an incredibly frustrating thing to deal with and I am in need of some real answers from Adobe. I make a living from these programs and there should be no reason that with this powerful of a machine AE cant handle simple functions. I am primarily a 2D and do not use any arrays of plugins, or 3D features.  I have been working in After Effects for nearly 10 years now on machines that were well under these current specs and I have never once had trouble like this. This is a real issue and it seems that I'm not the only one either. Attached are screenshots showing the AE RAM usage.  Any support will be very much appreciated.  

Hiya,New to after effects. I think I have achieved this before potentially through creating a custom keyboard shortcut but have forgotten how. Ultimately I would like to create/know a shortcut that moves the Current time Indicator to where my cursor is positioned on the timeline.   

After Effects 24.6 is now live Hello everyone! After Effects 24.6 is now out. The August release doesn't have a lot of new features but it brings a long list of bug fixes. Check out the new version today. Here's what's New   New text scripting hooks for font management Use new scripting hooks for better control over font synchronization and replacement when using the After Effects Extensibility API.       Directly import to a folder Right-click any folder in the Project panel and use the Import option to import files straight into that folder.         Features in Beta     New After Effects Spectrum User Interface Experience the new modern look across the entire app, themed and styled using Adobe Spectrum design.         Per-character text and Paragraph styling in Expressions Use extended text and parag

Just a question really , is it possible to use the warpomatic effect in between every frame in a comp? if so how?thanks

Hi,I'm interested in the Filmstrip export function which I think was dropped from After Effects after CS4 and I think from Premiere after CS3.I realise that it's possible to draw on top of video frame by frame in the Photoshop CC2018 Timeline - and that's great, it's a very useful feature.However I was trying to create a distressed effect across a video where precision as part of the process was not the priority - a little like in this music videoStupid Girl by Garbagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GhPUAVgHZcWorking frame by frame in the Photoshop CC2018 Timeline would have been too time consuming to achieve something like this.But I found that dealing with all the frames as a single large image was more practical.I'm still relatively new to After Effects so if there's any better way of doing what I describe below, please let me know as I'd be interested to hear about it.This link (which I think belongs to Adobe) has the older versions of After Effects / Premiere / Photoshop that sti

Can anyone help me why I'm getting color bars in AE? Thanks. Mike

Hi, Just ran through probably 4th session with the AI to try to solve this issue, but "we" just can not solve it. I have a shape layer path that defines a frontline on a battle map. It is defined by even hundreds of individual vertices and some keyframes that then shows frontline changes through time. There are days where the frontline on the battle map does not change, even though in reality it does. So I have the vertices and keyframes defined on those static days without any changes, with the same value. What my goal is, is to use an expression (or a script?) to have it "ignore" the keyframes where there are no vertice movements, and get it to basically skip showing static vertices (with same values) on neighboring keyframes, and link vertices only with the next vertice that has a change in its value. So to have a continual and smooth animation.Assuming I explained this well, is this something that AE can achieve via expressions/scripts, or does something like that ha

I don't know if the title makes sense, but I installed some scripts on After Effects, and some of them are bigger than my screen resolution and I can't access some options.I just need to find a way to scroll down and see the rest of the panel to use the scripts properly.My screen resolution is 1366x768.  Thanks!!

1. I have a simple text layer.  2. I have a rectangle shape layer. 3. I alpha matte inverted the shape to the text so that the text is black on the white rectangle. 4. I have this red texture that I want to alpha matte to just the rectangle, while still keeping the text black. 5.  But when I do that, the rectangle is covered by the texture but the text is hidden. I just want my black text to show on this new alpha matted rectangle with the red texture. I need to use alpha mattes to acheive this effect as I'm trying to do something else with this premise. Why doesn't it work, a tutorial I'm following shows these exact steps to get this result. What am I doing wrong??? This is the result I want to acheive.

De repente dejo de funcionar el archivo, no me deja previsualizar y cuando lo cierro me aparece el error de <BEE_WorkQueue>, dejo adjunto el informe que me deja del programa, por favor ayudenme

In After Effects, "Zoom with Scroll Wheel" and "Zoom with Trackpad (pinch in/out gesture)" work inconsistently. When zooming with the scroll wheel, it functions relative to the center of the composition area, whereas when zooming with a trackpad (pinch in/out), it works relative to the pointer, which is inconsistent and annoying.The same issue occurs in Photoshop, but it works vice versa for some reason.In Illustrator, zooming works fine; it always zooms in and out relative to the pointer, regardless of the pointing device being used.  Zoom with Scroll Wheel works relative toZoom with Trackpad works relative to After EffectscenterpointerPhotoshoppointercenterIllustratorpointerpointer Please, pay attention to this issue and fix it. Make zooming in After Effects and Photoshop same good and consistent as in Illustrator when using different input devices. After Effects: Photoshop:: Illustrator:

Hi,for rigging a character its important to keep arms/hand positions exactly where I kept them in the first place. I dnt feel good when I see things  shift position after applying region of interest. Is there any way I can apply region of interest and after cropping my precomp will stay exactly where it was originally?Thank you. 

Greetings all.I've been racking my brains out for the past couple of hours trying to acheive this effect (please see video).Can anyone help?

Rotobrush gets stuck propagating a simple Full HD Clip at 24fps.Please I need a solution for this. This is supposed to be the newest version. PC SpecsIntel Core I7 8700 (6 núcleos/12 hilos - 3.2ghz/4.6ghz turbo)- Dual channel Crucial 64gb ddr4 2400mhz- Zotac GeForce GTX1060 Mini 6gb gddr5-Windows 10 

I have a 3D Camera inside a precomp. When I turned on collapse transformation outside the precomp, the preview is glitching. its not showing what its supposed to be. System info    Application: After Effects v24.6.2.2    OS: Windows v10.0.22631, RAM: 63.91 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 12

Hello, I am wondering if any changes made in Illustrator like creating new layers will be reflected in the After Effects file? What I am noticing is that any changes made to existing layer is reflected in the AE file but if I add new layers with text/shape to the Ai file, those are not reflected in the AE file.  Is there a way to make all the changes made in the Ai file reflect in the AE file simultaneously? Thank you! 

Hallo zusammen,  ich habe das Problem, dass nachdem ich einen Hintergrund mit dem Rotopinsel entfernt und durch einen anderen Hintergrund ersetzt habe, dass beim Rendern das Objekt teilweise immer mal wieder transpartent wird, beim Abspielen in After Effects sieht alles aus wie es soll, die zusätzlichen transparenten Momente werden beim Rendern produziert.Welche Rendereinstellung kann hier das Problem sein, bzw. das Problem beheben?Danke

Since I have upgraded to 2022 when ever I add Particular to a layer then click the Designer tab AE crashes. I hae uninstalled both but it still happens, I even installed an older version but it still crashes, If I open an old project it still crashes. Sent the report with my email but Adobe are ignoring it and cant get any help from the support.