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I've been using AE for a few years now, but since I'm self-taught I struggle a bit with the vocabulary and how to search the "right" words to find useful results. I hope I'm communicating my question in a way that makes sense, and please feel free to educate me on the correct terms if I'm not using them correctly. When I use a mask, the handles(?) usually move as a straight line as I adjust it as seen in photo 1. However, sometimes they just stop working like that and only one side will move independantly, photo 2. I'm sure I'm accidently hitting a hot key or something that enables/disables this function, but I have no idea what it is or even how to properly search for a solution online. How do I enable and disable this function? Thanks everyone! 

Managed to resize font for menus, but cannot work out how to resize fonts for left hand side,Name Type File Size etc, and also trying to increase size of icons in timelne,  Audio, Solo, Lock Shy, Motion Blue etc. They are just too small to view properly. Any advice please.

Hi, I am seriously wondering if there is any way I can change this weird yellow color of pupet pin in Ae.and also any way I can make this weird yellow color circle bigger? My eyes are hurting, they are so tiny. Thank you. 

I'm currently running After Effects CC 2017 on my Macbook Pro; specs are below.Macbook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)OS: 10.10.5Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR2I've updated After Effects CC 2017 and I also emptied out my Media and Disc Cache.Whenever I try to auto-trace a text layer AE immediately freezes up and crashes before I cannot even click on the Auto-Trace dialogue box before the crash. I attempted this within my project which has gotten fairly big and in a brand new AE project with just a single text layer. I haven't received any error codes just the dialogue box that says that the program quit unexpectedly.

Hi,I'm wanting to track hands in a golf swing during the various stages.The problem is that the hand will change the appearance during the swing as it has to rotate in 3 dimensions. Normal motion tracking simply goes offline as the track point changes state.Would it be just easier to track the hand frame by frame or is there yet an easier automatic method?Source material: Luke Donald - slow motion golf swing - YouTube Cheers!

Is there anyone who knows about and could explain why the option "Create Camera from 3D Model" under Camera options, is greyed out and doesn't seem to get to work?  I understand that AE should be able to process c4d, glb, and obj files for 3D modeling, but do they need to be prepared in a certain matter for it to function, and if so how?  With or without cameras from their separate programs does not seem to make a difference, nor does it pre-composing them. For example, adding basic lights and cameras in c4d or blender exported as glb file won't make it function. Is AE not picking up on the saved camera and lights from these files overall or does something need to be prepared beforehand?I cannot find that much regarding this option in the AE user guide or any other place online so was hoping some friendly soul here had a good explanation. Here's a bit but I do not understand why it won't work: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/extract-and-animate-came

How can expression to a layer comp that when have image in comp opacity 100 and when doesn't have any image in comp opacity 0?

After effects (24.1) keep crashing when I switch language from English to other language by input language hotkey (I'm using Thai language, by the way) The app was totally fine when I type the text somewhere else (like notepad) then copy and paste the textor even I switch the language by using taskbar, the app still working Thanks in advanced

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Omino diffusion plugin showed up and was working... then an error occured and AE crashed.  On relaunch, Omino diffusion disappeared from effects list.All other Omino plugins, colorizer, snake etc are still present in the effects list. The location folder is program files, Adobe, support files, plugins, omino suite.aex files are present in there. Why has it ghosted itself?

Hey guys! For some reason, I'm unable to expand of the tools in the Composition or Effects. I click on that arrow on the left side of the function, but it won't open the drop down menu. Anyone else experiencing this? I fortunately know the keyboard shortcuts to pull up Opacity / Scale etc, but if I don't use the keyboard shortcuts, it won't open 😕😕 Not sure why this is happening.  Let me know if anyone is also experiencing this! Thank you!

I created a graphic template in AE with multiple text layers, and each has a bounding box. For flexibility, I have determined it's best not to have the bounding boxes for daily use, and just have unbounded text for each layer, but I can't figure out how to remove the bounding boxes. I could create all new layers, but I have so many effects and dependencies on each layer already, it would be a huge hassle. Any idea? Thanks.

Hello. I would like to remove the Lavalier mike and its cord from this clip. Normally, it would be a straight forward issue that can be solved easily. However, the woman’s hands keeps interfering and a simple removal is not possible. I will appreciate it very much if someone shows me the steps to take to remove tha mike and its cord while keeping the hands.

I can't copy and paste text from Illustrator to After Effects. I have tried one of the most used methods to solve the issue, opening the project from the After Effects panel rather than directly opening the project. It works till I copy 1 text, when I proceed to copy & paste other texts, it doesn't work again. I can't keep opening the project again & again to copy each text. Any NEW METHOD/SOLUTION would be appreciated. It's been a while since I have had this problem.

Hi Adobe and AE-Community, I am working on AE 24.1 / Mac OS Ventura / New Mac Studio and since 12 months I can't find any solution to one of these topics. AE behaves weird and seems to be defectively programmed. I do have serious problems to simply just work my job. I am on AE for 16 years now, so I usually find solutions to problems but in this case, I don't know that to do anymore.I also tried to contact the support, but since 4 weeks nobody answers anymore,Please help me out before I go mad ;--) Preview Errors:1 Preview is often stuck and unable to show anything and there is not even a progress bar,the only thing possible, to get it working again, is purging, saving, reopening the project. 2 When stopping the Preview, the Preview switches to half size view, or quarter size view,The Preview is getting smaller in the top left corner and remains like this for a while until it snaps back to the natural view. 3 It often takes ages to get a simple preview of a simple c

Hi allI have created a morph video. The video is supposed to have a pink background, but when I add the pink background the morph doesn't work. I followed this tutorial: https://youtu.be/cRmKfClMWIE?si=1yzxljNO5dIEL5JR I did choose QuikTime, alpha & RGB and animation as output.... but it still doesn't work. kindly assist.  In other words, I need export the video with another colour background and not the normal black upon creating the composition...

In 1995, I produced a music video without the use of a computer.  I was revisiting it and looking back, I wish I paid more attentuion to one recurring scene that was of a crazy wild video of tv snow feedback with an overlay of a circle mask of the singer.  The bacjground of the video feedback is mostly on the bottom of the screen and I wish I filled the screen with it. I also would like to increase the size of the overlay (singer) to a larger circle. Is this possible?  Keep in mind that the video is constantly moving and coming at you. if it is possible, I would duplicate this layer and isolate the singer in the circle as an overlay and then use the original frame to add more of the noise feedback. I attached a scfeen shot.  Thanks for any suggestions. Tony

 A female character who appears in 1:08 seconds.    A female character who appears in 28 seconds.  How do you create this type of behavior?Is this a way to create an illustration in multiple parts and then apply motion effects?Or can I make it using a program like Spine or Unity? The adult game called 'Summer Clover' has a similar feeling... I get it. Does anyone know? If anyone knows how please help        

Hey all, I'm having an annoying issue with the Rotobrush tool in After Effects that I hope you can all help me out with. I'm very familiar with Premiere, but my After Effects knowledge/experience is lacking for sure, so it's quite possible I'm missing something pretty basic.I'm working with linked comps created from clips in a Premiere timeline. The only effects applied to the original clips were adjusting speed and framing. I open the comps in AE, and when I go to roto, it gives me a warning my clip framerate doesn't match my comp framerate, and then selects the entire frame. I change my comp framerate to match my clip framerate, and it still selects the entire frame. Here's a video of me doing this: Rotobrush Issue - YouTubeI searched briefly for anyone else having this issue, and it's definitely a known problem, but I didn't see any sort of workaround or solve.Looking forward to hearing what y'all think!E: Just some additional notes, this has been happening on both Mac and PC system

After Effect warning File not found when I load a 3D object in aftereffect After Effect can't continue Advanced 3D plug-in genratedet an unexpected execption gives these errors, please help me solve this problem

hi everyone, I have a mac with Big Sur operating system version 11.2.3.I have always used after effects to make animations. For some time, during video export, I can no longer get transparency while adding the alpha channel.these are my steps:          file > export > add to Render Queue > format Quicktime > channels RGB + Alpha.in this way, up to 3 months ago, I am always successful on this same device.  Now, once exported, it tells me that the file is not compatible with quicktime player. is there a problem with quick time? it does not open any files to me. using another solution, trying not to export with .mov, I tried with media encoder.these are my steps:         file > export > add to Media Encoder Queue > format: H.264 > render alpha channel only.the result is a video with a black background and white animation. obviously, in the composition, the transparency is set which is displayed c

I have a classroom full of students. Every time we install a font (either through the online system or using local fonts through Font Book) they are having to restart the entire computer for AE to recognize them. Any advice? We are using Sonoma 14.6.1 and AE 24.5.0 (Build 52).

Since I've switched to After Effects CC 2018 I've not been able to use the 3D camera tracker. I've looked around and couldn't find an answer and was wondering how to fix this or if anyone else has had the same issue. Here's a screen grab:javascript:;I've tried uninstalling and using the CC Cleaner Tool but it still doesn't work. Any help on how to fix this would be most appreciated!

Meu aplicativo da adobe está com problema em todos os apps, todos dão erro 205 Ex "Ocorreu um erro com o aplicativo X e ele precisa ser fechado. Me ajudem Por favor!!!!!

When I try to load a 3D object, After Effect cannot contunue advanced plug-in generated an unexpected explosion, it gives this message, says save and closes. Is there a solution for this?!... There is no way to load 3D objects directly, anyway?!...... So we will upload 3D nail polishes and fun 3D science.   Title edited by Mod.