Questions

Hi, I just opened After Effects for the first time and having been researching for hours. We have an annual meeting coming up where there are hundreds of single photos we are turning into basically a slide show. However, I want to create a separate video of several of those photos coming into our logo. The idea from the movie Friends with Benefits where the flash mob people morph into the GQ logo. This is what i'm trying to replicate.  Any ideas or help is much appreciated!! Thank you, Kiersten 

If my playhead is in the middle of my timeline, I'd like to play from that point. But the playhead keeps going back to the beginning of the timeline. Is this normal or is it a bug in AE CC 2018? I've never seen it do that prior versions. Is there some setting to toggle regarding the playhead because I haven't found it in Preferences.Thanks very much in advance.

After Effects has become unusable on my home PC. It crashes within the first 5 seconds of openning any project. I've tried importing a project into a new file, same issue. Ran in safe mode, still crashes. Disabled all plug-ins, crash. Reset preferences, same. Disabled Home Screen, no change. Updated video drivers, no difference.  I've tried AE Beta with no luck.This is making it  impossible to work. I've been having to remote into my office PC to work, which has the same plugins, scripts, settings, and version. Works fine on my office PC, except due to remoting in there's a massive audio delay and just generally slow. No reason why the same file or any file on my home PC keeps crashing. After Effects v 24.5After Effectts Beta  v 25.0Windows 11 Pro v 23H2Intel i9-14900KS96 GB Ram - G.Skill Trident Z5 4 x24GB DDR 500 8000 (running at 6600)ASUS ROG Strix  Z790-E Wifi IIASUS ROG Strix RTX 4090 OC GamingOS - Corsair MP700 PRO 1 TBProject on - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB&nbs

HolaThe Play Button, in the properties panel don't work.Any  idea why is that?ThanksMac,Aftereffects 24.2.0

Boa tarde pessoal, gostaria de saber como é feito esse efeito de "transição" ou o nome desse estilo de transição para que eu posso fazer na animação da minha logo

Im unable to find the render setting with MOV H.265

I am working on a script that will add two guides, vertical and horizontal at the center of the comp. Not sure if you can add guides through scripts tho

Okay, not sure what's going on here but since a few updates prior whenever I alter a mask (adjust a point, resize, reposition) it changes the mask mode. For example, I draw a mask and set the mode as 'Add'. I then move it and After Effects changes the mode to 'None' or 'Difference' all by itself, forcing me to go through the added step of changing it back to 'Add'. What's going on here and how do I stop this? It's driving me crazy. I've searched through the preferences but couldn't see anything obviously related.

Hi, How can I turn off this margin/snapping in AE 24? this is absurd. I dnt knw how it comes. Please help 

Hi, So after a lot of research and frustration am posting here, I am extremely sorry if it goes against the community, I mean I dnt knw if am allowed to ask such guidance in AE community or not. So I need some guidance, I am totally new in Duik world.  Are Duik Bassel and Angela the same? I have downloaded both but very differenet UI. Which one  I should learn first, Duik bassel or angela?  Those who know this plugin please guide me. I cant wait to learn and make some cool cat animation. Please.

I have a 2D map of Europe that I pre-composed into a 3D composition with a null-parented camera. In my 3D composition, I'm adding the Sea as a background 3D layer. Is there an expression I can use that would make the Sea layer size match the Pre-Comp layer Map size, so I don't have to do this manually?I'm essentially trying to crop the Sea layer to the Map layer. Just wondering if there's an expression for that.  Thank you in advance.     

Hello, I'd like to reverse the path of a mask on After Effects in order to make an animation without the path going all over. Do you know how I can do it?

Hi, I am learning expressions. I did everythng verbetim mentioned in the PDF am following, but am not getting what am supposed to. My expression never works and it makes me upset. I must have done something wrong. Please guide me. 

I am interested in trying to create keylogger using extendscript which records key strokes and save as notepad.ScriptUI.environment.keyboardState.keyName;Is there any way to do it.Run until stop??Thanks

Is there a way to see objects which are placed outside the canvas? (Outside the dimensions of the composition) Off stage. Like in Animate or Illustrator.That would be so handy for me, animating stuff which come sliding in/out of view.

Hey guys, I just update my AE software recently and noticed a huge issue with no solutions on web.Since the last update, AE is perpetually crashing with messages like: "not enough ram to render image" (I have 64Gb of DDR4 RAM and 42Gb of VRAM) whit 56Gb allowed only to AE with no other softwares open.And this issue is non stop. On Adobe and other sites, not only one solution proposed fix the issue.  Is it a problem from 24.5? Did you guys downgrade to 23.6.9 and this is solving the issues?  Is there an alternative for AE? Personnaly I am sick of this programm. Even with a war machine, this software is barely usable: 1 layer with just some keyframes, and you can't play the animation without lagging... Is someone try Fusion yet? Have a great day, Leo.

If anyone can help me it would mean so much!

Como puedo agregar el efecto de particulas a After Effects

Hi, I unfortunately still have a question about loops, I would like to make a loop for the "cc particle world" effect because when I go back to the beginning of my composition, we can notice a small cut.I'm looking on the internet but the demo examples are not the ones I was expecting, so that's why I call on you, Thank you. Ziomix

Help me how to fix this

Hi gang; I have an idea of the answer but I wanted to verify. When developing plugins, I am assuming it is important to have each and every parameter named uniquely in the actual interfact, correct? If not, when creating an expression and adding the parameter name, if there are multiple instances of the same name, there will be issues, right? There are times when you don't need unique names. In my case, I have a plugin that has a start and end point, under different topics. So I have, for example: Start Point (topic) Position Color Width etc... Start Point (end topic) End Point (topic) Position Color Width etc... End Point (end topic) I am assuming that this is not wise and instead you would want unique names for each parameter like so: Start Point (topic) Start Position Start Color Start Width etc... Start Point (end topic) End Point (topic) End Position End Color End Width etc... End Point (end topic) Otherwise creating an expression which contain

Cinema 4D won't open from AE when I create a new Maxon C4D project. I have attached screen shots of the error I get when it attempts to open. Does anyone have a solution to fixing this problem? Thanks,EVH

Hey Folks, I'm relatively new to scripting, picked little bits up here and there. Trying to automate some tasks I carry our on a regular basis. I have AE Projects that I'd like to automate using a .bat file to kick things off by opening AE, a particular AE Project, open ExtendScript and then run a script in ExtendScript to batch generate graphics and animations. I've tried this ... @2846721 offREM Path to After Effects executableset AE_PATH="C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2024\Support Files\AfterFX.exe"REM Path to the After Effects projectset PROJECT_PATH="D:\OneDrive\Gartcairn FC\Gartcairn FC Fixture Graphics.aep"REM Path to the ExtendScript Toolkit executableset ESTK_PATH="C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC\ExtendScript Toolkit.exe"REM Path to the JavaScript fileset SCRIPT_PATH="C:\GARTCAIRN Fixtures.jsx"REM Open After Effects project%AE_PATH% -project %PROJECT_PATH%REM Wait for After Effects to open the projecttimeout /t 1

me he descargado la prueba gratuita y me aparecen desactivadas las herramientas de pincel y pintar. es normal? queria añadir a un video unos dibujos a mano pero no se si es que hay algo no compatible con mi ordenador o qué, pero no me deja usar las herramientas. Se puede hacer algo? Gracias

I am wondering how to add depth to layers (extrude them) so that when they rotate they have a thickness? When I try to use cinema 4d as suggested in some tutorials I get the attached error message. "Frame dimensions exceed internal limits"I'm struggling to find a solution or a way to solve this error.  Any help would be super appreciated.