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Hi Everybody, I set texture disc to the particle type from particle square because I wanted to rotate the particles, but now they're super tiny. The particle 'star' for sparkles I'm sourcing is like 1800x1800 and it shows up super tiny. How do I scale these particles? I don't see a setting to do this in the drop down.  

Brand new to animating and just getting started with After Effects. I had been using Adobe Fresco because it was so easy for me with no experience to make decent animation with. However, I would like the animations to look more pro. https://youtu.be/Ye3hNF7bRjI?si=gyoAPOjoO_13ELK3 This channel has a certain style where there is this dreamy look like all of his animations are in late afternoon summer sun or dusk. I saw one of his early animations and I believe this glowy atmospheric effect is applied towards the end of the project (after it has already been colored and animated). How is this done? What is this effect even called (so I can look up tutorials)? Is there  such thing as a plugin that could be used to apply this effect? Any help to get pointed in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!  

Hi, I'm a beginner After Effects editor who just switched over from Davinci Resolve. I have encountered this problem recently where for some reason the current time indicator (the red line) stops a few seconds after the video starts playing and then continues to play in a loop from the start. It plays for about 2 seconds before looping again.  I am not sure how to fix this problem as I have tried to purge all memory and disk cache and I have also played around with the preview settings in the preview panel. An example is attached.

Example This has been happening ever since like last week or 2 weeks. Now it’s happening again and idk why it’s like that. It either does this (video link), when I export it and watch the edit. It like glitches like that and/or reverse for a few seconds and then goes back to normal. I always clean my memory & cache, turn off my hardware thingy, etc. It still glitch.

Hi all, I typically don't post here for help and consider myself pretty capable of solving these issues on my own but this one has me stumped. At any given moment in a session After Effects will crash, start up, placing keyframes, applying effects, and even being idle. The most recent crash has yielded this error message:  I've dealt with multi crashes in the past, but this one is unique because after effects will consistantly give me the option to save my project prior to closing. I don't have any of the crash dumps but I'm sure I could force one if needed.My computer specs are:Windows 11GPU: RTX 4090CPU: Intel i(-14900KRAM: 64GBsMotherboard: PRIME Z790-P WIFI D4Thanks in advance for your help.

In classic form, Adobe adds terrific new features to After Effects with no documentation, no tutorials, nothing intuitive in the feature, but leaving its long-time devoted users frustrated and head shaking. I want to make some Bar Graphs and line graphs, but right now it's faster for me to build everything from scratch. PLEASE post up a quick tutorial or something to get us started. Thanks if you actually read this Adobe.  

...And have it look EXACTLY the same?OK so now that i finally figured out how to Export HDR files from After Effects I need to know how to make it match and actually look the same. I have done exhaustive testing and every color space and setting i try can't replicate the same video.The goal here is be able to roundtrip video out of premiere and into after effects and back into premiere and have it look the same. Does anyone in the community or at Adobe know how to accomplish this? First basic test is this: In Premiere create a 4K UHD sequence with 2100 HLG color space.Create Bars and Tone 2100 HLG color spaceExport as Prores 4444 2100 HLGI can import that file back into premiere and it has identical output levels as the source bars.So now Import that file into after effects and pick the proper HLG color space that matches Premiere's 2100 HLG (I dont know, i try them all and none work?, which one is it supposed to be?)Of course in a normal project you would modify the vid

Apologies for this noob question.Comp 1, I created a beam pattern from a solid layer starting from one end and finishing to another. After which I created a circle as the "ripple" effect from the beam. Comp 2, I imported Comp 1, duplicated it into two instances and then offset with a rotation. However, the solid layer of the comps are showing up as a background. Such that it is covering the other Comps from showing through. How do I make the solid layers transparent so only these beams and circles from each comp show up and not be covered by the solid layer underneath? TIA.

In my 2018 version of After Effects I am missing a number of tools in the Comp window including the 3D layer switch. Can anyone tell me how to turn it on.This is how mine looksThis is what I'm missingCan anyone helpCheers Flash

Hi all!  I have this expression entered for a simple number counter and it is working for any numbers from 0-199 but once it gets to 200 it changes to 20. From 200 to the number I want (332) it periodically changes the numbers to be two digits instead of three.  Here is the expression I have: effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value.toFixed(0) It will jump from this: To this:Then back to this: Is there any way for it to count normally or is this a bug from the new AE update?

Okay so I was making an edit on after effect but when I went to render it, it freezed at one specific point and it kept doing this. So, I went to that specific point to see if i could pinpoint the problem. I didn't really see any issues so I just assumed it was the motion tile so I removed all the motion tiles in the edit and replaced it with CC Repetile. All the other clips seem to render fine except for this one, I removed all effects all keyframes, but when I do this for some reason it just makes the entire clip blank but it still renders  These are all the keyframes, effects ive used in this clip. Im currently on a macbook pro which is like 2013, and the RAM is 8gb if you need any more information please just let me know I dont know why it keeps freezing at this point

Hi. I am having an issue when trying to render my Ae project with C4D renderer. It is a 5 sec simple text animation yet when I start the render the rendering freezes at 2% and I cannot quit Ae without restarting the computer. I tried rendering with Media Encoder and encountered the same issue. Sometimes I cannot even add the project to the queue because it keeps unsuccessfully loading it. My Ae verision is 22.6 and my C4D is R25. Here are my system specifications. Please help to resolve this to be able to keep working. Thanks in advance. 

Hello. I have this issue where my footage has these vertical black lines when i zoom in, which are much more noticable after it has been rendered.  I really dont know what can be causing. It was recorded with a broadcast camera, Pro Res 422, 50p.  Thank you. 

Hola, hace poco me compré la RTX 3060 de 12gb, ya instalé todos los drivers, y el nvidia Studio, y pongo la configuración de After effects para que renderice con la GPU, pero cuando me meto en el administrador de tareas aparece que está trabajando a full la CPU y la GPU apenas y se mueve, no sé si estoy configurando algo mal, o debo seleccionar alguna opción, o si así es. Tengo la duda porque cuando exporto en premiere pro, o Davinci, sí utiliza toda la potencia de la GPU, pero en After no.  

When I use 3D objects in this project, I for some reason have a light source and shadows in my composition and I haven't added any lights of my own.As you can see in the images it looks really bad when trying to rotate and objects. And it just seems to happen to just this project.  As you can see this issue does not occur in other projects so I think there's something wrong with my original project.Why is it all of the sudden casting a shadow? Is there a way to remove this wierd lighting?

Hello, Can someone explain how to import/apply cc files in After effect? Thanks for your comments. Stan

I've attached two videos of 1-3 secs, can anyone help me get that effect on my text? 

So I have a null connected to my 3d camera, some pictures, and two 3d shape layers (stroke lines). Whenever I move the null's position, the two shape layers move with my camera and follow it instead of staying in its place. Now I don't have this problem with my pictures, just with my shape layer. And I also tried moving my shape layers back and forth in the Z-axis but that was to no avail. Thank You.

I have finsihed creating this edit and went to export via AME but my render got stuck at this section in the first image around the same time mark 1:04 to 1:07, every time without fail when i try render this edit file it gets stuck here and i have to stop it. I hve tried numerous ways to fix it, change renderer from gpu to software only, disabling paralell encoding, uninstalled and reinstalled AME, uninstalled and reinstalled AE, uninstalled and reinstalled both applications, attempted to uninstall creative cloud as well but got the repair prompt instead so i did that still nothing, gone back into the edit and swapped out the clip that the rendered got stuck and it still freezes there, i removed that clip section entirely and it still gets stuck, i've also used the "collect files" option to put the comp into a new file and it still doesnt work, ive moved the whole edit into a sinlge pre comp clip still nothing. i also tried rendering other edits i've made again in case it was AME

Hello,I have a rather big problem. I am working on a client project and normally for those projects, i work rather clean. Last Friday i changed a few thing around in my project and saved it. After that i did work for two other clients and filled my "recently opened" tab, wuth files for these two projects.Now i cant find my project from friday. I searched everywhere, in autosave, in the other clients projectfolder, in my finder... and i cant find it. I even went into my preferences.txt file but could only find the recently opened filed after that. Is there any other way to find my project? Thanks in advance for every tip. 

Hey AE Users! I’m looking for a creative solution using expressions or by any other means.

Is there a way to drive the value strength of an effect via luminence map?

For example, if “Shape Layer 1” has the effect simple choker, I want the choke matte value to be controlled by the luminance intensity for layer “Gradient Map.”

I'm currently trying to get three wheel to follow the body of a car, but they seem to move at different speed and even rotate for some reason. The wheels are parented to the car body and the wheels are 3D objects, whereas the car body is not. Is there a way I can get the 3D wheels to follow the car at the same speed moving with the car body? 

Hey community, this is my first post. I hope to find some help.I am currently working on an animation to create a liquid gradient similar to the one on this site: https://monopo.vn/?ref=godlyI think this is the effect I need to achieve. I tried creating a layer with a 4-color gradient and then applying an adjustment layer with the following effects: Motion Tile, Turbulent Displace, Smear, and Twirl. However, I haven't been able to get it right.In parallel, I created another composition where I animated the edges with Turbulence and Wave, but I didn't achieve the desired effect either.I am unsure if these are the right steps and I'm just missing the necessary adjustments. Here are my issues: How can I create a gradient where I can control the center and the edges to achieve this effect? Also, should I add turbulence to the gradient to make the edges move? I'm a bit lost, so any help would be appreciated.

I've been trying to use the bend tool and I've got it down, but I don't know how to expand the border around it so that way the object doesn't get cropped out as it bends.  Any suggestions? 

I used Photoshop to save a couple color swatches in a Creative Cloud Library for easy access in After Effects. The problem is the Eyedropper in After Effects never reads the colors correctly and I have to manually type in the hexadecimal color code. Here are the results of trying to use the Eyedropper on a Fill effect:   As you can see the hexadecimal color code and RGB values do not match up. I even tried turning on Use System Color Picker in the Preferences but that didn't work either. Any idea on how I can get this working?