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I am a facing a problem and for years I feel shy to ask. Today I gather the courage to ask it. please dnt judge me. I am a naive.  Okay so in a project we have many comps, and all the comps are same in size (unless I trim that). Sometime I need to align things with two different comps. for example in attached file I want the flowers to come out from a specific part of big green box (mental health infographics) but when I open the flower comp I dnt have anything to take as a reference point about the green box’s position. I cant even copy guides from the green box’s position to flower comp. I mean am in a boat with a rudder. I dnt wanna animate flowers and then make it a comp and then position it to another comp dragging X,Y. Is there any way I can match position of one comp's some certain part with another  like I do in photoshop or illustrator by keeping the reference layer beneath and reducing the opacity? This question tormented me for years. Please help me

I made a motion graphics template in After Effects, and every time I try to use it in my timeline in Premiere Pro, I get this error:"This Motion Graphics template was created in After Effects. To use this template in Premiere Pro, please install After Effects (trial or license) and retry.Learn more: adobe.com/go/mgt"As I've said, though, I made the template in After Effects (I already have it installed). Can anyone help me out?Thank you!

After Effects 2024 on MacOS Sonoma has 'Error Loading Sapphire Bundle'. I previously had downloaded Sapphire third party plugins, however, i deleted them all. I've also deleted and reinstalled After Effects multiple times but the same problem exists. 1) This. "Applications/BorisFX/Sapphire 2023Adobe/config/sapphire-ae64.bundle: filedoes not exist."A boris FX folder does not exist meaning i don't have the .bundle file.  2) I've gone through many discussion posts about this issue and many suggest to "Check your Mediacore folder and see if you still have Sapphire plugins installed/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/" However, "7.0/MediaCore/" --> this doesn't exist in my laptop  I feel like i've tried everything but im so keen on using After Effects so please help me out. I don't want any Sapphire plugins, I just want to use the effects provided so please lmk if you guys have any solutions. Any assistance will be greatly apprec

Hello, I am a Korean user.Please understand if the sentences are a bit awkward.There seems to be a plugin problem with the Roto Brush tool.help. 

Hi, I try to crop a comp and watch several turorials on how to apply region of interest in after effects. I follow everything but not getting proper result. I dont understand what am doing wrong. Please help me. 

Hello everyone! So on and off for the last couple of weeks, I've been trying to recreate my YouTube channel's "Subscribe" animation that was made by someone else for practice and to add in an updated logo. However, what would seem like the easiest part of it has actually been super frustrating for me: the circle to rectangle morph I do have a decent amount of AE experience already but can't seem to figure this one out. I've tried a ton of tutorials and done the copy paste bezier path technique, messed with mask interpolation, changed first vertex, etc but I feel like I'm overcomplicating things. Anyone know an easier way to do this? Or how to just in general? I attached how it should look and how it looks with my version. Thank you!  

 Hello y'all. I have an issue. So whenever I open after effects it's doesn't load, it's just staying blank and nothing is loading. I've tried to delete and download it, I tried the taskbar Funktion, I ran after effects as administrator. Just nothing works!!! I use windows 11. 

After Effects warning: logged one error - "error: Sapphire plug-in error (abort) (512) (25 :: 241)" when I render the edit, I didn't use motion tittle  

when i downloaded mbl presets it appears in the custom looks folder but in after effects it wont appear and i cant find the preset within ae . When i try opening the preset file by its own ae says "unsupported file type or extension" . Someone help please thanks

If I wanted an AE composition in HD (1080p preferably), what resolution would the composition have to be if I wanted to maintain a 4:3 aspect ratio WITH a pixel aspect ratio of D1/DV NTSC (.9091)? I ask this because I shoot my footage using a MiniDV camcorder wich outputs at 720 x 480 and since the PAR of that footage is .9091 it displays a 4:3 aspect ratio with the image filling in the frame perfectly in Premiere. However, my AE comps are graphics made from scratch and since I have the ability to work at a higher resolution for them, I'd prefer to downscale them in Premiere after export for a sharper look than a 720 x 480 source. But after exporting them and bringing them into Premiere, they show up with additional pillar boxes. These exported comps were worked on in 1440 x 1080 because I assumed changing the PAR in the AE comp settings would force it to display in 4:3 (removing the pillar boxes), but unfortuantely AE doesn't automatically change resolution to confine to the PAR and a

I just bought a new Mac Studio, M2. Running After Effects 2023 with Rosetta and After Effects 2024 normally.  Warp Stabilize and Camera Tracking aren't working in either 2023 or 2024. Warp Stabilize will work on a piece of footage in Premiere but After Effects can't stabilize that same piece of footage (ie., it gets through the process then I get orange banner/red banner.)  I've tested pieces of footage that were stabilized fine in older versions of Pr/Ae. I've even tested pieces of footage that have already been pre-stabilized as well as a few with virtually no motion in them. I've reduced Smoothness to 1% on a piece of footage 5 frames long; no dice.  I've tried footage from 2 different Sony codecs as well as iphone footage.  The one thing I got to work was exporting an .mp4 from Premiere. Warp Stabilize finished its process but the result had no stabilization. Camera Tracker gave me the red banner on that.  Is there a box I don't hav

My pre-composed layers are deleting last frames of layer or changing their positions after i save and close the project. It happens mostly when i enable frame blending and fps of a clip are lower than fps in comp settings.

Hi everyone,I'm working on a project in Adobe After Effects that involves over 350+ basic 3D layers, each containing a 2D video in its own composition (this is the only thing that the 3d layer contains). The rendering process is taking an exceptionally long time (around 3+ hours, and we haven't finished rendering the whole video since the remaining time calculator keeps adjusting).I attempted to use TurboRender, but they were unable to render the file due to an unknown error. Unfortunately, their customer support hasn't provided a resolution yet.I would appreciate any advice or suggestions on how to manage or optimize this project. Here are the specs of my workstation:CPU: Ryzen 7 5700XRAM: 32GB of 3500MHzGPU: RTX 3050 6GBThanks in advance for your help!

I am not sure if I can ask for templates here or not but I will post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic3JO48Ksdw&t=10s&ab_channel=InfilmAfterEffectsTemplatesI wanted to do something similar for a project. Anyone have any sample/template? 

I may have corrupted my ae project through trying to run it on a different computer. This other computer is a work computer provided to employees by a company, and I know that it has a security feature installed on it which prevents it from being allowed to write to an external drive. I only realised this after I opened up my project on it and started working.  I was unable to save my project on that computer, and now I'm back on my normal computer and I'm getting an error message about being unable to open files every time I am on the after effects window. These are the two error messages that pop up every time (Portal is the name of my SSD):  I also tried looking for that file on my computer, however I'm running into an issue with finding it. I've tried searching in finder for "temporaryitems" and I come to the search result attached below when I select folders. None of these folders seem to have anything inside.  Please help if you have any ideas on how to f

Hi, I want the circle to take it's value from trim path's value. I cant form teh expression. dnt understand how to write it, I need guidance. Thank you. 

Эта ошибка возникает во время отслеживания.Пробовал менять драйверы видеокарты, не помогло

Olá, meu after e premiere começou a dar um problema como esse anexado que eu nunca havia passado.Simplesmente as divisoes de linhas pretas acontecendo como se fosse um field errado. Isso se resume ao formato .MOV. Em mp4 funciona normalmente. Já atualizei minha placa de vídeo, ja testei em versoes de after e premiere diferentes, já tenho o quicktime instalado. O que será que pode ser?Obrigado!

All elements turn black when adding a light to the scene. This is normal, in the past I just pulled the spotlight back on the Z and it expanded the area that was lit.  Now it seems, whether I move forward or back on the Z, the light shrinks and goes black in both directions. This seems like user error, but I was always able to move the light back in Z for the light to grow.  Has anyone had a similar problem?

I'm trying to archive a project, but when I go to "collect files", it says it will collect 656 files (that are 2.6 TB, apparently). The project only has 62 items in it. When I generate a report it is trying to collect all 57 clips in the camera "CLIPS001" directory (even though only 11 are in the project). Worse then that, it is trying to collect them all multiple times. Running the operation confirms that it is copying the clips multiple times (as well as creating whole folders out of scratch, emulating some camera card structure that is not what I have. I've attached a photo of that). The files were copied from the camera card (C300 Mk II), maintaining the directory hierarchy. If I move the clips out of that directory, the behavior is as expected.

Hi everyone, so this is a problem that's completely stopped my progress in an animation that I'm working on for my showreel. Basically, there's a room with a character in it and I need the animation to start from a very strong close-up of the character's leg, which is animated using the Puppet tool and end on a quick zoom out which would reveal the whole character.So naturally i zoom in with the camera and turn on continuous rasterize on the leg, so it doesn't loose quality. What I found odd and extremely troublesome is the fact that the puppet pins don't rescale accordingly to the camera zoom, so when it's zoomed in, the pins "disattach" from the leg, and stay in the same place on the screen, which obliterates the animation. An additional problem is caused by the continuous rasterize option, which when turned on, seems to be disabling the animation overall, immobilizing the leg. I'd like to ask you for any advice on that. In case there's no fix and it's just AE nature (

Hello, fellowsMy name is Daniel and I edit VR videos and post production.Since I am not comfortable with AE, I edit VR video with Premiere Pro, and only use the After Effect if necessary. Recently, I happen to learn about VR Comp Editor in AE, and the experience so far has been great.Than I realized something today, that it makes the video blurry. Here are two samples of my work. (Exported frame from Premiere Pro)As you can see, the picture on the right has more detail on the leaves.While the one on the left is slightly blurred out.I have no idea why this is happening. Could it be that I have set 'Add 2D Edit' wrong?I mean, I once set 'Comp Width' to 4096, since all of my videos are 4096 x 2048, but it doesn't seemthat it works better than the other. Is it normal to lose some detail in video?

Hello to anyone reading, I made a big screw up and I'm wondering if there's a way to recover.I have a two and a half minute video that I accidentally trimmed to the middle off with lots of images and movement across it. I've reset the time to it's proper settings but the images and such outside of the previously trimmed to area are now just incredibly small slivers.Is there a way to restore my video in any semblance to what it used to be without redoing all the work? Thank you.

how to make stipple effect like this?