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Hullo.I have a simple scene with a moving camera involving a large screen, and I'd like to make it appear as though the screen was playing an image/video of my choice.However, the shot doesn't include the top two corners of the screen, which makes it harder to pin the perspective properly. Presumably if I knew the dimensions of the original screen (16:9), there would be some way of finding the correct proportions? Any help is greatly appreciated 

I use a 35mm motion film camera to shoot some scenes of my productions. The area of the images shot by the camera, when scanned at around 4k, is roughly 3648 x 2862. It can also be 2214 x 1712 but I prefer to make a higher quality file. All images are scanned RAW, and I usually drop them as a 15fps sequence in After Effects. Ordering them into an animated sequence is the easy part, but exporting is more difficult. When I export as Lossless from After Effects CS6 (old version, I know), the file doesn't play on any other devices or plays very slowly and is huge (but the frames look decent, the grain is not too badly damaged by compression).When I export with H.264 codecs from After Effects, however, parts of the image's edges are randomly clipped in the exported file. I tried exporting as Lossless .mov from AE, then converting to one of the profiles in AME called HD 1080i 25 (1.33 PAR), but this step either adds black bars randomly, creates a file I cannot play on rec

I cannot STRESS just how much AE sucks... and I am PAYING for this priviledge through subscription. CONSTANTLY CRASHING! I have a beefy PC, Adobe CS6 worked far superior to how AE runs...It is PAINFULLY Slow. There is a reason why people, including myself have migrated everything to Davinci... I needed AE because I am used to the compositing side and still learning node based... if there is a kick to bin of adobe forever, this is it! SHOCKING!!! Will leave adobe for the Thick Tokkers 

Eso me sale cuando trato de abrir. A alguno le pasó? Se soluciona? Gracias

I'm trying to create an animated "radiating light" using only trim paths in AfterEffects. I'm aiming for a flat, single-color, line-art style (see the Illustrator sketch below):Currently, in AfterEffects, I have a single line animated with trim paths. I then used a repeater and rotated it to make it a radiating animation. This works great if I want each instance of the line to be exactly syncronized with the original, but I want each instance of the repeater to animate randomly so that it looks similar to the sketch in illustrator. Is there a way to do this? Here's a screenshot of what it currently looks like in AE:Any input on this would be great! Thank you!

I am a beginner here and need some help with pre-comps. Thanks in advance.  "Linked Comp 02" is one shot that I pre-composed.  The precomp  "Comp 1" duration is longer than my shot. Where I circled is the shot durtation of my first comp.  When I trim the pre-comp to the shot duration, the clip disappears in "linked Comp 2." 

When I open a AE project the program freezes and says "doesn`t respond". Any solution?

Hi there!The thing is that i can’t get image on my second monitor.Some times I get a white bar above the image, and sometimes it’s completely blanck (or black).I use an Lg monitor as my main screen and my Mac book pro as my second screen, in which I normally set the Video Preview window.Im running After effects 24.4.1 (Buil2)On a MacBook Pro 16” M1 Max, Sonoma 14.5I’d appreciate your help 

If I want to scale something or turn down the opacity it does not show me the number which I can turn up or down. Anyone know how to fix this? 

Continuously rasterized comp containing 2.5D elements gets offset and tiled when precomped. I made faux extrusion by ofsetting an object in z space. I precomed this object, and selected cont. rasterize and 3d toggles. I animated several of these comps then precomped them again. When I did this it offset and tiled the comp and I am unable to center it or remove the tiling.

How to export from After Effects at 300 dpi?

So I've been trying to google and search for an issue I've been noticing more and more. It's really annoying because my default project and layouts are all affected by this bug.  My composition panel often comes in microscopically small. Same with  my effects and presets panel. If I close the composition and open another composition it will open with correct scaling. Same if I undock my effects and presets, scale it up, then redock it.  It's annoying and wastes my time. I'll also see the issue with the render queue.  I also have a second monitor plugged in which I htink is part of the issue since the laptop is 4k and the monitor is not. After effectrs 24.4.2 Noticed it for the last couple updates. Tried disabling scaling on windows but it's not the ideal solution because then I can't use a second display for anything because it goes massive on the other screen.  Any help would be super appreciated since a lot of the older stuff people are po

I am creating an animation in Adobe After Effects and I want an editor to be able to change the colors in the animation once it is exported to be able to be added to different YouTube videos. I have made the background transparent but I am wondering if there would be a way for the editor to easily change the color of the text in the animation?   I was directed by Adobe support to this chat. 

How can I remove Cinema 4D and the other apps related C4D on Mac.I don't use them. I want to remove them but I can't find the way.   

Hello I want to emit the particles from a layer and everything is fine. As soon as i create a camera and animate it's Z position, the emitter falls out of place... The position of the layer is fine but the particles are not really emitting/matching it's position. Here an example.https://www.loom.com/share/3d89ffa6157744c889dd6725eda6c9e2?sid=eb4bd54c-cb9e-456c-bd0c-c4d359f51aab I don't have the latest version of trapcode particular and my AE is version 2022 (can't update because of old oporating system. Has anyone a solution? Best regardsMarco

I have been editing the position of a simple rectangular Mask Path within a Mask object. Select handles, move them to new locations, set a keyframe, repeat. It was working fine for several keyframes, then something changed.I am now able to select and deselect the handles, but they will not move with either the mouse or arrow keys. Both methods were working fine previously. I cannot edit keyframes I already created. I can't detect anything that is different in the UI.Is there a lock setting? Did I click a button or hit a key command that disabled editing? If I create a new object, its handles can be moved as usual, but not the existing rectangle.

Hello.  I'm rendering a video from After Effects via Media Encoder and the final product is very noisy and has  random artifacts.  I've tried on the both the latest versions AE and ME,  and I've also rendered it on older versions. I've attached 2 screenshots to show what I mean.  The footage is Blackmagic Raw files. I have no idea how to fix this and can't find any help via Youtube or in this Community.  Anyone experienced this or have a possible solution?

How can I replicate the same cloak effect from the 1987 Predator movie, with those repeated, concentric patterns? There are many tutorials on the internet teaching how to do a similar camouflage effect, but none of them are what I'm looking for. What I'm wanting is similar to a fresnel lens walking around the environment, Can anyone out there help? 

Hi guys, I'm coming to you because I'm really stuck atmI'm going to start a project for a client tomorrow so I wanted to look at the assets and all the stuff before starting it Fact is : I litteraly can't do anything- If I try to render a preview I'm getting a BSOD (Premiere)- If I try to export I'm getting a BSOD (Premiere)- If I try to export I'm getting a BSOD (After Effects) I searched on the internet and tried everything I found : - I updated Windows so now I'm no longer on W10 but on W11 - I uninstalled my NVIDIA Drivers using DDU and made a clean reinstall (I did it twice : first time with the lastest version and second time with an older version)- I tried to render with olders AE and PP versions- I tried to render using Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration and Software Only- "Enable hardware accelerated decoding" was already enable- I did a memory diagnostic using Windows and I did another one with Memtest86 -> No errors I also used "BlueScr

I'm trying to RotoBrush something and keep giving error and closing.When I switch in Adobe Color Managed works fine.Version 24.4.0  

As per my title, shatter is not rendering the sides of the breaks see below:It is a text layer that the effect is on... 

i want have layer of text if it exceeds height of the letter (sourceRectAtTime(time)) and form new text using expression or scripting. How to do? 

I've got some things I'd like to get off my chest and I doubt Adobe will ever see this or consider what I'm about to say, but Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere have become incredibly difficult to work in and rely on as a professional in the video world. I know there's plenty of people who rant and rave about Adobe products but I'd happily jump ship if there was a legitimate alternative for After Effects. I'm in Premiere and After Effects at least 20-30 hours a week each. I do simple 2D motion design and video editing often a combined 60 hours a week. The amount of technical difficulties I run into on a daily basis is truly embarassing on Adobe's part. I totally get that software won't work 100% of the time. I work full time for a software company myself. I know how it goes. But I've been dealing with problems that have lasted years without being addressed by Adobe and in fact have in many cases been made worse with each update. Believe it or not I have 4 computers that I work off

Every time I export my file via Media Encoder (as an .mp4) or the Render Queue (as a .mov), my video comes out either white (.mov) or just black (.mp4). I have 4 Spot Light layers in my file that look amazing in the AE working file, there's nothing wrong there. When I export, they disappear. How can I successfully export this will all the Light Layers appearing as visible, as they do in my working file? For reference, I have the camera angle/view set to "Front" I've included photos of my timeline and layers below. 

Dear After Effecters!(I am using After Effects CC v16.0.0) First of all - thanks so much if you are able to help me! After selecting the 'T' text tool and holding on 'T' to change to Vertical Text, as I type 'ABC' it appears sideways not vertically, as if it's just been rotated - does that make sense? I cannot seem to get it to type vertically A and then B underneath and then C. Like this:-ABCI cannot do it. The letters are rotated 90 degrees as I type. I have held the mouse button down on the 'T' tool and switched to vertical typing, but it's sideways (rotated 90 degrees, not with one letter under the next).  Hope that makes sense! I have searched for an answer and video after video tells me to 'just click and hold the 'T' tool and switch to vertical - but that doesn't work for me. Thanks SO much if you're able to help. - Rory Skywalker