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Hi, I am trying to create some motion text templates in AE. I want it to be easy to use for beginners as imported in Premiere Pro and so I am trying to limit the editing options to the minimum. Only thing that i could not solve is how to limit colors so that in premiere pro , the user could have a choice out of i.e. two or three (brand colors only) of them. Is there any way to achieve that? any expressions maybe?

So I've made a template in After Effects for graphic designers like me where people can update the vector file in Illustrator which updates everything in Ae.. But I ran into a problem with compatibility, even tho' most people can open the template without any problems, there are few that have issues with changing the global colors which are controlled with main Adjustment layer.. Weird thing is that most other things are working just fine, but it seems that the expression that controls the colors is broken when the file is converted to their version of Ae. So my question would be, what version of Ae would be the best for something like this that will be used with many different people with lots of different versions of Ae?  My version is 23.2.0

Hello, This is my first time posting in the Adobe Community, as I have only recently started learning Adobe After Effects. I am trying to create a video or gif of an eclipsing binary star, where the smaller star passes periodically infront of the larger star as it orbits it. Please see the attached gif file. To create that, I used an elipse for the orbit of the star and then created a "trace path" null. I then linked the smaller star's layer to the trace path null, so that the smaller star orbits the bigger star. To overcome the issue of the smaller star being always on top of the larger star (even when I want it to be behind) I used a mask and keyframes to change the opacity of the mask. I am not saying it is the neatest way of doing things but basically my knowledge and experience with After Efects ends there. Now, the animation starts with the smaller star behind the larger star because the "trace path" script put the null there. I don't seem to find a way to change i

Hey guys I am trying to create a neon box around a subject and have the glow flicker to a certain db range of the audio file. I've done this for scale before and the expression is relatively easy to set a thresh hold but opacity doesn't seem to work as friendly. I have got it semi working but I have no expression to control the opacity min/max and no expression to control which frequency the opacity reacts to. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I just simply want the glow to come in and out to a certain range of the beat. Not great with expressions so keep that in mind in case it's really advanced lol. Still learning the expressions side and how the coding works. Thanks in advance for any help!

 how to solve this i dont know any idea 

I'm animating some pages and stacking them on the left side. The problem is that the bottom page should be on top of the already-turned page, in my example, pg3 should be on top of pg1, and not below it. I also have the BCC Turn Page, I don't know if that effect could make it easier. I've attached one pic to better understanding of my little big noob problem.

Hi Everybody, I'm using fractal noise and polar coordinates to try and get a tempest cloud-like look. I'm having some success, but...in using polar coordinates I have this seam repeat at the 0/top part. I imagine this is a known thing, but I can't seem to figure out how to make this effect seamless.  Are there anhy known patches or tricks for this? None of the setting and reversing is working that I've tried.

Hello everyone.The following problem:I have a png with a circle. As you can see, there is plenty of room between the edge of the circle and the edge of the picture.Now I wanted to apply a blur to this image and put it on top of another picture. But that created a hard edge, which is kinda weird, because the image should be big enough to leave room for the blur.I already tried to put it into a sub-composition and to apply the blur onto that, but it resulted in exactly the same result.I am kinda lost here, anyone got an idea?

Original file is a 12 min. 4K 30fps iPhone video that plays back without any problems. After editing down to under 6 min. and doing some color correction in AE, every attempt at rendering in Media Encoder, no matter what codec I choose (including ProRes 4444), always results in certain sections of the video playing back stuttering at a reduced frame rate.   Those sections are always the same in each instance.  I also tried reducing the resolution in ME to HD and get the same stuttered result.

Hi, I want to calculate the angle of a text layer and its transparency when an animator acts on it. I would like to do this dynamically, using a script or expressions.The bounding box calculation is not suitable because the animator does not change the angle of the layer. Its points are not movable.I understand that there is no direct way, but perhaps someone has ideas on this matter?  

Hi, I'm new to after effects. What I need to do with this image is basically transform it into four different animations for a video:1. So I need the image to start dim - and then the red courage arrow lights up/fills up with colour - from bottom to top of arrow - then the centre purple circle lights/fills up.Then the same with the three other arrows.2. Whole image dim - orange connected arrow fills up - then the centre purple circle fills up.3. Whole image dim - green empathy arrow fills up - then the centre purple circle fills up.4. Whole image dim - blue authenticity arrow fills up - then the centre purple circle fills up.Hope that makes sense. Any help with this very much appreciated!

I cannot save my project on my disk, anyone can explain this why ? 

Hi, I'm aware of the following shortcuts: A - ANCHOR POINTP - POSITIONS - SCALER - ROTATIONT - OPACITY Is there a shortcut for adding a keyframe for ANY selected property? I'm adding keyframes to an effects property and am curretnly having to add each one via the Animation menu... sloooooooooow. Thank you!!

Hey guys, i am very new at this ,trying to do some 3D tracking & placement. Step 1 . I have found how to do the simple workflow , but when i render my shots, it gives out a BLACK BACKGROUND , i changed the alpha settings, that i found out about in a tutorial. ( in the project render settings ). Step 2 . when i import to After Effects , the model from unreal , it gives me a fully BLACK background( should be transparent ?? ) . Here i uploaded a video of settings and the after effects problem & my render settings.thank you very much I know people here are high level, but i don’t know what else to do, since i have seen tutorials, but nothing works to give me a transparent background.Thank you all . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMbsY4ivDuI

Hi Everybody, I'm tryinf to figure out how to copy comp markers from one comp to a parent comp. Now I don't mean markers in the layers, I mean the markers on the main timeline up top to the same timeline position but in the parent comp. I know I can copy the comp into the parent and the markers go with it, but I don't want the marker on the layer, only the top timeline. Is that possible?

What happened to pre-render  layer comp so that it can be used more effectively if that layer comp is final?

Estou aprendendo a mexer no After Effects e estou seguindo este tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdgj6_E5wi4Faz mais de 1 hora que tô tentando descobrir porque quando eu clico na sequência de camadas, mesmo com todas elas selecionadas, ela só separa duas, e deixa a segunda com um tempo maior do que eu selecionei (4 frames) . É um bug? Estou fazendo algo errado? Como está saindo X como deveria sair  Versão do meu After Effects 2024O do tutorial é 2020  

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A part of my timeline disappeared, I think I pressed a button by accident, and it disappeared, does anyone know how to fix it?

It's been like this for a little while and across versions of After Effects. I don't know what setting I have changed along the way, but After Effects only displays Extensions installed to ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/ but not /Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/Works as expected on another computer of mine. Any thoughts? SOLUTIONI trashed my CEP folder in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/ and re-installed an extension using ZXP Installer from aescripts. macOS Mojave 10.14.6After Effects 17.1.2

How to change the value of text fields in R_VAR layerseach BLOCK_nn composition located in ALL_BLOCKS of the main “MAIN” composition with data from an external file“export-data.txt”?Tried some variations of scripts - all do not work properly.Even commandapp.project.itemByName("BLOCKS_01") - undefined

After I preview, the timeline zooms all the way back out to show the entire project, and the playhead returns to the beginning. Is there a way to stop the playhead at a certain point, and prevent the timeline zoom from resetting as well?Thanks in advance.

Hi, I've tried using many different templates found on Envato and when I export and use in Premiere it has a black background. I've tried toggling the transparency button and using RGB+Alpha and a bunch of other different codec settings when exporting (watched all the YouTube clips I could find on it), and am having no luck.One YouTuber suggested exporting using PNG settings however my After Effects doesn't have that available in the drop down. Appreciate any help! Thank you

So I animated a layer from 0% opacity to 100% so that it slowly fades in but the thing is that it doesn't looks smooth instead it looks like it hops to the next percentage each frame or something. Even when rendered.Did anyone experienced the same and is there a fix? Would help a lot, thanks.

I would like to make a morph from a shape (circle) to a letter ("S"), but vertices are made counterclockwise when the shape is created from a text, while clockwise in normal shape, so the morph looks weired. How can I solve this problem?