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FYI: I just installed version 24.3 of After Effects and it breaks MXF compatibility:It seems like the old problem in 23.1 is back. Can we please get it fixed?Thanks in advance!

I am trying to use CC Particle World emit particles from the bottom of the screen and have them shoot towards the top. I want them to move in a fully straight line towards the top. I've tried using the gravity function, but that seems to only make it so they begin moving in a straight line faster rather than emiting in a straight line. 

i know this has probably been mentioned a million times here, but one of the more aggravating things for me in AE is unlike PSD, when you undock and dock panels with ease, it just seems extremely difficult to do in AE.  See image below:the comp panel is undocked and i've looked everywhere to learn how to dock it again but have just not been able to figure it out.  i just basically want it to be docked again vs floating as seen above.can someone tell me how to do this?  thanks.

HiI have been using AE for quite a time but not a pro user. However, the problem I am facing might be a gltich or something as previously I was using alt + click to move keyframes proportionately & this worked quite well.Today, I suddenly saw that it's not working when I select multiple value keyframes even on the same layer. And I beleive its a glitch.Okay when I started recording a little video to show you guys my issue, the problem got flexible. Opacity layer on one of my layers creating issues. Sometimes it didn't allow other keyframes to move relatively & just caused them to move keeping the distance between them same & sometimes it allowed moving the keyframes relatively. Please watch the attached video to have a look at my issue & support.TIAAwais #Relative Expanding/Contracting Keyframes not working in AE

 As you can see in the video I can't do anything about the path in this composition. I have no idea what's causing this problem. I'll very much appreciate your help!

After Effects can't continue: The Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite couldn't be loaded. This is what appears in the dialog box. I've already reinstalled but still not working. Does anyone know what I can do about this.

Hi,when i try to open Adobe After Effect 2022i can see only the Welcome Screen of Adobe After Effect it is not opening.thanks umar 

Greetings to all! I added an expression to my project, thanks to which, when a certain value is selected on the control (slider), the symbol at the beginning of the amount changes, the amount itself as a counter. So, since I don't understand anything in the code, I can't figure out how to add an additional condition to this code, in which, along with the sign change, the amount in the counter will be multiplied by a single digit. For example, in the currency "$" the amount is 20,000, and in the currency "S/" 20,000 should be multiplied by 7, and so on with the rest of the characters. Is it really possible to do this? I will be infinitely grateful for the tips

After updating OS on Mac to Sierra After effects does not react on right-clicking inside second display. Finder and another programs is ok. Only After effects does not react. Updating and reinstall didn't help. Reboot and mouse settings too. What can I do with it?

Hello, another issue with AE2024. Here are my specs:Prime Z790-P WiFi DDR5 Triple NR 1 M.2 ATX Socket 1700BEQ043 Pure Loop 360 x Socket Socket NR 1 1700 1200 2066 AM4 AM5BEQ046 Silent Base 802 Black ATX NR 1CRA052 RM1000x Shift 1000W PCIe 5.0 NR 1 Modulare 80 Plus GoldINI768 CORE i9 13900K 3Ghz 24 Core NR 1 Socket LGA1700 no FANKIN722 64GB Kit DDR5-5600 Fury Beast NR 2 Black CL40 (2x32GB) 128GBMIC601 Windows 11 Pro 64bit oem NR 1PNY223 RTX 4080 16GB VERTO DLSS 3 NR 1 (Latest Studio drivers installed)SAM885 500GB 980 Pro SSD M.2 NVMe NR 1 Gen 4.0SAM886 1TB 980 Pro SSD M.2 NVMe Gen NR 1 4.0SAM903 1TB 990 Pro SSD M.2 NVMe Gen NR 1 4.0 The issue is this: if Mercury (CUDA) is on in project settings, i have a terrible/jugged preview on my second monitor. IT NOT HAPPENS IN PREMIERE.Here are two grabs with Mercury turned on and off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkxHdocwjGc  I need to remove objects from video footage quite frequenlty and I have never had any success with AE using Content Aware Fill or Reference Frame. The end result in this video is really impressive and something I am trying to learn but, the steps between AE and PS aren't very clear and it's 4 years old. You can see the versions of the software are quite different from the current versions and I'm wondering if there are any clearer tutorial videos that will walk me through the object removal process on this technical of a level. 

hi gues. when i want to use "typeswirter effect" in after effect , it get me this error:unable to execute script at line 1. after effects error: file is damaged.can anyone give me that "typewriter.ffx" file. thanks. (go this location on your pc)C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2024\Support Files\Presets\Text\Animate In

So yesterday I was able to edit perfectly fine without any issues but when I went back into the project today to continue my preview wasn't showing the work. I'm not sure what could be causing this as I restarted after effects multiple times, restarted my computer and changed the preview window through all the different cameras and qualitys. If anyone has any idea what could be causing this please let me know as I cannot find a fix. *Im currently using After Effects (24.1) and use a 2060 RTX Graphics card with 32 GB of ram*  

I'd like to manipulate the amount of greenery in a long still shot and adjust it where it is. Is there a way in after effects to do this seamlessly?For exampleif i wanted the vacant right sky to have some tress from the left.

Hello there!I created a path and wanted the path to have a color gradient. I found the option for it, but AE doesn't show me the right colors?It only shows the color which is put in position 0 of the gradient (I switched them and then the stroke was pink).See attached image for clarification.Did I miss something? Opacity is set to 100% for both colors.ThanksSteph

Issue - Since the introduction of Video Thumbnails for Essential Graphics, I have been unable to create a Poster Frame using a neat trick. You used to be able to place your custom thumbnail one frame outside the composition to create a nice looking thumbnail without it being visible when placing in Premiere Pro. But since the recent update, I'm getting a black thumbnail in Premiere Pro, which is also the case when you export the Mogrt file as a zip file. The weird thing is that the Essential Graphic panel still shows the thumbnail, but when I click export I get a black frame.Adobe After Effects version number After Effects 24.3Operating system Windows 11 22H2 and Mac OS 14.4.1Steps to reproduce - Place your thumbnail one frame outside the composition. Place the play head at -00:00:00:01 and set the Poster frame for your Essential GraphicExpected result - When exporting, I should render the chosen frame instead of a black screenActual result -  a black thumbnail

thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.rotation.valueAtTime(time-.1)thisComp.layer("Dark Blue Solid 1").transform.rotation..both the above expressions come back with : "Error: add() needs exactly two arguments" Is this a bug or? Literally can't see anything wrong with the above expressions

Hey! I'm building out a template right now for a client and trying to add font-change capabilities via slider expression where they can easily change the slider amount to change the font in all comps.  The slider expression works properly, but when I added it into the source text section it seems to now only read that expression and stops reading the other expression. The other expression is just a simple pick whip to a master text layer where the client can change the text and have all text layers auto-update to whatever they change it to. So basically, I am trying to get every text layer to 1. auto-update based on the master text layer and 2. give the client the ability to change fonts via the slider selection expression.  But it seems that the text layer is only reading the expression that is last. So if I put the font change expression last, then I can change fonts but the text won't update when I change the word in the master comp. And vice versa.&nbs

Thank you for your help with this. I'm new to AE and trying to learn some simple animations, like text bubbles appearing on screen. In the picture below, I have a Text Layer (God), and white Text box formed with a shape layer, and an image layer (drawing of God — no offense to anyone of religious persuasion, Ty). I'm trying to make these 3 layers behave as one so I made a precomp. I'd like that precomp to follow a very short curve, the way arriving text does on our phones. To do that, I created a path line as a shape layer and pasted the position data into the precomps position data. It works but it's a bit clunky. My issues is that the size of the 'bounding box'  for the precomp is way larger than the images as they appear on screen. That makes it hard to set the precomp to follow the path. I tried moving the anchor point in the precomp far closer to the images, but it'd be better to have a smaller bounding box to do this with. Can I change the bounding box size. In the image bel

I have a composition in After Effects named "Comp1." It contains a nested composition named "Comp2," which in turn includes another composition named "Comp3." Could you please explain how I can add a property to "Comp1" that sets a value in "Comp3"?I have tried using various expressions and Essential Properties. Essential Properties allow me to change values from parent to child but only work one level deep. I thought, "That's fine, I'll just add an essential property to the parent and then add that property to its parent." However, this approach returns the error: "Essential Properties are not currently supported in the Essential Graphics panel." In other programs, I could simply write the code "this.parent.parent.propertyName," but this syntax is not available in After Effects.I have consulted multiple AE certified professionals and every AI in existence, yet I still cannot find a solution. Does anyone have a suggestion for this problem?Note: I do not want to identify the top-level o

CreativeCow.net has a forum for After Effects for over 20 years and recently a poster came on there to share they are still using advice they recieved in 2014. When I took a look at their posts, I thought it would be a good topic for a tutorial, so here it is:

I have tracked a video in aftereffects but I need to replace the video with an image but keep the camera tracking on the image instead of the video. 

Pase de la versión 24 a la 23 y mi espacio de trabajo desaparecio!. ahora solo se ve la cola de trabajo y nada mas. Tambpoco me deja hacer nada mán.He buscado por todas las pantallas y no veo la interfaz, tambien lo he reseteado todo y instalado de nuevas pero nada. Alguien sabe algo?

I am trying to recreate this animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrbohqO7BJsBut when I pick whip the shape to another shape path, I get this error. Anyway to solve this? 

Hello, The problem is auto-trace does not creating a mask for the whole size of my video, just a part of it.I imported my video, used keylight 1.2Created a  rectangular mask, to remove walls out of both sides of green screen.Then I tried to use auto-trace, but it traced only a part of it (I suppose rectangular) P.s.I checked the beginning of the video, it traced ok.But it is true for only one frameHelp please, what I am doing wrong?Here is my options for tracing (sorry, it`s in Russian)I am using Windows 10 x64, intel core i5-3330 CPU 3Ghz, RAM 6 Gb , nvidia Geforce GT 640