Questions

Hi, Is it possible to have a relative path for our project media?When i made a collect file, all my medias are in only one folder and my after effect file use them.But when i copy my main folder (with my after effect file and all my media) the link is loosed and my new copied file use the absolute path and search in the old folder.For production reason, i have to copy them with a relative path but i don't know how...It would be great if someone have a solution for meMany thanksBen

You guys cleaned up the composition toolbar in version 18, and removed "controls with low usage such as Adobe Immersive Environment" Where are those controls now, then? I need to change the Adobe Immersive Environment view to180° Stereoscopic SBS so I can view it in VR through my HMD properly

I'm sure someone has mentioned this by now, but in case it hasn't come up.  AE 18 has a major problem.  If you switch to more than 1 view, then close AE and restart it, then create a new comp, it keeps the 2+ views but the buttons to go back to a single view disappear and cannot be brought back. See this screenshot to understand what I'm talking about:  I've tried resetting the workspace.  I've double-checked to see if there's a preference somewhere that's been disabled - I see no way to bring back the single view in this case.  The only solution so far is to delete my preferences and workspaces and start over. -Paul 

Hey! as the title says, after effects stops responding every time i open preferences/settings, or try to purge the disk cache. I've tried reinstalling several times, resetting preferences at start up, removing plug-ins, and installing earlier versions, but the same thing happens. i've tried to manually clear my cache, but cannot find it anywhere on my macbook. The supposed location i've found online is Users/<username>/Library/Caches/Adobe/After effects, but i do not have a library folder within my user folder, and i don't have the adobe folder in the 'caches' folder within my general library. i don't recall ever moving the cache to a different location. I barely have any space left on my macbook, as my ae cache is taking up all of it. any help is appreciated  I'm on a macbook pro 15-inch 2019, my OS is macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

After Effects: 24.3Windows 11I have the issues with the 3D Camera Tracker as I done it with multiple footages. It is not a shot after shot cut that could cause the solve to fail naturally, but one of the footage involves the camera points on the left side of the room to the door. Then it pans diagonally towards the central wall that has two lamps and some room decorations and finally pans to the right side of the room where the window is.I have it pre-comp and done the 3D Camera Tracking within that pre-comp with similar results. It also extends to Warp Stabiliser tool, which is bothersome.I also decrease the length of the clip around 3 seconds to attempt it again. But that surprisingly does not fix the issue,  which I find that to be very baffling. Please help me with this situation as my peers has no issues with this and they are inactive at the moment. Thank you.

sampleImage() uses a lot of RAM, especially when using a large radius, to the point of wildly exceeding "allowed" RAM usage. However, the only way to "reset" this high usage is to restart the program, simply closing the project leaves the usage high. Lowering the sample radius will temper usage.

Problem Description: I create a very simple path with a gradient stroke along it in Illustrator:  I save it as Illustrator 2020 format, then import that file as a comp in AE.I open the comp, set the (only) layer to continuously rasterise, and then scale the layer up or down: Random holes appear! Workarounds:Either: Turn off continuous rasterisation (which defeats the whole object of a vector workflow)...or...Save the file - attached to this post - in Illustrator as version 8 (I didn't test other version numbers; I chose v8 because C4D - and Maya maybe? - used to like v8, so I guess Adobe changed something in the file structure after v8) and reload it in AE. AE will compain, but it seems safe to ignore this message:I've tried this on a Mac and PC, on v.24 (beta) and v.23 (on the Mac). The results are the same. I have the latest Nvidia drivers installed. 

Hi guys, I have been using Bodymoving for a while and everything was alright until suddenly today all the files I exported has this color subtraction setup in the lotties (please see images) which i don't intended to have!I tried rebooting and updating the computer/software and the issue still remains...Did anybody have similar issue before and know how could i get it fixed ? Thanks a lot in advance!  AE File: please see attached file

I create a composition, create a form, make a duplicate of it, click on the pen tool creation and for some reason the form is drawn, not the mask

I am the owner of a Team Project. I received a new license today under the same email address but now I no longer see my Team Project. The other members see my name but cannot invite me again. How do I regain access to the Team Project?

Hello friends! How to make an object glow like this in after effects?

So, I left my laptop for a while to write down in my notebook. When I see my after effect project again, the composition preview suddenly changed. There is this annoying white box, which turns out to be my background. It looks like all my layers turn into black and white. I'm a beginner in after effects and I might have accidentally click something and I don't know what to do. By the way, all my unedited composition turns like this.

Hi!I have this "issue" since some time and I don't know if it's my mistake or a software thing. I made a quick video to demonstrate you, that I can not select individual mask points, to move them around. It's not always like that, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I already googled almost everything and tried so many shortcuts. Can anybody help me out here?Video of the issue:

Im creating a slideshow in which the images fold out using a combination of masks. (Shown Below)I have managed to create the effect with no problem however i am struggling to create the rounded corner effect. Is there any way i can do this with the mask? Thanks!

I've got a rather large project, literally thousands of layers and multiple projects that have been imported into one large single master project.Within that project I have an instance of trapcode's particular and star glow somewhere that I am no longer using and would like to locate and remove completely from the project. Is there a way to locate via a search option the effect or plugin I am looking for so I can locate the layer within the comp and turn it off? I don't think there is a way natively in AE ? I have heard of scripts or plugins that can do this. thank you

Hi, I'm trying face replacement. I have the problem of the anchor point and the position of the face in the video and the face in the image. When I replace the face pins everything gets twisted, a disaster. Where am I wrong? Thank you

Hi,  I followed the tutorial from ECAbrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG7m3j1X9hQ&t=207sIn which the size of a rectangle refers to the size of a textbox.  This is the expression I got from the video: L=thisComp.layer("subtitle") X = L.sourceRectAtTime().width; Y = L.sourceRectAtTime().height; P=thisComp.layer("controller").effect("padding")("Slider"); [X,Y]+[P+40,P]I want to use the expression so I don't always need to resize the rectangle behind the text. My plan is that I only need to keyframe the source text.  My problem is that the source text changes on the new keyframe correctly but the rectangle already changes to the new size of the textbox after 40% of the time passed after the keyframe before. So it's not synchronous and I have no clue why.  The only fix I randomly discovered is to put the textbox and the text layer in a subcomp. But this makes no sense in my opinion and I would like to have those 2

Hi, I'm following this tutorial by ECAbrams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG7m3j1X9hQ&t=207s. I think I'm doing everything the same but I get this error in the screenshot. I wanna make a rectangle which refers to the size of the textbox.  I didn't finish writing the expression because the error is in the first line.

This is a tutorial I'm following for making music visualizer.  There is a moment I must edit a script but don't know how to find this on my side.Thanks if someone can tell me. 

Hello,I have a rectangle. And I have animated the "Size" property under "Rectangle Path 1", very basic. You can see it in the pictures. I also have enabled motion blur which works all fine but just as long as the layer is a 2D layer. As soon as I click the 3D icon on the layer the motion blur is gone. I do nothing except changing the layer from 2D to 3D.  I tested the same with the "Scale" property under "Transform". There I get the motion blur both with the layer being 2D as well as 3D.    But because I want to add rounded corners to the rectangle I have to animate it with the "Size" property to not distort the round corners.How to solve this? Edit: I want to make the animated 3D shape layer an adjustment layer in the end. That means I can't use CC Force Motion Blur because that would affect not the shape layer but everything beneath it.  AE version: 24.2.1OS: Windows 11          

Hello. Despite trying with ChatGPT's assistance, I couldn't get the correct answer, so I'm posting my question here.I have two text layers named "Ch_Name" and "C&C" in After Effects.The text layer "C&C" is positioned next to the text in the "Ch_Name" layer.I want the position of the "C&C" text layer to automatically adjust and maintain the same spacing relative to the "Ch_Name" text layer when the content of "Ch_Name" text layer changes in length.Could you please advise how to write an expression to achieve this?

Warp Stabilizer often stops/freezes part way through its opening analysis phase. Deleting and reapplying WS doesn't help. Quitting and restarting AE will usually fix it. This on an M2, 96GB ram, Sonoma 14.0

Having a hell of a time today. Trying to open AE files from 2021 in AE 2023, and I get all kinds of corruption errors first off. Then if I merely try to save, as soon as I hit the up or left arrow in order to edit the file name, the entire Save As dialog just disappears. It's maddening. What is wrong with AE 2023? This is the first time I've used it and I'm NOT impressed. Can anyone tell me how I can simply open a 3 yr old file? It's not that long ago...!

Hello everybody.I'm having a problem with Adobe After Effects version 2023 (v23.0, up to v23.6.2)Problem:After Effects error: File "VideoTeste.mov" cannot be opened, it may be in an unsupported format. (86::1)Attempted solutions:1. When opening Adobe After Effects 2023, and trying to import the .mov file, it displays an error (86::1)2. I also tried changing the extension to .avi and importing and it displays the error (86::1)3. Another alternative was to copy the C4DImporter.aex plugin from Cinema 4D R20 to after plugins (\Adobe After Effects 2023\Support Files\Plug-ins), but it didn't work.I can't import .mov files

As above, I'm working on:Sonoma Version 14.3.1 3,2 GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon WRadeon Pro Vega 56 8 GB32 GB 2666 MHz DDR4 I tried adding normal text in Beta version and it works perfectly fine - the regular AE though - as soon as I add text, it's a 30s time to wait for the cursor to move. Any tips?