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Adobe Photoshop has these very handy keyboard shortcuts like:- "X" to toggle between the Fill and Stroke options of a layer. - Shift X" invert the color options between Fill and Stroke- "/" to toggle between Stroke and no Stroke or Fill and No Fill But I can't find the same options in After Effects. Am I missing something? Or is it not possible to set keyboard shortcuts for commonly used actions like this in After Effects? If not, are there any third party options that can enable such shortcuts in AE? I already have the great (and free!) "FX Console" which is fantastic for commonly used actions like calling up any effect in a split second. I use it all the time. But I really wish there were keyboard shortcuts for things like toggling Fill/No Fill and Stroke/No Stroke options.   

I recently purchased the new Macbook Pro M1 Max and I have had nothing but issues with Adobe.  Please note: I try all the exact same things I will mention on my Macbook Pro 2018 (same version of Pro and AE and same clip used along with the same project) and it works 100% fine - just slower.  Mainly, when I "replace footage in AE" from Premiere, it opens up AE and the video doesn't show up and gives me an error of an unsupported file type with a censor color bar as the video.  So I grab the drone 4K footage and put it in manually.  Once it's in, I 3D track the layer, but it will ONLY give me the "tripod pan solve" option and I am not able to 3D track the land at all.  Again, the old computer works perfectly fine.  I've looked up a ton of Tracking tutorials (been 3D tracking for years now with no problems) along with uninstalling all adobe apps, and even factory reset the computer to start from scratch.  Yet both the censor bar video and tracking errors

Hello Hello, A few days ago I did the AE24 update.Since then, after working in AE for 15min. or so, a bug appears.When I select a layer, and than select the effect on the layer - the composition jumps into a precomp thats in the initial composition.Is there a solution for this issue?I have to restart everytime this happens, but after 15min. it starts having the bug again. A link to a video to show what happens.https://streamable.com/umyydy Thanks!

Another question ragarding .replace: I want to remove the line breaks before and after all "'*" characters in a layer source text:"Text 1*Text 2*Text 3"should turn into "Text 1*Text 2*Text 3". I've recently learned that .replace only affects the first instance, and needs to be complemented by a /g (as in "global"). However, I can't find out exactly how to make this work. This is my best attempt:text.sourceText.replace(/\r*\r/g, "*")  but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong here?

Hi, I am trying to stretch text in an after effects file. I converted my text layer to a shape layer and added a path keyframe. However the bounding box for each letter does not show up. I can manipulate the whole word but not the individual letters. Does someone know how to fix this?

Hi, I'm seeing this "Mercury Software Only" option enabled, every single time I open After Effects. I'm constantly switching in every session. Is there any way to make it default to CUDA?   

I want to ask, why when I finished rendering with the h.264 file format, the result was stuck like an image and there was no animation running and only sound. However, if I use the quicktime file format, the video can run smoothly. Is there a solution so that you can still use h.264 again, because the results of the h.264 file format can save storage. I've downgraded AE but still no results. Thank you

I´ve recently updated to After Effects 2023. I wanted to animate a 2 node camera like I used to - by creating a null object and parenting the camera to the null object. Since the update I can´t connect the camera to the null object anymore - is there a new way to do it in AE 2023? I couldn´t find any tutorials that cover this topic. Thank you!   

Hi, So, I'm brand new to After Effects and animating in general. I have this project for my Motion class where we need to animate a title sequence. I chose the 1960's Ocean's Eleven, where the dots form numbers and then turn into the numbers and become more intricate patterns. Thankfully, I only need to really do the first minute or so. Here it is if anyone wants to look at it. https://youtu.be/xnG3OjIcN8M?si=rytrrjVTRrst_fEj If anyone could give me any advice on how to make dots move like the pattern in the beginning, and how they disappear and reappear one by one, that would be a great help.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. But I have a 3D scene with a world map and an aircraft following a path (red line) along that map. After applying auto-orient along path to my aircraft, the plane faces the wrong way. So I set the Z rotation manually to 51º to make sure it's pointing in the direction of travel. But the problem is that after applying auto-orient,  the aircraft develops this unwanted jerking motion now and again as it turns. See pics of my project below and attached animation. Thank you very much in advance to anyone who can help me troubleshoot this issue. 🙏🙏🙏  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRGPFBk6YA  

Hello Dear After community  I'm very familiar with Premiere pro and I've used a lot of text presets in Premiere (like Mogrt files). But I can't seem to find similar text presets for After effects. Do you use some text presets on after ? I don't mean templates ... but just pre-made effects Can we use Mogrt in After ?  Thanking you in advance 

I'm running into trouble where, my MP3 files are not lighting up, so they're greyed out and not adding to my timeline or the little menu that holds all the files! The only up-side is that I have to physically import all the time via "opening the file" from my documents (on the computer, not the shared libraries). 

Hi,I'm new to working in AE VR comp using the VR camera rig. When I do, I tend to get an image that is segmented in 5 segments (presumably the 5 cameras in the rig). Are there any work arounds to avoid this issue?Thanks MacPro 2019MacStudio 2023AE 2024

Hello all, I have a design project that I need help on. So my footage is an Enscape rendering of a 3-D modeled environment of a drive to a destination from point A to B that I created in SketchUp. I added high-contrasting textures to specific walls within the model itself that I want to track and overlay TouchDesigner effects onto. I have tried tracking the camera, Mocha AE, and Mocha Pro to no avail. For some reason, I cannot get either the native tracker or the Mocha tracker to register the walls as they come in and as they leave the frame.  I have attached the footage I am trying to use, as well as the TouchDesigner effects I want to overlay.  Links to tutorials, advice, or any point in the right direction is greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!Clip Touch Designer Effect 

Hello everyone!I am just beginning with After Effects, so this may be a trivial question, but I can't find a solution online.I have a video where, in some moments, there are some regions covered with a solid green (like in a chroma key). What I want to do is to apply the Content Aware Fill on the entire video, when and where this green appears. I know how to use Keylight to apply a mask in that color and tried to play a little with this, but with no success, this specific scenario of using the Content Aware Fill is still very nebulous to me.Does anyone have a solution for that?

Hey, I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a project. I'm trying to make this animation and use the least amount of keyframes possible. The reason why I just don't do it the same way as the example above is because I'm gonna have to do it for multiple compositions and the text position will always vary. Also, there will be a text 3, 4 and 5 each on a different direction. So I'm assuming expressions would be less time consuming. Like this one:The expression used was just linking one layer's position and adding a +X value, so I'm guessing something similar maybe. Thanks for any help.

moin...wo kann ich einstellen, dass der Sucher von dort aus abspielt wo ich ihn hinsetzte und dann die leertaste drücke. Monentan spielt er alles von anfang an ab, egal wo ich den Sucher habe! Danke 

Hi, I'm trying to control the size (specifically the "Outer Radius") of a hexagon, but instead of scaling from the center, I want to scale from the bottom. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!

Hi ! The short version: I'm desperately trying to link time remaps and make it so that time remap B loops every X frames of time time remap A. Basically, what I'd like to do is, when TR A plays, say, 15 frames, TR B plays it's full length, then when TR A plays another 15 frames (raching frame 30), TR B loops again. It doesn't have to be a number of frames, percentages will do. Percentages will probably be more helpful. And then, I'd like to be able to apply the expression to a TR C linked to TR B, then TR D linked to TR C, etc Hopefully I've somehow managed to convey my issue. Thanks in advance !More details: I'm trying to do an animated rotating number counter with a big, big number. It goes from hundreds to million. The rorating numbers are animated in a precomp, so far so good, but I just cannot have a long enough timeline to link loop the animation in the precomps and then link and speed the time remaps in a parent composition.

This error occurred to me with a file linked from premiere and in premiere it doesn't let me see it either

I am going to get one of these laptops. Work has lent me it. The product looks great but I was wondering if the memory is ok to run after-effects and premere pro? A lot of editing and big data transfer will be a lot of the task for the machine. Possibily some heavy effects in AE.  My mindset is obviously thinking about older systems, so can I be reasured that this will work ok? Apple M2 chip with 8‑core CPU, 10‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine8GB unified memory256GB SSD storage13.6-inch Liquid Retina display with True Tone²1080p FaceTime HD cameraMagSafe 3 charging portTwo Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports30W USB-C Power AdapterBacklit Magic Keyboard with Touch ID - BritishAccessory Kit PS not sure if AE really uses memory fully, looks like a great device anyway.

I tried using a previous version of After Effects, and then reinstalling the latest version 24.2.1. It doesn't work in either.I can create a 'New Composition from Footage', but not from 'New Composition' which is what I want.I click OK and nothing happens. Clicking Cancel doesn't do anything either. I have to use X in the top right corner to get rid of the create new composition window.I run AE on Windows 11 - 64GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 5000,  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050.I'd appreciate some help with this. Thanks. 

if anyone can help my nvidia card Quadro K1100 M doesn't support new versions of After Effects, is there any way to use it, or any solution please

Hi gang; Let me preface by painting the big picture. I have a development machine which I do all my programming on. This is running a really old Intel chip (i7-4930K). I develop on AE 2020 and AE 2023. Unfortunately, the new AE requires AVX2 and my machine doesn't support it, so I cannot download AE 2024 and test it. I like developing on older tech because it guarrantees the slowest my plug-in would ever run. I decided to test my plugin on my work machine which is a best. It's a Ryzen Threadripper 3979X running AE 2024... and it crawls. It's really, really slow. I then went to test it on yet another slow machine I have (i7-3930K) and on a really old AE CS6 and it FLIES! Super fast. So my most powerful machine, with the newest AE version, is the slowest! Clearly, there is something off. I tried messing with various AE 2024 settings but nothing. It crawls. I do not have MFR implemented on my plugin but on my dev machine with AE 2023, it is still quite fast despit