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I have a composition that is basically a typewriter animation that spans 2secs. I'm using it as a part of a bigger comp that has a voice over of the words being typed. To match the words, I have been using time stretches for the sub comps to fit over the time that those words are spoken. However, I have one composition that I can stretch  bit the words are still typed out over two seconds rather than the 4ish I need it to be. It seems to be working for others but I can't figure this one out. Any ideas of where to look? I can post a screenshot if  necessary when I get to work. TIA

I have a layer with time-design responsive intro/outro applied to it. the layer also has a distortion applied to it with the evolution being set to the time expression so its continuous. i also have a wiggle animation applied. my issue now is that if i increase/decrease the duration of such a precomp, the wiggle and effect evolution speeds increase drastically. the initial layer duration within the precomp is 16 seconds, so now if i add one "instance" of the precomp and change its duration to, lets say 4 seconds, the wiggle animation plays 4 times faster.. what do i do? i've even tried adding a third time-design protection  to the entire middle part (starting at the end of intro and ending at the start of the outro time-design protection area), but that also didn't work.. is there any way to fix that?

The 3D-model is only displayed in advanced 3D mode, but the shadows are disabled for me there. I cannot activate the shadows in the light settings in advanced 3D mode. Graphics card and computer are powerful enough. Where is the mistake?    

It never happened to me before.I'm about to finish a project and when I try to open a project file AE crashes every time.I'm on PC windows 11AE is updatedWhat I tried:- Loading the project into the project window of a new project -> crash- Loading the auto-saves and ALL of them crash the same way- Tried resetting all preferences and loading in AE safe mode- To open a completely different project - works fineHow do I fix a corrupt project? I think it started after some rotoscoping jobs, please help.

I'm having trouble exporting a .json file with Arabic text in it. In AE, it looks correct in preview but when I export it via Bodymovin, the text gets reversed. I've tried:-Reset Paragraph-Pre-comping it-a different font-an older AE version-using Point Text instead of Paragraph Textand these are pretty much everything I could think of. I'd appreciate it a lot if someone could help me solve this since this is a professional work that I have to deliver soon. Note: I can't convert it to shape layer bc it's gonna be a template so the text must stay in text format.(I'm attaching an example text- as AE preview and the html export)After Effects Version 24.0.1Bodymovin Version 5.9.0

Which is better software encoding or hardware encoding

Hi everyone,I would like to split my source text up to single words. text.sourceText.split(" ") works, but it doesnt take line breaks into account. I thought this would be the solution:text.sourceText.split(" ", "\r") I e splitting the text up either by spaces or line breaks, but it doesn't work.What am I doing wrong?Best,Mikael

I have some text in a comp that I would like to morph from uppercase to lowercase per character/word over time using a slider control. I have managed to achieve the result in part, however all of the words are changing together rather than per character/word and I was wondering if there's a way to do this. Attached is a screen recording of the project I have added the following expressions to the layer Source Text:txtCase = effect("FontCase")("Slider").value;txtColour = effect("Colour")("Color").value;text.sourceText.style .setAllCaps(txtCase).setFillColor(txtColour) Thanks very much for any tips Harvey

So, I purchased this Desktop PC specifically for video editing. When I use Premiere pro, it lags sometimes when I have say a big trasitioning effect but it's usually perfectly fine. Now, when I try to use After Effects, it's such a bad experience everytime. It's litterally hell to use!All I have been trying to do is use a project with Audio spectrum and I cannot edit because the playback is so slow. I changed the playback resolution, frame rate, skips, and everything I could think of for audio and video yet it still manages to be really really slow to the point of me not being able to see the video and I won't even mention how the audio is.. (Usually it's super slow and I can't even tell which song it is).  I just hope that there's a solution to this. I will list as many of my PC specs below and please let me know if you would like to know of any other information.   Desktop PC HP OMEN with Windows 10 OSx64-bit, Intel i7-9700 CPU @ 3GHz, 3000 Mhz, 8Cores, 8 Log

I have created an expression with an dropdown menu: Effect -> Expression Controls -> Dropdown Menu Control. I am on a windows machine. When I open this very same projectfile on a mac the word menu in that dropdown menu change from "Menü" (I work in german) to "Men,". So this typo leads to an expression error and I can't change that word "Menü". Please see the picture attached. I think this is a problem with the german letter "ü", but still it should work properly as I am in german on both machines. Any ideas? I don't want to change the language.Best,Phil

Hey,I was wondering if it would be possible to find the corners as well as the middle points of the 6 sides of the Bounding Box of an imported 3d model and set the anchor point with Automation Blocks to those. There are already a couple of Anchor Point Adjustment scripts but I don't think one of them can work with 3d objects yet. Again this is way above my knowledge of scripting but maybe someone else can figure it out. Best

Has anyone had any luck with AEGPSetLayerTransferMode to set a layer to be a trackmatte of the layer above? It only works for me if the layer is already a trackmatte but it won't ever set it otherwise. For example if my layer is a trackmatte of the layer above, I can use the function to change the trackmatte type to for example luma inverted. But if my layer is not a trackmatte, the code appears to do nothing. I can also use the functions flags to set a layer to be set to preserve transparency.  I understand there's a new method in ae 23 and newer which works well, but I'm trying to get backwards compatibility. Here's my code that is not behaving as expected: AEGP_LayerTransferMode mode = {}; mode.mode = PF_Xfer_IN_FRONT; mode.track_matte = AEGP_TrackMatte_ALPHA; mode.flags = 0; ERR(suites.LayerSuite7()->AEGP_SetLayerTransferMode(layerH, &mode)); 

Hello,I have been using after effects for a while, but I have never encountered this problem before!I am importing an Illustrator file, how I always have (Import File > Select File > select Composition with Layers > Import)My Illustrator file is also correctly set up. Each asset that I want as a layer on after effects, is its own layer on illustrator - 5 layers total in this case.I got some sort of RAM message, that I accidentally closed, and since then whenever I import an illustrator file (exactly as I have been doing before) it imports as a composition, but with no layers, simply as footage.It is a very illustrator heavy file, but I am working on a relatively new Mac Book Pro (16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3).What is going on, and how can I fix it?Than you

Hi there, I've been having an issue all day and night with this expression. I'll post the code below.var input = thisComp.layer("layerName").effect("Dropdown")("Menu");var output = thisComp.layer("layerName2");var timeStep = 0.04;for (var t = input.startTime; t <= input.endTime; t += timeStep) {    var dropdownValue = input.valueAtTime(t);    output.addMarker(t, new MarkerValue(dropdownValue.toString()));}Let me clarify what I am trying to achieve here.First of all, I added this expression to the Source Text property of a different text layer. It's supposed to act as a non visible layer just for code.Right now I have some nested animations in precomps which can be triggered with markers and marker comments. But what I'm trying to achieve is a user friendly approach since I'm making a rig for someone else and manually writing markers isn't userfriendly enough. I have a control layer with several controls including the Dropdown effect. I want to animate this effect

I'm working in After Effects, and I received tracking data that was created in Maya by an outside company. They tracked the ground plane for me and sent me a lot of different filetypes, and I'm wondering how I can use these files inside After Effects to attach sometime to the ground plane. I am only familiar with the basic tracking tools inside After Effects (and Mocha) so I'm not sure how to use the virtual camera files with my two 2D layers. Here are the files I received:Node (.jsx)Camera (.jsx).3de.macam.abcGeo.abcGeo.fbxGeo.objTwo jpeg sequences of the footage with the lens distortion removed, and one of them has a wireframe of the tracked ground and wall planes.I am not familiar with any of these file types, so any advice is appreciated! I don't need to do anything fancy with these, just attach something to the ground track for about five seconds.

I've searched for an expression that will use a slider to change the x position on the last keyframe but can only seem to get it work on adjusting the first keyframes x position instead. Any help as to what I need to amend in the expression to get it work would be great. 

I'm developing an AEGP plugin, and I'd like to store my own custom data in a comp, or in a project. Is there a way to do that?

Hello! I am trying to make a gif in after effects. In the gif I have moving elements overlaping each other and I am wanting the end of the animation to overlap with the beginning of the animation so there are no pauses. Would anyone know how to do this?

Hello ! I am building a mogrt for a LT that has a looped texture as a backdrop. LT has protected regions for aniamtion in and animation out. Now, when i import it to Premiere Pro and shorten or extend the mogrt, the outcome is that the looped texture change its speed outside protected region resulting in some visual inconsistency - protected region has a normal texture tempo and unprotected region has either high rate ( short mogrt) or are very slow (longer mogrt) Is there a way to make the texture has just one frame rate regardless of how long or short the mogrt will be made inside premiere pro ? many thanks ! 

Need Help My After Effects Compositionon Have a Footage of A Wall in which Camera moving Left.i want to add a text By Tracking The Wall and i did it but when i am exporting it the text isnt coming tracked in the exported footagei dont know why it is happening plz helpi am a beginneri am Using After Effects 2024

 working on some project i see that i have no longer the option to swipe to the left and to the right to set the keyframe somebody know the problem?  

Hello All,  Long time ago I knew that I could have multiple instances of After Effects opened and work in different projects at the same time. Since I am old, I forgot that. There is a flag that I used to use in order to do that, but I can't remember at the moment. I know that the terminal path is different than the CMD path, if someone out there could refresh my memory I would appreaciated. Kind Regards.  Manuel Gonzalez

Hi! A while ago I uninstalled Adobe After Effects as I have no use for it any more and wanted to save some space on my macbook. Now, I found out that the Cineware plugins are still installed on my macbook and I would like to delete those as I have no need to use them. Is it safe to delete those and how should I do so? Can I just drag them into the trash can? Thank you for your help!

Whenever I set my project's Working Color Space to REC-709 Gamma 2.4, the colors and levels I produce in the project never match the render that comes out of After Effects.  The "darks" never appear as dark, and the "brights" don't look as bright as they do when im working in After Effects. It's as if REC-709 washes out my renders.  So I have to work with VERY extreme levels in the project so my renders look closer to what I want. I've tried different outputs (Pro Res, H264) and it doesnt make a difference. Has anyone else experienced this or has a solve for it? Thanks!  

Hi guys,    I've got this error after I've reopen the saved file in my mac, the error appears when I 've saved the file hours ago and I can't open the project now.  Any idea what could be causing it abd how to fix the problem? Thanks  (Note: Subject edited by moderator)