Questions

I am using a template created by another party, so I am not completely familiar with every detail as of yet.  With every font selection, why is my text all upper case when my caps lock is off?

I tried importing glb files into After Effects Beta. When I drag it into the composition, it's just a blank screen. Works great in Substance and in Stager.Has anyone encountered and solved this problem? Are there any limitations file size, texture map size or amount of polygons&

Hi, I create a rotation of legs from left to right, so when it rotate to right, the right leg has to be in front of the left leg so I use Z position to make the right leg in front of the left leg. But no matter I increased the Z position of right leg, it just being bigger close to the camera but still not covering the left leg. I attach the video of my problem, please help, I'm so frustrating .. thanks

I'm trying to type math equations and add it as a text but I didn't find any font that can do that, Also I tried to write it in Microsoft word's plugin "MathType" and it worked but when I try to paste it in After Effects it won't work,Is there a way to type math equations in After Effect or is there a MathType plugin for After Effects?P.S. I'm trying to type equations like the following picture:

You see the problem in the screenshot below. An animation made in Photoshop is being overlapped in After Effects. When playing the animation in AE it looks like its fading each frame in and out.When purging all Memory and Disk Cache in AE the problen often dissapears, but sometimes it just dissapears on the frame I am and is then on different frames. Closing and opening AE does not help, neither does reimporting the file.This has been happening with different projects and files in After Effects 24.0.3    

PSD file import as comp not working anymore and crashes AE...

Can someone solve this mystery? I am having trouble finding the solution to Gradient Fill handles. In some shapes, I can see them, but in others, I cannot. These controls do not behave consistently, as they appear and disappear without any apparent reason. Can someone please help me with this issue?

i just observed a wierd behaviour of nearestKeyIndex with negatively stretched layers and am wondering whether this is intended:setup: put a footage inside a comp, time reverse the layer, lay some position keyframes on that layer.1- expression: add a slider control to the time reversed layer, with expression: "transform.position.nearestKey(time).index;",  scroll the CTI along the timeline and read the slider value: the first key on the timeline has max index, the last key has index 1...2- script: var L=app.project.activeItem.layer(1); L.transform.position.nearestKeyIndex(L.containingComp.time);     If the CTI is placed after the last position key on the timeline, it returns L.transform.position.numKeys, which is expected. But anywhere else it gives 1 !So, for expressions it is more or less ok, but it means that whenever one uses a "nearestKey" expression one should actually check the strech state of the layer...(if (layer.inPoint<layer.outPoint) {this} else

Hi there,I'm trying to use a Google Earth Studio (GES for time sake) project in AE. The GES prject consists of only 2 key frames, one at the beginning and one at around 12 seconds. I added track points in GES and labeled them which converted them to Null objects and connected text titles in AE. So far, so good. As you can see in th video, the titles seem to shift during the camera movement, only to go back to their initial starting point. I exported the GES project with both, global and local coordinate space but had the same outcome with each. Any idea what went wrong?

Hi I'm building a C++ plugin and I'm trying to setup a user defined class that I can then use in my main cpp file. I'm using Visual Studio.I'm testing this with a small project based on Skeleton sample project.I have made a completly basic class with a header and a cpp file like this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/header-files-cpp?view=msvc-170 The header file is located in the folder called "Header Files", just like the other header files. The cpp file is in the root along side the main cpp file. I get this intelligense error:"Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression StateError (active) E1696 cannot open source file "my_class.h" TestPlugin" If I try to build I get this error:"Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression StateError C1083 Cannot open include file: 'my_class.h': No such file or directory TestPlugin" Is there anything I need to do to create my own custom headers and classes? Thanks,Jakob

Hi,I'm trying to rig a layer in After Effects with the Puppet Tool to give it a bouncy movementHowever, the puppet tool interprets each segment of this layer as a different object, shown here:I want the layer to be treated as a single object by the puppet tool. How can I do that, if possible? I tried this both with a pre-comp and rendering it out as a PNG image. Both cases treated the segments separately. 

Hi everybody. Please help a beginner to solve this problem: How to synchronize the frame change with music in AE?For example, if I want to synchronize the Scale, then I link this parameter to the audio keys with synthesized sound keys. And how do I synchronize the change of frames in a composition or even the change of compositions combined into a precomposition??thank you in advance

Hi GuysI have Envato subscription and downloaded some envato AE project but when i try to import after the AE 24.1 update, I am not being able to open the project it keep crashing before it was opening but now it doesn't. (Mac user)

What would make the 3D camera stop respecting the Z space? My object is behind another in the 3D space, but the camera shows it is in front anyway. It worked at the beginning of my project, and now it isn't working anymore halfway through it; I'm not sure what key I might have pressed, but the active camera is on, and I can't find the problem.

I got a fresh new windows 10 and when trying to run after effects (fresh update), it gives me this error, because of which I am not able to import any video files. Tried reinstalling windows and after effects a bunch of times but the error doesn't go away.Please help, my projects are in frozen state because of this.

Ill be honest im a complete amatuer at using after effects. I use after effects 2022 on an imac, ive been having problems with my text where the quality seems fine when it first imports in, but once i add my effects and zoom it out a little the quality weakens, then once its rendered its barely readable in ways. Please help..

Short and sweet: I'm looking to parent both the sourcetext STYLE and sourcetext VALUE between comps. I have the elements here: srcLayer = comp("Basic Appearance_Social Media Lower Thirds").layer("Template 1st Line"); style = srcLayer.text.sourceText.style; text.sourceText.style .setText(srcLayer.text.sourceText) But no matter how I do this, I can only ever get half the desired result: in this configuration, the sourceText gets parented, but not the style, and if I put the "style" line below, I get the reverse--the style gets parented but not the sourceText value. I'm sure the answer is absurdly simple (as they usually are in these situations) but for the life of me I can't figure it out. Help???

Hello! So I have multiple projects on my computer and sometimes when i'm working on a new project that has similar effects to an older project, I will work out of the older one and can kind of copy and paste the effects I created before. My question is, I have a current project I'm doing but can't find an old AE project containing the similar effects. I have the exported clips, like the .MOV files I exported out of AE, but does anyone know a way to trace the roots of the video clip to locate the project I exported out of? I'm on a mid 2011 iMac. Thanks!- Boomer

What on Earth is with the new "initializing GPU" process that keeps showing up whenever there is even a minor OS installation on my Mac? It sometimes takes ten minutes while the window slowly crawls to 100%, with a "Please stand by for playback." I could see waiting for this if After Effects was suddenly blazingly fast, but it seems to be the same old sluggish After Effects, just with a long wait to begin working.    Title edited by Mod.

So I'm new to AE but everytime I try to keyframe and change the path of a shape layer, it makes me move position, which I don't want. It doesn't allow me to easily click on the control points and move the control points. I try to click alt, shift or ctrl in case there's a trick but nothing. It's like 50/50 that I'm able to click on a control point to move it and keyframe it. What am I missing?

Hi all,  I'm working on some basic UI files in After Effects and the performance is pretty slow.  Here is my Mac setup: Macbook Pro M1 MaxMemory: 64GBStorage: 2TB (1.66TB free) I have an external SSD (Samsung T7 Portable SSD - 1 TB - USB 3.2 Gen.2) and have set my Disk Cache to use this drive (700 GB max allocated). The drive itself is two years old. Happy to purchase a new one if it there are any improvements to be had. I have read mixed opinions about an external SSD for AE, any advice here welcome. In terms of other settings, I have Adaptive Resolution set. Any advice would be great. ThanksLee Any advice welcome.  

Hello! I am working on a project where I have Trapcode Particular using a layer as an emmiter. I am then moving that layer in 3d space. I cannot seem to figure out why the emitter seems to be offset from the position of the layer. I have tried:Using a null for the Emitter position with the same positon keyframes as my layer.Using the Layer's position.Precomping the Layer itself to make sure there is nothign else going on.I have ensured that the layer and the particular solid is the same resolution as the comp that everything sits in.Nothing really seems to work! Attached are images showing what happens when I move my layer left to right in 3D space, as well as my Trapcode settings. If you have any idea how to help I would super appreciate it! Thanks so much!Best Regards,J

Hi. I have after effects 24.1 and I've noticed that since I changed my mac to a macbook pro with M3 chip, After Effects exports black when im at home and but exports correctly when im at the office. Could someone help me understand why this is? Thanks.

I have a background consisted of dots with simple effects (Turbulent Displace, Motion Tile, Fractal Noise) and Deep Glow.I haven't had an issue like this before, but I've tried multiple times and failed to render this short composition.I've tried twice using H.264 and once using QuickTime, these are the logs I have gotten: - Source File: F:\Channel\Adobe\Projects\Adobe After Effects\File_AME\tmpAEtoAMEProject-Main_1.aep - Output File: F:\Channel\Adobe\Projects\Adobe After Effects\File_AME\Main.mov - Preset Used: Match Source (Rewrap) - Video: Based on source, Quality 4, GoPro CineForm - Audio: Uncompressed, 48000 Hz, Stereo, 16 bit - Bitrate: - Encoding Time: 00:00:00 02/13/2024 12:02:49 AM : Encoding Failed ------------------------------------------------------------ The source file's video stream is not compatible with this preset. Please choose a different preset. ------------------------------------------------------------ - Encoding Time: 00:00:35 02/21/2024 07:32:23 PM

Creating a new project, creating a camera, and going into the camera properties, all I see is the camera zoom option. No DOF or other properties. I have Adobe CC with all the latest updates, on MacOS 14.2