Questions

Good afternoon, I just came across this effect where the editor can identify the lines in the scene and create a highlight effect on them. Does anyone have any idea how to achieve this result? I was thinking of using something like "extraction" several times until it becomes a line, and from there, highlight them 

So I want to take a person I have Green Screen out in Premiere and make him a person made out of rocks with the same principles that you can do someone in Photoshop in. like mask or layer stone over the subject but they move in video. Can this be done ?

Hi community. I have this circle shape which has a repeater, and I want to bend it to have a nice bow to it (like Illustrator example), but its distorting the circles when I add the wrap effects to it. The reason I have repeater is, to have the effect is shooting bullets going up and down from 1 circle to 10-20-30 bullets.   This is done in illustrator, the circles are not distorted  thank you. 

I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to seek assistance with a persistent issue I've been facing in Adobe After Effects 2024 related to the 3D camera tracking process. A while back, I successfully utilized the easy drag-and-drop process for 3D camera tracking. However, upon my return to this task, I've encountered a significant roadblock. The analyzing process fails to complete when applied to my media in the composition. I've attempted various approaches, including importing footage from Premiere Pro and working with an exported video that includes cut detection. Unfortunately, the issue persists. The only successful attempt I've had is when I import the files directly and apply the effect. However, this workaround is not ideal as I need to utilize the subclips I've imported. In my efforts to resolve this, I have spent approximately eight hours troubleshooting the problem without success. Even after seeking support from Adobe, the three members of the s

 Hello, i need some help with the stroke of my rectangle. I used Track matte on my frog picture to fir perfectly in the rectangle shape, but the stroke with the glow effect dissapears. I need stroke effect like on the other rectangles. How can I fix that?  Thank you in advance for your help!

How do I make my .mogrt always anchor to the bottom left corner when imported into premier, regardless of resolution?

Hi there i need some help in geting some extra credit for my after effects class. here is the thing my teacher said to replicate this, if we wanted a extra point added to the class final score evaluation. What i need to replicate: light_animation+smoke2  +  light_animation+smoke3 My question on these effects that i have to replicate is how was the lighting done, ive searched trough every material he gave us students and i still cant figure this out. So far this is what i have so far but i'm not sure if i am doing it the right right way.  I request some assistance please.

Is it possible to save AE's Typewriter Effect as a custom preset? I don't like how AE spaces out the keyframes for that effect. And as I will need to use it a lot in a documentary film, I was just wondering if it's not possible to save it as a custom preset.I know that there are tons of effects that can be tweaked and saved as custom presets in AE, but I haven't been able to do that with the Typewriter Effect. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong or missing? Thanks very much in advance   

Hello everyone,I have very annoying 3D Camera Tracker problem, regardless of the footage I always get same result. But result dosent reflect the footage at all, its "hard coded" result that applies to every single footage that I try to track. Points stays at exact location regardless of footage and time of it. I've tried restarting laptop, closing AE, clearing cache etc... and problem still exists. Changing Solve method dosent help, changing Shop type dosent have, its always same bugged result. "No Depth From a tripod pan solve" is everything that I get. Video attached.Specs: MBP 16" 2023, M3 Max, 128GB Ram, Sonoma 14.1 AfterEffects: Version 24.1.0,. (Build 78)    

Hi everyone,In Premiere Pro, when I use "Replace With After Effects Composition" and render my video in After Effects, you can see the resolution in the screenshot (left Pr/ right Ae).I'm using Rec.709 in both programs (Pr and Ae), but in Ae, it ends up as PQ. Could this be the issue? I don't have a Rec.709 version without an ending (see other screenshot).Any ideas? Sven

I have looked up the previous conversations about RAIDs and performance in After Effects, but most people are still talking about SATA SSDs or even HDs RAIDs, what seems to be a little bit out dated. Newer mainboards like the AsrockTRX40 Creator support RAID 0, 1 & 10 configurations for the M.2 slots. Most recommendations tend to say, having the OS, the footage and the cache on seperate drives would give you the best performance. Right now, I am running two Crucial MP600 M.2 SSDs (1TB) as they are. One for the OS, project files and one for the disk cache. I have one more M.2 slot, where I will put another MP600 (1TB) in and I am thinking of putting them together in a RAID 0 configuration (what the Mainboard and BIOs supports). I know it is risky, because of drive failure and data loss, but I just care about the maximum performance. The whole system will be backuped through Cloud backup on active project and backup on NAS. Do you think this configuration will bring a performance gai

I rendered a video to export it but all the text disappeared when I watched the exported video. How do I fix this? 

Trying to figure out how I would track the topmost middle of an arbitrarily changing shape layer for use in a expression. Said shape layer changes size to fit the size of a textbox.

Hi,Since After Effects 2020 on Mac iOS doesn't support Importing AAf File we cant really use efficiently the After Effects any longer.unfortunately all the editors on our broadcast company doesn't use Adobe Premiere, they all use Avid.Is there any other solution  to import AAF to After Effects? any script or plugins like what we had with Automatic Duck a few years ago?Is Adobe is intend to integrate anytime the AAF import ability to Mac iOS? Please advise..Thanks

I can't add glow on the edges of a transparent shape layer like this! help me pls

So, I am new to after effects but trying to learn. the difficulty I am currently having is when using the "auto trace" feature in Ae it's not picking up the whole image ( or it's only picking up certain parts )  some images it works fine with. I may have to mess around with "Alpha, luminosity" and adjust threshold etc.  but with some images it's just not tracing as I would like.  I will attach some photos  The image I am really trying to work with is what I would consider "Complex" maybe there's too much going on. I have tried vectoring using illustrator. And also tried many other methods but I'm just not getting anywhere. Any help is greatly appreciated  

Adobe fam, I am working on a Halloween project for someone and I am trying to make a visualizer/react overlay and I have made MILLIONS of visualizers and overlays for channels/streams/content over the years and I have recently come across this issue where when I want to add an expression by using the pick whip and selecting the slider on my Audio Amplitude keyframes, it used to generate an expression immediately that included [temp. temp] and now for some reason [temp, temp] is not showing up in the expression section and if I add it, I am getting expression errors. I cannot for the life of me figure out what has changed or why [temp,temp] isn't generating the same way it used to when I used the pick whip on my audio amplitude layer. I am trying to control the opacity of my jack-o-lantern face and have it react to the beat/audio in the timeline. I attached a video to show this issue a bit easier so maybe someone could point me in the right direction and I can get these projects ou

As the title states--Are there any caveats or considerations to using std::vectors vs AEGP Collection suites?I've written a `LayerCollection` class that uses std::vectors, and for all intents and purposes, functions pretty much the same as the extendscript `LayerCollection`. (C++, of course.)This works just fine, I just happened to start thinking about scalability, and if there might be any reason to use the collectionSuites vs my current approach?I can push back, remove, pop, append, iterate over, etc.Is this just semantics at this point, or is there a definite difference? I can't seem to find anything concrete.Thanks!

I have an animation I created in ae, which consists of 100 frames. How can I export it where it gives me each of those 100 frames as their own png images? I tried looking it up but could only find resources on how to export one frame at a time. Any help is appreciated.

Hi guys, I don’t use a lot of cameras in AE so I’m thinking this is probably fairly difficult, hope I’m wrong! I’m messing about with a logo for an Iracing team, I want the camera to move a long the path of a hexagon, like it is racing around it….see attached… How on earth do I get the camera to follow the path of the Hexagon? Do I create a null path and attach the camera to that?? Many thanks for your help!

I'm trying to highlight this element (rectangular thing) going through a machine, so I made a mask of the background video blurred and green. I then want to 'subtract' elments of the machine that overlap it (like in picture on the right)... how the heck do I do that?

Hello, i'm struggling with a problem where weird glitches appearing in a preview, i bought a new pc to edit on but this is really stressing me out... I never found an answer to this so i would be grateful if someone could help me fix that. Thanks***Pc specs:Intel core i5 14600KF64GB RamNvidia GeForce RTX 4060Ti 16gb    

Hi,I'm currently working on a project for practice, where I filmed some objects on a green screen panning and tilting the camera. Now with the help of After Effects I intended to create the table where the objects are sitting on. I know that this approach is making it overall more complicated than it should be as I could just film the shot with the objects sitting on an actual table.To be precise, I have used a png file three times with a crop effect in order to create the surface of a table and two other images to create a background (floor & wall). I also transformed them, so they go beyond the actual frame, because I wanted to link them to the actual shot using a motion tracker.(Note: I have put three layers of the actual shot underneath each other to create my desired look for the cup specifically. With one layer it seemed so thin)But linking the pre-comped 'table files' to the motion of the actual shot revealed that the bits beyond the actual frame are lost when going back or

I'm trying to import a text file into AE to auto-populate a text box with the expression in the sourceText:  footage("text.txt").sourceText;  The text file is in Plain Text format. However, when I try and drag the text.txt file into my project or try to import it via File>Import>File... I get the following errors: 1) After Effects error: Could not read from source. Please check the settings and try again.2) After Effects error: file 'text.txt' cannot be imported – this '@hvb' file is damaged or unsupported. I've tried this with multiple text files in case the first file was corrupt, but I still get the errors. I was under the impression that you could import text files into AE. Is this not the case?

So i split some layers and when i play the preview it continues the video of only one layer and doesnt show the other layers i put, i dont really know how to explain it because im new to after effects but i can show a video if anyone can help me.