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Hello I have a different problem, I don't know how to use the mouse scroll in the rules bar when selecting clips from movies. In ae23 it was possible to use "Alt+mouse scroll", do you know how to fix it so that you can scroll this way? "Zoom In and Zoom Out"?         [Subject edited by moderator for clarity. Was "After effects 2020 keyboard shortcuts not working"]        

I want to loop a small mov in my comp but it gives an expression error when followed the steps for LoopOut with timeremapping. Don't know what goes wrong 

Hi, I recently bought an AMD graphics cardAnd now when I enter Adobe After Effects, it doesn't recognize my graphic card.If my previous graphics card was Nvidia, it was recognized very easilyI would be grateful if you could help me because I need this job and its income.

Hi,I wanted to access gpudata during a PF_Cmd_EVENT call. My solution was to store the pointer to gpudata in a sequence_data (in a SmartPreRender call) and access that sequence_data during a PF_Cmd_EVENT. The issue is, it seems like the sequence_data between PF_Cmd_EVENT and PreRender differs ! or they might be out of synch ?So generally, is there a way to modify and share consistently the sequence_data between PF_Cmd_EVENT and a SmartPreRender  ? thank you,

Hello there, I am developing a plug-in using AE SDK. And would like to use the GPU so I took the sample SDK\_Invert\_ProcAmp as a starting point. In this sample there are 3 GPU implementations: CUDA, OpenCL and Metal. One more thing to mention is that I have an Nvidia GPU in my PC. Now what I want to do is force the selection to be OpenCL but instead I get the CUDA selection forced. More specifically, in the method GPUDeviceSetup in the main cpp file (SDK\_Invert\_ProcAmp.cpp), line 270:  if (extraP->input->what\_gpu == PF\_GPU\_Framework\_CUDA) { ...  This field extraP->input->what\_gpu always has the CUDA option and it comes as input, which is invoked directly from the main switch case. You might suggest simply to neglect this value, delete code related to CUDA and Metal and just go on. Unfortunately this will not work, because there is a whole AE GPU utility that depends on this selection and is needed to be used in many parts of the pl

Hi gang; I am looking more into GPU acceleration and have some questions. Looking at the sample project SDK_Invert_ProcAmp, I can see there are seperate conditions depending on whether the user has a CUDA, OpenCL or Metal supported system. Here's my understanding of each: CUDA is great but only for NVIDIA cards so you cannot rely entirely on it, and it won't work on any AMD-carded systems. OpenCL is for GPU computations (not necessarily graphics, like OpenGL). Both seem to be cross-platform compatible and both seem to work across most hardware. However, I have read that Mac has officially dropped support for it, even though it still works. That means the future is uncertain for it, no? Metal is the Mac GPU environment. I know nothing about it and am not really interesting in having to learn it, just to support GPU acceleration on the Mac. So it seems the best and simplest approach would be to use OpenCL and / or OpenGL since it is cross-platform but it is

can someone please help, im trying to parent this paper effects clip to one of my roto brushed duplicates, but its not working. its supposed to outline his body. the duplicate i want to parent to is scaled in a bit if that helps understanding. ive never done this before so i dont know what the problem is at all. please help. what should i check? 

Hi all, I'm trying to recreate this effect here, any ideas on how to go about it? Kind regards,L

 Whenever I import a video (mp4) it only comes up as audio with no video at all?

Desde hace meses que tengo problemas a la hora de trabajar en AE. El consumo de RAM sube progresivamente, de la nada, incluso con el programa abierto pero en estado de reposo, sin realizar ninguna tarea.A la hora de exportar, el consumo sube abismalmente, llegando a consumir los 64 GB que tengo instalados. Si, tengo configurada la RAM alocada desde las opciones. Si, vacié los cachés. Si, otras aplicaciones están cerradas. Si, las previsualizaciones están programadas para la calidad más baja.No soy yo el problema, ni mi PC. El problema es After Effects, que tiene este inconveniente desde hace años, AÑOS, arrastrándolo a través de las versiones, y Adobe no hace absolutamente nada. Es sumamente frustrante pagar fortunas por software que, literalmente, no sirve. No se puede usar, no puede renderizar, no puede hacer nada sin crashear por sus propios errores de programación.

So I've been following this video to try to animate handlettering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhYpkKxAzSU&t=141sHOW TO ANIMATE YOUR HAND LETTERING (FOR BEGINNERS)! AFTER EFFECTS TUTORIAL - PART 1 - YouTube I import an illustrator file into after effects, and when I select the layers of the image and create shapes from vector layer, I cannot fill in the new outlines layer. I've been stuck on this problem for a while and cannot for the life of me figure out what's going wrong.

Hi! I have been facing issues with previewing when I activate Cinema 4D. The green bar in the timeline just disappears when Cinema 4d is turned on. Here are some details you might want to know:- Compute: Macbook pro with M2max chip.- After effects version: 24.1.0 Any help would be appreciated!

Greetings, I'm not much experienced so far in AfterEffects, nevertheless, I'm facing an issue, which I'm unable to solve. I'm trying to create a realistic water flow. I already created the animation and paths, but when I came across the texture, I was unsuccessful in doing it. I'm halfly following this tutorial => https://youtu.be/GLwpCNil3XE?si=D70xb_fRAtc3wta3&t=1181 ... the differences, which I'm doing. 1. The water is on an object, so I'm not using CC Glass effect and 2. I created specific paths with the pen tool and then animation by Taper and Trim paths.  I found out two problems:1. When I click on the TrackMatte setting on the BackGround layer. I only see "No Matte" and the two layers, while there should be Four options + No Matte (Alpha Matte / Inverted, Luma Matte / Inverted). If I choose the Water flow layer. The result looks similar to the tutorial, so I'm not sure if it is a problem.2. When I add Levels Effect on the Water flow layer. I got n

Hi,If I have a text, for example "Smooth Criminal" centered, which I repeated and animated the position on the x-axis, is it possible to stop this animation at certain intervals with an expression for a few frames and then let it continue? If I could set a slider to set this time interval, I could easily change the size of the text, which always stops in the middle for a while and then continues. So I want to do a loop without keyframes

Hi everyone,I am trying to automate my rendering process for timelapse footage. As I have a lot of them I wrote myself a script which imports all of my RAW sequences from a folder and adds them to the render que. However for every sequence the Camera RAW dialoque pops up. Is there a way to disable this?I tried app.beginSupressDialogs() but this only threw an error.Thanks a lot!Felix

There is a place on Adobe's website where you can learn the basics of After Effects. I want to record these videos and translate them into Hebrew and then send them to a group of video editors.Is it allowed?

Do you know any logic behind this naming context? I find it is very difficult to keep this function in memory because I couldn't undestand the logic behind this names. Video also uploaded.    

Hello, I have recently just finished a new project with some heavy effects and everything turns up fine in my preview. The real problem arises when I render the project and there are some random moments where the screen turns black, yet the audio continues playing. I have checked everything from guide layer switch, gaps between clips to even clearing the cache. NONE OF IT WORKS!  Please find the attached file to see what I mean by black screen cuts. 

Ok I have unique problem here.  Our church has a big stain glass window, so we adopted it into our logo. In our foyer we have TV's that display our logo. What I want to do is make a sequence(s) n after effects that allow each individual pane to flip 360* and display a secondary video image on it. This would make it so if we had video of say the childrens department playing 'behind the panes' (because the panes are just a photoshop overlay) I would like them to all flip and display footage of our sercives, or something. In a nutshell, Video 1 - Flip - Video 2. The second part of this project is the direction of the flipping sequence. Delayer plugin allows me to offset actions to items by a certain amount of frames based on the location inside the composition. So I can tell it to flip from left to right of screen, or top to bottom, and random or whatever. (This is the direction in which the action sequence takes place not the actual direction of the panes - although it wou

Hey everybody!So I have two problems with exporting my videos.When I export with the renderlist, the final video is much darker than the composition in After Effects.After that I tried to export my video with Media Encoder and stumbled upon a new problem. My 1080x1080 video was flawless but as I tried to export the 1080x1920 version, it was cropped...As you can see here: Thanks in advance!

Hi Everybody, So I've been getting in the habit of importing PSDs into my AEP file and I keep running into a situation where I have to go back to the main PSD file and update it with new layers. Those new layers don't automatically load as PSD files into the bin. So I have import a whole duplicate main PSD file as composition, go into that folder, then drag the added PSD layers into the first main PSD folder.  Is there a better way to import added layers to the main PSD file that's linking to the AEP? Having to import a duplicate PSD and move layer PSDs over to the original folder is really ineffiicient. It's a little hardto describe, I hope that makes sense. I'm trying to be able to go back to a linked PSD and easily added updated layers to the linked AEP file without having to load a whole aother main asset again. 

When I move my object off the preview panel, the bounding box and handles disappear.I have tried all view options, looked on the net for a few hours, but no luck.  When the object is on the preview panel, I can see and adjust the anchor points but only the ones that are on the preview panel.hope someone can help.thanks...

after effects is not responding when I start.