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Hello, I need an expression while linking the rotation and position peramiters of two 3D plains to follow to each other. How can I displaice one plain by a single pixel so it doesn't clip in to the other?   Many thanks.

In After Effects - I have tried all sugestions that was posted in the community, but nothing worked - can some help I get an error message as 'Analysis solve failed' and then '3D Camera Tracker Layer Size must match composition and use default transform values' I have also attached screenshot of error message. Request some support.

No matter what  I delete is dosen't render

I have been on After Effects 25.2 for a while and finally made the jump so I can get that sweet layer offset control that got added. However, an unexpected result is that I am now getting an error message when starting up the program. I've not had Plexus as far as I can remember, maybe at some point long in the past but I definitely have not used it in years and years, I don't own it. I tried installing a demo of Plexus both via Rowbyte's site and AE Scripts, but both installations resulted in the same thing, error persists. When looking at my Library Application Support folder, there is no Plug-ins folder inside my Adobe Common folder. Any thoughts on how I can solve this? It doesn't seem to be impacting the program at all, but every time I launch it this shows up. I am not having this issue on my laptop at home, it's unique to this machine. I keep both machines very evently aligned as far as plugins goes, so if I had at some point installed Plexus here I would hav

Hello community,I have read some posts about this issue, but I still have the problem.After the analysis finishes, I cannot select any point because the red target is not showing. I would like to know if there is another option or workaround I can try.Here is what I’ve already attempted:"Show Layer Controls" is activated.Pre-composing the layer and applying the tracker afterward.Making the layer 3D and then applying the tracker.Any help would be greatly appreciated.    

Hello, I wonder if anyone could help me. I want to add footage as a texture to the surface of an extruded 3D shape layer. For example, if I have some footage tilted in a 3d plain I can extrude elements from within the footage.  Many thanks.

I would like to create a credit roll in AE in which cast members are listed as actor <separator> role pairs, with all pairs horizntally centered and aligned on the separator (probably an ellipsis, but I haven't decided yet). Is there a way to do this without manually shifting each line to get the separators to line up? AE does not seem to have a sophisticated tab feature. And if I did resort to manually shifting each line, what would be the best way to d it?

While i was the program suddenly forze, blocking all my computer and forcing me to restart the pc by holding the power button. After that event every time that i try to just open the app my computer stops working: the screen goes completly black and unresponsive, without any blue screen or error pop ups. Even if i manage to close the app before the screen goes black the computer stops working, freezing on my desktop. The crash is not even reported in a Crash log (the log folder for the version 25.4 is empty) I work on an Asus Vivobook pro 15, Windows 11 on the latest version, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 laptop GPU, processor Intel core ultra 7 155H. Everything is updated to the most recent version.

I'm trying to start off small with house mapping. I have a video I made and would like to project it on the door from the side. I can not figure out how to warp the video so it looks flat against the door. I have looked at tons of how to videos and found nothing I can learn from.Can someone help me or if you know a simple how to video that would be great..

Export error Error compiling the movie. Rendering error A rendering error was returned. Writing with export module: H.264 Write to file: / Volumes / Extreme SSD / PROGETTI / NICNACS / EXPLAINER VIDEO / esp / Explainer Video - NicNacs - 2.mp4 Write file type: H264 Near the time code: 00: 00: 57: 23 - 00: 00: 58: 10 Rendering at offset: 57.920 seconds Component: H.264-type Export Module Selector: 9 Error code: -1609629695

 The options appear but there is nothing at the side to edit does anyone know how to fix this please?

My device is weak and I can't use the 2025 version of the app. I need the 2019 version. If anyone can help, I would be grateful.

the sapphire plugin doesn't work cause whenever I use s_shake after effects crashes and it exits out ae please help     

Adobe ponete las pilas. muchas herramientas de IA que nadie pidió pero una herramienta fundamental alta para la mierda.

Hi AE wizards!I am trying to create a simple lowerthird .morgrt with the top text layer and bottom text layer in one text box. So when people use the template to change the text, the text box will resize accoring the whichever text line is longer. Text is left aligned and the height of the box is fixed so only the width needs to adjust to the right. Font size is also not adjustable.     I am familiar with the below expressions for a single text layer. I am wondering if it is possible to manipulate this to adjust to two layers instead? Shape layer expressions:Size property:s = thisComp.layer("Firstname Last Name");w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width;h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height;[w,h] Position property:s=thisComp.layer("Firstname Last Name")w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width/2;h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height/2;l=s.sourceRectAtTime().left;t=s.sourceRectAtTime().top;[w+l,h+t] Here is what I have experimented with two layers but I keep getting an error in the expre

Hi, I am in great danger, I need some guidance from seniors.  😥 I have two separate comps. I have animated a particular layers 'position' in one comp. and I want to copy paste those keyframes and want exactly same movement in another comp's another particular layer. But when I copy paste that things get messy. Please tell me how can I solve this.  😥 😥

Hello. I've just installed After Effects on a new work computer, and I'm having issues getting the Preview window to play or show anything (see images below - the second one is where I have taken it off full screen then made it full screen again). The preview doen't show when not playing, and doesn't play at all. If I have music and play, I can hear the music play but the timeline won't keep moving along. I've tried all the usual stuff (purge cache, uninstall/reinstall, change system setting to be adjust for best appearance, etc.) but nothing has worked.The audio only has one driver (MME) and doesn't give me the ASIO or any other option. I can export and render without any issues, and when the cursor is over the preview area, the preview tab tells me the info about what is there (where the cursor is). Also, After Effects always freezes on exit, and I have to force quit it (I presume this is related some how?).  Thanks  

Inspo Vid:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_myHyrVpIkwProblem vid:https://drive.google.com/file/d/19-digTkzO9m8rIxL40qsvXRQggFCx4M2/view?usp=drive_linkNeed help with points follow nulls.What I've done so far:1.) Create a shape and turn the path into bezier points.2.) Selected the new path and toggled points follow nulls.Instead of the nulls appearing in its own layers, they appear in the effects tab instead. Managed to do it correctly before with the nulls showing up, but I don't really understand how it might be appearing in the effects tab instead.  Any help would be appreciated, thanks! 

it keeps saying this every time i play my edit but i've almost finished so i dont want to start over, what can i do?

When exporting a video in After Effects 2025, is there a way to reduce the file size without changing the canvas size? I tried lowering the bitrate, but it still says the file size will change when I export it. Why is this?

I'm new to AE.  I want to create a moving mask which follows a shape (a human body) so that I can mask out the background and replace it. How?

I'm on PC, Windows 10.I just updated both After Effects (25.2.2) and Adobe Media Encoder (25.2) today.  Before when I added videos from AE to AME, they looked just fine. I usually export as either H.264 match source-high bitrate, or as Quicktime, or AVI, and had no issue with the look or color. Now when I send to the queue, the videos end up looking dark and oversaturated.  My After Effects project settings are usually Rec 709 for the color settings. I've tried setting it to sRGB IEC61966-2.1, and none, with the same results when trying to export to AME. When exporting from After Effects, the results look just fine. I'm aware I can export from AE and convert videos in AME, but in my daily work, it's really nice just sending it to the AME queue and having it render in the background while I continue to work on shots in After Effects.  I've searched the forums for this issue, and found similar issues, but not quite what I'm experiencing. Any advice

Hi, I want to loop the start and end of trim path but randomly for each line.. like line 1 start it's loop at 2 second, line 3 at 4 second. and none of them will overlap with one another's animation timing, I mean suddenly line 2 start its loop and line 3 and line 1 are not looping, again when line 1 looping line 2 and 3 not animating. . they will happen solo at their own time. And I want this to continue for as long as the main comp goining on, say 20 second, each line will be in a loop but different timing... . How can I write the expression? Thank you. 

I'm working on a plugin that deals with Alembic 3D files. I can parse the geometry in the .abc and load it. What I really want is for that data to populate a dropdown menu in the plugin. But I can't seem to make the dropdown menu dynamic. So, when I select my .abc layer in After Effects comp, I can't get it to populate the dropdown with info from that file. This reminds me of how "Visible Layers" in the Mocha plugin works. It dynamicly loads info from Mocha, but it's in a popup menu. What is that technique called?

So any clip i use position keyframes that are easy eased or seperated keyframes aswell, or anything like that it shows a very glitched graph like this, I reinstalled after effects, tried to do a new project etc but i dont know how to fix it, and it was normal before.