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Raining Character In and Out effects when used on a text layer, shows up as the Ehco effect in the Effects Control panel. May not be a big deal, tho. I'm only using because I'm going through the lessons in "Classrooom in a Book" for AE. Anyone else note this problem? Does Adobe read these posts?

Hello There,So I am working on a project in Arabic, and I am doing a simple animation-in for the text using opacity and position. However, when the opacity is anything lower than a 100%, the overlapping characters appear darker between the intersections, because that is the approach After Effect uses to connect Arabic text. I can precompose the text and animate the composition, but what is the point? I will be giving up all of the text properties. This solution fails to work for more complex text animation. Is there a way to have a constant transparancy all throughout the text? I am thinking of something that subtracts the opacity of the overlapping sections, but I am not sure how to achieve that. When the opacity is less than 100%:  Another Example:   When the opacity is 100% it is seamless!

Hi,I'm looking for a step by step guide on making a lower-third mogrt with variable duration. It needs an intro, a static part and and outro. The length of the static part shall depend on the length of the mogrt in a PPro timeline, while the duration of the intro and outro shall not change. Does anyone know of such a guide, or is anyone willing to write one? As far as I understand, expressions are not needed, and protected areas are used. I've tried many times but I can't get it to work 😕😕 markus 

can you help me with one thing i just want to know about 3d camera in after effects i have tried everything but i don"t know is happened whenever i link everything my camera does not move it just show me empty space

How I can create this animated gradient pixelated dissolving effect from text in After?Any tips?  

Simplemente estoy trabajando en un video y cuando le doy play lo veo parpadeando constantemente.Incluso cuando renderizo el video se ve de la misma forma. No agregue ningun efecto y la composicion con la imagen se ve normal. Desde ya muchas gracias a quien me ayude! 

I'm not sure if this is a bug or not but I've been using mask with puppet tool to animate and I just experience this now.  So I'm animating something using puppet tool and I applied a mask on it. Then when i tried to play it, it looks like there's a glitch.Here's what it looks like when I play it in the main composition  And here's what it supposed to look like:I played this one in the precomposed layer. I tried saving it and then re-opening but still the same. 

M4 Macbook Pro (64GB RAM), Sequoia 15.6, After Effects version 25.3.2 Build 2. I disabled plugins, reset preferences, and uninstalled/reinstalled the app. I can open and edit projects without apparent issues. I get a beach ball if I open the preferences. It happens right when I open the app (even in safe mode) and also happens if I open and work on a project. I have to force quit. I have no idea what else I can do to fix this. By the way - I was not able to post this question without choosing at least one "topic" to apply to it. I was given a choice of 4 topics, none of which apply to this issue, so I chose "Libraries". WTF...

Hi folks—I want to create an expression where a sound is triggered when X happens. Let's say, every time a null gets to a certain point, play from 0-4 seconds on an audio clip. I'm close, but having trouble with the last part. Here's what I have on the Time Remap keyframes for my audio track: countstart = 0;countend = 0;if (thisComp.layer("Null 9").transform.xPosition > 1080){countstart = time;countend = time+4;}linear(time,countstart, countend, 0,4); The problem is that time is re-defined on every frame. So instead of playing from the current time and just running, the "play from" time is always equal to the current time, and it never catches up. I think a solution would be: when the Null reaches X, have the Expression jot down the current time, but only once. Also, do this every time the null crosses X. But I'm stumped on how to do that. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi guys,I’m currently trying to motion track green screen markers on a shot I’m working on, then apply the tracking to a background clip along with a few other elements, so when I have only the keyed object from the green screen, the rest of the elements would move along with its camera motion. When I’m in Mocha the track looks normal, but back in AE, when I create a Null and export the tracking using the corner pin (support motion blur) or the transform options and then tie the other assets to the null, I see a lot of jitter and and everything shakes. it's the same thing when I try to motion track with AE's tracker. After a while it dawned on me that the background clip I want to use is with a different frame rate (23.98) than the green screen shot I’m tracking (25), so I interpreted the green screen shot in AE to be 23.98 too, but that didn’t make a difference. I turned off the motion blur I had added earlier to see if it would turn out to be the issue, but with no difference. W

Hi guys, in my effect plugin, I add an arbitrary parameter which value is a string, now I add this effect to an image layer, I want to get the string value through extend script, the value type I found is CUSTOM_VALUE, and I failed with get it through property.value directly, how to achieve this in jsx script? 

I am new to after effects and am looking for a way to make the row of vehicles loop continuously almost like a seamless pattern not sure how to go about this? Theres about 8 vehciles and I've masked a precomp with them animated insideThis is inside the precomp I found a tutorial to animate them on a path and created keyframes with a Null object but I don't know how to loop it with the car in the beginning so theres not a big gap at the end when the cycles finished  

Trying to prep shots used in some AE comps for grade and want to take into Premiere Pro to make an XML for Davinci operator - I keep getting this error message which then force quits AE. Any ideas?  

I constantly get this "Failed to write XMP metadata" error message after rendering my files. I'm using version 17.7, but this has happened with previous versions too. The resulting files work fine, but I'd really like to NOT see this message every time I render. I also have to regularly restart AE as my RAM previews just stop working too. Adobe team, please focus on making AE usable again. Thanks.

When I insert a video or image into the project I just created, and add effects like CC, Zoom, Shake, and others, After Effects simply closes without leaving any message on the screen.I'm not sure if these are faulty plugins because I've had them for a while, and it happens with almost all plugins.Help me if you can.

I've been exporting gifs using AME for these icons that I have been making, and up until the last one they were coming out with no issues. Now all of the sudden, every time I try to export a gif, it comes out with this crazy dithering on it. I've attached my "Phase3.gif" which came out with no problems, and then my "Phase4.gif" which I exported immediately after but came out all jacked up. Have tried exporting with a number of settings now and even tried exporting as an MP4, bringing the MP4 into After Effects, and then exporting into a gif, but on every single one I get this wierd dithering. Any ideas? I'm really helpless to figure this out at this point.

Hi! I've had this problem for a long time, the screen freezes for 5-10 seconds, then turns on again and this inscription is written there (attached screenshot). I do not know what to do, I have an Nvidia GTX 1660 ti graphics card and 64 GB RAM. Please help me solve this problem!

hi! i downloaded a plugin called "magic bullet looks" following a youtube video. every time i try to download it, it always says "This installer application has been moved. It must run from its original folder containing a packages directory. The installer will now exit." i tried downloading it many times, but it keeps saying the same thing. does anyone know what i can do to fix this?

 At the image above, I would like the "coffee cup" to use the Null Object's rotation as a position. As you can see I am trying to make a clock animation, when the short hands points to 10 o'clock, the coffee cup should be there too but that's not the problem. 

Cómo puedo descargar una versión anterior de After Effects? En Creative Cloud no me da la opción.

Here's something I'm not getting ever after trying to figure out why it's happening. So I'm working on a cutout animation for one of my classes and all I really need to do is move and rotate body parts. This only started now but whenever i use the rotation tool it's inverted, or just going the opposite direction of my mouse. To put it in perspective if I'm turning something clockwise, its going counter clockwise (rotate object up but it goes down instead and vise versa). Any tips or reason as to why this is happening? It's really annoying

I accidentally clicked on "Do not Migrate" with the latest update when prompted to migrate settings.  I wanted to click on "Migrate Settings."  But the prompt is gone now, and I would still like to migrate my settings.  Is it possible to migrate still?

Is there a way to create a magnet to which particles would stick? I just cannot find this functionality and the online manual sucks so there's no help there.

Hi all, I have to export a lot of different still images with a specific naming but each time i do a Save Frame As... , it adds the frame number at the end of comps name. I would like to know if there's any way of removing it by default.  In the render queue, I always have to select comp's Output To: and Re-select "Comp name" manually for each export and it is really a pain . Thanks in advance

Hi gang; I have a plugin that does it's thing via checking out another layer. If I grab the effect layer in the timeline (the colored bar) and shift it left or right, to have my effect start earlier or later, it doesn't. It just starts the effect midway through. This is because the effect relies on the composition's current frame. As such, I think I need to find a function that returns the offset that the layer has been shifted in the timeline. So if I were to shift the layer 5  frames earlier in the timeline, I need a function that returns that. I saw in the SDK there is AEGP_GetLayerOffset: Get the offset from the start of the composition tolayer time 0, in composition time.AEGP_GetLayerOffset(AEGP_LayerH layerH,A_Time *offsetPT); Is this what I would want? I tried to find some examples of how to use this but didn't find any. Any suggestions? I'm not sure I was able to convey what I'm after but hopefully so. Thanks,-Rich