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Hi. So I have a video layer in a pre-comp that has the Add Mode applied. When I place the pre-comp into the main comp.....the Add mode doesn't work. Now the thing is, I want to make that layer (pre-comp) a 3D layer so I can't use the "collapse transformations" option. Does anyone have any suggestions please?Thanks for your time!

I'm looking for a plug in or script that could help with a very specific issue. I have an object that is out of focus and I need to replace what is behind it. I'm aware of the regular methods and techniques to achieve this, but I'm looking for a faster way. I'm looking for a way to use a filter such as Stroke or Edge Finder in conjunction with a mask to create an outline on the layer. I want to mask the object at the point of the last solid bit before the blur begins and apply a filter that creates a stroke on the mask. Instead of using a single color the stroke, I want to have it sample the color of the pixels of the image at the edge of the mask and expand them outward. Basically, I want fake a "Strait Alpha" so I can defocus from there. Does anyone know of anything that can help achieve this? Thanks.

Hi.I'm getting a crash everytime I export my animations from after effects. I've updated all my graphics browser, my BIOS, turned off multiframe rendering, turned off GPU excelerator, I uninstalled then re-installed After Effects and Media Encoder, I exported with Media Encoder but still I get the same problem. I export with after effects and still get the same problem.Please help. I have no idea what to do now.I have Windows 11, 32GB of ram and 4GB GTX 1650 GPU with an Ryzen 5 5600 CPU. My pc specs are good and drivers and software is up to date. 

Hey guys, running into a weird issue in after effects 25. when i try to preview a small project, hitting play just freezes the video on one frame. switching between comps doesn’t update the image either, though the rest of the panels still work. the preview panel button changes from stop to play, but nothing moves. only restarting ae helps. anyone know how to fix this? My pc: rtx 5070 ti, ryzen 9 9950x3d, 64gb ram

Hi,I would like to be able to select a group of path points in a precomp and then manipulate them as a group -- rotating the group for example.  Is this possible?  Thanks!  

I’ve spent the past few hours trying to troubleshoot an issue where my position keyframes keep bouncing back and forth on one specific slide, and I can’t pinpoint the cause. The issue is with the spotlight gradient composition moving from the first keyframe to the second. I’ve already confirmed that all keyframe interpolation is set to linear and checked for any hidden bezier handles that might be affecting the motion path. I've checked the main comp panel as well as the value graph. I’ve deleted and rebuilt the keyframes multiple times, restarted both the software and my computer, and even updated the program, but the problem persists. None of the other keyframes are doing this, so I’m completely stumped at this point—has anyone run into this before or know what might be causing it? Maybe I'm not looking closely enough? Let me know if there are more helpful images I can attach. Thanks!

  In this video, I dive into how to create cinematic, documentary-style spacecraft shots in After Effects, inspired by Apollo 13, Europa Report, and For All Mankind.   We’ll explore camera movement, light bloom, starfield backgrounds, and lens defects. My goal is to combing lots of small tricks into make the 3D render feel real. Along the way, I’ll also share tips, failed experiments, and resources like Jarle’s handheld presets.  

Hi all,Here's the bug:https://youtu.be/nwpme8zh1rkAny workaround is appreciated. 

Yes, I have this bug too.  What is this thing? From the limited info here, some say "bad fonts" and others say during rendering. Well, I have no fonts installed, just stock AE useage. I would get this pop up during playback and sometimes rendering.Doesn't crash.  But will reappear after a while.I timed it out, and it's every 5 mins... MMMmmmm    the same 5 mins as my auto save.My auto save just happened to be maxed out at 50 saves, (long session) and all new auto save back ups  would have to delete one, and then save one.I'm not sure, but I'm thinking now, the maxed out auto save might have a bug? I increased my auto save to 100, and so far, no BIB Error code.I'll check when it hits 100 and see if that big comes back. Just wild speculation, but there might be a pattern. Thoughts?? 

Hi Everyone!  I have Been working with adobe products from the Macromedia Flash & Action Script days.! Usually i come up with simple scripts to speed-up my work. i went a step further and curated some of the scripts i have and have a working "plugin" - basically a ScriptUI panel.  Simple text Animator - it basically exposes the TextAnimator options that are available with a textlayer. Here i plan to add more types of animations, this was inspired by animation-composer. There were system (not PC) restrictions to install plugins from market. Autofade is a simple script that will fade-in and fade-out any layer. this button will just add that expression onto opacity property of the layer. Easing Curves - This is again just exposing the functionality within graph editor for easier access, this was inspired by Flow plugin - which again due to system restrictions i was not able to install plugins. Composition Creator - Full fledge video assitant - from script

Hi! I have a weird problem with my After Effects. I've never used it before and I also tried downloading a bunch of different versions to see if it helps. But it didn't. The problem is that there is a rectangle within the bigger rectangle. I can't select anything on the bigger one and it will only show on the smaller one. That makes it very difficult to work with.Let me know if there are more photos needed to explain what I mean!I hope someone responds cuz I need after effects for school 😭 

Hi guys, below each effect, there is a Compositing Option. I can not find matchname for this, I want to export the effect opacity value to json file. 

EN:Hello! I need help compressing a GIF.I am currently creating some Artworks for Steam (in After Effects). In order to upload the files to Steam, they need to be less than 5MB.At the moment, when I try to export them in Photoshop, the smallest file size I can achieve is 10.59MB.Compressing it on websites such as ezgif greatly reduces the quality in order to achieve the file size I need.If anyone would be kind enough to help me, I would be very grateful. (I'm using a translator, by the way). ES: hola! necesito ayuda para comprimir un gif.Exactamente estoy haciendo unos Artworks para Steam (en After Effects). Para poder subir los archivos a Steam necesito que pesen menos de 5MB.En este momento al intentar exportar en Photoshop, lo minimo que puedo conseguir es 10.59MB.Al comprimirlo en paginas de internet como por ejemplo ezgif baja muchisimo la calidad para poder llegar a el peso que necesito.Si alguien es tan amable de poder ayudarme se lo hiper agradeceria.

I imported my file like normal, making sure the video is in an accepted format. However, I cannot drag and drop anything into my composition. I click and hold, attempting to drag the clip to my timeline from the project panel, but nothing happens. I have never had this issue before and I've been using AE for years. I uninstalled it from this computer (Windows/PC) last year and was only using my MacBook to edit. Since reinstalling AE to this computer, I cannot edit anything because I can't drag files into my timeline. Does anyone else have this issue and/or know a fix? 

Hello, I'm trying to export and render an After Effects file (which I have rendered before), and I keep getting this message... "After Effects error: Attempted to render a frame with an unsupported frame size (30425 x 6148). The frame size must be between 1 and 30000 pixels for both width and height.Please check layer dimensions and the output from any effects that may be modifying layer content. ( 37 :: 102 )". I think it has something to do with a transition that I imported and used, but I've rendered it before with no problem. I don't know how to find the issue or how to fix it. Any ideas that I could try ASAP would be greatly appreciated.

Hello everyone! I’m working on a couple of motion graphics projects that require a lot of versioning — 13+ languages, different intros, outros… you know how it goes 🙂I’m currently on a Mac Studio M2 Max, which is pretty fast for what I do, but each video has so many versions that even with quick render times, I still end up spending half a day rendering 100+ variations per video.I’m considering adding a mini PC as a dedicated render node using Media Encoder, and I was wondering if anyone here has experience running After Effects to render this way. If you’ve tested specific brands, configurations, or setups that let you keep working on the main machine while the node handles renders, I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience. My other choice is to get a refurb macbook pro, which are quite cheat right now to handle this. Cheers,DC

Hi everyone.I have a couple of functions to send comps to the After Effects render queue and to AME: const sendToAME = (options: KT_RenderOptions) => { const RQItems: RenderQueueItem[] = addToQueue(options); if (app.project.renderQueue.canQueueInAME) { app.project.renderQueue.queueInAME(false); } for (let i = 0; i < RQItems.length; i++) { const rqItem = RQItems[i]; rqItem.remove(); } return RQItems; }; const addToQueue = (options: KT_RenderOptions): RenderQueueItem[] => { const RQItems: RenderQueueItem[] = []; const compsArray = options.comps instanceof Array ? (options.comps as CompItem[]) : [options.comps as CompItem]; const templateName = options.template || this.DEFAULTE_TEMPLATE; for (let i = 0; i < compsArray.length; i++) { const comp = compsArray[i]; if (!is.comp(comp)) continue; const rqItem = app.project.renderQueue.items.add(comp); const om = rqItem.outputModule(1

Multiple times when i am trying to edit an object on after effects, or even zoom into the screen, after effects just stops working.  Anyone facing similar issues? i am using Asus Tuf f16

After effects warning: Rendering Unexpected error on my PC with i9/5080 GPU?

Hi! I am using the plug in SF Caddy to do a lip syncing animation, it all looks great on the timeline, but when I go to render it, the exported video is off. Off in a way where the last mouth shape on the timeline doesn't show up. What could I have done to cause this? Thank you for your help!!

guys i need urgent help like right now....i tried everything...its stuck like this, funny how i can make it into two views and 3 etc...but not one...please help me :(((

Coming back to a project after a few months to make some tweaks before re-rendering I was greeted with the "analysis solve failed" error. However, my issue is not with a 3D camera but with a track point. That has already been tracked and keyframed. And shows all the correct points when I look at it, I would prefer to not have to run the tracker again and have to make all the small corrections I did previously.So it's already been tracked and keyframed, any idea why I am getting this now when nothing has changed since I last worked on this? I've updated to the latest, restarted, and tried to re-analyze but it's not coming out smoothly and would require me to redo all the existing tracking work. Is there an easy solution I'm just missing?

Hola, cada vez que guardo mi proyecto me sale esta advertencia que es bastante molesta, no sucede con el auto guardado, sólo cuando le dos a Ctrl+S. ¿Alguien tiene la solución para que no siga apareciendo? 

In after effects exists an effect called Scale wipe.Which scales one half of a frame around an anchorpointMy problem is, that i now need to do this just on the edge of a subject.Basically a per pixel Scale wipe. So each pixel gets scaled around its own anchorpoint.And if that wasn't hard enough i also need this to work on a moving subject.In my mind i would take a rotoscoped subject. Tell AE to go 10 pixels or so inwards/to the left from that mask and then do a per pixel scale warp from there.Im currently doing this mockup in PS by not doing this per pixel but taking 20-40 pixel blocks. The same principle works in AE, but for a moving subject the manual labor of animating 10-20 masks + their anchorpoint for a 1min video is just insane.Any ideas if this is even achievable in AE. Is this doable with scripting ?Is there another program that can do this ?

Hello, my current computer doesn't run the new version of After Effects. I'm using the Monterey version of Mac OS. I need the older version of After Effects. How can I download it or where can I find it?