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Hello. We know that every property has some data type return.position returns array of length 2.rotation returns a number.my question is can I make a psodu effect that can return string, arrays, or any data type that I want?

Welcome to After Effects 25.4     After Effects 25.4 is here!This release brings new features, bug fixes, and workflow improvements to enhance your creative experience. A highlight is Quickly Offset Your Layers and Keyframes, making it easier than ever to adjust timing in your projects.Update now to enjoy smoother, faster, and more intuitive animation in After Effects.     New in 25.4   Here are the new features coming with version 25.4   Try the Latest Version Quickly offset your layers and keyframes Create animations by staggering layers or keyframes across multiple layers over time with a simple keyboard shortcut. Copy and paste only the text formatting Apply only the text formatting to an entire Text layer or a specific word using the Paste Text Formatting Only command. Support for CICP Metadata Import and export HDR content with CICP Metadata to ensure accurate color management and consistenc

Hey everyone,I was wondering if there is any information on the next iteration of the Rotobrush tool. Is a "Rotobrush 4" in development, and if so, are there any anticipated release timelines?

I've been up all night trying to render a 3:30 animation. Had to render in 15/20sec increments and then stitch together in Premiere Pro because it kept causing the "force quit" dialogue to pop—which has never happened before, usually you have to initiate a "force quit"—saying there is no more memory left, shown to be using 663.35GB, which is more than I have.  This is the first project I've done since updating to Tahoe. Mac specs: M2 Max, 96GB RAM. Using AE latest version 25.5, even uninstalled and installed the last 25.4 to see it that would fix it.  Also, while animating, the preview was so slow I couldn't get the timing down. I don't do a ton of animation projects but have been using AE since 2015 and have never had an issue while working, sometimes it would slow a bit while rendering, but this is ridiculously slow. So slow I was just scrubbing to see if it was about right. Even using the lowest quality preview. Then rendering a 3:30 project was going to take 3.5

I am working on a client project for a UAE based company called wheelsonrent.ae. . The video needs to explain their business in a clean and modern way, and part of the requirement is to export certain animated sequences from After Effects into Lottie JSON format for integration inside their mobile app. The issue I am facing is that when I use Bodymovin to export, some pre‑comps with track mattes and nested shape layers render incorrectly. The alpha channels are not preserved and the animation either disappears or shows solid blocks instead of the intended transparency. I have tried different render settings, flattening layers, and even converting shapes to paths, but the problem still occurs. This is very technical and I could not find any working solution on YouTube or other tutorials. Has anyone experienced this specific issue with track mattes and nested pre‑comps not exporting properly to Lottie, and is there a reliable workaround?

I have been in contact with Adobe support as I somehow lost my version of After Effects CC2019 during a operating system upgade and Adobe recommended I ask the community if anyone has the installer for After Effects 2019 that I could download. Any help would be much appreciated.Thank youDavid

i just update the AE and PRand CAN'T Copy Premiere clip/audio to AE pls help 

Hi, i experienced this bug in AE 25.5 and new beta 26.Windows AMD machine with nVidia GPU.I have composition, and it look like it is empty, but it is not.There are plenty of layers which are invisible in timeline, but in viewer those have proper behavior, so if I put this composition to another, I can use it, but I can not make any change (because there are no layers visible)It looks like after shy applied, but shy switch is of and layers did not have it enabled.I experienced this in AE 25.5 where disapeared one layer between bunch of others (the layer numbers was 89. 90, 91, 93, 94  - layer 92 just missing. But their content in viewer was visible..And now in Beta 26.0 there are missing all layers which was imported from another project. It affects just one precomp. The behavior is the same like I described. No layers visible in timeline, but their content is visible in viewer and all comps where this precomp is visible..viz attached screenshot. And! When I duplicate the

When i move text layers from Premiere Pro to After Effects. And unprecompose all the text layers using the motion tool plugin. after the text is unprecomp, when I hit enter to make 2 lines of the text layers, 2nd layer is not showing.  Could you guys help, please? 

I am trying to motion track a beverage can in a 6 second stock video and I intend to put my 2D label on it, I have tried Mocha AE, geotracker but I have failed.I am getting frustrated in Mocha because I set the spline nicely, manually set the planar surface, export the data, apply it to the intended 2D graphic and for a start the graphic is far off from where it should be (I did make the graphic the same size of the comp before applying mocha data), even if I fiddle around with corner pin position, the outcome is so shaky, I have watched so many tutorials, please help

Hola, tengo una suscripción activa a Adobe Creative Cloud, pero mi equipo no es compatible con la versión actual de After Effects. ¿Podrían proporcionarme el instalador de After Effects 2022 o 2023 y Media Encoder correspondiente? Gracias.

I'm trying to render/export lower third graphics as interlaced files for a broadcast project and no matter what I do I get horrible aliasing. Any tips or settings or plugins you'd recommend? Thanks so much!

Ошибка, именно в одном проекте. Что делать, подскажите, пожалуйста. Проект не очень большой (по размеру), но в нём много слоёв, он работает в связке с Pr. И как отрендерить проект без связи с Ae, ведь Pr видит проект и его можно посмотреть? Вчера работал, сегодня вот такое! Пожалуйста помогите.

I feel the Adobe Effects tool is bugged when positioning the text on the blue background to run in the composition.

I was following this Dithering Effect Guide and the effect looks great in my app but it loses the effect once exported. This is what it looks like in the comp preview:  This is what it looks like when exported: I followed the youtube guide and toggled the Quality and Sampling as well as adjusted the Render Settings to "Current Settings" There is some extra layering inside of pre-comps that might be causing complications. The structure is:Dithered Image Pre-comp -> Combined Pre-comp -> Final Render Comp Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated - thank you!

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the gradient start and end point edit handle is shown up in shaplayer gradient fillbut there is no edit handle in comp layer style - gradient overlayI had found the workaroud to show it up that was active the target area switch button like below years ago but after the update, this is not available anymoreis that a bug or suppose to be?how can I adjust the gradient start and end point in gradient overlay?

When AE tries to cache frames for previewing mith Multi-Frame Rendering turned on, it will crash and give me the following area: Is this a known issue? My computer shouldn't have a problem with Multi-Frame Rendering. My specs are:Processor: Intel i9-14900KRAM: 128 GB usableOS: Windows 11 64-bitGPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080Dedicated Storage: 256 GB

Hey I want to make a text animation based at the same principles as this one: Instagram    But is there a way to keep the words centered with the typewriter effect, so the words moves along to the left when a new word appears? Thanks

I do NOT need any information about the new features.I just wanna know why the bloody hell AE only uses one single core of my computer?It has continuously rendering for over 170 hours.. always ONE CORE.Any idea? Can anyone help me? The project is overdue already but I have to watch this nonsense.This is so frustrating.This is the latest version.

Recently had to reinstall Windows 11 due to error when updating most of my CC apps to the latest version. After reinstalling After Effects, I noticed the preview screen is black when paused. It plays fine but, as soon as playback is paused, the entire screen goes blank. This happens in any project with any media. I have updated graphics card to latest driver, updated drivers to monitors, uninstalled and reinstalled AE, uninstalled and reinstalled to previous version, made sure the preview is not set to "Wireframe," turned off "Hardware Accelerate Composition, Layer, and Footage Panels" and set rendering to "Mercury Software Only," cleared cache multiple times, restarted computer and AE multiple times, started in safe-mode, started in safe-mode with plugins disabled and preferences reset, made sure AE is added to graphics list with it set to "High Performance" graphics card, tried different preview resolutions. All out of ideas. System:AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores (3.

I used to just copy docakble scripts into the ScriptUI Panel folder manually. But I tried the 'install ScriptUI Panel' menu option today. Restarted Ae and it worked fine. But when I looked in the ScriptUI Panel folder there's no copy of my script there ??? On install a dialog said the script was successfully copied to my preferences folder, but i can't find it anywhere and I can't find any other copy with the same name or any hidden files. what's going on? how do I remove a file I can't even find ?Ae 25.5 on Mac OS 15.5

Bonjour,Je souhaite installer la version After Effects 23.1, mais elle ne semble plus disponible dans Creative Cloud. Pour des raisons de compatibilité avec certains plugins et projets, j’ai besoin spécifiquement de cette version.Pouvez-vous m’indiquer comment y accéder ou s’il est possible de la télécharger via un lien direct depuis mon compte Adobe ?Merci d’avance pour votre aide,Cordialement,

Hello,I am struggling to get this expression to work. I thought someone might be able to help me. I want a text layer to move y position depending on an if-else statement. If the text field is one or two line heights or not move to y1 or y2 position... Right now, this code works, but instead of moving the y it displays the y position with the text value. (example: some text1820) I am not sure what I am doing wrong.  Thanks! var l = thisLayervar tx = l.text.sourceText.value; var h = tx.split('\r'); var n = h.length; var y1 = transform.yPosition = [1920];var y1 = transform.yPosition = [1920];var y2 = transform.yPosition = [1820]; if (n > 1) {[value + y2 ]; } else {[ value + y1 ];}

Hello, I have a Asus TUF 15 with 32gb ram, with a Nvidia RTX 3050, 12th gen i7 12700 and the After Effects 25 wont open. I tried every single version of the after effects 25 and it doesnt open in any circumstances.  Can someone please help? i need to work in a project and I need to use this laptop to work on it