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So I'm working with a project that has an audio file (.wav) that I'm using as the base (the effects are timed up with the audio) but I was having trouble playing the audio. I opened it up in Audition (default program for .wav files) and it played back just fine, so then I closed Audition and went back to AE and it played just fine like how I expected it to when I preview my comp. Then, after it reloads itself, it stops playing the audio again. I've restarted my computer (running Windows 11, AE v25.5) and it doesn't seem to fix it. Am I doing something wrong? 

Hi The Range selectors have an Amount and a Mode (blend Mode) property. The Expression Selector does not.I have an expression that is already working, but I want to add blend modes to it, so it can blend with previous selectors, just like two range selectors can. I have made a very to the bone example, so I can focus on the blend mode funtionality only. I have this expression:var thisSelectorValue = 100; // (-100..100) var amount = 50; // (0..100), like Range Selector's Amount var thisMultiplier = amount/100*thisSelectorValue/100; selectorValue*thisMultiplier;The above makes sense. It multiplies the previous selection value for every character with .5. So if they where 100 % selected from the previous selector, they are now 50 % selected. This behavior will be the same as the "Intersect" blend mode.I'm struggling making an "Add" blend mode. If I multiply the selectorValue with something it works, but if I use addition or subtraction it doesn't. This will do nothing:var thisS

Hallo zusammen, ich verzweifle gerade an folgendem Szenarium und stehe unter Zeitdruck.Video (Kameraflug) von Google Earth Studio soll mit einem animierten Pfad versehen werden. Ich erstelle in AE das Kamera-Tracking, lasse mir anhand der Tracking-Punkte eine Farbfläche generieren, daraus erstelle ich eine Unterkomp. und passe diese auf Videogröße an. Füge dann meinen in Illustartor erstellten Pfad ein und sehe, dass es viel zu groß ist. Alle Bemühungen es passend zu skalieren und drehen scheitern. Was mache ich falsch? Ich habe auch eine jsx Datei aus Google Earth Studio erhalten, aber mit der ist es genau so schwierig. Die Komp. mit dem Pfad ist verdreht und irgendwo im Raum. Alles drehen und positionieren brachte bisher nichts. Das kann doch nicht so schwer sein, wo ist der Haken?Bin dankbar für jeden Tipp.LGLjubomir 

Hello forum.I was wondering if multiple mask paths can be merged into one single masked path. In my screen shot, I imported a PNG fileand I chose to auto trace it, so it made all these masked paths. (Considering I want to put some sort of FX going through that mask).So I tried to precompose the layer to see if that would work, but it didn't. I also tried track matte to see if it would work, in case the FX would see the precomposed layer as one mask. So is there a way AE can make all these paths into one mask?PS: I know I can drag and drop the FX onto my PNG file and it works fine, but this is mainly for educational purposes I'm inquiring.Thank you.

 What is the background particle effect behind the character ? please tell me 

Hi all, I currently have a base M1 Max 32GB and have found it decent for AE, but looking to upgrade. I work almost entirely in AE and Prem, but my absolute main concernis timeline playback in AE. Exportrender times I'm not overally fussed about. I'm trying to keep costs down andfeel that more RAM is always beneficial for AE so.... Do I go M4 Max 64+GB, orsay M1/2 Ultra, again with 64+GB? I do almost exclusively 2D Motion design. I guess I'm looking toget the point of diminishing returns on spec. Sometimes you get to a point andany money spent on anything extra is all for very minor gains. The biggest leapper buck I suppose is what I'm wondering. I'll go second hand in any case Iguess, with the biggest noticeable jump in previews for AE. All advice taken on board!

Hi, I need to download After Effects version 23.x.x for my mac with bigsur OS. I cannot find this version in the Creative Cloud app under “Other Versions.” Is it possible to download this specific version? I would greatly appreciate your help!

Hey everyone, would anyone know a way to make a rotating 3D Logo (shape/outlines, not text) in cylindrical form? Each way I try, I seem to get errors whether I start with the CC cylinder effect first, and then try to get it 3D by turing on the tool in the layer switches, or vice versa. 

Hello, I have this simple expression of a countdown, but when i try to render my comp, it's not assuming my slider control or my expression, i don't know what to do.Have anyone encountered this kind of bug? 

 These two error messages repeatly pop up back to back, once they have popped up they will repeatedly reopen and I cannot worken on my after effects file. I have deleted all temp files, cleared cache in after effects > setting > media & cache disk.  I have also move all my large complete files to my hadrive. Not finding many helpful resources from this link ( https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/memory-allocation-of-3-gb-exceeds-internal-limits-error-fixes-don-t-work-for-me/td-p/14274651 ) which I am being refered to most often.I am using a macbook Pro and have the Angela Duik pluggin. Please help.

EDIT: Temporary fix was to disable Multi-frame rendering. Still need to resolve fully so I can enable it.EDIT 2: Still crashes anywayI've experienced errors over my 20 years in AE but this is new... I can't use it for more than 1 minute now.SPECSIntel Core i9-14900HXNVIDIA GeForce RTX 406064GB DDR5 RAM1TB SSDAll latest Adobe/Win11Pro/and video driversDELL SE2419HR 24"Then tried safe mode to get this error:   

I have after effects 2020 with trapcode particular, I set my emitter type, to "layer"and then I have linked the "layer emitter" to my layer/logo.I expect my logo to emit particles but, its like the particles are notrecognizing or linking to my logo. The particles do not respect the "shape" of my logo.It seems like such an easy step and process when I watch tutorials,yet my logo is not connecting properly with the particular and emitting particles from my logo shape.Is this a AFX 2020 problem with trapcode? It doesnt seem like it, everything else works fine.I also start up after effects with "run as integrated driver" option, which i also dont believewould be affecting this.  Anyone have any suggestions or thoughts?I just want to get my logo to emit particles with particular.THANKYOU  : )

This problem has appeared for some of the time. It causes several things I can't do in my After Effect, but I really have no idea how I can fix it. Problem 1: wait a long time to open the AE, it hangs on the initializing media core and takes about 10-15 mins to get through. Problem 2: can't import the mov files, and if I import the mov to the AE project, this pop up comes                "After Effects error: file 'file name.mov' cannot be imported - this 'MooV file is damaged or unsupported.'"Problem 3: can't output the comp as mov. and this pop up warming comes                "After Effects: One of the output modules could not be imported. It has been reset to use the default setting for the selected file format."I read some threads and I knew this might cause by the blocked communication between AE and QT. But I have double check my QT, it is ver

Hi People,I have a problem with Adobe After Effects (code : 5027 :: 12). This error came out of nowhere while I was creating a visual for my internship. I read every forum and I saw many solutions, but no one helped, so that's why I am opening a new discussion. This is the problem:Can you help me out?

Hello community. I'm seeing a heap of tutorials on YT, lots of instructors are using the trim path to make a loading bar animation, using the Dash to give it a more appealing visual. One thing I notice is, that the animating bar line, doesn't reveal one bar at a time, rather than each time the bar line animates, there's partially a bit of it revealed, then half of it, then the whole bar, until it goes to its next bar line.  I'm also posting my tedious task, Ive also seek advice from Chat GTP. Make as many bars I need, put them on separate layers, then animate the opacity of the bar 0-100, the keyframes very closely to each other. then spread out the layers on the timeline to achieve one bar reveal at a time, yes it does work, but imagine If I have 100 of them.... So What would be a more swift method, an expression maybe?Thank you. below is some example of what tutorials are showing, which seems incorrect.  

Hi, i have a comp with about 150 layers, each layer has the same (saber) effect, i want to edit the effect in every layer, is there a way to do this all at once? Of course i mean them to be edited to the same setting

Hello all. I've been running into an issue where when I left click on anything (property, layer, effect, etc.) the left click seems to get stuck in the click state, therefore dragging whatever I grabbed indefinitely. The only way to release it is if I left click on a separate Ae panel (i.e. from Composition to Project panel). Super frustrating and slowing down my workflow. It happens in all projects, but only happens in Ae. No other software is effected. So far I've tried: resetting all preferences (including going back to the default preferences, multiple times)restarting the machine (both a general restart and a complete shutdown)starting Ae in safe modemigrating previous verions preferencesusing different mice Any thoughts? And of course I have multiple plugins from reputable developers, and not anything that stands out as super recent that may be causing this issue. I'm going to go through those next. I'm currently running:Mac OS Sonoma 14.5 on an M1 Max MacBook ProA

Hi All, This is the first time for me with After Effects I was wondering on how to do holographic effects step by step from an image. I have seen quite a number of YouTube videos for the same and some of them are not clear. Is there a clear set of instructions that I can follow ? Or do I need to learn the whole After Effects course before I do this ?

Hi, I get this message everytime I try to open After Effects:“Adobe After Effects 2025” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Bin.The newest version. Tried everthyng, unstall it and re download it I get this message. Anybody know the fix for this?

I'm posting this as a bug, but please change it to a Discussion if this is intended behaviour.   I've noticed that when animating the opacity of a layer, the apparent level of opacity is rendered differently against an actual background colour compared to against a transparent background with the comp's BG set to that same colour.   I'm not sure that's explained clearly, but I think the attached video demonstrates this better.   I could imagine that there are proper technical reasons for this difference, but without this knowledge, it feels unexpected that these render differently.

I'm trying to use aerender.exe and am having major issues with my GPU - it seems the latest version of AE (25.5) ignores the GPU settings in the project file.  (BTW thanks for letting us select something that has no effect, Adobe...) The upshot is that my renders crash because the GPU gets immediately overloaded when I have a few threads rendering.  Historically, I've had to disable GPU rendering for this reason.  It seems that is no longer an option because, as far as I can tell, the setting is ignored. But, supposedly, there is a way out: GPUsniffer.exe.  It seems AE runs this on startup and if it doesn't find the app then it disables GPU rendering, so you just rename GPUsniffer.exe to something else and that does the trick.  I confirmed this works in the main AE app - rename the exe and AE disables GPU rendering.  Hooray.  (Hey Adobe - how about you just make the setting actually have an effect?) However... it seems this does not app

I'm trying to get multiple aerender.exe instances working like it did a few versions ago when you could disable GPU rendering.  The problem seems to be that now I can't disable GPU rendering and each instance is using a ton of GPU memory, so I can only run a couple threads at a time, maybe three if I'm lucky.  I used to regularly run ~10 with no issues back when I could disable GPU rendering. So... since I can't disable GPU rendering, is there any way to limit GPU RAM usage so I can again run a bunch of threads?

Hi Gang, First time posting, and have very amateur-level skills, so hoping it's not an obvious one! I've been using the Advanced Lightning effect and getting some great results but have stumped myself on how to get it to follow a path.  For example, I want the lightning to run along some wires, and the only thing I can imagine is creating a mask above and below the wires, and editing the alpha obstacle so it squeezes through the crevice. It feels like I must be missing a much easier solution, and would love to know if anyone had a better idea! Cheers,Brad

preciso do instalador da versão 2019 do after effects e photoshop pra macbook 

When users change the value of a parameter declared by a plugin with thePF_ParamFlag_SUPERVISE flag, the plugin ought to get notified via PF_Cmd_USER_CHANGED_PARAM. AE fails to do so when undoing the change. Plugins get PF_Cmd_USER_CHANGED_PARAM when the value is set, but not when the value is unset (via Undo). (This bug affects both Premiere Pro and AE in almost identical fashion. They both fail to call PF_Cmd_USER_CHANGED_PARAM, but AE is at least calling PF_Cmd_UPDATE_PARAMS_UI while undoing the previous change.) Steps to reproduce:- Take an existing plug-in based on the AE SDK, and make one of its non-slider* parameters observable by setting its PF_ParamFlag_SUPERVISE flag.- Set a breakpoint / print something to the console / beep when handling the PF_Cmd_USER_CHANGED_PARAM command.- Apply the plugin inside AE.- Change the observed parameter value and notice that Premiere will immediately invoke the PF_Cmd_USER_CHANGED_PARAM command.- Select