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Crafting After Effects scripts is getting easier - I've even coined a term for it -Just In Time Scripts - JITS (aka doJITSU).I recently posted on how to write better LLM prompts to obtain expressions and scripts. Let’s take things a step further - a name for what has become a common practice in recent After Effects history. JITS do not have to be full-featured and they should not hinder your work with layers and keyframes, for too long - it’s an investment in time, to create reproducible solutions using Expressions and Scripts. Both can be enhanced as and when required, during a project and then saved, as is, or enhanced further, to cater to more use-cases or to handle edge-cases.Below are screengrabs of 6 scripts that were crafted in a a day or two, for a recent project. They saved hours of work including the critical ones that appear during revisions or near delivery.A couple may make it into my multiscript - broadcastGEMs MAG and the others will be saved into a larger multiscript fo

I'm working in ACES 1.3 Studio v1, and my working color space is ACEScg. I can set the diplay color space for my monitors, but I can't find where to set the display color space for the Mercury Transmit display (a HDMI connected UHD tv). The colors and contrast are way off, only when I set the working color space to none or an sRGB color space do I get a more 'normal' looking image. I'd like to work in ACEScg and be able to preview on a HDMI connected TV.What am I missing?Thanks!

When importing a 3D asset (.gltf) from Illustrator to After Effects, the bright red colors change to a dull, pinkish hue. Rasterizing fixes the issue, but standard 3D imports have color mismatches despite both setups using RGB/sRGB.

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I’m trying to use trim paths on a vector image to trace the path of a box. Instead of trimming the path of the box, the entire box is filling up with the outline color. Not sure what’s going on there. I’ve attached a video for reference. Thanks and stay curious!

Hi, I would like to add in a text with bullet point, but I cant seem to get it with the right formatting. I did attempt to format it in illustrator (using tabs and paragraph spacing) before copying and pasting, but to no avail. anyone knows how? 

This is a tough one, this 32bpc sequence does not want to look correct when dynamically linked or exported as tiff 32bpc...It keeps getting blown out. When I tried to snapshot what it's supposed to look like.... the snapshot also looks the same so I can't even snapshot the proper intended end result.I took a photo of my screen with my phone to show how its meant to look, but when shown here it looks exactly the same…?  If I change to 32bpc in Color Settings- Bit Depth, then the footage gets washed out… edit: Can anyone link me to a tutorial to learn about these colour mgmt intricacies, they are my weak point

Football stadium ribbon spec:Use Quicktime with the Animation codec (and an alpha channel), for maximum quality.Render File Type: MP4 (Show Control)Media Software: Daktronics Show Control.This is all they have given.After Effects templates have been supplied. I have set up the animation but can’t get to grips with the render requirements. Venue response when sent over:  ‘Please render the ribbons for Show Control NOT Disguise.’Does anyone have experience in this?

I'm one of those crazy people who primarily uses After Effects for compositing. (And has since 4.1.) As I move to an M1 Mac, I'll lose compatibility with two plug ins I use often: Red Giant Light Wrap and Red Giant Edge Blur (from their long-discontinued keying suite). I can license Boris BCC and Sapphire and together (for thousands of dollars) can get replacement plug ins. Along with a lot of stuff I don't need. And for a few thousand dollars. These are basic effects built into Nuke and I would love to see Adobe include them in future releases. Light Wrap in particular is invaluable although for me Edge Blur is what I am having more trouble replacing. Thanks!

Hi!In my company we are thre people with the Self-Service-Subscription But I am the only one who can’t update anymore. There is no new version in the CC, nor in the direct Link: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/desktop/troubleshooting/fixed-and-known-issues/fixed-issues.htmlany solution?Thanks a lot!

I am working on a project in After Effects v23.0. If I go to File > Save As > there are no options to save my project to Creative Cloud. I am only provided the option to save a file on my computer.  How can this be resolved? Thank you. 

Why AE is still in 2026 absolutely garbage and unoptimized? Why at more than 70$ moth is still full of bugs? Why rendering is still underusing the machine? Why adobe? Why dont you destroy the program and rebuilt from zero? Years, more than 12 years working daily with it and every day I have to FIGHT with the software, every day. Every day I discover a new tricky way to solve a NEW problem. 

Sooo, I am struggling with this animated logo I did for a client and they asked me to deliver a .WebM (which is a new type of file for me). Somehow it shows a grey outline to the animation which is not visible on the original .mov (pro ress 444 alpha). I tried multiple ways of exporting it into WebM but whatever I do it keeps showing this outline. How-the-hell do I remove this and make it a clean animation like the original?? I got asked for WebM by developers but open to any alternative if that's what it takes 🤓 Thanks! 

Am I blind or going crazy? It’s been a while since I’ve worked with non-square pixel footage, but didn’t the Toggle Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction button used to be at the bottom of the comp window? Where’s it gone? 

I am relatively new to AE, but havent had this issue before. I have a few files that simply crash when trying to open on mac. They get to about 40% (although that varies slightly file to file, but seem to be in that region), but then just get the spinning beach ball and they dont progress. I have a PC too, so installed AE on that and the file opens instantly with no issue. Resaved the file from the PC version, tried to open that on Mac but crashed again. I have tried;• Opening file from different locations on the computer• Safe Mode• Empty Caches• Reset Prefs• Uninstall, restart, reinstallBut nothing works. Baffled, especially where it opens immediately on PC, which would rule out file corruption. Files were all created on the same Mac that now wont open them.Any ideas?

Hi everyone,I’m having an issue with preview playback in After Effects. The composition starts caching normally, but when I play it back, the preview still stutters and some of the cached frames seem to be rendered again instead of playing smoothly.I’ve already tried lowering the preview resolution and clearing the cache, but the behavior is still there. The composition is not particularly complex either.Is there a Preview or cache setting I should check that could be causing After Effects to rebuild frames during playback?I found this related discussion about cached frames being re-rendered during Preview.

currently my project is just two solid layers and two text layers with no animation, my preview resolution is set to third. Despite this when I want to playback the project by pressing the space bar it just buffers/freezes and cant seem to play it back for me. I have cleared the media disk cache very often and even made it so it will use my ssd to store cache instead of my local drive? For context I have a macbook pro 2019 which I recently updated to Tahoe? its an intel core aswell which ive heard might not be good for adobe? as you can tell idk much and am not a tech person im just a graphic design graduate tryna develop my skills and get a job in this crazy job market.anyways, if anyone could help me figure out how to fix this/make my ae run a bit smoother it would be great thanks! 

I am using Advanced 3D to make an animation of a smartphone. The phone is a glb Model. Animation works fine. But when i use Depth of Field in the 3D camera, the model parts get slightly see-through. For example, looking at the back of the phone the front screen is suddenly slightly visible. This is not happening when DoF is turned off.Any suggestions how to fix this. I need DoF for this animation.So far the new 3D options in AE are pretty great and render fast, but there are still a lot of quirks and annoying things that don’t work or need complicated workarounds (no motionblur, not working with adjustment layers, etc.) 

Dear Adobe Support Team,I am currently developing a Premiere Pro C++ plugin. We are creating a plugin that is intended to be localized in Chinese. However, when modifying the PiPL file to define the Name and Category fields, we have encountered issues with using Chinese characters:If we set the Category to Chinese, the plugin can be built, but the displayed text in Premiere Pro becomes garbled.If we set the Name to Chinese, the project fails to build entirely.Could you please let us know if there is an official way to support Chinese characters in the PiPL file, or if there are recommended best practices to handle plugin names and categories in non-ASCII languages?Thank you very much for your assistance.Best regards,

So as you can see, in this particular project, the timeline is ghosted, when you mouse over it, some of the timeline comes back, then if you click elsewhere, the timeline vanishes again. I’ve deleted the cash files, no effect. The really strange thing is other projects do not do this, I get these random ones that just won’t load. You can enter text on the playback but you can’t select anything in the timeline. Vanishes as soon as you attempt to mouse over it. I am working with the latest AE 26.5. Any ideas? And don’t come back with add the comp to a new comp, that does not work and it’s a workaround.   

어도비의 어떤 프로그램을 사용해도 멈추거나 하지 않지만애프터 이펙트만 실행하자마자 응답없음으로 멈추거나무사히 파일이 열린다해도 1분도 안되서 프로그램이 응답없음으로 멈추게 됩니다.얼마전까지 25.3 버전으로 잘 작동되었는데 갑자기 프로그램이 멈추고 충돌현상이 일어나서최종적으로 컴퓨터까지 갈아엎었지만 여전히 제대로 작동하지 않습니다.도대체 어떻게 해야될지 모르겠어요 

I’m currently using an older version of After Effects available through Creative Cloud, but it’s lagging and crashing frequently. Sometimes, I’m not even able to work for 5 minutes without facing an issue.I’m using a 2019 MacBook Pro with an Intel i9 processor, and I’m facing performance issues with the newer versions of After Effects. I would like to install an older version, preferably from 2018–2019, so that I can work more smoothly.I don’t need the latest features or updates. I just want a stable version that runs smoothly on my Mac.

I’ve just upgraded to macOS 27 and, it seems, I can no longer debug a C++ plug-in I’m working on because Apple’s security blocks the debugger from attaching to After Effects. Specifically, I’m getting the following error:macOSTaskPolicy: (com.apple.debugserver) may not get the task control port of (After Effects) (pid: 5646): (After Effects) is hardened, (After Effects) doesn't have get-task-allow, (com.apple.debugserver) is a declared debugger(com.apple.debugserver) is not a declared read-only debugger LLMs recommend re-signing AE, but that does not seem to be a reasonable thing to do. I’m worried that doing so might trigger copy protection or break something. Not all issues can be solved by simply logging to files, so, what’s the suggested approach to debugging on macOS 27?

Hi, I’ve been trying to bring iphone clips into After Effects via Dynamic Link from Premiere (“Replace with After Effects Composition”).The iphone clips color seems ok before I bring them into After Effects:But after I click “Replace with After Effects Composition” - if my After Effects “Working Color Space” is set to None then it causes issues in Premiere and often I have to restart Premiere.If I set the Working Color Space to Rec 709 Gamma 2.4, then I don’t get an error message but the iphone clips show up extremely over-exposed and weirdly colored in After Effects:I imagine that that if I just convert the clips to Prores or something then I won’t have this error, but is there a way that I can avoid these error messages and issues without having to convert the clips to prores for every project I work on? This doesn’t seem to be an issue with non-iphone clips and this wasn’t happening at all with any clips until the past couple years. I’ve tried disabling the color in Premiere, but th