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I've created an animation and placed properties into Essential Graphics, like I've done numerous times in the past. When I click to Export Motion Graphics Template, I'm able to choose where to save, etc., and it looks like it runs its process (I don't get any errors), however, when I look in the location I exported to, it's not there. I do a search for the exact file name, but nothing comes up. I have also updated all of my software.

Hi, I'm looking to create an "infinite zoom" but it's just an endless loop of one location/scene. When I searched for tutorials and help on this, all I could find is a zoom through multiple scenes/images/locations, which is not what I'm looking for.  What I'm thinking of is something more like this :  I found an infinite hallway tutorial where you build a 3D box of sorts using a photo and perspective tools, but I don't know if I can do that with nature or city scenery like the above GIFs.

Im trying to create a sphere of spinning flat circles. Currently I am using CC ball action to achieve the current effect I have, which is the style I am trying to achieve. I would like the balls to appear in one at a time however, I'm open to using a different effect if I can achieve a similar style, but with them appearing in one a a time. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated, thank you!

How do you control the corner radius of a rounded rectangle box?

The previous version of After Effects, 24.0.3, is working fine. However, when I install version 24.3 (the latest version), I encounter an error message at startup: 'The Application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142).' I've checked everything, including DLL files, .NET Framework, etc. I've even uninstalled using CC Cleaner and reinstalled it, but the issue persists. I also tried installing version 24.2 and 24.1, but they also produce the same error message. Surprisingly, version 24.0 is working without any issues. Can anyone help me understand why version 24.3 isn't working, while 24.0 is functioning properly?

I wonder if there is any hollywood movies or feature film (non-hollywood) that used after effects as a main VFX tool? 

Hello,Since the release of the 25.0 updates (25.01 to 25.1) for After Effects, I’ve noticed a significant slowdown in the user interface (UI). The preview performance is also extremely sluggish (see the video I recorded).I’ve tried several solutions to fix the issue:Completely uninstalling and reinstalling After Effects,Checking for updates (software and drivers), etc.Unfortunately, the only way to restore normal performance is to revert to version 24.0. I’m certain this isn’t a hardware issue, as it’s directly linked to the 25.0 versions.Have you encountered this problem or found a solution?Please upvote this post so that the support team can notice and fix the issue quickly.

Hi!  I got accepted into a ae giveaway that had some presets. I had downloaded them and saved them to the “user presets” folder. I went to after effects to search for the user presets folder, but it wasn’t there. The whole file has seemed to disappear from ae. I was told to make a new folder on the program, name it user presets and save everything that was in the other file to the new one. But I can’t seem to figure out how to do that either. 

I have been trying to render in After Effects with various different file types. I tried media encoder as well. Both Crash. I'm using an external hd. Bought a new SSD USB C thinking the other drive may have been the issue. Still same thing. Can the Cache files be on the external hard drives or should they stay on the local drive?  

Hi guys i wanna know how to make this effect it's subtle and simple, the colorful background start from the center until fully revealed, you can see from the sample, it goes with some flash lights with some sort of randomness i think, could someone explain me how to achieve a similar result?  Sample here.

Hi, I'm trying to stretch keyframes for several effects at once so they're further apart but keep them proportionally separate. I'm able to do this sometimes by clicking "option" + clicking on my mouse and moving them, but then other times when I do that, it moves them all at once without stretching them apart. Is there a reason why that's happening? Here's a video below to show I'm talking about.  I'm currently using AE 25.5.0 Build 4 on a Macbook Pro - with Apple M4 Pro chip.  Thanks for your help!

It's so frustrating. After Effects keeps crashing. I'm working with  computerPuget-252003-5Intel(r) Core (tm) i9-14900k 3.20GHZ64-BIT OPERATING SYSTEM, X64-BASED PROCESSOR STORAGE 8.38 TBGRAPHICS CARD 24GBINSTALLED RAM 128 I always get a error message to work in safe mode. manage 3rd party plugins. I'm working with a envato template. Sometimes i work fine all day then next day i have 20 crashes. I put in my email and send report to adobe but nothing happens. Anybody have any ideas?  Thank you,Laz

Anyone know how to achive this kind of glow animated yellow thing at the background? And what called  

I do not want an error noise when I press the number keys when I have the 3c camera navigation unchecked. I do not use 123456 keys for navigation.Latest version of AE has started making a distorted error noise presumably to tell me that I am not using them as navigation. No 3d layers, classic or advanced 3d renderer. don't currently have other sound IO devices to check if it other hardware specific. This is new behaviour, unless I have not touched my numbetr keys in a few yearstagtagtatgatgatgtag tag tagag7agagag

GPU acceleration (rocket ship icon) frequently disables and I'm finding myself turning it back on over and over again. I'm not sure why, but this has been happening for a good year or so with each AE release still showing up. I'm using an RTX-3080 ti with studio drivers that always remains up to date with Windows 11. I always choose cuda as the option and when it's on, runs smoothly. I'll be working on a project and randomly glace over at my roket ship and notice it's in the grey and has tripped like a breaker. I feel this is a bug, but if there are any other potential reasons, please let me know. Thanks!

 My Preview Pane is stuck like this. I have reinstalled AE, restarted my PC, looked through the Window Tab at the top, and the Preferences.

Hello I'm having this problem where the shadow is showed only on a part of the 3d objectBut when I move it to the right it dissappearsIm using environmental light and everything has cast shadow on 

 freshly installed and its not working

I'm getting this error when loading some, but not all projects. This error is only incurred when clicking on the AE project file from within Windows Explorer. When the project is opened from within After Effects the projects open without error. Why? Needing a computer engineering degree appears to be a prerequisite for working with the Adobe apps.

Hi there, I have a 24bit/48k .wav audio file (music) that I've been using for years in Premiere. I've just started some social ads in AE but whenever the audio is in certain Comps, it jumps in volume by about 5db at around 7seconds - this volume change also renders in final renders. In the Comps in question, there are no keyframes or effects on the audio file, nor keyframes on any other layer at that point. I've removed and re-added to the comp, purging Memory & Cache, and restarting AE. But no joy. If I add to a new comp, there's no volume change so clearly something is causing this - does anyone know how to it track down? Have never seen this before. Any help much appreciated. Cheers, Ben

Bonjour, j'utilise habituellement une extension du nom de "shake sauce" qui permet de creer des tremblements rapidement, cependant, depuis 1h, je ne parviens plus à l'ouvrir sans avoir toucher ou modifier aucuns fichiers, de plus, aucun message d'erreur n'apparait.  Je vous avoue être un peu perdu, j'ai vu des solutions sur windows où il faut changer un code source nous-même mais rien sur MAC.. Je vous remercie d'avance pour votre aide ! 

Why is the viewport in AE more saturated than the input and also output it exports on Mac M2? I work in ACES and have my monitor set to Rec709 and the Color Profile of the Mac is set to Rec709 Gamma 2.4.I get the same result if I change the color profile, change the monitor settings, or change the color workflow in AE... the viewport is consistently about 10% punchier and more saturated than it should be.This is also regardless of the files I'm using. Arri, Red, PNG, Stock footage, etc... All the same.When I preview the files in Finder they look normal. I drop them into AE, they look 10% punchier, I export and they look normal again...What's happening in AE? 

Hello everyone I'm new to After Effects and I try to animate a path or vector, which should be animated like it is drawn. I followed this tutorial and was able to create that animation with the pen tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYWGWATVWVI)So when it is a straight line I can use the pen tool and let ae draw the line with the trim function. But now I want to outline a more complexe shape which I draw free hand with my graphic tablet. I tried to import a Illustrator file, but I wasn't able to add the trim function to it.  1. Can I draw free hand with the pen tool?2. How can I animate a line which I draw free hand with the brush tool? (The animation should also be like it is drawn.) 3. Other options? thx for any help. 

Recently my after effects has been automatically creating new compositions every time I import footage into a project. This becomes very annoying as I'm always importing lots of footage and always manually deleting the new comps after effects is making for each piece of footage. I've looked through the preferences, but there doesn't seem to be an option that controls this. This wasn't happening when I first starting using this version so I think I must've changed some setting but dont know how to change it back. Any idea how I can stop after effects from automatically creating new comp when I import footage?[Moved from After Effects Resources to the much more active After Effects support forum - moderator]

I have 1min of footage, I want to create an expression that creates a loop that advances forward one frame with each iteration.I tried unsuccessfully time remapping with  LoopOutDuration(type = “offset”, duration = (4/24)).What I’m looking for is if “n” is the duration of the loop and “a” is the first frame of the loop, say n = 4 then what I need is:abcd bcde cdef  …. till the end of the footage.If I could get that to work I’d be very happy.If I could also get it to ping pong then I’d be extremely happy, e.g.:abcdcba bcdedcb cdefedcAny answers gratefully received.Chris-----I should have kept looking: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/23446#23446 f = timeToFrames(time); seg = Math.floor(f/5); phase = f%5; framesToTime(seg + ((phase == 4) ? 2 : phase))Currently fiddling with this.Does the travelling loop but not the pingpong.Praise be to Dan.