Questions

I've used AE just once to animate a graphic for this promo eleven years ago.  After getting frustrated trying to persuade Photoshop to do what I want with a video timeline, I have bitten the bullet, and decided to get even more frustrated with AE.   This is for the SFTW threads that we run on the Photoshop forum.     My idea is to make a kaleidoscope using four layers of the same still image with two of them mirrored, and mask the relevant quadrant of each layer.  My problem is that I can't get the mask to stay still while I rotate the image behind it.  Google mentioned the Pan Behind Anchor Point tool, but I I need to rotate rather than pan, and I'm not getting it anyway.   It must be doable. Can someone point me in the right direction?  Thanks.   BTW All are welcome to the SFTW threads, but I'm thinking that if you guys joined in, us Photoshop types would give up and go home.

Hi, guys. Please help me out, I've been struggling with this glitch on my rendered footage. It is a 1 second H.264 4K footage. I used Rotoscope 3.0. And I did rotoscope frame by frame and freeze it before the render. The frame rate is 59.94. I made sure the frame rate is matched with the original footage when I render. The render is fine when I use only roto brush, however, When I use the fine tuning edge brush on my footage, even though the preview in the composition looks fine, but after I render it, it appears to have glitches on some of the frames. I tried render as Tiff Sequence RGB+Alpha, Quick Time RGB+Alpha. It always gives me glitches.Here is screen shot of the glitch I got: 

I've been working with a client that would like me to recreate this design element with the sonar effect into their promotional video. Does anyone know how I may be able to achieve something similar? Is this effect built in AE or is it an image that was brought in and then manipulated with keyframes? I am a beginer user of After Effects so any way I can create in a simple way would be great. Thank you! 

Hi, I'm trying to test out the beta on my desktop. The plugin ran well on my laptop, however on my desktop I've installed, re-installed it, and tried opening the plugin in AE 2021 and AE 2022 but nothing happens when I click on it.I wanted to flag the issue and hopefully figure out why it would be doing this. Also I was wondering if you could give a general idea of how the pricing will work for this plugin once it has been fully released. Cheers!

I have been having a problem running Blender and Adobe apps in the same laptop. Adobe software will only works when I use the microsoft adapter player, while Blender only want the NVIDIA one. I can keep alternating between them, but my After Effect started lagging when I tried to use them with the microsoft adapter. I want to change it into NVIDIA but the black screen preview happened instead. Is there anyone with the same issue?My driver is already updated to the latest one, I cannot keep alternating between both driver because it also messed up with my other video editing program. Please help me. Only the audio started playing while the video wont.

Hello,I'm currently using version 25.1.0. But recently, I've been occasionally seeing the "Crash Repair Options" alert when restarting After Effects. I’ve also tried updating my graphics card, but it didn’t resolve the issue. When I click "Continue," I can use the program without any issues, and all settings remain unchanged.If there’s no definitive fix for the alert, would it be all right to just click “Continue” each time it appears and keep working?  

здравствуйте,помогите пожалуйста решить проблему,видео сдвигается влево при совместной работе с Pr.или при экспорте в Media Encoder,в самом Ae и при экспорте на прямую через него ничего такого нет,и при монтаже картинка стоит прямо.первое прикрепленное фото-это уже видео в pr при работе с ae,второе фото это уже как видео показывается в самом ae

Hello everyone! I just downloaded a phone comp (screenshot attached) from adobestock thinking the luma matte would have been included (no such luck).. Does anyone know how to create a luma matte from an .mov? I obviously want the phone to be on another background. Part two of this... how am I to have any screen animation track the phone? I guess I figured this would have been a layerd .AE file I could have edited in AE... Any help is very much apperciated. 

https://youtu.be/vE3cGbd5AsEWhile I'm keyframing, the layer will deselect I use the the Selection Tool. It ruins my workflow because I have to manually reselect it again before continue keyframing, other wise it won't do

I recently updated my after effects and adobe media encoder to 2025. Now everytime i try to render a video through media encoder it says "Adobe Media Encoder 2025" is damaged and can't be opened.You should move it to the Trash.This file was downloaded on an unknown date.I'm on a m1 macbook pro and use these programs regularly for work. I tried to install the previous version of media encoder and get the same issue. I don't understad what could be causing this issue. and am struggling to find other people experiencing this online.

hello la team mon after effects bug en permanence et pluq generalement au moment de l'export du rendu pourriez vous m'aider svp

Adobe After Effects 25.2 will pop up an error message when starting, Windows 11 system. After the error message is turned off directly, it does not affect the loading and use of the software. I disabled all the plug-ins and plug-ins, and the problem still exists, and the error message will also appear when starting in safe mode, excluding the problem of plug-in incompatibility. The old version of the software can work normally.It should be noted that there will be no error when starting from Adobe Creative Cloud, but if it is started from a shortcut, or even running AfterFX.exe directly from the software installation directory, an error will still appear. The dll file mentioned in the error message exists. The error message is as follows: After clicking the OK button, the software will continue to load until the loading is complete. As shown in the figure:    

Can someone tell me why is this app so crazy slow? I cant even play one simple 4k video smoothly in timeline. FX3 or Mavic 3 footage. Even when I play it in quarter resolution...Everything is set right, new drivers. It is totally unusable! GeForce RTX™ 3080Intel core i9-13900FNVMe disc96 GB RAM 

Hello everyone, I have never been able to open After Effects on my Mac because there is a problem with the CEP suite. I have tried everything but nothing works.If you know what to do please ! I keep having these 3 messages :"After Effects cannot continue: Unable to load the Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite. You may need to perform a fresh installation.""We detected a crash during your last session. Crashes can potentially be caused by faulty plugins or corrupted preferences. We recommend starting a session in Safe Mode to diagnose the issue. During a Safe Mode session, default preferences are used and third-party effect plugins may be disabled.""After Effects cannot continue: An unexpected error has occurred and After Effects will now shut down. Make sure you have the appropriate permissions to launch After Effects and read/write access to the After Effects Preferences folder. If you received other error messages before this one, please review them and resolve them if possible

i want to edit on after effects 2023 but I can't get the version and I was told that a empolyee can send you a link for the 2023 version so i was wondering if i could get the link

I've looked for possible ways to download the 2021 version but I can't, could someone help me?

Hello everyone,When I am trying to open After Effects I get this screen. All Options are Greyed out. I spoke with Adobe Customer support and the told me that is Microsoft Issue because the program Opens correctly when I use another account. Anynone that has the same issue?

How bad is this software ?RTX 5090, Ryzen 9950x, 128g of RAM and your software goes to flame when showing a waveform.Mp3 or aiff, doesn't matter. 15 years I'm in motion design and it still happening.Is there a way to fix it or do we have to wait for your team to finally splash the cash on developers and remade this software from scratch ? 

I recently learned how to do a green screen replacement on AE using Mochae, it worked really well the first few times. It's super easy and efficient.BUT!Since then I haven't been able to save any new tracking data, I updated AE to the latest version, still doesn't work. On the right part of the screen I see the loading info saying "Saving 2%" and it disappears right away, failing.I really need to submit my video edit and make the green screen replacement!!!! Please help. I don't know what's wrong!

When I export a transparent video from After Effects, the .mov Quicktime file isnt playable. Here's what I'm doing:In AE ...File > Export > Add to render queueFormat = QuicktimeChannels = RGB + AlphaVideo codec = Animation When I try to preview the .mov file, I get an error message that says "The file isn’t compatible with QuickTime Player." Any ideas?

 i have a new pc and when i try to run ae it opened but when i click new project it dos't work and give me this messsage my pc 5070 and core i5 14600 with 32gb ram 

Hello,I was using CC 2018 with no issues, everything was working fine. But for the new cool features i wanted to upgrade to CC 2020. But I couldn't even try it because I can't import any kind of file. Each time it says"Could not read from source. Please check the settings and try again. (86 :: 1)"And then "this .xx file is damaged or unsupported"These files work well with CC 2018 but CC 2020 doesn't accept them, tried different video formats, different codecs but it just keeps saying that. Solution provided here https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/ae-cc-error-86-1/td-p/9376397?page=1 didn't work also. What should I do? Is there something wrong with the installation of AE? Thanks in advance. 

Hi Everyone,I'm building a custom CEP panel for Adobe After Effects 2025 (v25.3) and facing an issue when executing .jsx scripts via csInterface.evalScript().On the first run after launching After Effects, when I click a button that triggers a script from the Scripts/ folder, I get the following error: Unable to execute script at line 5. Expected: ;Strangely, after dismissing the error popup, the script still runs correctly. And on all subsequent clicks (until AE is restarted), the script executes with no error.Why does this error only occur on the first execution after launching After Effects? 

i'm new to after effects and i want to render my composition. everything looks perfect when i preview in timeline but while rendering the clips i'm stuck with this error.please help

I am curently using a Mac, whenever I open After Effects(2024), the Menu Bar at the top disappears. The menu bar comes back when I click on other softwares or even the desktop, but quickly disappears when I go back to after effects, which is troublesome since I want to go to the Windows, Effects, and other tabs only available on the Menu Bar. Is there a way to fix this problem?