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the sapphire plugin doesn't work cause whenever I use s_shake after effects crashes and it exits out ae please help     

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Hi AE wizards!I am trying to create a simple lowerthird .morgrt with the top text layer and bottom text layer in one text box. So when people use the template to change the text, the text box will resize accoring the whichever text line is longer. Text is left aligned and the height of the box is fixed so only the width needs to adjust to the right. Font size is also not adjustable.     I am familiar with the below expressions for a single text layer. I am wondering if it is possible to manipulate this to adjust to two layers instead? Shape layer expressions:Size property:s = thisComp.layer("Firstname Last Name");w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width;h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height;[w,h] Position property:s=thisComp.layer("Firstname Last Name")w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width/2;h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height/2;l=s.sourceRectAtTime().left;t=s.sourceRectAtTime().top;[w+l,h+t] Here is what I have experimented with two layers but I keep getting an error in the expre

Hi, I am in great danger, I need some guidance from seniors.  😥 I have two separate comps. I have animated a particular layers 'position' in one comp. and I want to copy paste those keyframes and want exactly same movement in another comp's another particular layer. But when I copy paste that things get messy. Please tell me how can I solve this.  😥 😥

Hello. I've just installed After Effects on a new work computer, and I'm having issues getting the Preview window to play or show anything (see images below - the second one is where I have taken it off full screen then made it full screen again). The preview doen't show when not playing, and doesn't play at all. If I have music and play, I can hear the music play but the timeline won't keep moving along. I've tried all the usual stuff (purge cache, uninstall/reinstall, change system setting to be adjust for best appearance, etc.) but nothing has worked.The audio only has one driver (MME) and doesn't give me the ASIO or any other option. I can export and render without any issues, and when the cursor is over the preview area, the preview tab tells me the info about what is there (where the cursor is). Also, After Effects always freezes on exit, and I have to force quit it (I presume this is related some how?).  Thanks  

Inspo Vid:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_myHyrVpIkwProblem vid:https://drive.google.com/file/d/19-digTkzO9m8rIxL40qsvXRQggFCx4M2/view?usp=drive_linkNeed help with points follow nulls.What I've done so far:1.) Create a shape and turn the path into bezier points.2.) Selected the new path and toggled points follow nulls.Instead of the nulls appearing in its own layers, they appear in the effects tab instead. Managed to do it correctly before with the nulls showing up, but I don't really understand how it might be appearing in the effects tab instead.  Any help would be appreciated, thanks! 

When exporting a video in After Effects 2025, is there a way to reduce the file size without changing the canvas size? I tried lowering the bitrate, but it still says the file size will change when I export it. Why is this?

I'm new to AE.  I want to create a moving mask which follows a shape (a human body) so that I can mask out the background and replace it. How?

Hi, I want to loop the start and end of trim path but randomly for each line.. like line 1 start it's loop at 2 second, line 3 at 4 second. and none of them will overlap with one another's animation timing, I mean suddenly line 2 start its loop and line 3 and line 1 are not looping, again when line 1 looping line 2 and 3 not animating. . they will happen solo at their own time. And I want this to continue for as long as the main comp goining on, say 20 second, each line will be in a loop but different timing... . How can I write the expression? Thank you. 

I'm working on a plugin that deals with Alembic 3D files. I can parse the geometry in the .abc and load it. What I really want is for that data to populate a dropdown menu in the plugin. But I can't seem to make the dropdown menu dynamic. So, when I select my .abc layer in After Effects comp, I can't get it to populate the dropdown with info from that file. This reminds me of how "Visible Layers" in the Mocha plugin works. It dynamicly loads info from Mocha, but it's in a popup menu. What is that technique called?

So any clip i use position keyframes that are easy eased or seperated keyframes aswell, or anything like that it shows a very glitched graph like this, I reinstalled after effects, tried to do a new project etc but i dont know how to fix it, and it was normal before.

So I have a stroke animation animating with vegas with a 3D camera in the comp. Problem is as my camera starts to move, my strokes start to flicker/jitter. I am using Continous Rasterization on my layer and this is the result. Although If I turn OFF the Continous Rasterization the problem goes away but I lose my quality and thats not what I want. I want to animate my layers with vegas only and without losing quality. Any potential fix for this or any other workaround?Comp settings:-1920 x 1080-24 fps-32 bpc   

Hello!I work with the latest version of AE (18.0.1.) and now am trying to paint some  simple dots on a solid (after double clicking on it), but the size of the brush won't change when I open the brush window. On the screenshot you can see the window, it seems to be dead, doesn't react on clicking on it. Does anybody know the problem and has a solution? Probably it is something completely obvious, but I jaust cannot see it 🙂Thanks and cheers!

please help me thoroughly , how to make this type of reel 

In the video, i've used the typewriter preset on the "running". However, i cant use it on the "down" because it starts typing from the d (i want the ball to reveal it as it bounces). Ive tried reversing keyframes using the assistant but that just looks like the text is slowly being deleted. How can i make it so the "down" is revealed backwards?

Hi everyone, I've run into the same problem with the Ae Roto Brush a few times now and it's more or less making it impossible to use the tool at all; Whenever I finish rotobrushing a video clip and go back to the composition window, when I change anything in the composition that somehow triggers the Roto Brush to completely restart the propagating process, which can be very time consuming. Those changes don't even need to be something related to the rotobrush, even stuff like adding a text layer or just looking at a different part of the compisition can trigger this to happen.  Has anyone had this same problem? 

I now open the project and it crashes after a while. Sometimes it crashes directly. My driver is the latest version, and AE is also the latest version. I don’t know what the problem is, so I can only come here for help.

I want to create a sphere with TC Form, with an exact number of 36 customized particules (each particules representing a Football Club Logo). I managed to put all my logos in a comp, setting this comp as a texture in TC Form with with Time Sampling set on Split Clip - Loop, and the number of clips set on 36. But there is always duplicates in my sphere and some logos missing, never the exact 36 logos. Any idea how to fix this ? Thanks !

Hey guys, I've been using bodymoving for a while now. Usually for .json files.Today I needed to export an animation as a rive project then tadaaa.Bodymovin is asking me if I have enabled "Preferences > Scripting & Expressions > Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network? Well duh, I've been using you since I don't remember when?And yes it's checked and enabled and whatevered.I am using AE 23.5.0 anybody have this issue?Thanks in advancedB.

Hi team,we are facing this issue while trying to process video fileswarning: Audio conforming failed for the following file: "xxxx" Do we have this fixed this in any new versions/ What is root cause for this

Please fix the confusing migration confirmation dialogue box (popup), which is is needlessly unclear and needs revision. The migration confirmation dialogue asks a yes-or-no type question and provides a very clear negative option for a response. However, it provides two options for a positive response (I think), but which are bewildering. Each button just shows the application name and a version identifier: After Effects (25.3) and After Effects (25.2), Illustrator (29.7.2) and Illustrator (29.7.1), etc. Is this the new version and the version I was using last? Is this two versions where settings were detected? What version am I using when I see this? (Hmmm. I don't know. I can't check without answering first.) What happens when I select either version? 

Last 4-5 days, I can't open my AF. It is always showing (Crash repair options). But after that I cann't click any option. What should I do? Is there any solution?

Quiero descargar la version mas antigua que pueda proporcionar adobe. 

I was given .mov files and they imported washed out in after effects. I used an adjustment layer to fix the colors and it looked good, but when I was ready to export, the colors were messed up again. I've tried following things from gpt, like trying to interepret the footage, change the color profile settings, all sorts of stuff but nothing is working. It's tough to find anything about this online and I need to get this fixed.  Im running the latest version of AE. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've stumbled upon these really useful functions, but they only seem to work for me in expressions, and when I try to use them in my script, I get the function undefined message. It would be really weird if they didn't implement this feature for scripts..Am I missing something?