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is there any way to have a second alpha track matte for another layer?One way would be a pre comp, but is there any way without a pre comp?

created a map graphic in illustrator and want to convert vector to shape in after effects to extrude using cinema 4d but coming up with this error - After Effects error: TDL: outline contains triangles that are too small to be rendered. Check for very thin triangles in original artwork. (88::3)Have tried simplifying the illustrator file (deleting unneeded points, simplifying number of points) and purging memory and disk cache but no luck 😞 any thoughts? Thanks

Bonjour,Après de multiples essais dans Ae 2025 : Import texte vectoriel depuis Ai (manuel ou via overlord) dans une compo en HD 1920x1080 - 29.97 i/sParamètre "intégral" activé dans AeRasterisation activé "soleil" dans AeLa forme (texte) reste pixellisée !? (J'ai testé aussi avec un calque texte)Quelqu'un connaît le problème svp ?

I have custom render settings and output modules, but Creative Cloud does not transfer them to updated AE versions. What can I do?

I have the new MacBook Pro M4, I had a Macbook Pro 2021 (intel) where I downloaded and installed CC. Now, I am trying to download AE and nothing happens, (when I transitioned to this new laptop all the apps including AI tranferred and downloaded with no problems using the Migration Assistant). I checked the compability specs and its says Mac Sonoma and others and I have Mac Sequioa, which doesnt seem to be listed), could that be the issue of why I can't update or download new/existing Adobe Apps? Note: I usually use CC and all Adobe Apps on desktop PC at work, I want to use on Macbook Pro for convience and pratice at home, and I am the owner of the account as well.

Hello! I'm new to after effects but I'm having a hard time following tutorials and how to use the software, does anyone have a tutorial on how to learn it easier? I'm a visual learner btw !

Bonjour, Sur la dernière version d'After Affects 25.3.2 sous windows, lorsque j'applique n'importe lequel des effets "tremblement" (position, rotation,taille...) rien ne se passe.j'ai tenté d'appliquer les effets sur tout type de calques mais aucun résultat.  Auriez-vous une explication ?

my project use deep glow and some color key effect, i edited on quarter resolution but whenever i change to full its getting flicker? anyone know how to deal with?

Hi, Is it possible in After Effects to change color of the text then goes back to its original color after the word was mentioned by the audio script? It's like a karaoke style but instead of staying to one color following the script. It should go back. Sample is this https://www.instagram.com/p/DNgCTVcxwaa/?hl=en , from "It took me...." text effect around 8 seconds. 

In After Effects when I click on the extension to try to open it, the extension does nothing does anyone know how to fix this. And i'm on version 18.2.1 if anyone asks.

Intel i9 13900ksRTX 409096GB of DDR5 6000Mhz RAMSamsung 990 Pro After Effects it constantly crashes.  tried reinstalling After Effects, installing older version, clearing cache and all other settings. I've reinstalled video drivers and older video drivers,  

Everything was going okay, I made the best edit of my life and then when I opened the project later the program freezes and stops responding for a while and then, I get this stupid error and can't find a way to fix it. I'm really close to finishing this edit and want to get this project done but this error's stopping me. PLEASE HELP ME FIX THIS, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!😭😭😭If this error cannot be fixed let me know if there's a way to get rid of the S_TimeSlice's used in this project so I can continue the proejct without this effect, thank youuu!!!

Hello, I have installed after effect 2019, made some video and began rendering in quicktime (there is no H264) after rendering the video there is only black sreen and music sound, no image or video.what is wrong does anyone know?thanks

Hey guys,since my last update to AE 25.1.0 the possibility of exporting WebM-Files via MediaEncoder (v 25.1) has dissapeared. My collegues still have it. There used to be a downloadable plugin which some (not all) of my collegues needed to install in the past. This plugin is not available via AdobeCloud any more.I do not understand the whole codec-chapter in detail (e.g. why are some codecs available for local rendering why some others are for ME) - simply pushing the button was - and still is - fine for me so far.Can anyone help? Thank you in advance and have a great day!

I've been using camera projection in After Effects for years--only when I tried to implement it using the process I've always used with AFX 2025, it no longer seems to work?  And when I do a search (pretty much everywhere--YouTube/Adobe Community/Google), the only references I can find are referring to the earlier method I've always used with earlier versions--or there are reference to a 3rd party plugin to accomplish this.  Is anyone else encountering this?

For the past month or so every time I go to clear my disk cache AE is claiming that it's empty.  "Are you sure you want to delete all files (0kb) from your disk cache" I have tried reformatting my cache drive, i've deselected and reselected the drive in the Media & Disk Cache settings. I just dont get what's going on and if it's affecting my performance. AE 22.2.1 (Build 3)Macbook Pro M1 Max running Monteray 12.2.1 Screenshots:   

Every time I open AE, passing a while, CTI AND PTI just stop moving, so the preview keeps playing, but only PTI and CTI don't move, I reset AE, my computer, preferences , but nothing is working permanently. Can anyone help?

Hi gang; I am coding a relatively simple plugin with basic particle effects. At the moment, I have sliders that can rotate my around my particles but I would like to use the After Effects 3D camera since that's what it's for. I have gone through the Resizer project and I have successfully pulled the camera and light info. I also carefully read through this thread as well: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/glator-for-dummies-and-from-dummy/m-p/6930311 I see that using the camera matrix, I can pull the camera X, Y and Z coordinates using: matrix.mat[3][0]; matrix.mat[3][1]; matrix.mat[3][2]; I can't find anywhere in the documentation how to pull the remaninig info, like orientation. If I follow the GLater example, it suggests orientation would be: matrix.mat[0][1]; matrix.mat[1][1]; matrix.mat[2][1]; But that returns floating point data. Additionally, taking a look at the camera target, the GLater examples show: matrix.m

What are these After Effects background processes,, which in addition to After Effects use so much memory (more than After Effects itself)?  

Where my family can to sign a statement form stating that digitally signing documents and using Acrobat tools is destroying the workflow of other programs and art software that should be used for animation software and video post-processing because the common space use of digital tools like Acrobat and PDF to diffrent tasks has destroyed our computers and prevented us from working remotely?Where my family can to sign a statement form stating that digitally signing documents and using Acrobat tools is destroying the workflow of other programs and art software that should be used for animation software and video post-processing because the common space use of digital tools like Acrobat and PDF to diffrent tasks has destroyed our computers and prevented us from working remotely? After using Acrobat tools to collect files for tax returns, documents, government documents and other documents, our computers crashed, started flickering, windows rebooted multiple times, After Effects didn'

Hello,I’m new to After Effects plug-in development. I want to make a checkbox control disable (gray out) the color picker next to it. How can I implement this? #include "Skeleton.h" //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------static PF_Err About(PF_InData* in_data, PF_OutData* out_data, PF_ParamDef* params[], PF_LayerDef* output) { // About关于窗口AEGP_SuiteHandler suites(in_data->pica_basicP); suites.ANSICallbacksSuite1()->sprintf(out_data->return_msg,"%s v%d.%d\r%s","插件名字",MAJOR_VERSION,MINOR_VERSION,"about信息\rAn empty (skeletal, if you will) effect sample,\r for your modifying pleasure.\rCopyright 2007-2023 Adobe Inc.");return PF_Err_NONE;}//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------static PF_Err GlobalSetup(PF_InData* in_data, PF_OutData* out_data, PF_ParamDef* params[], PF_LayerDef* output) { //初始化插件out_data->my_version = PF_VERSION(MAJOR_VERSION,MIN

When you run After Effects, OS_ViewContainer appears together. What is OS_ViewContainer?

I tried to make a transition like in the video-link below. But in my project, the motion blur doesn't work like in the video. You can see that "Making of" is a little bit blured but too less for me but i don't know, whats wrong in my project. I tried to move the adjustment layer directly above the video, but it's the same problem. Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK40YANr1aw&ab_channel=SmertimbaGraphics After Effects 25.4.0Windows 11 I apprecciate any help

HiI'm just starting to play with the AE SDK after a good few years away from it. I was looking for the old AE SDK forum, but it seems to have gone - very sad, so much useful reference material gone from there. Anyway, I have been playing with particle and fluid flow simulations and thought it might be interesting to have a play with them in an after effects plugin.The Stardust and Trapcode particular both seemable to create 3d clouds of particles that the camera can move around and through. I wondered what part of the SDK makes that work? Unfortunately the move to online docmentation for the SDK makes it really hard to search and I'm having no luck. Any comments on 3d and the SDK to put me on the right track would be welcome. thaksPhil

Hello, i would like to do the same glitch effect that there is on the battlefield 6 logo.My try is that i added a displacement map of the glitch layer (with fractal noise) on my Text layer, as you can see in the attachement, the original logo (bottom) has not the glitch effected everywhere, only on some part on each letter, somes seems almost not affected by the glitch (letter E or F). Also glitch affect only the left side of letters (letter T).On my test, displacement map affect font everywhere, how to add effect only on some part of the typo like in original logo ?