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 Just curious, how would you pros rotoscope something like this? The blacks in this stock footage is 100% black, no amount of color correcting can bring up any kind of contrast between the background and the subject. I'm honestly surprised how after effects even found some kind of edge to grab on to. But obviously, the mask is all over the place. Is my only option hand masking this? This is a super slow motion shot so I feel like im in for a long night...  

I tried to search so much about toCompVec, fromCompVec online.But, I found nothing usefull.So I am asking what does exaclty toCompVec and fromCompVec do????I know how toComp and fromComp, it takes a vector(point as mathmatical representaion) and just see What is the visual equivilant vector in the other vector space(trying to explain intuitively without linear algebra details).So what does toCompVec do exactly, in math language or after effects.Thank you!

I have been working in the same project file containing numerous compositions of varying sizes but minimal complexity for the past year without issue on my M4 MAX Macbook Pro until installing After Effects 25.3 last month which caused AE to freeze during every attempt to open or import it.  After trying all of the usual troubleshooting steps (reset preferences, start in safe mode, clear caches) I uninstalled After Effects and installed a previous version.  This worked and I was able to open the project file and continue work as usual.  After updating to macOS Sequoia 15.6 I tried installing After Effects 25.3.3 to see if the latest update might have remedied the issue but was met with the same spinning ball that never completes opening or importing the project.  I reverted to 25.2.2 but that version was no longer able to import or open the project.  I uninstalled all of the fonts in the Creative Cloud app just in case that might be the culprit but it did not ma

Hi everybody! I'm havin issues with a rather complex MoGrT involving a heap of expressions. There are randomly ocurring glitches in the resulting videos, where results of expression calculations seem to get lost. I consulted Copilot and they seem to think that there might be issues with my inconsistent use of .value. But even though using .value obviously makes a differencethrow typeof(transform.opacity) // -> function throw typeof(transform.opacity.value) // -> numberthe returned value of both these statements is the same:transform.opacity.value // -> 100 transform.opacity // -> 100 Copilot claims that "Both work, but .value ensures you're getting the actual value, not the expression object." So would I be right in understanding that omitting .value will trigger an re-evaluation of the expressions for transform.opacity, while using .value retrieves a (formerly stored) result of said expressions?

Hey there! I am working on a project, where I am doing an 3D phone advertisement in after effects. I have to track some text next to the phone. The text is on a white shaper layer and I animated the size of the shape layer (disabled constrain proportions), set the first value to 0 and then to 100 so it kinda swipes in. I duplicated this layer and put it on top of my text layer and set the track matte of the text layer to alpha, so that it also swipes in. But when I turn on 3D-Layer the text disappears and moves behind the shape background and when I move it in front of the shape layer it works but stays there forever and the track matte isn't working anymore...Is there any way to fix this?

My adobe After effects is giving out this message on startup and it closes. i used to use this it started happening now i cant find a fix please help.

After years of using After Effects, the recent update seemed to be corupted. I uninstalled After Effects but now it won't download. stops at 1%.  Is After Effects down for everyone or just me? It's Sunday and I've been trying to install After Effects since Friday.  I need to have this project done by Monday morning. I don't think I'm going to make my deadline. Is there anyone who can help asap?

However many times I click on the master motion blur icon, it does not turn blue. There is a simple moving from one point to another. Even if I click the layer motion blur, it appears grey. Either the state of the switch is with a grey background or not, but never blue. 

During the preview video Current Time Indicator (CTI) is not moving, but the thing that move is that Redline, does anyone know how to fix it? it is so annoying to see that Redline. 

I have a new desktop PC (Intel Core Ultra i7, 64GB RAM, 2TB M.2. drive and 16GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX5070Ti), and the latest version of After Effects. I am using content aware fill to remove people from some drone footage. The clip is about 22 seconds long. I created a mask consisting of 7 nodes. It tracks the nodes perfectly quickly, at 1-2 frames per second. However, when I click Generate Fill Layer, while the first few dozen or even hundred frames seem to be quick, it slows down to an absolute crawly, taking over a minute per frame. It's a 4K 60FPS clip, and AE is having to render 1308 frames, but it's already taken about 3 hours to do 900. I did a sample on a 1-second clip and it was done in under a minute!? I have 48% of my RAM free, and CPU is currently running at 10-15% load. Disc activity is also low. I have two GPUs - the integrated and NVIDIA. The integrated is down at only a few percent, and the NVIDIA fluctuates between 1% and 10%, with only 6.7GB of RAM used. I

My PC has a crash on work and after that After Effects don't open more my project, this never been happened with me.I try some solutions like scannow on CMD, drag my project into a new project, reinstalling the program. But nothing works.I have a modest PC: I3 10100RX580SSD Sandisk Nvme 500gb

Hi everyone,I’ve been working with After Effects on Windows for a while now, but I’m considering switching over to a Mac for my motion graphics projects. I’ve noticed that some people say AE tends to run smoother and crash less often on macOS, while others argue that Windows machines give you more flexibility with hardware and performance.For those of you who’ve worked on both platforms, what’s been your experience? Do you find After Effects to be more stable on Mac, or is it about the same as Windows once you factor in good hardware?I’d love to hear your thoughts on performance, render times, plugins compatibility, and overall workflow differences between Mac and PC.Thanks!

Hello, I currently use CC and AE in my work PC computer and have projects there that I have been working on. After months of not being able to use CC apps like AI, PS, and AE, I was now able to download those apps specifically AE on my Macbook Pro M4 that is my personal computer. The adobe account is my own, but when I went and opened AE, my projects that was in my AE in my work computer is not on this app... how can I transfer or sync?

Overlod not transfering objects I think since I updated Ae2025. I am working on MacStudio M1 Max. Any ideas? 

So today for some unknow reason I am getting "Adobe After Effects error code 19972" and nothing will export. I used After Effects yesterday no issue. Now every project is giving me this error. I uninstalled After Effects and reinstalled it. Does anyone know what to do to fix this error. Beyond Frustrated right now and need to get this project exported with the finishing touches. 

Can someone help me with an after effect project? ill pay. i can talk on any social media where the helper wants

  I'm working on a composition in After Effects and a png layer of a bird with effects gets cut off at full resolution in (see image it's to the left and shows up just as black triangle), but is fully visible and working effects in half resolution (see image ) . Could someone please me resolve this issue?  

Hey there, I feel like I've been living under a rock but finally got to look into why it is possible that some people can create animation presets that look like 'plugins' but work natively. So I discovered the beautiful but seemingly incredibly clunky world of pseudo effects and I want to create my own.   I've been looking for tutorials but while I can get them to work by altering the PresetEffects.xml in the install or by using a trial version of PseudoEffectMaker, I don't understand how to pack them into an ffx so they can be opened and used anywhere without other dependencies.   Does anyone know of a resource that explains the process fully in a way a non script savvy person can follow?   I also feel that the entire mechanism should be a complete native integrated feature in AE itself with friendly UI/UX directly in the software. It's a system much more powerful and useable than all these separate controls or Essential Graphics. But that's an entire discussion by its

I am unable to change layer order.The keyboard shortcuts work; clicking and dragging does not. AE 25.4Mac 15.6.1

Hi,   Can someone help me? Advanced 3D does not appear on my After Effects. I have an RX 6600. I have the impression that the software does not recognize my GPU.

Multi frame rendering now crashes consitently on my PC, tells me that my gpu runs out of ram.I have a RTX 5090.

Just this morning when I tried to double-click a comp in my timeline to open it (like I have a hundred times before) it doesn't open it. Instead it brings it into the window like it was footage.However, If I right-click and goto "Open Comp" it works fine, it just takes far longer. Any idea how to change it back?

How do I conform my 4:3 or 16:9 video to form a circle? I am not talking about cropping a circle in or out of my video. I am talking about changing the shape of my video so that the edges smoothe out to circular, the video distorts accordingly, and forms a cirlce in my sequence space. I have tried spherize, but it doesn't really do what I am looking to do.  I have a camera angle upshot from the middle of a football huddle.  I am trying to actually convert the video to a 360 degree video.  I figured out how to fake a 180 degree video, and I also figured out that I can take the video and put it in Action Director and it will automatically populate into a 360 degree space..BUT when it does os, it looks kind of like a stretched pringle chip with straight edges on the left and right and that has corners that pinch.  What I want is the video to drape down around me with the bottom edge being a 360 degree circle.  I can move the video to the top of my 360 degree space

Hi,   I have an after effects file I have been working on for a client. I just had the client on to run through final amends on a 5 minute film and I am getting the error message: AFTER EFFECTS WARNING: YUR PROJECT FILE IS APPARANTLY DAMAGED (SKIPPED SECTIONS: 😎 PLEASE SAVE USING A DIFFERENT NAME. ( 26 :: 0 )   I have looked all over google for a solution but can't find one. I have no backups to fall back on as I had been working on it from home. I tested the file yesterday at work and it worked fine so I then deleted the back up from my hard drive which obviously I now regret.   If anyone had any ideas of how I can recover a weeks worth of work I will be forever grateful.   Many thanks,   Paul.   PS if more information is required please ask.   [Moderator: Moved to the After Effects forum]    

 Hello,  I managed to google and use AI to write this script - it crops the selected layer to the layer above. Works well! But I'd also like it to move the last two keyframes on the position property to the layers new outpoint. I'm not sure if scripts are able to move keyframes like that? I haven't been able to find anything that works when adding it to this script. var selectedLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0]; var layerAbove = selectedLayer.index - 1; var layerAboveDuration = app.project.activeItem.layer(layerAbove).outPoint; selectedLayer.outPoint = layerAboveDuration; Any suggestions would be amazing. Thank you