Questions

I pay an Adobe subscription and have only been able to use my after effects ONCE, I'm so upset. Whenever I open my ae and create a composition there is a black screen and I can't see anything, even if I import footage, NOTHING WORKS, I've uninstalled and installed, older and newer versions, my computer is brand new and great specs (HP Omen 17) and I used to use ae everyday on my old computer with way worse specs and this never happened. I've followed more than 5 youtube videos on different things to do and absolutely nothing has worked please help. 

  

Whenever I playback a composition in AE with the spacebar, it plays for about 4 seconds and then begins looping the section it rendered. It's totally impossible to watch an entire composition without constantly restarting the playback, and none of the playback settings inside AE seem to change anything.

iam completely new to Adobe. i want to learn AfterEffect. please suggest me how to start and which is the best tutorial

I have 8 gigs of RAM (which I know is not enough for the application) but I'm performing a very basic task with some animation, and while After Effects is using only 3-5% of my RAM. I have allocated 6GB for use in the Memory settings and it's not utilising it which is making me end up with very slow rendering speeds. Also, for a few seconds when I started my render, it showed that it was using 25-35% of my RAM and it was evident with the speeds but then it dipped down to 3-5% again in like 5-6 seconds.

Mac M2 MaxMemory 96GBVentura 13.5.1After Effects v 23.6.0Premiere Pro v23.6.0I am working a project which is adding some title/graphics cards and lower thirds to a Premiere Pro project via dynamic link. I am also working with someone else using a windows machine, swapping a removable hard drive back and forth, but we are both on the latest version of all Adobe programs. If I open the .aep from Premiere (Edit Original) to make an edit, and hit save, the entire After Effects project file disappears. It does not go to the trash, it is not in the folder where the file was created, it seems to be completely gone. My workaround for the moment when this happens is to do a "Save As" and put the file back where it belongs, but there is high risk I will slip up and wipe out a project completely by absentmindedly hitting save and forgetting to put it back in it's path. 

Hello, I would like to create animated explainer videos, does anyone know if the following video was created with After Effects or if an external tool was used?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_K6C0-SW3s Otherwise, I think it is possible to import and animate vector-based characters in After Effects, as you can see in this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFXVtffqvBY Questions about this: Can you make the above videos with After Effects alone, or is Premiere also necessary?Do you animate the same character over and over again, or do you create duplicates of the character for different movements? Thank you very much!

playback is lagging since the new update my system has been lagging System info    Application: After Effects v25.1.0.68    OS: Windows v10.0.22631, RAM: 31.68 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 8

Hello, I was using Roto brush got everything that I wanted and froze it however, when I played it back, my subjects body goes transparent for a frame so I jump back into after effects to try to roto brush this one frame I don't really know how to properly unfreeze? or to tell if it's unfrozen? And secondly, now my Roto brush layer everything is blacked out except what I already wrote a brush. How do I turn off that?

After Effects crashes on my Mac (M1 Max, 64GB RAM /  32 Core) whenever I import a video or perform similar actions—spinning wheel of death every time. It works fine on Windows 11, but I’d really prefer to finish the project on macOS. Any ideas on a fix? I could really use the help.

Hello, I am trying to use CC Libaries in After Effects and am running into a resolution issue. Multiple Photoshop files in my libary import into after effects at very low resolutions. However the source for this libary is high resolution. When I important this same file into photoshop instead of after effects, it is also high resolution. The low resolution issue is only coming from After Effects. An Example:  Any help is appricated! Thank you!

Hi everyone! 👋I’m new to Adobe After Effects and am eager to take my video editing to the next level. I’ve been inspired by creators like "The Conversion Doc" on TikTok, and I’m trying to learn how to create similar high-impact, engaging content with dynamic text, effects, and fast-paced edits.I’m hoping you can point me in the right direction with:Key After Effects techniques for TikTok-style videos (especially for text animation and transitions)Tutorials or resources that could help me master fast edits, cinematic transitions, and eye-catching visuals.Must-have plugins that can boost my workflow for this type of content.Any advice, tips, or resources would be greatly appreciated. Excited to learn and grow as an editor here!Thanks in advance! 🙏

Hi! I'm new to the AE community and new to learning the program. I know some very basic things, and I’d like to learn more about the most useful terms to understand more complex compositions or to create my own, especially for 2D animation.For example, I want to give an effect a limited time, and then make it come back later in the same layer. Or I want a loop to also have a time or frame limit. I’m not sure if I’m explaining this well, English is not my first language 😞I know basic things like how to make a loop and add effects, simple things like -loopOut("cycle")-, which applies for the whole time of the animation.So I tried looking for a glossary in After Effects, but after reading to understand some terms, I felt like I wasn’t getting anywhere. I’d like to understand the order in which expressions should be written, and what the difference is between setting a time limit and a frame limit in a composition.I’d really appreciate any help, especially if someone has a glossary

Hello AE community, I've been working on AE since more than 10 years now and have never encountered an issue like this. There was an issue on one of my projects regarding keylight a couple of months back and I had to do with another keying effect on it. However, post that Keylight seems to be missing from my effects altogether. I've tried everything from re-installing to moving the plugin folder in the Applications but nothing seems to work. Have attached a couple of screengrabs for reference. Has anyone else encountered such an issue? What's the fix for it? I'm running on an Intel MacOS and the latest version of AE if that helps. Highly appreciate any help. Thanks a ton in advance!

Hola a todos:Tengo una precomposición formada por un texto y una capa de formas, colocada en una composición 3D. Activo la opción 3D en mi precomposición, pero al activar la opción "rasterizar continuamente" la precomposición no se visualiza.

I tried pasting unicode Indian Language fonts in After effects CC 2020, and also copying and pasting from text programs, but they are all displayed wrong.According to previous solution for this problem, these are the steps suggested - 1. Go to Preferences>Type2. Select ‘South Asian and Middle Eastern’ in ‘Text Engine’3. Select ‘Indic’ in ‘Languages Selection’But in CC 2020 Version, there is no ‘Languages Selection’ option in Preferences>Type.So I can't change the formatting of my Indian language fonts to 'Indic' - which is required for correct displaying of Indian Unicode fonts. Please help me.This option was available in previous versions of After effects as specified in the article link below - https://blogs.adobe.com/creativedialogue/video/create-text-layers-in-indian-languages/

Hi! I have a lower third and need to export it as a .mogrt to use in Premiere Pro. The responsive time/protected regions works perfect in After Effects, but when I export it as a mogrt and import it to Premiere, it does'nt work.. it's like it doesn't maintain the protected regions.Has anyone the same issue and know how to fix it?

why does the blend mode option go away when you make a layer 3d? is that on purpose? or a glitch? I Dont remember having this issue in After Effects 2023. i'm running AE 24.6.1 (Build 2)

cuando abro este proyecto de after se queda congelado en abriendo proyecto por mas que espere nunca carga no se como mas solucionarlo, como dato extra pasa cuando importo un proyecto de premiere a after, alguna solucion?

Hi, So I'm trying to make an edit on Alvin and the Chipmunks and I'm using the tracking feature but motion tile effect isn't working. Like it'll mirror the clip, but the mirrored clip will be too far away for it to look good instead of having these black bars in my video. I don't want to scale my video up so much to fix the issue because then the edit will look bad.I'm using Ae 2025, I'm on pcGPU: Mercury GPU Acceleration (OpenCL)CPU: 100% CPU for AeRAM: Total is 8 GB, 1.5 GB for other applications, 6 GB for Ae, Multi-Frame Rendering is onOS: IDK how to check

Hi, I'm trying to make an edit and I put on tracking but for some reason when I try to cache it, it just uncaches and goes in a loop. Are there any fixes for this? 

Hello, I am very new to AE, so please excuse my lack of background. I do have some familiarity with Premier Pro.I would like to draw a line that traces the movement of an object in a still frame, much like in this video:https://youtu.be/GSRYaz1gJWs?t=3m47sI have some overhead drone footage of me holding a marker and walking in a spiral. I would like to animate a line that follows the marker, ending up with a drawing of my movement. I have got as far as motion tracking the marker. I'd like to do something like converting those keyframes into a shape path that I can then animate. I'd like to avoid having to trace the path manually if possible, as I've got a few of these to do. Any help would be much appreciated. TIA

Hello, I have been having trouble with AE 25 ever since it came out where the video playback is incredibly laggy, even with the simplest animation. (Video attached.) I've tried clearing my cache and about every other setting trick. I have never had this issue with any other version of AE (2024 or before). I've been using AE24 in the meantime but would really like to update to AE25 to better integrate my workflow. But this bug remains a problem and makes the program unusable.System info    Application: After Effects v25.2.2.2    OS: macOS v14.0.0, RAM: 64.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 12

Hi,I am having trouble with the extensions panel in AE - It doesn't expand when hovered over, and therefore I can't use my installed plugins. All other menu panels work as normal. I am using a MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro Chip, MacOS 12.6, and v22.6 of AE. So far I have tried:Restarting After Effects and my MacReinstalling AEDowngrading AE to previous versionsRemoving the plugins and reinstalling them As you can imagine this is rather annoying. Any suggestions would be massively welcome. 

Iv created a .mov quick time rgb alpha file in after effects that is supposed to have a transparent background in webflow however when I loads the file in Background Video the background displayed is black with the red square in the center. Is it possible to make a transparent background in webflow using quicktime .mov file in Background Video.