After Effects

I have been editing this comp for a couple of days and when I went to edit opacity the scale from 0-100 was gone and so was the “Add: ▶” to add an effect. I am super confused and don’t recall doing anything to remove this, see pics (this was an existing comp that I no longer know how to adjust in terms of the amount. However, after hours I realized that I could use the Properties tab on the left side panel, but it is just inconvenient and hope to have it back. Anyone know how? I have to have this project done soon so any tips are appreciated! 

I want to create the cracked screen effect shown below. I like the way it looks in the screenshot, but the Shatter effect I’m using keeps evolving past it, despite my efforts to control it through keyframing. I only want it to happen at the end of the video. Suggestions? Thanks.   

Hello all,This is a very trivial problem, but… how can I adjust the opacity of a 3D (native cube) mesh?I am using the advanced render engine, and the opacity control does nothing: either is fully opaque or is fully transparent.Thanks

Hi,I ABSOLUTELY need to reopen a project created under AFX 24.1 (because of CINEWARE), but this version is not accessible via Adobe Creative Cloud.How can I retrieve it, please?This is very important and quite urgent… :(Thank you in advance if you can help me!

 AE crashes during render after a few minutes. My comp is Intel TM i9-14900 3.2GHz, 96 GB RAM, £TB of storage available, 64-bit op system and processor

Hi,I’m a professional After Effects user trying to spend less time managing the app and more time animating.One recurring issue is updates. I just updated AE and lost my workspace again. This keeps happening and breaks my flow.More broadly, AE is highly customizable, but everything is scattered across the system. Workspaces, presets, plugins, scripts, shortcuts, UI panels… all live in different folders. Each new version also feels like a partial reset and double the file, and I’m never fully confident that everything will carry over correctly.This becomes a real problem when working on two machines. Keeping everything in sync is time-consuming and frustrating. I’ve heard about using Dropbox, but it seems unreliable depending on what’s being synced.And it’s not just about major updates. During active contracts, I often make small tweaks to my setup on the fly. In that context, digging through deep folders just to recover a small change becomes slow and and breack the flow, especially un

Hi all, Since the latest version of After Effects, I’ve been experiencing an issue when working with layers.When I select a layer in the timeline panel and then try to move it manually in the Composition panel, it doesn’t move the correct layer. Instead, After Effects seems to switch the selection in the timeline to a completely different layer—almost as if an “auto-select” option is enabled.I have already searched extensively online and checked all possible settings, but I cannot find any auto-selection option that could be causing this.When I open older projects that were saved in a previous version of After Effects, this issue does not occur.Has anyone experienced this before, or does anyone know how to fix it?

Here’s the error message after attempting to access the KSV. This error occurs when accessing the KSV via shortcut or Menu. Unfortunately, I don’t have crash reports to share.  

Can anyone help me how to fixed this. While importing Illustrator file in After Effects all my graphic layers has a white shape or block aroung the graphic. The following image shows the original file and the second image shows the screenshot after importing into After Effects.Img 1Img 2The Img1 is the final image and the Img 2 is the screenshot after importing in After Effect.

I have a simple animation that consists of an image rotating. After it rotates several times I would like it to move. Should I be placing a Position Stopwatch/keyframe at the very beginning of the timeline along with where the rotation starts, or do I just place the starting Position stopwatch/keyframe wherever I want the movement to start?Thanks

Imported my illustrator file in AE and all the vectors have this white block behind them. I did not convert them into shapes in AE neither did I use clipping masks in AI. Previous projects did not have this issue After Effects Version 25.5.0 (Build 4)My Hardware:RTX 4060, 32gig RAM

I have been this issue for long enough but havent found a way to fix this yet !Im using AE 25,My GPU is an AMD rx 9060 xtAll my drivers are updatedI tried to reinstall both Red giant and AEI only have 1 monitorIf anyone could help me it will be very appreciated !! 🙏🏼

Current Spec: 64GB DDR4, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, set my disk cache at 115GB on 3400MB/s read speed, about 5000MB/s write speed, set ram reserved for other app to 6GB, paid application, enable multiframe renderingSomething likes this took me like 1 min to play back, its literally just basic 3d rotation and positioning keyframe, no crazy plugin or effectTried switching the codec for the video on another comp but it doesnt help muchI can add some other settings/info if needed

I have the TranSMaxX Nostalgic Polaroid Photo Slideshow with Cinematic Flares template from Videohive. There is lorem ipsum background text that I cannot find or delete. Has anyone used this template and knows where that layer is hidden?"  I’m a long time AE user and I’ve never had such a hard time finding a layer!  Thanks! 

when I try to launch After Effects I get an error saying it can't continue due the the Common Extensibility Platform not loading. Ive looked up and tried all possible solutions and still hasn't worked. Everything from reinstalling to granting Read/Write permissions and still does not launch.

 In this tutorial, I’m breaking down how to recreate the classic vortex with any shape or logo with two different methods:*Method 1 - Maxon C4D Lite (Included with AE) I show how to take an image and convert it to a spline using the Vectorizer tool, then extrude this into a tunnel before applying a texture. Method 2: VideoCopilot Element 3D If you have a copy of this fantastic 3D plugin, you can use After Effects' own auto-trace to get your shape then extrude it and add textures in Element.  I think it’s highly likely that shortly we’ll be able to substance textures of extruded shapes directly in After Effects.  You can already do this using the cube and cylinder shapes.  I expect I’ll publish an updated version should that feature get released.  

 My Ae can only open up to here. Then this pops up every time I open it again. While this is what happened with Pr.