Ok, that's a data point, at least.  The first thing I'd check - are your video card drivers up to date?  Can you post your system specs & which specific version of Ae you're using? (Help > About After Effects) ... View more

Lots of variables at play here, since you're compositing a bunch of other gifs together. For the sake of argument, try creating a new, empty composition. Add some simple shapes or text and try to use this same exporting method. If that comes out clean, then the problem lies in the timeline you've constructed. If not, then it's a more general exporting issue, and we can investigate that.  ... View more

If it were me, I'd just bring that sketch into Ae and manually Scale/Position each comp to match. That should be more than close enough for reference/approval.  If it needs to be absolutely pixel perfect, then I guess it's time to get out the calculator.  ... View more

Each screen will be a separate file at delivery? I'd confirm this with your contacts - it's sometimes done where they actually take one large single file with each piece mapped to specific locations (which they should help you establish). If they're all separate, when I've had similar projects in the past, this is how I've approached it: - Create each screen comp with the necessary settings for that particular output.  - Make yourself a single "master viewing" comp that lays everything out in the correct positions (or close enough) - but this can all be 50% or even 25% of the actual size. Since this is for your own reference (and probably client review), I'd aim for making this one a size/format that can easily be exported without weird custom settings.  ... View more

Are you able to share some screenshots (the full UI, as detailed as possible), and/or the project file? It's a bit hard to troubleshoot this without more context.  ... View more

Silly/obvious question, but since I can't see your project - you definitely don't have anything in the comp itself that would be fighting with the transparency? A layer using Blending Modes, for example?  ... View more

I assume you're referring to the Quicktime - Animation codec? That's pretty outdated at this point.  If you look at the Output Module presets in Render Queue, "High Quality with Alpha" will use ProRes 4444. Have you tried this one?  ... View more

After Effects: Duplicating a composition in the Project Panel uses all of the existing pre-compositions nested within it, and does NOT create secondary copies. The ways around this: 1. Duplicate the main comp and all of the relevant pre-comps; manually swap them out. (No fun!) 2. Use True Comp Duplicator. 3. Save each instance as its own AE project. (Also no fun!) The BETTER way to approach this is to make use of Essential Properties. You can use these within After Effects to create template elements for Premiere ... but also to create instance-able elements directly within After Effects!  More info here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz8gqGsuVGU  This may help address some of the Premiere aspect of your question as well. Off-hand, I'm not aware of a way to create separate copies of nested sequences and auto-replace them, though there may be a similar tool to True Comp Duplicator available for Premiere?  ... View more

Keyframe the Birth Rate setting and change it from [your value] to 0 when you want it to stop producing particles. ... View more

In case someone else with a similar question stumbles across this later - I'd just approach this with a series of circles,  using offset positions and parenting. If you have a different approach, I'm sure we'd love to see it! Red is a bit smaller than blue. Red is parented to blue and has the Position adjusted so it matches up with one of Blue's edges. When Blue rotates, Red goes along for the ride.  Repeat this setup as many times as needed to get your desired look. You could certainly make this more complicated with expressions and complex math if it needs to be super-dynamic, though you could probably cheat this quite a bit using layer Scale and animating Stroke Width. ... View more

Approaching this with expressions is possible but complicated, though since you said you're newer to AE, I'm not certain that's what you're asking about. Here's another thread that may help if that's what you're after, though.  You could totally create something like this manually using Hold keyframes, and ideally creating a reference grid of some kind so your positions look intentional.  ... View more

Yep, unfortunately blending modes don't pass through Mogrts. Option 1: Find a way to matte the lens flare within After Effects (so there's only transparency behind it). Option 2: Separate the Mogrt - You could literally export it as two separate templates (one with the flare only, one with the other elements), so you'll be able to apply the correct blending mode directly in Premiere. You could also build everything into a single Mogrt and give yourself Opacity sliders/checkboxes to accomplish effectively the same thing. Yes, it adds some extra clicks in Premiere, but doesn't make the workflow *too* clunky if approached correctly. ... View more

I've got a couple of potential suggestions for you, depending on the specifics of your project: 1. Create a shape layer and take advantage of its more flexible Gradient Fill. You could use the shape layer itself if your object is simple, or use your original layer as a track matte for the shape layer if it's more complicated.  2. Use the Gradient Ramp effect, keeping it with the black & white, and arrange your gradient as desired. Apply the Tritone effect to get the middle color. You could add a Curves or Levels effect above Tritone if you want to customize the black-to-white gradient before it's recolored. If you need a more complex gradient here, you could do the same using CC Toner or Colorama.  3. This gets a little fiddly, but you can stack multiple instances of Gradient Ramp, using effect masks to restrict the visibility of one of the instances.    Let me know if you need further direction on any of the above! ... View more

I assume the reason that dropdowns don't solve this request is because you're wanting to be able to see all the options at once?  ... View more

Agree that being an option in the pop-up would make sense from a consistency perspective, and compared to most of the others, it's not like this menu is overfull already. Specifically, adding a Rename option to this menu is a solid feature request!  ... View more

While you don't have access to the full character/paragraph panels, you can indeed make several of these properties available if the Mogrt is properly prepared.    When creating the Mogrt in AE, clicking "Edit Properties" next to a Source Text added to the Essential Graphics Panel lets you enable any or all of these, which will be visible in the same way in Premiere: Many (but no, not all) of the remaining Character Panel options can be made available by using a Text Animator and feeding those controls to the EGP. ... View more

You can rename these! Just press Enter (which works for renaming anything else rename-able) and you'll be able to edit the name.  ... View more

All of this. I regret that I have only a single upvote to offer.  ... View more

Ok, so that means the issue likely isn't Media Encoder specifically.  Have you tried exporting in another format, such as ProRes? (You said you tried "everything," but didn't detail what that means, so eliminating simple things first is the easiest way to narrow things down.) Are you using any third-party effects in your composition(s)?  ... View more

Have you tried exporting this directly out of After Effects? We do have native H.264 in there again.  ... View more

There are some third-party plugins that could potentially make something like this easier (by generating multiple shapes instead of one at a time), but you can certainly do it with the native tools.   Using shape layers, you can draw custom paths with the pen tool, covering the full length you'd want each stroke to take. Create an open path with Stroke, but no Fill. I'd recommend having the ends of the path extend offscreen / behind other objects. The Stroke options now allow tapering, so with that and a rounded cap, you could get the exact shape of those strokes in your example. Adding a Trim Paths to this would let you restrict the visibility of each stroke to only a short segment, and the Offset property within Trim Paths allows you to easily animate that segment throughout the length of the path, making for easy looping. Make a bunch of copies, updating the paths and varying the Offset property to create variety. Add some glow and maybe a few other effects to style it properly, and you're there!  ... View more

Did you try opening the project file while that font was uninstalled?  If that works (and you can't just choose a different typeface), you might try looking for an online type format convertor - to change it from .ttf to .otf, for example, and see if that makes a difference.  ... View more

While this introduces an extra step, it's a solution: I would try exporting from After Effects directly (either as ProRes or mp4), and then run those through your gif creator of choice.  ... View more

While not a direct answer to your question, I did want to point out that you can convert an imported Photoshop text layer into native/editable After Effects text. You may consider simply designing one title in Photoshop, importing it into After Effects, and then creating your versions and variations in there. After importing your PSD (as layers, whether layer or document size), you can either right-click the layer or go to the Layer menu, and choose Create > Convert to Editable Text. The short answer is that if you make alterations to your PSD after importing to After Effects, AE will not see any new layers that didn't exist when it was originally imported. Any layers deleted or renamed will become missing footage in AE. I also wish the connection was smarter/more modern.  The ideal is to work out your design before importing, but that's obviously not always the way things work. One (imperfect) workaround: crreat a handful of empty dummy layers in PS before importing to AE. You won't be able to rename them, (and they won't be placed properly if you import at layer size and then alter those layer contents), but ... they'll at least be there.  Here's a video detailing a lot of this workflow, and several of the common "gotchas" you're prone to encounter.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuDs-WPyAR4 ... View more

I would vote on this several times if I could.  It seems like creating markers would actually be less work for Premiere than creating full-on captions, but there doesn't appear to be any native way to take advantage of this transcription data and turn it into markers. Alas!  Agree that you can kind of get there manually, but it requires manual focus-changing between panels, and is not a smooth process at all.  ... View more

Duplicating the text layer would also be an easy solution here.  ... View more

+1. These days, I'm keeping my matte layers visible as often as I want them hidden. ... View more

Oh man, the amount of workarounds this would eliminate would be very tasty indeed. ... View more