Are you sure you're using centered paragraph alignment here - not left aligned? Those 3 examples look left aligned to me... ... View more

If you're producing any more than a handful a year you might want to look at: https://aescripts.com/gifgun/ Generally considered to be the tool for producing animated gifs directly from AE. ... View more

Delete and re-import your Photoshop file. When you are in the import dialog look to the bottom of the window and yu will find an "import as" menu. Select: "Composition - retain layer sizes". This will import your Photoshop layers - and a pre-built composition containing them. Double click the composition in the Project panel to open it. Each layer will contain the matching effect and settings from your Photoshop file. ... View more

A frame exists - is shown - over a period of time. The playhead simply sits at the start of that frame, not the end. Hence the space to the right - the time period of the frame itself. ... View more

1. Select all the 'green' text layers and green background. Layer > Precompose. 2. With that precomp layer selected, double click the rectangle tool icon in the toolbox. This will make a mask that fits your layer - and is therefore centred on the comp. 3. Hit Ctrl (Cmd) T. This will activate a free transform box for your mask. 4. Ctl (Cmd) drag the top handle to reduce the height of the mask to encompass your 'CRAZY GOOD' text, while keeping it central. 5. Twirl down Masks > Mask 1 and set a keyframe for Mask path for this mask at the appropriate time. 6. Drag playhead to start position. Hit Ctrl (Cmd) T. Ctrl (Cmd) drag a side handle to reduce the width of the mask to nothing. 7. Drag playhead to end position. Hit Ctrl (Cmd) T. Ctrl (Cmd) drag the top handle to increase the height of the mask to encompass the other text above and below.   ... View more

Precompose your shape layer and use the 'move all attributes' option. Then select that precomp in the set matte effect. ... View more

Please start a new thread for this question. ... View more

If I'm understanding this correctly... Don't you just need to animate the type along a path - from right to left, and then add a mask over the part of the text flow you want to reveal? No need for the full text animation system at all. ... View more

If you're using : Layer > Transform > Fit to...  I don't believe it was ever intended to work with shape layers - which is what you are using. Shape layers have a complex multi-group structure with various layers of transform. If you are new to Shape layers I'd suggest you go into preferences and on the general page set 'centre anchor point in new shape layers'. You can subsequently centre your shape in the Comp. Having done that twrirl down the content group of the shape and when you get down to the rectangle path set it's size as you require - to the size of the comp.   Other option: Set the rectangle to the right size and then use the align panel.       ... View more

Flowing particles along a path isn't super easy in Ae - with default plugins at least - but there is a default effect that can do it - the 'Foam' plugin. It's a pretty complex effect, but the key element for this requirement is that it supports a 'flow map' - a grayscale image that can direct the flow of the generated foam. You can also customise the foam however you wish by creating a custom sprite.   And a few further options:   Try the old 'particle playground' effect using the 'wall' option - this requires you to draw a closed shape mask - ie the area of particle flow.   Another approach would just be to create a simple straight directional particle flow using particle world - precomp that and then use mesh warp or liquify or something else to distort the flow path into the shape you require.   ... View more

When you tried to reset the preferences: did you see this dialogue and hit OK?  - or did you not see the dialogue  at all? ... View more

I suggest you restart Ae clearing preferences and shortcuts: Press and hold Ctrl +Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) immediately on application launch. You'll get a 'do you want to reset prefs?' dialogue. Click OK. Keep the keys held down and you'll get a 'do you want to reset shortcuts dialogue?'. Click OK.   ... View more

If you are talking about auto-bezier keyframes in the timeline - large round icons - Ctrl / Cmd lick them and they will change to linear keyframes with a diamond shaped icon. I guess the broader question is : why are they ruining your day? ... View more

Precisely what steps are you taking? ... View more

No problem!  It's very easy to get tripped up by the Ae interface 🙂 ... View more

As well as DNxHR and Cineform - which are both excellent; how about ProRes 444+Alpha which can now be read and written on both Mac and PC across After Effects and Premiere. ... View more

I don't want to be too discouraging... but have you done the maths? 5x60x25(?) = 7,500 frames. and the video (subject / background - setup, colours, tonal range...) could hardly be less suited... I'd you suggest you step back and re-think. Seriously.     ... View more

If you could upload a full resolution still frame showing the typical bleed you want to keep that will help us advise. ... View more

I think you can do something close to this pretty simply: A stroked path-only shape layer, set to be a 3D layer. Apply trim paths and amimate that. Extrude that path using the Cimema4D render - within AE. Add a camera with a longer focal length to view the extrusion from an angle. Light appropriately with fall off. Duplicate the path, change it's colour and remove extrusion to get the 'top edge'.   Gives this: ... View more

Are you trying to keep the centre of the flower still and rotate the petals? How much rotation? If you can describe exactly what you are aiming to do we can help. ... View more

If I'm reading your post correctly - you want to match the corner pins of a layer in 3D space with the corners of another 2D layer? The best way to do this is with layer space transform expressions - but this is a complex area. Lets's call your layer: "solid2D".  On your upper left corner property paste this expression:   S2D = thisComp.layer("solid2D"); //get the name of the layer. S2DP = S2D.toComp([0,0,0]); // get the layer's upper left position in Comp space. fromCompToSurface(S2DP) // project that Comp position onto the surface of the 3D layer.   You will need to adjust the layer name: "solid2d", to your own layer name. That should give you a matching position for the upper left corner pin. For the other corner pins replace the second line of the expression as follows: for upper right:   S2DP = S2D.toComp([S2D.width,0,0]);   for lower left:   S2DP = S2D.toComp([0,S2D.height,0]);   lower right:   S2DP = S2D.toComp([S2D.width,S2D.height,0]);     I hope the above helps!  ... View more

All you have to do: Add a layer (still image, vector illustraton, video...) which is considerably bigger than your composition. Menu: Layer > New > Camera.  Make the Camera a one node camera. Animate the camera's position in X, Y and Z to view different parts of your layer.   Effectively this is just like holding your mobile phone camera above an image, moving it around, and moving it closer and futher away.  ... View more

The layer that you are applying your tracking data to needs to be the same size (resolution) as the layer that you are tracking. See this video for more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tWKdbjKLNE&feature=emb_rel_pause ... View more

See:  https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/composition-timeline-issue/td-p/10909501?page=1 ... View more

A couple of things to note: The preset you're looking at is not a dedicated text preset - it's a general effects preset. Yes - it will work with any layer, including text, but it's not really designed for text. I've had a quick look at it, with a view to your request to change direction. Frankly it would be much easier for you if you just keyframed it directly. All that's basically happening is ax X scale change and an X position change. 4 keyframes in total. See if you can create it yourself.   If you want to explore dedicated text presets, look under: Animation presets > Text >...  there's a load of them. ... View more