show us a screenshot. the size option is only available for parametric shapes, if you created a parametric shape you should see it. ... View more

try the preset. it gives you all that text animators can do and more. ... View more

Use Typearray which is a free preset by Paul Slemmer. Then use the inertia bounce expression in the interpolation parameter. ... View more

this is a UI Limitation of Ae, once you reach 30k pixels, things will disappear. in your case - the large amount of layers is causing this. I advice you to break down your project into smaller segments. create precomps so that you have 600 layers on each for example and make these precomps back to back. there shouldn't be any issue with creating precomps at this point. ... View more

try to find where the issue starts. is it in Ae? or only back in Pr? if necessary, pre-render the result and make more steps. for example, after you do the Warp Stabilizing, render the clip. use that for content aware, and render again - then place in Premiere. make sure you use a codec that will not lose quality like Prores 444 or Quicktime Cineform. ... View more

Hello. I made a 12fps loop animation and I want to play it fast. import as normal, right click on the layer and choose Time->Time stretch and go below 100%. you can also do that dynamically by changing the time stretch column in your Ae Timeline (to reveal it, right clicking on the timeline header and choosing Columns->stretch). as of CC2019 you can also shift and drag the handles while holding the Alt key to time stretch the handles. ... View more

you can use pre-compose, it's also a way to group layers but they will have their own timeline. you can use shy layers to make them hidden from site. there are also 3rd party tools like this: Sort It Plug in for Adobe After Effects you can ask for group layers feature in the Ae uservoice page. there are probably several requests for this already. ... View more

I would recommend you do this with Mocha, it's perspective corner pin tracking is far superior to Ae's and it comes free with your Ae subscription. ... View more

You never have been able to delete a point in a vector path without it deleting that point in the entire timeline. I think what clarkp72169153 refers to is the option to "preserve constant vertex count" which was something if I remember correctly not an option in old Ae versions and maybe it was by default?. when checked on (the default) you keep the vertext count if you delete points along the way. if you turn it off you can go from X number of vertices to Y number of vertices on the same path property. you also get a warning if you delete points along the road, that tell you that unless you turn it off, you will delete them all along the timeline: I never turn it off, but you can: and go from this to this but at your own risk... I personally do my roto in Mocha as much as I can. it can be very risky to roto anything but simple sahpes with Ae since there is no offseting of keyframes. if you realize along the way that some vertex was not in place, it's very problematic to change it. in Mocha you have the uber key. that's the major thing, but other things are how easily you can stablize a roto in Mocha as you roto. not having to do this process separatly in Ae it's a big bonus. I recommned this chain of threads about roto in mocha here: https://twitter.com/TeddyRockSteady/status/1128066715970154499 ... View more

unfortunately this is a limitation of After Effects. when applying a mask, alpha matte, effect or layer style to a precomp - you lose the blend mode structure inside and can only use one blend mode for all the composite together. I would offer this type of workaround if that suits you: 1. make your bg a precomp 2. place it in the inner precomp 3. place a duplicate of it in the master comp now you can mask the precomp with collapse turned on here's a project file:Blendmode+mask.aep - Google Drive ... View more

when you use timeremapping, you get 2 keyframes - one at the start, the other at the very end of the precomp. if you create some keyframes in the beginning of the precomp, you must make sure you delete the last keyframe at the end... because it will loop all of them. ... View more

Could be an internal network issue. Do you have any app that’s monitoring your network like a firewall or some kind of netwo limiter? Maybe you working in a workstation that has limitations from an IT department? ... View more

I've tried with a short mp4 from 3 sec try first transcoding your footage to a format like Quicktime Cineform. then import back and try again. ... View more

Does the footage have any effects applied? Or does it have a interpret of color space? did you change the working space if the project? Show a full screenshot of your Ae interface and press UU on your footage layer so we can see all modified properties and also highlight it in the project panel. ... View more

how do I make the text inside the panels larger? currently you can't do that in an After Effects Preference. you can do that on OS level and set the overall scaling to be larger. here it is on Windows: ... View more

did you try the latest update 16.1.1 ? ... View more

you will not find paint in the effects. it applies an effect when you set the first stroke. drag the lower border of the paint panel to expose the rest of it. you can also choose the paint workspace under window->workspace. ... View more

Yes, in the paint panel you can set it to one frame so each paint stroke duration will be one frame. I suggest you type “paint“ in the  search field in upper right corner of your Ae interface. ... View more

show a full screenshot of what you got going on there. press UU on the layers so we can see all the modified properties. not sure exactly what you are doing but you might need a previous step to pre-compose the layer with the transform properties changes and move all attributes for what you are trying to do. then paint on that. ... View more

wait I got something for you. you can add an effect to the top layer that composites another layer underneath it, so when you use paint you will paint on them both. no precomp try this: in the upper layer add the compound arithmetic effect set the "second source layer" to that bottom layer keep the operator as "copy" operate on channels "ARGB" this will place the bottom layer on your current layer as an effect now we want it to reverse the layer order so: add "cc composite" effect uncheck "RGB Only" you have now hopefully created a composite of 2 layer with effects only. you can paint on that and when you are done just toggle off these two effects off or toggle the "paint on transparent" - that depends if you want just the paint or the paint + layer 1 here's a project file of this kind of setup: Paint_on_Two_Layers.aep - Google Drive ... View more

I see now. if you need both layers at the same time you would need to combine them (pre-compose) and paint on that, then you can remove in the precomp that bottom reference. it's either that or you could paint on layer 1 in the layer window, while seeing the composite of layer 1 +layer 2. it's not real-time, you only see the result after you paint. to do this you can drag the layer window panel to the right and stick it there so you will have 2 panels: layer panel where you see the paint on layer 1, and composition panel where you see layer 1 on top of everything else in the timeline. that's the best we can do in After Effects with the paint tool. ... View more

you can paint right on the layer you want to use as a reference, then duplicate that, set the paint effect "paint on trasparent" and remove the effect from the bottom layer. ... View more

Is there a way to change it to a different drive? yes, in the panel options (hamburger menu to the upper right of the panel) ... View more

Thank you so much D for all the help here. I do generally know what I am doing as long as I am not in Wide Gamut land... it's a black hole for me and I guess if I had to do that kind of work, I would have learned it by practice. ... View more