Questions tagged [after-effects]
Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software package published by Adobe Systems. It is used in post-production process of film and television production.
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Element 3d placeholder to premiere pro?
Using a virtual studio package that uses Element 3D v2 with 2 Display screens meant for footage to be added. How can i render the scene which is heavy in after effects and leaving the Screen ...
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How to animate a shape to expand/morph a certain way?
I am trying to animate a square into a an isometric cube-like shape. In the image, I want the square on the left to "extrude" into the cube on the right. How can I achieve this effect?
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Horrendous performance in After Effects
Some 20 years ago I used BSPlayer and some other audio players. They came with visualizations that displayed audio histogram in a variety of shapes and forms. It all worked in real time, for stereo, ...
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Bringing layers forward or sending back with After Effects expressions
I have two solids right next to each other. At certain points in the timeline, I increase the scale of one or the other for emphasis. The problem is that one of the solids is located behind the ...
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How to get the number of options in a drop-down list (After Effects script)?
I'm trying to create a script that randomly selects an option from a drop-down list.
For that I use a randomly generated number as the index of the set value. The issue is that if it tries to select ...
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Lightstreaks on Video Footage
I'm trying to make this effect for a car video, you can imagine the camera movement for this kind of stuff.
I was going to try this technique which is simply a 3D shape layer in After Effects with a ...
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Increasing Expression by Comp Index when access CSV File
I'm just wondering if someone can help me out. I'm getting error when trying to increase the location of the data in CSV by the composition index.
Here's code I am using
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Is splitting a video for export a good technique?
Currently, I'm making a video that I intend to upload to YouTube. I used After Effects and Premiere Pro for this. Since it's a video that's almost 2 hours long, the export takes me about 16 hours ...
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How to make a 4 point path follow an object at either end? (How to make a fake node graph)?
I am trying to simulate a node graph like this where a path with 4 points (start, 2 middle, end) adapts to the movement of an object connected to the start and end:
If you move a node at the link ...
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After Effects: Add a Null to a point of two path's intersection
I'm looking to position a null at the intersection of two paths. I'm creating a bending elbow rig with irregular shapes, and I wanted to be able to place something in the crease of the elbow as it ...
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Resize a paragraph text box in After Effects using expressions
I'm building a Mogrt using After Effects.
I need to be able to drive the size of a paragraph text box dynamically using expressions.
Is that possible?
I can't find a parameter related to this.
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Making an After Effects layer follow another one at constant speed
I have the following expression on the position of a layer that makes it follow another layer(FollowNull). Basically, I set an initial position with a PointController and the expression does it's ...
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How would I wiggle only on the y-axis when using wiggle with the slider expression control?
How would I use the wiggle expression only on the y-axis?
I'm using two sliders. The first for the frequency and the second for the amplitude.
Here's my expression so far. This works but wiggles on ...
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Which software/s to create a video like this - 3d explainer video
I'm trying to create a 3d animated video link this
https://www.veed.io/view/b19fbccb-2f97-405e-bb64-3d8ffc5e9401?sharingWidget=true&panel=share
I've researched and found the following:
Blender: ...
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How can high quality custom animation video be rendered in cloud in a reasonable short time? [duplicate]
I would render videos like this in cloud:
https://previews.customer.envatousercontent.com/h264-video-previews/6505acb5-647e-4740-a3ec-efe9ccaffe7e/40871529.mp4
I heared about AWS EC3 and Workspaces.
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After Effects: Workflow advice, working from/updating archived projects
I have a question about optimizing my workflow in regards to archiving. I feel like there must be a better way method to what I’m doing at the moment. What I currently do, after I’m done working in a ....
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After Effects: How to keep text same width through changes
Using After Effects, I am trying to do a countdown of 5 minutes with a setup like this: 5m 00s, 4m 59s, 4m 58s... I have the countdown already set up with Slider Control. However, I'm trying to use a ...
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How to have stylize and generate effects visible on top of text that is being used for track matte in After Effects?
I am currently using Adobe After Effects 2023 and am having difficulty finding a solution on how to add effects to the text layer that is being used for a track matte.
I would like for the pattern of ...
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After Effects expression using Index position isn't working between comps and shapes
I have many shapes that I want to reference to a single comp with a shape in it, in case I need to change them later on.
The shapes are 2D and in different positions all over my canvas.
I want to be ...
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How do I create a network effect in After Effects?
How do I recreate the first scene of this video in After Effects?
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How to make green suit completely invisible?
I use keylight in After effects to remove my green suit, but it leaves ghost like stuff on my video. How do I completely remove it? You can see my hands do not match the color of the background from ...
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How to animate a square folding in half diagonally in After Effects?
I have a square that I am trying to fold in half in After Effects. I made two squares and masked each one. I then made the bottom half a 3D layer and tried working with the Y and Z rotation. But it ...
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How to change the text box size in After Effects?
I want to use this free preset: https://motionarray.com/after-effects-templates/upbeat-opener-1190720/
It has text like "hello" and "it is a fresh idea". If I want to use different ...
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How to achieve this liney camcorder effect on Premiere Pro or After Effects?
I've been looking for a way to achieve
this effect but it doesn't seem to work accurately well.
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How to make smooth brush strokes in After Effects?
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I am drawing brush strokes in after effects that will be animated as arrows.
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Every time I draw my brush strokes they come out jagged (not smooth).
Is there a way to make smooth brush ...
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Create null from path distorts shape
I'm trying to create null from paths (extended) for points and handles on a shape I drew in After Effects but whenever I do it I get my shape distorted and stretched downwards.
This is the regular ...
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AME doesn't export the right opacity
My picture layer background color was set to white, so in AE it appeared to be light. But in AME it used a black background color instead, so it appeared to be dark. I fixed this by adding a white ...
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How to be sure of the FPS needed for any given export?
Sorry, my question is not very well put out but I have trouble understanding my own problem.
I'm currently working on a music video project where I need to put green screened actors in a CGI scene.
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Can't fill a shape in After Effects (imported from XD)
I created some User Interface in Adobe XD including some shapes with blur and color each one. In XD everything looks OK, like:
But, when i Export that to After Effects (Adobe XD lets you export ...
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To reconnect Motion Tracker in After Effects
I want to reconnect my Motion Tracker. But I cant "Edit Target".
For example: I track the video and forgot to create a null-object for the connection with the tracker. When I do this, there ...
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How to export only the viewport in aftereffects?
I'm experienced with illustrator though very new to after effects and having big trouble with the most basic of things.
What I'm trying to do is that basically I have a huge HD map and I want to show ...
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Importing gradient filled shapes from adobe illustrator to after effects
I am importing an illustrator file including svg shapes to after effects. The shapes in the files are filled with gradients and when I import them to AE they are all gray. Is there a way to quickly ...
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Rendering 3d in AE CS6 is blurry
I'd like to seek help here about rendering in AE CS6 🙏🙏🙏...
I'm a noob by the way, I just finished a few 4sec animation and have no problem rendering non-3d compositions...
But my first 3d ...
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Illustrator 2022 to After effects 2022 - colors differ
I am trying to import illustrator shapes into after effects. But when I import I get different colors for some reason.
This is original in Illustrator:
And this is what I get in after effects:
How ...
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How do I fix dash proportions on After Effects?
I want to have a circle with dashed stroke line. But I don't want them to have these proportions, I want to have it as straight line. Here's what I have on AE:
And here's what I want to achieve:
I ...
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Cartoon styled stroke effect?
I want to get this stroke style in After Effects:
Is like it's a little little bit deformed, isn't it? Or is the filter? It seems like in some tracks is 2.5px and 2.3 in anothers... Compare with my ...
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How to add a 3D tracked text label to VideoCopilot Orb
I'm using the Video Copilot Orb plugin to build a 3D earth model, using a camera to track round the planet, and additional Orb layers to add clouds etc.
What's the best / right way to add text labels ...
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Can I morph my Trim Path "form" into an object?
I am new to After Effects, and I am trying to make an Animation that is a bit hard for my poor skills. I made a Trim Path, and now I want to transform the "form" that follows it into an ...
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after effects 2023 (latest) and deadline
Testing a move to AWS Thinkbox Deadline (10.1.23nnn) for the VFX studio I work at. Just rolled updates to Adobe After Effects, which moves the version to 2023--causing all manner of references to &...
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Attach objects to wall without camera tracking in After Effects
I want to attach a video to a wall that appears in a main video, like this:
Problem is that video is static shot, is not a track movement. So, I watched videos that explain how to make Motion 3D ...
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Finding the main comp, not the pre-comps in my group of project compItems
Okay, so this should be an item attribute, right? I mean, if it were a layer, then sure, you could use Layer.containingComp but I am filtering by compItems for item type and where I would think there ...
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Why my superior camera gets black? After Effects
Im using shapes in a video that Im producing, but when I try to use the superior camera this happens:
I can't see the layers in the superior camera, as you can see in the screenshot below.
I ...
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Trapcode Form - imported OBJ has additional unwanted edges
I created the below semi-truncated octahedron in blender and exported the object has a .obj file for use in Trapcode Form.
However, when I import the model into Trapcode Form and select Particles ...
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(How) is it possible to stabilize video suffering from this type of shaking?
I have a few videos which are quite shaky: similar to this one:
These are shot with DJI's Action2, which has a fixed aperture of f/2.8.
The main problem here is EIS and ...
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When I scale up a composition in After Effects the nested comp contained within does not scale with it?
I want to scale a composition in my timeline in After Effects. When I attempt this, the composition nested within does not scale along with it. Any thoughts would be welcome.
The composition nested ...
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Generate a sound wave in After Effects that changes colour over time via an expression
I'm trying to find a way to generate a sound wave animation where the colour of the wave being generated changes as the person speaking swaps over. I can do this with text just fine, and I have ...
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Stop rotation in After Effects
I have a gif opened in After Effects. I typed w to allow me to rotate the gif. But, now I cannot drag the gif up or down. It just continues to rotate. How do I stop the rotation? Thank you.
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Add blank space to end of text
I have a CSV with text I'm pulling into after effects, and then using CC Reptile to duplicate it across the comp. However the issue is that the end of the text is too close to the CC Reptile generated ...
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How do I clone layers in Adobe After Effects
Thanks in advance for your input.
First, I have a composition that has one square in it that has opacity and scale keyframe automations. This composition is named Square and is 25px by 25px.
Square ...
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Whenever I draw a shape, the transparency is 14%, how do I reset it to 100%?
Whenever I draw a shape, the transparency is 14%, how do I reset it to 100%?
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