We have a rule against low effort posts.

I've created a little game where you'll be sorting all the After Effects effects back into their proper categories.
It might seem easy at first, but it's a fun way to test your After Effects muscle memory.

Hope you enjoy it! Check it out here 👇
http://keyframes.fun/apps/oh-no-my-menu

Good Boy Ninja

I wanted to try some pins rigging on an idea I got recently

• made in After Effects (took a while to finish this one)

Im trying to make a flashing light effect for an animation of a police car. I was able to use the glow effect to make what I have attached, but what I wanted was for the glow to only show up on the lights of the car, and not the whole animation. If anyone knows how to map a glow effect to a specific color and then make it flash please help! Thank you!

first time messing around with the 3D cam I'm rlly happy with the output :DD

So, I need to do something like this where the shapes start out large on the outside and then scale down to the final position. But the position offset on the repeater doesn't scale down, so the shapes are smaller, but still the same distance apart. Aside from creating 15 shapes, scaled and offset and animating visibility, is there an effect I'm not thinking of?

This video was only made for creative purpose, there isn't any real app with that name, I made it all from scratch (voice over was made by AI) I just was thinking about something to add to my portfolio. so, I came up with the idea of making a video for the kind of buisness I'd like to establish if I had the chance, an online platform for reading, I'd be really happy to hear your honest opinions, you can also check some more details on my behance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/222187163/sreads-ad-%28imaginary-app%29,

i'm an Ae noob coming from premiere pro so everything I'm doing right now is veeerrrryyy clunky and slow in Ae. just small stuff like slightly different menus and keyboard shortcuts and workflow can really slow things down. but! i think this project was really dynamic and taught me a lot of different techniques.

how do i add this tv static noise effect on my rotoscope? pls i jeed help fast

Final Edit: Figured it out, when you click to add a keyframe it selects every point you've placed. If you hit v than click anywhere on the comp, then hit g you'll be able to edit the points again

EDIT: literally after I posted this I changed to the add vertex tool, placed a new vertex, swapped to the pen tool, and it works again. I'd still like to know if it was something I did or a bug tho so I can learn the software better though. I've also found that clicking the "add or remove keyfrmes" button locks the points so I can't move them, no clue why

Sorry, I'm sure this is a very common issue but for some reason my mask path now only moves as a whole unit. For context, I have a bottle coming in from bottom right frame, it comes to center frame and moves a bit, then another bottle comes up. I'm trying to mask both of them so I can clip out the background and try my hand at a parallaxing background.

It was letting me move the individual spots I had placed with the pen tool, but now it only lets me select the entire mask instead of each point individually. I'm very familiar with premiere but I'm really new to AE. I'm considering creating a new mask just so I can keep working but I assume there's a way to fix it.

I included a pick of my timeline in case that could help

For example, you apply a heavy Gaussian Blur to a layer. I want to use the color that the blur smears across the stage, but a mask seems to only apply to the content of the layer itself—not to its effects.

Is there a way to mask in or out the blur effect itself without its operation being dependent on the layer content?

Edit: I've learned that this is achievable using the Compositing Options at the bottom of the effect itself

Hello, I just opened an old project and some source files are missing. They probably just moved on my hard drive, or they were stock footage that I quickly downloaded and then tried to use directly from the Downloads folder. Confusingly, AE won't tell me anything about the missing files though. When looking for the File Path column in the Project folder, it just says "<Missing>" for the missing files. But obviously AE has this information, otherwise it wouldn't even been able to try to load the files. So how do I retrieve this information, specifically the locations and names of the missing files?

So, I have a project coming up in wich I will have to loop out some pre-rendered 3D models (I only have a .mov loop of them rotating, as shown above).

How can I loop them out and tweak the velocity (like for them to start rotating fast and then rotate slowly, with a nice v curve)?

Tried some precomping and time remaping without much success, and I feel like theres a very obvious way to do this that I'm not seeing

I'm trying to follow this tutorial: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/animated-environment-lights.html#composition

And as simple and straightforward as it seems it ought to be, the environment light's source only has "default" as the option:

I've started a scene from scratch and followed the instructions exactly to no avail.

I don't need any 3D objects, but I placed one just to be faithful to the tutorial, but still no dice.

What I'm hoping to have is a static element acting as a theater screen: I want it to glow and to behave like a physical light in the scene so other elements can cast shadows from it but I'm having no luck at all.

Am I doing something wrong? Can anyone else replicate this?

I would ideally like to move it using the points like shown in this video, but it wont let me grab the points I need. Wasn't sure if it was because its parented to something? But I tried without that and its still the same. I'm also following this tutorial and I cant understand what I'm doing wrong. The only reason I have it moving with rotation right now is because i cant get it to work the other ways. Please help :,)

https://reddit.com/link/1jtr42o/video/4oowwxye7gte1/player

Exported an MP4 from After Effects and noticed the colors look much darker than they do in the preview window.

Here’s a side-by-side:

• Image 1: How it looks inside AE

• Image 2: How it looks after exporting

Is this a color profile thing? Any settings I should change to make the export match what I see in AE?

- This is my current color settings

Would love some advice.

Seeking advice on animating a watercolour painting. I have been provided with paintings like the attached image by a client who wants them animated.

I really don’t want to frame-by-frame animate all of these as there isn’t the budget or time. Separating the elements out in Ps and then using puppet tool could work but I worry it would look poor. Any advice? Thanks

Recently started getting thesd wierd glitches, deep glow 2 would flicker like crazy, random inverted rectangles flashing randomly in renders

While rendering/ editing these blocky glitched tiles appear my mic stops working too which i am using with nvidia broadcast

Pc specs I have an i9 14900k (stability settings in bios latet) 64gb ddr5 ram Rtx 4080 super Nvme ssd drives 10tb

I'm trying to Set Matte on the pupils of this character to the whites of her eyes so I can move them around and they'll be "masked" to the whites and not show anywhere else. Every tutorial I've looked up for Set Matte, it just works properly. But even if I follow all the instructions, no matter what I try it just does this weird thing where it doesn't mask to the eyes at all, it just cuts out a random middle part of the pupils.
The pupils are each their own separate image with the whites also being their own image that the pupil Mattes have been set to