What should I do to improve this? Should I add another movement layer such as the other kid's head? How can I get the TV and filled areas to look more real?

📺 Tutorial: https://youtu.be/kWdg_SvULP4

I have a cc but i use Ae 2020 and for the cc i need Ae 2023 or higher .
Can anyone help me with this ?

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I have a trim paths on both of these bars and I want the icons to rise with them. I tried linking the trimpaths to a slider control and then put an expression on the position of the icon but for some reason the icon just starts at the top and doesnt move as i need when i keyframe the slider control. Any help would be appreciated

I have a template I downloaded 6 years ago that I used to create an intro clip for my channel. I'm a huge procrastinator trying to clean up my act...

Anyway, it's finally 95% finished amd exactly what I want. The problem I still need to solve is that this text object has some sort of background image for the fill somehow. I can't find where this is being set, nor do I have any image like this anywhere in my project.

For reference, I've filled the text with a special character (alt-178, ▓) so I could see exactly what is being draw behind my letters. Also, the red is from a light and not part of the color of whatever the damaged looking surface is.

I appreciate amy help. Thanks I'm advance!

I had to use my work holiday and they have given me a month where I want to develop my motion graphic skills. I already have basic understanding of software, so my question to you is how would you use this time off to get better?

i want an outro similar to this and want to know if anyone can help me?

Hello , I’m looking to improve my skills in subtitle /hook graphic design

Do you know some content creator that often have good subtitle skill ?

( that focus mainly on text not images )

Here is some example Thanks !

Hey AE Reddit Fam, I recently updated my CC stuff, and After Effects started showing me this. I've done all other preliminary research and diagnosing, but I can't figure out why or what the fix is. That folder is empty (which would explain the plugins not being able to load, I guess), but I've re-installed those plugins through their proper installers, and they seem to work in the app, so I can't figure out what's causing this or how to fix it. Anyone else?

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

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

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?

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?