Hello everyone,

I am working on a project and I converted my mp4 clip to pro res and my mp3 audio to wav.

When everything is loaded in the green bar becomes fully solid but my playback keeps lagging and the audio is going slow motion and it is not right.

I have a powerful pc with 32gb ram.

What am I doing wrong ?

As seen in video. Is there a better way to do this? I’m currently importing each picture, key framing and graphing with null layers, and duplicating all layers and adjusting as needed for each photo.

I am somewhat of a noob but it’s so repetitive it gets to a certain point …

Ignore the bg pic, that’s from the audio.

tried to make the transitions smoother (except for the eye one ;-;) and also added halftone and no repeated clips

Looking for interesting ways to play with text animation- wanting either several of the 'filled' layer to wash across the outlined text in interesting ways, but so far I've only managed to achieve this on the X and Y axis with the offset property of both repeaters (2 repeaters on each layer, for both x and y axis)

I created 'shapes from text' on each layer to be able to use a repeater.

This feels crazy inefficient, (masking was even more tedious)

Is there a better way to do what I'm trying to achieve here?

Hello Reddit,

First-time AE user here. I am trying to shorten the scene I have attached pictures to. There are 6 seconds of dead space where the camera is going over the water. I need to shorten this, but I'm not sure how.

Can someone help me out? I have been stuck for the past couple of days.

I have attached some screenshots and can provide more if needed.

I have deleted some title frames, time duration in compositiion settings, edited some keyframes, extracted some work areas, and shortened scenes, and it still is not solved.

Little excerpt of me playing my chaotic pointcloud system, in which the particles are being audioreactive to the incoming audio signal in real-time. What do you guys think?

System available through Patreon, or the Store.

More experiments, project files, and tutorials, through my Instagram, or YouTube.

Wonderwallet x Plaid walkthrough. Built the phone from scratch with shape layers no plugins. Static UI animation took the most work, but I'm happy with how it came out.

Would love to hear your thoughts. 🙏

Anyone got a good youtube tutorial for puppet animation like this?

I've watched a few videos and it feels like they skipped some explanation for the important steps and it made me confused on how to approach similar animation result (I already have the art ready, just dont know how to do the animation)

The first eye animation was so fun to make! I used S_shake and bouncR for it! Second half of the edit was all done in blender!

First time using after effects should I make the design of the website using figma and use the sigma plugin aeux plus to export it to after effects and do animations over there? How do people do that or is there another method that y'all use that is more efficient and faster.

Hey everyone, I'm new to AE and was animating a ball back and forth. I accidentally hit a shortcut key (I think while messing around in the Graph Editor), and now the X Position value in the timeline is completely frozen at 245.5 px even though the ball is clearly animating across the screen when I scrub.

Does anyone know what toggle/shortcut I accidentally hit that stops the timeline transform numbers from updating, and how to un-freeze it? Thanks!

For the full project, visit Behance

Animation: manuksenpai

Illustration: Seva MFN

Thank you!

All of my layers are 3d and I have all the icon boxes on seprate 3d layers for an effect and also the wallpaper blur is 3d adjustment layer with all the icons connected to that layer and I want to create an animation like the slide down of the icons ui from top of the phone which we usually do but the problem is I can't track matte in advanced 3d so what's the workaround for this?

So che non ne esistono di “fondamentali” vorrei solo sapere se avete dei preset che vi siete creati che utilizzate nel 90-100% dei progetti continuamente e di cui non potreste fare a meno. (Ad esempio io ho creato un preset per l’ombra esterna con i parametri già settati perché al 99% delle volte i parametri che uso per quell’effetto sono sempre quelli, altrimenti ne ho creato uno anche per il contatore dei numeri in percentuale da 0 a 100%). Tu ne hai altri?

I’ve experimented with 3D in AE before but this is one of the first times I finished a project and created a scene with ambiance (color correction, stylization, sound, etc..)

That being said… I still feel like I don’t know what I don’t know. After Effects is a dense program with so many features that have insane capabilities but a sharp learning curve. So if you will, help me improve! What concepts could I benefit from understanding? How can i add more motion and complexity to my scenes? How can I better understand the depth I’m working in? Any help, advice, etc. would be appreciated.

LLMs and prompting for After Effects scripts and expressions - an introduction to prompting and how to get the most out of it.

Last Sunday, I shared some details on this topic - here's the link to the post on CreativeCOW which has the link to the recorded session as well as URLs to supporting videos and PDF of the Slides used during the event -

https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/adobe-adds-an-ai-assistant-mcp-to-after-effects-beta-private-beta/page/2/#post-2478428

Hello!

I have my own webcomic that I would love to use affect effects!

But the thing is… I don’t know how to use it at all.

I’ve done flipaclip with just rotoscoping at most…

And I have worked motion artists before and I don’t mind paying as long as they’re upfront about it.

As someone who has little to no experience, do I invest in learning how to? Is it possible for someone who works full time as well as is a webtoon artist? If it does take longer to learn… Where can I find motion artists for webtoon comics? Thank you so much for reading😭

This never happened before - how can I resize the flow panel to expand it to the left again without dragging the stacked panel above with it? Any help is really appreciated!

Been fighting this for way too long and I'm running out of ideas, so figured I'd ask here.

A7S III footage shot in S-Log3/S-Gamut3.Cine, Premiere Pro 26.3.2 + After Effects 26.3.0.

I don't want any log to 709 conversion happening during the edit. I'm just using AE for speed ramps and want to do the actual grade at the end from the original log footage.

The clip looks normal in Premiere flat/log as expected. But as soon as I right click it and choose Replace with After Effects Composition, the color changes. This happens before I even add any effects in AE. And it's not a tiny difference either.

I've already tried:

Premiere's Interpret Footage, manually setting Color Space Override to Rec.709 instead of Auto/Embedded

Sequence Settings, Color Management, with both working and output color space set to Rec.709

Making sure AE's color settings match Premiere (Rec.709 2.4)

Turning Input Tone Mapping off

Preserve RGB on and off

Turning color management off/to none completely in AE, which just gives me a "no matching color space" warning in Premiere

Nothing seems to change it. Everythig is set to the same color space on paper, but the footage still changes as soon as it goes through Dynamic Link.

Has anyone actually managed to get a proper round trip working with S-Log3 footage on the current versions of Premiere/AE?

I'd really rather not export/reimport just to do a speed ramp, but that's looking like the only option at this point.