Questions tagged [adobe-after-effects]
Questions about the digital motion graphics, visual effects and compositing software package published by Adobe Systems, used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production.
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How do I create a water ripple distortion animation on text?
Hi everyone. Can you please help me to understand the process behind it?
I'm studying the process starting from the static image so through displacement map on photoshop but I'd like to obtain my ...
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After Effects Scripting : fontSize adjusted to boxTextSize Script Optimization
I need Help Improving and optimizing a Script.
I'm fairly new to java and scripting in general and I've been Trying to do a script that would increase the font Size of a text until it fully fills it'...
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Text gets invisible in After Effects
I try to edit a text but it's going invisible. Only when i render it, its visible. How can i change this behavior?
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How to limit number of frames when exporting Aftereffects as image sequence?
I am very new to Aftereffects and need to know - I have succeeded in exporting my animation as an image sequence (the setting PNG sequence) but it exports A LOT of images, because it is exporting one ...
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AE Expression - Occur on keyframes, but max every x seconds
I'm attempting to create an 80s-style basketball scoreboard in After Effects, that appears briefly after scores but is otherwise not displayed. I've got a control layer that is simply text, and ...
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How to move an image in background along with a moving object?
I have a background sketch of building. Now i want to move that horizontally along with a cartoon.
Basically i have cartoon that moves inside the building from this end to another. I want to zoom in ...
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Layer to follow edge of a scaling layer
I'm trying to create some templates to use for my videos,
I want to create an animated text composed by 3 words (Left Center Right). The animation will look like that:
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Adobe after effects edit templates
I'm struggling to edit the template of an intro. I'm quite new to Adobe After Effects, ideally I want to change the logo and text. I've managed to change the text underneath the logo, but not the logo ...
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How to paint black mask in After Effects?
Ok, I have some custom effects that I need to paint a mask for in an animation - my idea was either to use After Effects or Premiere.
I'd prefer AE. Basically what I need is to be able to paint with ...
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Aftereffects: How to create easing with Mask path changes?
Alright I have a growing pill shape in AE that one frame where the width is very small, final frame has width pretty big. Just 2 frames.
I set keyframe interp to bezier, but Im getting a pretty ...
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How can I loop and blend footage end/beginning frames in After Effects?
I'm trying to figure out how to do this for a couple of days now and I feel like it would probably be an easy fix.
I have a clip of a beach setting that I successfully looped with the loopOut() ...
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Customize a preset so it changed a direction of animation (not reverse it) in After Effects CC
I'm not an AE expert but I was trying hard to find solution for a few days, so now I decided to ask for help.
I created 3d text animation using standard preset, but I need to change the direction of ...
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After Effects animation - text rotating with CC Cylinder
I'm new to this site and to After Effects. Could somebody point me to a tutorial, to show me how to create the rotating text below (just nabbed this gif from a previous question that somebody posted)
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Why form content is not filling in this picture?
In the next composition:
I don't know why fill is not working. Is an illustration imported from Illustrator and there object is showed properly, with shape color filled. But when I import in ...
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How to extend layer endpoint in Adobe After Effects
I had rendered a 5 seconds(24 fps) animation on Blender and brought it in to Adobe After Effects for extra additions.
It then appeared that I would need the animation a little longer to 15 seconds.
I ...
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Separately Animating Multiple Segments That Belong to One Layer: Adobe Illustrator and After Effects
I am using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects.
I want to animate an SVG triangle. I want the Hypotenuse to "swing out" from the bottom leg (go from 0 deg to 45deg). I can do this by 1)...
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Aftereffects - How to do curly smoke like this?
Alright, I've looked through tutorials and come across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25LhGggJKfo as the closest match, however its not quite the toon CURLY smoke I need. I'm trying to make this, ...
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After Effects spectrum on path has gabs on angles
I'm working on a project where I have a spectrum running along a path in the form of a pentagon. I wanted to use this to generate 2 lines in the rough form of a pentagon but [reacting to the music in ...
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How to remove the outline of joint text in after effect?
I have inserted glow effect to this text. I want to combine overlapping characters so that they have only one outline. How it can be done?
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Is there possibility to export from Toon Boom Animation Harmony 16 Pro to json?
I'm a developer and we want to create an animated hero for one-to-one video chat and this here will be like the third participant.
We want to get along only with css animation in extreme case start ...
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Blending modes across different compositions in After Effects
It seems that the blending mode that I set to multiply on the shape layer of a composition in After Effects is not interacting with the composition directly beneath it on the master composition.
The ...
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Creating a clipping mask (or an after effects equivalent) within a shape layer to mask out a group of objects
Is there an easy way to create a clipping mask within an After Effects shape layer? It seems from my research that the merge path operator added to a shape layer can operate on single drawn vector ...
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Issues creating a glint or shine on a logo in After Effects that is exportable to HTML
I am trying to replicate a moving logo with a glint that is exportable to HTML.
I followed this video which uses light sweep, the animation is working, but no light effects came through.
I read that ...
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Sketch export entire canvas size for every object in an artboard?
Is it possible to create one separate, full-canvas-size .png for each of 100 or so vector shapes within a Sketch artboard?
I have an artboard that has about 100 vector shapes, and I'm hoping to ...
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Vectorising displaced circle in after effects
By using this technique with Beam and Displacement Map I created a wavy outlined circle. So it's not just a circle rotating, the generated waves actually move.
The problem is, I need this circle to ...
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Placing vector in After Effects results in grey box
In After Effects (CC2017), when I import a project from Illustrator (CC2017), place it on the timeline and select "Create shapes from vector layer", it creates a grey rectangle. There is no opacity on ...
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Solid layer in Powerpoint 2016 embedded video changes color, slightly
I've exported a video from Adobe After Effects into .avi, as well as encoded to .mp4, .wmv, .m4v and other formats using Adobe Media Encoder. Since I can't get a transparent alpha layer to work, I've ...
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How can I merge two compositions from different projects?
I worked on two compositions in After Effects files (a 6 second and a minute composition). How can I merge the compositions in a new composition so that the minute long composition will follow ...
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After Effects - Control orientation on shape layer line cap
Is it possible to control the line cap orientation when using stroke on a shape layer path?
I have created a gif achieving what I want:
Notice how the second stroke is different from the first one. ...
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How could I automate after effect video on RSS feed update
I have an RSS feed with a text and an image.
I need to trigger this RSS on update and use the image and text inside the after effect composition, start the exportation, and upload on the Internet.
It'...
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after effects greyscale bmp as mask
I created a grey scale bmp image (depthmap) which corresponds with the first frame in a short video clip. my intention is to use the bmp image as a mask and then track the mask for the remainder of ...
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Animating an Illustrator Line in After Effects
I'm trying to animate a coiled-up looking line into a more relaxed loose looking line. I figured out how to do this in AfterEffects (I opened the Path 1 option and was able to move individual points)....
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How can I import Photoshop layer with a mask to After effects?
I've prepared a layer with a mask in Photoshop and I want to use it in After effects. What I want to do is add a video on to that prepared layer and mask it.
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Importing InDesign layers into After Effects
I'm building a webpage layout in Indesign, and my client wants me to make an animated demo of it. I can do this in After Effects, but I don't want to recreate the entire site in AE.
Is there a way I ...
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Adobe After Effects Render Disorted / Preview
My render is distorted for some reason. The preview looks good trough. Using trapcode, filters etc. but separated into compositions.
The entire render looks like this... Some hints ?
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How to "unwind" text or shapes that aren't paths?
Alright, I have a logo that is just a word typed out in a font:
And I want to do something where the type "draws itself" or unwinds in, like this (wait for the end):
I know how to use trim paths ...
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Make text gradually randomly appear
I'm working with the opacity and random() expression. I want a text to appear like randomly pixel by pixel.
For example the text "WEEKEND" I've tried making every single letter their own ...
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After Effects: How to make text changes not affect width?
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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Telegram stickers exports with wrong gradients
I imported my graphics from Illustrator to After Effects using Battle Axe Overload. Everything is in shapes:
Then I used Bodymovin-TG to render out the TGS stickers. Then I load them into the ...
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Can't fill a shape in After Effects (imported from Adobe 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, this shape lose the color! ...
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Paintbrush Effect
I hope that all is well.
I just had a question regarding animating logos. Specifically, I wanted to achieve this effect using after effects (if there is an easier way, lmk).
https://dribbble.com/shots/...
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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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How can I change my workflow or use Simple Choke to get my desired effect?
So I am trying to animate a logo. I'm far from a master of AE, but I usually figure things out, but this time I am at a loss. I have two visual goals, outside of the animation itself: have these ...
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After effects not showing TWO composition panels
I am using after effect 2020. Suddenly composition panel splits into two part. I do not understand how does this happen.
I want one compotation panel like old times. please help :'(
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How to achieve result of a 2 Layer setup(top one is Overlay blend) with a multiple default images combination?
Imagine we have a 2 layer setup like this:
Top Layer + (Blend Mode: Overlay)
this layer shows a half-transparent smoke cloud - very bright in the center starting at white with smooth color transitions ...
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How to make resize handle visible in After Effects final rendering?
I'm am making an interaction design of a wireframe wherein I want to show the geometric lines such as the resize handle.
The pen tool path with handles etc.
Is there a plugin that allows me to show ...
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How to drill/cut a solid, using a text as a template?
Imagine a situation where I have a solid and a text.
I would like the content of the text to be taken subtracted from the solid behind it.
Text and solid (I did it in GIMP, which is the program I know ...
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How can I create floating objects animation
How can I make these kind of animation?
Like in this project by Pentagram studio. https://www.pentagram.com/work/unesco-futures-literacy-summit
Or this https://bangbangeducation.ru/
Is it AE, Cinema ...
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AfterEffect. Arrow with stationary origin, moving head
need help animating an arched arrow in adobe after effect. Here is an animation “draft” of what type of movement i need to create:
or you can download a video here.
animation draft
That is:
The ...
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How did they reduce a composition to a single layer in another composition
I've been watching this solar youtube video to create a solar surface and I don't understand how he took 3 layers in the "Star Map" composition and made them into one layer on the "Sun&...
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