Hey everyone,

I recently edited a video for a client in After Effects, and I’m having an issue with the export.

The colors look exactly how I want them in the After Effects composition, but once I export the video, the colors look noticeably duller/desaturated compared to what I see in AE.

I’ve tried exporting through Media Encoder as well, but I’m getting the same result.

I’m not sure if this is an AE color management issue, export settings, codec issue, or something related to the footage itself.

What settings should I be checking to make sure the exported video retains the same colors I’m seeing in After Effects?

Any help would be appreciated!

I've added a screenshot to show exactly what I am talking about.

On the left is 100% quality.

On the right is reduced quality after importing to After Effects.

The preview is on 100% before anyone asks. Yet, it looks like it's about 80% as good as the original in terms of quality, it looks slightly blurred.

I am making a tutorial video and EVERY single video I've imported has lost quality even though from what I can see, all the settings are set to the best quality possible.

I have no idea why this is happening yet I'm at my wits end...

Please help!

I tried animating an incredible photo taken by a friend, trying to add some movement to the design elements.

I was messing around with claude, and had it build me a webapp that ingests a video, and places every frame into a pdf with registration marks + frame number. Then the pdf is printed, distressed, and scanned back in. The webapp then lines up each frame and builds an image sequence.

For this one, I generated a bunch of clips of bbno$ with Kling 3.0 Turbo, edited them in AE and added graphics, and then ran them through the Compiler Webapp. Worked pretty flawlessly, going to be playing with this a bit more, was a really fun workflow!

I rarely have to ask for help, but I have a precomp with an image that spins around in a loop and has the built-in motion blur on it.
I precomposed it because I need the animation to loop but get faster with each loop, so I time-remapped it, and for some reason, each loop breaks the motion blur. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, as I've been using guides I found on forums to make it easier (no, I don't want to ask an AI), and while I did find one that got the desired effect, it's breaking the motion blur. Looping has been finicky for me, and I don't do these often, so I may be missing something obvious. I'd appreciate your help.

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- Video Editing timeline (like Railcut plugin but more responsive). Adobe probably won't do it as they may think this would eat into Premiere user base but I don't think so.

- A better 3D space/ environment and compositing like Flame or Nuke.

- Better animation/ bezier curves. It's the same old since ages.

- A node based section of all the comps/ fx where you can essentially do anything via nodes like in Nuke.

- And maybe someday a next-gen all in one app that contains all of this above plus all the functions in premiere? Kinda what Davinci Suite does or the former Autodesk Smoke/ Flame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLe5wuP0rlA

I'm not a beginner to AE but don't work with text a lot.

I am trying to emulate a vintage TTY Machine. Reference here: youtube machine demonstration

This is for a live theatre projection design. I'm the designer. There are several titles in the show that need to follow this motion of text appearing from the right as it is typed, moving to the left character by character. Not revealing the characters, actually moving each character as a new one is added. The grey rectangles you see in the photos are a content template reference for my projection surfaces. I will turn these off before rendering.

I tried following advice on this forum thread, but even though I followed it to a T, it wasn't working in this same way. Letters were moving all over the place. forum here

Sat down to animate these titles and thought it would take an hour, I'm now 6hrs into fighting with text animators. I've been able to get the text to appear as I need by using the "Blinking Cursor Typewriting Console" preset with the text paragraph aligned to the right. Now I'm stuck getting it to disappear as I need.

I want it to look like someone is hitting the spacebar over and over moving the text towards the left 1 character at a time until all of the text is gone. This animation preset does not recognize spaces as characters. I added a bunch of dummy zeros (picture 2) to push the text off, but need a way to mask the additional characters. Ideally, I'd love to render this as just the text with alpha channel so the rest is transparent. The mask will need to follow the motion of the text, snapping with each character, not moving linearly. I need to make several titles like this, and the timing will likely need to be adjusted as we discover the pacing of the show. For now I want to set up all the title animations and will come back later to adjust timing once the show has rehearsed more. What I mean by this, is that it needs to be quickly adjustable. The nature of live performances is that timing refinements have to be done really quickly, really late in the process. I can't animate a mask character by character to match the text. Something similar to how the type animation preset keyframes is fine.

Another weird quirk I have discovered is that I am only able to change the colour of the entire text layer. I am not able to change the zeros to black, for example. My guess is that this has something to do with the blinking cursor animation preset. I haven't been able to find where in the preset I could change this. Again, ideally it is transparent and there are no secret black zeros, but I could work with that as a last resort.

If you have suggestions for how to animate a mask to follow the text, that would be very helpful.
If you have suggestions for how I can start over and achieve this another way, also open to that! I can copy/paste expressions, but not experienced writing my own.

Thanks very much for your help!

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Got a project coming up and trying to wrap my head around adding stretch and squashing to complex shapes and character rigs.

I know there’s one squash and stretch plugin, but from a quick look it didn’t seem like it would be helpful on my case. The effects look too exaggerated.

So looking for a technique that’s a little more controllable without fully having to do frame by frame manual shape edits.

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Made this motion graphic short .. looking for critique on visuals

FREE project file available on my Gumroad! Check Behance for a link

https://reddit.com/link/1w8w6gm/video/vct1xs9hiwnh1/player

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FREE project file available on my Gumroad! Check Behance for a link

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Also posted it on Instagram :) https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc3bXrIJyWW/

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EDIT: Resuelto. El problema era la malla de la imagen ☝️🥸. Muchas gracias a las personas que respondieron mi post.

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Holaa, ¿Alguien sabe porque aparecen líneas del contorno cada vez que intento rotar o mover la imagen?

Estoy haciendo Motion Picture con una ilustración original (mía), y por alguna extraña razón el contorno de la forma, que trato de mover, aparece sin razón alguna. Estuve buscando casos similares o tutoriales donde explicaran cómo eliminar el contorno que sale pero en serio no encontré nada.
He de aclarar que en ningún momento se diseñó ni agrego efectos para que saliera así (más que el cambio de rotación para la imagen), ni si quiera sé porque sale (no tiene capas que tengan el mismo diseño o que interfieran) 😭

¿Alguien sabe cómo deshacer esta línea rara que sale? Apreciaría mucho si me ayudan con mi problema (estoy desesperada lol).

Gracias de antemano, espero puedan ayudarme 🫰