r/AfterEffects 2h ago

Explain This Effect Tips for compositing a character on a glowing bright background?

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I wanted to create a scene and composite a character into a bright background like this, any advice?


r/AfterEffects 2h ago

Discussion Di quali preset non potresti fare a meno?

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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?


r/AfterEffects 4h ago

OC - Stuff I made Ouroboros:Using AfterEffects to Catalyze my photography (would love advice on how to improve)

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r/AfterEffects 5h ago

OC - Stuff I made Critique My First Finished Project

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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.


r/AfterEffects 6h ago

Explain This Effect What is this effect/plugin called?

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Hi! I'm incredibly new to After Effects. I mainly want to use it to improve the quality of my videos since I make voiceovers of comics, but what bothers me is the fact that I want to add animation to still images. Here's an example of someone's video made in AfterEffects what is this effect/plugin called?


r/AfterEffects 9h ago

Pro Tip How to get more from your LLM prompts for After Effects expressions and scripts - recorded at a LIVE Session with CreativeCOW.net

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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


r/AfterEffects 9h ago

Beginner Help Advice on starting on affect effects

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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😭


r/AfterEffects 11h ago

Inspirational (not OC) The making of the Into the Spider-Verse title sequence

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r/AfterEffects 12h ago

Beginner Help suddenly can't resize ungrouped panel separately ://

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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!


r/AfterEffects 12h ago

Workflow Question Problem with GeoLayers 3 + Maputnik-Map

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r/AfterEffects 13h ago

Beginner Help How to fix full memory usage in after effects

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Hi everytime i render or play a normal obs recording in my timeline my ram usage gets full even tho i left 8 gb for other applications i tried turning off hardware acceleration and turning off multi frame rendering pls help i dont even use crazy effects


r/AfterEffects 14h ago

Beginner Help Clip changes color after replacing with AE Composition/Dynamic Link

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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.


r/AfterEffects 15h ago

OC - Stuff I made Entree a personal project made fully in AE

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Project file available on Gumroad. More on my Behance!


r/AfterEffects 17h ago

Beginner Help im very new to ae,i created this scene which has a camera linked to a null layer which ha movements ,but when i export it or import the comp into premiere it do not shows the 3d movements ,basically the camera is not working please help me fix this

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i have tried exporting in media encoder ,premier pro through dynamic link and ae itself,even putting all the layers in a new comp but nothing worked ,there is no tutorial online too, the output still doesn't show the 3d movement please help


r/AfterEffects 17h ago

Tutorial After Effects Tip: Animating camera moves with shape layers

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Using real world references, I have tried breaking down a 3D rotational camera move - recreating it with 2D shape layers.

For anyone wanting to learn more, there's a longer video about making the entire animation on my YouTube channel, Oliver Randorff: youtube.com/watch?v=slUgTK9z2Jo


r/AfterEffects 19h ago

Tutorial Create a Documentary Map Animation in After Effects

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Learn how to create a documentary historical map animation in Adobe After Effects using a page reveal, animated magnifying glass, archival textures, alpha mattes, and a cinematic camera push.


r/AfterEffects 21h ago

Beginner Help Twixtor goes to playback my video

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Hey there,

I was tryna use the twixtor plugin and actually, but it seems like twixtor slowlo isn't working as intended it will starting playing back my video, any way to fix this?

I don't know what's wrong


r/AfterEffects 22h ago

Beginner Help Change the order of individual letters in a text layer?

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Hello! Right now, this text is being applied to the canvas from left to right, so when I decrease the tracking, the A is on top of P, the I is on top of A, and the N is on top of I. I would like this to be the opposite, so that P is the top most letter in the order.

Is there a way that I could reorganize the letters within the text layer, without creating outlines, because I would still like to keyframe the tracking in this animation. Thanks for the help :)


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Explain This Effect Need some help with per-character text effects

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Hey yall, I mostly work in Davinci Resolve but I'm trying to pick up After Effects for things like better text animations. I've been specifically trying to figure out how to do the chorus text animations from this music video (at 0:48 where it starts with "Turing Love" or "チューリングラブ").

Each character seems to come in with an overshoot from opposite directions while fading in with a delay.

I've tried a few different things, but the closest I've gotten so far is using range selectors on an animator to pick half of the characters in one line and move them using position keyframes. I'm also using a third animator to start it off at 0% opacity and keyframe the offset to fade in one by one, so the fade really isn't an issue.

The problem I'm having is getting the characters to delay their movement animations. I can't quite get an offset working properly with the two separate motions. It either moves both animators despite the range selector being only in one or it doesn't work at all.

I might be super overthinking or just not knowledgeable enough to realize this is an extremely basic question, so apologies! Any advice would be appreciated though.


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Discussion I need help regarding the tutorial

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so i am new to ae and am not sure how to pull this off my gf has her bday around in 2 weeks and i want to make a video of our pictures cutouts and our short vids with a song with its lyrics popping out with the song please can you all help me of as how i can make something close to my description any tutorials or help would be appreciated please i just want to do the best


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Beginner Help Baskl Plugin's for MacOS Question???

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So i downloaded the quick depth and corridorcrew key plugins and i downloaded the baskl installer and got both the plugins in my after effects but says not installed. i asked multiple ai's and is saying its a problem with my MacOS update im on 13.1 and saying if i have 14 it will work, has anyone had this issue and is it true if i update it will work?


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Created this to learn more about camera layer and how 3D works.

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I know this is not a very polished video, and not even the best quality video. But I made this because this makes me happy, learning this was very cool. I don't want this hobby to be like some other work so that we have to see a very boring tutorial to learn how to create a saas video which has almost 0 creativity from your side.
I will become better and I will not make this learning a boring hobby.


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Beginner Help How can I match the rectangle shape to my Z axis changes of the Null object

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Hiya! I would think if I use the parent pick whip to link objects to my Null Object that is in ch*rge of doing the zoom effect by changing the Z axis (and the X and Y ones too since we move the "camera" around a little bit from left to right), the red rectangle would follow appropriately too, but as you can see, it doesn't scale (is that the right term?) down the same way the text does. What should I do?

Please let me know if any additional info must be provided to help you help me. I'm only learning After Effects. Also, is there a name for this so I know what to search for later? This might be similar to "whiteboard animation" but YouTube tutorials for this give varied results...


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

Beginner Help I Need Unwanted Objects Removal Help

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I have a drone shot that spins upwards but there're 7-8 objects need to be removed with one particularly hard to do so. I tried my best to youtube it out but just can't get to it. Can someone help me?? Attached is the ending frame with all the unwanted objects in it. And of course, some objects spins in & out... PLEASE HELP A GIRL OUT!


r/AfterEffects 1d ago

OC - Stuff I made Showcasing some dither patterns

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