after-effects refers to the program Adobe After Effects which is part of the Adobe Creative Suite. It is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems, used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production.
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After Effects: Importing Illustrator sequence?
I have 200 layers in Illustrator CS6. I have another set of the same layers but where basic attributes (position, scale) have changed.
Is there a way to import these two "states" into After Effects ...
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Does alpha matte version of a clip allows to change the pattern
I'm a beginner in this field and I have to buy this clip from shutter-stock.
This clip comes with some pre-rendered patterns and has an alpha-matte version.
My question is : I want to use different ...
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Repeating Flashing Text in After Effects
I'm using After Effects CS6, and I'm deliberately trying to recreate the look of a cheap camcorder. I want that stereotypical red "REC" text and big red dot in a corner of the screen, and I want it to ...
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How do you install Adobe Production Premium CS5 on a different hard drive in windows?
Is there a way of installing Adobe Production Premium CS5 on a hard drive other than C:\? I tried changing the install path in the installer but after installing parts of the program don't work and it ...
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How to make black text accept light in After Effects
I'm trying to add a light to a scene that has black text on a white background. My goal is to keep the light in position and slide in the text. As the text slides, part of the text will be less black ...
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Where are the opacity map presets for CC Particle World in CS5 and CS6?
In versions of After Effects prior to CS5, there are opacity map presets such as Fade In, Fade Out, Constant, etc.
I can see Opacity Map under Particle in the CS6 CC Particle World, but how do I get ...
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Converting MTS for best use in After Effects?
I have a client who gave me nothing but MTS files to use in After Effects. Basically it's HD slow motion photography, shot sideways, against a greenscreen, and all he wants to do is put one 1920 x ...
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Null object to toggle volume in After Effects?
Null objects don't have volume controls, but I'd like to control many audio layers in my timeline at once.
Anyone know of a way to adjust volume or toggle mute on a bunch of layers without having to ...
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AE - Randomly place ~100 layers and then move to the middle
I currently have around 100 text layers placed in the middle of my composition in After Effects. What I would like to do is randomly place this layers around the middle and then create an animation ...
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Looking for a tile slideshow transition effet
i am looking for a way to produce this transition effect for a slideshow :
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How to export footage and burn a 16:9 PAL DVD for playback on television
I have searched everywhere and consulted many people yet no one seems to know how to solve this problem.
I have created a large project in After Effects in 16:9 format:
1280x720
Square Pixels
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Banding in Premiere preview [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Gradient banding
I have a video imported in Adobe Premier from After effect (16 bits).
Before rendered in the timeline the image looks nice but when rendered I have a ...
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AE Error : Imager Buffers exceed internal limits. Decrease the memory requirements for the rendering of this frame. (12804)
I'm kinda new to AE and having a weird issue while trying to render a 1920x1080 Composition.
After rendering about 10seconds, i get the following error:
I've checked all of my objects and i have ...
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How to preserve new audio when importing Premiere projects into After Effects?
I am working on a project in Adobe Premiere consisting of many small clips. For some of the clips I replaced the audio by unlinking the original videoclip from the original audioclip, cutting the ...
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Which Text falling and flipping animation preset or plugin is used in after effects
If you open this video on vimeo.
Then fast forward to 00:56 on the timeline you can see a text animation where the blocks of text appear like there are being flipped and falling. I want to know what ...
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Audio and Frames Not in Sync in RAM Preview
Asked this question before... having same problem.
When I go to the RAM preview of After Effects, the audio of the video will play on sync for a while, then will get screwy. Sometimes the audio will ...
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Why is after effects turning my Prores audio into white noise
I have some footage that I converted from red to prores444. I am able to view the converted mov in quicktime and the audio sounds fine. However, I when import it to Efter Effects, the audio previews ...
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How can I make the particular trail longer in After Effects CS4?
How can I make the particular trail longer?
Why when I animate the particular do I only have a trail when I parent it to an Object or Emitter?
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After effects rendering
I have a small problem with rendering.When i render with default setting my video size is more than 1 GB and i was using only 10 pics, some solids and 1 null object.Can you please tell me what setting ...
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How to mask out brush in After effects
I've run into a little snag.
I can't seem to mask out some of the brush that I've used on a an empty layer.
I create the mask but it simply doesn't mask out anything, it does however mask out pixels ...
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How to render an After Effects composition without DRM protection
How can you render a .wmv video file in After Effects without DRM protection, there doesn't seem to be an option when rendering.
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This composition im rendering is basically a small animation ...
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No experience with AE, I want to create a Kinetic Typographic video. Am I being too ambitious?
Ok so I have this presentation thing for next week, and I have to make a explainer video. I'm super torn between whiteboard animation (I can do this) and kinetic typographic video. I really want to ...
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Tips for recording pen and paper
I've got a set-up where I'm using an iPad to record myself writing something on a white sheet of paper (with less-than-perfect lighting, of course). I'm recording a video in 1080p, and would like to ...
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3d max change the opacity of an object's edges rendered in After Effects.
I want to change the opacity of the edge of an object so that when I render it and import to After Effects, it would match with the background video and feather at the edge of objects.
Cant place ...
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Good place to learn about every option/button in Adobe After Effects?
In particular, right now anyway, I want to know what the following under Animation menu do:
Track Camera
Track in mocha AE
Warp Stabilizer
Track Motion
Looking for a text-based explanation.
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animating a line that is a 3d layer in after-effects
Got a question that's really been bothering me for the past few days. I've searched everywhere and can't find the answer!
What I'd like to do
I'm trying to draw a 2D smiley face with the pen tool on ...
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Glitch effect won't work
I'm learning After Effects from scratch so sorry if this is obvious but whenever I try to make one part of an image 'glitch' I create a section of the image and place it in the middle but when I press ...
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Why does After Effects shear my last frame in a loop?
Following the short tutorial here to make a loop in After Effects using time remapping and the loopOut() expression I encountered some odd behaviour.
In the tutorial it is mentioned that when this ...
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How to resolve error 0xc000007b opening Adobe After Effects? [migrated]
I have installed Adobe CS6 on Windows 8 and get the error "0xc000007b" every time I open open Adobe After Effects. All other Adobe software, including Photoshop and Premiere Pro work perfectly. I have ...
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Automate turning on and off Twixtor effect in After Effects
While using Twixtor in After Effects, you can automate the speed of the clip by manipulating the "Speed %" under "Output Control". Now, since there's no good way to do time-remapping natively in After ...
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How can I achieve the following visual equalizer effect?
Alright, This is a big question and I understand that something like this might require a lot of explaining, but I really need to figure out how its done, I will link to the video which shows exact ...
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Audio Not Playing on Imported Video Files
I a currently editing a video and imported a .avi movie into my After Effects project. I went to check the RAM preview, but there was no sound. I checked the audio preview and there still was no ...
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After Effects: Set Alpha/Matte to hdr layer without clamping the values to 0-1 range
I have a .hdr sequence as well as a .tga sequence. the .tga sequence contains the alpha channel to be used for the .hdr sequence.
The problem is that if I apply the alpha channel to my hdr sequence ...
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How do I play swf files?
I just exported a swf file from after effects cs5 comp_1.swf. It created automatically two other files: comp1r.htm and AC_RunActiveContent.js.
Whenever I click over the comp_1.swf icon the flash ...
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Adding 3d animations in a video
For a project we need 3d animations to start unfolding whilst a person is walking. The video camera will be moving. Using After effects, achieve such a thing?
Also what is this called? So I can also ...
