After Effects

HelloI just started my first job with AE.I want to do a very simple thing: animate text (to be precise, only 3 short words) with one of the excellent effect built in, which was delivered with the product.But I realized, that the end result of the eff

As you can see above, when I move the CTI to view animation (which is supposed to be inside the circle), this box appears by turning my annimation in a square.  What path to follow to change the settings.  Thanks Mark

I'm trying to get a grip on smart render, and prerender and starting with what I would do is just set up the simplest condition, visited smart does not actaully do anything to the image. In this case, prerender should he always layer and chip make it

I'm trying to reproduce this effect. I recognize the background effect called "ethereal" in the "synthetic" group, but not the rest. " I am looking for the text effect that makes the ray of light shines through the text. What is a plugin?

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a hyperlink in AE? I'm working on a project that I export as a .swf for use on a web site. I know how to do this in Flash, but impossible to find info on doing in AE.I searched through aid PDF, done a web

A year ago I implemented a long sequence of dissolve titles in CS3 using effect > text > basic text. I just opened this project in CS4, hoping to use it as a template for a new sequence - but found that the basic text option had disappeared, and that

I have an animation object by using position and rotation keyframes.I want the parent for this layer objects, but required their offset in time.I prefer not to use expressions, but if that's the way onlygo, you'd be grateful someone can give me the t

Noob.I'm confused by the pen tool and masks.I got a tutorial and it worked OK,now in the field it doesn't.I want to draw a mask around an object.I click once with the tool pen to leave a point.I click a 2nd time and drag, expects the Bézier handles.b

Every 10 minutes or so, no matter what I do, monitors everything is covered by a light shade of gray or white with a small blue circle in the Center (a Windows thing) AE said above "the program has stopped responding". It is finally online after a mi

Tried all the usual places for a couple of hours looking for a tutorial how do the elements in a photo still appear 3D. A lot of people, but not really good tuts. I came across this piece and think it's just amazing. Probably just a little over my he

Last night I opened After Effects CS4 to rotate and to scale an image. But when I click on the layer and twirl down the transform tab, the values in yellow, which are often to the right of the values are missing! And I do not know how to retrieve.So

OK, here's the deal.When I change a value, my video does not show the changes until I let go of my mouse.When I move my video, my video is seen in wired mode until I have let go of my mouse.Here is an examplehttp://reels.CreativeCOW.NET/film/problem-

I imported an audio file in my calendar.  When I select the RAM preview it will play the song from the beginning, but how can I play the song in real time in order to change and synchronize words with the video?  I want to pass the bar of chronology

HelloI'm on a Mac using CS4I use Premiere Pro and in it there are many presets for specific project.   I use the XDCAM presets for XDCAM EX1 pictures.In the Composition AE preset, there is not a predefined as in RP Pro XDCAM.I think I'm going to answ

I was watching a tutorial on AETUTS.com and he says you can import a folder.  When Ido does not have a 'File Import' button that they appear.   I have to select each room of the images I want to import directly.I use AE CS4 on Mac.  This could be the

I was told that moka is included in CS4 Production Premium. Where is he? It's not the disk installation or anywhere in the program that I see.

Associates thread: http://forums.Adobe.com/message/1788602#1788602I want to export FLV (for Flash and Acrobat) files. I know that, because most of my animations is rasterized and especially with mixtures etc. However, I would like to keep in some way

There is a new AIR application for searching and browsing the hotkeys.

I need to take pieces back a lot of movement of the forawrd. Is there a way I can share a precomp between documents? I think I can ask this before and the answer is no, you need to make the parts for a while, write its xy, position etc. and alll the

I downloaded the trial version of Affter Effects on my Mac.  When I double click on the installation launches the installer box, profile system checks with the bar travel nearly 80% through progression at the end and then I get a window saying loadin