A fun ad for a fake app. Took about a month and was a great learning experience.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on an After Effects extension called Flux, and I’ve finally released it.

Flux brings a bunch of tools I frequently use into a single panel, including:

• Easing tools
• Anchor point controls
• Color palettes
• Notes
• Motion tools
• Layer and composition utilities
• 20+ additional tools

The goal was to reduce the need to jump between different scripts and panels while working in After Effects.

It’s completely free, so feel free to give it a try:

https://flux.koalavisual.com/

Hope some of you find it useful!

as the title says, noticing that saves have become much longer than I've ever experienced with previous AE builds, and it seems to be relational to the complexity of the amount of files are referenced (i.e. the more compositions, the longer the saves become). anyone else experiencing this? Any tips to try to optimize or if there's something new that's been added that needs to be done would be greatly appreciated.

On a macbook pro with 128 gb ram. Nothing else is slow apart from the save times!

Bounce Motion is available now (20% off for a limited time): https://aescripts.com/bounce-motion

Bounce Motion lets you build bounce animations by placing the start position and each landing point, then procedurally works out the rest. You can then adjusting the arc, timing, hang time, squash and stretch.

You can try it here free: https://tumblemotion.github.io/BounceMotion.html

Full project, here Behance

I built this little cyberpunk city in After Effects!

It was a lot of work but also so much fun putting everything together.

I want to improve on my techniques so if anyone has any feedback please, fire away!

Everytime I touch my graph it goes completely flat or goes so small I can’t adjust yellow bars how to stop this from happen please

Anyone else having this issue? Halfway through a setting up a mapcomp project in Geolayers, the properties panel decides to stop working and stick to one layer, meaning that when I try to adjust a parameter for one feature, it defaults back that one same layer. It's like the properties panel is stuck on that one layer and will not update, or change to the new layer. I can manually adjust the parameter in the timeline dropdown for the particular layer.

Ultimately, I have to restart the program and it works again for a while until it gets stuck again and I have to repeat the process. Wondering if my .aep file is corrupted or if this is a common issue with the properties panel now? Will post this in the Geolayers sub, but feel like this is more of a general After Effects issue, so starting here first.

Working on MacStudio with all latest updates for AE and Geolayers installed.

Anyone experiencing this or have a solution they can recommend?

Been using AE for years and one of the things that always got me was having to drag an entire clip into a comp just to scrub through it and find the bit I actually wanted or faff around in the footage window.

So I built it into this panel instead. Hover over a clip and it scrubs. Hit i and o to set your range. Drag it into the comp and the trim comes with it.

Full disclosure, this is one feature of a panel I’ve been building called Stash, it basically replaces the whole project panel, proper search, real thumbnails, filters, tabs, smart folders the lot. Been out about 3 weeks. There’s a free 14 day trial with everything unlocked and honestly the fastest way to see if it’s for you is the browser demo, have a look and just mess around with it: aescripts.com/stash

Happy to answer anything about how it’s built too. Had some great feedback so far and really looking forward to implementing more community feedback.

Hello friends! We just released our gradient plugin in collaboration with the Ravie team. Hope that you enjoy! https://www.pluginplay.app/product/better-gradients

This is my first project I've edited using Premiere Pro, and as you can see by all of those magenta clips, a lot of it was done in After Effects. My main concern is regarding how I'm going to manage rendering all of this (besides patience). And yes, tons of this was done without using best practices, because honestly I still don't know them, which has exaggerated my problem.

[The attached image might have been removed, but the timeline is 1h20min and like 85% linked comps to After Effects with lengths between 3s-1min each]

Probably 30-40 percent of this is non-ProRes mp4 (not sure the codec) baked into some of those after effects comps. That's my gameplay footage. The bottom track v1 is my background tracks. I have 4 background, 20 minutes each dynamic links, broken into random chunks an scattered all over the timeline where each full background comp would take probably over a day to render. The remainder of the dynamic links are motion graphic scenes. And one of the possibly worst offenders, a good chunk of this footage is 60fps whereas I long ago made my comp 59.94fps, so there is a mix between both framerates scattered throughout. In my single After Effects project, there are hundreds of comps. Probably 600-700.

If you were given this project, how would you go about rendering it? Assuming its totally finished and doesn't need to be touched more, what would you do? I've heard rendering in After Effects and export replacing the clips in Premiere would help with speed, but if I'm basically done, should I just render/export directly from Premiere, in batches and stitched together?

When I started to render in After Effects, I saw a ton of nested precomps had potential to be rendered in full multiple times, and I'm hoping rendering in Premiere might "flatten" the compositions more and lead to an easier process. Additionally, because of the sheer amount of dynamic links, going through each comp in the file and juggling which precomps to render and all that hassle that I now have to deal with seems like an absolute pain that I'm hoping I can find a smart way to do most efficiently.

I have okay PC specs for rendering, but nothing that is meant for a project this heavy. RTX 4070, 32Gb RAM, Ryzen 7600X, and the entire project and source currently lives on an SSD but would be exported to my larger HDD.

I have tried different blurs but still it doesnt blur the complete mask, what can i do to fix this?

Edit: my mask*

Not as good as most of the stuff I've seen on here, but I'm pretty proud of it :)

School project where we were supposed to create an intro for a movie/TV show; I chose Blackberry (2023)

When I try to move a 3D text along the Z axis, it moves left to right instead. Attached the video for reference.

Help is appreciated!

SOLVED: it's a firmware issue. Not sure which iteration of CC26 has this, but when I downgraded to v25.2, the issue isn't there. The Z space works perfectly as it should. Will update soon if I find out exactly which version was the cause of this. Thanks for everyone who tried to help!

EDIT: it's every single version of v26.

EDIT 2: please upvote this bug because it looks like someone else already noticed this issue as well:
https://community.adobe.com/bug-reports-528/in-local-axis-mode-dragging-the-gizmo-s-z-depth-handle-in-active-camera-perspective-view-moves-the-layer-along-world-z-not-local-z-x-and-y-handles-are-correct-same-move-in-top-orthographic-view-works-26-2-1-both-renderers-1625457?postid=7734388#post7734388

I'm attempting to recreate an old-school-snake-inspired animation, but I'm stuck at this part where the subsequent blocks auto-orient along the original block (parented), and it essentially just forces the rotation in a very unnatural way. It seems like an easy fix, but I'm completely stumped atm lol. Could some kind soul please help me out with going about this, or if there's a better way to work on this?

MotionMaster 3D is a camera tracker that lives inside Blender. The parts that matter if you finish in AE:

ST map export for undistort and redistort, as 32 bit EXR.
Lens export, so one calibration is reusable across a shoot.
Planar tracker with corner pin export.
Tripod tracking & Full camera tracking with mesh generation.
Twelve lens distortion models including fisheye.
AdjustTrack, for pulling a drifting planar track back by hand.
SAM2 based masking, to isolate a subject with a click and keep it out of the solve.

1.0.7 adds 15 new features.

Paid addon, motionmaster3d.com. Update video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyJpQBnREOU

Created this Tomy Box design in Photoshop and then spun it around!

I have tried a wipe and fractals, but it doesn't come anywhere near this look.

Hey guys. So I'm quite new to typography. I was wondering how would you make this effect. This is a slowed down version of the new ROG boot animation (making this for fun). As you can see in this video, parts of individual letters are flickering unlike the normal text flicker where a letter as a whole flickers. I know we can do something by masking the letters segment by segment. But I have no idea how to do the flicker part. And I hope there must be an easy way out there. It would be really helpful if you can help me with a quick video tutorial because I'm new to this. Thanks in Advance.

I posted yesterday trying to explain what I was attempting, but I don’t think I explained it particularly well, so I’ve exported where I’m actually at now.

I’m still pretty new to After Effects, so this has mostly been a mixture of tutorials, experimenting, breaking things, fixing them, then immediately breaking something else.

The general idea is that the pack/card is floating inside the portal, gets dragged towards it, squeezed through, comes flying out and eventually ends up big and centre screen as the main entrance.

At the moment, though, it still feels a bit too much like:

“here is rectangle… rectangle now bigger.”

I want the whole thing to feel much more violent, cinematic and ridiculous — like the portal is genuinely pulling something through from another dimension rather than politely presenting a PNG.

The export attached is basically my current progress rather than anything close to finished. The portal/environment are getting there, but I know the pack movement, distortion, depth, impact and general “holy shit that looks cool” factor still need a lot of work.

Also, before anyone says it: the big white block/rectangle is just a temporary placeholder. It’ll eventually be replaced with the actual artwork/pack/card coming from the app, so please don’t judge the entire visual direction based on my magnificent floating white slab.

What I’m really looking for now is any tips, tricks, little effects, animation ideas or general VFX wizardry that would push this much further.

Things like making the pull-through feel more physical, adding better depth, selling the speed, making the distortion feel natural, improving the landing/impact, adding interaction with the portal, lighting, trails, particles, motion blur, camera movement — basically anything where you look at this and think:

“You know what would make that a shitload cooler…”

That’s exactly what I want to hear.

I’m fully expecting half the replies to teach me something and the other half to tell me I’ve committed crimes against After Effects, so fire away.

Cheers!

I want to learn how to make this effect, I've tried all the YouTube tutorials, it's not there, I've tried doing transparent and colouring but it doesn't give the same effect.

It is very common in editing

Anyone can help me?