Help in After effects

Hallo!
I like to move an airplane over a map and the aircraft has to leave a coloured stripe to see from were to were the aicraft has moved.
I want to realize this effect with after effect. Please give me a hint for realisation
Werner

Draw a shape layer path (Formebene), apply a trim paths modifier and animate its end parameter. Make the stroke dashed. More on that in the online help. For the airplane, copy&paste the shape layer path to the position property of your aircraft layer, then extend the keyframes to match the duration of the stroke being drawn.
Mylenium

Similar Messages

Need help with after effects render engine setup

I use AE CS6 on a mac computer running Mountain Lion. I also own a PC running Windows 7, and I am wanting to use it to assist with network rendering. How do I install the after effects render engine on a PC, when all that I own is the Mac version of the software?
Any help would be appreciated

Did you purchase a perpetual license for the software, or do you have a Creative Cloud Membership subscription?
If the former, you need to purchase an additional license to get the Windows version. If the latter, you can just download the Windows version as part of your subscription.

Need Help With After Effects. Please read.

Hey,
So I'm using after effects cs6. The problem I have with it is that the final video after exporting stucks in between and never runs smoothly. I exported my almost 7 minutes video as a quicktime file that is (.mov). SO whenever I play the video in quicktime or any other player, it stucks, sometimes i pause it but it pauses after 10 seconds i click the pause button. sometimes the voice is ahead of sound and vice-versa. It doesnt stuck at the same point everytime. I need my video to run smoothly. Can someone please help.
Appreciate your reply.
Thanks

FAQ: Why is my output file huge, and why doesn't it play back smoothly in a media player?

Need urgent help on After Effects CS4

Hi,
I am completely NEW to after effects.
I have a project with 20 frames. I have two audio clips which have been editted to fit all the 20 frames.
Q1. When i add the audio clips to frame 1, frame 2, so on... the clips begins from the very start (0.00 seconds) for each frame. However, I want it to play from Frame 1 (0.00 secs) to Frame 20 (1min 45 secs) in one go. What should I do?
Q2. How can I preview the whole movie from frame 1 to frame 20 with the audio, in one go?
Q3. How do convert this project into a proper movie? what am I suppose to do!? !?!
I am really messed with all this!
Please help me asap with this. I've got to finish this today urgently!!!!!!

UPDATED QUERY
Hi,
I am completely NEW to after effects.
I have a project with 20 compositions. I have two audio clips which have been editted to fit all the 20 compositions.
Q1. When i add the audio clips to composition1, composition2, so on... the clips begins from the very start (0.00 seconds) for each composition. However, I want it to play from composition1 (0.00 secs) to composition20 (1min 45 secs) in one go. What should I do?
Q2. How can I preview the whole movie from composition1 to composition20 with the audio, in one go?
Q3. How do convert this project into a proper movie? what am I suppose to do!? !?!
I am really messed with all this!
Please help me asap with this. I've got to finish this today urgently!!!!!!

Help menu help loads After Effects 7 Help

Using Golive CS2, when I go to the help menu and choose Golive Help, After Effects 7 help opens instead, with a dropdown menu that has no listing for Golive Help. I just reinstalled Golive CS2, the update, and a help update to no effect.

First, ensure you have the latest help centre and Golive Help package:
Help Centre 2.1:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3171
Help Package: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3091
*Ensure the file GoLive_8.0_en-us.zip is in the Adobe Help
Centre\AdobeHelpdata\Packages folder.*
There are a couple of Techdocs relating to the Help Centre:
331717 Help window doesn't appear when you start Adobe Help Center
(Windows XP, 2000)
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331717.html
319210 Adobe Help Center is missing content or returns the error, "The
topic you want to view applies to a CS2 product you have not installed."
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/319210.html
If those don't help:
1. Try deleting the Help Preference file by holding down CTRL+ALT+SHIFT
whilst starting Help.
2. Assuming ahc.exe is located in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Help Center,
delete the following folders
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Help Center\AdobeHelpData\Cache
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Help Center\AdobeHelpData\Database
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Help Center\AdobeHelpData\Preferences
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Help Center\AdobeHelpData\Search
The only folder under C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Help Center\AdobeHelpData
you should have left is one called packages.
Run ahc.exe
What should happen is that your help centre database should get rebuilt
(you will see progress messages as it process each help package) and
everything should work.

Help my after effects keeps crashing

my affter effects cs6 keeps crashing when i add effects or after a period of around 10 mins... ive used this for about a year and its never done this! i have pleanty of RAM and SPACE for after effects and allowed it 400 GB for cach and 4 gb of RAM.. i cleared cach and it still popping up when i open after effects saying : cach almost full not enough disk space!

We need to know a lot more if we're going to help you. Please provide answers to the questions listed here: "FAQ: What information should I provide when asking a question on this forum?"

HELP ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS CS 5.5 KEEPS CRASHING

As soon as I load up adobe after effects it crashs. The load up thing stops at Intializing MediaCore and starts to say it is not responding and closes. But when I load up premiere pro CS 5.5 it works and has no problems at all. PLEASE HELP ME

In addition to the additional information Mylenium suggests (info about your computer, versions of software, etc.) it would also be helpful if you would mention how long it was working before it started crashing and anything that you can think of that changed between the last time it worked and all the crashing now.

Hi i need help with After effects 7 please

Hey i have installed AE7 but days later this error appears and i cant open the application, can somebody help me?
after effects warning: unknow BIB error. Invalid cncoding, BRV, 0

It may be a hard disk problem.
Check your disks before installing.
Dual G5 @ 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Help with After Effects error 213:11

I try to open my project on after effects and after effects wont open. It tells me that and says to restart my computer which I have tried many times to no success. I have reinstalled it twice and still doesn't work. Please help.

You have not actually told us any relevant technical details liek what computer we are talking about. This is a licensing error, so from a botched instal lto something on your system blocking the licensing services anything could be going on, but based on your non-info we just cannot know.
Mylenium

Help with After Effects CS6 error please?

I'm working on a kinetic typography project in CS6 as my final assignment for my Motion Graphics class. It's nothing too complex, just some text to some song lyrics and I decided I wanted to do some camera movements around the text but when I checked the 3D box next to the layers, I get an error message,
88:3, "error: TDL:outline contains triangles that are too small to be rendered. Check for very thin triangles in original artwork."
I literally only have one background picture and then quite a few text layers but that's it.
Any help on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated!

I'm still kind of new to After Effects and working with vector so I apologize if I'm not too savvy with all of this. Here's a screenshot of my composition if that's of any help.
*Edit: Oh and my text doesn't need any extrusions, the only 3D transformations I've made to the text layers is "pulling" their positions a little closer on the Z axis.

Help with After Effects? Null Layer and Text not working?

In after effects cs5.5 on mac, im motion tracking as normal, and the track works fine, then when i add the null layer and edit the tracking target to the null layer, the screen goes black, and all i can see is the null layer as a red box moving along the motion track path (i cant see the path) also, whenever i try to add text, (which im trying to motion track via attatching to the null layer) the text is invisible, when the screens black, all i can see is the wire frame of the text next to the square null layer, im pretty new to after effects, but im following tutorials as i should, and its just not working as it shows in all the videos ive tried, please help!

Check whether you have wireframe mode enabled/ Live Update disabled. Sounds like one of those cases. Other than that this could be OpenGL issues, so turn it off in the prefs. Also check your comp size vs. the size of the footage you are tracking. Tracking works relative to the layer, so if the comp is too small, the values would be so large they end up being outside the comp.
Mylenium

Help with after effects Please

Im trying to leran how to make 3d photos in after effects .
Unfortunatley i cant find any instructions that help me with my problems when i import my layered photoshop document and double click the composition layer i just get a huge black box in the middile of the screen.
i can view the layers individually but not as a whole to play with. is there a 2d to 3d book for dummies? ha ha
can any one help????

If your imported file is not working the color space is probably not RGB. AE only works properly with RGB files.
I think you are looking for 'the kid stays in the picture' / or more accurately, camera mapping or camera projection techniques. This is where you separate the foreground background and middle ground elements of a photograph into separate layers, bring them into a 3D app like AE's 3D space, distribute them in 3D space, and then animate a camera move on the layers.
There's a plug-in from Video Copilot that kind of automates this process and that works very well for certain photographs. Photoshop's vanishing point tool can also be used, or you may do all of the work of separating layers by hand (my preferred method 95% of the time) and bring the PSD into AE as a comp, convert the layers to 3D, distribute them on the Z axis, add a camera and animate the camera.

VANISHING POINT HELP - PHOTOSHOP / AFTER-EFFECTS

I've followed along with the Vanishing Point tutorials and can't get them to work, Ill create my image in Photoshop and apply the Vanishing Point filter, create 4 walls and a background, all blue grids, export the .vpe and load into AFX and I get distorted images that don't look like my scene, it appears that Photoshop is incorrectly slicing the images and so when loaded onto the geometry it doesn't look at all correct, HELP what am I doing wrong?
EXAMPLES OF HOW IT LOOKS IN AFX:

Hi Jeremiah,
Please mention the exact version of Photoshop that was used to create the VPE and also the version of After Effects that you are using with the details of Operating system.
Regards,
Vinay

HELP! After Effects CS 6 BUG?

Hi,
i have a problem with my After Effects CS6 on Mac:
I import a footage and create an new sequenz. Ok everything works right. But now I go for example to frame 20 (The clip is 1000 frames long!) and hit alt + ä (I use a german keyboard! It's the same like alt+ ]). After Effects trims the clip but not on frame 20, it trims it on fram 21 and frame 21 is black!!! But the layer is long as frame 21! If i hit O i am on frame 20!
I tried to reset the settings without sucess! Can you help me, please?

You're not making any sense. Frames are sampled at their "beginning", so naturally if you trim on frame 20 and zoom in, there will be some are right of the timeline indicator - the rest of frame 20's duration in real physical time. This is nothing wrong and has forever worked this way unless you are describing something else. Of course we don't know anything about your footage interpretation or comp framerate, so there could be some problem if you make a mess...
Mylenium

Help with after effects cc application manager error

ok i have a issue when i install adobe after effects cc it comes up with cant start trial application manager is damaged or corrupted and i downloaded adobe aplication manger 8 and it gives me this error
does anyone have any ideas as i lost on what to do now
thanks in advance elfen

After checking we performed the test Next:
          Remove all fonts except the original.
          Test opening After Effects project => OK
          Then we submitted the most used by the graphics progessivement fonts.
The problems is many Fonts, Thanks for your help Will
Cdlt

Help in After effects

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for