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How would I replace an Audio file in the composition that's linked to an Audio Waveform in an Adobe After Effects template? Also, How do I replace the background image from a template?

So, for reasons, I wanted to edit a gif, place a face over a face in the gif. It was intended to not be super sophisticated..just that kind of little meme gif that you see around. I could have opened the gif in photoshop and just edited each frame, but that was just way more than I wanted to do for this minor amusement. I wound up using iMovie (I'm a mac user) because I figured I could do it simply and get an ok enough result. boris.mp4 I would have preferred for the head to be bobbing around a bit as it goes, but that's beyond iMovie's abilities. (motion tracking) Though it's been a bunch of years since I played with it, I could have done it with After Effects, but that felt like using a bazooka to kill a roach. (and I can't imagine that these types of joke gif/vids are done with mega software like AE). So what would have been better to use for this kind of thing? (PC or Mac or other)

So guys here's the thing, I am a beginner in After Effects and know the basics of it and I want to create a Windows 10's Ribbon screensaver style effect in After Effect. Can anyone teach me how to do so or tell me the tools and steps at least??

So guys here's the thing, I am a beginner in After Effects and know the basics of it and I want to create a Windows 10's Ribbon screensaver style effect in After Effect. Can anyone teach me how to do so or tell me the tools and steps at least??

Hi, I'm using Asus gtx 1070 Dual as my gpu. When I am working on Adobe after effects and premiere pro, the experience is not smooth. I am experiencing same as when I didn’t have a GPU. Task Manager also showing the GPU usage is 0-2/3%. I have activated the CUDA acceleration from project settings and all drivers are updated. I use adobe encoder for rendering and also there is the same problem. My System is- Windows 10 64bit OS Desktop Intel Core i7 6600 Asus Z170 Pro gaming Motherboard 32GB corsair ram @3000MHz Asus GTX 1070 GPU Cooler master 650w PSU

So I have enabled cuda gpu acceleration in both programs, but when I render something I see on the task manager that ~90% of the cpu is being used, 95% ram and only <5% of my gpu. So I’m wondering why it isn’t using my gpu more than 5% ? My pc: Corsair graphite 230T Cooler Master B500 Ver.2 Intel LGA1150 Core i5-4690 MSI LGA1150 B85-G43 Gaming HyperX Savage DDR3 1600MHz 8GB (2x4) Gainward GeForce Gtx970 4gb GDDR5 PCI-E HyperX Savage SSD 240GB 7mm win 10

Oh dear members. Im Jonas and building my first more high end pc. So i lately have been making a part list and was wondering how others look to it, would appreciate it if some of you can get more out of this current configuration. Im making this build to use mostly professional with some casual gaming a side. I work with programs as, davinci resolve, premiere, after effects, illustrator. I will need a new monitor that is rgbs and adobergb callibrated, thats why i found the BenQ PD2500Q the most bang for the buck. Maybe others of you have a different one in mind. The storage is meant to be for the following. M.2 for windows, 250gb ssd for games, 500gb ssd for adobe and davinci programs. 2tb hdd for storage. I also want this build to be a bit aesthetically pleasing, because it will stand on my desk. Its in euro's as you see, i did put all of the information with it so you can look yourself. Thanks in advance. Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz € 446,05 1 Azerty https://azerty.nl/product/intel/3221823/core-i7-8700k-processor-3-7-ghz Corsair - H100i RGB PLATINUM SE 63 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler € 155,05 1 Azerty https://azerty.nl/product/corsair/3759911/cooling-h100i-rgb-platinum-se-wh Asus - ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard € 350,05 1 Azerty https://azerty.nl/product/asus/3639435/rog-maximus-xi-hero-wi-fi-moederbord-atx Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory € 133,90 1 Azerty https://azerty.nl/product/corsair/3543962/vengeance-rgb-pro-geheugen-ddr4 Samsung - 860 Evo 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive € 60,95 1 Azerty https://azerty.nl/product/samsung/3358643/860-evo-250gb-solid-state-drive-intern Samsung - 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive € 90,95 1 Azerty https://azerty.nl/product/samsung/3358646/860-evo-500gb-solid-state-drive-intern Samsung - 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive € 120,00 1 Azerty https://azerty.nl/product/samsung/3508836/970-evo-500gb-m-2-solid-state-drive-intern Western Digital - BLACK SERIES 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive € 120,90 1 Azerty https://azerty.nl/product/western+digital/653741/wd-black-wd2003fzex-2tb-vaste-schijf-intern Asus - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB ROG Strix Gaming OC Video Card € 895,05 1 Azerty https://azerty.nl/product/asus/3672568/rog-strix-rtx2080-8g-gaming-grafische-kaart-gf-rtx-2080 Lian-Li - PC-O11 Dynamic (White) ATX Full Tower Case € 131,96 1 Azerty https://azerty.nl/product/lian+li/3543748/pc-o11-dynamic-midtowermodel-e-atx Corsair RMx Series RM550x (2018) € 90,00 1 Azerty https://azerty.nl/product/corsair/3507333/rmx-series-rm550x-2018-voeding-intern-atx12v-2-4-eps12v-2-92 Corsair LL120 RGB Fan € 83,85 3 Magekko https://www.megekko.nl/product/1995/621798/Case-fan-120mm/Corsair-LL120-RGB-White-Single-Fan Corsair Commander PRO fancontroller € 63,00 1 Magekko https://www.megekko.nl/product/2503/999303/Fancontrollers-LCD-s/Corsair-Commander-Pro Corsair RGB Fan hub € 13,95 1 Magekko https://www.megekko.nl/product/2569/1735416/Overige-koeling/Corsair-RGB-Fan-LED-Hub BenQ PD2500Q € 289,00 1 Coolblue https://www.coolblue.nl/product/789103/benq-pd2500q.html Total € 3.044,66

how to make a square into a rectangle by stretching in after effects? when i do this it stretches both sides of the square, i only want one side of the square to stretch

I've got an old workstation I built in college for rendering and 3d work (3d animation/modeling major). My career path post college has led me more towards Marketing and Design but I still enjoy Motion Graphics and rendering and am trying to pick up more freelance work in this area. I won't get anything out of selling my old workstation but I figured it could be a killer network storage and render machine. I've made a new computer with more streamline gaming type hardware for speed now and am wanting to slap a few NAS drives in my old workstation and let it live on, it's one of my few possessions to make it out of the Camp wildfire in California. I'm wondering the best way to optimize power setting and if I should mess with any hardware besides more drives, or if a another configuration I'm not thinking of is better. My goal is After Effects and Premiere Render node, PLEX media Server, File share and redundancy backup (lost some data to the fire), and ftp (FileZilla) access to my files when I am away from home if need be. I also have some old websites I'd like to self host eventually to keep the cost down, they are just used as demos at this point for freelance work. Hear are the current specs 2 Xenon 6 core drives (slower) 48gb ram (this is when ram was cheap) Windows 10 Pro Super Micro server mobo (pain in the ass in windows 10, may downgrade to 7) AMD Firepro w7000 workstation card (same as mobo) 512gb ssd 1050w gold power supply Older Omega Audio Card (this thing is pretty sweet but fits an old pci slot, no combination of adapters got it working in my new machine) What I plan to add Network card with Wake on Lan 4 6tb NAS drives Should this thing be more of a media home center attached directly to my living room or just let plex rock it? Anything I can do to get the power usage down, pull the audio and graphics card and smaller power supply? Is windows server going to be a lot better for every application I want? I would like a workflow where I have the option to save the project and render off my main pc as well, that's why I thought maybe I should keep the graphics card in there (launching After Effects independently). Audio card maybe stays if its more of a media center with direct hookup to stereo? This setup is new for me, any advice would be appreciated!

Heres a little test thing I made for LMG's new channel, ShortCircuit! The idea was to have something that transitions seamlessly with the video Let me know what you think

Dear Linus TechTips I find myself in a bit of a struggle between After Effects powerful Keylight, and Premie Pros lesser Ultra Key. I have three ways of working right now. For all three I use my greenscreen studio with 5 lamps – two front, two for the greenscreen itself, and the last for back lighting of the subject. Computer specs: 7700k @ 4.9Ghz, no AVX offset. 64Gb RAM, GTX 1070. All material is shot in dnx hr hqx 4k on a Ninja Inferno Premiere Pro only: I apply keylighting in Premiere Pro via Ultrakey, and get a mediocre result. Rendertimes are great! 100% GPU usage, and around 15 min rendertime for a 20min clip, and an incredibly workable timeline. AE Render in Premiere Pro. Apply the Keylight effect in aftereffects, render to 10Bit Cineform, which take around 3 hours to render. Put the rendered view in Premiere Pro, and work as normal. This nets me no GPU acceleration at render, but timeline performance is great. Additional rendertime is two hours, bringing the total to five hours. Result is much prettier than UltraKey AE Project in Premiere Pro. Same workflow as above, but I just embed the AE project in Premiere instead of rendering from AE. This makes timeline performance horrendous, but the total rendertime is “only” around 2 hours and 30 minutes. Result is much prettier than UltraKey This is all fine and dandy, but I really miss working solely from Premiere, and the vastly increased performance that it brings. What can I do to enhance my experience with keying from within Premiere? Kind regards!

Hello there. Hoping some tech loving folk can help this 'content creator' out with some opinions as to if it is worth upgrading now or later, in terms of if I will see a noticeable performance gain considering my current hardware. I've been running the following for some time: 5960x, 980ti, asus x99 deluxe, 64gb ddr4, mostly m.2 ssds for startups and scratch/cache disks, SATA SSDs for project drives, and HDDs in RAID for storage. The more recently built: 8700k, 1070ti, asrock z370 extreme, 64gb ddr4, again m.2 Samsung ssds for cache and boot, SATA SSDs for projects, HDDs for storage. I found the 8700k to actually feel a bit slower for most of my workloads. Mainly Adobe AE, Premiere, and Resolve. Having originally gone for the z370 as AE is meant to rely more on single core performance rather than the high core counts. My thought being that the bottlenecks are largely caused by a lack of RAM, which AE happily maxes out with every render, especially with 4k+ projects. Also potentially my motherboard not having enough space to make use of the many SSDs, sharing bandwidth with other interfaces and the like. So if upgrading to something like an x299, 7900x, 128GB RAM, 1080ti, and a motherboard with no shortage of free lanes to support 2-3 m.2 SSDs... Do you think I will see a noticeable increase in performance? Or maybe best to wait for X399 and 9900k or 9900x? Or if not building a whole new machine, what upgrade would serve me best in terms of noticeable performance jumps? I'm really thinking about investing in 128GB DDR4 which I believe I could use in my current X99 motherboard and then transfer to a new machine if upgrading later? Or perhaps upgrading the SSDs from 950/960 evos/pros to 970s? This article explains the main question for AE users to be 128GB ram and a slower single clock speed, or 64GB RAM max and a faster single core machine. It's really hard to find anyone out there who has done any performance tests in AE with 128GB RAM and complex 4k projects in AE that really make use of it, so it does feel like a bit of a blind gamble. I'm hoping Linus starts including more content creation software benchmarks, specifically AE/Premiere. Any ideas, comments, feedback, much appreciated. And Happy Turkey day.

Hello! My name is Charles, I'm 12 and is a currently trying to be a filmmaker and a editor, I use Vegas Pro 14 for my editing software, and whenever using effects, on my clips like... color correction, chroma key, transitions and many more have seem to lag a lot during preview, so I have to watch the footage frame by frame, and when rendering takes about 2-3 hours for 1080p 30fps footage, and when using warp stabalizer on my footage using pr since I don't have a steadicam yet for my dslr, it takes about 20 minutes for a 10 sec clip. I use a Sony Vaio Vpce series laptop, intel integrated graphics, 4gb ddr3 ram and an i3 370m. I am hoping to see if I can build a new pc mainly for visual editing and a little light gaming. MY CURRENT BUDGET: $1000-$1200 Programs I mainly want to use Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC Vegas Pro 14 Photoshop CC Blender(maybe idk) Components I wish to have in the pc Cpu I7-8700k Noctua NH-U9S (I want to over clock to at least 4.8ghz) 16GB ram ddr3 ram Some type of m.2 ssd at least under 40 like the ADATA 128gb m.2 ssd Asus Z370-A Mother Board And any type of Gpu above the 1050ti or Radeon rx 580 something at least under 150 or I might just buy a used 1050ti ALL PRICES SHOULD BE IN CAD SINCE I LIVE IN CANADA!!!!!! Hope you can help me find the components I can get for my pc, thanks!

I am a designer and it’s been just 2 months since I started working on AE (2015 CC) and although I learned a lot, I’ve had great difficulty to understand the right configuration you would need for AE application. I went ahead and purchased Inspiron 15 Gaming 7567, which has the following configuration • Processor - 7th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ Quad Core 2.80GHz (6MB Cache, up to 3.8 GHz) • Operating System - Windows 10 Home 64-bit English • Memory - 32GB, 2400MHz, DDR4 • Hard Drive - 128GB Solid State Drive (Boot) + 1TB 5400RPM Hard Drive (Storage) • Video Card - NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050Ti with 4GB GDDR5 • Display - 15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS Anti-Glare LED-Backlit Display Although the speed was decent enough at the time of learning ( through your tutorials), the “ Preview “ time that it was taking was slow to say the least. I went ahead and installed another 16 GB RAM( making it 32 GB in Total), yet the preview time hasn’t improved much. During my research, I came across people who are advising me to go for a XEON processor while on the other hand, some have advised to stick with I7 but go for a NVIDIA QUADRO Graphic Card instead of an NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX. There are those who say that XEON processor’s only help to render fast but they don’t impact the preview time. I am in the process of purchasing a new laptop and I’ve decided to go with Dell Precision Workstations . I can customize the configuration I need but the biggest question is 1) What Processor ( An I9 with a higher base frequency or a XEON processor ?) 2) How Much RAM ( I am thinking 32 + GB would be ideal) 3) What type of Graphics Card ( NVIDIA QUADRO or NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX, if it is QUADRO which model gives me enough boost? P4000 may be? ) 4) Hard Drive – 500 GB PCIe NVMe Class 40 Solid State Drive Just to illustrate the kind of issue’s I’ve been facing, I’ve attached 3 GIF’s files. Request you to look at them With so much confusion out there, I don’t want to spend a lot of money and end with so so results. I really value your expert opinion in this regards Thanks - TVR

Hello everyone, i'm building a PC to work in Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop and illustrator). I have $3300 to do this (include monitor) and so far this is my selection of parts (https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pdpdgw): CPU: Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz 8-Core Processor ($579.99 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: EVGA - CLC 280 113.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($104.11 @ Amazon) Motherboard: Asus - PRIME Z390-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($184.90 @ OutletPC) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($259.99 @ Newegg) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($259.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($87.89 @ OutletPC) Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($133.90 @ OutletPC) Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($133.90 @ OutletPC) Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GAMING X Video Card ($769.99 @ Amazon) Case: Corsair - 750D Airflow Edition ATX Full Tower Case ($159.99 @ Amazon) Power Supply: EVGA - 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($109.00 @ Amazon) Monitor: BenQ - BL2711U 27.0" 3840x2160 60Hz Monitor ($478.99 @ Amazon) Total: $3262.64 I'm not interested in gaming. What do you think about it? Is this going to give me the best performance for what i want to do? PD: i already have all the software and peripherals Thank you for your advice.

Hi guys,, I'm planning to upgrade my GPU. Right now I'm using GT 1030 2GB for mobile video editing, but now I need an upgrade to edit/render 1080p-2k footage on Adobe Premiere pro, After effects and Davinci Resolve.. Please suggest me something.. my budget is around 20K INR My Setup.. Ryzen 5 3600 + Hyper 212 B450 Aorus M 16gb dual channel ram Corsair V lpx 3000mhz 240gb sata + 1 tb hdd (will add NVMe later) Corsair Cx 550 Nvidia GT 1030 2gb (current GPU) Cooler Master MB511 Thanks in advance!

I work as a video-editor and finally got a decent (overkill) workstation. Now when I render out my videos, I see my hardware is hardly being used. Both CPU and GPU are running around 5-6% when rendering. I know the PC is overkill but I expected a little more sweat or burning plastic while rendering my videos. I have CUDA enabled. Is there a way so that media encoder uses a bit more resources than it does right now? Specs: Ryzen Threadripper 3970x RTX 2080ti 128 GB RAM

Budget (including currency): $250 Country: United States Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: After Effects, Premiere Pro, Inventor, Fusion 360 I have an i5-8400 (6 cores 6 threads) with 8gb ram, 16gb optane accelerating a 1tb hard drive. I have 250 dollars to upgrade this machine to either 1) i7-8700 + 16gb ram or 2) Just buy a 1660s. Which one would give me better performance in After Effects, better CPU+RAM but no GPU or not as good CPU with a GPU? Thanks!

I'm looking for a video editing laptop in the $800 range. Ideally, I'd like to keep it under 800 but there's a tiny bit of flexibility. It's going to primarily be a video editing and general use machine. I'm looking at a few things but I'd love to find the best/newest option that I can count on lasting me a long time. I'm currently looking at the Acer Nitro 5 with the i5-8300H. 8 GB RAM with the option to add more sounds nice. It also comes with a 1050Ti and 256 GB SSD. I do have a concern with the build quality and thermals. I've seen them mentioned.in a couple of reviews. Supposedly, there are plastic pieces as well as the CPU and GPU fan and heat pipes being next to one another instead of separate. Stressing both the GPU and CPU is going to being some heat. Idk much about its thermals under load right now. If you have any insight, I'd love to hear it. If there is a better machine out there for this, I'd love a recommendation. A few "Nice to haves": * SD Card Slot * Solid number of USB 3.0 ports (or at least 1) * SSD

I have just started my After Effects CC 7 day trial , but it wont open. I have been looking around for a solution but none of them worked. I have tried : -Disabling Windows Defender -Running It As Administrator -Reinstalling After Effect -Reinstalling Creative Cloud but it still didnt work. Here is a picture , when i launch it , it wont open , but it always shows up in Task Manager , it always uses 28mb of ram for some reason and nothing else. There is not error popup or anything in the Event Viewer that is related to After Effect. If needed , here are my PC Specs : CPU : Athlon x4 880k RAM : 8Gb 1600mhz GPU : R7 240 , OC to 980mhz Core , 1040mhz Memory Storage : 1Tb HDD (Main) , 1.5Tb HDD (Primary For Storage) *Edit : Now i have this problem with Media Encoder too ... Thank you.

Upon looking at Linus' video on workflow, I was wondering if there's an updated 2018 version for information on building a max system for Adobe video plus 3D rendering. I am having trouble on finding out the cap on what Adobe products can do, particularly in a Mac environment. Everyone I have spoken to who uses the higher core Macs, 10 core and up, aren't seeing a significant improvement in editing/comp workflow for their 4K or even 8K video. I'm trying to pinpoint why the extra cores that they spent a ton of money on are not being used at all. There is very little information online about it - and certainly nothing from Adobe on optimization caps in Mac. Also having trouble finding info about the current GPU utilization on the new Macs. Linus' video on codecs looks like it answers that question for the most part, but is the answer the same in 2018 as it was in 2015? I don't see much issue with Windows 10 PCs in scale for CPU or GPU - it looks like the issue is more on the intermediate codec you are using to edit (as the below video shows). My agency is currently looking at an upgrade for a render server or just a render machine and we have more and more work in 4K, Multicam 4K, and Cinema 4D renders with the idea to expand to Autodesk. We work in Mac predominantly, but are also looking at custom-built PC systems. So, any info along these lines would be greatly appreciated. Just trying to understand if Adobe is keeping up with hardware and, if not, how current their software is in the world of video. I understand Cinema 4D is another world, but we often use Lite (included with Adobe) and the full version, so folks using Adobe may have some insight there as well. My thanks, Susan

Whenever I attempted to export, during the encoding it seems to always get this error seen below and I've tried putting it into a new project, impoting it to after effects and then exporting and nothing works, please help!

I've finally convinced my school to sell the 4 2013 macs we have collecting dust in exchange for 1 powerhouse of a PC, with a budget of around $2000. Now that I've got the money in hand, I need to know which component to prioritize for the build. I'm looking for maximum performance capability in Pr and Ae, but don't really know if I should prioritize GPU or CPU power for this build. I do know that heavy $ improvements in GPU's dont affect render times more than a few seconds or even 1-2 minutes, which I'm comfortable in sacrificing considering I'm going to be needing prioritization of only 1080p exports rather than 4K exports (since I can leave it to run for a while when I'm not using it. I only need the faster 1080p since that's what's going to be widely spread and presented). I do want some future-proofing considering we probably wont get an opportunity like this again. At the same time, I'd like at least decent timeline performance in Pr and Ae though I'm not previewing at full quality and usually stick to 1/4 or smaller (given the opportunity) since I don't need the best quality then-and-there With the CPU topic in mind as well, would the two programs benefit from more cores and threads? With the budget in mind I'll probably settle on an i7 comfortably so I'm not really worried but I'd like to see if I can get any better deal from Ryzen or even secondhand Theadripper (this option of course being available if Pr and Ae favor core performance and threads) for thread and core value. I've never built a computer for this purpose and am finally upgrading from a single 2013 iMac with an i5 to this beast. Thanks for any help.

The title says it all. What's your favorite beginner video editing tutorial? Thanks!

Hello everyone! I am looking for advice on a new CPU for content creation. I am currently using an Intel Core i5 7500. My main uses for a CPU: Primary use is editing videos in Premiere Pro; 4K footage (.mp4 100 Mbit/s) & AVCHD on a 1080p timeline using Cineform proxies Plus, in order of priority: - I'm considering migrating my editing workflow to DaVinci Resolve (replacing my primary use above), so the CPU would need to be optimised for this as well (currently using mainly for colour grading, nothing too extreme colour grading wise though). - Animations in After Effects - Light audio editing in Audition (just simple stuff like noise reduction) - Programming - Black Magic Fusion 9. Thinking of using it a lot more (currently using for chroma keying) in the future and heard it is optimised for multi-threaded CPUs, compared to Ae (which will still be used for animations) - 3D Animations; particles; motion graphics and standard rendering in Cinema 4D - Simulations & PBR in Blender (once learnt). - Having too many browser tabs open At the moment the 8700K looks good for Premiere and Ae, but what I think is the multi-threaded optimisation in Resolve and Fusion (which I think is true; correct me if i'm wrong. I'm yet to see a benchmark of Ryzen 2 on Resolve) puts a spanner in the works, as it looks like something like Ryzen might be better. As such, would someone be able to, based on the above, kindly help me figure out what CPU to potentially get? I want to try to avoid X299 if possible, but if it fits my needs I'm happy to have it suggested and maybe use it. Side note: I plan to buy this CPU next year, so if we get an 8C/16T i7 consumer chip or AMD chips that are good at both multi and single threaded workloads, should I get that? Edit: Would an overclocked Ryzen 8 core work? Or would an Intel chip still be better?