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Work with projects
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Work with compositions
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Work with footage items
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Variable Font Axes
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Work with layers
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Work with transparency and compositing
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Work with expressions
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Work with other applications
- Work with Adobe Premiere
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Troubleshooting
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Fixed and known issues
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- After Effects crashes on Windows
- How After Effects handles low memory issues while previewing
- The font dictionary can't be read error in After Effects
- Unable to Export Composition using Media Encoder
- Unable to allocate memory | After Effects
- Error (21::31) starting After Effects after editing the keyboard shortcuts file | Mac OS 10.9 and later
- How to avoid crashes with Video Copilot Element 3D
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Fixed and known issues
How to add a mask and track motion in After Effects
Last updated on
25 Sep 2024
Create and modify shapes using Pen and Shape tools and copy paths into After Effects from Illustrator and Photoshop.
Learn more about creating shapes in the After Effects User Guide.