AE Tamplates

How does ae-templates.com work?

Once you purchase the file that you like, a download link will be sent to the email you have provided at checkout. In order to make your payments and downloads secure, we use PAYPAL. You need minimum skills in After Effects to edit the projects.

What can I use these projects for?

You can use it for whatever you want: commercials, websites, corporate videos,
TV show intros, movie trailers, presentations, and much more.
The only thing you are not allowed to do is to re-sell these projects.

What can I change in these templates?

Everything! You can change: colors, fonts, texts, images, video, Everything can be changed. You can even change the size of the composition.

What are Cycore (CC) effects?

Cycore (CC) Effects are a set of excellent effects that come bundled as standard with After Effects CS3 and above. The installation of these FX is however, optional. Most people install them at the time of installing the main application.

If you do not have them installed, you need to go back to your original install disk (or download) and install them to be able to use certain projects. (All my projects that use Cycore FX, state this in the item description.)

To check whether you have Cycore installed:

open your copy of After Effects
create a new composition (Composition -> New composition… )
create a solid layer (Layer -> New -> Solid… )
go to Effect -> Blur & Sharpen

If you see any items in the submenu that begin with CC, such as CC Radial Blur,
then you have Cycore installed.

* If you are using a demo version of After Effects, you may find that the Cycore Effects are not included.

I need a different resolution. What can I do?

Most of my files are created at 1920x1080 HD. There are various ways to change the output size of files. The easiest is in the render queue:

Click on the name of the Output Module for your render.This will open up a dialogue box.
Check the resize checkbox and type in your new output resolution.

What is the advantage of a prerender / non-prerender version?

A non-prerendered version of a file is entirely created within After Effects.

Advantages:
Drawbacks:

I get expression errors when I open the project in a non-english version of After Effects.

Yes. Unfortunately expressions written in the english version of After Effects will not work if you are using it in a language other than english. That is because expressions refers to effects by their names, and of course the names of the effects are different in different languages… For instance, Slider becomes Curseur in French, but the expression is still looking for Slider.

But don’t despair! You can change your After Effects to english. There are loads of references about this on the web (as most resources for AE are in english). Here are a couple of methods to do it for PC and one for Mac.

Windows:

go into the After Effects directory and open the languages folder
Double click After Effects E CS4
Go to: ...\Adobe After Effects CS4\Support Files\AMTLanguages
Rename the .txt file (whose name will differ according to the language you use… de_DE for German for example) to en_US.txt (you may want to save a backup of the original file)
Open this file and change the text inside to en_US
Save and Restart After Effects

Right click the shortcut for your After Effects installation
Select Properties under Target, where you see the path to AfterFX.exe,
add the following text at the very end (behind quotes if present) -L en_US
After Effects should now open in english when you use this shortcut

Macintosh:

go to System Preferences (this will probably have a different name if your computer is not using english as its main language – it has either an icon of a metallic switch with an Apple logo (OSX 10.4-), or several cogs in a box (OSX 10.5+)
go to International (again, this will have a different name if your OS does not run in english, but the icon is usually in the top row and shows a blue UN flag)
In the list of languages, drag english to the top. If english is not in the list, click the button to edit the list, then drag english to the top.
Now, when you start your applications, they will all be in english.

* Do not forget to change it back when you have finished, otherwise next time you log on, your entire computer will be in english!

Navigate to the After Effects application. You can do this by Ctrl-clicking on the icon in the dock and selecting Show in Finder
Ctrl-click the application and select Show package contents
In the folder AMTLanguages, rename the .txt file (whose name will differ according to the language you use… de_DE for German for example) to en_US.txt (you may want to save a backup of the original file)
Open this file and change the text inside to en_US
Save and restart After Effects.

I get a missing footage graphics in my project (multicolored TV screen / testcard pattern).

After Effects projects usually link to some external assets, whether these be still images, video, audio and so on. When you download one of my projects (or any After Effects project for that matter) it is very important to keep the project itself and any associated folders together in the same place. Unless you really know what you are doing, you should not move any of the folders or files from the original folder which they unzip to. If you have managed to lose links to external media and do not want to start from scratch, here is how to sort it out:

Highlight the project window.
Select File-> Find
In the window that comes up, check the missing footage checkbox and click OK
This will highlight missing footage items.
Once you have one, you can right-click (ctrl-click on Mac) and select Replace Footage -> File.
This will bring up a standard dialogue box where you can navigate to the footage and reconnect it.
Usually, once you reconnect one piece of missing footage, After Effects will find the other ones.

* Keep repeating this process until there is no more missing footage.