[Armand Bakx]

Hello John,

This is a very late reply, my apologies. I checked the Minimax effect, but it won’t be a solution for this project. Thanks for the suggestion!

I flagged it in the Adobe After Effects Community and it’s been reported as a bug, hopefully their Product team will pick it up and solve it in consecutive editions of After Effects. It’s still present in the current edition of AE2026.

[Armand Bakx]

Hello Boston,

Thanks for your reply, and apologies for my late answer. I’m excited to learn that there is a way of achieving what I’m looking for. Unfortunately I have reached a dead end. The “Collect Files” dialog box doesn’t show the “Collect Source Files” option you mentioned. It does seem like it would answer my question. Where should I be able to find it? Am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks in advance!

[Armand Bakx]

That’s what I was looking for! Didn’t bother to check the other dropdowns.

Thanks for your help Andy!

[Armand Bakx]

Thanks a lot for your input Yoan!

Your first mentioned solution sounds logical. I have two questions about it:

1. Within expressions: how do you indicate which values (either the expression- or keyframe-based) the property should adhere to? I have never applied that method before. Could you show me an example of what such an expression would look like?

2. Using that method: would it be possible to exercice control over the transition between the last ‘generated’ position value, and the new ‘set’ (keyframed) position value? The way you describe it makes it sounds as if the shape only switches between which ‘source’ the values come from (either an expression or a keyframe), but that there isn’t any interpolation between these two values. I’m hoping that it’s possible to apply different kinds of easing when switching between these sources.

Secondly: If you’re willing to elaborate on Dans solution a little bit more, which you mentioned should also work, I would really appreciate it. I can see the logic in it, but can’t wrap my head around how that would work, for I’ve also never applied sliders or slider controllers much in my AE projects.

Looking forward to your answers. Thanks a lot again! ?