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natevplasKnown Participant

Feature Requests

Make All Effects 32bit CompatibleOpen for Voting

I use After Effects for compositing my 3D renders, and I always export 16 or 32 bit EXRs, starting to use ACES. Unfortunately, many, many effects are still only 8 bit, some support 16, and some can do 32. If you don't want to lose me and many other compositors (at least those that are left), please update more effects to 32bit!

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Max29840681yomcParticipating Frequently

Feature Requests

Dynamic Link between AE projectsOpen for Voting

This might be a long shot and I dont know if its technically possible to implement, but I think this would be a major improvement to after effects as a whole. I think the easiest way to explain it is looking at the dynamic link feature between premiere and AE, but from AE projects to AE projects.I would have plenty of usecases for this and I it would elevate professional workflows into new heights.Just like having your own library of functions in coding, that you can link in multiple scripts, updating or adding new logic to the source function which automatically integrates in the scripts where its linked to. In this case the function would be an After effects project that you can reuse and implement in other projects and automatically updates in all linked projects if theres changes to the master project.Reallife example: I have a beverage flatlabel that I wrap around a beverage can with UV Map. I use this Label in multiple projects, since theres plenty of different campaigns and

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Steve5D7CInspiring

Feature Requests

Time remapping with a layer's last frame is highly unintuitveOpen for Voting

Reporting this as a bug since I can’t see that’s it’s a “feature” or has any use whatsoever. Enabling time remapping on a layer automatically places a keyframe at the in and out points of a layer. Great. Except that the keyframe at the END of the layer apparently does NOT hold the last frame when that layer is extended in time -- simply dragging out the out point of the layer means you will get empty black frames. In order to FREEZE the final frame of a layer, such as for a hold, it’s necessary to step one frame back, set ANOTHER keyframe, then delete the auto created one. Then dragging the layer out will hold the final frame as expected. I’ve never, ever had a scenario in 25 years of work in animation where I’ve wanted a time remapped layer to behave the way that it does by default, and it becomes tedious having to deal with this over and over, and sometimes even gets overlooked then resulting in headscratching as to why, e.g., a precomped layer that’s been time remapped upsteam then

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DoncaeditInspiring

When I add the camera in After Effects, my 3D object disappears. What should I do?

The name of the 3D object is Briefcase with Money.obj. I want to create an effect where the camera moves upwards and the effects move downwards.However, when I add the camera, the 3D object disappears. What can be done to resolve this? Thank you very much for your attention.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberInspiring

Feature Requests

Separate the timeline and the curve editorOpen for Voting

It would be really helpful to be able to animate seeing both at the same time...

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Francesco5FE5Participating Frequently

How to stabilize this video using AE

Hi all!I have this drone hyperlapse shot, during the first seconds there is a visible perspective change of the images, so I have the buildings that goes up and down.You can clearly see this movement in the video I attach, which I tried to stabilize it with warp stabilizer using both Subspace warp and perspective.Also there is a bit of left to right (and viceversa movement)How can I stabilize it to get a smooth result? Thanks!

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magical_friends871eParticipant

Why does my composition only play when i am on 15 fps?

I have AE 22. When i play the preview/playback in a composition that isn’t 15 fps, the program starts lagging and slowing down. It happens both if i add media and if i don’t, does anyone know what the problem might be and how to fix it? I wanna use 18 fps or more but even then it gives me problems and doesn’t load as it should

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hhhhhhhhhhhhhh5Inspiring

Time-stretch, but keep audio pitch.

Is there a way to time-stretch a comp, but keep audio clip pitch and duration? I know that it's possible to "un-stretch" the audio to compensate, but I’m looking for an easier workflow. 

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andyh40116226Participant

Arri 35 MXF files will randomly become unsupported and never work again.

After working for weeks random Arri MXF Pro Res files will no longer connect, be marked as incompatible, randomly. They will have been unchanged on disk, still work in Premiere, even if I link to an untouched backup they will not work in AE. Then every few days more and more files will stop working. Its like a plague. This is destroying workflows.

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excited_Sunrise74faParticipant

After Effects 2026 — How can I make the Camera Focus Distance indicator appear WHITE?

In an After Effects 2025 tutorial, the Camera Frustum/Wireframe is magenta, but the Focus Distance indicator line is clearly WHITE.In my After Effects 2026 installation, both the camera frustum and the Focus Distance indicator appear magenta.I am using Classic 3D and Depth of Field is enabled.Is there a preference, View Option, Layer Control setting, or any other setting that controls the Focus Distance indicator color?I don't want to change the Camera's Label Color because that changes the entire camera wireframe/control color.I specifically want to distinguish the Focus Distance indicator from the camera frustum.Screenshots attached:After Effects 2025 tutorial — white Focus Distance line + magenta camera frustum. My After Effects 2026 — both appear magenta.Was this behavior changed in After Effects 2026, or is there a hidden setting/preferences option?

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defaultv7fjdxi6921uParticipant

Cant click on any effects or presets

I started encountering a bug yesterday where my after will not allow me to click on any effects or presets in the effects and presets window. I am still able to add effects by right clicking my footage and choosing effect.You can see in the screenshot that the create new animation preset button at the button is not appearing.The only way I am able to fix this is to reset after effects multiple times. I dont even know where to being troubleshooting or what information to provide.

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sskazInspiring

Feature Requests

More Time Span/Duration Options for Render Settings moduleOpen for Voting

As it stands, there’s no easy method to export a single frame from multiple comps. The only Time Span options that can be saved to Render Setting templates are Length of Comp and Work Area. I’d like options such as:First FrameLast FrameA specific frameCustom durations for movies If I could add a handful of comps to the render queue and choose one of my templates set to “Last Frame”, that would be very convenient than manually opening each comp and using Save Frame As.

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srlhwhParticipant

Feature Requests

Ability to have multiple projects open and copy and paste layers, comps, etc between them like exists in Pr, PS, Ai.Open for Voting

There must be a reason that After Effects can only have one project open at a time, but this is the single biggest issue for me. Importing comps is messy, it often ends up importing the entire project. Every other program I use allows to copy and paste between projects within the app, and even between apps (Ae to Pr, PS, Ai, Ai to PS...) but Ae doesn’t allow this seemingly simple feature. Thank you.

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diegobuzParticipant

Feature Requests

This a very easy function: Align key frames... that's it.Open for Voting

Sometimes I need to align many key frames of same layer or even another layer to the same momment in timeline, well you can select keyframes in same vertical level and align all of them to the same second…

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XeexonParticipant

Feature Requests

AI hair animation for AEOpen for Voting

How can we pay so much for Adobe products and we cannot do simple hair animations with After Effects, considering that free apps can do this (with use limitations, but still). When we will have that available for us to use? And without that credits crap that Firefly is trying to pull on us? Why, instead o making our lives easier and less angry using AE, we still need to use mesh tool to animate hair? How Adobe's AI didn't reach out to this level of technology yet for the users?

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ShiveringCactusCommunity Expert

Tutorial: Text Highlighter / Redacter ala "The Diplomat"

Did you know you can use After Effects expressions to dynamically rewrite your mask shapes on the fly? In this tutorial, I'll show you a cool experssion (createPath) which lets you use code (and maths) to draw masks and paths! This means we can set a starting point, give it a length and AE will create a line for us.I came up with this because I was tired of trying to move or adjust path points. This way, I just use a point control and a slider and I'm done. But then, thanks to laziness, I also added code to have the line draw based on the layer's in-point, so I don't even have to add keyframes. All bundled up into a preset.

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Rupesh33959866j237Participant

Image replaced with essential properties panel of a pre-comp, blinks in the main comp.

Image Blinks/Flickers on Media Replacement via Essential Properties Panel Bug Summary When replacing an image inside an Essential Graphics precomp using the Essential Properties panel, the replaced image blinks or flickers for one or more frames during playback and on export. This has been a persistent issue across multiple After Effects versions and is affecting real production workflows.

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Carefree_enthusiasm4ce0Participant

after effects doesn't open, if open crass message came slove this problem.

after effects doesn't open, if open crass message came slove this problem.

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mizugoriParticipant

Why don't I see the buttons to set stroke and fill color when using pen tool?

I am new to Adobe After Effects. I saw a video and am trying to duplicate an animation effect they did. However, shortly into the video they select the pen tool, and then a little to the right in the toolbar, you can clearly see options for what I believe are "fill" (or color) and "stroke" before the rotobezier checkbox. (Yes I know, it's in Spanish, apologies.)However, in my toolbar when I click the pen, I don't get these same buttons/tools/whatever:I have tried messing around in menus, looking all over the place, but I cannot seem to figure this out - can anyone help me get those two options into my toolbar?

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hellopaul4Inspiring

Feature Requests

"Render-only" layer or effectOpen for Voting

Many years ago, I did a request on the now-defunct AE uservoice for the opposite of a ‘guide layer’ - a ‘render only’ layer, for this situation:If I have an effects-heavy adjustment layer that I don’t want to preview because it’s so slow, I’ll turn it off in my comp. Then when I’m happy, I’ll set the comp to render. I’ll then check that exported .mov/mp4/etc, and get annoyed because I then realise that I forgot to turn that adjustment layer back on before I set it rendering, so I then have to do another render.Sound familiar? If we could set a layer to “render only”, then it would remain turned off until we did the final render. The exact opposite of a Guide Layer.Let’s get this upvoted and implemented (after all these years!!).This is along the lines of an age-old question from this forum:

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fredfx1957Known Participant

Can you have an effect be "Render Only"

Hi Community... is there a way or an expression that can be applied to an effect so that it will be off while you're working, but is on when you render? For instance, I'm using the pixel blur effect, and it slows down my interactivity while I'm working, but would like it available in the renders.  This is possible in any node in Nuke. And I think it has something to do with the opacity, because that's where you set the expression. It's very handy. Are there any "render only" flags in the expressions?  best, Fred

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hellopaul4Inspiring

Feature Requests

Character Styles palette for AE?Open for Voting

I think I may have suggested this many years ago, but it's worth another go:What are the chances of seeing a character/paragraph style palette in AE? I'm sure I'm not alone in finding the method of copying/pasting a bit of text from a "desired" style into a new text layer, before deleting it and pasting/typing some unformatted text, so it matches the desired style. With the introduction, some time ago, of the ability to access text styles/fonts/etc via scripting/expressions, I'd have thought it wouldn't be too hard to implement an InDesign/Illustrator character style palette. Wouldn't that be nice? (I know I could probably do this using mogrt templates and things, but that's an awkward and time-consuming workaround).

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Steve5D7CInspiring

Feature Requests

Ignore missing framesOpen for Voting

I’d like to see AE have the ability to ignore missing frames in a sequence in the same way that Nuke can do it. Currently we have two options when importing e.g. animation that’s been rendered on twos for previewing. We can ignore missing frames and have the hideous missing footage screen show every other frame, making previewing impossible. Or we can import sequences on twos with “Force Alphabetical Order” enabled, which removes the first problem but then does not respect frame numbers. Neither is very user friendly. Nuke has an option to just ignore missing frames such that a sequence can be viewed with missing frames simply holding from the last available image in a sequence.

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Jiri21795346yotlParticipant

Critical: After Effects 2025 and 2026 ship with a broken version of Sentry Native

Affects at least the Windows version, problems primarily show up on NVIDIA(tested on drivers 610.88 and 610.47).This started with a beta tester for one of my plugins reporting that in AE2025(and not the earlier versions) the plugin occassionally hangs or crashes.I managed to to replicate this on 25.2.2(I was unable to get the later 2025 versions to run *at all*)so I went ahead to try and diagnose the issue.The hang case was odd and a lot of time was spent chasing down red herrings, one of AEs hundreds of threads just seemed to be getting stuck in an exception handler, and some of the attempted fixes just turned it into a crash.I then went and downloaded the latest version - 26.3.0 and look at that, this one managed to reproduce the crash out of the box.The crash case turned out to be far more helpful and eventually I tracked both of them down to a stack overflow in nvwgf2umx.dllEverything I was seeing turned out to map to a known issue https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-native/issues/

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Jose354797733c8pParticipant

Shortcuts wont work on Search Bar / Replace Dialog Box / MacOS

I am unable to interact with shortcuts on the search bar on the "Replace Footage/File" Dialog Box from the Project panel. After effects 25.5.0 Build 4Meaning I cannot paste the long file name I just copied and have to manually type. I cannot copy or select the text neither. It has happened on both macOS Tahoe and also macOS Sequoia. Please fix this

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