After Effects

Hello,I have this weird thing happening in AE 2026 (Version 26.5.0 Build 89) on Win11:I created a simple comp to generate a Mogrt from. I did this hundreds of times of the last years so I know the procedure.This time however, when hitting the Export Motion Graphics Template… button in the Essential Graphics Window, AE only creates a Temporary Comp for Preview Generation (basically a duplicate of the comp I creating a Mogrt from).AE doesn’t give me the typical window for further details of where to store it/what to include/etc.It simply stops after generating that duplicate comp.I tried the same thing on Mac and it works as it should. Same version, same build: AE 2026 Version 26.5.0 Build 89.On the Win11 machine, I emptied all the caches, even reset all the preferences to default, comp 3D renderer set to Classic, etc. Nothing works.I attached a video of the whole process...What to do? Is it a bug?Please advice. Thank you. 

Any and every file I import from Cinema 4D into After Effects has the sequence much shorter than the file in Cinema 4D. But it is always 3 seconds long. I have adjusted the length in Cinema 4D. I have also clean installed after effects and all. I am on a mac with the newest version of the OS and the Cloud.

Is there a way to take a precomp and eliminate it and simultaneously move all the elements within it up stream to the parent composition while maintaining all keyframe data?Funny enough, I've never had to do this until now, but another way to ask this is: can one simply move items out of a precomp into its parent?Thanks forum.

Steps to recreate:-Create a Comp-Create a text layer (point or paragraph doesn’t matter)-Type in something like test01, or test6, or MyLayer72 (Must have a number at the end)-On the layers SourceText add the expression: thisLayer.name-Duplicate the layer at least 2 times (1 time does not appear to recreate the issue)-Highlight the duplicated layers and change the font size.  The name of the selected layers will start climbingWorks in ‘Legacy ExtendScript’ and ‘Javascript Expression’ engine.Can recreate it in After Effects 26.0.0 and 25.1.0 Windows 

Hello! Some days ago i've found that my after effects eye dropper isn't working properly. I know that it's an old issue, but is there any fix? I need to use ofter to pick colors, and the hex numbers wont match them, unless the color that I want to pick is inside my composition (on project thumbnail it keeps getting the wrong color, same at motion tools plugin that collect the color palette).

I attempt to launch After Effects, but it reaches “scanning folder usdGeom” or some other “usd” file, and then it creates two “crash files” on my desktop and stops launching. I have attempted to launch it in “safe-mode”, “reset preferences”, “manage plugins” etc. to the same result. I am not currently running any plugins. Restarting my computer didn't change anything. Pressing the “update” button in creative cloud for AE didn’t seem to launch anything.Recently, I received a message from Photoshop that the scratch-disk was full, so perhaps I have accidentally deleted something important while trying to remove temporary files in the adobe files. However, Photoshop ran fine after removing some large files from my computer. I must have this program for work! Please help me resolve this.

Does anyone remember the good old days when software worked?Have made some good work with Trapcode Form in the past - pushed it quite far exploring it’s capabilities and use-cases.Now it seems, on my Mac at least, to be be extremely unstable - to the point of un-useable on latest After Effects

Red Giant Trapcode Suite 버전은 15.1.8 이고 정식 라이센스도 보유 중입니다.After Effects 버전은 2026 입니다. Trapcode Suite 설치하면 다른 건 다 잘 깔리는데, Particular만 설치가 안 됩니다. 답변 부탁드립니다.  I have Red Giant Trapcode Suite version 15.1.8 and also hold a full license.The version of After Effects is 2026. When I install Trapcode Suite, everything else installs fine, but Particular doesn't.

Hi there. Maybe it is a bug but I noticed strange behaviour.My compositions are set to 25fps, every .png sequence imported is set to 25fps. My Preview windows is set to 25fps. However when I import .wav file it is being interpret as 30fps. When I try to playback it in Footage windows it is pitched down. When I change framerate in Preview window to 30fps it plays exactly as it is suppose to, but then preview of my comp is pitched and sped up.When I manually adjust timecode of the .wav file in Interpret Footage window it says “… Base 30”. I assume that it automatically interpret footage as 30fps when I am trying to handle it outside the comp. When I add it to the comp and play it back in 25fps it works fine. What sucks is that I need to override timecode according to the inner timecode of the footage and cut it in exact frame. However I cannot to that because of 30fps vs 25fps.Is there a way to change Base framerate? 

I'm running into what feels like a workflow dead end in After Effects, and I'm wondering how experienced users deal with this.Here's my setup: I have multiple levels of nested precomps. Deep inside those precomps are vector shape layers with effects applied (for example CC Bend It, used to animate things like plants or grass bending in the wind). My top-level precomp is placed inside the main composition and treated as a 3D layer. The issue appears when I animate a 3D camera.Without Continuously Rasterize, everything works correctly, but as soon as the camera gets closer, the entire precomp becomes soft/blurry (Depth of Field is disabled). I understand that's expected because AE is treating the precomp like a rasterized image.If I enable Continuously Rasterize on the precomp, the image stays perfectly sharp, which is exactly what I want. However, this creates two new problems: The internal transforms of the nested layers can change, although enabling 3D on the appropriate precomps

ADOBE PLEASE FIX THIS AS IT IS A PITA!!!!!!!!! DOES ANYONE HAVE THIS PROBLEM??? So I open a file through either Recent or from selecting a file on the Welcome screen when I open AE… and make edits, do work, and save this file with new filename date (which is how I work - new day sees update file with _Sep4 (today)) so that I have daily backups, and go to save it, and it saves into the last folder I had used from a previous different client job. If I am not paying attention because I ASSUME WHEN I OPEN THE FILE THROUGH THE WELCOME SCREEN OR THAT HOME SCREEN WHERE IT LISTS LATEST/RECENT FILES THAT IT WOULD KNOW WHERE THAT FILE CAME FROM, BUT NO. This has been a PITA for years now. PLEASE FIX!

Having issues with randomly not being able to make cryptomatte selections, the cursor simply doesnt change as it should when cryptomatte effect is selected. This can happen in projects which have worked well for days and suddenly it breaks and then i stays broken.Furthermore Im having trouble gettin cryptomatte working in already established AE projects - its like I HAVE to make my comp with the cryptomatte effect as one of the first comps in a project - otherwise same issue - cursor doesnt change when cryptomatte effect selected.My cryptomattes are generated with 3dsmax and vray and Im quite confident they are containing correct data its just the effect inside AE which stops working.Any ideas how to fix this?

Why is the Object matte SO MUCH BETTER in Premiere than it is in AE? I feel like it should be the opposite. Its a welcome change from Roto brush, but hopefully it bogs down AE less soon. I am an AE lifer, with an AE tattoo, so I’m not complaining, just curious why its worse in AE.

I am wondering if I an asking too much of this tool. I have 14000 frames of 4K footage. And the client wanted (last minuet) to cut out speaker  in front of some diagrams. Using the normal footage. (obviously without a green screen) Below is a small sample of of the image. You can see there isn’t much difference between between the hair and the shade of the blue curtains. Initially I tried the same (new) tool in premiere 2026, but the darkness of the curtains where still bleeding into the hair. I have now tried to roto  using the the object matte (4.0) in after-effects. It is working quite well however it is just so slow, I’m not sure it will ever render. I am now trying to freeze the Object matte, but, again painfully slow. Hoping to be able to render. In the setting, I have tried switching off some refinement settings and dialling down the search area. Gemmi and Lama4 reckon it can be done. So I am wondering if I am not doing something right? Thank you.  

AE 26.5 Install… open. ..crash.  Rinse and repeat.MacOS 27.2 BetaThat is all.