After Effects

I'm writing an AEGP plugin, and would like to determine the current time of the playhead. Do you know if there is a function for that in the SDK? I've been looking for about 20 minutes, and can't find it. Thanks!

The solutions given in the other threads do not work.. Whenever running After Effects my Wacom Intuos M starts having stuttery movement especially when After Effects is running in the background. As soon as I close After Effects, the issue is gone. The cursor seems to get stuck than moves again as if its lost communication. It is only when After Effcets is running or running in the background. Im on a Apple M1 Max running, OS 13.7.3

I’m looking for advice on which versions of After Effects and Premiere Pro would work best for my system. Right now, I'm using the latest versions of both apps, but they often crash and aren't very stable on my setup.    My Laptop Specs:CPU: Ryzen 5 4600HGPU: GTX 1650 Mobile (4GB)RAM: 16 GBStorage: SSDOS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)    My Use Case:I create animated 2D/3D-style illustrations, often with:Shape layers, flat design, character rigsDepth-based 3D animation (with camera moves and parallax)I rely on After Effects for animation and Premiere Pro for editing/assemblingI may occasionally use Dynamic Link between AE and PR    What I Need Help With:Which After Effects version is best suited for my specs ?Which Premiere Pro version should I pair with it for Dynamic Link compatibilityAny tips on performance optimization 

I have been having this issue (which has been going on for years now) where my Wacom tablet/pen stops working when I use AE. The issue does not happen right away, sometimes it happens within minutes after I launch and use AE and sometimes it may take up to hours. What happens is the mouse/cursor does not move when I am hovering over the tablet. The only way for it to move is when the pen is putting pressure on the tablet and I drag, in which case also makes it click AND drag at the same time. This ONLY happens with After Effects and it's ONLY the Wacom that stops working, when I switch to a mouse it works fine. The only way to fix this issue is to restart the computer which is only a temporary fix. Please help! Wacom and Adobe "specialists" were not able to resolve this issue for me.

Updated AE to V16.0 and now see After Effects Error: The source compression type is not supported ( 86 :: 1 ) when opening projects with links to videos in our CC Library. Also see another error message which ends 4K UHD movie cannot be imported (from CC Library) - this '.mov' file is damaged or unsupported.Any ideas welcome

 I'm using after effects and suddenly this weird green grid, of like hundred of grids, shows up and i can't get rid of it. It's not like the one when you press Alt ' . it's this weird tech looking green grid and i thought it was because i had too many layers so i deleted some and it hasn't gone away. Can anyone help?

When I convert an Illustrator vector into a shape, the handles appear on the anchor points. (image 1)However, if I draw a line or any object using the Pen Tool and then use the Convert Vertex Tool to change the shape, the Handles do not appear on the Anchor Points. (image 2)  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the AE. How can I fix it?

I have been experiencing a weird bug with after effects 2025 for a while now on Windows 11, which causes all of it to freeze for a few seconds when alt-tabbing back to it or focusing it from any other window.This happens both with gpu acceleration disabled and enabled, latest GPU drivers (tried both studio and game ready) and even in safe mode with all plugins disabled.However 2024 doesn't have this issue so it's seemingly related to the new UI introduced in 2025. Has anyone experienced simliar and found a fix for it? I have also attached a log file of opening up AE2025 with a new project, creating an empty comp and alt tabbing out and back in, which instantly causes the error to occur (but the issue also occurs with no project open) After Effects 2025 25.3.2AMD Ryzen 9900x64 GB DDR5 6000 MT/s CL30RTX 4070 Ti

Im trying to create a mogrt (so I can change the text) to premiere with two lines of text on top of each other, appearing letter by letter (the second line is supposed to appear after the first one).  Usually I do this with range selector, but now I want to have different font etc in the other line. But if you create a mogrt like this, the other line's format settings wont stay the way I want to. So I need to separate the lines to two text layers in order for the format settings to stay the way I want them to be. Is there a way to use range selector with two text layers, or is there some other animator that could do the trick?

(See picture below) How can I adjust the view of the comp view in AE? There is so much space at the top and so little in the bottom, where the red arrows are, I want the comp to somehow be moved up higher and be even in space top and bottom so I can see clearly. Whenever I zoom, it zooms in unevely and I can only see part of the comp if I zoom over 33%. It was fine before but I don't know what I did to change it... 

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In the new AE2025 update, they removed the option for you to change the color of your After Effects panel. This is an important option for those of us who don't like the same old thing, and we like changes. I believe that we subscribers should flood them with messages to release this option that was so important.Let's flood them with messages, guys. Who knows, maybe in the next update they'll come back with the option to change the color of our After Effects. After all, we're paying an expensive subscription for this.

Since I switched to After Effects 2025 I can’t view my EXR HDR files properly when using Mercury GPU Acceleration (CUDA or OpenCL). As soon as GPU acceleration is on, everything caps at a max brightness of 100 and the highlights get totally clipped, whereas in Mercury Software Only (CPU) it works fine. In 2024 I could work in GPU mode no problem, but now I’m forced to stick to CPU.Also, when I’m using OCIO, AE only shows me one view transform option in the UI, so I can’t preview any specific look unless I drop in the “OCIO Look Transform” effect. It’s really important for an EXR workflow to be able to see the correct look while I work

Hola, estoy tratando de exportar un video de affter a media, exporta normal pero el resultado es diferente alque estoy viendo en pantalla. En el programa el video se ve claro y brillante pero al moento de exportarlo se ve oscuro y con un contaste bastante marcado, al revisar el perfil de color de la amesa de trabajo esta en ADOBE 1198 y en interpretacion del metraje esat en REC. 709 gamma 2.4 si cambio alguno de esoso dos perfiles por sRGB se vulve aun mas oscuro y contrastado. No se que hacer. 

I've been getting this quite a bit, (and my Sapphire plugins are just torturing After Effects. Constant crashes.) I have an NVidia RTX 3090.What's the recommended stable driver for AE 2025? How about 2024?

Hard to repeat but I have managed to crash my machine completely several times today by Alt+Tab toggling to a different app immediately after hitting Render.Which is a very normal thing to do.Latest AE, Windows etc.unfamiliar freelance work machine, maybe it is an old quadro thingHP Z4 i9 10900X Quadro RTX4000 32GB  RAMTris

Hello.  My after Effects has been crashing continuously for several months now, on not very big projects. I am lost. I have piles of ram/memory. Am up to date version wise.  I can't even have chrome/google open, or any other programmes/apps alongside. All my info is below:Is it my graphics card? plugins? memory?Memory: Graphics:   Storage: I use D drive which is SSD plugins/extensions: Many thanks in advance.... 

Hi. Are there any new developments/features that allow me to block C4D from being constantly installed? Please try to answer precisely. I am not interested in a thread regarding how great C4D is.  Thank you 

 This has been happening for years and I'm finally at the end of my line here. Does anyone know how to fix this? I have to turn 'show layer controls' on twice an hour. I can't believe that I'm always hitting the hot key on accident. It's starting to drive me CrAZy!  Has there been a fix for this?