After Effects

Hello I have a really critical problem: My After Effects Project just immediately being removed after quitting Ae. I lost everything I've done in the past several hours.Steps:1. Save everything in After Effects: The title bar does not have the "*" character. Everything is saved.2. Cmd+Q. Close After Effects. Done3. Back to Premiere Pro (which is openning and has linked comps) by Cmd+Tab.4. All linked comps are offline.5. Link media => browse to the project folder => the After Effects file is now lost.6. Re-check by Finder: lost file confirmed. What should happens: The AEP file is there.What actually happened: The AEP file is lost.Third-party plugins: of course I have some. But it does not seems to be the cause. I have those plugins on my Windows PC too, never experience this. My working context:Macbook Pro 14 inch M1 Pro, 32GB RAM. MacOS 14.7.5.After Effects 2025.2.2. Installed via Creative Cloud.Projects are on external nvme drive: Samsung 970 2TB. Connected via USB ty

I have been frustrated with colors in After Effects. I imported a Photoshop file into After Effects and everything looks great. The colors are all washed out when I export the file from Media Encoder or inside After Effects. I have tried Quicktime and H.264. I have tried adjusting the color tab under the Project settings. If seems like nothing works. I was even at the Adobe Max conference and even the After Effects experts didn't seem to know how to fix it. 

When i try to open After Effects a pop up appears saying "After Effects warning: The directory 'D:' could not be created"Does anyone know what I need to do?Windows 10 ProVersion 22H2OS Build 19045.6093 CPU: AMD Ryzen 2700xram: 16gb ddr4GPU: GTX 1660TiAfter Effects version 25.3.2

The latest version of After Effects seems to have broken the ability for deadline workers to launch AE. All workers immediately return with this error: Error: FailRenderException : After Effects returned non-zero error code: 132. Check the render log. if you take the "full command" and paste it into a terminal window, it launches just fine. For example (from the deadline worker log) 2024-01-17 18:05:38: 0: INFO: Full Command: "/Applications/Adobe After Effects 2024/aerender" -project "/Users/Shared/Thinkbox/Deadline10/workers/EDIT1/jobsData/65a7fd08da4823eb325531ff/DEADLINE__TEMP.aep" -comp "Comp 1" -s 0 -e 0 -output "/Volumes/EDIT_Local/_TEMP RENDER/Comp 1_[#####].png" -v ERRORS_AND_PROGRESS -close DO_NOT_SAVE_CHANGES -sound OFF This is fine. But the job launched from deadline immediately fails with exit code 132. This only occurs with AE version 24.1.0. All previous versions of AE 2024 and AE 2023 are fine. My question is what is exit code 132, and what would

 The mod and trackmat are not showing properly.I need a solution 모드와 트랙매트가 정상적으로 보이지 않습니다.해결 방법이 필요합니다  

Hi community, I've placed a HD QT in this mock up but its a little blurry does anyone have any tips or asolution on how to fix this please?  Thank you.

I finally updated to the 25.3 versions after Adobe finally fixed the scopes bug introduced in 25.2. Happy to finally enjoy the new preview and HDR monitoring features, After Effects was working pretty good.BUT THEN..I go to export my video in media encoder as I always have. When it finally exports, it's completely blown out! All my settings are the same as before! Color management is still activated. Encoding presets are the same I always use! This is what it's supposed to look like: Oops, AFTER EFFECTS CRASHED when I tried to to drag AE to my non-HDR monitor to take a screenshot in it. I had to pull a preview screenshot from an email just to show it:I have tight deadlines and now I have to spend valuable time uninstalling these versions and re-installing the old working versions.This is absolute madness, why am I paying so much money for software that breaks something new on every update? While having a mile-long list of bugs that haven't been fixed in years (dynamic li

Hi guys! Im really hoping that someone can help me understand why After Effects will not just leave my text files alone. I mainly edit "gaming" vidoes for youtubers and I do a lot with subtitles. So I add stroke, drop shadow, etc... BUT when I try to "replace with after effects composition" for the sake of tracking text to an in-game characters head using AE's motion tracker, it completely ruins how the text looks. The stroke gets skinnier and the drop shadow is completely gone! I've tried to look up why this is and the best thing I can find was about how AE interperates text files, and it doesn't share the same effects panel with PP.I need some way to protect the look of the text as it goes into AE, any ideas?

Hi. When I view my image in Photoshop, it looks ok. But when I import it into AE it looks totally different. What can I change in AE to fix this?P.S. I didn't change any of the settings in AE before this problem happened.

Since the update to 2025 I cannot drag-drop files into my project preview window (the empty space) anymore. This works fine on 2024. I thought this was a functionality, but turns out it is a bug.It happens when I start in Safe Mode. It also happens in Ae Beta. I had the problem in Ae Beta 2025 last year, I purposefully didn't upgrade to 2025 until I couldn't put it off anymore for work last month. Since then I cannot drag any kind of file into the project panel window. I also recorded this video in the #general-ae chat of the Adobe discord. NLE_Ninja (Kes) recommended I'd report this as a bug, as I was under the impression this was an intentional update (although I couldn't understand why). 

I have a layer, which has an expression applied to Position. The expression changes the Position value over time. What I am trying to do is access the value of Position as if it had no expression applied to it. The property("Position").value method doesn't work because it takes current Position value which is influenced by the expression. What I need is the original value. Is there any way to get that?

Hello, I'm trying to use the ellipse tool but the only thing it has is the rectangle tool. Any help??

This functionality was removed with the update to Ae2025 and it is quite annoying. Allow us to drop files from folders on our system into the empty project window (below the hamburger menu). There's no need to remove this and it would significantly speed things up when working with lots of folders/files and you can't just drag-drop a file.  

Hello, I have a compostion of 3480x1920. I add a layer of an image(sequence) with 2000x800. I add my pliugin on this layer. It sees only width and height 2000x800. But I want to know the comp size 3480x1920. My plugin wants to scale and distort this 2000x800 input image to 3480x1920. e.g. by scale factor of 2. To do this I need to loop over all 3480x1920 output pixels and get their value by inverse transformation an looking into my input. At the moment I try this in Smart Pre Render event. To get the size. But i am open for other suggestions. How can I archieve this? Thomas

Hey there guys, I've been asked to do something for a skating company where a trail is produced behind the skater in some footage. This is easy enough to do, as I can just Mocha track the skater then draw a stroke path on that track, but the problem comes with trying to keep that trail stuck to the ground afterwards. If I do the Mocha track, then 3D cam track the footage then stick a camera in, the Mocha track just warps out of place. What do you think would be the best workflow for this. Track first, then maybe just draw on the path afterwards? I might be thinking of this completely backwards haha, so please give me some ideas if you have another way of approaching.

Hey guys.  I have RTX 4070 super, i9 14900K, 1TB + 1TB samsung Pro SSD and 32+32 ram. As you can see, in attached picture there is only 3 file on this app and look at that render time. I cant even preview this 5 sec video on quarter res.  Does anyone know how to fix this? I bought a new desktop for this and payed almost 3K$ and still same problem. I feel scammed 

After Effects 25.3.2Mac Studio OS 15.564gb RamM1When I replace an element in a comp using the method of holding the option key while dragging a different video element from the project panel to the comp timeline onto the layer I want to replace, this version doesn't replace in place and at the same length.  I attached a video that demonstrates the problem.   

Very new to After Effects, only working on premade graphics and templates. On two separate files I've tried rendering graphics with transparent backgrounds, and for whatever reason the colors all change to blue after it renders. First file I used was a red, white, and blue patriotic sequence and all my reds looked fine until I opened the finished rendered file in VLC or in Premiere.  Same issue with the file I'm working on now, everything looks like the correct shade of green in the project, while it's rendering, and only turns green after I open the finished file. Exporting through Media Encoder results in the colors all working properly, but I don't want to have to open ME every time I need to render something when I'm not working with complicated stuff. Above are photos of the colors in AE, while it's rendering in AE, and then afterwards in VLC. The last photo is the render in VLC when I went through ME. Below are photos of every setting I could think to grab, bu

Hi, I have a problem.I have a comp with some looped movement (any kind). When I use it in another comp and apply time remapping with loopOut, everything breaks.First, the last frame disappears! (Seriously, when are you going to fix that? Where does it go?)Fine, I add an extra keyframe one frame before the last frame to make it loop properly (why can’t this just work automatically?)But if I turn on motion blur - everything breaks again. The motion blur glitches on the loop seam, and I have no idea how to fix it.   

I'm trying to open about 6 projects I made in the last month (one was created last week) and After Effects (25.3.2 mac silicon, runing on M3) gets stuck. Then when I forcequit Ae, I see another file created next to the original one with a name like this: PMF Futuro FL bodega_1.8868.428512.aep (the original file is PMF Futuro FL bodega.aep).Then I restart Ae and it gives me options to start in safe mode, manage pluggins, reset preferences.. I've tried then all plus reinstalling Ae, downscaling to 25.0 version, removing all muy third party pluggins and nothing has worked so far. Please help, I'm desperated

I recently upgraded to win 11 and when previewing in after effects (24.1) my cti (the red line thats supposed to move in real time) moves a few frames then freezes, along with the preview time. Changing between gpu and softare rendering didnt work, changing some settings like the audio output device fixed the problem, but it came back the next day/ in the next ae session/ when I created a new project. My projects barely have a few layers, my pc specs should be enough (i5 14400 rtx 4070 super 64 gb ram). Never had this problem on my old pc (i5 9500 gtx 1650 32 gb ram) with windows 10 and the same ae version.

When opening projects on Windows with deeply-subfoldered footage and/or extremely long file names, you'll find much of it unlinked, as expected, because it exceeds Windows' (frustrating) limits on file path/name length. .ai/.pdf files rightfully refuse to relink, telling you that their file paths are too long. However, most (all?) other file types WILL relink, and seemingly work while you're in the project, only to re-un-link themselves when you close/re-open the project. I understand this is an unfortunate limitation of Windows itself, but allowing the initial relinking without a warning can allow users to get into some very frustrating trouble, without alerting them to the trouble lurking below the surface.    Even if the relinking is allowed (this *is* very helpful in at least allowing you to make a new reorganized collect, for example), a warning message similar to what an .ai file gives you would be really helpful as a breadcrumb to the user, so they have