After Effects

I'm on PC, Windows 10.I just updated both After Effects (25.2.2) and Adobe Media Encoder (25.2) today.  Before when I added videos from AE to AME, they looked just fine. I usually export as either H.264 match source-high bitrate, or as Quicktime, or AVI, and had no issue with the look or color. Now when I send to the queue, the videos end up looking dark and oversaturated.  My After Effects project settings are usually Rec 709 for the color settings. I've tried setting it to sRGB IEC61966-2.1, and none, with the same results when trying to export to AME. When exporting from After Effects, the results look just fine. I'm aware I can export from AE and convert videos in AME, but in my daily work, it's really nice just sending it to the AME queue and having it render in the background while I continue to work on shots in After Effects.  I've searched the forums for this issue, and found similar issues, but not quite what I'm experiencing. Any advice

Using After Effects 25.1. Linking the FontSize to a Slider using the expression: "text.sourceText.style.setFontSize(effect("Slider Control")("Slider"))" But I'm getting an expression error reading: "Error: property or method name 'style' in Class 'TextProperty' is missing or does not exist. It may have been renamed, moved, deleted, or the name may have been mistyped" All of the expressions are still auto suggesting with the Expression Language dropdown menu. As I start typing "style" after "sourceText" it starts to autofill. Why is "style" gone all of a sudden? How is After Effects not being able to reference it even though it's showing up in the dropdown menu?

I'm a long-time InDesign user trying to help my company's motion graphics team get more use out the CC libraries that our print designers use all the time. We have robust Paragraph and Character Styles in our CC libraries, but I can't find any definitive information about whether they are accessible in After Effects or not. They appear greyed out in the Library panel, so I'm thinking they aren't usable but that seems crazy that something so useful would be cut off from a group who still uses type so much. Am I missing something or are After Effects users really limited to shared colors and graphics in CC libraries? 

SystemSamsung Galaxy Book4 Pro 360 Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Intel Arc Graphics (integrated) 16 GB RAM Windows 11DriversIntel Arc Driver 32.0.101.8826AE Versions TestedAfter Effects 25.6 After Effects 26.2.1 Build 2SymptomsGPU Information shows Vendor/Device blank GPU Memory shows 0 MB Draft 3D unavailable Advanced 3D renderer unavailable Only Classic 3D and Cinema 4D renderers appearGPUSniffer Results  AE's GPU Sniffer is:Detecting Arc GPU through OpenCL/OpenGL NOT using DirectX compute Therefore not qualifying it for certain GPU features    

In After Effects, when using a lower layer as a track matte for an upper layer, if the lower layer is also visible, a stray edge (or matte line) will inevitably appear in the composition.This will significantly cause issues with what I see in the viewport.he green edge in the image below should not be visible. I suspect this may be caused by sub-pixels of the matte not being fully covered by the upper layer. 

Not sure if this is to be classified as a bug - but it is weird behaviour driving me nuts. When After Effects auto saves, it also jumps to the foreground.So if I am doing something in another app, AE will hide that app and jump to the front if it's time to auto save.Sometimes I am "lucky" and it will just bounce the Dock icon. (Which also interupts my very important web surfing etc) AE 25.1 on Mac OS 15.3 (but it's been like this forever)

I'm running into an Out of Memory error in After Effects 24.2.1 that I just can't fix and am looking for solutions.Here are the errors, they always happen together, there's usually about 30 of them that pop up back to back:  This happens on all of my projects, when I render a video or just RAM Preview my project in AE. There is no specific frame that kills it, rather, it appears that AE uses more and more memory until it fails. In the past when I would RAM Preview my projects in AE I could watch as it reached the limit of how much it could render and earlier parts of the timeline would lose their rendered status as new frames were rendered. This does not happen anymore, once I reach the limit of my memory the program just crashes and gives me these errors. Memory while rendering, fills up and then crashes AE:   Solutions I've tried (purging memory and disk cache and restarting AE in bettween each attempt):Restarting my comp.Turning Multiframe Rendering on/offTurning CUDA

After updating to 22.2.1 build 3 I've got strange problem with "All Caps" feature in Character control.Some letters are "caps" and some are not, some letters can be made bold after that and some not. No issues like that were present in previous version.See attached file. If font is anything else that "Regular" "All caps" is tottaly crazy.

Switching between 1-view and 2-views has unexpected maginification. 1. Set your Composition panel to 2-views2. Set both views to different magnifications3. Set the Composition panel to 1-view I would expext the the first view to be visible at the magnification that it was set to. Instead, the first view takes on the magnification of the second view.  Short video showing what I'm describing: https://vimeo.com/1142497360/c860f5ad5e

Win11 / ASUS Tuf / RTX5060 - In AE 2026 and 2025, create a comp, the footage doesn’t appear in the comp window.  move the play head, no image in the comp window.  push play, it shows fine. then stop, the image goes away in the comp window (black).  Tested using a layer/solid - same behavior.  I’ve applied every suggestion for Video Rendering, all ‘Fast Preview’ options,  also cleared all cache, updated, uninstalled/reinstalled.  BTW: NO problems with video using PrPro 2026.  Thinking of rolling back Nvidia drivers to see if that’s the culprit. Thanks for any pointers.  Video attached showing behavior.

Hi everyone, I’m trying to understand how this animation was made in After Effects.There are several video cards/precomps orbiting around an invisible elliptical path. The whole orbit seems to rotate and tilt in 3D, while the cards move from front to back but stay facing the camera.I tried using 3D layers, nulls, and Auto-Orient Towards Camera, but my cards become slightly tilted and don’t stay perfectly straight.What would be the correct setup or rig for this kind of animation?I’m not trying to copy the design, I just want to understand the technique.Thanks to anyone who can help me understand 🙏

After exporting a Mogrt via the EGP, the comp selection in the Project panel jumps to the bottom-most comp in the same root- or first-level folder.If you have a lot of comps to export, this makes it difficult to keep track of which comp was the last to be exported.AE v26.0.0, macOS v26.5.1(I’ve also seen this occur in AE v25)

Used Materials are still listed in the Project Panel when only ‘Unused’ assets should be listed.Type “Unused” in the Project Panel It still comes up even though it’s “Used 2 times”This bug exists in the latest update as well as the Beta

Hi everyone!!I have a question and would appreciate your help.... I'm working on an animation that will be displayed on an LED mesh, mapped in cube form (as shown in image 01). However, I need to create this entire animation in a single composition so that the elements move continuously through the top, front, back, left, and right without any cuts or time jumps. However, there are spaces (marked in red in the image) that prevent this from happening; it's a kind of void that doesn't exist in the mapping. The question is: Is there any way that, for example, when a line moves from the left side to the front side, it automatically "skips" this region and doesn't generate thickness or timing errors in the animation? I tried to illustrate this with the yellow line in image 3. Thanks!

In Adobe Premiere Pro, you can easily add free sound effects through the Essential Sound panel, including built-in integration with Adobe Stock.Some colleagues prefer to complete animation projects entirely within After Effects. However, I haven’t been able to find a comparable panel or workflow in After Effects. As far as I can tell, sound effects need to be searched for and imported manually.I’m wondering if I might be overlooking a feature, plugin, or recommended workflow that offers similar functionality in After Effects.

I’m working on a project in Premiere that I used a bunch of AE comps to do titles and other motion. It was all shot on RED footage, so it’s a fairly heavy project. I’m trying to send it to a colorist, but even after using “render and replace” on all the AE comps, duplicating my sequences and deleting every AE linked comp from my project, Premiere Project Manager keeps including them when I try to consolidate the project to send. When I re-open the premiere project, it puts all the AE comps back into the project in a “Recovered Clips” folder. I’ve even tried Consolidate and transcode on the clips and it still won’t leave the AE projects out of the project which is a problem, b/c then it pulls in a ton of other RED footage into the folder and makes it a huge project to try and send. I’m going insane. 

I am receiving this message.  Advice would be appreciated please. After Effects can't continue: An unexpected error has occurred and After Effects will now shutdown.Please check you have the appropriate permissions to launch After Effects as well as read/write access to the After Effects preferences folder.If any other error messages were displayed prior to this, please review, and resolve if possible. Hayley

Hello, We’ve had an issue in the last week, that After Effects will no longer open on 4 different workstations we have, one of them is offsite and not on the same network.There is no splash screen it and it instantly displays the crash screen with” AfterFX.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close”. This happens on Windows 10 and Windows 11. After Effects will work on my Home PC with the same Creative Cloud Account. I have tried the Creative Cloud cleaner on one of the Workstations and a fresh install After Effects 2026, but same error appears. Any help is gratefully received.

Hello Adobe AE Team,I am experiencing a reproducible issue across four identical Mac Studio units (Apple M3 Ultra, 256 GB RAM) running macOS Sequoia 15.5, where After Effects is loading the Torq/NAPI JavaScript engine instead of the Adobe JavaScript engine.Across AE versions 25.4, 25.5, and 26.0, the following diagnostic expressions always return:$.engineName → "torq/napi"typeof(TextDocument) → "undefined"This indicates that AE is not loading the expected Adobe JS engine and instead is loading a fallback runtime that does not support TextDocument APIs.As a result, all of the following APIs fail:new TextDocument() .style .fontSize .leading .setFontSize() .setLeading() .setJustification()I have thoroughly eliminated all environmental causes:✅ Confirmed no Torq, Fusion, NAPI, or Resolve frameworks in system paths✅ Confirmed no PATH or DYLD overrides✅ Confirmed no per-user shell modifications✅ Confirmed no MDM restrictions✅ Confirmed Full Disk Access for AE and Terminal✅ Confirmed quaranti