After Effects

I'm trying to follow the 'Top 10 Skills Editors Want to Master in After Effects' course, but the download for the project files don't work. I've tried to download them many times and in many different ways, but the download keeps getting corrupted. Only I read that multiple people have this problem.

 (Note: English is not my native language and I am using a translation tool to write this post, so I apologize in advance for any awkward phrasing!)The Main Issue I’m trying to make my After Effects preview accurately match my rendered output (viewed in VLC/Safari), but I’m running into preview color mismatch issues on macOS.Project & Color Settings Working Color Space: sRGB IEC61966-2.1 Use Display Color Management: OFF Blend Colors Using 1.0 Gamma: OFF Two Specific Problems We Are Facing1. Preview oversaturated on MacBook built-in display (My setup) On my external monitor, the AE preview matches the exported video (VLC/Safari) perfectly. However, when I move AE to the MacBook Pro built-in screen (Display P3 / Liquid Retina XDR), the preview suddenly becomes much darker and overly saturated, breaking the match with the rendered output. 2. Preview color shifts ONLY during playback (Friend's setup) Using the exact same settings on an external monitor, the preview matches the e

Hi everyone,I’m having a serious performance issue with After Effects 2020 and would appreciate any advice.When I open After Effects and load certain templates, the preview becomes extremely slow—sometimes dropping below 1 FPS. At the same time, RAM usage suddenly increases until it exceeds my 32 GB of memory, and eventually Windows becomes unresponsive or crashes.My PC specifications include: NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super 8 GB 32 GB RAM Windows I’ve already tried both upgrading and downgrading After Effects to different versions, and also templates(from light to heavy) but the same issue continues.Has anyone experienced a similar problem? Could this be related to the template itself, memory/cache settings, GPU acceleration, plugins, or another After Effects configuration?Any suggestions on what I should check would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance!

Hello, I have an active Adobe Creative Cloud license. I need to install After Effects 24.6.4 because several existing projects and plugins are validated on this version. However, Creative Cloud only shows version 25.x and 26.x under "Other Versions". Is there any official way to obtain After Effects 24.6.4, such as:- Adobe Support access- Direct installer- Admin Console package- Any special entitlement Thank you for your help.

It could be frustrating if you ever run into the "Could not parse mask shape on clipboard" error in After Effects.                                        Why do I see this error? You may see this error if your clipboard contains something that After Effects can't analyze. Users often report that they see this error message after using Illustrator. It could be a raster image, a complex shape, path, or link from Illustrator or any other application.   Solution: Our community recommends the following solutions: If you are working side by side in Illustrator and After Effects, copy a simple shape in Illustrator. If you are not using Illustrator, copy text from your browser or any other application. That will replace the data on the clipboard with the text you copied. Restart your computer to clear the clipboard. If the solutions above don't help, reset the After Effects preferences. I

While testing 3D shadows using two solid layers in After Effects' Advanced 3D Renderer, I encountered an unusual rendering issue:When the two solid layers are close to each other, intersecting, or even perfectly overlapping in 3D space, a noticeable white edge/white line appears along the edges of the shadow cast by one of the solid layers.The issue can occur under the following conditions:The two solid layers have a certain amount of spatial distance between them; The two solid layers intersect each other in 3D space; The two solid layers are completely or almost completely overlapping; With the Advanced 3D Renderer enabled, and lighting and shadows turned on, an abnormal white edge can be observed around the boundary of the shadow.In particular, the white edge still appears when the two solid layers are completely overlapping or geometrically intersecting. Therefore, this does not appear to be caused simply by the distance between the layers or by normal layer occlusion. 

Adobe After Effects wont launch and throws up the AGM font error from version 26.0 onwards.A possible explanantion that can be drawn from this:Company has updated it’s security measure, which causes this conflict with the AGM font.To compensate I have been using v25.1, which has also suddenly stopped working. It keeps crashing on launch at the ‘Initializing Mediacore’ stage.Before support steps in asking me to try @josiah0206 solution in this thread https://adobe.ly/3WZVjci ; yes, I have looked into the possible solutiion, and our company’s security features stop us from meddling with windows security settings, so the solution above does not apply.What I am asking for:Resolve v26.0 AGM font error on launch. This issue seems widespread. Make v24.6.8 availble to download. For some reason I cannot find it anywhereRequesting a quick and effective resolution. This has been dragging on for a year at this point, and as of now, I am completely locked out of After Effects and unable to work on

I have found that when I try to adjust tracking results of the object mask using the mouse to move the mask in the Program Monitor a keyframe is not added to any of the properties. Path or Transform. The numbers do change in the properties window without adding a ketframe.If I manipulate the numbers in the properties panel a keyframe is added.

I recently updated my after effects and adobe media encoder to 2025. Now everytime i try to render a video through media encoder it says "Adobe Media Encoder 2025" is damaged and can't be opened.You should move it to the Trash.This file was downloaded on an unknown date.I'm on a m1 macbook pro and use these programs regularly for work. I tried to install the previous version of media encoder and get the same issue. I don't understad what could be causing this issue. and am struggling to find other people experiencing this online.

after effect used to re link all the missing files as a batch - now i have a new macbook pro and it relink only one file each time and not automatically, do you have a solution for that bug?

In past versions of After Effects, I have been able to click on the missing footage, hit the return key to make the name editable, type command c to copy the name of missing footage and paste that into the search bar. This made locating and relinking footage very simple. That feature seems to have gone away in the past year or so. It would be great to get that back again. Are there any other discussions on this? Or is there something in the preferences that I'm missing?

Steps to reproduce:Create a new composition (any size/settings) 2. Add a solid layer 3. Run this via a script panel or File > Scripts > Run Script File: var v = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).property("Transform").property("Position").value; alert("pos=" + v); Expected result: Alert shows the Position value, e.g. "pos=320,180,0"Actual result:Script fails with: Error: invalid numeric result (divide by zero?)Additional notes: String(v), v.join(","), and v.toString() all work fine on the exact same array — only implicit + string concatenation triggers it. Scalar properties (Opacity, Rotation) are unaffected. Reproduces on a completely fresh project/comp/layer, and persists across a full quit and relaunch of After Effects.After Effects version: 26.3.0 (Build 87)Operating system: macOS 15.7.9

Would it be possible to change the start timing of the shutter effect in Adobe After Effects? Or is this not something that can currently be adjusted?"

After effects crashes moments after every time

For whatever reason, whenever I launch After Effects now, the app freezes when scanning folders and immediately crashes. No error message shows up.I tried basically everything.Starting in safe mode, disabling third party plug-ins (didn't have any to begin with), resetting preferences.Uninstalling, re-installing, manually deleting all files relating to After Effects and then installing it again.It always crashes at the splash screen when it's scanning folders. The folder it crashes at changed every time.I went into Windows settings and gave high-performance to After Effects but that didn't work either.It was literally working fine less than 4 days ago and I finished a project on it. Now it does this and I'm truly stumped on how to fix it.

     ProblemSolution is change this file name from “microsoft.ai.machinelearning.dll” to “microsoft.ai.machinelearning.dll.bak” path is “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CC\File Formats”

I have two text layers, these were made in different comps. Both have the exact same properties and font, yet one has a thicker weight compared to the other. I’ve copied one text layer over into another comp to compare the two. There are no effects, strokes, or text animators applied to the text layers. 

After Effects 26.3 pastes stale/cached clipboard content when source window maintains foreground focus (reproducible with Windows Clipboard History, Win+V)Summary:When the OS clipboard content is changed by a tool that does not stealforeground/keyboard focus from the currently active window (e.g. Windows'built-in Clipboard History flyout, Win+V), After Effects continues topaste its own internally cached "last copied" rich text object instead ofthe actual current clipboard content, as long as the AE window itself wasnever deactivated in between. Premiere Pro does not have this problem inthe same scenario.Environment:- OS: Windows 10 (also reproducible on Windows 11)- App: After Effects [please fill in your version]- Comparison app: Premiere Pro 26.3 — does NOT reproduce this issueSteps to reproduce:1. In After Effects, select a text layer and copy some text (Ctrl+C) so   the character/paragraph styling (font, size, etc.) is copied along with   the plain text.2. Without switching focus a

Good afternoon, my name is Pedro, and I've been having problems with Pr and Ae for a while now because of the yellowish coloring of the videos, basically they get VERY yellow when they enter these programs. But, in Premiere this problem is solvable, after I configure the sequence to Rec 709 it becomes normal, something that doesn't happen in After Effects, because even using the same configuration (Rec 709) it remains yellowishMy computer's configuration is: MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) Processor: 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 Dual-Core Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB(Sorry if something is difficult to understand, I'm using a translator)