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Hello Adobe After Effects Team,I would like to report a reproducible issue that appears in newer versions of After Effects when using the GeoLayers 3 plugin.SummaryProjects that contain GeoLayers 3 compositions work normally in After Effects 24, but when the exact same project is opened in After Effects 25 or 26, After Effects displays PNGIO errors and the map fails to load.Error messages After Effects: AEGP Plugin PNGIO Support: PNGIO library error: bad adaptive filter value (5027::12) After Effects: AEGP Plugin PNGIO Support: PNGIO library error: IDAT: CRC error (5027::12) These errors appear when the GeoLayers map tiles are loaded.Key observation The same project file works perfectly in AE 24. Opening the project in AE 25 or AE 26 immediately triggers the PNGIO error. The issue only occurs with GeoLayers 3 content. Some other users appear able to run GeoLayers in AE 25/26 without this issue. This suggests the problem may be related to changes in the PNG decoding / ImageIO pi

Von jetzt auf gleich hat After Effects angefangen beim Warp Strabilisator nicht mehr zu analysieren.Darüber hinaus funktioniert der Dynamic Link Server scheinbar nicht mehr. Ich verknüpfe oft Adobe Premire Projekte mit After Effects Projekten.Jetzt geht gar nichts mehr.Adobe Premire spuckt nur noch einen Blackscreen aus. Davor kommt ab und zu noch Media Offline und Media pending obwohl die Pfade korrekt verknüpft sind. Teilweise werden zufällig Dateien offline angezeigt. Neuinstalkation/ Neustart/ Chache lösche/ CPU rendering Optionveränderungen haben keinen Unterschied gemacht. Manuelles Dynamic Link Server in Premire hinzufügen lässt das ganze System aufhängen. 

Hi Adobe, after updated to After Effect V.26, one of my keyboard shortcut has been broken by the latest Parametric Mesh feature.I’ve customized my “Add to Render Queue” button to "Shift + D” to my workflow, but the latest Parametric Mesh uses this shortcut. I tried to remap the Parametric Mesh to “Shift + option + D” but it keeps overiding and remapping it back to “Shift + D”. I have no choice but to remap my own shortcut for the time being, much to the detriment of my own productivity.This is extremely annoying and I would appreciate a fix as soon as possible, thank you for your attention to this matter!

When I hover over a clip in Premiere, a gray box appears with the clip’s properties. If I toggle to After Effects with a keyboard shortcut without moving the mouse, the gray box remains. It doesn’t matter if I move the mouse now that I’m in AE, the box stays and shows the properties from the clip I hovered on in Premiere.  I’m in Premiere 26.0.2 and After Effects 26.0, but this has been an issue for a few versions.

I’ve noticed that during rendering a complete software crash occurs of After Effects 2026 during rendering with the latest nvidia graphics rtx driver for 4070 super -579.79 for both studio and graphics driver which are the same version, updated march 10 2026 - . After restarting the software, thanks to your programmers, the problem points to boris fx’s Sapphire Effect’s WarpBubble2 plugin. I have downgraded my nvidia driver to 595.71 and have been able to render normally without any crashes or malfunctions.I wanted to report this, as other parts of the software or GPu related plug-ins might fall into this issue. Regards. 

I’m working in linear ACEScg and I’m having an issue with AE motion blur clipping the highlights of footage when it’s active and the layer is set to ADD. The elements are interpreted correctly and works just fine until motion blur is enabled. I have the element on black in the examples below. You can see the scopes on the left where the motion blur is off has very bright highlights, and when the Motion blur is on those same highlights get clipped. Luckily, Lighten does work in these shots, but Add should not be clipping source. the only change is that Motion blur is enabled. This should not be happening.  

There are pale yellow HUDs that follow the cursor when mousing over the Graph Editor. When a layer and it’s keyframes have been stretched (via Time Stretch), the speed graph HUD shows the value (eg. in px/sec) as they would be if the layer was NOT stretched. This is incorrect and misleading, especially if the Stretch column is hidden. 

AE 2026 crashes when enabling "Advanced 3D" renderer if Windows "Computer Name" contains non-ASCII characters (Chinese/Korean localized versions only)Description:I have discovered a critical bug in After Effects 2026 (v26.x) where the application crashes upon enabling the Advanced 3D renderer specifically in certain localized versions if the Windows Computer Name contains non-ASCII characters (e.g., Chinese or Korean characters).System Environment:OS: Windows 10 / 11 App Version: After Effects 2026 (v26.x) Pathing: All installation directories and project paths are in pure English (default C: drive). User Account: The Windows user account name is in English.The Issue & Specificity:When the Windows Computer Name (found in Windows Settings > System > About) is set to a name with Chinese characters, the Advanced 3D renderer behaves differently depending on the application language:Chinese & Korean Versions: The app crashes immediately upon launching or switching to the Advan

I reinstalled my computer. My previous local fonts are not available anymore. I open a project I was working on, get this message. Ok, it works. But the problem is that after I click ok, after effects is not showing the missing fonts. I have no clue which fonts I am missing and it would take a lot of work to manually set all the text layers again. 

Getting this UI on my after effects whenever i try to change the color or anything. Is there any fix to this???

I updated After effects Beta to it’s latest Version (26.2) and then I find out that the new Object mask is not working, no brush no select .. nothing at all in the latest update of after effects Beta 26.2.the brush is not appearing to select any object, no object is going to be highlighted to select and isolate.

 Because it’s actually impossible to comp anything with highlights without them becoming inverted. These invalited pixels you are seeing here are only 1.100-1.500. They are not overly bright yet this happens. It’s a joke. Stop messing about without AI crap and fix the basics. This just a white line being screen over the top of my CG. It could not get any more simple. Adobe, you are a joke.

I migrated my preferences from 25.6 to v26.0. Now I can’t edit my custom shortcuts anymore. “After Effects warning: Invalid menu operation” appears, and then the program crashes. I’ve provided the .txt file that causes this error.

I made a team project on the AE and have created my .aep file as usual. Upon saving and exporting the final video. I’ve learned that the project file cannot be saved. I have searched online for it but I cannot find the same issue in this current version.Someone has suggested I use the “reveal project in finder” feature but it doesn’t work either. I have tried finding the location of the file through Finder app in Mac but the filename does not show. When I tried looking for the file location, I checked the original preferences of the application but project does not show in the location. Original folders of the adobe projects show 0 bytes too.When I close the team project and the application itself, the project shows up in the recently opened menu. I also tried opening it in adobe cloud storage but it does not show up. Good thing the file still opens even after closing the application. How can I save the project?Posting screenshots here as well.

If I turn a 2D layer into a 3D layer in the Advanced 3D renderer, the layer glitches. This has been happening to a image I placed behind 3D shapes, but occurs no matter what I placed in the comp (footage, images, .eps files). This only seems to occur when Advanced 3D renderer is selected (which is what I want to use), not in Classic 3D or Cinema 4D renderer. In the example attached, the 2D image layer is a starry sky scene and should turn into a 3D layer I can move behind my 3D shapes. It turns into a 3D layer, but the image becomes distorted. After Effects 26.0.0MacOS Sequoia 15.7.4Occurs in new and other existing AE projects Steps already taken: purge memory and cache, restart computer, reinstall AE

Objects are turning black, disappearing, and flickering. I didn't make any edits or anything since I last worked on it (worked fine then) but when I opened my computer to the open file it started glitching. I exited out of the document without saving because I assumed my previous save from when it worked normally would save me. When I opened my save from before the glitch, it was still glitching, and it got even worse. My layers are mostly imported from Illustrator, but I didn't touch the file I had on there either. The layers in the project window also show up mostly all black when I look at their previews, although I am new at AE so unsure if this is common. I am working on a Mac and the program should be up to date. Any ideas on what could make individual art objects flicker or turn black?  

Drawbot crashes on After Effects.In After Effects apears after editing interface, moving timeline up and down si imported composition. without it doing with no problemsMy PC Windows 11, 32Ram, Intel arc 16Gb, Intel core 7 ultra, Laptop : Samsung Galaxy book 5 pro 360 last drivers updates.problems with AE 25 & AE 26in attachement is video how problems apear  

Hi all, I am experiencing weird flickering when I apply taper to smoothed (bezier) trim paths. They seem to work fine if I keep them linear, but smoothing the curves brings out random errors in the animation. Tried smoothing the anchor points in Illustrator before bringing them to AE, but the problem still shows.Even though this example curve comes from AI, the same issue can be recreated with simple curves created on a shape layer.Tried switching GPU/CPU rendering, no luck.Currently on Win 10, AE 22.6.0, but I was able to recreate the same issue on different versions of AE 2023 on a couple of different computers.Any ideas how to fix this?Thanks!  

This error completely breaks projects. There seems to be no way to fix it whatsoever. Cannot be opened, cannot be imported into another project. Nothing.  Windows 10, AMD 5950, 4070 GPU, all AE versions 

After Effects V26 has memory leaks! I'm having to restart after 45 minutes of use. Undo is causing memory failures and crashes. I'm on an M1 Ultra Mac Studio w 128G RAM and a terabyte of dedicated scratch space.

Estoy escribiendo y cuando quiero hacer que el texto vaya hacia abajo simplemente me desaparece…No tengo mucho más para describir.   

The red CTI (Current Time Indicator) suddenly stops at unexpected moments. Additionally while playing back with a buggy red line the viewport zoom stops working, but that is just extra information. This bug doesn't affect anything except the red line and zoom. I can still see the video and hear the audio. However, it's really annoying because you notice the timeline stopping while the animation keeps playing which feels out of sync. I've read every possible forum about this bug. Many users report it happening when After Effects and Premiere Pro are open together or when using Dynamic Link. The problem is I've never used Dynamic Link, I always render animations as mov-files and import them into Premiere Pro manually. System Specs:- CPU: Intel Core i7-12700K.- RAM: KingBank SharpBlade 6000 MHz 64 GB.- Primary Drive (OS/Software): NVMe SSD Lexar ARES 2 TB.- OS: Windows 11 24H2 build 26100.2605.- GPU: RTX 4070 Ti Super based on Studio driver version 566.36. Important No

Create a comp with one layer and expose the layer’s position as an essential property Put that comp into the main comp and animate the exposed essential position property. Try to copy paste one of those keyframes → works Now create a similar comp but having the position separated (separate x/y coords) and expose these separate x and y coords as essential properties Put that comp in the main comp and again animate the position (now via separate x and y coords). Try to copy/paste one of those keyframes → does not work (nothing happens on paste)Reproducible also in test project with freshly created comps that just represent the above setup.Example project attached…  System InfoAfter Effects: Version 26.0.0 (Build 67)macOS: 15.7.4 (24G517) 

Hello,After launching After Effects 2026, pressing the Spacebar does not start preview playback.While holding down the Spacebar, the Hand Tool becomes active temporarily. When I release the Spacebar, it switches back to the Selection Tool. However, playback never starts.  What I checked Verified Keyboard Shortcuts settings Checked the Preview panel configuration Confirmed no custom key remapping Searched for similar cases online All settings appear to be configured correctly.From what I found, this issue does not seem to affect many users and may be specific to my system.I have attached a sample video demonstrating the issue.I would appreciate any guidance or a fix in an upcoming update.Thank you.

I have recently been experiencing a black screen with the AEUX plugin, which is not working. is there any way to fix it?