After Effects

When I enable Show Layer Controls, if there are shape layers with many paths the entire UI becomes unusually slow and unresponsive.

Hello everyone, Since last week Thursday I have been having issues with After effects.After using after effects for a few minutes the preview screen freezes. Once that happens if I try to continue editing after effects will freeze. When trying to close after effects it won't work. Even closing it with task manager doesn't work. It only closes if I completely restart my laptop. The past few days I did more testing. trying to edit and restart after effects everytime it wanted to freeze and crash. The more I work in the project and add more things the faster it will eventually freeze. Doing simple things like masking a picture or adding beat markers also could make this freeze happen.  These past days new versions of after effects came out. sadly when updating these versions didn't fix the problem and today with the new update 25.5 it still didn't fix.  I already tried a few things:Reseting prefrences, Starting up in safe mode (same issues occured), turning off al

Hi. I work in post. We usually import an image sequence of cr2 / raw footage into After Effects, it shows a preview on the Camera Raw window, where we leave everything as it is by default, with Adobe Color profile.The producer let us know that my renders were looking a bit more desaturated and kind of dark, while my coworker's was just as expected, bright and vivid colors.  We rendered in Quicktime, with Apple ProRes 4444, we double checked all of our settings, everything was the same. The only different thing was the AE version. He was working with 2025 (25.1) and I was working with 2026 (26.0). I downloaded a previous AE version, imported the footage and it looked just fine.Overall, this seems to be a specific 2026 version problem. Please fix this asap. Luckily, we found a way for importing all my work into a past version of AE and it was an instant fix, otherwise it would have been a problem for the person working the color after me.Thanks.

Every time I select a text layer in After Effects using the monitor, a message box pops up with the following error:After Effects error: having to focus on ourselves(76 :: 59)When I click OK, the cursor jumps back to the beginning of the text instead of staying where I clicked to edit it.It’s a small bug, but when it happens 200 times a day, it gets pretty annoying.

I used to use the puppet tool animating the pins in real time while the audio of the video was played. Since the after effects 2014 version there is a bug that no longer plays the audio of the video while animating the pins in real time, making the tool uncomfortable or impossible to use in case you are animating a character that speaks...

In After Effects 2026, content aware fill will only fill the first frame, the last frame, and then the second frame. After that it stops and doesn't do anything else. If those frames already have reference images, or otherwise don't need any fill, it does nothing. It doesn't move on to frame 3 if I try to force it. It just stops at frame 2. I can see the progress bar pop up, analyze, and start rendering, and then stop once frame 2 is done. It doesn't matter if it is set to object or edge blend or surface, it just doesn't do anything. But when I take the same shot over to AE 2025, it works just fine! In 2025 I follow the same steps and it has no problem rendering the entire shot.

Problem Description:In AE 25.5.0 both win / macOSAfter turning on 3D on layers in Advanced Renderer, if you turn them off, layers outside the comp will still have 3D wireframe displayed. Steps to Reproduce:Turn on 3D on a layerSwitch to Advanced RendererSwitch off 3D on the layer.If the layers goes outside the comp, AE will display 3D wireframe. Expected Result:  no wireframe at all.   

The last save file on after effects is not getting saved some times and also it was not saved in autosave. When I close and open its not showing it as saved.

When opening after effects, it will get to the splash screen scanning fonts and then crash. It crashes on a different font every time. I am working on a mac studio - M2 Max, 32GB.splash screen before crashingcrash notice 

Keyframe icons aren’t displaying properly in the timeline. A linear keyframe icon will randomly appear as a hold keyframe icon or an ease in keyframe icon etc. When I click on it, it reverts back to what it actually is. If I click away, it switches back to the wrong icon. AE 26.0.0. OS X Tahoe 26.2. 

System specsIntel Core Ultra 9Asus TUF GAMING Z890-PLUSCorsair Vengeance 128 GB RAMSamsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2Asus ProArt RTX 4070 Ti (latest driver installed)Windows 11 Pro 25H2I read that the Windows 11 update KB5074109 can be problematic.Since installing After Effects 2026, the interface lags and freezes.Sometimes it blocks for a few seconds.Sometimes it’s small delays, but frequent enough to make work annoying.This happens even with low system usage.CPU and GPU are not under load.……...I would also prefer fewer updates, but more stable ones.Not yearly changes that break workflows.In reality, we have to follow updates because clients update, it a ecosystems change, and compatibility issues appear if i am not on the same as other. I also feel that software companies focus too much on data collection.The software feels heavier, slower, and less focused on user experience.As a user, I don’t feel like the customer anymore.It feels like investors and data are the priority.

hallo liebes Adobe Team, ich nutze seit Jahren das kostenlose und tolle Plugin von Video Copilot namens FX Console.Ab der Version 26 und auch in der letzten Beta, lässt es sich nicht mehr richtig nutzen. In den Einstellungen funktioniert der shortcut “option+Space” nicht mehr. Was aber viel schlimmer ist: wenn ich den  Efffect “Füllen” in die Favoriten ablege, stürzt After Effects ab. Was mir auffällt, das die deutschen Sonderzeichen nicht ht erkannt werden, jedoch funktionieren die Verknüpfungen zu anderen Effekten mit Sonderzeichen.Ich hoffe das Problem wird gelöst denn es ist ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug für mich und viele Andere User geworden.In derVersion 25.64 funktioniert das selbe Plugin Fehlerlos.https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2018/05/fx-console-updated-to-v1-0-3/ 

I see that in ‘Fixed issues in After Effects’, in the ‘Fixed issues in the November 2025 release (version 25.6)’ section, it says: User Interface > Dialogs now open at their last saved position by default, with the Preferences dialog always opening centered.I am using v25.6.4, and none of my panels remember their saved positions, ever. I move them, open them again, and they are in the center of the frame again. I restart SE, same results..I’m guessing this is not a common problem, as I see no other posts about it.Why would this be happening?Using Windows 11 64 bitThanks

see attached file - when you nest the modify the path with essential properties, the null no longer traces the path if you enable continuous rasterize 😔

Hi, since I updated this morning, I can’t do any kind of customised blurring - it just blurs the whole thing. There is no elipse, rectangle of bezier option with Gaussian blur in the effects panel any more. I've tried to attach a photo but I don’t know if it’s worked. To reproduce, drag Gaussian blur onto a clip and go to that section in the efects panel. No masking options appear there, just a box to click with ‘surprise me’ written on it. If you click that it just all gets blurrier, but you still can’t mask anything. The whole lot is blurred.  Thanks. Imogen

I’ve used the . key (on the numeric keypad) to preview audio when adding markers since 2007. In AE 26.0 (build 67) this function now no longer works. When I hit the audio preview key, the start time of out by approximately 1 second (which makes it unusable). The . audio preview was good because after you play, the CTI would still be where you left it.When I preview with the spacebar, the CTI moves and stops when you hit stop.My primary reason four this is when i am marking up audio - music or a voiceover.I’m on Windows OS - 11 - 25H2 - Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.291.0AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor Nvidia Studio Driver - 591.74 - Mon Jan 5, 2026  misc extra detail:NVIDIA system information report created on: 02/10/2026 14:51:27NVIDIA App version: 11.0.6.383Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.26200DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12Driver: Studio Driver - 591.74 - Mon Jan 5, 2026CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor             RAM: 96.0 GBStor

I regularly use the period “.” keyboard shortcut on the number pad just to play the audio in AE timeline, the last update has made the play head lag behind the actual audio time which makes it impossible to lay down markers whilst listening to the audio.AE 26 Build 67MacOS 15.7.4Mac Studio M1 Ultra

won’t open in safe mode; won’t open w/ 3rd party plugins disabled,  won’t import into other projects; won’t open on other machines. ChatGPT has no answers.    If not fixed soon, i want my money back! 

I’m on the latest After Effects (26.0) and I’m working on a video edit. I’m using some AI-generated videos as a base and then editing them. A lot of AI videos are slow, so I’m using Time Remapping to speed them up. The comp frame rate matches the footage.The problem is that when I Time Remap the video, it introduces random glitches on random frames (e.g., 3–5 frames). Normally, when something like this happened before, I could just remove the glitched frame and it was fine. But now it’s uncontrollable: when I change the bit depth, the glitch disappears in some frames but shows up in completely different ones. I’d understand if it was preview-only, but even when I purge the memory and disk cache, it just appears in different places. That’s why I can’t simply remove one or two frames—because the glitch moves.Frame Blending either shifts the glitches somewhere else or creates other visually weird artifacts. Time Remapping has always worked perfectly for me, so this is really frustrating. 

Setup : Windows 11 Local administrator account Account path has special character (C:\Users\François) Fresh AE 2026 install (same with fresh AE2025) Super basic test composition The bug :When exporting as MOGRT > dialogs flash > the export process fails silently before I get the “chose location” dialog. No error or crash.Workaround : Create a new local account without special characters (c:\Users\temp\). Login to that account, open the same composition… exports just fine.

I'm absolutely gutted, I just lost a whole day's work with a following day deadline.... I was working away using RotoBrush which must save all its frozen rotos into the AEP which results in a bloated file. Unbeknownst to me, since there were no errors or warnings, none of my saves actually saved, nor did the auto saves. I only found this out when i went to upload my AEP to send it off to the client, I noticed the "Date Modified" was from this morning, only a few hours after I started working on the project! Same with the autosaves. I went into the recycle bin of my Synology NAS and I found all these temp AEP saves and auto save files all with the same file size in increments of time all through the day until I stopped working, meaning it was trying to save and created a temp file but gave up with no warning (see attached image) The file size being around 2,175,221KB (2.07GB) for every file. When I try opening these up, I get the "After Effects error: missing data in file ( 33 :: 4

I noticed after the latest V26.0 update this issue kept popping up. Case in point, after I've imported my illustrations into AE, random layers seem to disappear even though they are still there in the illustrator file. As you can glimpse from the thumbnail the head of the character is still there but disappears in the AE comp.The solution is for me to open the illustrator file, click save again and wait for the link to update in AE. Trouble is random layers from other illustrations would again disappear every time I open my AE file again to start my animation. Another issue is that the blend mode from illustrator is not pulling through to AE, for example the neck shadow is multiply 40% but in AE it’ll just be Normal 100%. Then randomly it’ll correct itself or reset every time I restart my AE.The obvious solution is to create shape in AE but I have textures in my illustrations and it’ll be chaotic to redo the illustration just for 4 seconds of animation.Hope there’ll be a patch soon for

With Cinema4d, we can render EXR sequences containing both ‘Beauty’ (rgba-image) and AOV-channels. But unfortunately, it is not possible to interpret the image-part with the correct color space ( ACEScg Working Space). 

I’m trying to use the Config Variable font from Adobe Fonts in After Effects, but it doesn’t appear in the font list. It works fine in Photoshop and Illustrator. I'm using a macbook pro.  I’ve tried the following troubleshooting steps with no success:•Restarted AE and Creative Cloud•Checked Creative Cloud font sync•Cleared AE font cache (AdobeFnt.lst)•Installed the font locally (both OTF and TTF from a third-party source)•Tested on an older AE version Still, the font refuses to show up in After Effects. Any ideas on how to fix this? Font link: Config Variable on Adobe Fonts Thanks in advance! 

AE26において標準プラグインの「パステキスト」に日本語入力をすると、結果の表示が文字化けしてしまいます。どうにかなおるでしょうか？