After Effects

Rendering Issue in After Effects (2024 & 2025) – Extremely Slow PerformanceI have been using After Effects 2024 for a long time, and rendering a 1-minute video used to be much faster. Recently, I updated to After Effects 2025 (v25), and ever since then, rendering has become extremely slow—taking around an hour for a 1-minute video.Steps Taken:I rolled back to After Effects 2024 (v24), but the issue persists.The project is not complex—it contains only basic color corrections and looks adjustments, with no 3D effects or heavy transitions.System Specifications:Model: Predator Helios 300Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHzRAM: 16GBSystem Type: 64-bitGraphics Card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060Issue Summary:Before updating to After Effects 2025, rendering was much faster.After updating, the rendering time increased drastically.Rolling back to v24 did not solve the problem.My project is lightweight, so it shouldn't take this long.Would appreciate any help in troubleshooting this

Bonjour, j’ai besoin de la version After Effects 2022 (v22.x) car je dois utiliser des plugins uniquement compatibles avec les Mac Intel via Rosetta. Pouvez-vous me fournir un lien de téléchargement direct ?

The Advanced 3D renderer in After Effects makes it really easy to import 3D objects ... but unless you know 3D software, you're stuck using what others have built. For a planet (real or imagined) it is kinda nice to have that control for yourself.   In this video, I'm going to show you just how easy it is to make a basic sphere using Blender and then export that as a Wavefront OBJ model which means you can do all the texturing and animation directly in AE. We can do this because OBJ models use a separate MTL file to link to textures - which means it is incredibly easy to update the textures without needing to learn Blender or other 3D software. Once we have a textured planet, I then show how to create a clouds layer and then an atmosphere layer - all without ever going back into the 3D software. In fact, if you don't want to use Blender, then you can download the project files from the YouTube description.  

Hello,I have several plugins that can't access the license server. I send you a video to show you what happens : the login page should have appeared after selecting the RTFX pack.I saw this post but the guy from Adobe answered on direct email (??!...) RTFX is not the only plugin that can't access so how can I change that without going to info.plist ?Thanks 

Hi guys,I am having a problem every time I create a shape layer. So, after creating it or importing a shape layer from Ai with Overlord plugin, I have this problem: when I want to select one or many vertices by dragging in the Composition window is like I have all vertices selected and if I drag what it does is moves the shape, and if I switch to the pen tool it adds more vertices to the shape or selects 1 vertice at a time.Does anyone has an idea of what is happening or if I have something enable that has to be disable?Here is a video of what is happening:Also some pictures of how is the shape created: Hope someone has an idea and a solution. Best,Yeye

Hallo, Wie geht's?can anybody help me out with the error I'm going through right now?After Effects error: preferences file " Adobe After Effects 22.5 Prefs.txt" contains an unexpected value on line 2231, "          "Theme - Color - Backgrou". ( 21 :: 30 ) I've attached the screenshot of the same error message written up here,  

I want to operate AEGP from jsx without creating a menu.However, it seems that jsx does not recognize the command ID unless InsertMenuCommand is used.By using AEGP_Menu_NONE, I can use InsertMenuCommand without creating a menu.This seemed to work. However, an alert sound plays when AE starts up.Is this a bug in AEGP_Menu_NONE?Is there a way to remove this alert, or an alternative solution?My environment is as follows:Windows 11, AE 2025

If I'm exporting a video for broadcast that will also eventually end up on Youtube do I need to deliver 2 versions of the video with different color settings? As far as I can tell, exports with the Working Color Space set to sRGB look correct on Youtube but Rec 709 looks washed out. BUT broadcast television apparently still looks best with the Rec 709 color settings.  For those of you who do deliver for broadcast and web, do you deliver 2 versions?

 i want animate those wing to flapping. i have an idea to use puppet pin and parent to the null and it will be working in 3d preview. but it won't work i assume because the puppet pin position doesn't have the z axis to follow the 3d null. is there any tips to add the z axis? or is there any ways to animate those wings? thankss

Hej there, I hope someone can help me with this. I attached the project file, so you might lokk for yourselves. I am in the process of creating a lower third template for a client of mine. I'm working in AE, but ultimately want to export the template as a mogrt File to use in Premiere. So, the requirement was to have a dynamic lower third with a particular background shape (rounded rectangle, but one corner to remain 90° – I worked around that by using two shapes and masking) that grows and shrinks with the amount of text that lies on top. I split the text into two layers (Name and Title), so that they can have different fonts and colors when I export them as a mogrt File. With a handful of expressions I got 95% of the way and I think it works, but I can't fix a last issue: When the lower text layer "Title" consists of more than one line, it expands upwards and collides with / runs behind the upper "Name" layer AND simultaneously pushes the lower edge of the ba

Imported a vector file from Adobe Illustrator and One object came in with a neagtive starting time and ending at zero time. Is there any way to fix or avoid this issue?I have been unable to adjust the start and end times for this one object. I have attached a snapshot of the issue. I am using After Affects version 25.2.2 (Build 2)Any insite would be helpful. 

My After Effects product looks weird and broken. The render time and shape layer property looks corrupted. Timeline, scripts, expressions, effects, presets were destroyed through the UX program control panel. Screenshot attached. Looks more like someone's joke. Does anyone know how to fix this error?

I want to modify from a script a property of a filter that points to a layer.This type of property has two values:1) The layer name2) the choice between "Source" - "Masks" - "Effects and Masks"To modify the 1st property I do: property("Layer").setValue(index), and it works 🙂but how to change the 2nd one ?

I am newer to expressions, and having a difficult time getting one shape layer to left align to another.  I found this tutorial that how to have shapes automatically change based on the text typed over them.  In my project, I will have two shapes stacked on top of each other, each with their own text inside them. Due to the text, each shape will be a different width from the other.  I would like to get the two shape layers to automatically left align with each other (or the shape on top to align with the shape on the bottom - whatever is easier) no matter how wide the text is. Does anyone happen to know how to do that?

Yeah, I have a sub, way more ram than needed, and that little piece of junk can't ever work, been years, been many computers, never got it to work, it's to the point that I put an image on an empty timeline, and that junk complains he can't get his 20 gigs to display that image, I have 64 gigs of ram, and 12/16/24 gigs of vram (none of my computers can take after effects). So if anyone has a good way to find an older version of after effects, please, I BEG YOU, I need it

Is it possible to export an XML from After Effects? The rights team where I work needs these for asset reporting. A list of the assets isn't good enough since they need the data for how long each asset is used and in what order. If exporting an XML from AE isn't possible is there anything equivalent to it that I could use to get the rights team what they need? Thanks!

HI, I'm interested in using the puppet tool in a video, with moving objects.The object moves (the cat), therefore I commanded the puppet tool pins (which are linked to null objects) to tracking the cat's mouth.The problem is that as soon as the camera moves a little, the whole mouth goes wrong.The question is simple - how can I use the puppet tool in a moving object in a video without it ruining the effect? Thanks in advance

Hi, last week, I've made an After Effects project, but I had forgotten to save it. Its not rendered yet so I couldn't get onto that project. I've spent nearly 3 hours working on it last week and now its all gone! I want to ask if there is a way to recover an unsaved After Effects CC project because i really need it.Thank you for the help really.btw Im using windows 8 and After Effects CC

Hello Everyone! Hope you guys are all doing well. I am kinda new to this animating and I have a really cool picture of a girl that is sitting down in a chair but I want her eyes to blink and maybe even her hair to move..which one of the apps would be best to create this motion graphic effect? I like characters or objects to move in a photo to give it a more realistic effect.

You know... yesterday i tried downloading Parallels to try After Effects, but i keep trying and it doesnt appear on Creative Cloud applications. Can someone tell me what happens?? ty!!

Hi, Prior to setting up Parallels I installed AE on Mac Ventura. All is well. I installed AE on Windows 10. All is well. Those are my two devices. Then I set up Parallels on Mac (same Mac mentioned above) and am running Windows 10 via Parallels. When I try to run AE on Windows via Parallels I get this message: "You've reached your device activation limit. Sign out of one of the devices." It lists devices as This device - not activated Desktop-RLXXXX - last launched 2 hours ago iMac - last launched hour ago I guess Windows when running via Parallels on Mac presents itself as yet another device/license? Any workaround? Any way for AE when running Windows on Parallels to use same license as AE when normally running on Windows (that is, when booted separately to Windows)?

Hi everyone, I have a rendering problem with After Effects regarding the GPU, does anyone know how to disable the processor's integrated GPU and use the dedicated GPU, I also tried to disable the integrated CPU from the BIOS but nothing continues to use that and I also tried to change settings on AE