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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

Hi,I want the whole Trim Path animation to loop in a fixed repetition. I want the entire animation (the way I set the keyframes) to finish and then repeat from start to end at every 2 second.How can I do this with an expression?I tried everything, but I can’t achieve what I want. Please help.     

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.

Having some rendering issues as this error pops up "Compressor format error. (-1610153454)." Then it follows up with "Error Code: 9988".  I'm using Apple Pro Res 4444 file out to an Apple Pro Res 4444 file (RGB + Alpha), 1920 x 1080, 29.97. Render crashes on Frame 13 each time when these error messages pop up.  I've seen other solutions suggested with similar errors, but nothing seemes to be working.  Any thoughts out there? Thanks in advance. /LG

I’m completely stuck with a critical After Effects issue and I really hope someone here can help.Here are the exact technical facts....The main issueAfter Effects crashes with:“Unable to allocate XXX MB of memory”Or random GPU/CPU errors during preview or renderThis happens even on very small projects, sometimes after 1–5 minutes.Hardware diagnostics already doneI tested absolutely everything on the hardware side:MemTest86 — 4 passes — 0 errors → RAM is 100% stableMotherboard BIOS updated (MSI B550 Gaming Plus – latest version)AMD chipset drivers updatedAMD Radeon 6700 XT → clean driver install (Factory Reset)XMP disabled for testingTemps are normal (no thermal throttling)After Effects troubleshooting already doneReset AE preferences (Ctrl + Alt + Shift)Disabled GPU acceleration (Mercury Software Only)Cleaned media cache (manual + preferences)Deleted all Adobe cache folders in AppDataMemory & Performance: multi-frame render disabledMemory virtualized by OS (auto)Fresh installation

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

Can someone explain why this happen?Its a Win PC and the latest AE Version.Thank you

この映像の冒頭、「ハートフルサステナブル」という文字の出現方法について教えていただきたいですハの１画目を再現する方法を模索しています。試したことは以下の通りです①マスクを設定して線のみと塗のみに分けて作り、線エフェクトでアニメーション→線のみを線エフェクトで出現させることができない？そもそも最後にバウンスしているのを再現できない②パスでアニメーションする→最初が残ってしまい綺麗に出現させられない、頂点やハンドルが煩雑で調整が難しい③アンカーポイントをハの頭に設定してスケールでアニメーション→オブジェクトの形に沿ってスケールさせることができないサやナなどの線が交差する部分での挙動などもヒントにして考えましたがわかりませんでした。よろしくお願いいたします。

I want to do some calculations in c++ (faster and more secure), and then, can get these calculations in some layers’ expression to control things like their position and scale for example.Note that this calculated data changes every frame, as this calculated data is driven (function of) by other properties of some layers such as (position, rotation, scale, rect).The data I’m interested in can be represented as an array of numbers, the array size can be more than 100.How can I achieve something like that?It is REALY IMPORTANT for my new tool, as this will make it faster and secure.Example.My plugin would get the position of two layers and get the mid-point.then, I want for these layers to get the value that was calculated inside the plugin and use it in an expression for the position property.Layer 1/2 → position → expression:midPoint “calculated from the plugin”value + midPoint ← the return of the expression.“This is just a simple example, the calculations are much more complex than th

Hey folks, wondering if anyone can tell me the shortcut to align the beginning of a precomp to the playhead in AE, or even just to the exact beginning of the comp?  I know how to align and snap the active, visible section of a precomp to the playhead using “[“ or “]” but can’t figure out how to align the actual beginning of the pre comp to the playhead or even the comp beginning.  Thanks for any info!

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In AE 2026 is the new unmult effect which works well until you apply it to video which have transparency (alpha channel). Then the result is unacceptable with strong banding and color shift. If I compare result to other unmult effects or workarounds, the result of native new effect is totally different while other methods/plugins does well and practicaly the same output. I can provide the whole project with one frame from the footage, or the whole animation,Sample image attached.I tried change bit depth and colorspace but that does not change anything. 

Hi,I have been going crazy looking for a solution to how to solve the 'blank frame' glitch when creating a looping composition using the loopOut() expression.I tried the current/previous solutions which involved adding a keyframe on the penultimate frame or manually setting the final keyframe value -1 frame. These worked, but I was still getting a visible animation glitch happening.My final solution, for a perfect loop with zero visible glitches or blank frames, was to open the pre-comp layer (the original composition that you're trying to loop) and for every layer that reaches the final frame, drag it beyond the end. These layers may appear to run to the very end of the comp and appear as though they reach the final frame, but manually dragging the end of the layer 'off' to the right of the comp was what was needed for that final 'missing' frame to show in the precomp loop.So, starting with a Time Wrapping comp that is showing a blank frame:1. Double-click the comp to show the content

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

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?

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! 

I'm very new to AE. I was wanting to do a camera moving through my text. I parented the null object layer to the camera. Now, when I try to move the position of the null object, nothing moves. The sliders for the directions move, but nothing happens on screen. 3D is selected on my comp, text layers, and my null layer. I'm sure it's an easy fix, but I can't find an answer anywhere. All the tutorials I've watched, I never see an issue. They simply add the camera, add the null object, link them, and when they move the position, no issue. Any help would be super appreciated. Sorry if I didn't explain the best. I'll link a video as wellhttps://imgur.com/a/F2zhVOS