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IssueAfter Effects 26.3 repeatedly crashes during normal editing.The crashes are not limited to one project or one specific plugin.I have experienced crashes while using:• BMF Map Ramp• Linear Color Key• Gradient Overlay• Cinema 4D RendererThe crashes also occur during unrelated editing operations.Because the issue occurs across multiple unrelated plugins and features, it does not appear to be caused by one specific third-party plugin.--------------------------------------------------Internal ErrorSometimes After Effects displays the following message before closing:<RenderTaskManager> <1> Destructor:GetOriginalProject() is nullImmediately afterwards After Effects reports:After Effects has crashed (0,42)--------------------------------------------------Other Crash BehaviourIn many cases After Effects closes instantly without showing any Adobe crash dialog.Windows Event Viewer reports:Application:AfterFX.exeException Code:0xC0000005Sometimes Windows crash dumps are generated

Hi, I animate motion graphics in AE, based on imported Illustrator files. I’m trying to figure out why some of my comps are rendering with very low CPU usage while others peak to 90%. What is strange it looks like more complex comps are rendered super slow (5% CPU usage) while others that has much less layers and effects can use much more. But still even through those lite comps the CPU can jump from 5% to 90% for no reason - meaning nothing really changes in the comp exept some layer movements… how can it be?I render into PNG sequences inside AE.Sometimes I use BG Renderer MAX that forces AE to use as much CPU as possible, but this plugin often crashes or misses some PNG files so I’d rather use built in AE renderer. But it is inconceivable to me that 3rd party plugin can make use of the whole CPU, while native AE can’t :/

For many videos now I have had a black frame problem in After Effects. Random black frames appearing in the preview window and export. As well as random frames from a different part of the video, although that is less frequent.It seems like it would be a frame rate problem, but it still happens when frame rates are all matched. As I edit in Premiere and then export, which is then brought into After Effects. I also bring in separate videos in the an After Effects comp for B roll that will have the black frame problem, and the frame rate of those videos is not something I have control over. That is unless I exported a copy of the video from Premiere and changed the frame rate settings before export. This would be tedious to do, and there is no guarantee it would work.But if this problem does not happen in Premiere it seems like it is a problem that can be fixed in After Effects. Regardless it seems like something that should be possible to fix.Can Adobe fix this problem for future update

I've been working in each of the ACES OCIO configurations for about a year now, but there are a number of go to effects I usually need to use which unfortunately completely clip the highlights making them unuseable. Most of the effects I've seen with this issue so far are distortion effects but also some noise/grain effects too.On a current project I really need to warp areas of the plate but mesh warp, liquify and others cause this highlight clipping issue so there are no other effects I can go to for what I need. How can I resolve this or can Adobe please fix?This is before one of the effects is appliedand this is afterThis project is ACES 1.3 Studio v1.0 32 bit, but the issue happens in the other configurations too.

Bonjour, je suis encore au lycée, je ne gagne pas grand chose par mois. Mon abonnement prend les 3/4 de mon argent donc je ne peux plus faire grand chose. Ma question est si je peux supprimer mon abonnement que j'ai pris pour un ans sans faire exprès ou si ce n' est pas possible ?

Issue - filling up ram, with a preview render, never releases that ram, causes the application to generally not work.  Steps to reproduce - I use a plugin, element 3d, and preview render a long comp, that fills the ram cache, then change the comp and try to work with it. AE refuses to render anything.  Expected result - AE clears up ram, prioritizes what it is supposed to be doing. Actual result -  preview is BLACK. AE does not render anything. eventually it will crash, as the app uses more and more ram. Screen recording – this is impossible, as AE sucks down all system resources Adobe After Effects version - Version 26.0.0 (build 67) Operating system - Mac os X Tahoe 26.2 GPU driver version (Windows only) - NA Video format -  Comparative information helps us understand more about when the issue occurs:  It seems to affect projects that use large amounts of ram, and possibly plugins.  yes  AE 2025, I discovered it in December of 2025. Optional but useful: other observations: Element

I sent a message in the chat and the respose I get was that I could get a older version if my question was posted here in the forum, can someone help me?

Buenas tardes, hace tiempo que utilizo after effects y no he tenido problemas hasta ahora.Resulta que en la previsualizacion, al colocar cualquier vídeo se ve una pantalla verde y se rompe todo. El vídeo esta bien, si yo lo veo en un reproductor no hay errores. Ni esa pantalla verde que aparece.No se a que se debe. Lo peor es que no solo se ve en la previsualizacion sino tambien al exportar en cualquier formato.Si alguien tiene una solución se lo agradezco.IMG:IN ENGLISH:HiI had this problem in After Effects. When i Import a video on proyect it's look like a green screen in random parts. But this screen appear not only in the previsualization. It appear when i export the proyect too!!I don't know what to do :c

Using AE 25.4.0 (Build 86)after pressing spacebar to play a comp, the play head will move about 5 frames then stops moving. Yet the clip still plays in the comp window. Pressing the spacebar again to stop the animation, the play head suddenly jumps to the point in the timeline where i pressed the spacebar to stop it. None of the properties in the effects control panel update in real time. In order to see the values of animated properties at any given frame, I have actually click into the properties panel, then it updates. The only assets in this comp is a text layer with a few glow effects.  I'm using Windows 11, Intel Core i9 (3.2GHz), 64 GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 5080

With GPU acceleration enabled ("Use Graphics Processor"), Photoshop's canvas displays images brighter than the actual pixel data. Confirmed by comparing the canvas to the layer thumbnail (which shows the correct, darker image) and to the same file opened in Preview.app and Camera Raw. Disabling GPU acceleration and restarting Photoshop fixes it — canvas then matches thumbnail/Preview.Steps to reproduce:Open a JPEG or ARW file (GPU acceleration on, default) Compare canvas to layer thumbnail — canvas is visibly brighter Photoshop > Settings > Performance > uncheck "Use Graphics Processor" > restart Reopen file — canvas now matches thumbnailExpected: canvas matches actual pixel data. Actual: GPU rendering over-brightens display only (underlying data is correct).Likely related to a broader shared GPU rendering issue — other users report the same artifact in Premiere Pro and After Effects. See related (closed) thread: community.adobe.com/topic/show?tid=1409325&fid=729 

Lately, more and more clients are asking for that raw Gen Z visual language, Y2K brutalism, heavy grain, chaotic collage work, chromatic aberration, and stacked layer styles. Visually, it looks sick. Technical-wise? It’s turning my After Effects timeline into a complete slideshow.When you're dealing with 50+ layers of textures, noise maps, and complex typography in Photoshop, what’s your go-to strategy before sending it to AE? Are you flattening/baking grunge textures into single assets, or keeping everything live and praying to the RAM cache gods?Would love to know how you guys balance keeping that unpolished, edgy look without completely destroying your render times or handoff structure.

I haven't found an answer to this anywhere. I am not sure if it is even possible.  I need to know how to center the anchor point of a single shape within a shape layer.  I am trying to rotate a couple of shapes within a single shape layer, but I cannot figure out how to get their anchor points centered. I know how to do it for the entire layer, but not for the contents within the layer.  

Hello there,We are experiencing rendering issues with our EXRs in After Effects 25.4.Our images appear with several horizontal black lines at regular intervals, dividing the vertical image into 14 equal horizontal segments.These lines are 1 pixel high and transparent.The rendered EXRs do not present any rendering issues in Photoshop or After Effects 25.3.2.The EXRs are high resolution (4984x3584 pixels), come from 3dsmax/Vray, and are encoded in DWAB.Given that patch note 25.4 specifies improvements to EXR processing, it is possible that this is where the problem lies.No effect are in the scene, no nothing. Only the EXR sequence.The lines are not necessarily visible at the top of the composition and do not appear on all frames. However, they always appear in the same place in the composition over time.I have, of course, tried all the usual methods to remove these lines from the rendering, but I have not been successful. Purging all the data, switching to Mercury, changing the interpret

Hello!I'm using After Effects CC 2017, but I was using CC 2015 when the problem first appeared (tried to download a previous and a newer version, the problem persisted on both). Here is what happened: .I opened the project. I see the message "Refresh Disabled (Release Caps Lock to refresh the view)" with the black screen, but Caps Lock is ALREADY released. I didn't even pressed it in the first time..When the video is rendered, the message doesn't appears..If I change anything, like just move one layer a little, the message comes back..Any key I press make the message disappears.I tried to reset my configurations, with no success.Trying to finish a project but it's impossible this way. Any of you guys could help me? I'm using a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) Sierra, 2,9 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB.Thanks!

I have been working with After Effects for six years and haven’t seen this before. This project has six compositions. The timeline on five of them work as normal, all the collateral is listed on the left and there are horizontal bars for all them in the timeline. I can sweep through and view the composition.One of the compositions has all the collateral listed on the left side. The timeline is showing time but there are no horizontal bars showing when a piece of collateral appears/disappears. There are numbers listed down the side. You can sweep through the timeline and watch the preview but there are no bars or graphics in the timeline. How did this happen and how can I get it back to normal view? 

How can I fix the frame flickering in adobe after effect 2026? Motion Blur is turned on 

As first discovered in After Effects 26.3, third-party plugins based on the AE SDK can no longer expect to receive a valid AEGP_LayerH via AEGP_PFInterfaceSuite1->AEGP_GetEffectLayer() if the call is made while the plug-in is handling the PF_Cmd_PARAMS_SETUP command.It is unclear how this affects all third-party plugins running in AE. The side effects for FxFactory plug-ins thankfully appear to be marginal. Our plugins are invoking that function during PF_Cmd_PARAMS_SETUP in order to compute the in/out points of the effect clip by using the AEGP_LayerH in subsequent calls to AEGP_LayerSuite7->AEGP_GetLayerInPoint() and AEGP_LayerSuite7->AEGP_GetLayerDuration(). 

When i click “s” to open the scale property, the values of scales are not visible. that’s why i need to open properties panel to control its value which slow down my work. same happening with every properties. i mean the values are visible at all. i am sharing two screenshots 1. the issue. 2. what’s missing  

Need some help with installing an older version of after effects on my MacBook Pro. My Mac is a 2017 MacBook Pro running macOS Ventura 13.7.8. Creative Cloud only shows After Effects v26.3 as “System incompatible” and v25.6.6 giving the options of free trial or buy. Clicking “Free trial” on v25.6.6 doesn’t download anything—it just says “You already own After Effects.” There is no “Other versions” option anywhere in my Creative Cloud interface. I’ve looked at the tutorials for downloading older versions but my layout looks different and the three dots that is supposed to offer you older versions only says plug ins?? Can anyone please help me install a compatible version?