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Saber does not work in after effects 25.2.2. I needed Saber for the project. I downloaded it from the official source and installed it. For the test, I created a simple object for the test. I drag the saber onto the object, select Layer Masks and nothing. Everything worked before. Half a year ago I made a project using saber, but on a different version of AF. Maybe someone has encountered this?

Adobe continues to suck.Version 25.2.0 build 4. Macbook air Sonoma 14.7 1. How to get rid of this thumbnail preview space (in pic 1, the space between the word "project" and the search bar)? There is no way I can find... I don't need it and would rather just have the files closer to compress the project window. Is there no way to turn off thumbnail previews?2. Why, on this beautiful green earth, isn't the snapping buttons and the workspace pulldown on the same line as as all the other buttons? Look at all that empty space taking up precious screen estate! I am honestly flabberghasted that the leading design software company puts out products with such poor design. If I am missing something someone tell me.

When users change the value of a slider parameter declared by a plugin with thePF_ParamFlag_SUPERVISE flag, AE fails to notify the plugin via PF_Cmd_USER_CHANGED_PARAM. Steps to reproduce:- Take an existing plug-in based on the AE SDK, and make one of its slider parameters observable by setting its PF_ParamFlag_SUPERVISE flag.- Set a breakpoint / print something to the console / beep when handling the PF_Cmd_USER_CHANGED_PARAM command.- Apply the plugin inside any recent version of AE.- Change the slider’s value and notice that PF_Cmd_USER_CHANGED_PARAM is never invoked. Expected:Plug-ins should receive a PF_Cmd_USER_CHANGED_PARAM command whenever the value assigned to a slider parameter is changed. Notes:Sliders can trigger a large number of changes very quickly, and it would be perfectly fine if AE were to coalesce multiple changes into one. BUT it is vital that AE issue at least one PF_Cmd_USER_CHANGED_PARAM command, when the user is done

When user selecting 3D object and pressing F button, 3d view centering to selected object. But this feature work only when you're using tools for camera movement (Orbit, Pan, Dolly).Since 2026 its possible to use Alt+Mouse to move camera view, even when using  any other tools like Selection tool, Pan, Rotation, Text etc. But in this case F-cenetring doesn't work.

Help! About 3 weeks ago, this problem has cropped up and rendered AE unuseable to me on my laptop: When I open a project (or start a new one), everything works fine for a few minutes until suddenly the composion panel just freezes.  After Effects continues to run, I can even close the panel and reopen it and it reopens in its frozen state. I can continue to edit on the timeline, save my work etc, but when I close After Effects it will stop responding and crash out. I have tried: Resetting cachedeleting preferencesswitching to CPU renderingswitching off multiframe renderingupdating my graphics driversreinstalling After Effects completely No avail, it just freezes now, almost every time, after a couple of minutes regardless of what I am doing in it. Specs:Ryzen 9955hxGeforce 5070ti64gb DDR5 RAM After Effects current version is 25.2 - this updated today Sept 2025Geforce Studio Driver 581.29 - this was updated The laptop is basically 2 mont

 Hello! Would love some advice / insight on ACEs within AE. I work with CG and VFX all done in ACES CG, that works fine, looks good, blah blah blah. But the second I try to bring in or create graphics on top, I start to get aliasing once I put the input color space to be sRBG (so I can get the right brand colors and pure whites). As of now I've been working around that by doing any comp / CG work in an ACES project, and then making an alt project that's rec709 or srgb to add graphics on top with prerenders. Obviously, this adds an extra step so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong here. The weird thing is if you view the Color Space transformed graphics over an empty background, the type looks clean (see the first screenshot). Is this something anyones dealing with or Adobe is aware of?I've even tried using the alpha of the non-color space transformed graphic as a matte and that still looks chunky. This happens all the time and curious if anyone has a workaround.&nbsp

Every time I open up After Effects, it's asking me to connect to the internet so that my license can be actiavated. I am always connected to Wi-Fi and my other Adobe softwares don't have this issue. Currently I only have 4 days remaining...  Version:  25.5OS: Windows 11GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4060 

Product: Adobe After EffectsVersion: 25.5Platform: Windows 11 Issue Summary:Manually suspending the core Windows processes TextInputHost.exe or ShellExperienceHost.exe using Process Explorer immediately causes After Effects to enter a “Not Responding” state and freeze.Once the suspended process is resumed, After Effects instantly becomes responsive again and functions normally. Steps to Reproduce:Launch After Effects with any project open.Open Process Explorer and locate TextInputHost.exe and ShellExperienceHost.exe.Suspend one or both of these processes.Attempt to interact with After Effects. Expected Result:After Effects should ideally handle the temporary unavailability of these background services gracefully, without freezing. Actual ResultAfter Effects immediately freezes and becomes unresponsive until the suspended process is resumed. NotesThe goal is to understand whether After Effects has a specific dependency on TextInputHost.exe or ShellExperienceHost

Hey AE team!I've encountered a weird rendering issue with the advanced render engine.When using the Effra CC VF typeface, certain glyphs appear like this:  I'm using version 25.0.1 on MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1

 I’m reaching out for assistance with a persistent launch issue in After Effects on my Apple Silicon Mac.System Details:macOS: 26.0.1 (Build 25A362)Hardware: Mac14,14 (Apple Silicon, 64 GB RAM)After Effects versions tested: 24.6.8 (2024) and 25.5.0 (2025)Creative Cloud: Current as of October 2025Issue Summary:After Effects will not launch. The application hangs immediately after opening — no splash screen appears. I have tried both AE 2024 and AE 2025 with the same result. macOS generates a “hang” diagnostic report rather than a crash. The most recent log includes the event type hang (Duration: ~27 seconds) before the process is terminated.Troubleshooting Steps Already Taken:Fully uninstalled all Adobe softwareRan Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner ToolManually deleted all Adobe support, preference, and cache foldersRemoved all third-party plugins (including MediaCore and Maxon folders)Reset AE preferences and cachesDisabled GPU acceleration and tested Rosetta modeReinstalled

Hello everyone! I’m experiencing a bug in After Effects: when I open Extension 1, then dock it, and afterwards open Extension 2, there’s a problem — when I close Extension 1, Extension 2 also closes for some reason.Sometimes the UI (user interface) of Extension 2 even disappears.Does anyone know why this happens?

I’ve experienced this issue multiple times, even when I’m not doing anything heavy — just working with 2-3 image layers. After Effects often freezes (especially when I press Alt+Tab to switch between windows), and then crashes. My monitor goes black for a few seconds and comes back on with the error message:"After Effects crash: can't continue. Encountered a GPU or graphics driver issue."This is incredibly frustrating. It doesn’t just happen occasionally — it happens frequently. And from the number of posts about this issue, it seems like it’s been going on for a long time.But so far, there’s been no real action from Adobe. The usual suggestion is to switch to “Mercury Software Only”, but honestly, that doesn’t solve anything.Please, this is exhausting to deal with — is there any real fix or update on this?

Hello there, I am new here to ask some questions. Does anyone here have experience importing files from AI with a duplicated file inside? I would appreciate this being fixed.

After Effects 25.4 keeps re-rendering the timeline AFTER I've done a Ram Preview.For example, in the image below I rendered part of my timeline then set the Work Area to only that section. When I hit the space bar to watch it, it re-renders! It won't just play it. wtf is going on? After Effects has never worked like this.This has been happening in every project for months. It's like I have to have my Work Area set before starting a render because if I stop the Ram Preview before it reaches the end of the Work Area I have to re-render the whole thing. Sometimes, if I quit and restart After Effects it'll work like normal again, simply playing the parts I've already rendered. What's going on? Is this a bug? I can't imagine this is intentional. Is this happening to anyone else?  Windows 11After Effects 25.4120GB RamRendering using CUDA Acceleration 

After activating a font at Adobe Fonts Online wonderful Font Collection, there pops up a Message from Windows, that the fonts are added.But in AE they are not visible in the Font Menue. After Restarting AE, they are shown there. This is not very nice, while trying lots of fonts for finding the right one for a Project...It would be Absolutely fantastic, if this could be fixed!!! Version 25.1.0 (Build 68)Windows 11

Hello Adobe Community,I've ran into a small issue while applying stroke Animators on certain type layers.It seems that on certain typefaces, or only certain weights of certain typefaces, the stroke doesn't generate completely correctly on some letters. In the example here it's the top end of the 'K' that gets tapered in a weird way. When converted to shapes in After Effects, the clipping of the stroke disappears. I don't know what about it being a type layer makes it behave this way. When converted to shapes in Illustrator the typography seems like it shouldn't have any issue to draw a curve around it, there are no double vertexes or other weird inconsistencies with it that would.This project needs to work with editable typelayers, so converting it to a shape layer is not an option.Does anybody have any experience with this? Know of any ways to resolve this issue?Any help would be much appreciated.Thanks in advance!

 Hi, I’m using a business plan for work purposes.I’m trying to use Cinema 4D, the plugin additionally provided with After Effects, but it doesn’t run even after installation — the error window below keeps appearing.I’ve already uninstalled and reinstalled it dozens of times.Please I really need a solution for this issue.My computer is an Apple M1 Pro.

Howdy. I'm running a MacBook Pro 15, M4 with 48gb Ram, running Sequoia 15.7.1. Using the latest version of AE. I've had a project file stop loading randomly and will not load past 94% and AE stops respondng. I get no indication as to an error message or if a file is not working. I sent this file to another user and file can be opened on their machine but not on the original machine. I have just rebuilt the project again yesterday only for it to happen again this morning after I finished it. When I opened the Premiere project to render the beds the screens were blank so I opened AE to check and low and behold the same issue occured again. The first time it happened I re-installed AE, disabled all plugins and in safe mode, I have cleared the cache, I have doubled it's allocated ram from 12mb to 24mb and I've tried to open it in another new project to no avail. It's only this project though. I can open other projects so far no problem. I am running the 'Parallax' Plugin Script in thi

It looks like using the RED importer with MFR ends up using all RAM available. This is AE 2025.5 on Windows with 32GB RAM although it seems to happen on systems with more memory and longer clips as well. Create a comp containing RED footage (8K is a good test)Turn on MFRNote setting for RAM reserved for other applicationsAdd comp to render queue and render in AESystem RAM will reach 100% and system will slow down due to swapping. This is not occur with MFR off. Increasing RAM reserved for other applications doesn't help. Switching to Software Only doesn't change anything. This does not seem to occur with other importers, e.g MP4 files. Increasing RAM servered for other 

I have been having issues with my graphics. Problems that have manifested include the composition panel appearing black in both After Effects and Premiere Pro, pattern preview not showing in Photoshop, and Photoshop crashing when I use the liquify filter on RGB mode (on CMYK, it says "Liquify is capable of utilizing the graphics processor on RGB files to increase preformance. The color mode you have chosen will not utilize the graphics processor" and works just fine). Right now, I am most concerned about fixing the black composition screen in After Effects, but fixing this will likely resolve the other issues. These things have never worked before, so it is not a case that they have suddenly stopped working. I would like to learn After Effects, but not being able to see the video is obviously a roadblock (I did make sure content was on the timeline). I have previously reached out to Adobe and NVIDIA support, but neither of them were able to fix the issue. I wanted to try asking the com

Something that has started bugging me a lot is that I noticed that moving audio files removes your cached preview data. It seems like they are consolidated into single cache files? This makes it really painful to edit audio timing because every time you move it you need to rerender the composition.   Please make audio independent of video preview data so we do not have this issue.

Hi there, I can't click on Hue Saturation's Channel Range diagramm. I can adjust it only after I added the effect on the layer. But when I back to it to make some twicks the Channel Range became unclicable. I can't change anything anymore. The only way is to delet the effect and add the new one and make adjustments from scratch. Any way to fix that without downgrade or beta? I have an active project and a lot of plugins and scripts installed and can't lose time to set up everything again. Thanks AE 25.5.0 Build 4Windows 11

when I replace the file, it is deleted, it can only be replaced as an png image.

Hello,I am experiencing performance issues with Adobe After Effects everyday. AE is lagging significantly during use and while rendering, even when I am working in quarter resolution. Additionally, AE frequently crashes specially while rendering. System SpecificationsGPU: RTX 5070 TiRAM: 192 GB (yes 192GB)CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950XOS: Windows 11 ProStorage: 2x 2TB SSD NVMe + 2x 250GB SSD SATAThis issues with After Effects on my high-end PC that are impacting my ability to meet project deadlines. I recently upgraded from a MacBook Pro M3 to this high-end PC specifically to improve my After Effects workflow. However, I'm experiencing severe performance issues (even worse than on MacBook) that are impacting my ability to meet project deadlines.Rendering FailuresWhen attempting to render a medium-complexity 1.5-minute project, I have a 5070 Ti. AE freezes for about 2-5 min and i need to RESTART the pc or disconnect the session to clos

Hey, something weird that is worth saying happened today at work.Working on a project with a team, and one 3D layer wasn't centered properly when I opened the main project on my AE. (25.1).I upgraded to the latest AE 25.5, and I could see the layer at the correct spot as it was supposed to be. Any info on what is causing that ? (4K comp with a camera in Classic 3D, layer in question was a 3D text layer). Thanks!