After Effects

In Adobe Premiere Pro, you can easily add free sound effects through the Essential Sound panel, including built-in integration with Adobe Stock.Some colleagues prefer to complete animation projects entirely within After Effects. However, I haven’t been able to find a comparable panel or workflow in After Effects. As far as I can tell, sound effects need to be searched for and imported manually.I’m wondering if I might be overlooking a feature, plugin, or recommended workflow that offers similar functionality in After Effects.

I’m working on a project in Premiere that I used a bunch of AE comps to do titles and other motion. It was all shot on RED footage, so it’s a fairly heavy project. I’m trying to send it to a colorist, but even after using “render and replace” on all the AE comps, duplicating my sequences and deleting every AE linked comp from my project, Premiere Project Manager keeps including them when I try to consolidate the project to send. When I re-open the premiere project, it puts all the AE comps back into the project in a “Recovered Clips” folder. I’ve even tried Consolidate and transcode on the clips and it still won’t leave the AE projects out of the project which is a problem, b/c then it pulls in a ton of other RED footage into the folder and makes it a huge project to try and send. I’m going insane. 

I am receiving this message.  Advice would be appreciated please. After Effects can't continue: An unexpected error has occurred and After Effects will now shutdown.Please check you have the appropriate permissions to launch After Effects as well as read/write access to the After Effects preferences folder.If any other error messages were displayed prior to this, please review, and resolve if possible. Hayley

Hello, We’ve had an issue in the last week, that After Effects will no longer open on 4 different workstations we have, one of them is offsite and not on the same network.There is no splash screen it and it instantly displays the crash screen with” AfterFX.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close”. This happens on Windows 10 and Windows 11. After Effects will work on my Home PC with the same Creative Cloud Account. I have tried the Creative Cloud cleaner on one of the Workstations and a fresh install After Effects 2026, but same error appears. Any help is gratefully received.

Hello Adobe AE Team,I am experiencing a reproducible issue across four identical Mac Studio units (Apple M3 Ultra, 256 GB RAM) running macOS Sequoia 15.5, where After Effects is loading the Torq/NAPI JavaScript engine instead of the Adobe JavaScript engine.Across AE versions 25.4, 25.5, and 26.0, the following diagnostic expressions always return:$.engineName → "torq/napi"typeof(TextDocument) → "undefined"This indicates that AE is not loading the expected Adobe JS engine and instead is loading a fallback runtime that does not support TextDocument APIs.As a result, all of the following APIs fail:new TextDocument() .style .fontSize .leading .setFontSize() .setLeading() .setJustification()I have thoroughly eliminated all environmental causes:✅ Confirmed no Torq, Fusion, NAPI, or Resolve frameworks in system paths✅ Confirmed no PATH or DYLD overrides✅ Confirmed no per-user shell modifications✅ Confirmed no MDM restrictions✅ Confirmed Full Disk Access for AE and Terminal✅ Confirmed quaranti

in 26,2,1 version Depencies/Collect files is working differently from older versions and it’s working WRONG…I have folders with names 001, 002, 003, 004 and inside are sub folders with rendered images.However when I do Collect files, all the folders are “flatened” and all image sequences are put in single folders with changed names, but not all folders are processed and half of the sequences are gone or replaced with wrong ones….

Dell PC Intel i9-13900K and RTX 4080 After Effects renders cause errors green pixel artifacts Are there any known issues with these CPU/GPU models

I have a Google Sheet that gets updated and I would like to use some of that data in an After Effects comp. Can Automation Blocks read a shared Google Sheet from the web?

Hi! I don't have much experience with After Effects. I'm following a tutorial to animate graphics for the 2026 World Cup, and I've reached a point where, using the same trophy .obj file and the same .sbsar file (gold-clean.sbsar), the file turns gray instead of having that gold texture. I've already tried everything suggested: I've checked that the 3D renderer is set to "Advanced 3D," I've checked in video processing that "Mercury GPU Acceleration (Metal)" is enabled, I've checked with and without lights, I've checked that "Quick Preview" and "3D Draft" are disabled—basically, I've checked everything, and it still looks like this. If it's relevant, I have a MacBook Pro M5, and the version of After Effects is the latest (26.2.1).Can you help me solve this, please? 

AE 2025 and 2026 will often (e.g. every 20 mins or so) tell me it cannot allocate memory and task manager shows it using all 128gb of RAM.  It seems to be irrelevant how complex the project is, the last crash I was simply animating the scale of a rectangle shape. I don't even need to be doing anything , simply being open will cause AE to consume all of the RAM my pc has. I have never encountered this before 2025/26 versions.  Adjusting memory preferences, clearing cache, disabling compressed frames, resetting preferences does nothing. 

Hi everyone,I keep getting a recurring error when trying to use After Effects. A crash window pops up saying: "GPUSniffer.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close."I have attached a screenshot of the exact error for reference. Can anyone explain why this background process is crashing and what I need to do to fix it?My Specs: GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 OS: Windows   

IssueRendering a composition using the Advanced 3D Renderer causes memory usage to steadily increase throughout the export until After Effects reaches its memory limit and fails with the following error: "After Effects error: After Effects has unexpectedly run out of memory and cannot complete this export." The issue reproduces consistently on both macOS and Windows and appears to affect all versions of After Effects after 25.4. In addition to the render failure, After Effects does not appear to fully release memory after the error occurs, leaving the application in an unstable state until it is restarted. Steps to Reproduce1. Create a composition using the Advanced 3D Renderer.2. Add multiple 3D layers that are pre-compositions.3. Have those prec-ompositions contain additional nested pre-compositions.4. Configure the nested prec-ompositions so they reference different sections of a large master composition.5. Apply Geometry Options > Curvature to some or all of the 3D layers.6. Ren

Please which after effects version is suitable for my laptop. i like to do edits, minimal motions and 3d.  

After Effects 2026 crashes during startup while scanning/loading common Adobe plug-ins.Steps to reproduce:1. Launch Adobe After Effects 2026.2. Wait for the startup/splash screen plug-in scan.3. After Effects closes/crashes before reaching the main UI.Observed result:After Effects crashes on startup.Expected result:After Effects should finish launching normally.Windows Event Viewer crash details:Faulting application name: AfterFX.exeFaulting application version: 26.2.1.2Faulting application path:C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2026\Support Files\AfterFX.exeFaulting module name:microsoft.ai.machinelearning.dllFaulting module version:1.23.0.0Faulting module path:C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CC\File Formats\microsoft.ai.machinelearning.dllException code:0xc0000409Fault offset:0x00000000000e0827Additional notes:The file exists in the shared Adobe File Formats plug-in folder alongside Camera Raw and ONNX/ML runtime files.Local versions checked:Camera Raw.8bi: 18.3

After Effects 25.4 does not start, it crashes on the splash screen, but deleting the microsoft.ai.machinelearning.dll file located in: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CC\File Formats, fixes the problem.I am not sure if that same file is present in version 25.3.PC SPECS:- Ryzen 7 2700X- RX 6500XT- 16GB of RAM- Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.4946)

AE 26.2.1 and 26.0MACOS 26.5 (25F71) This happens when an animated property is added to Essential Properties.In the original comp, keyframes from several tracks can be copied and pasted in one go.But when the comp is inside a parent comp, the same keyframes have to be copied and pasted one by one. When several properties’ keyframes are selected, copy paste does nothing.   

Trying to find a way to calculate the total width of an animated variable font text layer but the sourceRectAtTime properties of a text layer are not updating / taking into account the variable font adjustment. Also in Box Text, variable fonts go outside the box too.Any help appreciated.Thanks! 

We have some AE licenses in the company. We usually work with raw sequences from Sony and Canon cameras on older versions of AE, but this time we upgraded from AE 24 to 26 (a bad decision). Now, when we import a Raw sequence, Camera raw opens and after we make some adjustements and clic “Save” it crash and AE too. Sometimes it works but if you want to make a new change in Camera raw, both crashes. I have tried all the following steps with several computers and the bug persists:1. Toggle Hardware Accelerated DecodingA known conflict often occurs when hardware acceleration interacts poorly with raw footage.In After Effects, go to Edit > Preferences > Import (or General on some versions).Uncheck Hardware accelerated decoding.Restart After Effects.2. Purge the Camera Raw CacheA corrupted or full cache can cause the ACR dialog to freeze or crash.In After Effects, go to Edit > Preferences > Camera Raw (or Media & Disk Cache).Navigate to the Performance tab if prompted.Click P

I want to turn on Layer Controls and keep them on, but I’m running into a bug that constantly turns them off. If I turn on Layer Controls (In View → Show Layer Controls, or the Toggle Mask and Shape Path Visibility button at the bottom of the composition window) and hit Spacebar to preview the composition, switching to a different composition and back again turns off Layer Controls. I then have to turn it on again. This happens constantly.  I am on Windows 10 and After Effects v 26.2.1, but this has been happening for a long time. I’m unsure if this is a bug or intended behaviour, but I’d love a way to lock Layer Controls on until I need to turn them off. I’ve attached a screen recording of the issue. Thanks!

Did Adobe finally fix the Preview issue in AE 2026?Maybe I'm imagining things, but has anyone else noticed this?Until last week, Preview in the latest version of After Effects 2026 was almost unusable for me on Windows. I tried pretty much every workaround I could find here and on other forums, but nothing really fixed it. I was actually getting ready to roll back to an older version because it was becoming a daily headache.Then this week... it just started working normally again.Same projects, same machine, no major changes that I'm aware of. Preview is smooth and reliable now, and I haven't run into the issues that were constantly happening before.What's weird is that I never had the problem on my Mac, only on Windows.Did Adobe push some kind of fix recently? Was there an update that addressed this? Or are other Windows users still seeing the same Preview problems?I'd be interested to know if anyone else has noticed a difference over the last few days.