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The layers are getting duplicated and auto grouped while importing in after effects. and some times colour is not updating as well. I found a time being solution for this. but previous version does not have this bug.I found solution for this, in new version while editing in illustrator, while giving release layer to sequence. if there any layer that is inside the parent layer and if it has any artwork or path. it automatically duplicates inside after effects and colours are sometimes not updating. I fixed it by just removing the extra layer inside the parent layer and map the artwork path directly below the parent layer. now its working smoothly. But this should not happen in adobe. Basic things are getting harder and harder things are getting better. please fix this in update. thanks 😀

I’m running AE 2026.3 (Build 87) and I’m seeing AE use up all of my available RAM. The screen shot below is from my activity monitor right after I purged all cache with AE open. It looks exactly the same when I close AE. AE 2025 didn't seem to be doing this. Source footage is 2k, and it does this with just basic footage layouts with no complicated comps. After Purging, this repeats after a just a few minutes. The memory usage just climbs until is uses up everything. System: Win11 Pro, i9 9900X, 128Gb RAM, RTX A4500.  

simple 3D scene, 2 lights, background plane, text with extrusion and bevel. Preview is good, render with any Adobe engine is bad. Can see colour banding and random colour block artifacts in the output. Lighting is completely different on the render, illumination in a different spot entirely. Switching to C4D render looks as expected (sooooo slow)Won’t render cleanly with any of the adobe renderers. Render with Adobe advancedPreview and C4D version 

Hi, I'm having a problem with After Effects.When I open the program and click on my project, it simply closes. How can I fix this?

My coworker found these in the Program Files folder ( Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects [Version]\Support Files ). We were hearing them and wondering where they’re used. I have found no mentions of them anywhere. Are they just an easter egg or something left by the devs?

Hola,Cuando intento abrir After Effects 23.3 en Windows 11, no se abre y al mismo tiempo crear dos iconos en el Escritorio, estos icono se llaman AfterFX_2026-08-23_205305.crashHe intentando ejecutar en modo Administrador, pero no funciona.Tampoco puedo actualizar After Effects a una versión reciente ya que mi laptop tiene 8gb de ram. (Tengo también Photoshop y este si funciona)¿Alguna solución?Gracias

How can I achieve the motion that is at the bottom of the HOW&HOW website?https://how.studio/I really like how it scrolls and tumbles 

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

I’m working on a small creative project in Adobe After Effects and I want to create a cute pink cat character with simple animations. I’m still learning After Effects and would like to know the easiest way to animate things like blinking eyes, moving ears, and a small bouncing motion.I’ve also been looking at different APK Kucing Pink designs for inspiration, especially for the pink cat character and overall visual style.Would you recommend creating the character directly in After Effects, or designing it in another app first and then importing it? Also, which After Effects tools or effects would be best for this type of simple character animation? Hyperlink removed by Mod.

Whenever I am masking and curve the mask by clicking, holding, then dragging, I can't make a straight line after that point. After the curved line, I click to make another point and it becomes curved automatically. How do I fix this?? I want it to be straight after. 

Hey everyone,I've been using After Effects for years without issues, but lately, whenever I add a 3D camera layer to a comp, the preview just freezes solid. I have a 3D button enabled on all the layers. I have two viewports open too – one with an active camera, another with a custom 3-view camera. It throws this annoying "using processor graphics" error even though I've got a beastly RTX 5080. Sometimes it shows this message and sometimes it doesn't—just stuck the preview. This wasn't happening before—everything was smooth. After Effects keeps telling me it's using your processor graphics after I disable it on the Device Manager—there is no effect to it. It still gets stuck and won't preview at all. Super frustrating for my motion graphics work!How to Reproduce (Easy to Test) Open any project or new comp. Layer > New > Camera (make it 3D). Hit spacebar or 0 to preview—instant freeze with the graphics warning. My Setup After Effects 2026 (fully updated) Windows 11 CPU: Ryz

If you're experiencing a problem with After Effects, we want to hear from you! We'd also like to know if you've found errors or omissions in our documentation. The most critical information in a problem report is how to reproduce the issue. It is challenging for us to address a problem we cannot replicate. Please provide detailed steps for us to follow to observe the problem you're encountering. Use the template below to provide us with information: Issue - A short description of the problem.  Steps to reproduce - A numbered list of the exact steps needed to reproduce the problem.  Expected result - What should happen after completing the last step. Actual result -  What actually occurred after the previous step Screen recording – If you think it might be helpful, include a recording of your screen, showing the issue.    Adobe After Effects version - FAQ: How to find the exact version of After Effects you're using? Operating system - Specify Windows or macOS, along with the version GPU

BackgroundI'm new to After Effects — I'm working through a beginner course and this is the first time I've actually tried to use the app for real (I'd previously only opened it a few times to follow along with a template's instructions, and didn't touch the type tool then). This issue showed up the first time I tried to change a font. To be clear, this isn't a "type tool is unfamiliar to me" issue — I've since done extensive troubleshooting (below), and everything else in After Effects seems to work normally: layers, effects, keyframing, rendering, other panels, other tools. The font dropdown/font-creation step is the only thing that's broken.SummaryOpening the font dropdown in the Character panel (or Properties panel in the new UI) in After Effects triggers a warning dialog: "After Effects warning: Cannot create font '[font name]'." Clicking OK / pressing Escape does not resolve it — the dropdown either loops through repeated versions of this error and after a while for different font

에펙 재생 스페이스바 누르니까 손툴로 바뀌는 현상이 있습니다.오디오 하드웨어 설정과 키 변경, 프로그램 재설치도 해보았는데 그대로 입니다.손툴로 바뀌다가 선택도구로 바뀌고 미리보기에선 재생 표시로 뜹니다, 그리고 타임라인에선 재생바가 그대로 입니다.해결방법 알려주시면 감사하겠습니다.

My Frame.io account was just upgraded to v4 and I’m now unable to use Frame.io inside After Effects.I’m on Windows 11 and I’ve updated to the latest version of After Effects 2026 v26.3 and see the legacy Frame.io review window in the review workspace. This old legacy window no longer works with my v4 Frame.io account - that I understand. Unfortunately going to Window > Frame.io V4 does absolutely nothing. No new windows are opened and I’m completely dead in the water. Things I’ve tried so far:Uninstall AE 2026, reinstall without retaining any previous settings - same issueStart AE 2026 in safe mode - same issueControl Panel > Credential Manager > completely deleted anything related to Adobe or Frame.io, restarted windows, launched AE 2026 - same issue

Dear Adobe Teams,Working through the After Effects SDK's (2019) Smart Render pattern, and the sample code leaves the ownership/lifetime of pre_render_data genuinely ambiguous.In PF_Cmd_SMART_PRE_RENDER (SDK/Examples/Effect/R_O_I/R_O_I.cpp, ~line 201):cppextra->output->pre_render_data = new ROI_RenderInfo();ROI_RenderInfo infoP = reinterpret_cast<ROI_RenderInfo>(extra->output->pre_render_data);if (!infoP) {    err = PF_Err_OUT_OF_MEMORY;} else {    // ...infoP fields get filled in here...}Then in PF_Cmd_SMART_RENDER (~line 392), the same data comes back through extra->input:cppinfo.we_care_about_alphaB = (static_cast<A_Boolean>(extra->input->pre_render_data));That's the entire lifecycle shown in the sample. I checked the whole file for delete, free, or any assignment to output->delete_pre_render_data_func — there is none. The struct allocated with new in PreRender is read once in SmartRender and then never explicitly disposed anywhere in this 400+ lin

I've been having this problem lately where After Effects gets stuck at the end of a render, without ever finishing it; but at the same time, when I check the render folder, it has finished the render. I always work in image sequences, so when some render breaks it's not usually a problem, but this has happened multiple times now and with some semi-simple renders, so it's strange. Here's a screenshot of the render queue I left last night:As you can see, the render queue got stuck at the end of the very first render. However, when I went to check the render folder, my surprise is that it seemed done: all the frames were there, with their corresponding information, the sizes were correct and they looked fine. So that's the most strange part. Even though After Effects said only 397 frames were processed, I found the whole 419 of them. And again, this has happened multiple times in the past few days. Any ideas why? Anyone experienced something similar in the past? How di

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)

ADOBE PLEASE FIX THIS AS IT IS A PITA!!!!!!!!! DOES ANYONE HAVE THIS PROBLEM??? So I open a file through either Recent or from selecting a file on the Welcome screen when I open AE… and make edits, do work, and save this file with new filename date (which is how I work - new day sees update file with _Sep4 (today)) so that I have daily backups, and go to save it, and it saves into the last folder I had used from a previous different client job. If I am not paying attention because I ASSUME WHEN I OPEN THE FILE THROUGH THE WELCOME SCREEN OR THAT HOME SCREEN WHERE IT LISTS LATEST/RECENT FILES THAT IT WOULD KNOW WHERE THAT FILE CAME FROM, BUT NO. This has been a PITA for years now. PLEASE FIX!

Since updating apps last week, any Illustrator files imported to After Effects include duplicates of each layer that are blank 1x1px. As they also duplicate the layer names, this leads to layers "disappearing" later when reopening/editing files as they've re-linked layers to these "blank" layers.

I’m trying to use trim paths on a vector image to trace the path of a box. Instead of trimming the path of the box, the entire box is filling up with the outline color. Not sure what’s going on there. I’ve attached a video for reference. Thanks and stay curious!

After updating to After Effects 26.3, I've noticed that copying artwork from Illustrator and pasting it into After Effects no longer behaves as it did in previous versions.Previous workflow (working in 26.2 and earlier):Create line art in Illustrator. Convert the artwork to filled shapes (not strokes). Copy and paste it onto a Solid Layer in After Effects. The artwork is pasted as masks on the solid. Apply the Stroke effect and animate the Start/End properties to create a whiteboard or line-drawing animation.This workflow has worked reliably for years and is used extensively in our production pipeline.Current behavior in 26.3:Pasting Illustrator artwork now creates a new "Paste SVG" Shape Layer instead of pasting the paths as masks onto the selected solid. Since the artwork is imported as a Shape Layer, the Stroke effect cannot be used in the same way, breaking existing projects and workflows.Expected behavior:Please provide an option to preserve the previous "Paste as Masks" behavior,