After Effects

red raw r3d 4k footage image frozen in after effects 2026Open for Voting

i brought 4k R3d footage into adobe after effects 2026. and it looked like the color profile was all wrong. so i Right clicked it, chose interpret footage, main, click the more options button at very bottom. Scroll all the way down to output transform section, changed color space to redWideGamutRGBm and change gamme curve to Log 3G10.and my after effects timeline is only 24 frames long. i applied colorista to the clip. then i applied keylight to the r3d footage and sample the green but the background doesnt disappear which means the image is frozen. and im looking at it with quarter resolution. then i hit save and tried to quit and its locked up and not quitting so i had to force quit and come back in. and now i can see the green screen is knocked out so i put a stock clip behind my green screen subject but then turned the layer off and even though its off its stil showing me this stock footage background which means the image isnt updating in AE. its like its locked up but its not. it

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Bend_AllParticipant

Background color not exporting

I’m having a problem where AE is ignoring the background color on export, and exporting everything with a black background. It also then resets the comp background color to black.It’s an easy fix to just throw a white background layer in every comp, as I don’t need an alpha channel, but that’s a dumb fix, and I’m wondering if there’s something I’m not understanding? I’ve been using AE for 26 years now and never encountered this before -However, I did get a new macbook around the same time as I ran into this, which is also right around the time AE 26 came out. Any ideas would be helpful, I hate little unexplained things like this 🎱

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ckuehneKnown Participant

Update the Add Grain effect to use GPU and 32-bitOpen for Voting

I need to apply grain frequently in my work to clean plates I’ve created, and it needs to match the 6k/4k HDR plates I’ve been provided. I prefer Add Grain to Match Grain, as it’s quicker and more accurate for me to manually set it. Because of the size of the plates, and the lack of GPU acceleration in this plug-in, it’s the main bottleneck in my rendering speed, plus 32-bit would help with color fidelity. Obviously, multiframe rendering would be great, too, but I would at least love GPU acceleration to start!

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kaczorefxKnown Participant

Make grain work in 32bit mode. Without it we can't work in ACES. Without ACES After Effects is pretty much not able to be used in professional projects :/Open for Voting

It’s pretty much it.Make grain work in 32bit mode - so it doesn’t clip highlights.The entire professional movie industry has switched to ACES - and you know that because you did put ACES into AE.But the one effect we use in every single shot - grain - is still 16bit, WTF?This has been reported years ago, and i mean like 7-8 years ago now.Do not introduce any new features, stop the development - just give us 32bit grain - then you can go back to whatever else you’ve been playing with.Also, you might look into ACES2.0? Netflix is beginning to demand studios working in ACES2.0 and AE is still stuck on 1.3 :/

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JayLashParticipating Frequently

Corner roundness control for masks & per corner roundness for shape layersOpen for Voting

For some time now we have had roundness control on shapes within Illustrator and Photoshop, and that hasn't necessarily disseminated properly down to AFX. When drawing a square mask with round corners, you get one shot when you create the mask, and then that control is gone. If you created a square mask, there's no way to then create rounded corners. Why not instead of having two square mask options, having a rounding control like Illustrator to be able to round all corners, and be able to lock those controls for each corner together, or be able to adjust them independently?If this could also be added to other shapes of masks too - even better!We have roundness for parametric rectangles in shape layers, so why not masks?  Additionally, this is only a simplified roundness that affects all corners. Again, we should be able to disconnect this and have per-corner roundness control on shape layers too.

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Hiroyuki KobayashiParticipant

AE 2023 (23.6.9.2) crashes at launch after Camera Raw updated to 18.7.0.2743 (also AE 2021 / 2022). AE 2020, 2025 and Beta start fine.Open for Voting

Issue:After Effects 2023 (23.6.9.2) crashes immediately at startup, before any project is opened. The crash occurs in the plug-in loading phase (PLUG_Search / BirthPlugins) when the shared Camera Raw plug-in (18.7.0.2743) is loaded. AE 2021 (18.4.6.2) and AE 2022 (22.6.0.3) show the same startup crash. AE 2020, AE 2025 and AE Beta on the same PC start normally. AE 2024 is not installed. Renaming Camera Raw.8bi lets AE 2023 start normally. I still use AE 2023 for work, so I would like to know if there is a proper fix.Context:AE 2023 worked normally before Oct 10, 2026 (I used it the day before). On Oct 10 I updated, via Creative Cloud, the beta builds of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects, plus Photoshop 2025 and Illustrator 2025. The Creative Cloud update history shows Camera Raw was updated to 18.7 on the same day.Test results (launch only, no project opened):With Camera Raw.8bi in place (Camera Raw 18.7.0.2743):- AE 2020: starts- AE 2021: crashes at startup- AE 20

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aniket_0495Participant

Jagged edges create shimmer or shining on character during wiggle movement

I have created a character in illustrator with size 800x1000. I add the file to AE with comp being at 4k. I enable continuous rasterization and also enable Create shape from Vector layer. When i apply wiggle effect on the character, it glitters and shines due to rough, jagged edges. I am zoomed to 250 percent in this image. You can see the jagged edges. Once I export out the video, it shines during wiggle and looks very bad. Please help

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ShadoufangParticipating Frequently

macOS 27 Golden Gate broke my AE 2026 (v26.5) (AE2025 v25.6.6 works fine)Open for Voting

Immediately after installing macOS 27,AE won’t open.Mac asks me to trash it,but it won’t move to trash even if I do so.It’s the only Adobe that DOES NOT open in Golden Gate."Adobe After Effects 2026.app"is damaged and can't be opened.You should move it to the Trash.This file was downloaded on anunknown date.[Move to Trash][Cancel] screenshot attached>>

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adamograssoKnown Participant

Effects panel visual previewsOpen for Voting

The new ‘effects pannel visual previews’ in Premiere Pro Beta are super helpful. It’d be great to see the same feature come to After Effects as well. There’s so many great fx in AE that it’s sometimes hard to remember what each one of them actually does.

YuK1_WorksInspiring

Add Composition Guide Overlays (Golden Ratio, Golden Spiral, Dynamic Symmetry, etc.)Open for Voting

I'd love to see more built-in composition guide presets in After Effects.While After Effects already supports grids, guides, and percentage-based positioning, more advanced composition guides still require manually creating shape layers or relying on third-party tools.It would be great to have additional presets such as: Golden Ratio Grid Golden Spiral (Fibonacci Spiral) Golden Triangle Dynamic Symmetry Diagonal Composition Guides Ideally, these would be available as non-rendering overlays directly in the Composition panel, similar to the existing grid and safe margin options.Suggested functionality: Quickly switch between different composition guide presets. Display multiple guide types simultaneously. Automatically adapt guides to the composition's dimensions and aspect ratio. Customize line colors, opacity, and thickness. Optionally enable snapping to guide lines and intersections. Display guides without creating additional layers or affecting the rendered output.

SinghSinghParticipant

When I switch to any tool that utilizes a brush, my cursor does not change to the brush radius, but stays the standard cursor arrow.

When I switch to any tool that utilizes a brush of some sort (paintbrush, eraser, clone stamp, refine edge tool), my cursor just stays as the default system mouse cursor. It’s making it very hard to correct roto mattes. I saw someone had this problem 3 years ago in another thread, but no answer was posted. I’ve tried restarting After Effects to no effect. I’d appreciate any input. I’m working in After Effects 2026.5 on macOS Sequoia 15.9 with 64GB memory.

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Cap HorizonParticipant

Prévoir d'adapter les outils IA (existants et à venir) de Premiere Pro sur After Effects. Merci !Open for Voting

Pour ceux qui - comme moi - ne disposent pas de Premiere Pro, mais uniquement d’After Effects, il serait judicieux que certains outils IA de Premiere Pro puissent être développés et intégrés à After Effects.Je pense :• à la possibilité d’étendre une scène un peu trop courte• au masque d’objet qui suit automatiquement toute la longueur d’un plan• à la gestion automatisée de sous-titre avec l’import et l’export de fichiers .srt• une adaptation automatique d’une musique en fonction de la durée d’un projet• etc...

BeratGLKnown Participant

Color Picker Dialog goes beyond the valid 0-255 value for RGB valuesOpen for Voting

Just to test. I went to 2 million value and also went negative -23.000 value. Not an Ae expert but I’m sure this is not normal. There is no limiter to any of these values when they are supposed stay between 0-255. Exact same bug exists on Premiere as well. System info Application: After Effects v26.5.0 (build 89) OS: Windows v10.0.26200, RAM: 31.82 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 24 GPU: Rtx 3060 Ti Nvidia Studio Driver ver. 617.42

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easygoing_fun8f30Known Participant

After Effects SDK: GetUniqueStreamID returns 0 — safe native keyframe access from custom UI callbacks?

Hi,I'm developing a native After Effects effect with a custom Effect Controls UI. I need to access the exact native parameter streams belonging to the effect instance receiving a custom UI event, so I can implement stopwatch, keyframe diamond, previous/next-key and expression-aware controls safely.Environment: After Effects 26.5.0.89, macOS arm64, SDK 25.6.Using AEGP_StreamSuite6 (kAEGPStreamSuiteVersion6 == 11), AEGP_GetUniqueStreamID(AEGP_StreamRefH, int32_t*) repeatedly returns A_Err_NONE but explicitly writes 0 for distinct effect parameter streams and even built-in layer Opacity.We confirmed this using two nonzero output sentinels and surrounding canaries. Across DRAW, multiple stream-acquisition routes, duplication/reordering and a separate AEGP command/idle test, 7,652 successful calls returned zero.Stream values remain readable, and acquired references are disposed within their callbacks. I'm not assuming this behavior occurs in all AE versions.Ordinary value edits work through

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Gottskálk Dað274208788oltParticipant

After Effects cannot read SMB files when the path contains Icelandic characters on macOS Golden Gate betaInvestigating

I have found a reproducible After Effects file-import problem when using an SMB network volume on the macOS Golden Gate beta.When I try to import a PNG file from a network path containing Icelandic characters, After Effects displays:After Effects error: File exists but couldn't be open for reading (3 :: 0) Example failing path:/Volumes/markadsdeild/Markadsdeild/Sjónvarp/06 On-Air grafík/01 SÝN/Vatnsmerki/01 Renders/01 Taka 2/01 Hvítt/Syn-vatnsmerki-hvitt_00025.png The file is visible in Finder and can be copied to my local Desktop. After copying it locally, After Effects imports it successfully.I also tested the same file on the same network volume using an ASCII-only folder and filename:/Volumes/markadsdeild/AE_test/test_00025.png That version imports successfully into After Effects.This suggests that After Effects may be encountering a path or Unicode-normalization problem when accessing files through an SMB volume. The problem appears to involve Icelandic characters such as í, ó,

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Pankaj26596360zg9oParticipant

whenever i press space bar to play a scene in after effects it stuck and don't play and when i press spacebar again to stop it goes 1 frame back and nothing else happens

when i start working on my project after applying some effects or working for a few times in it. the playhead not move when playing video and when i stop playing my playhead just goes 1 frame back and everything is stuck in after effects. i can move my playhead with cursur but video is not playing these are my pc specs.

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formzuformKnown Participant

Separating Dimensions on multidimensional property doesn't transfer easing values but resets to linearOpen for Voting

it should work like this: (function () { app.beginUndoGroup("Separate Dimensions + Preserve Easing"); try { var comp = app.project.activeItem; if (!(comp instanceof CompItem)) { throw new Error("Keine aktive Komposition."); } // ------------------------------------------------------------ // Helpers // ------------------------------------------------------------ function vectorLength(v) { var sum = 0; for (var i = 0; i < v.length; i++) { sum += v[i] * v[i]; } return Math.sqrt(sum); } function normalize(v) { var len = vectorLength(v); var result = []; if (len < 0.0000001) { for (var i = 0; i < v.length; i++) { result.push(0); } return result; } for (var j = 0; j < v.length; j++) { result.push(v[j] / len);

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lofloflofParticipating Frequently

sourceRectAtTime() in Comp SpaceOpen for Voting

sourceRectAtTime() is extremely useful, but it only returns values in layer space. Please add a method that returns the bounding rectangle directly in comp space, including all layer transforms (position, scale, rotation, parenting, and collapse transformations where applicable).This would eliminate complex conversion workarounds and make tasks like responsive layouts, collision detection, alignments, and motion graphics tools much more reliable and performant.

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Passionate_Miracleef38Participant

Would be great to have a native, built-in colour swatch panelOpen for Voting

Would be great to have a native, built-in colour swatch panel like all other adobe apps.

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Jubilant_person2bc0Participant

i get this error after about 4 min in ae i cant edit anything how do i fix this error pls help

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takashi vfxInspiring

Lost Effect Matte indicator in Effects Control panel after update adding Lebel groupOpen for Voting

adding Lebel group in effects control panel is welcome feature but we lost Effect Matte indicator icon in Effects Control panel after the update. is there way to bring it back?thanks,t system info:MacStudio M2 UltraOS 15.7.9AE 26.5.0

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christopherh41707781Participant

linux versionsOpen for Voting

I would like versions of adobe apps that run on linux

GensokyoFIPAParticipant

How I can download and install an older version of After Effects?

Does anybody know how to download and install After Effects CC 2024 or earlier version? I can only install AE later than version 2025 via Creative Cloud Desktop app or website.My hardware could not really handle with newer version of AE.

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motivated_personc9dfParticipant

my ae starting crashing without any reason when i add a video file ,i havent change anything and i did everything.how can i fix it

hiwhen im opening a video on ae in a minute ae crashes,i was using it for a lot time and i didnt do anithing like aded plugins or updates,it just started from nowere.I have tried everything but still i cant fix the crashing

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ActionFactionVideosParticipant

After Effects caches all frames during preview, but does not play back (Freezes)

Hello, Issue Description:I have searched for this issue, tried multiple troubleshooting ideas, but cannot seem to find any similar issues or fixes that work.I press play in the preview buttonAE proceeds to cache all of the frames in my workspace (full green bar)The play icon is displayed but I see no playback/no audio, and timeline marker does not moveThe timeline marker just appears to freeze as shown below. You can see the preview status (square) acts as if it's playing, and all frames are cached, but the playback is just frozen.If I press the stop preview button, the timeline marker will jump back 1 frame specificallySee below screengrab from this frozen preview:It happens at any playback resolution (full/half/quarter/auto) and any location in my timeline.  The weird thing is I can get RAM preview to work properly upon my first initial startup of AE. Once I make more than a couple edits to my comp and try to preview though, the freezing playback issue occurs again. On

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