After Effects

I can’t get a variable font to work in AE, yet it works fine in InDesign and Illustrator.The font is https://www.fontshare.com/?q=Cabinet%20GroteskThe standard OTF versions work fine in AE, but the variable TTF will not show at all (but shows fine in InDesign and Illustrator).I’ve tried uploading through Adode fonts and no luck. Have restarted the system, applications, cleared caches etc and nothing works!Mac Studio running Tahoe and AE 26.5. Any suggestions?

Issue. On one of our three Windows PCs, aerender returns one frame of a render job with its lower part wrong: either a solid black strip across the full width (rows 650 to 1079 of 1080), or the same rows filled with picture content that belongs elsewhere (a sideways-shifted copy of nearby picture, or once the picture of frame 249 while rendering frame 296). The top of the frame is correct. aerender exits 0 and its log shows no error or warning, so nothing downstream knows the frame is bad. Our other two PCs and our Macs never do this.Steps to reproduce.Copy dfp-reference.aep (in the upload: one comp, 7680 by 1080, 29.97 fps, 300 frames, 16 bits per channel, generated content only, no footage; render-queue item 1 is QuickTime ProRes 4444, item 2 is a 16-bit TIFF sequence) to a local folder on the boot drive. Run, from a command prompt: "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2026\Support Files\aerender.exe" -project C:\Users\<user>\dfp-e1\dfp-reference.aep -rqindex 1 -s 200 -e

Product: Adobe After Effects 2026Operating System: Windows 11Export Method: Native After Effects Render QueueOutput Format: H.264 (.mp4)Color Depth: 8 bits per channelFrame Rate: 30 FPSIssue Type: Resolution-dependent color shift during video export1. Issue DescriptionI discovered an unusual and repeatable color reproduction issue when exporting videos from Adobe After Effects 2026.When exporting a composition at 1024×512 pixels, a specific turquoise color becomes noticeably greener than its original appearance inside After Effects.The original color is:HEX: #008C95RGB: 0, 140, 149Inside After Effects, the color appears correctly as turquoise. However, after exporting to H.264 (.mp4), it shifts toward a noticeably greener shade.The most unusual part is that increasing the composition width by just 2 pixels — from 1024 to 1026 — completely eliminates the visible color shift.At 1026×512, the turquoise color appears correct again.All tests were performed within the same After Effects proj

Hi,Just upgraded to 25.2.2 and I am having a strange issue with adding layers its like it randomly clips or switches color space from one frame to the next. Only started happening after upgrading AE and NVIDIA.The screenshots are from the same project just different frames, as you will see it also affects the scopes. Only effect used is 'Fast Box Blur'Switching to 'Software Only' fixes the issue

If an effect plugin creates a project item while it's being applied, After Effects 2026 stops rendering new solids and footage in that project until the project is closed and reopened. Saving the project doesn't help, but File > Close Project followed by reopening it does, with no After Effects restart needed.Specifically, this means calling AEGP_ExecuteScript with app.project.items.addComp(...) from PF_Cmd_SEQUENCE_SETUP.The new layers show up in the timeline with a normal selection box, but nothing draws. Removing the effect and purging caches don't fix it either. The project file itself is not damaged.The AE log shows the render thread's copy of the project falling out of sync and never recovering:<DBSync> ProcessFromRenderThread ZANZIBAR-1: synchronization integrity correction: database timestamp mismatch: proj=64, sanity=88<BEE WorkQueue General Render Thread> <assert> Assertion Failed message: "Render_ExecuteCommand: serialization failed; need a full sync:

Issue:Multiple critical regressions and long-standing workflow bugs in recent After Effects builds are severely disrupting professional VFX/post-production pipelines. Key native features—including Object Matte, Scene Edit Detection, and Auto-Save—are suffering from severe bugs that make them unusable or dangerous for client-facing work.As professional artists paying an ongoing Creative Cloud subscription, having to rely on external tools or spend double the time manually fixing broken automated features (or losing progress due to Auto-Save failures) is completely unacceptable.Issue 1: Object Matte (Model v4) — Severe Performance & Edge Chatter Steps to Reproduce: Import 4K ProRes 4444 footage into a composition. Apply the Object Matte tool using default Version 4.0. Select a basic, clear subject in a shot. Propagate the matte across the timeline. Expected Result: Clean, stable, full-resolution matte edges with fast propagation leveraging workstation hardware (T

No updates were downloaded, and after effects used to work pretty well up until recently. the only out of ordinary thing I did was uninstall and reinstall adobe again with no issues when reinstalled but now it seems to refuse to run after the launch.  

I have a problem. Adobe refuses to modernise AE, you ignore all feature requests and you treat your users like garbage. In wish I could be paid to steal a living like Adobe 

Gradient rendering issue (Grayscale) in Lottie/Bodymovin after After Effects 2026 (v26.0) update Issue: After updating to After Effects 2026 (v26.0), all gradients are being rendered in black and white (grayscale) when exported via the Lottie (Bodymovin) extension. The same project worked perfectly in the previous version (v25.x). Details: Setup: I am using standard Shape Layer Gradient Fills (not Layer Styles). Symptoms: All gradients in the project lose their color data and appear as grayscale in the exported JSON file and Lottie players. Suspected Cause: It seems like a compatibility issue between the new Color Management system (OCIO/Color Engine) in AE 2026 and the Lottie export data structure. Tested Workarounds: Changing Project Settings (Color Working Space to 'None') or saving the project before export does not resolve the issue in v26.0. However, the file exports correctly when opened in AE 2025. Environment: After Effects Version: 2026 (v26.0 or later) Extension: Bod

Hi there, I’m on 2026.5.0 on a Mac Studio M2 chip running MacOS 26.6.2. Cryptomatte is not working consistently in this latest version. When freshly opened for the first time, I can apply Cryptomatte and select a single color to create a matte and after that the plugin becomes almost entirely unresponsive. Shift+clicking other colors does nothing in the viewport. Deselecting the current color does nothing in the viewport. The only indication I have that something is happening under the hood is that when I shift click to add colors to the matter I see the additional color ID being added to the list of color IDs that cryptomatte is using, but the minute I move my cursor off of said color, the ID disappears and nothing happens. The viewport is unchanged by this as well. Clicking a second color and seeing the ID list update is only showing in the effect control panel. the additional selected color in the viewport remains its original color. Once this behavior begins it occurs in every othe

When using the "Stabilize Motion" function in the Tracker panel, After Effects becomes inaccessible after switching to another application while the tracking process is still running.This happens both when using Alt+Tab and when simply clicking on another application's window to bring it to the foreground.Once switched away from After Effects, it is no longer possible to bring it back to the foreground until the entire clip has been tracked.Steps to reproduce: Open a composition containing footage. Open the Tracker panel. Select "Stabilize Motion". Start the tracking process. While tracking is still in progress, switch to another application using either Alt+Tab or by clicking on its window. Try to return to After Effects using Alt+Tab or by clicking on its window in the taskbar. Actual behavior:After switching to another application, After Effects cannot be brought back into the foreground. The application remains inaccessible until the tracking process has finished complete