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Creating this as a thread for all small tweaks and suggestions to help everyday use.1.Being able to disable lock contraint for scale for selected layers in one go Being able to control additional layer properties via expressions, i.e. visibility.  This will need to be reflected in the layer visibility icon for example, that the visibility is connected to an expression Being able to replace sound files and control sound properties like volume in Essential Graphics If a layer has an expression, it would be nice to have an additional icon to be able to jump to the layer/layers, reference in that expression, and visa versa Direct Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets access for spreadsheets, rather than having to create a middleman csv/tsv file When using a linked csv/tsv and a user control dropdown effect, you can access the rows in the file with the dropdown by using “csv.dataValue”. This maps the dropdown index to the rows.  When adding this to essential graphics to override the spreadshee

I have had this before in earlier AE versions, but it's back, or still here. About one third of my keystrokes are not registering. It's not the keyboard, all other apps work fine. Just typing to rename a layer will ignore some of the letters, copy-past via keyboard is totally unpredictable because a lot of the times the copy or paste keystrokes are not registered. Changing tools, entering numbers, anything that uses the keyboard is becoming unpredictable because a lot of the keystrokes are just ignored. Sometimes I have to press a key several times (like 4 or 5 times) before it’s registered. Also there sometimes is a lag before a keystroke is registered, which is extra super annoying, having to press 5 times, and ending up with 2 times the keystroke with a delay.This is becoming unworkable, I fear my keyboard will not survive my frustration…I’m using a Mac Studio Ultra with 128GB RAM, macOS 12.6.2, AE 23.1It wasn’t doing this before, nothing was changed or updated in my setup.Only thin

After the latest update the horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the timeline is bugged.As soon as you adjust the length of a compostion, the scrollbar glitches out and you can no longer scroll to the end of the composition. Only by adjusting the zoom level of the timeline does the scrollbar then somehow fix itself. Speaking of the timeline zoom, the zoom level will randomly changes to full frame-level zoom when navigating through a comp timeline. Set up is: After Effects 25.5.0 Build 4, Windows 11 Home 24H2 (26100.6584) This same problem happens on two completely separate PC's

Dear Adobe Support Team,I am facing a recurring issue while launching Adobe After Effects on my workstation. The error message displayed is:"After Effects warning: Unable to create AGM font ('Adobe Clean' - 'Bold') Processor: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700 @ 2.10 GHzInstalled RAM: 16 GB (15.7 GB usable)System Type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processorOperating System: [Mention your Windows version, e.g., Windows 10 Pro]After Effects Version: [Mention AE version, e.g., After Effects 2024Since none of these steps resolved the problem, I would appreciate your guidance on how to fix this issue. Please let me know if you require any additional details

I am trying to download After Effects 2026 onto my new laptop. It’s a high-end HP Omen and is equipped with all of the requirements. I have been looking at my creative cloud to see if its available to me to install but it hasn’t been there. I need to get it installed so I can see if a bug I have had problems with is gone. I have an adobe account through my school, so I don’t know if that has something to do with it or not. 

Hi all,I’m asking for some help about a project, for which I have a scene sitting on a couch, and on the coffee table in front of me, I’d like to place small demogorgons (from the Stranger Things show).I haven’t tried the environment light, the use of HDRI for lighting/shadows, and the direct import of 3D models, since all this became possible in AE. I’ve done this in Blender a few times and by no means am I an expert. So I got a free model of the creatures with different animation type hardcoded and I chose the ones I like. I found an HDRI that mimics the warm, orange colors I need for lighting and used it via the environment light. I also used a 3d solid , aligned with the table’s perspective and used it as a shadow catcher.The result for the shadows wasn’t good, though. No matter how I change the environment light’s rotations, I can’t get proper shadows from the proper angle. Even worse, they appear somewhat distorted with missing pixels and some jitteriness. The light also throws a

Hi everyone, I have been having this issue with after effects that has confused my professors and I. I will be editing on the app and eventually the preview panel will freeze. Not only on the frame but when I try to start the preview it will go forward a frame and stop. Even when I switch to a different composition it will only show that frame and nothing else. When I do try to edit anyways I can’t see the edits I am making but when I come back to the project they are still there. On top of this I tried starting a completely new project without restarting after effects and even though the composition is blank it still shows the frame from my previous project. I purged my cache, restarted after effects and my computer, reset preferences, and tried uninstalling and reinstalling the current version along with the one directly prior, I also have tried changing my drivers and that hasn’t worked. My professors have never seen anything like this. The app doesn’t crash but literally just freez

I have brought a new laptop, new MSI Stealth A16 - 5090 RTX, AMD Ryzen 9hx. For some reason when using after effects for just a minuet, the compositon will free, cant zoom, nothing updates. but the app contiunes working, I can add layers, add effects, delete, import.. but the compsiton freezes and I can see the zoom going up and down but nothing in the viewport changes, add new solid, nothing changes in the viewport.  After effects 2025 25.3.2Windows I have tried all the recommendations:Clearing cacheram allocation disable gpu accelerationupdating driversvideo rending and effects multiframe rendering off Its a brand new laptop, any ideas? 

When setting Loop to a value greater than 2 under Interpret Footage > Other Options, it appears that the cache does not behave correctly from the second loop onward.If I duplicate the same footage as multiple layers in a composition and place them sequentially, the timeline clearly shows that the second and subsequent layers are cached as expected.However, when using the Loop option, the footage seems to be treated as one very long single clip, and it appears that playback triggers reloading even in the second and subsequent loops.This feature is very useful for cases such as overlay textures, so I would like the cache to work correctly when looping footage via Interpret Footage.Duplicate layersLoop 100 

After installing AE 2026. The application opens but then freezes. ALL UI panels present has white and the dark mode gradually appears. When any click is attempted the application freezes. Requiring a re-boot to clear. I’m running a Yoga 9i Pro with an RTX 4070 Laptop GPU. STUDIO DRIVERWith Microsoft warning the Jan-26 patch Tuesday “2026-01 Security Update (KB5074109) (26200.7623)” has caused widespread user issues. I suspect this may be the smoking gun?Has any community experienced similar performance issues? And are there any work aroundsAE 2025 works just fine.Regards Leicester48

Hi! I can't seem to find how to create a repeater that scales the copies while keeping the same distance between them.

Issue - filling up ram, with a preview render, never releases that ram, causes the application to generally not work.  Steps to reproduce - I use a plugin, element 3d, and preview render a long comp, that fills the ram cache, then change the comp and try to work with it. AE refuses to render anything.  Expected result - AE clears up ram, prioritizes what it is supposed to be doing. Actual result -  preview is BLACK. AE does not render anything. eventually it will crash, as the app uses more and more ram. Screen recording – this is impossible, as AE sucks down all system resources Adobe After Effects version - Version 26.0.0 (build 67) Operating system - Mac os X Tahoe 26.2 GPU driver version (Windows only) - NA Video format -  Comparative information helps us understand more about when the issue occurs:  It seems to affect projects that use large amounts of ram, and possibly plugins.  yes  AE 2025, I discovered it in December of 2025. Optional but useful: other observations: Element

Hoje eu estava editando um video no After Effects, e aconteceu o seguinte erro: "Aviso do After Effects: formato incorreto ou ilegível", isso se deu depois que eu reiniciei o computador para a atualização do Windows Update, após esse erro, tentei restaurar o computador para um horário antes da atualização! Assim fiz, e o problema ainda persistiu, não sei mais o que fazer, já olhei diversos videos no youtube e não tem nenhuma solução para esse tipo de problema, alguém poderia comentar a respeito, se tem como recuperar o arquivo ou eu posso abandonar?!

After effect version 25.4.0 After importing a sequence of exr images that were used as a black and white mask for rotoscoping, the silhouette was offset or cut off completely. After refreshing the composition and sequence, these offsets randomly appear in other places. I checked in the program "nuke" and there was no problem with these exr.

Hello community! I recently updated to AE26 and now when I paste text from illustrator, the formatting gets lost. Did anyone experience this? Please, is there a workaround in order to keep the text formatting, specially OpenType options?? 

애프터 이펙트 에서 3d 카메라 트래킹 기능을 사용하려고 합니다. 카메라 트래킹을 시작 하면 다이나믹 링크 서버 연결이 끊어졌다고 하며 작동하지 않습니다. 모든 버전 통일 하고 할수 있는 수단은 전부다 시도해 봤지만 소용이 없습니다. 맥북 m2 pro 모델입니다

I'd like to create a line that gets fatter as it lengthens from left to right, but I want the previous thicknesses to remain unchanged, so at full length it will look kind of like a stretched out triangle (one pixel on the left, 25 pixels on the right). I've tried combining the stroke width property with the trim path property, but that fattens the entire line as it grows (see attachment), not the effect that I want.I realize I could draw the final shape and reveal it with an animated mask, but I was hoping to do it just with properties for simplicity. Is there a way?

Don’t get me wrong. If this image showed up in an artist’s portfolio, I’d be more than happy to appreciate it.But for someone like me who opens After Effects multiple times a day, this splash screen feels like a jump scare. It actually gives me nightmares.I know I can modify the splash screen by following tutorials online, but doing so triggers Adobe to think I’m using a pirated copy and throws a five-day grace period warning at me. That doesn’t exactly feel like a long term solution.Other than that, I haven’t run into many issues with the 2026 version. It includes features I’ve been waiting for a long time, and I really don’t want to hold off on upgrading just to wait for the next release.

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I’ve tried with Multi-Frame Rendering and without it and result same. I trying switch nvidia drivers to studio from game ready and it not help. crashes even when idle.My specs are:Processor: ryzen 7 7800x3dRAM: 32 GB usableOS: Windows 11 64-bitGPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070Dedicated Storage: 100 GB

I can access alt character styles in PSD but why not in AE?? I have a font called Helvetica Now which offers a curved lower case L and in PSD can access but not in AE. I have to create text in PSD and copy/paste over to AE.

Hi, Scince updating to the latest version  25.3.2 and something weird happened. I re named a file and it went missing of course. So I re linked it and saved the Ae files.But every single time I open the Ae file, I keep getting the same missing files msg and I have to re link it EVERY SIGNLE TIME. I tried saving a new file version but it's the same. I just installed a fresh windows 11 today and got the same thing!! Help please