After Effects

Every time I work on a mdeium to large project, and I want to import one of my templates to speed up some comps, after effects preview panel goes black, and will not work.  Previewing sound won’t work, previewing video won’t work. Scrubbing won’t work. It sometimes comes back after 3-5 minutes. Clearing cache/memory does nothing. Restarting helps, but after restarting, it still takes time to generate preview. It happens across ALL after effects versions, 23, 24, 25, and now 26.

After Effects refuses to consolidate duplicate assets that share an identical file path.In Premiere Pro, I use the "Replace with After Effects Composition" command to send clips to a new project. This process automatically places the media at the root level of the After Effects Project Panel. At the end of the project, I need the assets in After Effects to match the organization I have in Windows Explorer so I manually import my Footage and Images folders from my hard drive into the project. This results in two versions of lots of different files. One version is the asset sent from Premiere Pro at the root level, and the second version is the one nested within my imported folder structure. Both versions point to the exact same file path on my disk and share identical interpretation settings. When I run the Consolidate All Footage command, After Effects fails to recognize them as duplicates and nothing is removed.How do I get this to work? I can’t have a messy project at the end and I d

Hello, I created some After Effects files on Windows one year ago with After Effects 2025 or maybe 2024. In november, my Windows computer crashed, as well as my old Macbook Pro 2019 Intel (!).So I had to buy a new Macbook M4Max.But I can’t open any old After Effects files on this new Macbook : it crashes.As far as I remember, I could open these files on my old Macbook Intel.Here is what After effects tells me :Can someone help me on this ?ThanksPS : I checked “enable Logging” in the help menu to see some log issues, and now I cannot uncheck it…. is there a way to stop logging ?

Adding in point controls only allows me to reposition by changing the values, not by sliding it around with my mouse. I want to be able to snap my mogrts to my guides.

 If you’re a plugin developer using the GPU API in the After Effects SDK, here’s a guide (written by Claude Code) on using Vulkan instead. I was completely stuck on a problem recently, where the GPU API just could not do what I needed it to do, and I was told that the Vulkan SDK could solve my problem.I hope this helps anyone in the same position. (See .md below)

Hi! I have a Premiere Pro timeline with  many linkes After Effects compositions (about 8 comps). Whenever I'm working in After Effects to change something and I save the project, ALL linked compositions in Premiere Pro go Offline. I need to relink them, and I can relink them no problem, becasue the project hasn't gone anywhere and hasn't changed name, but I lose my render files in Premiere and constantly relinking is being a total drag for my workflow. Does anyone know if there's a fix for that?  

Steps to reproduce: Open After Effects Work on a new or existing project - add text / images / video Preview the composition    Result:  After 2 minutes of working on anything, AE reports it does not have enough RAM Windows desktop image goes black Chrome browser produces the "Aww snap" message Expected:  Normal After Effects operations. System info    Application: After Effects v25.3.1.3    OS: Windows v10.0.26120, RAM: 63.69 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 20Adding to this: Nvidia GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Dedicated video memory: 12288 MB GDDR6 Total available graphics memory: 44897 MB Running on Studio driver   This issue occurs in all versions of After Effects (25.1 to latest beta) and in Safe Mode.  This issue has been occuring for me since 4th July.  It occurs on old projects and new ones.  It feels like either AE or Windows is no longer using the "Reserve RAM for other programs" feature in

어도비의 어떤 프로그램을 사용해도 멈추거나 하지 않지만애프터 이펙트만 실행하자마자 응답없음으로 멈추거나무사히 파일이 열린다해도 1분도 안되서 프로그램이 응답없음으로 멈추게 됩니다.얼마전까지 25.3 버전으로 잘 작동되었는데 갑자기 프로그램이 멈추고 충돌현상이 일어나서최종적으로 컴퓨터까지 갈아엎었지만 여전히 제대로 작동하지 않습니다.도대체 어떻게 해야될지 모르겠어요 

HiNot sure what is happening, but on my old iMac I have the AE 25 and I rendered out a video this afternoon and it was fine. So I thought I would pre-render some that I did a few years ago. I opened them, checked everything was there, trimmed them, and prepared for render. I added to ME and it said ready. Set it rendering and came back 3 hours later, and all three videos had some elements missing, and then after the main section it seemed to add like 20 minutes of blank video, that isn’t even in the timeline and then the end credit section.Does anyone know what this bug is?ThanksRob

I normally like to change the frame rate in the preview panel so that I can quickly check my video for anything that needs fixing. But I no longer see that option, has it been removed? 

Scrolling font list is very slow with mouse wheel. One mouse roll equals the movement of few pixels compared to other scrollable items like Project items list for example. Please fix this.

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 iGPU.With 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 Leicester 348

I can’t modify my shortcuts or switch them because I keep having this.Even with “ After Effects default “.I tried : reset preferences cc cleaner safe modeNothing works as usual. Can someone help me with this ? 

I've had AE on my computer for years, and finally had a potential use for it. I went to start it up and this message showed up.  I clicked OK, but this was followed by  And finally this showed up: To elaborate a bit more: I have been running the Lightroom family, Photoshop, Bridge, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, and Premier Pro with no issues at all. I have reset the Preferences I have reinstalled the application I have verified that all is well with Privacy and Security in Apple's System Settings.   Please note the very last suggestion in the screenshot just above where I am writing. It states it wants me to review and "fix" the issue that I encountered in the previous two messages. Other than the "OK" button, there was not much to go on.   BTW, as long as I have your ear, what is the difference between Adobe After Effects 2025.app and Adobe After Effects Render Engine 2025.app. (I get the exact same results whichever one I click)   I'm at a loss, suggestions?

My project consists of 2 spinning movie reels and a filmstrip composition with animated frames. I intend to align the filmstrip along a predefined path now, as if it loops between the movie reels. The common practice to copy the shape path and paste it onto the layer's position property displaces the filmstrip composition as a whole, but does not align it. Anyone has an idea how to proceed?

Subject: After Effects Freezing Issue on High-End Laptop - Urgent Help NeededDear Adobe After Effects Support Team,I'm experiencing severe freezing issues with After Effects on my brand new XMG gaming laptop equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor. All my projects are stored locally on the C: drive (internal SSD).Problem Details: AE freezes after just a few simple steps (e.g., adding a new element like text or shape) The element appears in the timeline/project panel, but nothing updates in the Composition viewer No error messages - complete freeze requiring full restart of AE Issue persists across ALL projects, even simple new ones Cannot perform basic editing without freezing every few minutes System Specs: CPU: Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX (24 cores, up to 5.4GHz) Laptop: Brand new XMG gaming laptop Projects: All on local C: drive (no external drives) OS: Windows 11 (latest updates) I've tried: Restarting AE completely Creating new projects Different project

So I have one layer and one composition in a certain project that have effects attached to them that I need to apply to MANY videos. The effect is not easy to make either, so I was hoping there would be a way to copy it from one project to the other. Some people suggested Ctrl+C Ctrl+V, but I am unable to open more than one after effects project at once. Also, importing the other AEP into my current one glitches it out severely, and I cannot get that to work. My composition imports properly (the one with the effects in it) as well as the full composition of the other video. However, the solids are placed into a folder, and when that folder is opened, it contains the solid from the composition (for the effect) and two adjustment layers that are just pure white. How can I simply copy these two objects from my initial project into my new one and retain the effects?Ethan

Can someone please take a screencap of your "Default" workspace in Adobe After Effects. I think I may have overwrote mine when I was moving some panels around and accidently "Saved Changes to This Workspace." Just needing to check this against a clean copy. Thanks!   

Hi!I've worked for hours and hours making a cool video in After Effects, but suddenly it stopped responding and I haven't saved since I started the project! I really wanna know if there is any way I could restore that composition. No, I don't have autosave on. I haven't closed After Effects because I'm too scared it will delete the video...

I have 100+ text layers.Each layer has:- Gradient Ramp- Turbulent DisplaceI want to remove ONLY Turbulent Displace from all layers at once.Is there a batch / script / shortcut way?Using: After Effects 2025OS: Windows

I’m working with design restrictions where text can build upwards, but there is a defined bottom border.I’m looking for a setting or an expression that stacks the text upwards after every line break, instead of the default where text drops below the original line.I tried the expression from AEscreens.com but it doesn’t seem to be working for me. When I try it, it simply centers all the text vertically.I want the bottom-most text line to stay at a set y-coordinate.

 When launching After Effects 2025.2 I receive this error message. The most recent beta gave me this error as well. I reinstalled my Maxon Plugins but that didn't solve the problem. I'm on a M1 MacBook Pro. OS: Sonoma 14.0