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when working in the Advanced 3D space, the Clone Brush will only paint once on a layer that is a Composition. attempting to use the clone brush again, has no effect. have a Comp with one Precomposed layer, set current comp to use the Advanced 3D renderer.On the Precomposed piece of footage, open the layer window. use the clone brush in the footage window (alt click to sample and then draw a stroke) - clone brush works attempt to clone again. clone brush will not draw again on that layer. The clone brush will not be able to draw more than one clone stamp brush stroke. The brush tool can continue to paint, but not the clone tool. Footage layers are not affected by this as the Clone brush can paint on those without issue, it's only on Compositions. if there is only a single brush stroke on the layer, the clone brush will not draw. having the clone stroke in the effects-timeline selected should replace that currently selected stroke, but not here. switchi

I am running scripts in After Effects, and the progress dialog appears to allow to long a string in the dialog title. See the attached screenshot.  Script to run so you can repro: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nqqe8xyfkxpsmvy2l9fsi/Copper-Kings-100-Section-Animation-2026.jsx.zip?rlkey=9are1z8p593z722om2e9iykvw&dl=0  After Effects 25.4.0 (build 86)

Better Forum Post Subject: After Effects Crashing on Basic Projects (High-End PC)Hi everyone,I'm experiencing persistent crashes with After Effects, even on very basic projects. I've been unable to pinpoint the cause and am hoping someone here might have some insight.My system specs are as follows:Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KS (24 Cores, 32 Logical Processors)Graphics: 2x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090RAM: 192GBMotherboard: Z790 AORUS MASTERI've attached the crash logs and screenshots of the error messages. If anyone can take a look and has an idea of what might be causing this, I would be extremely grateful.Thanks in advance for your help!

I was on AE25.1 and project load time was just fine (note, this is the time in the startup modal before the full window loads). I updated to version 25.4 and the startup time jumped to >10s. I imagine this is intentional on Adobe's side—maybe some kind of scan was added— but this needs to be fixed/optimized. I even tested the Render only mode and it too experienced significant startup costs.Running on Mac OS Sequoia Mac Mini

Current behaviour:Manual selection with Mouse = displays layer Info in the Info Panel(This is very cool)Switching to the next layer above or below with a keyboard shortcut = Does not Update Info Panel. Expected Behaviour:When a layer is selected the Info panel always shows its information. Why this matters:Cycling through layers using keyboard shortcut and the info being displayed in the Info panel is a fast way of assessing and choosing layers, especially if they do not have meaningful names ThanksTris (P.S. when will keyboard shortcut moveing the timeline to Layer In and Out properly update the timeline marker? This has been a bug for a decade!)When are you going to stop forcing me to tag and remove the title character limit!? 

I've never had this problem before so I'm a bit lost to whats caused it. When I try to use a 3D layer and I select the layer my composition displays this.And if I rotate it and unselect the layer, it becomes distorted like this I've tried to find other people who have this problem but their "solutions" don't seem to overlap with mine. I've got classic 3D on, active camera and 1 view- which seemed to fix similar issues. I'm not really sure what to do.

I've been using After Effects 25.1 recently and noticed a recurring issue when importing .mp3 files—they often get automatically truncated. For instance, a 30-second audio file might only import the first 5 seconds. Even after clearing the cache or renaming the file and re-importing, the problem still occurs. To work around this, I’ve had to re-export the audio through Audition before importing it back into AE, which resolves the issue. Is this a known bug in this version?

While activating 3d option on layer, the above warning appears. If someone fimiliar with issue, please help me. It is very frustrating. After the new Adobe subscription, this begins. 

Hi, I’m looking for assistance with an ongoing render issue in Ae.The render queue fails to close out short of completion, yet the rendered clip is done and waiting for me in the folder. I’ve cleared the cache and turned off multi-frame rendering (suggestions I found on other posts), yet I still get this behavior more than half the time, on multiple computers.Any additional suggestions for resolving this issue? Thank you! This system is:Ae v25.4Windows 11Intel Core Ultra 9 285k128 GB RAMGeoforce 5080Meg Z890 ACE motherboardDrives are Samsung SSD 990 Pro 4Tb

AE 25.3.0 Build 71iMAC 3.8ghz 8 Core i7GFX AMD RADEON Pro 5700 XT 16GBOS SEQUOIA 15.5 Hi all I am getting random 1 frame black flashed apperaing on previews and renders. Clearing out Cache and switching to draft/full quality doesnt cure it.If I reload the footage the black frame clears, but randomly appears somewhere else. Doesnt seem to be happening in the 25.4.0 BUILD 50 BETA 

[Korean version below / 한국어 버전 글은 아래에 있습니다!] Hello,I am writing to report a critical bug that severely impacts After Effects users on macOS who use the Korean language input method (IME). When the input source is set to Korean, nearly all shortcuts register twice, which breaks the fundamental user workflow.Environment:Software: Adobe After Effects (Latest official and Beta versions)Operating System: macOS (reproducible on all recent versions)Input Method: Korean (Hangul)Plugins: This issue occurs on a clean installation with no third-party plugins.Steps to Reproduce: On a macOS system, set the keyboard input source to "Korean."Launch Adobe After Effects and create a new composition.Press the Tab key.The Mini-Flowchart for the active composition will appear and then immediately disappear. ...or Create a text layer and type something. While editing, press the Backspace key once. Expected Result:Pressing Tab should open

Isn't it about time Adobe fixed the fact that replacing footage does not retain the original footage's alpha interpretation? This has been broken for decades and is a major and constant annoyance when using AE as a development tool. I'm a 3D animator and am constantly updating sourced footage as I version up my renders during lookdev and final shot development. If I want footage to be interpreted with anything except a premultiplied alpha channel I have to reset this setting every time I iterate.  Every. Single. Time. Of course it's a complete no-brainer that retaining whatever settings were chosen on the original import of a piece of footage should be the default. To my knowledge there is no way to set this (other than the session specific "remember interpretation", which is an unsatisfactory and equally cumbersome workaround to setting interpretation manually each time). Please fix this.

Every version stuck on Splash screen.I've tried EVERYTHING!!!!I removed the plugins I removed the preferences I updated the windowsI updated the Graphics Driver I removed the fonts cache I deleted the cacheI removed the Creative cloud desktop and reinstall itI removed the App 5 Times and reinstall itMY PC Is a MONSTER Ultra 7 265K - RTX 4070 TI SUPER - 64G DDR5 RamWindows 11HELP PLEASE THIS ISSUE IS A REAL TIME CONSUMING DISASTER. 

The preview randomly freezes in After Effects. Sometimes it plays for a few seconds and then stops, even though the timeline keeps moving. The preview should play smoothly without freezing. The preview freezes at random points, and I keep getting frustrated with it, trying to restart my PC to even fix it.  CPU: Intel i9 14900KFGPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti (16 GB VRAM)RAM: 64 GBOperating System: Windows 11 (latest update)  

When i am replacing my image with another image from the project panel to the comp panel with alt pressing, sometimes i will be able to replace it, and most of the time i can't do it. Also, the parent and link option is causing issues.

When MacBookPro M3 Max wakes up from screensaver, plugin panels with modern UI like Motion4, Flow, MoBar change it's appearance - distort and scale up with blur, while older script panels like Rift with simpler UI stay the same. It only happens if After Effects is on secondary display (DELL P2715Q). When I hover with mouse over distorted panel, it's UI refreshes to normal state. Attached are screenshots with normal and distorted UI. 

Ok…weird. When We bring an audio file into AE, the duration listed of the file is wrong.In the screenshot attached, the audio file is 4secs, 11 frames.The project windows says it’s 5 seconds long(?).The Media and and out imply 4 seconds long (??)But if we make a comp of the audio file, the Project windows display’s the comps duration correctly. Nothing wrong or odd with the kHz settings, bit rate or frame rate - as far as I can tell.Brought the same audio file into Premiere, and the Project window in PP is correct.

Directly opening a project file (doubleclick or right click > open) while AE is not already opened, results in simply opening the app, not loading the project itself.I find this behaviour counter to expectations, and wish it would load the project as well, like all other Adobe apps do. Currently you have to open the project twice, once to load AE and once more to actually load the project.Is there some reason why AE does not do this?Is it a bug?(same behavior with zero plugins installed, consistent through all available modern AE CC versions)(Macbook Pro M1 Max)

My compositions no longer appear on Media Encoder when I try to export them from After Effects.Also when I try to add them manually from Media Encoder by browsing to the file, it gets stuck on "Connecting to project..."Also when I try to use "add to render queue" and then use the "queue in AME" button it doesn't work (after pressing this button nothing happens) AE Version 24.6.2 (Build 2)AME Version 24.6.1 (Build 2)

Bonjour! Il y a quelques semaines je suis passée d'un laptop à un Pc fixe plus performant. A chaque fois que je travaille sur des projets avec des effets (exemple CC particule, Bend it) le logiciel freeze, s'arrête instantannément ou met un message d'erreur. Bien souvent c'est le AfterFX.exe qui tombe en panne. J'ai déjà fait toutes les manipulations nécessaire : mise à jour des pilotes, installation et désinstallation, reboot, retour à Windows 10, retour aux version antérieurs d'After effect. Le problème est toujours là.Elodie29026523q639 a signalé le problème récement ici, mais j'ai bien un seul pilote installé contrairement à elle. Mon nouvel ordinateur : Je tourne sous Windows 11 Professionnel 24H2 26100.4946Carte graphique : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TI SUPERPilotes à jour : 581.15Processeur :  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700KFRAM : 32Vram :16J'ai envoyé un rapport d'erreur avec mon adresse mail après un crash.Merci d'avance pour votre aide!

This bug causes incorrect color space to be exported when working with ACES CG. The project must be set up for ACES workflow. ACES 1.2, 32-bit, ACES CG. I work with EXRs that are also in ACES CG and are interpreted correctly. If you export the composition and leave the color management in the export tab set to “Working color space - ACES CG,” an incorrect color space is exported, namely ACES 2065-1. To work around the bug, you have to explicitly select ACES CG for it to work. Thank you for fixing it. 

It is well known that not all effects work when working in 32-bit mode in After Effects. Some colour modes are also affected and cannot be used in 32-bit mode, because otherwise the highlights in the footage will be greyed out.However, this bug also affects Add mode. This was never the case before, but since the latest updates, it has become a bug. The last version where I used it correctly is 25.1. thank you

Hi, I'm using Ae version 23.2 and Animate version 23.0.1 (which I believe are the latest versions) however I am unable to import .FLA files into Ae. This appears to be a known issue in previous versions going back to threads in 2020 - surprised it's still an issue with the latest versions. In any case, can anyone help?  I have restarted my machine and also uninstalled / reinstalled both apps. Same error which reads as follows  'An error occured while importing this file. Please try again.' Ae tries to import the .FLA file for around 30 seconds before bringing up a box with this error message every time. (I've attached a screen shot). Please help 😉 

Hello, how are you? I am having a problem that I believe to be a memory leak, both in Premiere, but mainly in After Effects.Any simple task causes After Effects to consume all available RAM. For example, a simple animation of a shape's position without any effects attached consumes 23 GB. Can anyone help? I've never had problems like this before... I feel like I could do more when I had 8GB of RAM lolMy setup is a Ryzen 5 5600 | 32 GB RAM | GeForce 2080 graphics

In AE 2025, when I switch from an external app back into After Effects and try to click on a property in the Essential Graphics panel (e.g. a text field), there’s a delay of a few seconds before it becomes active.Thanks,Gali