After Effects

I have found a bug in command-line aerender in After Effects 2025 (and also the latest Beta), on Mac. OS: MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1.AE version: 25.0.1 (Build 2) If an AEP file has had its rendering set to "Mercury Software Only", rather than GPU Acceleration (Metal), then when I run a command-line render using aerender, it will hang forever, before it starts rendering out frames  Normally I would expect a file like this to render in a few seconds. Editing the AEP file and changing it to GPU Acceleration (Metal) and then re-rerunning aerender results in a render. Rendering in After Effects UI works fine. I have checked with Adobe After Effects 2024 and it renders just fine using aerender, this is only an issue in 2025 (and the current Beta). There is no additional info in the logs, the program just hangs.  I could write a script to update the GPU settings before each render but that would be tedious; I also assume other people will be affected by this a

Hi. I've tried to use the easy ease option but when I activate the graph editor it shows me 2 straight lines (red and green) instead of a white curve. What should I do to see the white curve?

Hi there. Apparently, the latest version of After Effects includes shortcuts to a bunch of Maxon stuff that I don't care about, and apparently there's no way to change that. That can't be right, can it? Specifically, I used to be able to press Alt+Ctrl+Space to bring up Video Copilot's FX Console -- now that's hijacked bu Maxon  Studio. I don't care about Maxon Studio, but when I go into modify keyboard shortcuts, it seems I can't remove anything associated with Maxon. Am I missing something?! Thank you!

I have Autofill v2 plugin. When I am trying to use it, I got error:After Effects error: AF Error: Unable to Init TLS OpenGL Context (512)After Effects version: 2024 24.3.0.50OS Version:  Windows 10.0.22631 Actual result: when I am trying to apply AutoFill V2 effect, I got error message: After Effects error: AF Error: Unable to Init TLS OpenGL Context (512). And I can't use this plugin.Expected result: no errors when I apply AutoFill V2 effect to my composition. Logs collected from After Effects: Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Set Layer Param Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Set Layer Param Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Set Path Param Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Nothing Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Set Layer Param Ticks = 88954 <21288> <ALOG> <5> BEE Command Set Layer Param Ticks = 8

So, everything is in the flowchart and, I can only see 1 text I added in my layer thingie, but i can't see the whole thing. I need help to fix it so i can see all the layers i made again.  

Hey everyone,I’ve been working on animating some titles and graphics that required masks in After Effects. To get the masks to work properly, I ended up having to pre-compose every element that used a mask. This led to over 20 pre-compositions, which felt a bit excessive.I’m wondering if there’s a more efficient way to handle masks? After Effects isn’t part of my usual workflow, but I’m aiming to create some Lottie files for my website.Here’s what I did: after finishing the animation, I applied the mask to the pre-composed layer. I also tried using an adjustment or shape layer to create the mask, but the results didn’t translate well when I exported to Adobe XD.Maybe this issue is related to Lottie file specifics, but I’m sure there must be a better approach that doesn’t involve so many pre-comps. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!Thanks!

Hey guys I need HELP!!! I have finally learned how to animate cover arts and today I went to do my first official animation and when I changed the duration from the stock 30 seconds now everything in my work space plays back extremely fast, and it also exports extremely fast too. Even tho the duration is set to 2:16 when creating the composition it exports to like 3 seconds. Any advice helps!! 

Hey all! Absolute beginner here!  I wanted to know how I could change the settings on After Effects of the path between my key-frames. It keeps on giving me straight paths when I want it curved. I already changed my settings and turned off the "Default Spacial Interpolation to Linear", but still, it goes to Linear by default. Any idea what I am dong wrong or what I can change? At the moment I am manually changing the path by right-clicking on each key frame and changing the interpolation by selecting "auto bezier".  Thank you!

After Effects keeps crashing whenever I try to edit one of the assets on the template file. Last log message was: <18776636> <FontServer> <5> 4 Changed ctSync_msec:195 ctSeed:1 dicts:1354 total_msec:210 I don't have any cache files or plugins to delete.

the UI text is weirdly glitching to the point where it becomes unreadable, this is happening on all of my adobe products. not sure how to replicate, it just came like this version 22.0windows 11 version 24H2 

Hi im not able to drag layers in the composition/project panel. first it was working fine but suddenly it wasnt working. im already trying to fix this for 1 hour pls help 😕😕

I have resorted into posting here since i cannot contact customer support for help, as it keeps telling me to contact my administartor and IT for help. I shouldn’t be locked out of customer support because of this; they were unhelpful and did not solve my issue that I need to be resolved urgentlyMy problem is my preview won’t show up on after effects at all. I did projects on after effects before so why is it acting like this now????I’ve tried multiple things, i resetted my cache, uninstalled and reinstalled, resetted preferences, and i even updated my drives and also updated to the latest version of after effects. Yet somehow it suddenly starts working at uni after i reinstalled it there, but the second I got home it stopped working, what a weird situation!I am all out of options and I NEED this to work right now 

Bonjour, Je souhaiterai savoir comment faire une courte vidéo d'animation avec un village de noel pour présenter un évènement.Est-il possible d'animer tous le village, avec du mouvement de caméra parcourant celui-ci ?Pour créer ce village faut-il utiliser blender pour le créer ? ou alors en prenant des éléments gratuits sur internet, ou bien tout est créable juste avec after effects ? Merci d'avance je suis preneur de tout conseil.POur faire un simple je veux créer une courte vidéo avec un village de noel illuminé qui finit avec la présentation de l'évènement.Merci !

Hi all, I'm trying to bring an illustrator shape file into After Effects and convert it to 3D so I can give it an extrusion depth.  I've imported the file, added it to a comp with a camera and light, and gone to 'Layer > Create > Create Shapes from Vector Layer'. I am using Cinema 4D as a renderer. As soon as I make the object 3D it disappears from the screen and I get the below error code, 88 :: 3. I have looked at a few questions here but nothing resolves it. Does anyone know how to fix this? Ideally I want to give the shape some depth and have it move and rotate in 3D.       

Hi there,Hoping someone can help me with this. I deal with a lot of these types of flowcharts and am often looping the dash on the arrow lines for illustrative effect. I can do it manually obviously but its tedious to do for many layers. What would people suggest would be the fastest approach for this. I'm importing these lines from illustrator so can have the dash and gap set to the same for each layer though I can only seem to set the first dash and gap for it to transfer via overlord into AE which means the offset has to be manually added for each layer in AE as far as I can see. I've tried copying and pasting to layers, that's fine for the loop out expression but not the keyframes for the offset. Ideally I'd like a trim paths but cannot copy and paste the trim paths from one shape layer to the next. I could live with a fade in instead of this however so that's not essential. I've tried using an animation preset but didn't manage to get that to work.  If anyone had a

Hey everyone, I’m currently working on a project for a client from this website: https://baddiesonlytv.org/. They’ve asked me to create some animated lower thirds and transitions in After Effects, but I’m running into issues with the render quality. The animations look crisp within AE, but once I export them, there’s a noticeable drop in quality, especially around edges and text. I’ve tried different export settings, but nothing seems to hold the same quality as the preview. Any tips on optimizing export settings or workflow to maintain sharpness? Thanks!    

Good morning, I use Boris' Sapphire plug-in and for some time, it has been jumping. Here is the error message: "GPU render failed for s_GlowAura. Falling back CPU. " I changed the parameters of the project to Mercury alone or not. But nothing hells. Now he doesn't want to read my composition anymore by giving me a scrambled overview.Help!

Si yo quiero usar plugins de terceros en un after effects que compre, se pueden seguir usando? O si o si hay que comprar los plugins? 

After save the project while i'm export essential graphic this message show up:after effects warning: we support exporting Motion graphics templates from after effects projects files but do not currently support after effects templates or xml file. What ca i do?

I'm trying to increase a number from 0 to 49.3 with slider control, but I need it to keep the decimal 0 on integers, and to add a leading 0 from 0 to 9. I've tried many expressions, and noticed that the leading number works if its anything but 0, for example, if I try to add "20" to the string on the condition < 10, it will add the 20, but it won't add the "0". As for the integers decimal, I really couldn't make it work, even using expressions marked as 'solutions' on the forum. I wonder if the newer versions of AE changed something. Anyone can help?Thanks! 

I am trying to export a camera tracker and solid from After Effects (24.6.3) to Cinema 4d (2024.4.0). When I open the exported project in Cinema 4d, all my layers are there. However, when I hit play nothing happens (I have the correct camera selected). When I open the Timeline (F-Curves) there are no keyframes there. Has anyone else expireced or have found a work around?

I don't know why this happens. I'm using Ae 25 and Creative Cloud says "it can run well on this computer" and there are no problems with my system requirements. Why do I get a 2 second pause when I start the video? I have 32GB ram and this is weird. It's ridiculous to still see these problems even though I gave 28GB to Ae. What should I do please give advice.

I have been using After Effects in my laptop for a year now, and nothing ever went wrong.The suddently, I tried to open one of my proyects and the composition panel went all black.  I can't see anything, both when i'm working or when I press the previsualization button.I have reverted the working space back to standard, I have looked at youtube tutorials and searched on the internet and I can't find an answer.I have deinstalled the program and reverted all preferences to default, reinstalled it and the panel remains the same, and when I check for compatibility issues there is none.But there is simply no visor, just the panel.