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IssueOn Windows (unsure of the exact Mac equivalent) pressing Ctrl+Backspace when editing text will typically delete the last word or set of characters up to a space or hyphen. In AE this behaviour does not happen.When editing the content of a text layer, pressing Ctrl+Backspace appears to have no effect.If editing a layer name (any layer, not just text layers) pressing Ctrl+Backspace will generate a non-printing character that displays as a rectangle, identified on https://invisiblecharacterviewer.com/ as U+007F. I don’t know if this will work in a post here, but the specific character has been pasted between the following marks ‘’.Interestingly, the new layer name sanitation system means that the non-printing characters are not shown when the layer name is committed with Enter, but will show again if the layer name is subsequently edited, but only in the live edit state.Ctrl+Backspace will also generate the U+007 character in text fields, such as those in the Essential Properties pan

We have some AE licenses in the company. We usually work with raw sequences from Sony and Canon cameras on older versions of AE, but this time we upgraded from AE 24 to 26 (a bad decision). Now, when we import a Raw sequence, Camera raw opens and after we make some adjustements and clic “Save” it crash and AE too. Sometimes it works but if you want to make a new change in Camera raw, both crashes. I have tried all the following steps with several computers and the bug persists:1. Toggle Hardware Accelerated DecodingA known conflict often occurs when hardware acceleration interacts poorly with raw footage.In After Effects, go to Edit > Preferences > Import (or General on some versions).Uncheck Hardware accelerated decoding.Restart After Effects.2. Purge the Camera Raw CacheA corrupted or full cache can cause the ACR dialog to freeze or crash.In After Effects, go to Edit > Preferences > Camera Raw (or Media & Disk Cache).Navigate to the Performance tab if prompted.Click P

Hey ​@JohnColombo17100380 ! are you aware of this bug? this white flash when opening 😔 (Windows 11).I also noticed a longer startup time compared to older alternatives like ConsoleFX. 

Issue : “Fill” effect and other miscellaneous pre-installed effects are entirely missing from the Effects Panel and “Manage Effects” windowAE version : 26.2OS : MacOS Tahoe 26.3.1What I did to try and fix the issue : reset Preferences uninstalled and reinstalled AE opened the “Manage Effects” window and activated all effects uninstalled and reinstalled in an older version (25.6.5)The last step allowed me to see “Fill” again in the list

Help!!! Im trying to export a 20s video at 60fps. Ive tried changing the CPU settings so its lower, tried exporting as apple pro res to help but nothing seems to work. It gets stuck half way when rendering (media encoder) and then i have to force quit. I dont get any messages about corrupted video file and have replaced the videos in the render with just one to see if that worked, but it didnt. It can do 4-5s of the video but just not the whole thing in one goAttached is an example. happy to share AF files as im not sure its my computer that cant handle it. thanks  

When an artist exports a video from After Effects in H.264 format, AE doesn't include colour metadata, unlike QuickTime or other software.When we perform certain operations after exporting from After Effects, we lose the exported colours because the metadata is missingTested on 2025 and  2026 Fichier : AFTERh264.mp4codec_name : h264width : 2048height : 2048r_frame_rate : 25/1pix_fmt : yuv420pcolor_range : unknowncolor_space : unknowncolor_transfer : unknowncolor_primaries : unknownFichier : DavinciH264.mp4 or QuicktimeH264_AE.movcodec_name : h264width : 2048height : 2048r_frame_rate : 25/1pix_fmt : yuv420pcolor_range : tvcolor_space : gbrcolor_transfer : bt709color_primaries : bt709

I want to keyframe audio going from silence to some audible level. I set the stop watch for audio levels at the beginning of a wave form and drag the level slider down, and move the CTI later into the track and increase the audio at that point by dragging the audio level slider,, though when the CTI hits the waveform it is still playing the audio even though I tried making the audio silent at the first keyframe. What do I need to do to make the audio not audible on the first keyframe? Thank you 

If you are using After Effects to layout and position content being able to create a grid system like in Photoshop can be useful.I created a scriptUI panel to create rows and columns by making guidelines. You can download it on gumroad: https://thepixelsmith.gumroad.com/l/AfterEffectsGridBuilderIt’s pay what you want (gumroad doesn’t let me just do free stuff) so just type in zero. 

Hi Everyone, I’m having a weird problem. A certain expression works on AE GUI but it does not work when rendered with aerender.I am trying to create a dynamic creative app for my agency. Basically, I have an aep template that has a json object. I modify the json and render via aerender.I can change text, images, videos, text style, etc dynamically. Here’s the problem:I can’t change a shape’s color with aerender. The json is parsed correctly (textboxes show the values correctly, and even hexToRgb conversion is done correctly). But the shape does not seem to pickup color. When I open the AE GUI, it runs correctly. However, aerender does not render correctly. I tried different methods, including putting the expression in shape’s fill color, using a color object, linked with the shape embedding the shape in a comp and using tint / fill effects. All these methods I mentioned work in AE GUI with no problem. However they don’t work in aerender. The color code comes from the json correctly, bu

Hey everyone,Wanted to share something I built and get honest feedback from this community.A few weeks ago I was working on a really messy After Effects project — dozens of nested precomps, broken expressions, mystery effects buried 5 layers deep. The kind of timeline that makes you want to start over.I downloaded one of those free unprecompose scripts you can find online. It could batch un-nest, which was great, but that's about it. It dropped some of my effects, didn't preserve everything cleanly, and worst of all — every expression that referenced layers inside the precomps just broke. I spent hours afterward manually fixing thisComp.layer() references one by one.So I decided to take that simple script and turn it into something that actually does the full job.What I built — Carpenter's Un-Nester Pro:Batch un-precompose with proper preservation of effects, masks, blending modes, 3D properties, time remap, track mattes, audio with level keyframes, and parent relationships Recursive m

Antes de que transcurrieran los 7 días de prueba desinstalé la aplicación desde Adobe Creative Cloud , ya que en el mensaje cuando dabas de alta la prueba decían lo siguiente:   "Puedes cancelar en línea, en cualquier momento y sin gastos" No se si se tiene que cancelar la versión de prueba desde otro sitio, ya que no veo que se especifique correctamente.El hecho es que mas de 7 días después me han cobrado los 24,19€.  

Can you save a single composition from an After Effects project so it can be opened inside a second project? Deleting a couple hundred files from a large AEP to reduce it to a single comp is not realistic. Just need to move one composition into another project where it would be useful without having to migrate the entire original project. Reconnect the media and done. Possible?

I'm trying to use the new import illustrator SVG from clipboard feature in Beta, after pasting one object into after effects it keeps pasting in the same shape even when i copy next shapes in illustrator. To fix it i have to purge all memory in after effects and then i can keep pasting more shapes/SVGs from illustrator into after effects. So after each shape i have to purge, otherwise it keeps pasting the same thing 

When trying to export a mogrt out of after effects, it gives me and unknown exception. I’m using After Effects 25.0, on Windows.It happens with every single project, even if I create a new one.It never happened before, until our team moved to a new building and are connected to a VPN.   

Hi everyone. So eaerlier this evening I downloaded Sapphire plugin for AE; I was having some issues with it and a friend suggested just redownloading it, so for some silly reason I just decided to delete all of the Sapphire files (plugins, etc) off my laptop. However, since I did that, every time I've tried to open AE an error message appears saying: "Can't find Sapphire bundle in /Applications/BorisFX/Saphire 2022 Adobe/config/sapphire-ae64.bundle: file does not exist. Please reinstall Sapphire Plug-ins to fix this problem." I feel like I've tried everything: I've cleared ALL Sapphire plugin folders, I've reinstalled AE several times, I've reinstalled the sapphire plugins (and yet again deleted them) and literally nothing has worked. As far as I can see, there are absolutely no remaining Sapphire or BorisFX files or folders. I've tried clearing/resetting AE preferences. Nothing's been working, and I know people have had this issue before as I've googled it and trie

After opening a 3rd party project, probably made where text writes right to left, I can’t get After Effects 2026 to type Left to Right. (The same thing has occurred in the Beta version) How can I get the Latin text engine back? It is NOT a setting in the character or paragraph dialogues, and I’ve tried “resetting” both of those. I’ve also attempted the switch opening a project that use to work properly to reset it. That didn’t work either. I’m on a Mac running Tahoe. I’d prefer to not trash the preferences and lose my workspaces and keyboard shortcuts. Thanks!

If I want to test a work, is it possible to lock the existing keyframes (KF) and add new temporary KFs with different color?   

I made an animation preset for creating captions (followed tutorial). I’ve got a black rectangle shape that populates custom text. However, I want to adjust the opacity of the black rectangle shape only. I’ve tried adjusting the “Amount to Tint”, but that doesn’t work (and inverts both color mappings simultaneously). Same for the effect opacity. DOes anyone know, based on how I built this animation preset, how I can adjust the opacity of one of the color mappings? If not, what would be the best way for me to create what I’m after? Thanks all! 

I have effect plugin that use the PF_OutFlag2_I_USE_3D_CAMERA flag. In the After Effects project I have such setup:Camera layer starts at composition frame 10 and have duration of 30 frames My effect layer also starts at composition frame 10 and have duration of 30 framesWhen I select composition frame in the range 10-20 and change the camera transform, my effect does not receive PF_Cmd_SMART_PRE_RENDER/PF_Cmd_SMART_RENDER events. For frames 20-40 everything works fine. Everything also works fine when I move both layers to composition frame 0.Test ProjectGitHub repository with reproduce for After Effects 2025/2026: https://github.com/K1tty/bug-repro-ae-camera