After Effects

Hi,I followed your recommendation and moved the Camera Raw.8bi plugin file out of the following folder:C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CC\File Formats\After moving the plugin, After Effects 2025 (25.1.0.68) launches and runs normally without any startup crashes.Based on this result, it appears that the issue is related to the Camera Raw plugin rather than After Effects itself.Could you please confirm whether, as a temporary workaround, it is preferable to:Keep the original microsoft.ai.machinelearning.dll (1.24.4.0) and onnxruntime.dll (1.24.4) versions installed and simply move/remove the Camera Raw.8bi plugin, orContinue using the older 1.17 versions of microsoft.ai.machinelearning.dll and onnxruntime.dll, which also prevent the crash?Since disabling Camera Raw allows After Effects to launch successfully while keeping the Adobe-provided DLL versions unchanged, I would prefer this approach if it is considered the safer and officially recommended workaround.Could you also

Hi there,I have a problem with my After Effects project. Whenever I move forward or back in the timeline, this error message comes up. I can not work properly on the file anymore, but I urgently need to export some plexus effects as SVGs and work in it. Can someone help me how to fix the mistake?Regards Stephan

When I export any video in After Effects, regardless of the composition settings, frame rate, resolution, or quality, the render consistently freezes one frame before the 1-second mark. The only workaround I've found is exporting as an image sequence, but there is an additional issue with audio synchronization, and it is corrupted. Standard video exports freeze every time, while renders sent through Adobe Media Encoder (AME) complete successfully. I've already tested different compositions, export settings, frame rates, and quality levels, but the issue remains the same. Any assistance in diagnosing why After Effects stops rendering at the same point on every export would be greatly appreciated. PS: I’m using the latest version of After Effects on my Apple M4 Max with 48 GB of RAM.

I’m a Creative Cloud subscriber. I use After Effects 24 because it runs much better than other versions with the Insta360 footage I work with. However, I haven't been able to open it for the past two days. I really need to get version 24 running again. It simply closes while still on the splash screen and fails to launch. I’ve already tried everything I could find on forums.Intel 13th Gen i7-1370064GB RAM2TB NVMe SSD

when I’m using masks i need the masks to snap to edges and points , like if i want a simple rectangle reveal i need the start keyframe to be exactly on each other, while I’m activating the snapping option why it’s not snapping?

Issue — After Effects menus and UI lag severely when the Tools panel is open.Steps to reproduceOpen After Effects with the Tools panel enabled (Window > Tools / Ctrl+1) Click any top menu (File, Edit, Composition, etc.) Observe lag/freeze when opening or navigating menusExpected result — Menus open and respond instantly.Actual result — Menus lag or freeze noticeably while the Tools panel is visible. Disabling the Tools panel via Window > Tools (Ctrl+1) resolves the issue.Adobe After Effects version — 26.0, also happening in Beta 26.3 (Build 38)Comparative informationAffects all projects Issue does not exist in 25.6.4 Introduced sometime after 25.6.4Operating system — Windows 11 ProGPU driver version — Version 595.79 Released Tue Mar 10, 2026

I'm genuinely losing my patience with After Effects breaking fundamental functionality for absolutely no goddamn reason.I'm working on a VFX project using an OCIO color management workflow, and After Effects is randomly deciding to clamp the values of one of my layers in the viewport. Sometimes it displays correctly, and sometimes the values appear to be clamped to a maximum of 1.The most frustrating part is that this isn't even consistent.If I perform practically any action that refreshes the viewport, the image suddenly displays correctly again. But the moment I move the timeline, it can immediately go back to displaying the broken, clamped version.What's even more ridiculous is the difference in behavior depending on playback: If I manually scrub through the timeline and allow frames to load individually, everything displays correctly. If I let After Effects cache the composition and play it back using NUM0 or Spacebar, it loads and displays the completely broken/clamped version i

Hi! Where can I download the After Effects installer for macOS Catalina 10.15.8? I believe After Effects version 17.5 should be compatible. Thanks!

After Effects on macOS does not recognize two-finger pan/scroll or pinch-to-zoom gestures from the touch surface of a Wacom Intuos Pro S (PTH-460). The Wacom pen itself works normally.The same gestures work correctly in After Effects when using an Apple Magic Trackpad. The same Wacom touch gestures also work correctly in other applications on the same Mac.System MacBook Pro 16-inch (Nov 2023), Apple M3 Max, 48 GB RAM macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 Adobe After Effects 26.2.1 (Build 2) Wacom Intuos Pro S (PTH-460), Pro Pen 2 Current Wacom driver, cleanly reinstalled; Wacom Driver Check reports no errors Steps to reproduce Open a composition/timeline in After Effects. Using an Apple Magic Trackpad, perform a two-finger pan/scroll and pinch gesture. Both work correctly. Without changing the project or After Effects preferences, perform the equivalent gestures on the Wacom Intuos Pro touch surface. Neither two-finger pan/scroll nor pinch-to-zoom is recognized. During repeated testing, A

Is it possible to bring srt files to after effects as editable separated text layers? In other words, I want to reverse this progress on this video: https://youtu.be/GLSFtuBUWmI      

This is an issue I've begun experiencing this year.  I'm praying someone can help me.<IMAGE ATTACHED TO OUTLINE ISSUE> SUMMARY:I will create and work on simple projects that use a combo of JPGs, mp4s or MOV assets.  AE will operate fine.  Renders will be fine.  Everything will be fine. ..But without fail, days/weeks/months later, I will go to open one of these projects and be met with an infinite loop of pop-up messages  Each pop-up will appear one after another, and they will say the same thing for each asset in my library  1) "AE error: File Exists, but couldn't be opened."and then2)"AE Warning: Unable to open ____. If the file is open in another application, closing it may solve the problem." ...I will spend minutes clicking OK for each of these pop-ups, but they never stop.  Eventually I will always have to force-quit after effects. I know it could be a number of things, but I'm most confused by the fact that th

Al momento de crear un Mogrts y tratarlo de exportar, solamente se genera una composición llamada "Temporary comp for Preview Generation -Mogrts 2". Al momento de exportar me pide que guarde el proyecto, le doy “guardar”, sin embargo, solo se crea la composición ya mencionada, pero no me abre alguna otra ventana ni nada.   

Feature Request: Linked Layer Trimming or Trim Point LinkingAllow the In Point or Out Point of one layer to be linked to the In Point or Out Point of another layer, so trimming one layer automatically adjusts the linked layer's corresponding point."Linked Trim Points" — the ability to link arbitrary layer trim points (In/Out) so that moving one trim point automatically moves another.

Hi,I've been investigating a reproducible issue involving transform expressions and property[index].What initially looked like a simple circular-dependency edge case now appears to be something more fundamental: the resolved state of the graph seems to depend on which dependency branch is traversed.Adobe After Effects 25.6.4Windows 11SetupLayer: property indexAnchor Point:thisLayer.scale[0];thisLayer.rotation[0];thisLayer.opacity[0];thisLayer.position[0];thisLayer.anchorPoint[0];[11,22]Position:thisLayer.anchorPointScale:thisLayer.anchorPointRotation:thisLayer.anchorPoint[0]Opacity:thisLayer.anchorPoint[0]ObservationDepending on layer arrangement and evaluation order, the graph can expose a mixture of expression values and pre-expression values.For example, the Transform panel may show:Anchor Point = 11,22Position = 11,22Scale = 40,80Rotation = 40Opacity = 40while external reads may report:Anchor Point = 11,22Position = 40,80Scale = 40,80Rotation = 40

Hello!! I have to make a video template that features a single line of text which repeats using an echo effect and moves along a frame, similar to what the Montreal Victoire did for their goal videos as seen here. Because I’ll have to make about 30 of these videos and the text that needs to travel along the path will be different lengths, I set up a separate comp to use as a parent layer with an expression to scale text in that comp to its width (in this case, 200px), so I would only have to set up the number of echoes/delay between echoes one time. I tried using the expression “comp("Dynamic Text (player names)").layer("Player Name").transform.scale;” in my main composition to adjust the text moving along the path to match this scale, but this changes the scale of the path the text is travelling along as well. Is there an expression I can use to scale the text, but not the mask/mask path it’s travelling along? Alternatively, is there a way for me to have text move along a path in this

Whenever I apply 3D animation to any of my videos, it gets stuck at the 'initializing' stage and doesn't proceed any further.

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Hey! I've been using After Effects 2024 for a while, and it's worked the best with slim to none crashes. I recently reinstalled it as in wasn't opening until it didn't let me reinstall it anymore. Hopefully someone would be able to help me install it as I've tried AE 2025 and 2026 yet they both crash alot and my computer cannot handle it!

Hi everyone, Okay, so this might be a really dumb question, but I'm honestly confused. I made my very first animation in After Effects. Nothing crazy — just some text moving around and a few shapes. On my screen, inside the software, it looked exactly how I wanted. I was so proud of myself! But then I exported it... and when I put it on my website, it looked kinda... off? Like the colors were a little dull, and it seemed slower than before. I don't even know if I used the right export settings because I basically just guessed and pressed "render."

I applied a Lumetri color effect to a clip in my comp and it caused the image to stretch (as if I had distorted the horizontal size of the image). I toggled the effect on and off and the stretching disappears when toggled off. I removed the effect and reapplied, nothing. Restarted After Effects, nothing. Tried another clip from the shoot, no problems. I've had this, and other small bugs, appear randomly when using the Lumetri Color effect. Is there something that I'm missing or is this a known bug with After Effects CC 2017?