After Effects

I'm running into an Out of Memory error in After Effects 24.2.1 that I just can't fix and am looking for solutions.Here are the errors, they always happen together, there's usually about 30 of them that pop up back to back:  This happens on all of my projects, when I render a video or just RAM Preview my project in AE. There is no specific frame that kills it, rather, it appears that AE uses more and more memory until it fails. In the past when I would RAM Preview my projects in AE I could watch as it reached the limit of how much it could render and earlier parts of the timeline would lose their rendered status as new frames were rendered. This does not happen anymore, once I reach the limit of my memory the program just crashes and gives me these errors. Memory while rendering, fills up and then crashes AE:   Solutions I've tried (purging memory and disk cache and restarting AE in bettween each attempt):Restarting my comp.Turning Multiframe Rendering on/offTurning CUDA

Win11 / ASUS Tuf / RTX5060 - In AE 2026 and 2025, create a comp, the footage doesn’t appear in the comp window.  move the play head, no image in the comp window.  push play, it shows fine. then stop, the image goes away in the comp window (black).  Tested using a layer/solid - same behavior.  I’ve applied every suggestion for Video Rendering, all ‘Fast Preview’ options,  also cleared all cache, updated, uninstalled/reinstalled.  BTW: NO problems with video using PrPro 2026.  Thinking of rolling back Nvidia drivers to see if that’s the culprit. Thanks for any pointers.  Video attached showing behavior.

Hi everyone, I’m trying to understand how this animation was made in After Effects.There are several video cards/precomps orbiting around an invisible elliptical path. The whole orbit seems to rotate and tilt in 3D, while the cards move from front to back but stay facing the camera.I tried using 3D layers, nulls, and Auto-Orient Towards Camera, but my cards become slightly tilted and don’t stay perfectly straight.What would be the correct setup or rig for this kind of animation?I’m not trying to copy the design, I just want to understand the technique.Thanks to anyone who can help me understand 🙏

Hi everyone!!I have a question and would appreciate your help.... I'm working on an animation that will be displayed on an LED mesh, mapped in cube form (as shown in image 01). However, I need to create this entire animation in a single composition so that the elements move continuously through the top, front, back, left, and right without any cuts or time jumps. However, there are spaces (marked in red in the image) that prevent this from happening; it's a kind of void that doesn't exist in the mapping. The question is: Is there any way that, for example, when a line moves from the left side to the front side, it automatically "skips" this region and doesn't generate thickness or timing errors in the animation? I tried to illustrate this with the yellow line in image 3. Thanks!

In Adobe Premiere Pro, you can easily add free sound effects through the Essential Sound panel, including built-in integration with Adobe Stock.Some colleagues prefer to complete animation projects entirely within After Effects. However, I haven’t been able to find a comparable panel or workflow in After Effects. As far as I can tell, sound effects need to be searched for and imported manually.I’m wondering if I might be overlooking a feature, plugin, or recommended workflow that offers similar functionality in After Effects.

I am receiving this message.  Advice would be appreciated please. After Effects can't continue: An unexpected error has occurred and After Effects will now shutdown.Please check you have the appropriate permissions to launch After Effects as well as read/write access to the After Effects preferences folder.If any other error messages were displayed prior to this, please review, and resolve if possible. Hayley

Hello, We’ve had an issue in the last week, that After Effects will no longer open on 4 different workstations we have, one of them is offsite and not on the same network.There is no splash screen it and it instantly displays the crash screen with” AfterFX.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close”. This happens on Windows 10 and Windows 11. After Effects will work on my Home PC with the same Creative Cloud Account. I have tried the Creative Cloud cleaner on one of the Workstations and a fresh install After Effects 2026, but same error appears. Any help is gratefully received.

Hello Adobe AE Team,I am experiencing a reproducible issue across four identical Mac Studio units (Apple M3 Ultra, 256 GB RAM) running macOS Sequoia 15.5, where After Effects is loading the Torq/NAPI JavaScript engine instead of the Adobe JavaScript engine.Across AE versions 25.4, 25.5, and 26.0, the following diagnostic expressions always return:$.engineName → "torq/napi"typeof(TextDocument) → "undefined"This indicates that AE is not loading the expected Adobe JS engine and instead is loading a fallback runtime that does not support TextDocument APIs.As a result, all of the following APIs fail:new TextDocument() .style .fontSize .leading .setFontSize() .setLeading() .setJustification()I have thoroughly eliminated all environmental causes:✅ Confirmed no Torq, Fusion, NAPI, or Resolve frameworks in system paths✅ Confirmed no PATH or DYLD overrides✅ Confirmed no per-user shell modifications✅ Confirmed no MDM restrictions✅ Confirmed Full Disk Access for AE and Terminal✅ Confirmed quaranti

in 26,2,1 version Depencies/Collect files is working differently from older versions and it’s working WRONG…I have folders with names 001, 002, 003, 004 and inside are sub folders with rendered images.However when I do Collect files, all the folders are “flatened” and all image sequences are put in single folders with changed names, but not all folders are processed and half of the sequences are gone or replaced with wrong ones….

Dell PC Intel i9-13900K and RTX 4080 After Effects renders cause errors green pixel artifacts Are there any known issues with these CPU/GPU models

I have a Google Sheet that gets updated and I would like to use some of that data in an After Effects comp. Can Automation Blocks read a shared Google Sheet from the web?

Hi! I don't have much experience with After Effects. I'm following a tutorial to animate graphics for the 2026 World Cup, and I've reached a point where, using the same trophy .obj file and the same .sbsar file (gold-clean.sbsar), the file turns gray instead of having that gold texture. I've already tried everything suggested: I've checked that the 3D renderer is set to "Advanced 3D," I've checked in video processing that "Mercury GPU Acceleration (Metal)" is enabled, I've checked with and without lights, I've checked that "Quick Preview" and "3D Draft" are disabled—basically, I've checked everything, and it still looks like this. If it's relevant, I have a MacBook Pro M5, and the version of After Effects is the latest (26.2.1).Can you help me solve this, please? 

Please which after effects version is suitable for my laptop. i like to do edits, minimal motions and 3d.