After Effects

When opening after effects, it will get to the splash screen scanning fonts and then crash. It crashes on a different font every time. I am working on a mac studio - M2 Max, 32GB.splash screen before crashingcrash notice 

Keyframe icons aren’t displaying properly in the timeline. A linear keyframe icon will randomly appear as a hold keyframe icon or an ease in keyframe icon etc. When I click on it, it reverts back to what it actually is. If I click away, it switches back to the wrong icon. AE 26.0.0. OS X Tahoe 26.2. 

In AE I want to create a mogrt (with a textbox) that have also an in and out sound fx.I use responsive intro and outro for this. I make sure in “unprotected area” not to have keyframes or audio. The problem is  when I import the mogrt in PP , it can’t be stretchedThanks for any helpChris

My AE cameras have a definite cut off point, go any closer and they will not focus on anything. I have done some tests using different camera settings and it seems that the cut of point is exactly 10% of the zoom value:If the zoom is 5333.3 pixels, it will not focus less than 533 pixels away.If the zoom is 1500 pixels, it will not focus less than 150 pixels away.Here is a video of the issueA work around to this is to scale up the entire scene and the camera:- Create a 3D Null,- attach all 3D layers and your camera to that null,- scale up the null (as much as you need maybe 400%)- unlink the layers and camera Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work for cameras that are linked to nulls as part of a camera rig. As I use lots of camera rigs, I’d really appreciate if anyone can provide a solution to this.Thanks,Laurie 

Hello all, thanks for taking the time to read my question. I am using AE 26.2 with my composition rendered set to Advanced 3D.I have imported an obj file but can not assign a jpg material to it. Or any image file for that matter.Under the objects material options both “default” and “Material 2” only have “Default” as an option in the dropdown.Same with using either the GLB or GLTF format of the 3d asset.Any help with I might be doing wrong would be much appreciated.No texture options available other than default 

Once I finish tracking, I apply the data. The key frames show up in the clip but does not effect the clip in any way. This happens with Mocha AE as well.It is a 4K clip in a 1080p timeline / Shot on a FX3It worked fine up until a month or so ago, any thoughts on what it could be. Thanks Edit: It applied it to the top clip, but the clip I want to apply it to is greyed out. How can I fix, I don’t want to apply it to a null

System specsIntel Core Ultra 9Asus TUF GAMING Z890-PLUSCorsair Vengeance 128 GB RAMSamsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2Asus ProArt RTX 4070 Ti (latest driver installed)Windows 11 Pro 25H2I read that the Windows 11 update KB5074109 can be problematic.Since installing After Effects 2026, the interface lags and freezes.Sometimes it blocks for a few seconds.Sometimes it’s small delays, but frequent enough to make work annoying.This happens even with low system usage.CPU and GPU are not under load.……...I would also prefer fewer updates, but more stable ones.Not yearly changes that break workflows.In reality, we have to follow updates because clients update, it a ecosystems change, and compatibility issues appear if i am not on the same as other. I also feel that software companies focus too much on data collection.The software feels heavier, slower, and less focused on user experience.As a user, I don’t feel like the customer anymore.It feels like investors and data are the priority.

hallo liebes Adobe Team, ich nutze seit Jahren das kostenlose und tolle Plugin von Video Copilot namens FX Console.Ab der Version 26 und auch in der letzten Beta, lässt es sich nicht mehr richtig nutzen. In den Einstellungen funktioniert der shortcut “option+Space” nicht mehr. Was aber viel schlimmer ist: wenn ich den  Efffect “Füllen” in die Favoriten ablege, stürzt After Effects ab. Was mir auffällt, das die deutschen Sonderzeichen nicht ht erkannt werden, jedoch funktionieren die Verknüpfungen zu anderen Effekten mit Sonderzeichen.Ich hoffe das Problem wird gelöst denn es ist ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug für mich und viele Andere User geworden.In derVersion 25.64 funktioniert das selbe Plugin Fehlerlos.https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2018/05/fx-console-updated-to-v1-0-3/ 

There have been consistency issues for sometime now with Adobe and Decklink drivers, specifically at 2160p60. To get them working, the framerate will have to changed down to 24 and back again before they display correctly.Also toggling between After eEffects and Premiere does not work, and the first app opened keeps priority. After Effects BMD Mercury only works if Premiere is not open when you open After Effects.It is good to see progress on HDR monitoring in AE, though it would be good if you could auto scale the comp size into suitable Decklink size for display, rather than the frankly ridiculous current system of manually picking Scale up, Down or OFF. It is important when footage and comp sizes are often very differentAdobe say this is in the hands of Blackmagic. I just wanted to see if it was being looked into, and suggest a scheduled contact between the two companies, specifically on point releases of software. It feels like this has slipped down the priority list a lot, though

I want to export my project and it says an error of the memory. All my disk aren’t full 

I see that in ‘Fixed issues in After Effects’, in the ‘Fixed issues in the November 2025 release (version 25.6)’ section, it says: User Interface > Dialogs now open at their last saved position by default, with the Preferences dialog always opening centered.I am using v25.6.4, and none of my panels remember their saved positions, ever. I move them, open them again, and they are in the center of the frame again. I restart SE, same results..I’m guessing this is not a common problem, as I see no other posts about it.Why would this be happening?Using Windows 11 64 bitThanks

There are so many obstacles to reporting bugs!I found (another) after effects bug. How do I report it?I opened the help menu - unlike something like Blender there is no “Report A Bug” option.  I went to help->Provide Feedback - it goes to the forum, clicked Bug Reports, but there’s no obvious way to submit a bug report I asked the little chatbot, it told me to click a menu option that doesn’t exist and then glitched out   I used the AI search tool and it gave me one broken link and one wrong link   I followed the link “how to report a problem”, it’s outdated and tells you to click on a nonexistent button. finally I figured out you have to click CREATE A POST guess what it doesn’t create a post, first it does a search for the topic you have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the irrelevant search results, and then guess what, you have to click AN INVISIBLE BUTTON. Clicking the words None of these match your issue (not a button!) makes the button visible FINALLY i can start typ

see attached file - when you nest the modify the path with essential properties, the null no longer traces the path if you enable continuous rasterize 😔

Hi, since I updated this morning, I can’t do any kind of customised blurring - it just blurs the whole thing. There is no elipse, rectangle of bezier option with Gaussian blur in the effects panel any more. I've tried to attach a photo but I don’t know if it’s worked. To reproduce, drag Gaussian blur onto a clip and go to that section in the efects panel. No masking options appear there, just a box to click with ‘surprise me’ written on it. If you click that it just all gets blurrier, but you still can’t mask anything. The whole lot is blurred.  Thanks. Imogen

I’ve a 3D text file that I’m trying to change the color of its text using Fill Color. I can change the text font easily, but not the color. I’ve asked ChatGPT to give me a solution and it’s recommended a couple of things like switching to Cinema 4D renderer, clicking the small cube icon text to TEXT 1, adding extrusions, but so far they didn’t work to change color. 

I’ve used the . key (on the numeric keypad) to preview audio when adding markers since 2007. In AE 26.0 (build 67) this function now no longer works. When I hit the audio preview key, the start time of out by approximately 1 second (which makes it unusable). The . audio preview was good because after you play, the CTI would still be where you left it.When I preview with the spacebar, the CTI moves and stops when you hit stop.My primary reason four this is when i am marking up audio - music or a voiceover.I’m on Windows OS - 11 - 25H2 - Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.291.0AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor Nvidia Studio Driver - 591.74 - Mon Jan 5, 2026  misc extra detail:NVIDIA system information report created on: 02/10/2026 14:51:27NVIDIA App version: 11.0.6.383Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.26200DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12Driver: Studio Driver - 591.74 - Mon Jan 5, 2026CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor             RAM: 96.0 GBStor

I regularly use the period “.” keyboard shortcut on the number pad just to play the audio in AE timeline, the last update has made the play head lag behind the actual audio time which makes it impossible to lay down markers whilst listening to the audio.AE 26 Build 67MacOS 15.7.4Mac Studio M1 Ultra

Hi,I want the whole Trim Path animation to loop in a fixed repetition. I want the entire animation (the way I set the keyframes) to finish and then repeat from start to end at every 2 second.How can I do this with an expression?I tried everything, but I can’t achieve what I want. Please help.     

won’t open in safe mode; won’t open w/ 3rd party plugins disabled,  won’t import into other projects; won’t open on other machines. ChatGPT has no answers.    If not fixed soon, i want my money back! 

I’m on the latest After Effects (26.0) and I’m working on a video edit. I’m using some AI-generated videos as a base and then editing them. A lot of AI videos are slow, so I’m using Time Remapping to speed them up. The comp frame rate matches the footage.The problem is that when I Time Remap the video, it introduces random glitches on random frames (e.g., 3–5 frames). Normally, when something like this happened before, I could just remove the glitched frame and it was fine. But now it’s uncontrollable: when I change the bit depth, the glitch disappears in some frames but shows up in completely different ones. I’d understand if it was preview-only, but even when I purge the memory and disk cache, it just appears in different places. That’s why I can’t simply remove one or two frames—because the glitch moves.Frame Blending either shifts the glitches somewhere else or creates other visually weird artifacts. Time Remapping has always worked perfectly for me, so this is really frustrating. 

Setup : Windows 11 Local administrator account Account path has special character (C:\Users\François) Fresh AE 2026 install (same with fresh AE2025) Super basic test composition The bug :When exporting as MOGRT > dialogs flash > the export process fails silently before I get the “chose location” dialog. No error or crash.Workaround : Create a new local account without special characters (c:\Users\temp\). Login to that account, open the same composition… exports just fine.

Having some rendering issues as this error pops up "Compressor format error. (-1610153454)." Then it follows up with "Error Code: 9988".  I'm using Apple Pro Res 4444 file out to an Apple Pro Res 4444 file (RGB + Alpha), 1920 x 1080, 29.97. Render crashes on Frame 13 each time when these error messages pop up.  I've seen other solutions suggested with similar errors, but nothing seemes to be working.  Any thoughts out there? Thanks in advance. /LG

I’m completely stuck with a critical After Effects issue and I really hope someone here can help.Here are the exact technical facts....The main issueAfter Effects crashes with:“Unable to allocate XXX MB of memory”Or random GPU/CPU errors during preview or renderThis happens even on very small projects, sometimes after 1–5 minutes.Hardware diagnostics already doneI tested absolutely everything on the hardware side:MemTest86 — 4 passes — 0 errors → RAM is 100% stableMotherboard BIOS updated (MSI B550 Gaming Plus – latest version)AMD chipset drivers updatedAMD Radeon 6700 XT → clean driver install (Factory Reset)XMP disabled for testingTemps are normal (no thermal throttling)After Effects troubleshooting already doneReset AE preferences (Ctrl + Alt + Shift)Disabled GPU acceleration (Mercury Software Only)Cleaned media cache (manual + preferences)Deleted all Adobe cache folders in AppDataMemory & Performance: multi-frame render disabledMemory virtualized by OS (auto)Fresh installation

I'm absolutely gutted, I just lost a whole day's work with a following day deadline.... I was working away using RotoBrush which must save all its frozen rotos into the AEP which results in a bloated file. Unbeknownst to me, since there were no errors or warnings, none of my saves actually saved, nor did the auto saves. I only found this out when i went to upload my AEP to send it off to the client, I noticed the "Date Modified" was from this morning, only a few hours after I started working on the project! Same with the autosaves. I went into the recycle bin of my Synology NAS and I found all these temp AEP saves and auto save files all with the same file size in increments of time all through the day until I stopped working, meaning it was trying to save and created a temp file but gave up with no warning (see attached image) The file size being around 2,175,221KB (2.07GB) for every file. When I try opening these up, I get the "After Effects error: missing data in file ( 33 :: 4