After Effects

I use to edit A LOT on Element 3D, I used to pirate all of it becaise I couldn't afford it, one day Element crashed my After Effects and it never stopped until this day, I BOUGHT After Effects and Element 3D from Video Copilot, HOPING it would work. I can apply element to a layer with no problem, and open the interface without nothing happening, but when I import 3D models EVEN the ones that come with Element, my After FX crashes. I tried unistalling everything, and just nothing works! I got clients waiting on me AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. help plz

I’m trying to use two variable fonts: SCALE and SZTOS SCALE works great in illustrator but when I try to use it in AE I only have italic options. SZTOS would be my preferred choice but that only gives my access to the italic versions in both Illustrator and AE. I’ve installed/removed etc but can’t get them to work. I did also test OBVIOUSLY font which works great. I have emailed about SZTOS as it is a known issue of the font itself. I should have reguular and italic. Seems to be a font issue maybe but strange how I have limited options in AE – ie, limited to Italic only. Any ideas?  

Hi, on version 15.1.1 the UI panel does not scroll down to show all edits. I read it is a bug that will be fixed.In the meantime, HOW CAN I ACCESS TO "properties" of the linked VRcomps to stabilize/track and above all REFRESH the "Output/render"??Appreciate any help!

 Hey everyone,I’m using the following After Effects expression: var rect = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime(time, false); var pos = transform.position; var offset = 20; pos - [0, rect.height - offset]; It works, but I’d like the text to stay fixed at the bottom no matter what characters are used — uppercase, lowercase, umlauts, or special symbols — and I’d like the offset to adjust automatically (so I don’t have to set it manually).Right now, the position still changes slightly depending on the text content.Does anyone know how to modify the expression so the text baseline always stays perfectly fixed at the bottom with an automatic offset?Thanks in advance!

After Effects will play/preview my animation clearly But, as can see in second picture, it doesn't export properly.  I have cleaned out my cache, made sure all my graphics drivers were updated, and reinstalled the Video Copilot Saber effect, but this keeps happening.  Any ideas?

I tried to make a seamless loop using Turbulent Displace. I added the following expression to the Evolution property:  time * 36  or time * (360/10) The Evolution does make a full circle from 0 to 360 degrees, but the animation is far  from seamless. Basically it starting from 0*+00°  and finishes 1*+00° Could somebody help me to create a real seamless loop from Turbulent Displace for 10s     

When I import Ai layer with text that is not outlined, this error appears; but this never happened before until yesterdayHopefully someone can help me with this.Thanks a lot!

Hi. When I click "alt" + scroll, it doesn't move me to the place where my mouse cursor is (in After Effects). It must be a problem with the program because everything works fine in Illustrator. I uninstalled and reinstalled it. I also changed the settings, but it still doesn't work.

The simplest example is this:alert(" \u00A0");I’ve confirmed that the following characters cause the error:\u00A0, \u180E, \u2001–\u200D, \u205FHowever, it seems that there are several other Unicode characters that also trigger this issue.I would like to request a fix for this bug.

So does anyone know if you can get element 3d for free somehow with macos catalina? I've searcehd far and wide but haven't found a solution to paying $200 for the plugin. I know it's worth it, but still... 

Hello! I’m having an issue with an expression. I wanted to create a series of patterns and I thought that I could do this by triggering a pre-comp’s animation with it’s distance from an object. When objA passes over, pre-comp will play 2s - 4s. When objB passes over, play 6s - 8s.I’ve gotten to a point where the objects interact with the pre-comp’s time, but the output time’s are always off. Instead of 2s - 4s, it will output 2:12 - 4, 6s - 8s will be 6:04 to 8. I assume I’m not understanding linear() or time correctly. Any help would be appreciated!// Set Pre-comp time t = thisLayer.time-inPoint; // Define each object to detect objB = thisComp.layer("Object B - IN"); objC = thisComp.layer("Object C - OUT"); // Define layer positions p = thisLayer.position; xP = transform.position[0]; yP = transform.position[1]; xA = thisComp.layer("Object A - STATIC").transform.position[0]; yA = thisComp.layer("Object A - STATIC").transform.position[1]; xB = thisCom

Hi everyone,I've discovered a serious regression bug in After Effects 2025 (including the latest updates) affecting users who work with Cyrillic (Russian) or potentially other non-Latin characters.The Dropdown Menu Control expression effect is failing to handle Cyrillic text in its menu items: any Russian text entered is immediately replaced with question marks (????).Key Details:Affected Control: Dropdown Menu Control only. Other expression controls (like Slider Control) are fine.Version Status: This issue did not occur in After Effects 2024—it's a regression in AE 2025.Platform Independent: The bug is reproducible on both Windows and macOS (M4), confirming it's an internal application issue, not an OS setting problem.Workaround: The only way to use this control with Russian text is to rely on the numeric index (value) in expressions instead of the text string, and use a switch statement or array to map the number to the correct Cyrillic string.Please submit a bug report to Adobe usin

Everytime I open any version of after effects it says crash repair options and then the spinny wheel on the mac shows up and it stays like that forever not letting me use any version of after effects. I've tried deleting and reinstalling and it doesn't work. What should I do

So - I'm new to the roto brush and am having an issue.  As my 20 second clup renders, the render behind the playhead gets lost - meaning at say the 10 second mark, everything the green line behind will disappear.  This continues to happen as the playhead moves on. Any sugestions as to what could be casuing this?

Hi all I did a fresh install of After Effects via Creative Cloud, and I am getting the startup error:After Effects error: internal verification failure, sorry! {Unable to acquire ASCII-style name} It was doing this before upgrading to the most recent version, and did it again even after an install. I click okay, and it still opens AE, but it's a very annoying way to start using the program. Any suggestions on how to fix?

Hello all! I've been using the text animation present for Counter Countdown Monospaced the last week or so without any issues to make little rolling number animations for a corporate job I'm working on. Yesterday I was experiencing some crashes and performance issues with a different project I had running alongside this one, so I updated After Effects to 25.5.0, and updated the Maxon plugins I was using and that seemed to resolve that issue, but when I reloaded the first project to create more counter animations the preset no longer appears to be working.   I tried saving a version of the project as AE 24 but the same problem is showing up in there. It's showing up errors in a few lines of the expression, are there any expression supremos that can help me resolve the issue? I've pasted the screenshots below. Thanks in advance! 

AE 2025.2 and earlier launches fine, but any of the 2025.3 updates don't launch--I get a "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142)" error. Googling has shown this error crops up from time to time across lots of programs, but the problem seems to be something out of date. I'm on Windows 10, completely updated, and my RTX GeForce 2070 Super drivers are also completely updated. My system is way beyond the system requirements minimum. I haven't run into this with recent updates on the other CC programs (but I haven't tried them all). Since this error is happening with LITERALLY only this program, and only the recent updates of this program, I assume this is an Adobe ask.

The MIR effect doesn’t work for me. Every time I apply it, the whole comp goes dark and I get this error: “After Effects error: MIR: OpenGL error: Could not allocate texFBO (glFlush()) (512) (25::241)”. This only happens with MIR. Other Trapcode effects like Particular and Tao work fine.I’ve already tried reinstalling different AMD driver versions (clean installs), reinstalling Windows, installing OpenGL compatibility packs, and using older versions of the plugin and After Effects. Nothing helped.I use a single monitor, my GPU is an RX 580 8GB, and my CPU doesn’t have integrated graphics. Other effects that use OpenGL work normally. Tech support told me there have been issues with AMD drivers, but if that was the case, old versions should have worked — and they don’t.I don’t know what else to try. Has anyone run into this and found a solution?

I've only used After Effects 2024 until recently, when I downloaded AE 25, the video preview won't load, and it seems to lag. I've never had problems with AE 24 but AE 25 is lagging and doesn't seem to work. At first the video preview had worked but now it won't seem to load and I've already checked my cache and RAM, neither seem to be the problem. 

I'm attempting to add a motion blur to a graphic and experiencing an issue where the blur never "disappears" when an animation/motion is completed (see image below):The issue is appearing both in the comp preview and final renders/exports, and started after I updated AE to 25.1. The blur immediately appears on any graphic when it's applied, regardless of whether I have an animation/position keyframed or not. I've deleted my cache, removed all plugins and reinstalled AE to no avail. Is anyone else experiencing this?

There's some kind of messed up stuff going on. I needed a simple text animation from another project. I reduced it down to just that comp plus a few pngs. After importing it into the main project I get this message.   This data is coming from nowhere. Feels like some f-ed up cache shenanigans going on somewhere. I've had another messed up situation once with generating proxies that one frame in the proxy file suddenly had a black fill with random white text about some prompt.    This is starting to feel really awkward because it feels like Adobe may be logging data from outside it's apps and now accidentally leaking that via these errors. Happy to share the file to DM of whoever at Adobe reaches out to investigate.   Win 11 AE 25.5.0 build 4

I noticedapp.activeViewer.views[0].options.zoom; gives a different result on my mac vs my PC. On my mac when the view is at 100% zoom I get 0.5, while on my PC I get 1.I assume it has something to do with display scaling, but I couldn't find any information about this online. The docs should emphasize this. What's the best way to reliably get the correct value through extendscript? Also, since I am creating a CEP panel, could I just multiply the value bywindow.devicePixelRatioor do I need to take other factors into account? Thank you.