After Effects

Yesterday I was using After Effects with no problems. I don’t know what happened between then and now because I can’t open project files (I only can when I launch AE through an .aep) or save/apply animation presets through the ‘Animation’ tab. Every time I try to do either my AE gets a pop-up with the crash error and then gives me the chance to save my project file before it quits.  These are the pop-ups I get when I try to save/apply an animation preset: When trying to save a preset When trying to apply a preset These are the pop-ups I get when I try to open a project through the After Effects home screen:  I’ve only been able to find a few threads about similar problems that I am experiencing. These are the solutions I’ve tried based off of suggestions: Reset preferences, disable plug-ins, sign out and back in Creative Cloud, allow AE to communicate through Windows Defender Firewall on both private and public, allow AE to override system settings in ‘Block untrusted fonts.’ None of t

I uploaded another project to mine and when I went to time remapping the graph editor and it looked like this.  The keyframes were eased, but it still looked this way. 

3D Camera Tracking in After Effects is currently very basic and needs a few important updates: No built-in tool to calculate lens distortion from a calibration grid/checkerboard. No option to place and solve from manual tracking points (true supervised tracking/constraints). No object tracking No reliable workflow to export/import 3D camera tracking data between After Effects and professional 3D/VFX packages. The Maya Live Link is unreliable, fails far too often, and the whole round-trip is frustrating—honestly not professional enough for production workflows. Request: Please add a native import/export tool for AE 3D camera tracking data, so we can reliably exchange solves between After Effects and the most important DCC/VFX tools, e.g. Blender, Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, Unreal Engine, Cinema 4D, Nuke, PFTrack, SynthEyes, Mocha Pro, etc.Ideally, this should support: Camera animation (position / rotation / FOV) Film back / sensor size Focal length / zoom curves Lens distortion

The 3D Origin is useful, but it makes it nearly impossible to rotate a camera or light around its point of interest.Right now, the only workaround is to open the Viewport Options, disable the Origin, do the rotation, and then enable it again. That workflow is slow and frustrating.What we need:a) A dedicated Origin on/off toggle directly in the toolbar (with a keyboard shortcut) when the 3D Origin is enabled.orb) An updated 3D Origin design that includes a center handle (Point), allowing us to rotate directly around the point of interest without disabling the Origin. 

Dear communityI’ve created a pretty decent animation (for a non-pro newb boob) as a gift for an artist friend who - amongst much more - welds animals out of 10mm rubar construction steel (Junikat by Jonas Kaufmann). And, yes, most expressions with aid of ChatGPT; they seem pretty neat though and I left descriptions. Animation on YouTube SHORT (9:16)Anyone willing to help outcleaning up simplifying (enancing, e.g. adding controls for offset, overshoot, speed, colors etc.)?We could then also upload it to a stock site and share profits.Many greetings from Switzerland,Sandro

When I enable Show Layer Controls, if there are shape layers with many paths the entire UI becomes unusually slow and unresponsive.

I am working in AE 25.1.0 on PC. I have a scene set up in Advanced 3D, using a mix of .obj and .glb files, alongside regular 2D and 2.5D layers. My camera starts wide before zooming in close. My issue is that when the camera gets very close to these layers, they start to clip against the camera. I have not had this issue with Classic 3D but can’t use that renderer if I want to get the most out of the 3D elements. I have tried adjusting my camera and 3D render options with no success. Any tips?

I have a fairly complex and large scene. I accept it’s going to be slow, especially with my system specs. I have been working on it in quarter res and it can easily preview render that.But what I can’t get over is the render time!A full quality preview takes 15-25 seconds to render a single frame. This is somewhere I would expect the final render to be. It doesn’t matter where I put the play head on the timeline it’s always between those times to preview a frame.When I start rendering, it seems to be around this time, but then it starts getting really slow.I have switched from ProRes to a PNG sequence to try and figure how long this is actually taking and where it’s slowing down and the results are...interesting.At a point during the animation it goes from slowly getting longer per frame (each frame is taking up to a minute or so) to suddenly getting really long per frame, each frame is then taking around 15 minutes longer than the previous, and now I am up to over 2 hours per frame. T

I have a really strange issue, where my audio is fine outside of After Effects, but breaks once it has been imported.  By "breaks up"I mean that some words in a sentence are completely omitted, however the audio plays at the correct speed.  This results in the audio ending way sooner than the video, and the video not being in sync with the audio.  It was fine yesterday, so I thought that it might have just been a problem while saving, so i tried it in Premiere.  Same problem.  It's not just a preview issue either.  After exporting from Media Encoder, the audio remains broken.  I can't even completely restart the project, as every time I import a video, the audio in the video breaks up.  A quick response would be much appreciated, as I would like to complete this project as soon as possible.EDIT: It's also only with specific clips.  Some clips are completely untouched, while others are unusable.

Trying to use Auto Trace to reveal a logo, but the bottom part of the logo shows up before the rest of it . Not sure how to fix that. Any suggestions would be helpful. I’ve added a screen cap for context.

Hi everyone,I’m hoping someone can help me out. This is a bit tricky to explain, so I’ve attached the After Effects file.I’m working on a Lower Third MOGRT in After Effects, and it’s almost finished. The only problem I’m stuck with is the anchor point behavior when changing the width of a shape.I have a shape behind the name that can be extended (x-scale) to the right using a slider in the Essential Graphics panel. Since it’s a bezier shape, I created null controllers for the path points. To scale the shape, I linked the position of these path-point nulls to a slider control. I had to do it this way because all corners except one are rounded, and I wanted to keep the amount of roundness when scaling.The anchor point of this shape should always stay in the top-right corner (the corner at 90 degrees). This is important because the shape has a pop-open animation, like a speech bubble, that scales from that corner.What’s happeningAt the minimum width, everything works correctly: the bubble

Hello everyone, Since last week Thursday I have been having issues with After effects.After using after effects for a few minutes the preview screen freezes. Once that happens if I try to continue editing after effects will freeze. When trying to close after effects it won't work. Even closing it with task manager doesn't work. It only closes if I completely restart my laptop. The past few days I did more testing. trying to edit and restart after effects everytime it wanted to freeze and crash. The more I work in the project and add more things the faster it will eventually freeze. Doing simple things like masking a picture or adding beat markers also could make this freeze happen.  These past days new versions of after effects came out. sadly when updating these versions didn't fix the problem and today with the new update 25.5 it still didn't fix.  I already tried a few things:Reseting prefrences, Starting up in safe mode (same issues occured), turning off al

Hello,I have a big problem since a while.One of my After Effects projects linked to my Premiere Pro project has completely disappeared from my computer due to an error in both programs.I had saved it in a dedicated folder but I can't find it anymore even though it was still there this morning.Even the auto backups of the AEP project are no longer there, I only have those of the day before.Can you tell me how to recover this file?This is the first time this has happened to me.Thanks in advance.

Hi. I work in post. We usually import an image sequence of cr2 / raw footage into After Effects, it shows a preview on the Camera Raw window, where we leave everything as it is by default, with Adobe Color profile.The producer let us know that my renders were looking a bit more desaturated and kind of dark, while my coworker's was just as expected, bright and vivid colors.  We rendered in Quicktime, with Apple ProRes 4444, we double checked all of our settings, everything was the same. The only different thing was the AE version. He was working with 2025 (25.1) and I was working with 2026 (26.0). I downloaded a previous AE version, imported the footage and it looked just fine.Overall, this seems to be a specific 2026 version problem. Please fix this asap. Luckily, we found a way for importing all my work into a past version of AE and it was an instant fix, otherwise it would have been a problem for the person working the color after me.Thanks.

Every time I select a text layer in After Effects using the monitor, a message box pops up with the following error:After Effects error: having to focus on ourselves(76 :: 59)When I click OK, the cursor jumps back to the beginning of the text instead of staying where I clicked to edit it.It’s a small bug, but when it happens 200 times a day, it gets pretty annoying.

I need to speak to a human support agent about After Effects. 

I was noodling around with captions in Premiere Pro and wanted to add animation and a bit of flexibility.  I had a quick look for tutorials and was surprised by how many talk about bring in captions as separate comps.  So I decided to see if I could use PP’s export as csv option to bring these into After Effects, as a single text layer.And then I thought I’d share the result:  

After Effects just auto updated to 25.3 last night and I had all my settings migrate over. However now Particular isn't showing up in the Trapcode menu with the rest of the suite's plugins. All the Trapcode plugins including Particular are where they should be in the correct plugins folder but even thought the rest of the Trapcode plugins are showing in After Effects, Particular is somehow missing. For context I am using a Legacy installer that I purchased in 2017. It has worked for me all these years with updated versions of After Effects and I never moved to the Red Giant subscription plan. Has this happened to anyone else?

Hi folks, B here.After trying to solve what may be a glitch or simple oversight I finally need to reach out to the hive mind. I am experiencing a problem in After Effects with a single MOV video My steps  Import the .MOV into a new composition. Select the video layer in the timeline. Use the Pen Tool or Rectangle Tool to draw a mask around a small bright blob in the footage. In the timeline under Mask 1:   Mask Mode = Add, no choice really works properly Inverted = unchecked Feather = 2–5 px   Observation: The video blacks out outside the mask, leaving only the masked area visible. Open Content-Aware Fill → Fill Method = Object → Range = Work Area → Generate Fill Layer.   The issue persists: original video outside the mask remains black.   Tried resetting workspace and creating a fresh composition. Mask path appears correctly under the video layer. Tried Pen/Rectangle tools with RotoBezier on/off. Timeline “None” dropdown ignored — no effect.  When I

The clips started in premiere pro and I replaced sequence with AE comp, in premiere pro I used gyroflow to help stablize the footage. I’m using Track Motion on 4K 60fps footage that’s been precomped twice and is now in a 1080p comp. I’m tracking inside the 1080 comp and applying the data to a null using Edit Target. The track itself looks solid with no visible drift, but once I apply it, the null starts in the correct position and then immediately drifts as playback begins. The null is currently parented to the tracked layer. Both layers are at 100% scale, and there’s no time remapping or stabilization applied.  

My trial using A solid layer as a page in Cinema 4D render in AEGood day everyone. I’ve been trying to simulate a magazine where its pages are fluttering as if a draft of wind/breeze. While comparing it to my reference, it feels like I am unable to capture the similar effect.I have shared my timeline below, mainly using the geometry - curvature and Y axis rotation to give the effect using Cinema 4D render.my timeline I would love to hear some feedback on how I could improve this. I have tried CC bend it and CC bender and even warp effects but none of them felt right so I ended up discarding those versions. Attached below is the reference I used -  reference video 

Hi, I’m trying to use Content Aware Fill, for the first time probably and it just won’t create any Fill for me. Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but I’v tried it as well on completly different footage and project and the problem persist. I upload the footage Create a Mask on the layer Set the Mask on Subtract and sets Feather Motion Tracker on Mask is not needed The hole is visible in Comp and in Content Aware Fill Clicks on Generate Fill Layer from Content Aware Fill After approximately 6s a new fill layer appears, however without any fill or content Immediatelly my CPU and RAM start going up until 100% (I have 64GB DDR4 RAM and i5-12600KF CPU) CPU stops going crazy when I delete the new Fill layer and my RAM drops to like 80-90%, until I reopen the project again. There is no visible activity in After Effects and I even left it for a moment running on 100% to see, if something appear in After Effects, however nothing showed up. For most of the time I don’t encounter hardware limitations

Is it it possible to run Duik Bassel.2 on AE2026? I’m so sick of this Duik Angela and how they’ve changed everything. What’s the point adding new features if you mess up the old and trusted and working features and change the whole interface so you have to re-learn everything? Anyway… This is what I get when trying to launch Bassel in AE2026. Mac Studio M4, Tahoe 26.2 if it helps. Thanks for your help!