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There’s this very specific bug that has been happening to me since the later versions of After Effects 2025 and it’s still present on the latest 2026 release.I do a lot of transcriptions on Premiere, then convert those to captions, then convert those captions to graphics, and finally copy the graphics layers from Premiere to After Effects. This is a workflow that I’ve been doing for a while without any issues.These graphic layers are interpreted in After Effects as compositions with text layers inside. And this behavior is still true.But since later versions of After Effects 2025 (up to the current release of 2026), whenever there’s a line break (only on the first line of text) in this layer that comes from Premiere, the rest of the text just disappears. It’s still selectable and reappears if I remove the line break or convert the text layer from the original paragraph text to point text, but I just preferred if this wouldn’t happen in the first place.I’m on a 2021 M1 Macbook Pro. I’m

I am experiencing severe performance issues in After Effects 2026 with my brand new high-end system. Even on very small and simple projects, the software freezes, lags, and has render problems.My system specs:- After Effects 2026 (latest version)- Windows 11 64-bit- NVIDIA RTX 5090 (Driver 580.97)- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 32-Core (4.00 GHz)- 128 GB RAMIssues I experience:- Preview window freezes when pressing spacebar- Program freezes when adding effects- Render queue freezes even on small projects- Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (CUDA) renderer is grayed out and cannot be changed- GPU usage stays at around 1% during freezes — this is clearly not a hardware performance issueSteps I have already taken with no improvement:- Clean NVIDIA driver reinstall using DDU- Disabled Multi-Frame Rendering- Cleared all media cache and reset preferences- Adjusted preview quality settings- Updated all Adobe applications to latest versionsThis system is extremely powerful and should hand

So, as far as I understand, it is currently no longer possible to install After Effects 2023 via Creative Cloud.However, I specifically need version 2023 due to compatibility reasons (plugins/projects), and newer versions are not suitable in my case.Is there any official way to access or download After Effects 2023? I would really appreciate any help or guidance on this.

Dynamic link importing does not work with drag and drop.See screen rechttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1GQUNUmZu_DDyB9iAMNKswaSX-A57k8s0/view?usp=sharing In order to import 30 comps, I have to do this:Ctrl+I for import Locate AE file, double click Go through the AE project folders to find comp 1 of 30 Import Repeat 29 more timesDrag and drop should be working. SPECS Intel Core i9-14900HX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 64GB DDR5 RAM 1TB SSD All latest Adobe 2026/Win11Pro/and video drivers DELL SE2419HR 24"

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

Hi,I’m using AE 2025 and while doing a composition edit, i tried to add a keyframe for position. i did that thousand of times in this project and,  now, on a specific file, the keyframe aren’t showing anymore BUT are still existing. It’s only on a specific file on a specific comp. I need to keep this specific file. Is there a way to make them appear again ?

We can't verify your subscription status.Hello everyone, I woke up one day to get to work, and when I turned it on I saw this panel with an error.“We can't reach the Adobe servers. This may be because you're not connected to the internet. Check your connection and try again below. If you're still having issues, please see our connectivity troubleshooting guide. ERROR CODE 12015 “I've tried all the troubleshooting steps in the guide, but nothing works.I checked that the plan is paid for, but something's still not working. Has anyone encountered this problem?I would be very grateful for your help.

Tengo un timeline con 10 capas de vídeo, de las cuales hay varias solapadas. Imaginemos que 1 es el vídeo más arriba y 10 el vídeo más abajo. El problema viene cuando cambio por ejemplo la escala de 10, con o sin keyframes, se modifica también la escala del vídeo 1, a pesar de tener su escala sin tocar. Fallo catastrófico aún sin arreglo...

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Issue:If the Render Queue window or Project Window contains too many comps, then after you scroll past a certain point then the GUI visuals will freeze or turn black. Steps to reproduce:Add 1000 comps in the render queue and then try scrolling to the bottom of the Render Queue window. After you scroll past a certain point then the GUI visuals will freeze or turn black. Create 2000 comps within a single folder of the Project window and then try scrolling to the bottom of the Project window. After you scroll past a certain point then the GUI visuals will freeze or turn black. Note:The exact amount of comps varies to trigger the bug (perhaps by scene or computer). Screen capture of the bug in action: Adobe After Effects version - 26.0.0 (Build 67)Operating system - Both MacOS 15.7.4 and Windows 11 Does it affect all projects or only some projects? All projectsDoes it affect new projects? YesWhen did the problem begin? It's been an ongoing issue for many years.

How can I adjust the Fade Up Words preset to match the speed of words spoken if the speed is inconsistent for every word? That means some words may have appeared when they shouldn’t because they weren’t spoken yet and some words may haven’t appeared when they should.

In this animation text side changes. How to do similar animation while retaining the correct text side? video is attached.  Text was created in Ai file then imported to Ae. 

so i just downloaded after effects and im trying to add a preset but when i go to animation it wont let me click on “apply animation preset”

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the goal : Explode an image into custom shaped particles. Current method - Particle playground, using layer map for the custom particle shape, using the grid to duplicate that particle. grid is 10x10 in the first frame and 0x0 afterwords. Problem : I can't find a way to have those particles take the color of the image I want to explode. I can only them essentially mask the image, but then then particles are just changing colours based on their position over the image. I want them to keep the color of the image while they explode. It seems I can't use layer exploder with Layer map.

About 5 mins after i open after effects it crashes showing this error (0 :: 42)i unistalled and reinstalled AE, deleted pluggins.What else can i try to resolve it

I work for a company with specific brand elements to use. These has been in my library for years at this point, added as vectors. I was always able to drag them into AE and create shapes out of them using the “create shapes from vector layer” option. For a month now, whenever I do try to do that, all of the shapes turn into a square - not leaving any traces of the original (sometimes intricate) design, no matter how deep I try to dig into AE.I tried installing an older version of AE, tried reinstalling the new one - nothing seems to be working. I did not edit the library in any way, the elements are fully vector/working perfectly fine in all other adobe apps. I end up having to import the shapes I already created out of the same elements from my previous AE files, which affects my productivity. Any advice on how to tackle that? 

I do vector animation and my process is to import various Ai files in Ae. Recently, Ae has not been reading the respective Ai files correctly. So for example if I have taken the head off a character and saved that as a separate Ai file, After Effects show that character still with the head.  The only work around that I have found so far, which doesn't always work, is to go back into Illustrator, make a small change, undo that change, and then resave the Ai file.  After effects then notices the change and when I choose the option to reload footage it (sometimes) works.  Really making my animation work slow. What's going on? 

When I try to move an item into a different bin I get a popup essentially telling me I can't do that (see image below - red circle with slash). This appears to happen after I select a bunch of elements in a timeline and PreComp them but I can't be sure. This absolutely destroys any ability to work. I can't get around it and even worse it seems to infect old saves as well. Any and all help is appreciated!

Today AE starting seriously lagging and responding to anything.  Timeline frozen.  In one example working with one ten second video, the only video in the project.   Cache is clear, mouse and keyboard are wired.  This problem didn’t start until halfway through the day.  This was happening with 2026 version which is why I went back to 2025.  Mac Studio M2 Max / Sequoia / 64G ram, 90% of which allocated to AE.