After Effects

Text that used to be in my project is now not appearing. Resetting the character panel is not working. When I open a new file, the text works so this is only a problem in the file I am working on. 

Personally I am becoming increasingly concerned about how stuck in the past After Effects is. It's feels like "this is an amazing tool... from 15 years ago" When you look at the competition there's no direct competitor to AE, but a few apps that together do everything better. That's AE's only really USP - it does an average job of most things, but how much longer can it last like this? It's one thing to say "oh it's too much work to update our 30 year old codebase or make use of modern GPUs" etc etc., but failing to incorporate basic QOL improvements that have been in this very forum for YEARS is just not good enough.  Are there any plans at all to drag After Effects into the modern era or is the plan to keep it as a legacy tool with minor UI updates? 

I need the installer for an older version of Photoshop and After Effects—one that my macOS supports. I’ve tried installing via Creative Cloud, but it fails with the error: "Processor support for Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) is required."

AE is unusable. All solutions online are not working. What is going on?I have hardly been pushing the program to it’s limits and it pretty useless right now.Cache size is 100GB. It has been cleared. Bin emptied. Comp restarted. AE updated. Purged all memory and dish cache.

This issue with no cursor showing up in Text Fields is just too much to bear any longer. I'm wondering if it's my set up or no one has noticed (highly unlikely) - very intriguing. Can we get a quick fix on this (if others notice this issue) because it's really infuriating, having to work this way. 

Good evening everyone.I'm using ChatGPT because my English isn't very good.Like many other users, i've been experiencing major issues with the latest version of After Effects. Despite working on a PC with 128 GB of RAM, a 32-core CPU, an RTX 4090, and an ultra-fast SSD dedicated to the cache, After Effects has become practically unusable.Not only am i constantly running into "Out of Memory" errors, but the entire system eventually becomes unstable and unresponsive. It's been a complete disaster.After searching all over the internet, i finally managed to get things working again by applying the following changes. i have no idea whether all of them are related to the fix or if only one of them is actually responsible, but it certainly doesn't hurt to try:Disable idle caching in the Composition Preview: Composition > Preview > Cache Frames When Idle. Disable Enable Compressed Frames in the Disk Cache options. Reduce the Idle Delay value in Preferences > Preview to a very low numb

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’m working on a Visual Music film that uses Audio Amplitude layer keyframes created through Audio Layer > Keyframe Assistant > Convert Audio to Keyframes. The result is one linear keyframe per frame (@ 24 fps). Because its desired to act as a switch to turn on/off I’ve converted all the keyframes to hold keyframes.These key frames will be used to turn the opacity of a shape layer on and off to synchronize graphics to audio. The desired value of the keyframes should be restricted to 0 (off) or 100 (on). Keyframes of any value of other than 0 or 100 are to be deleted.I worked up an algorithm by hand processing the keyframes. But since there are over 1000 keyframes to be processed I’d like to automate the process with a script. An elaborate interface is not necessary, the goal is get the keyframes processed to get on to making the film.The workflow:    •    Prompt user to select a range of keyframes.     •    Create array of keyframe values from selection.     •    Set first keyfra

I'm working on a simple projectile motion system and I'm trying to calculate the trajectory between two points.I know the starting position (x1, y1) and the target position (x2, y2), but I don't know the launch angle or the initial velocity. The start and target positions can change every time, so I can't use fixed values.What is the best mathematical approach or algorithm to calculate the correct launch angle and speed so the projectile reaches the target accurately? If there are multiple solutions or common methods, I'd appreciate an explanation or an example.Thank you!

We recorded an object falling at 60fps that lands on the blue tape. It bounces slightly when it lands. I've rotoscoped the falling object out, but it occurred to me that it's not as easy as just swapping the background out with an image. The angle of the ground, shadows, etc. all factor into making something realistic. What's the best way to approach this? 

Is there a list of the tips that appear when you first open AE?  One caught my eye the other day just as I was loading in a project and I didn’t take it in properly.

Hi, I have some footage of someone moving.  I have used the Object Matte Tool to isolate the person moving, then placed a solid colour layer underneath and selected the top layer as track matte. This has worked very well.  I now have a solid colour replacing the person on a transparent background.I would now like to play around with this, mirroring and adding echo etc.  Can I/should I make the solid layer independent of the tracking layer? Thank you.

I’m so frustrated that I had to work on an urgent task today, only to find out that I couldn’t open After Effects at all.It seemed like I had options, but after installing and uninstalling it several times, I still couldn’t get it to work.At first, I thought it might be because of C4D, but then I realized that wasn’t the issue. I’ve wasted 4-5 hours on this already.Here are the four options I was presented with:Start in Safe ModeReset PreferencesManage PluginsContinueNone of these options worked to get After Effects running.I feel hopeless and have to accept that I will lose this job/task. 

HiHow is this effect created? Trim Path for the animation itself, but zoom in on the years while still showing the entire graph? The graph appears about 56 sec into the video. How the Job Market Is Leaving New Graduates Behind - The New York TimesThanks

Your documentation suggests that users can configure their Cinema 4D installation path.https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/desktop/work-with-compositions/cinema-4d-compositions/cinema-4d-composition-renderer.htmlThey can’t. There is no Choose Installation button anymore. Users should be able to to configure their Cinema 4D app location in any of these ways:Environment Variable Javascript api preferences fileTo bring up the above dialog:Create a comp Go to Composition Settings 3D renderer > Cinema 4D Click on OptionsRelated Bug that needs attention: 

On updating AE to 26.3 and launching I got a system compatibility warning saying “This version of windows is no longer supported, future versions of this app cannot be installed on this OS.” When I click for more info it takes me to the Premiere system requirements page. From the generated system compatibility report, my versions of Windows is being reported as 10.0.22631.1 which I believe is fully up to date.  

Hi,I'm working in AE 2026.3.0 and the convert vertex shortcut from the selection tool (cmd+option) is now invoking the camera gizmo. This was an issue many versions ago and it looks like the bug is back if there are any 3d layers in the scene. Anyone have a workaround? I’m on a MacBook Pro with an M3 running Sequoia 15.7.5.Thanks!

Here is the problem guys while editing in after effects, AE doesn'nt use my gpu at all, I have to constantly switch from mercury GPU accleration (OpenCL) to Mecury software only cause when i switch to mercury GPU accleration (OpenCL) an pop up appers that says your gpu is out of memory when its not even using 1gb og video memory and the rendering time is horriable it takes 15+ hrs to render an 17sec clip, If you know the solution please help and I use intel arc a750 gpu if you wanna know.  

Hi team,I am experiencing severe performance failures and system instability across After Effects on macOS Tahoe (version 26.6). The apps are crashing, effects fail to load, previews freeze during playback, and exported/rendered video files are coming out corrupted or broken.Equipment Specs: Model: MacBook Pro (M1 Max) Memory: 64 GB RAM OS: macOS Tahoe 26.6 Software: After Effects all versions failing Main Issue: System diagnostics via powermetrics show that during playback and rendering, the Mercury Playback Engine / Metal renderer fails to engage the GPU. The hardware remains completely stuck in an idle state: GPU Active Frequency: Locked at 389 MHz (idle baseline). GPU Power Draw: ~258 mW – 335 mW (minimal power draw). High-Performance States (648 MHz – 1296 MHz): 0% activity. Because the system is not utilizing GPU acceleration, processing falls entirely on the CPU, causing heavy lag, frozen previews, effect render failures, project crashes, and corrupted media exports.Is

Scrolling font list is very slow with mouse wheel. One mouse roll equals the movement of few pixels compared to other scrollable items like Project items list for example. Please fix this.

aerender command line does not render compositions with cineware. How to fix this? New project, 1 composition, very simple project opened in cineware. When trying to render via command line, it just hangs on the line "progress...".