After Effects

I’ve just upgraded to macOS 27 and, it seems, I can no longer debug a C++ plug-in I’m working on because Apple’s security blocks the debugger from attaching to After Effects. Specifically, I’m getting the following error:macOSTaskPolicy: (com.apple.debugserver) may not get the task control port of (After Effects) (pid: 5646): (After Effects) is hardened, (After Effects) doesn't have get-task-allow, (com.apple.debugserver) is a declared debugger(com.apple.debugserver) is not a declared read-only debugger LLMs recommend re-signing AE, but that does not seem to be a reasonable thing to do. I’m worried that doing so might trigger copy protection or break something. Not all issues can be solved by simply logging to files, so, what’s the suggested approach to debugging on macOS 27?

Hi, I’ve been trying to bring iphone clips into After Effects via Dynamic Link from Premiere (“Replace with After Effects Composition”).The iphone clips color seems ok before I bring them into After Effects:But after I click “Replace with After Effects Composition” - if my After Effects “Working Color Space” is set to None then it causes issues in Premiere and often I have to restart Premiere.If I set the Working Color Space to Rec 709 Gamma 2.4, then I don’t get an error message but the iphone clips show up extremely over-exposed and weirdly colored in After Effects:I imagine that that if I just convert the clips to Prores or something then I won’t have this error, but is there a way that I can avoid these error messages and issues without having to convert the clips to prores for every project I work on? This doesn’t seem to be an issue with non-iphone clips and this wasn’t happening at all with any clips until the past couple years. I’ve tried disabling the color in Premiere, but th

When do I get the "Unknown BIB Error" error in After Effects? A bad font or corrupted font cache could cause this error to appear in the following situations: While previewing. When opening a project. In some cases, you might see this error at launch. Solution: Our community recommends the following solutions: • Reload Illustrator files - Right-click the Illustrator files in the Project panel and select Reload Footage • Remove newly installed and duplicate fonts. Instructions are below -  Windows: https://bit.ly/3Uf9fwK  macOS: https://apple.co/3BzjqF3 • Clear the font cache. Instructions are below - Windows: https://bit.ly/3B7u841  macOS: Restart your Mac in Safe mode to automatically remove font cache: https://bit.ly/3La85yh • Clear After Effects preferences -  https://adobe.ly/3t5x7Hd 

I have to move from Win to Mac systems but stumbled upon a glaring issue in AE. Using a Wacom Pen set to either Pan/Scroll or Pan/Scroll (Legacy) causes AE to turn the cursor into the Hand Tool to move the comp canvas around rather than perform a scrolling operation.  This is messed up because I want to use scrolling to Smooth Zoom rather than pan around.I don't want to use keyboard shortcuts because that can only be in steps. I also don’t want to hold the zoom tool because it often sticks or is unresponsive. I'm not sure what AE is doing communicating with the Wacom/driver but only AE has this issue. On Windows it's totally fine. I'm on Tahoe using the latest Wacom Drivers and a Intuos Pro CTH-660 tablet.

iam using the latest updated After Effects, in the new updated version, iam getting a White block shape  appearing behind vectors in After Effects after importing from illustrator, and i cant attach  the illustrator work file here in the community post,

I have project made in AE26.3 where I am using varible OpenSans font to achieve decided effects. After I updated to AE26.5 it is not working and OpenSans variable is not installed / seen by AE. Other variable fonts are, but not OpenSans. Only fixed weight variant is available.It also show missing OpenSans Roman variable - I do not know why roman, but I believe that should be the problem - wrong indentification. But until it will be fixed I have to use older version, sadly.. 

Is there a list yet for MacOS 27 Golden Gate Compatibility with After Effects?

About 2 months ago I updated my After Effects from 24.5 to 25.5. Editing and all of that are working pretty well, but when it comes to rendering, it's super slow. When I was using the 24.5 version of AE, rendering was pretty fast, but now I have to wait over 10 minutes to render a short video of 2 minutes. I've tried multiple things: updating my drivers, clearing cache, enabling the multi-frame rendering feature, and none of these things did much. My PC specs are definitely more than good enough and it doesn't make any sense for render to be that slow, I'll list them below: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13600K32GB DDR4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Waiting for it to finish rendering is taking too much of my time away, if someone could help me with this problem that would be awesome, thanks!

Hi all, Bit of a random one that's bugged me for a while and I've never been able to figure out, hopefully somebody can help! I want to animate the scale of the characters in a text later but notice the achor point is always sitting at the bottom of each character (see image below, have circled the anchor points). I'd like to shift these achor points to the center on the text so the characters scale from the middle rather than the bottom, has anybody figured out a way to do this? Any help would be great! Many thanks!

Issue Built-in Unmult leaves residual alpha instead of producing fully transparent pixels. Steps to reproduce Create a composition. Import footage with a black background. Apply the built-in Unmult effect. Inspect the alpha channel. Expected result The alpha value should become 0 in transparent areas. Actual result A residual alpha value remains (equivalent to 1 in 8-bit). The issue also occurs in 16 bpc projects. Environment After Effects 26.0 Windows 11 Additional information This issue does not occur with third-party Unmult plugins such as Knoll Unmult or Red Giant Unmult.

Used Materials are still listed in the Project Panel when only ‘Unused’ assets should be listed.Type “Unused” in the Project Panel It still comes up even though it’s “Used 2 times”This bug exists in the latest update as well as the Beta

Hello once again. Few days ago, I have come across a weird problem / glitch / crash that occurs that has never happened before. In an After Effects project that I am doing, I am planning on making the boomerang effect. Basically, I want to put slow-motion to a clip and then duplicate it, and reverse the duplicated layer, to give it an effect similar to boomerang. But something weird happens every time I do so. I want to give boomerang effect to different parts of a video, with the frame rate of 23.978. So in my first clip, I would pre-compose it, put twixtor pro to it (I put the frame rate of the video as it is in the twixtor, which is 23.978), then pre-compose again. Then I duplicated that pre-composed layer with twixtor inside it. I moved it right next to the 1st layer, and then I what I did was : right click > Time > Time-reverse layer. It worked perfectly fine. But then, I cut to another part of the video to make the boomerang effect with and also to put twixtor. So I did the

I have some mess after timeline scrubber move sometimes after update to 26.5  

Preciso baixar a versão de 2022 do After Effects, no entanto, mas o menu de "Outras Versões", não existe mais. Por favor, retornem com essa opção. Não é justo obrigar assinantes a usar somente a última versão. Se nossos computadores não atendem as especificações dela, temos que usar os produtos adequados ao que temos. Não sejam uma Apple que obriga os usuários a ter sempre novos iPhones.

In After Effects, there’s an option called “Notify when queue completes” when rendering.But I’m not sure how to use it, especially to get notifications on my phone.I checked the Creative Cloud mobile app, but it looks like the mobile version has been discontinued by Adobe, so I can’t receive any notifications through that.Is there any way to make this feature work, or is there an alternative method to get a notification on my phone when rendering is finished?Thanks in advance!

Title: Context menus do not stay open inside modal dialogs (macOS)SummaryOn macOS, right-clicking inside any modal dialog in After Effects causes the context menu to appear and dismiss immediately, before an item can be selected. Context menus function normally everywhere else in the application — Timeline, Project panel, Composition panel, Effect Controls, docked and floating panels. The failure is specific to modal dialogs.System- Mac mini M4 - macOS 26.6.2 (25G83)- After Effects 26.5.0 (Build 89)- Also reproduces in the current After Effects BetaSteps to reproduce1. Open any composition.2. Composition > Composition Settings.3. Left-click the Preset field4. The context menu flashes on screen and dismisses before an item can be chosen.Same result in other modal dialogs, including Output Module Settings and Render Settings.Expected resultThe context menu opens and remains open until an item is selected or the menu is dismissed.Actual resultThe menu renders and disappears on the same

Hi, really hoping someone can help me. Spent the last 4 hours trying every tutorial I can find on this and absolutely zero progress, pretty much given up.Essentially I want to create just the shape in the middle and ‘ripple’ out concentric copies so I end up with the full set of offsets. Ideally I want the shapes to be no fill/stroke but with a darker inner glow/shadow. The original shape is in Illustrator (although the image is created in Photoshop. Am assuming the best way is to create the glow/shadow effect in After Effects around the shape of the path?Everytime I try I can’t get a glow without a fill or stroke which ruins the effect.Has anyone got any suggestions?  I’m pretty new with AE although used Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign for decades.Start frame – still struggling to create this in AE (this is a PSD file just to show what I’m trying to achieve)Ideal End Frame