After Effects

Hi ! I am developping an After Effects / Premiere pro plugin with the After Effects C++ SDK. My plugin effect evolves dynamically throughout the sequence duration. The entire point of this effect is to be able to animate the parameters. My issue On Premiere Pro, everything works well until the effect is applied to an Adjustement Layer and I try to animate the parameter. When I do so, the plugin will take the first value encountered at the first frame of the Adjustement Layer, and will use it for the entire sequence. I investigated a bit and realised that the issue was coming from the PF_OutFlag_NON_PARAM_VARY flag. I used this flag initially to make my effect work with still images, as recommanded in the documentation. Without this flag, everything works well, but for still images, the plugin would use the first value encountered by the image sequence for the whole sequence. To summarize :- With the flag, my plugin works for still images, but I can't anima

I have a project where there are multiple styling layers that all share the same path referenced by a blue shape layer in this example I have an orange shape layer that has strokes and trim paths (stylization), beneath this layer there is a reference path layer that should be used on orange only as a path. Now in this exact case I can just copy the rectangle path and paste it into the orange layer (which is what I actually did) but lets say I have 100 of these stylization layers and copying the path to all of them one by one seems a little bit time consuming. And the idea of having to re-copy all of it when I make the slightest change to the reference path doesn't amuse me too. So the possible solution would be to create a path on an orange layer and make an expression likepath = thisComp.layer("REFERENCE LAYER").content("Group 1").content("Path 1").path;But if I want to do that I need to merge all my contents in the reference layer into one path. Merge paths doesn't look like an optio

Hello,I am getting an error when enabling Advanced 3D in After Effects. I have spent the whole day trying to fix the issue and have tried all solutions I could find online, but nothing helped.My PC fully supports Advanced 3D:RTX 3080 / AMD Ryzen 7 5700XWhat I have done so far:1. Completely uninstalled all Adobe applications from my PC, including cleaning the registry, caches, and all leftover files.2. Replaced the NVIDIA Game Ready driver with the Studio driver.3. Tried all possible settings in After Effects, including a full reset of preferences.4. Attempted to run After Effects without any plugins or third-party scripts.Please help me resolve this issue. Thank you in advance.

Macbook Pro 2021 14 inchChip: Apple M1 MaxMemory: 64GBmacOS Tahoe 26.1After Effects V25.6.0 I am having a green flickering and gllitching issue in After Effects which I have not had previously. I have attached an example - just moving a shape using the position tool sometimes creates a green flash/glitch. I am not using any video assets, just moving PNGs and shapes/masks with position keyframing. I have attached an example - it may be hard to see on first view but at it's worst from 00:01-00:02 and 0:11 - 0:13 and can be seen clearly when slowed down or dragging through the keyframes. I ahve also attached my composition settings.It appears on the actual composition working file, not just after exporting it. I have tried the following from similar threads from years ago and none have worked so far:- Disabled both "display > hardware accelerated decoding" and "import > hardware accelerate composition layer and footage panels"- Switched between Mercury Software Only and Mercury

I download new fonts and install them. I open After Effects, and it recognizes the fonts. I try to select this font, click on it, but it doesn't open. How can I fix this?

Welcome to After Effects 25.6     After Effects 25.6 is here!This release focuses on stability and performance, delivering a long list of bug fixes along with several new features and workflow improvements. Update now to experience a smoother, faster, and more reliable creative process in After Effects.     New in 25.6   Here are the new features coming with version 25.6   Try the Latest Version Extensive fixes and improvements New improvements and fixes in After Effects make it easier and faster to work on your projects, helping you get things done more efficiently. Modify Default Camera Settings Use the View menu to adjust the custom view and Default Camera Settings, whether viewing through a camera layer, the default active camera, or a custom view. Single 3D Gizmo for multiple 3D layers Select multiple 3D layers and control them together using a single gizmo to simplify managing complex scenes and

Problem: Shift + arrow keys to nudge footage is inconsistent in values depending on zoom. Zoomed in moves a fraction, whilst zoomed out moves 10pxSteps to reproduce:I was in a comp scaled 1080x1350.Inside the comp i have a pre-comp with continous rasterization scaled at 70%. the scaled comp has a resolution of 1920x1080.If i am zoomed in quite a bit like 400% it moves the composition layer by a fractionIf i am zoomed in at 50% it moves the comp layer 10px. making nudging with shift + arrow keys inconsistent.there's no further documentation stating that this is the intended way making this a potential bugAfter Effects 25.5.0mac os 26.0.1 (25A362)Apple M2 Max

When updating the contents of a dropdown menu via scripting (using .setPropertyParameters), the name of the effect gets reverted back to whatever name it had when it was created (which is usually 'Dropdown Menu Control').

Hi, I’m investigating speed differences between Fractal Noise and Turbulent Noise. There’s a lot of decade-old videos on YouTube and documentation on the web saying that Turbulent Noise renders faster than Fractal Noise. Even the most-up-to-date official AE help pages say that "The Turbulent Noise effect takes less time to render." ( https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/noise-grain-effects.html ) However that is not my experience at all on my M2 Mac Studio running AE 2025, where Turbulent Noise performs worse than Fractal Noise. I have significantly faster (up to 3 times faster) renders with Fractal Noise versus Turbulent Noise. An Adobe Community thread from 2017 mentions that Fractal Noise was a new addition to the GPU accelerated family in 2017. ( https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/fractal-noise-bug/td-p/9294540 ) I examined my GPU usage in Activity Monitor and found that Fractal Noise utilizes my GPU much more effectively than Turbulent Noise. So I'm wo

I'm trying to zoom out with the character staying in place, but as you can see in the video, the character follows the camera. How can I lock it in place?

Since updating apps last week, any Illustrator files imported to After Effects include duplicates of each layer that are blank 1x1px. As they also duplicate the layer names, this leads to layers "disappearing" later when reopening/editing files as they've re-linked layers to these "blank" layers.

When you use * or / operators to change a locked scale property, it only changes both dimensions if you type after the current value. It changes only the dimension you're editing if you type it in place of the value. so: [100*2,100] = [200,200]but: [*2,100] = [200,100] If this is an intentional feature, it's confusing because it only does this for * or / , not + or - . (ie. [+2,100] = [102,102])Common Use Case: When working in a resolution different from source artwork (eg. 4k vs 1080p) it can be useful to tab through properties to affect both position and scale of a layer, like selecting X Position and then typing  *2 [tab] *2 [tab] *2. When attempting this workflow, this bug causes the resulting scale property to be [200,100] vs the intended [200,200]. Recommended Fix: When locked, all mathematical operators should affect both dimensions of a scale property.

The latest version of After Effects freezes up my intel iMac. I have to switch off and restart the computer as everything - even the mouse - freezes. I've never had any issues at running AE on this machine before nor in the many, many years I've been using it. It's driving me crazy as I can't do any work with AE. I don't have any 3rd party plug-ins installed so that's not the issues. I don't have any issues with any other software.My iMac spec is 3.8Ghz 8-Core i7, with 128GB RAMI'd be grateful for any solution to this? 

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after rendering my video is about 1.5x faster than the preview. I've already checked and the preview plays 20fps, as my comp is set to 20fps aswell. I reinstalled ae on my new pc as this happened on my old pc aswell and the problem is still happening please help

About two days ago I was working on an edit in After Effects 2020. I opened Google to look for an image and suddenly both After Effects and Google crashed (at least I think both did — I’m not 100% sure). I didn’t panic because crashes happen sometimes, but after that, AE wouldn’t let me reopen my project. I thought my laptop might’ve overheated because the fans were going crazy, so I let it cool down. The next day, I opened After Effects again — it worked fine at first. But when I tried to open my project, it just wouldn’t load. What’s weird is that I can make new projects and open them with no issues, but my older projects won't open anymore, except I've tried opening a project I've made in August and that worked but the one that I need doesn't open I’ve tried everything I could think of:• Resetting my AE preferences (like six times)• Restarting my laptop• Updating my system• Basically every fix I found online Nothing works. I’ve never had this issue before and I have n

Hello Everyone, Hoping to find a solution for this issue here. I just updated my AE to version 25.2 and when I opened my project it gave me a message that Deep Glow effect is missing. I manually checked and saved the effect in the plugins folder as what was suggested in tutorials but it still showing as missing when I open After Effects. Anyone had the same issue? 

I recently updated my Premiere & After Effects to 25.6. I would normally duplicate my footage in my sequence on the above layer, then right click and click "Replace to After Effects Composition." Normally, it would place the footage in the After Effects software, but now it doesn't show it at all. Is there a fix to this?Photos included.  

I've been getting the following error when opening After Effects: "After Effects warning: The following plugins have failed to load Please reinstall these plugins:" The supposed location is not there, and the only found effects are for Premiere and not AE. They also don't show in the effects manager panel to turn off. I don't use them/know what they are for, but it leads to my AE crashing continuously while working.  I reinstalled AE and deleted my preferences and I'm still having the issue. Running version 25.6 and Red Giant/Universe is updated as well, been an ongoing issue for 4+ months. Thank you!

I have a simple line animation (with expressions) that simulates a waveform audio visualization.Is there any way with expressions to include it in a (responsive time with intro/outr) mogrt, and be unaffected when I extend the unprotected area ?

After Effects 25.6 decided to stop working and it is racking my brain on what happen. I have manually trashed the preferences, unistall/installed AE and all my adobe apps (including cloud), and have deleted the few plugins/extensions I do use (Artlist.io and Animation composer) and have restarted my computer. Tried the tips in this post but none of those plugins are used on this computer. The beach ball of death pops up during the repair options and I have to force quit the app everytime.  The same happens with previous versions of AE now but AE Beta seems to work just fine. Running on Apple M2 Max64 GB MemoryTahoe 26.1