After Effects

Scene Edit Detection with "Create Pre-comps": wrong In/Out points inside pre-comps when Project Settings > Footage Start Time is set to 0Investigating

ISSUEWhen Layer > Scene Edit Detection is run with "Split Layer at Scene Edit" and "Create Pre-comps" enabled, and the project's Time Display Style > Footage Start Time is set to "00:00:00:00", the footage layer inside every pre-comp except the first one gets wrong In/Out points.The In point is placed at the very start of the layer instead of at the start of the detected shot. The Out point is placed at In + shot duration. The trimmed range therefore covers the wrong part of the source.The rendering engine ignores these in and out points. Sequence rendering continues beyond its out point !!!With Footage Start Time set to "Use Media Source", the same steps give correct results.STEPS TO REPRODUCE1. Project Settings > Time Display Style: select Timecode and set Footage Start Time to (00:00:00:000).2. Import a video that contains several hard cuts.3. Create a composition from the footage4. Select the footage layer and choose Layer > Scene Edit Detection.5. Enable "Split Layer a

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21 days ago

efficient_societyd226Participant

[macOS] AE preview color doesn't match export (MacBook screen issue & color shift during playback)

(Note: English is not my native language and I am using a translation tool to write this post, so I apologize in advance for any awkward phrasing!)The Main Issue I’m trying to make my After Effects preview accurately match my rendered output (viewed in VLC/Safari), but I’m running into preview color mismatch issues on macOS.Project & Color Settings Working Color Space: sRGB IEC61966-2.1 Use Display Color Management: OFF Blend Colors Using 1.0 Gamma: OFF Two Specific Problems We Are Facing1. Preview oversaturated on MacBook built-in display (My setup) On my external monitor, the AE preview matches the exported video (VLC/Safari) perfectly. However, when I move AE to the MacBook Pro built-in screen (Display P3 / Liquid Retina XDR), the preview suddenly becomes much darker and overly saturated, breaking the match with the rendered output. 2. Preview color shifts ONLY during playback (Friend's setup) Using the exact same settings on an external monitor, the preview matches the e

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21 days ago

melbendiInspiring

Audio is clipped in AE timeline but not in Audition

The music track is clipping on the timeline (not just the export) in AE, but I checked it in Audition and it isn’t clipped. It AE, the waveform looks like this: and in Audition, after zooming out one click, it looks like this: I tried exporting it from Audition as a WAV file, and it still comes into After Effect and Premiere as clipped. In AE, the levels are set at 0, so I tried reducing to -5 as a test, and the waveform is still flat on top. I updated my video card driver and it didn’t help. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you!

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paola_batista_pinto_4857Participant

Pre-comp animation is not appearing in main comp

I have several animated pre-comps, but the animation does not show up in the main comp, actually, it shows the (motionless) object after de animation key frames. I am not ussing guide layers.

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abstract_hands0688Participating Frequently

Spacebar not responding

Some times spacebar does not respond therefore I opt for Numpad 0. What is the reason spacebar becomes not reliable?

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Bend_AllParticipant

Background color not exporting

I’m having a problem where AE is ignoring the background color on export, and exporting everything with a black background. It also then resets the comp background color to black.It’s an easy fix to just throw a white background layer in every comp, as I don’t need an alpha channel, but that’s a dumb fix, and I’m wondering if there’s something I’m not understanding? I’ve been using AE for 26 years now and never encountered this before -However, I did get a new macbook around the same time as I ran into this, which is also right around the time AE 26 came out. Any ideas would be helpful, I hate little unexplained things like this 🎱

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ckuehneKnown Participant

Update the Add Grain effect to use GPU and 32-bitOpen for Voting

I need to apply grain frequently in my work to clean plates I’ve created, and it needs to match the 6k/4k HDR plates I’ve been provided. I prefer Add Grain to Match Grain, as it’s quicker and more accurate for me to manually set it. Because of the size of the plates, and the lack of GPU acceleration in this plug-in, it’s the main bottleneck in my rendering speed, plus 32-bit would help with color fidelity. Obviously, multiframe rendering would be great, too, but I would at least love GPU acceleration to start!

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kaczorefxKnown Participant

Make grain work in 32bit mode. Without it we can't work in ACES. Without ACES After Effects is pretty much not able to be used in professional projects :/Open for Voting

It’s pretty much it.Make grain work in 32bit mode - so it doesn’t clip highlights.The entire professional movie industry has switched to ACES - and you know that because you did put ACES into AE.But the one effect we use in every single shot - grain - is still 16bit, WTF?This has been reported years ago, and i mean like 7-8 years ago now.Do not introduce any new features, stop the development - just give us 32bit grain - then you can go back to whatever else you’ve been playing with.Also, you might look into ACES2.0? Netflix is beginning to demand studios working in ACES2.0 and AE is still stuck on 1.3 :/

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JayLashParticipating Frequently

Corner roundness control for masks & per corner roundness for shape layersOpen for Voting

For some time now we have had roundness control on shapes within Illustrator and Photoshop, and that hasn't necessarily disseminated properly down to AFX. When drawing a square mask with round corners, you get one shot when you create the mask, and then that control is gone. If you created a square mask, there's no way to then create rounded corners. Why not instead of having two square mask options, having a rounding control like Illustrator to be able to round all corners, and be able to lock those controls for each corner together, or be able to adjust them independently?If this could also be added to other shapes of masks too - even better!We have roundness for parametric rectangles in shape layers, so why not masks?  Additionally, this is only a simplified roundness that affects all corners. Again, we should be able to disconnect this and have per-corner roundness control on shape layers too.

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Hiroyuki KobayashiParticipant

AE 2023 (23.6.9.2) crashes at launch after Camera Raw updated to 18.7.0.2743 (also AE 2021 / 2022). AE 2020, 2025 and Beta start fine.Open for Voting

Issue:After Effects 2023 (23.6.9.2) crashes immediately at startup, before any project is opened. The crash occurs in the plug-in loading phase (PLUG_Search / BirthPlugins) when the shared Camera Raw plug-in (18.7.0.2743) is loaded. AE 2021 (18.4.6.2) and AE 2022 (22.6.0.3) show the same startup crash. AE 2020, AE 2025 and AE Beta on the same PC start normally. AE 2024 is not installed. Renaming Camera Raw.8bi lets AE 2023 start normally. I still use AE 2023 for work, so I would like to know if there is a proper fix.Context:AE 2023 worked normally before Oct 10, 2026 (I used it the day before). On Oct 10 I updated, via Creative Cloud, the beta builds of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects, plus Photoshop 2025 and Illustrator 2025. The Creative Cloud update history shows Camera Raw was updated to 18.7 on the same day.Test results (launch only, no project opened):With Camera Raw.8bi in place (Camera Raw 18.7.0.2743):- AE 2020: starts- AE 2021: crashes at startup- AE 20

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aniket_0495Participant

Jagged edges create shimmer or shining on character during wiggle movement

I have created a character in illustrator with size 800x1000. I add the file to AE with comp being at 4k. I enable continuous rasterization and also enable Create shape from Vector layer. When i apply wiggle effect on the character, it glitters and shines due to rough, jagged edges. I am zoomed to 250 percent in this image. You can see the jagged edges. Once I export out the video, it shines during wiggle and looks very bad. Please help

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ShadoufangParticipating Frequently

macOS 27 Golden Gate broke my AE 2026 (v26.5) (AE2025 v25.6.6 works fine)Open for Voting

Immediately after installing macOS 27,AE won’t open.Mac asks me to trash it,but it won’t move to trash even if I do so.It’s the only Adobe that DOES NOT open in Golden Gate."Adobe After Effects 2026.app"is damaged and can't be opened.You should move it to the Trash.This file was downloaded on anunknown date.[Move to Trash][Cancel] screenshot attached>>

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YuK1_WorksInspiring

Add Composition Guide Overlays (Golden Ratio, Golden Spiral, Dynamic Symmetry, etc.)Open for Voting

I'd love to see more built-in composition guide presets in After Effects.While After Effects already supports grids, guides, and percentage-based positioning, more advanced composition guides still require manually creating shape layers or relying on third-party tools.It would be great to have additional presets such as: Golden Ratio Grid Golden Spiral (Fibonacci Spiral) Golden Triangle Dynamic Symmetry Diagonal Composition Guides Ideally, these would be available as non-rendering overlays directly in the Composition panel, similar to the existing grid and safe margin options.Suggested functionality: Quickly switch between different composition guide presets. Display multiple guide types simultaneously. Automatically adapt guides to the composition's dimensions and aspect ratio. Customize line colors, opacity, and thickness. Optionally enable snapping to guide lines and intersections. Display guides without creating additional layers or affecting the rendered output.

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23 days ago

SinghSinghParticipant

When I switch to any tool that utilizes a brush, my cursor does not change to the brush radius, but stays the standard cursor arrow.

When I switch to any tool that utilizes a brush of some sort (paintbrush, eraser, clone stamp, refine edge tool), my cursor just stays as the default system mouse cursor. It’s making it very hard to correct roto mattes. I saw someone had this problem 3 years ago in another thread, but no answer was posted. I’ve tried restarting After Effects to no effect. I’d appreciate any input. I’m working in After Effects 2026.5 on macOS Sequoia 15.9 with 64GB memory.

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23 days ago

Cap HorizonParticipant

Prévoir d'adapter les outils IA (existants et à venir) de Premiere Pro sur After Effects. Merci !Open for Voting

Pour ceux qui - comme moi - ne disposent pas de Premiere Pro, mais uniquement d’After Effects, il serait judicieux que certains outils IA de Premiere Pro puissent être développés et intégrés à After Effects.Je pense :• à la possibilité d’étendre une scène un peu trop courte• au masque d’objet qui suit automatiquement toute la longueur d’un plan• à la gestion automatisée de sous-titre avec l’import et l’export de fichiers .srt• une adaptation automatique d’une musique en fonction de la durée d’un projet• etc...

BeratGLKnown Participant

Color Picker Dialog goes beyond the valid 0-255 value for RGB valuesOpen for Voting

Just to test. I went to 2 million value and also went negative -23.000 value. Not an Ae expert but I’m sure this is not normal. There is no limiter to any of these values when they are supposed stay between 0-255. Exact same bug exists on Premiere as well. System info Application: After Effects v26.5.0 (build 89) OS: Windows v10.0.26200, RAM: 31.82 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 24 GPU: Rtx 3060 Ti Nvidia Studio Driver ver. 617.42

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easygoing_fun8f30Known Participant

After Effects SDK: GetUniqueStreamID returns 0 — safe native keyframe access from custom UI callbacks?

Hi,I'm developing a native After Effects effect with a custom Effect Controls UI. I need to access the exact native parameter streams belonging to the effect instance receiving a custom UI event, so I can implement stopwatch, keyframe diamond, previous/next-key and expression-aware controls safely.Environment: After Effects 26.5.0.89, macOS arm64, SDK 25.6.Using AEGP_StreamSuite6 (kAEGPStreamSuiteVersion6 == 11), AEGP_GetUniqueStreamID(AEGP_StreamRefH, int32_t*) repeatedly returns A_Err_NONE but explicitly writes 0 for distinct effect parameter streams and even built-in layer Opacity.We confirmed this using two nonzero output sentinels and surrounding canaries. Across DRAW, multiple stream-acquisition routes, duplication/reordering and a separate AEGP command/idle test, 7,652 successful calls returned zero.Stream values remain readable, and acquired references are disposed within their callbacks. I'm not assuming this behavior occurs in all AE versions.Ordinary value edits work through

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Pankaj26596360zg9oParticipant

whenever i press space bar to play a scene in after effects it stuck and don't play and when i press spacebar again to stop it goes 1 frame back and nothing else happens

when i start working on my project after applying some effects or working for a few times in it. the playhead not move when playing video and when i stop playing my playhead just goes 1 frame back and everything is stuck in after effects. i can move my playhead with cursur but video is not playing these are my pc specs.

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lofloflofParticipating Frequently

sourceRectAtTime() in Comp SpaceOpen for Voting

sourceRectAtTime() is extremely useful, but it only returns values in layer space. Please add a method that returns the bounding rectangle directly in comp space, including all layer transforms (position, scale, rotation, parenting, and collapse transformations where applicable).This would eliminate complex conversion workarounds and make tasks like responsive layouts, collision detection, alignments, and motion graphics tools much more reliable and performant.

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25 days ago

Passionate_Miracleef38Participant

Would be great to have a native, built-in colour swatch panelOpen for Voting

Would be great to have a native, built-in colour swatch panel like all other adobe apps.

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25 days ago

takashi vfxInspiring

Lost Effect Matte indicator in Effects Control panel after update adding Lebel groupOpen for Voting

adding Lebel group in effects control panel is welcome feature but we lost Effect Matte indicator icon in Effects Control panel after the update. is there way to bring it back?thanks,t system info:MacStudio M2 UltraOS 15.7.9AE 26.5.0

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25 days ago

christopherh41707781Participant

linux versionsOpen for Voting

I would like versions of adobe apps that run on linux

26 days ago

GensokyoFIPAParticipant

How I can download and install an older version of After Effects?

Does anybody know how to download and install After Effects CC 2024 or earlier version? I can only install AE later than version 2025 via Creative Cloud Desktop app or website.My hardware could not really handle with newer version of AE.

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26 days ago

motivated_personc9dfParticipant