After Effects

Here is a breakdown of the color issues based on version and color management settings: version 24.x / Adobe color managedAfter Effects (24.6.8) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (24.6.8) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to mp4 → ISSUE: The gamma is slightly different. (Is it forcibly converting sRGB to Rec. 709?) version 24.x / OCIO color managedAfter Effects (24.6.8) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (24.6.8) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to JPEG → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect.Media Encoder (24.6.5) direct render to mp4 → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect. version 25.x / Adobe color managedAfter Effects (25.5) direct render to JPEG → OK (No issues)After Effects (25.5) direct render to mp4 → OK (No issues)Media Encoder (25.5) direct render to JPEG → ISSUE: Colors are incorrect.Media Encoder (25.5)

This is a problem I never used to get, but on 2025 and26 if I leave AE open for more than 20 mins without cleaning my cache, apparently even the most basic of comps will decide it needs all 128gb of ram on my machine and I get this dialogue box that takes literally 150+ presses to dismiss. This is insane. At least make it so that the pop up gives me the option to clear cache or can be dismissed without machine my enter key for 2 mins.   AMD 5950, 4090, 128gb ram, windows 10, AE 25/26 all versions 

The new tools are promising, but not very intuitive. With the old root brush double clicking allowed the painting to b started immediately, but with the new tools that is not always the case. This causes a lot of confusing clicking and double clicking, opening and closing panels. Please make a clear UI for the object selection / root environment. When a footage layer is selected, choosing one of the tools should open a panel where the rotoscoping can be done.

Issue:After Effects crashes and displays the error message:"After Effects can’t continue: Encountered a GPU or graphics driver issue."This does not happen immediately on launch, but rather after opening a project and working on it for a few moments.Steps to reproduce:1. Open an existing After Effects project.2. Begin interacting with layers — for example: moving a layer, applying an effect, or previewing.3. The preview screen suddenly turns black.4. After a second or two, the error message appears and AE shuts down.Steps already taken (none resolved the issue):1. Clean installation of the latest NVIDIA driver for GTX 1650 SUPER (using “Clean Installation” option).2. GPU tested under full load with FurMark — stable temperatures, no crashes.3. GPU acceleration disabled (Mercury Software Only) — issue persists.4. Ran Windows Memory Diagnostic — no errors.5. Deleted disk cache and user preferences.6. Clean reinstallation of After Effects via Creative Cloud.7. Ran sfc /scannow — no issues f

Added a master property control to the a threshold effect Level Value.Did not work at all with the project in 16 bit. Values were all over the place.Kind of works with the project in 32 bit, but the slider doesn’t work properly, neither does entering values manually.See attached video to see the janky behavior.

Having issues with Layer Comments not working as should after upgrading to AE 25.2.2 (Latest) on MacOS 14.7.4. Basically layers new, duplicated, or copied, are randomly not allowing you to click into the comment field. I've not been able to find any logic to it with even sometimes completely fresh layers not allowing comments. I'm seeing it most frequently though when duplicating layers, they'll retain the existing comment but not allow you to modify it. It's not greyed the field simply cannot be clicked into. Restart of AE doesn't fix it and nor does a full machine restart. Also, some layers that might be working fine will randomly stop working and you never get functionality back. This is some pretty basic stuff Adobe, like how do you break the comment field? Causing major workflow issues with handing off and documenting projects to other animators. FIX THIS!

The new Object selection seems to mistakenly take the bounding box of the initial selection as a boundary, while the ‘object’ has moved outside. This results in unexpected cut off rotoscoped objects. Original with the human to be selectedCut off object 

Greetings! I have which I had for some time and AE worked just fine. Then suddenly it began to misbehave - freezing after several minutes of work, just a rotating circle instead of cursor. The comp is not affected, just AE is freezing. So I have to force quit it. Although I am in Moscow, Russia, not everyone here is an evil pirate) so our company pays for a license, so I reinstalled AE via Creative Cloud, removing preferences and settings, to no avail. I cannot figure out what could be a problem, it began yesterday, and not going away( No changes in configuration or setup, no obvious trigger…. No error messages, no warnings...Also, if I need to quit AE before it freeezes, it starts to freeze then, and fun lollipop begins to rotate...

Ahen rendering to QuickTime ProRes444, the processing is very slow. This is on a M3 Ultra with 96gb of RAM

I tried to change the default output path that gets assigned when I add a composition to the Render Queue, so I edited the File Name and Location Template preset.I had previously set a template named Preview as the default, so I edited it and saved it under the same name:[projectFolder]\preview\[dateYear][dateMonth][dateDay]_[projectName]_[compName].[fileextension]I also made sure the preset was marked as the default.However, when I added a composition to the Render Queue, the automatically assigned output path still used the old value.I ended up digging through the preference files and found that the issue was in "Adobe After Effects 26.2 Prefs-indep-output.txt". When I changed the old template directly in "Output Module Spec Strings Section v28", the problem was finally fixed.That section seems badly broken. It contains a lot of empty entries, and the same template appears multiple times in different slots. In this case, the template I saved as Preview was defined six times.Here is t

# Adobe Community Forum Bug Report (Form Format)## Title:“Create Multiple Compositions” produces comps that render completely black — silent failure, no error-----## Issue:Compositions created by dragging multiple MOV files onto the New Composition icon in the Project panel (“Create Multiple Compositions”) render as completely black output. Preview plays back normally. The render completes with a success status and no error message, making this a silent failure.## Steps to reproduce:1. Import multiple MOV files into the Project panel1. Select the MOV files and drag them onto the “New Composition” icon (film strip icon at the bottom of the Project panel)1. AE creates one composition per MOV via “Create Multiple Compositions”1. RAM Preview any of the created comps — video plays normally1. Add the comp to the Render Queue1. Render using any format (ProRes 4444, PNG sequence, etc.)1. Check the output — completely black## Expected result:Rendered output matches the preview with visible vide

I cannot go more than about 10 minutes without half of my dynamic link clips unlinking. The strange things is all of my dynamic links go to the same AE file. This is absolutely madding and just another thing slowing down my workflow.  Premiere 26.0.2, MacBook pro m3 max sequoia 15.7.5

Uppercase * is not uppercase when used in linked text fields or essiential graphics. Bonus wish - let me disable caps lock, im sick of the diable refresh.Other then that i Love AE ;)

Hi Adobe Community,I’m experiencing an issue with Adobe Media Encoder where Hardware Encoding is not available, even though I have an NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti installed.When I try to switch to Hardware Encoding in the H.264 export settings, I receive this error message:“Your system's hardware does not support hardware acceleration for the current settings.”

Here’s the error message after attempting to access the KSV. This error occurs when accessing the KSV via shortcut or Menu. Unfortunately, I don’t have crash reports to share.  

Subject: Text on Path — First Margin expression has no visual effect in AE English (all versions)Description:In After Effects English, the "First Margin" property of Text on Path options does not produce any visual result when driven by an expression, despite the expression evaluating correctly.The expression value updates in real time in the timeline, the expression is enabled, the text is correctly assigned to a path mask, and all other expressions on the layer are working. But the text does not scroll along the path.This issue appeared suddenly during the day — the exact same script was working correctly in AE English this morning on the same machines, and stopped working this afternoon without any change to the script, the project, or the system.The issue affects all tested versions of After Effects: CC 2024, CC 2025, and CC 2026, on multiple Macs. The exact same script works correctly in After Effects French on the same machines.Steps to reproduce:Create a new project and a new HD

Hi team — Starting a project per usual. Fine for the first hour or so. At a certain point the composition window freezes. Playing and scrubbing does nothing. I then quit, which freezes the app, making me Force Quit. This has been an issue in all versions of 26. Currently still causing issues on 26.2. I have 25.6.5 which continues to work well. Have cleared caches, checked disk settings, reset preferences. Any others experiencing this issue? This version isn’t usable. **Apple M2 Max96 GBMac OS Tahoe Version 26.3.1 (a) (25D771280a)

Holding Ctrl with the Anchor Point Tool snapping is a fantastic recent QOL improvement.However it isn’t fully finished.Hopefully some resource is still allocated to fixing stuff like this, where it is impossible to snap to the midpoint unless zooming in to extreme levels. see attached little game of avoid the magentic corner points! Assuming Windows display scaling is still causing problems

Sometimes when trying to select keyframes by dragging around them, the entire layer is selected and moves.This has been in the interface for a LONG time now and REALLY seems like a good thing to fix.From a QOL point of view, users need to be able to drag select keyframes.No User ever asked for a 20 pisels tolerance around a layer to selct the whole layer.I don’t know wher it originally came from but I think it has been in for over 20 years now.Attached intende behaviour, as couldn’t replicate problem

After updating to After Effects 26.2, I noticed that some third-party plug-ins are showing garbled text in their UI controls.In my case, I can clearly reproduce this with plug-ins that include Chinese text, and I suspect it may also affect other non-English or non-Latin languages as well.What made me pay attention to this is the 26.2 release note saying:“Effect names are now correctly encoded for Unicode characters when accessed by third-party plug-ins.”So I’m wondering if this may be related.One detail that seems important: if I open project files that already use these third-party effects in Safe Mode (without loading third-party plug-ins), the Chinese parameter names display correctly. But in normal mode, some of those same labels appear garbled.I’m not the plug-in developer, just an end user reporting what I observed in testing, so I can’t tell whether this is an AE issue, a plug-in compatibility issue, or an interaction between both. But the behavior seems to have changed after up

The Perspective Offset checkbox in Turbulent Noise does not currently work. No parallax. It does wok as it should in Fractal Noise.

Intermittently, pressing the playback shortcut (Spacebar or Numpad Enter) fails to initiate a preview. On the first press, the UI appears to "stutter" but nothing happens. On the second press, the Current Time Indicator (CTI) moves back exactly one frame and playback still does not begin

Hola.Tengo el AEjuice Pack manager y lo utilizo muy frecuentemente. Cada vez que visualizo los efectos, me toca arrastrar la ventana del pack hacia un lado para poder ver la pantalla del after effects. Me parece que debería tener un atajo de minimizar. Este atajo se lo debe poner AEjuice o After effects??

After update to AE 26.2. i am facing sometimes bug that drag and move keyframes with mouse+shift does not snap even to frames nor other elements. It slide like on ice… pixel after pixel

In previous versions of After Effects I was able to load txt files with javascript variables inside into expressions with the $.evalFile() function. In the current version 26.2.0 (Build 49) this doesn’t work anymore.