After Effects

Using After Effects 25.1. Linking the FontSize to a Slider using the expression: "text.sourceText.style.setFontSize(effect("Slider Control")("Slider"))" But I'm getting an expression error reading: "Error: property or method name 'style' in Class 'TextProperty' is missing or does not exist. It may have been renamed, moved, deleted, or the name may have been mistyped" All of the expressions are still auto suggesting with the Expression Language dropdown menu. As I start typing "style" after "sourceText" it starts to autofill. Why is "style" gone all of a sudden? How is After Effects not being able to reference it even though it's showing up in the dropdown menu?

I'm a long-time InDesign user trying to help my company's motion graphics team get more use out the CC libraries that our print designers use all the time. We have robust Paragraph and Character Styles in our CC libraries, but I can't find any definitive information about whether they are accessible in After Effects or not. They appear greyed out in the Library panel, so I'm thinking they aren't usable but that seems crazy that something so useful would be cut off from a group who still uses type so much. Am I missing something or are After Effects users really limited to shared colors and graphics in CC libraries? 

In After Effects, when using a lower layer as a track matte for an upper layer, if the lower layer is also visible, a stray edge (or matte line) will inevitably appear in the composition.This will significantly cause issues with what I see in the viewport.he green edge in the image below should not be visible. I suspect this may be caused by sub-pixels of the matte not being fully covered by the upper layer. 

I'm running into an Out of Memory error in After Effects 24.2.1 that I just can't fix and am looking for solutions.Here are the errors, they always happen together, there's usually about 30 of them that pop up back to back:  This happens on all of my projects, when I render a video or just RAM Preview my project in AE. There is no specific frame that kills it, rather, it appears that AE uses more and more memory until it fails. In the past when I would RAM Preview my projects in AE I could watch as it reached the limit of how much it could render and earlier parts of the timeline would lose their rendered status as new frames were rendered. This does not happen anymore, once I reach the limit of my memory the program just crashes and gives me these errors. Memory while rendering, fills up and then crashes AE:   Solutions I've tried (purging memory and disk cache and restarting AE in bettween each attempt):Restarting my comp.Turning Multiframe Rendering on/offTurning CUDA

Win11 / ASUS Tuf / RTX5060 - In AE 2026 and 2025, create a comp, the footage doesn’t appear in the comp window.  move the play head, no image in the comp window.  push play, it shows fine. then stop, the image goes away in the comp window (black).  Tested using a layer/solid - same behavior.  I’ve applied every suggestion for Video Rendering, all ‘Fast Preview’ options,  also cleared all cache, updated, uninstalled/reinstalled.  BTW: NO problems with video using PrPro 2026.  Thinking of rolling back Nvidia drivers to see if that’s the culprit. Thanks for any pointers.  Video attached showing behavior.

Hi everyone, I’m trying to understand how this animation was made in After Effects.There are several video cards/precomps orbiting around an invisible elliptical path. The whole orbit seems to rotate and tilt in 3D, while the cards move from front to back but stay facing the camera.I tried using 3D layers, nulls, and Auto-Orient Towards Camera, but my cards become slightly tilted and don’t stay perfectly straight.What would be the correct setup or rig for this kind of animation?I’m not trying to copy the design, I just want to understand the technique.Thanks to anyone who can help me understand 🙏

Hi everyone!!I have a question and would appreciate your help.... I'm working on an animation that will be displayed on an LED mesh, mapped in cube form (as shown in image 01). However, I need to create this entire animation in a single composition so that the elements move continuously through the top, front, back, left, and right without any cuts or time jumps. However, there are spaces (marked in red in the image) that prevent this from happening; it's a kind of void that doesn't exist in the mapping. The question is: Is there any way that, for example, when a line moves from the left side to the front side, it automatically "skips" this region and doesn't generate thickness or timing errors in the animation? I tried to illustrate this with the yellow line in image 3. Thanks!

In Adobe Premiere Pro, you can easily add free sound effects through the Essential Sound panel, including built-in integration with Adobe Stock.Some colleagues prefer to complete animation projects entirely within After Effects. However, I haven’t been able to find a comparable panel or workflow in After Effects. As far as I can tell, sound effects need to be searched for and imported manually.I’m wondering if I might be overlooking a feature, plugin, or recommended workflow that offers similar functionality in After Effects.

I am receiving this message.  Advice would be appreciated please. After Effects can't continue: An unexpected error has occurred and After Effects will now shutdown.Please check you have the appropriate permissions to launch After Effects as well as read/write access to the After Effects preferences folder.If any other error messages were displayed prior to this, please review, and resolve if possible. Hayley

Hello, We’ve had an issue in the last week, that After Effects will no longer open on 4 different workstations we have, one of them is offsite and not on the same network.There is no splash screen it and it instantly displays the crash screen with” AfterFX.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close”. This happens on Windows 10 and Windows 11. After Effects will work on my Home PC with the same Creative Cloud Account. I have tried the Creative Cloud cleaner on one of the Workstations and a fresh install After Effects 2026, but same error appears. Any help is gratefully received.

Hello Adobe AE Team,I am experiencing a reproducible issue across four identical Mac Studio units (Apple M3 Ultra, 256 GB RAM) running macOS Sequoia 15.5, where After Effects is loading the Torq/NAPI JavaScript engine instead of the Adobe JavaScript engine.Across AE versions 25.4, 25.5, and 26.0, the following diagnostic expressions always return:$.engineName → "torq/napi"typeof(TextDocument) → "undefined"This indicates that AE is not loading the expected Adobe JS engine and instead is loading a fallback runtime that does not support TextDocument APIs.As a result, all of the following APIs fail:new TextDocument() .style .fontSize .leading .setFontSize() .setLeading() .setJustification()I have thoroughly eliminated all environmental causes:✅ Confirmed no Torq, Fusion, NAPI, or Resolve frameworks in system paths✅ Confirmed no PATH or DYLD overrides✅ Confirmed no per-user shell modifications✅ Confirmed no MDM restrictions✅ Confirmed Full Disk Access for AE and Terminal✅ Confirmed quaranti

in 26,2,1 version Depencies/Collect files is working differently from older versions and it’s working WRONG…I have folders with names 001, 002, 003, 004 and inside are sub folders with rendered images.However when I do Collect files, all the folders are “flatened” and all image sequences are put in single folders with changed names, but not all folders are processed and half of the sequences are gone or replaced with wrong ones….

Dell PC Intel i9-13900K and RTX 4080 After Effects renders cause errors green pixel artifacts Are there any known issues with these CPU/GPU models

I have a Google Sheet that gets updated and I would like to use some of that data in an After Effects comp. Can Automation Blocks read a shared Google Sheet from the web?

Hi! I don't have much experience with After Effects. I'm following a tutorial to animate graphics for the 2026 World Cup, and I've reached a point where, using the same trophy .obj file and the same .sbsar file (gold-clean.sbsar), the file turns gray instead of having that gold texture. I've already tried everything suggested: I've checked that the 3D renderer is set to "Advanced 3D," I've checked in video processing that "Mercury GPU Acceleration (Metal)" is enabled, I've checked with and without lights, I've checked that "Quick Preview" and "3D Draft" are disabled—basically, I've checked everything, and it still looks like this. If it's relevant, I have a MacBook Pro M5, and the version of After Effects is the latest (26.2.1).Can you help me solve this, please? 

Please which after effects version is suitable for my laptop. i like to do edits, minimal motions and 3d.  

Trying to find a way to calculate the total width of an animated variable font text layer but the sourceRectAtTime properties of a text layer are not updating / taking into account the variable font adjustment. Also in Box Text, variable fonts go outside the box too.Any help appreciated.Thanks! 

I want to turn on Layer Controls and keep them on, but I’m running into a bug that constantly turns them off. If I turn on Layer Controls (In View → Show Layer Controls, or the Toggle Mask and Shape Path Visibility button at the bottom of the composition window) and hit Spacebar to preview the composition, switching to a different composition and back again turns off Layer Controls. I then have to turn it on again. This happens constantly.  I am on Windows 10 and After Effects v 26.2.1, but this has been happening for a long time. I’m unsure if this is a bug or intended behaviour, but I’d love a way to lock Layer Controls on until I need to turn them off. I’ve attached a screen recording of the issue. Thanks!

Did Adobe finally fix the Preview issue in AE 2026?Maybe I'm imagining things, but has anyone else noticed this?Until last week, Preview in the latest version of After Effects 2026 was almost unusable for me on Windows. I tried pretty much every workaround I could find here and on other forums, but nothing really fixed it. I was actually getting ready to roll back to an older version because it was becoming a daily headache.Then this week... it just started working normally again.Same projects, same machine, no major changes that I'm aware of. Preview is smooth and reliable now, and I haven't run into the issues that were constantly happening before.What's weird is that I never had the problem on my Mac, only on Windows.Did Adobe push some kind of fix recently? Was there an update that addressed this? Or are other Windows users still seeing the same Preview problems?I'd be interested to know if anyone else has noticed a difference over the last few days.

Hi ~!I have a question regarding camera tracking in After Effects. I tracked this scene/shot before and it worked fine, but I might have pressed a button that turned off the ability to select tracking points/hovering over them doesn't give me a target/bullseye either. (I am still able to view all the track points, just can't interact with it!) I tried it in a different project and it works fine, but each time i reopen my project the same thing keeps happening even after I retrack and solve it again. Any tips? Let me know if my problem is understandable! appreciate the help, thanks

Is there an equivalent of the Project Manager from Premiere in AfterEffects?  I keep running into the same issue, where I think I have saved a backup of a project only to come back to it later and find many of the assets are missing.  Yes, in a perfect world, all necessary assets would be in the same folder and this wouldn't be an issue.  But that is not my world.  I use the Project Manager in Premiere as the only reliable way to avoid this problem, and was very sad not to find a project manager or equivalent in AE.  Any suggestions?  Thanks much!

I am trying to open my After Efect but it always opens a window of how I want it to open like in safe mode or manage plugins or continue, and I try all, but they stay stuck for some reason, like 20 minutes stuck ! I have no Idea what to do !!

I have a notepad file wear there is multiple text in same graphics ,so how copy many sentences and paste into after effect diffrent comps with same design just to change text in every comp with one time copy paste ...is it possible without script

A NEW AMAZING BUG. Trying to vinculate a desyncronized AE comp in Premiere “Adobe After effects 2026 debe estar instalado para importar este archivo”, and obviously is installed and opened 😂

I have imported a layered Photoshop file into After Effects as a layered comp with several .psd "footage" layers:I've created and edited the comps within the 20s main comp with animations and effects. Now I need to extend the .psd layers(all ~7s) to the length of the main comp(20s).I've tried dragging to extend their regions and right-clicking > Time > Enable Time Remapping(this allows me to extend the region with keyframes, but the content still ends proportionally short of the containing comp duration).When I right-click the .psd layer and click "Open Layer Source", the preview shows the layer duration extending to the same time as it shows in the timeline(~7s)...but the green "render bar" only goes to 5s. And no content is showing while the playhead is at 6s, below...This is also reflected when I drag the playhead in the main comp timeline—the layers with this problem disappear at 5s even though their regions extend to 7s.1. I need to get these layer regions to extend the leng