After Effects

Hey AE team!I've encountered a weird rendering issue with the advanced render engine.When using the Effra CC VF typeface, certain glyphs appear like this:  I'm using version 25.0.1 on MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1

 I’m reaching out for assistance with a persistent launch issue in After Effects on my Apple Silicon Mac.System Details:macOS: 26.0.1 (Build 25A362)Hardware: Mac14,14 (Apple Silicon, 64 GB RAM)After Effects versions tested: 24.6.8 (2024) and 25.5.0 (2025)Creative Cloud: Current as of October 2025Issue Summary:After Effects will not launch. The application hangs immediately after opening — no splash screen appears. I have tried both AE 2024 and AE 2025 with the same result. macOS generates a “hang” diagnostic report rather than a crash. The most recent log includes the event type hang (Duration: ~27 seconds) before the process is terminated.Troubleshooting Steps Already Taken:Fully uninstalled all Adobe softwareRan Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner ToolManually deleted all Adobe support, preference, and cache foldersRemoved all third-party plugins (including MediaCore and Maxon folders)Reset AE preferences and cachesDisabled GPU acceleration and tested Rosetta modeReinstalled

I'm experimenting with 8K resolution... The Spherize effect has a limit of 2,500 and doesn't cover my entire video. In 4K, the Spherize effect works fine and covers the video completely, but I need the extra resolution of 8K. In 8K, the effect only covers about half of the video. Is there a way to bypass or increase the 2,500 limit?  (Dont want to use other effects, only Spherize do the thing that i want, already try the other ones)

I animated some text, and then went to switch to Cinema 4D to extrude and bevel it, etc. However, when I switch to Cinema 4D, the text disappears.  I believe this is linked to the "Enable Per Character 3D".  When I start with Cinema 4D turned on, then go to create the text animations and turn on the "Enable Per Character 3D" my text again disappears. Anyone else experience this and find a solution?  Thanks in advance if anyone can help!

Lately I've been getting this annoying popup when trying to open an .aep from Finder: I have to go into Ae and "File>Open..." from there.Anyone else have this? Is there a fix?

Hi, I recently updated my After Effects to version 22.2. Since then any time I type in a text box the text begins typing backwards with the question marks and quotation marks ending up at the front of the text instead of the end. I've tried to look up fixes but everything I try doesn't work. If anyone knows how to fix this, I would be grateful. Thank you.

How can I render out my comp in front view? Unable to set my camera to work without distortion, but really, we should be able by now to do this?

This is the expresssion that I am using for a slider:effect("Slider Control")(1).value.toFixed(0)When I add a dollar sign"$"+effect("Slider Control")(1).value.toFixed(0)the expression breaks. What am I doing wrong?

Hello everyone! I’m experiencing a bug in After Effects: when I open Extension 1, then dock it, and afterwards open Extension 2, there’s a problem — when I close Extension 1, Extension 2 also closes for some reason.Sometimes the UI (user interface) of Extension 2 even disappears.Does anyone know why this happens?

I’ve experienced this issue multiple times, even when I’m not doing anything heavy — just working with 2-3 image layers. After Effects often freezes (especially when I press Alt+Tab to switch between windows), and then crashes. My monitor goes black for a few seconds and comes back on with the error message:"After Effects crash: can't continue. Encountered a GPU or graphics driver issue."This is incredibly frustrating. It doesn’t just happen occasionally — it happens frequently. And from the number of posts about this issue, it seems like it’s been going on for a long time.But so far, there’s been no real action from Adobe. The usual suggestion is to switch to “Mercury Software Only”, but honestly, that doesn’t solve anything.Please, this is exhausting to deal with — is there any real fix or update on this?

Hello there, I am new here to ask some questions. Does anyone here have experience importing files from AI with a duplicated file inside? I would appreciate this being fixed.

Hi, I want to create animation for fulldome format and searching for the best solution for my project. It will be abstract animation based on music, something similar to this Tamara Qaddoumi - Flowers Will Rot on Vimeo. But do not such "flat", maybe with combining 2D and 3D animation (for example, I want use the scene with flying through the starfield). I found that After Effects will be the most suitable software for me, because it has embedded VR tools with fulldome converter. But later I get in stuck when was searching how to do such "flow" animation in After Effects. I had done a couple of motion design tutorials, but someone told me, that animation mentioned above has been created in Adobe Animate. And now I am really frustrated and do not know what do. I am a beginner in animation, but have an experience with graphic design and worked in Indesing, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premier Pro, 3dsMax. So If you can help/advice how to deal with my problem I will be very grateful.

Hoping someone here may see and be able to help. I'm creating a dome animation with a 2D graphic background. It seemed straightforward. 2D source Input to Fisheye(Fulldome) but I'm getting a ton of pinching on the top and bottom. My input comp which has a very grid-like background is 4096x4096 with lots of animation, again, mostly 2D with some video and images, nothing crazy. See the image for the pinching at the polar coordinates. Also strangely, when my comp that has VR converter applied on it which is 4096x4096, VR converter shows nothing, when I set it to 4095x4095 it seems to work. Any tips would be appreciated.Also, the footage is not built as a 360, the grid is not perfectly seamless and it causes issues when created in a 6 sided box environment and animation would be much more difficult to have to map into a full 360 space.

I'm trying to run multiple render threads with aerender.exe and it seems the "software only" setting in the project is being ignored.  As soon as I start the renderings, the GPU usage goes crazy and after a short time it crashes and reboots the computer.  I used to render this way on a regular basis and aerender would always use the GPU setting in the project file.  It seems like it no longer does that and I can't find a parameter that controls it via the command line with aerender.exe. How do I disable GPU rendering when using aerender.exe?

After Effects 25.4 keeps re-rendering the timeline AFTER I've done a Ram Preview.For example, in the image below I rendered part of my timeline then set the Work Area to only that section. When I hit the space bar to watch it, it re-renders! It won't just play it. wtf is going on? After Effects has never worked like this.This has been happening in every project for months. It's like I have to have my Work Area set before starting a render because if I stop the Ram Preview before it reaches the end of the Work Area I have to re-render the whole thing. Sometimes, if I quit and restart After Effects it'll work like normal again, simply playing the parts I've already rendered. What's going on? Is this a bug? I can't imagine this is intentional. Is this happening to anyone else?  Windows 11After Effects 25.4120GB RamRendering using CUDA Acceleration 

After no issues with this workflow in 2024, my switch to 2025 has uncovered something strange. I seem unable to import image sequences, regardless of their origin.I have made a screen recording of the beahvious with a PNG sequence from blender, but the same result occurs with JPEG or PNG or DPX sequences from premiere/AE or any other image sequence.... and these same sequences all import into 2024 no issue.AE won't even acknowledge there is an image sequence to import, until I set file type manually. However, even after that, when I try to import, it argues the file type (it reads it as "") despite the .png being present (I cannot see it in the AE import window, but it is there when the name is checked in properties).Youtube link to behaviour:https://youtu.be/_cOTsLaVzi4Very curious. Would love to get this resolved.

After activating a font at Adobe Fonts Online wonderful Font Collection, there pops up a Message from Windows, that the fonts are added.But in AE they are not visible in the Font Menue. After Restarting AE, they are shown there. This is not very nice, while trying lots of fonts for finding the right one for a Project...It would be Absolutely fantastic, if this could be fixed!!! Version 25.1.0 (Build 68)Windows 11

Hi all. So I just updated all my apps (Photoshop, PremPro, AE, Acrobat) today, and the rest are opening fine, but After Effects keeps crashing on startup. I've tried restarting After Effects, my PC, reinstalling After Effects from Creative Cloud etc, but nothing seems to be working. Running Win11 24H2. I would upload a crash report or log (whatever it's called), but it's not in "C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\25.4\logs" (see attached screenshot).

Macos 15.7.1 + apple magic mouse.previously to this update I was able to hit opt/alt & Mouse scroll (finger drag in case of magic mouse) to zoom in and out If I wanted to pan around the comp, I just swiped my finger around the surface of the mouse.this update utterly borks the entire workflow now i can EITHR ONLY pan or ONLY zoom when I swipe my finger on the mouse, regardless of hitting the key modifier. Adobe please fix.I'm getting tired of these unwanted and half baked updates to the UX nobody asked for

Hello Adobe Community,I've ran into a small issue while applying stroke Animators on certain type layers.It seems that on certain typefaces, or only certain weights of certain typefaces, the stroke doesn't generate completely correctly on some letters. In the example here it's the top end of the 'K' that gets tapered in a weird way. When converted to shapes in After Effects, the clipping of the stroke disappears. I don't know what about it being a type layer makes it behave this way. When converted to shapes in Illustrator the typography seems like it shouldn't have any issue to draw a curve around it, there are no double vertexes or other weird inconsistencies with it that would.This project needs to work with editable typelayers, so converting it to a shape layer is not an option.Does anybody have any experience with this? Know of any ways to resolve this issue?Any help would be much appreciated.Thanks in advance!

Here are the quick hits of the issue:Company has recently updated security measuresNew security measures do not allow use of Adobe FontsAfter Effects 2025 is requiring a specific font for the program to openI think the required font is not able to be downloaded because of our security measuresOur band-aid solution has been to download the 2024 versions of After Effects and Premiere (so they can be used together) but I know this won't be a solution that lasts.  Ashley MAX25

 Hi, I’m using a business plan for work purposes.I’m trying to use Cinema 4D, the plugin additionally provided with After Effects, but it doesn’t run even after installation — the error window below keeps appearing.I’ve already uninstalled and reinstalled it dozens of times.Please I really need a solution for this issue.My computer is an Apple M1 Pro.