After Effects

A quick question, but I’m looking to redo this animation as I don’t have the original file for it, is it possible to do this in After Effects or is it a Cinema 4D job? Obviously a simple loop would be easy to do with trim ends on a path, but notably on this animation the outer loop passes under the inner one at one point and looks like it’s slightly see through as it passes over another-  so would be a bit of a job but is After Effects capable of building it? TIA :)

IssueWhen Magnification Behavior is set to Centered, zooming unexpectedly follows the mouse cursor when the first or last vertex of an open Shape Path is selected with the Pen Tool.This does not occur when using the Selection Tool.Steps to reproduce Go to Preferences > Previews > Magnification and set Behavior to Centered. Create a new project and composition. Create a Shape Layer. Using the Pen Tool, draw an open path with three or more vertices. Keep the Pen Tool active. Select the first or last vertex of the open path, or leave the last vertex selected after drawing the path. Move the mouse cursor away from the selected vertex. Zoom in or out using the mouse wheel or the . / , keys. Expected resultThe Composition viewer should zoom around the center of the panel, according to the Centered magnification preference.Actual resultThe view moves rapidly toward the current mouse cursor position while zooming, as if cursor-centered zoom were being used.The issue: occurs

Hello! I am looking for some help. I am currently editing a video in which I am using around 200 photos. I make compositions for pairs of photos and then edit them in their separate compositions. I am planning to then use these compositions into a bigger one to fit them all together. However, I am running out of space. Even after clearing my disc cache, I only have 13GB of storage. I am not even a quarter way through the photos. Is there a way to do this without taking up so much space? I was considering rather transferring the file onto a USB but the After Effects file is only a few hundred kb. Otherwise, does the numerous compositions make it take so much space? Any advice is helpful! Thank you!

I’m learning Adobe After Effects and I’m interested in creating short gaming-style animations inspired by the fast-paced visuals of Geometry Dash. I’d like to experiment with glowing objects, transitions, motion effects, and beat-synced animations.While looking for Geometry Dash-related resources, I came across Geometry Dash APKs and it gave me some ideas for the type of gaming visuals I could recreate as an animation project.For someone just starting with After Effects, which effects and techniques would you recommend learning first for this kind of energetic gaming-style animation? Hyperlink removed by Mod.

The layers are getting duplicated and auto grouped while importing in after effects. and some times colour is not updating as well. I found a time being solution for this. but previous version does not have this bug.I found solution for this, in new version while editing in illustrator, while giving release layer to sequence. if there any layer that is inside the parent layer and if it has any artwork or path. it automatically duplicates inside after effects and colours are sometimes not updating. I fixed it by just removing the extra layer inside the parent layer and map the artwork path directly below the parent layer. now its working smoothly. But this should not happen in adobe. Basic things are getting harder and harder things are getting better. please fix this in update. thanks 😀

I’m running AE 2026.3 (Build 87) and I’m seeing AE use up all of my available RAM. The screen shot below is from my activity monitor right after I purged all cache with AE open. It looks exactly the same when I close AE. AE 2025 didn't seem to be doing this. Source footage is 2k, and it does this with just basic footage layouts with no complicated comps. After Purging, this repeats after a just a few minutes. The memory usage just climbs until is uses up everything. System: Win11 Pro, i9 9900X, 128Gb RAM, RTX A4500.  

Hi, I'm having a problem with After Effects.When I open the program and click on my project, it simply closes. How can I fix this?

My coworker found these in the Program Files folder ( Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects [Version]\Support Files ). We were hearing them and wondering where they’re used. I have found no mentions of them anywhere. Are they just an easter egg or something left by the devs?

Hola,Cuando intento abrir After Effects 23.3 en Windows 11, no se abre y al mismo tiempo crear dos iconos en el Escritorio, estos icono se llaman AfterFX_2026-08-23_205305.crashHe intentando ejecutar en modo Administrador, pero no funciona.Tampoco puedo actualizar After Effects a una versión reciente ya que mi laptop tiene 8gb de ram. (Tengo también Photoshop y este si funciona)¿Alguna solución?Gracias

How can I achieve the motion that is at the bottom of the HOW&HOW website?https://how.studio/I really like how it scrolls and tumbles 

IssueRendering a composition using the Advanced 3D Renderer causes memory usage to steadily increase throughout the export until After Effects reaches its memory limit and fails with the following error: "After Effects error: After Effects has unexpectedly run out of memory and cannot complete this export." The issue reproduces consistently on both macOS and Windows and appears to affect all versions of After Effects after 25.4. In addition to the render failure, After Effects does not appear to fully release memory after the error occurs, leaving the application in an unstable state until it is restarted. Steps to Reproduce1. Create a composition using the Advanced 3D Renderer.2. Add multiple 3D layers that are pre-compositions.3. Have those prec-ompositions contain additional nested pre-compositions.4. Configure the nested prec-ompositions so they reference different sections of a large master composition.5. Apply Geometry Options > Curvature to some or all of the 3D layers.6. Ren

I’m working on a small creative project in Adobe After Effects and I want to create a cute pink cat character with simple animations. I’m still learning After Effects and would like to know the easiest way to animate things like blinking eyes, moving ears, and a small bouncing motion.I’ve also been looking at different APK Kucing Pink designs for inspiration, especially for the pink cat character and overall visual style.Would you recommend creating the character directly in After Effects, or designing it in another app first and then importing it? Also, which After Effects tools or effects would be best for this type of simple character animation? Hyperlink removed by Mod.

Whenever I am masking and curve the mask by clicking, holding, then dragging, I can't make a straight line after that point. After the curved line, I click to make another point and it becomes curved automatically. How do I fix this?? I want it to be straight after. 

Hey everyone,I've been using After Effects for years without issues, but lately, whenever I add a 3D camera layer to a comp, the preview just freezes solid. I have a 3D button enabled on all the layers. I have two viewports open too – one with an active camera, another with a custom 3-view camera. It throws this annoying "using processor graphics" error even though I've got a beastly RTX 5080. Sometimes it shows this message and sometimes it doesn't—just stuck the preview. This wasn't happening before—everything was smooth. After Effects keeps telling me it's using your processor graphics after I disable it on the Device Manager—there is no effect to it. It still gets stuck and won't preview at all. Super frustrating for my motion graphics work!How to Reproduce (Easy to Test) Open any project or new comp. Layer > New > Camera (make it 3D). Hit spacebar or 0 to preview—instant freeze with the graphics warning. My Setup After Effects 2026 (fully updated) Windows 11 CPU: Ryz

BackgroundI'm new to After Effects — I'm working through a beginner course and this is the first time I've actually tried to use the app for real (I'd previously only opened it a few times to follow along with a template's instructions, and didn't touch the type tool then). This issue showed up the first time I tried to change a font. To be clear, this isn't a "type tool is unfamiliar to me" issue — I've since done extensive troubleshooting (below), and everything else in After Effects seems to work normally: layers, effects, keyframing, rendering, other panels, other tools. The font dropdown/font-creation step is the only thing that's broken.SummaryOpening the font dropdown in the Character panel (or Properties panel in the new UI) in After Effects triggers a warning dialog: "After Effects warning: Cannot create font '[font name]'." Clicking OK / pressing Escape does not resolve it — the dropdown either loops through repeated versions of this error and after a while for different font

에펙 재생 스페이스바 누르니까 손툴로 바뀌는 현상이 있습니다.오디오 하드웨어 설정과 키 변경, 프로그램 재설치도 해보았는데 그대로 입니다.손툴로 바뀌다가 선택도구로 바뀌고 미리보기에선 재생 표시로 뜹니다, 그리고 타임라인에선 재생바가 그대로 입니다.해결방법 알려주시면 감사하겠습니다.

My Frame.io account was just upgraded to v4 and I’m now unable to use Frame.io inside After Effects.I’m on Windows 11 and I’ve updated to the latest version of After Effects 2026 v26.3 and see the legacy Frame.io review window in the review workspace. This old legacy window no longer works with my v4 Frame.io account - that I understand. Unfortunately going to Window > Frame.io V4 does absolutely nothing. No new windows are opened and I’m completely dead in the water. Things I’ve tried so far:Uninstall AE 2026, reinstall without retaining any previous settings - same issueStart AE 2026 in safe mode - same issueControl Panel > Credential Manager > completely deleted anything related to Adobe or Frame.io, restarted windows, launched AE 2026 - same issue

Dear Adobe Teams,Working through the After Effects SDK's (2019) Smart Render pattern, and the sample code leaves the ownership/lifetime of pre_render_data genuinely ambiguous.In PF_Cmd_SMART_PRE_RENDER (SDK/Examples/Effect/R_O_I/R_O_I.cpp, ~line 201):cppextra->output->pre_render_data = new ROI_RenderInfo();ROI_RenderInfo infoP = reinterpret_cast<ROI_RenderInfo>(extra->output->pre_render_data);if (!infoP) {    err = PF_Err_OUT_OF_MEMORY;} else {    // ...infoP fields get filled in here...}Then in PF_Cmd_SMART_RENDER (~line 392), the same data comes back through extra->input:cppinfo.we_care_about_alphaB = (static_cast<A_Boolean>(extra->input->pre_render_data));That's the entire lifecycle shown in the sample. I checked the whole file for delete, free, or any assignment to output->delete_pre_render_data_func — there is none. The struct allocated with new in PreRender is read once in SmartRender and then never explicitly disposed anywhere in this 400+ lin

I've been having this problem lately where After Effects gets stuck at the end of a render, without ever finishing it; but at the same time, when I check the render folder, it has finished the render. I always work in image sequences, so when some render breaks it's not usually a problem, but this has happened multiple times now and with some semi-simple renders, so it's strange. Here's a screenshot of the render queue I left last night:As you can see, the render queue got stuck at the end of the very first render. However, when I went to check the render folder, my surprise is that it seemed done: all the frames were there, with their corresponding information, the sizes were correct and they looked fine. So that's the most strange part. Even though After Effects said only 397 frames were processed, I found the whole 419 of them. And again, this has happened multiple times in the past few days. Any ideas why? Anyone experienced something similar in the past? How di

After Effects 25.4 does not start, it crashes on the splash screen, but deleting the microsoft.ai.machinelearning.dll file located in: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CC\File Formats, fixes the problem.I am not sure if that same file is present in version 25.3.PC SPECS:- Ryzen 7 2700X- RX 6500XT- 16GB of RAM- Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.4946)

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.