After Effects

No idea why this is happening but layer order is not being respected in a simple precomp with basic vector shapes, compare inside precomp image to precomp in other comp: Was working 100% fine on one machine, jumped over to different Windows 10 machine with same version and getting this behavior. There is also a track matte pick whipped to revealing the light blue layer along x-axis but no 3D switches are enabled that would usually do this incorrect perspective error. All just flat 2D and not being displayed correctly outside a comp on one machin for some reason.

Hello, I am unfortunately unable to change any RAM preferences in the Memory & Performance settings. I have 128 GB of RAM installed. The option for "RAM reserved for other applications" is greyed out - says "~ GB (Pending)". This came after having updated my After Effects version to 2025.4 after experiencing unmanageable memory leaks in previous versions. All on Windows 10. I've updated my GPU driver, started in Safe Mode, disabled third-party plugins and extensions. Regarding the Memory Leak - the smallest operations cause memory to go up and never be freed.To reproduce: new 8bpc project, 1080p Comp, created a white solid and moved it's position around in the comp preview window. After about a minute or so, After Effects is at 20GB RAM usage. Not something I can work with.Turned off GPU acceleration, Multi-Frame Rendering, cleared Media & Disk Cache. "dvacore.dll" seems to be allocating. Having made snapshots before & after the Leak with VMMap revealed ident

The grey section next to the cursor and those little ][ symbols - can we hide that? It just gets in the way for me and adds nothing  

Hello, This is my laptop info:Victus HP 16-r1xxxIntel(R) Core(TM) i7NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070Windows 11 Pro 24H2Aftereffects v25.5Blender v4.3 I initially had a problem with After Effects where the Composition panel was completely black — I couldn’t see anything from my composition. I managed to fix it using the following steps: Issue: The Composition panel does not render visual content on Windows devices with both an Intel integrated GPU and an NVIDIA graphics card.Solution I applied:Close After Effects.Open Device Manager (Win + R → devmgmt.msc).Expand Display adapters and right-click Intel UHD Graphics.Select Update driver → Browse my computer for drivers.Select Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer and choose Microsoft Basic Display Adapter.Complete the update wizard until “Windows has successfully updated your drivers” appears.Restart After Effects.This solved the black preview issue in After Effects. However, after doing this I ran in

At some point an AE version stopped the ability for an apple mouse to pan via scroll, but zoom via scroll+option. I am aware in preferences you can change this in v25.3, but this only adjusts for via a pan OR zoom on the apple mouse, so this is no good. I'm hoping Adobe will allow at some point a legacy option for this in some update, but until then- does anyone one know the latest version of AE where the mouse scroll+option for zoom was still an option? I installed a 24.1 but it didnt seem to work.

I'm not trying to bag on the Flowchart view comp window, but I've been using AE for years, and I don't use it. Can anyone share where it really added value for the project?

I am dropping a 2.5K clip in to a 4K 16.9 ratio project. On the upper layer I'm placing a PSD file with an alpha channel that acts as a film mask. The AE video project is 32bit with an RGB colour space. The PSD file is 16bit made in RGB. The option I choose when importing the PSD file is "Merge Layer Styles into Footage".When rendering this or similar projects using a combination of PSD and Mov files, I invariably receive the following dialogue once rendering has completed. "After Effects Error: couldn't perform post-process action because the item to replace is missing". Now, I cannot see what item is missing as the clip renders normally. Can anyone tell me why I am receiving this message and how to get rid of it? I'm working on a MacPro 2024 Silicon 4. Mac OS Sequoia 15.7. After Effects 25.5.Thank you.

I'm trying to figure out how to apply an effect (time displacement) to my clip based on the brightness of the clip. In areas where the image is bright, the effect should be fully at work. In areas where the image is dark the effect shouldn't be applied. Could anyone help me with a process to do this? 

Anyone know how to create this text skew effect. If I animate and use skew it does using the top of the text but the bottom stays in the same spot. Thanks

I keep facing the problem, that After Effects as well as Premiere are crashing on startup. This is only happening on the newest version of 25.x, when I install an old version like 23.x, this problem wont occure.I've tried following potential solutions I've found in the www, unfortunately without success:- updating nvidia drivers- removing plug-ins from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore- resetting/removing preferences- uninstalling and reinstalling That's my rig:- Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4- GTX 1080 Ti- 32GB RAM- Windows 10 Version 22H2 Anyone got any recomondations how to solve this problem?Appreciate your help!  

I am trying to open some old C4D files from within After Effects. I have a full Creative Cloud account.C4D Lite gives me an error as it tries to open. (Attached screenshot.)MacOS 15.6 on Mac Studio, 64 GB RAM- I have uninstalled After Effects- I have deleted every trace I can find of Maxon on my system- I have reinstalled AE The error message says I have no license. Thanks

Buongiorno a tutti, mi si presenta il seguente problema nell'utilizzare After effects aggiornato all'ultima versione: Praticamente il mouse si muove al rallentatore e se ne va per i fatti suoi, cosa che non succede in nessun altro programma. Lavoro benisimo in Premiere Pro, in Photoshop.... Come mai mi succede questo solo in After Effects?

I got this when I tried to update the latest AF.  This happends randomly on any update from Adobe.  I have to reinstall the cloud app to fix it. 

I am getting completely ignored when it comes to buffer expansion via SmartFX and I do not know why. Here is what I learned until now: - Both rects must be set to the expanded rect- Account for buffer expansion in SmartRender Here is the issue I currently have (expanding the buffer 200 pixels in each direction): The buffer only expands in the top-left part and it looks smth like this: It should clearly look something like this instead: Now, absolutely no one wants to help, I don't have the slighest idea why this happens. The buffer expands in the top-left direction but it shrinks in the bottom-left direction. It does not make any sense. Here is my current code (btw if you set both rects to the expanded rect, PF_RenderOutputFlag_RETURNS_EXTRA_PIXELS is not needed: static PF_Err PreRender( PF_InData* in_data, PF_OutData* out_data, PF_PreRenderExtra* extra) { PF_Err err = PF_Err_NONE; PF_RenderRequest req = extra->input->output_request; PF_Checkou

After installing the 2024 version, such a miracle appeared. 20GB of RAM is allocated only on the AE, the cache was cleaned, the drivers were updated. A difficult project or an easy one is such a problem anyway.

The audio just is out of sync and speds up or slows down without no reason to, idk what to do

I've noticed only recently that whenever I opened After Effects, I'd consistently get a pop-up that warns me about my disk cache being almost full, and like normal I purge all memory and disk cache like everyone else would. But although it would say 0KB after doing so, if I close the application and open it up again, the pop-up comes back without issue, and when I try to clear it, it would say (insert number) GB once again even after I cleared it.  If someone can give me some advice, please let me know! I'd greatly appreciate it.I'm using After Effects 2023 on an i7 2022.     

As you can see in the video, I can't change the resolution of my composition. No matter what I select, it always stays at full res. I'm seeing this in all projects since updating to 25.x – not sure if it's unique to 25.5.Has anyone seen this behavior? Bug? User/config error? AE 25.5.0 (Build 4) on Mac OS 26.0

I've got a 32 core threadripper with 256gb ram 10gb graphics cardrunning after effects beta, just installed.Have it set to multiprocessor render.while rendering, either on render cue or media encoder:Max cpu use around 45% but consistently around 18%RAM usage around 30 - 50%GPU usage around 1-2%On my smaller machine - 6 core, 64gb ram, I was hitting close to 100 percent CPU usage.I'm exporting PNG sequences from After Effects, tried quicktime and not much difference.Any ideas of how to get all 32 cores working?

Hi everyoneIs it possible to apply to upload AET templates?

So I need to recreate this https://pin.it/34efBKgje video for a client. But instead of the two characters, they want two puzzle pieces like this https://in.pinterest.com/pin/20758848277417701/ walking in and then getting into the puzzle. and then I also need to know who to do the heart+ puzzle animation at the 0:31-0:36. I can use after effects, photoshop, and illustrator. i just don't know how to go about this. Any help appreciated.  So far what I have.An illustrator file of a jigsaw puzzle. However, that doesn't have the pieces that match the bride and groom shape. In the sense, the groom has 1 head and 3 "joinings" and the bride has 1 head, 2 hands and only one joining. And the jigsaw puzzle is all the same. two heads, two joining. How do I change that. If possible please give as detailed an explanation as you can. Apologies if this is very difficult to understand. It's 2AM where I am and I have no idea what to do.

I open up After Effects like normal and can animate etc also rendering fine.Its frustrating when i move shapes around the screen it lags alot.Is this to do with the AMD 9070 not optimised for it yet? I change the GPU Sniffer to GPU Sniffer 123 and it works like butter. Pc specs:Amd Ryzen 5 7600x32gb Ram 6000mhzm.2 7000mbsAmd 9070850w power Is there another solution this weird laggy bug without changing the GPU Sniffer name?

I have an issue where a particular EXR sequence pulls in either a black frame or the start frame on certain frames in the sequence. Opening the EXR is DJV Imaging does not present the issue.Copying the EXR locally and importing does not fix the issue.Purging all caches does not fix the issue - sometimes the preview of the EXR looks correct without pulling into a comp. Pulling it into a comp the issue presents itself.Changing from hardware rendering to software rendering does not fix the issueDowngrading AFX to 25.3.2 fixes the issue