After Effects

Right clicking keyframes on any layer is causing the menu that pops up to stretch across the entire screen and not remain it's normal size. It's showing random text that's in the project within the window that appears after right clicking any keyframes. It also includes random Chinese characters within the pop up window panel. I’ve purged data/cache and restarted. Goes away for a little, then right back. 

I’m having a very specific crash in After Effects and I can’t find a real fix anywhere.When I try to change the font on a text layer, AE crashes ONLY when the text layer is highlighted AND I type certain letters in the font search box (for example “a”). I can type those letters normally in the Character panel, and I can scroll fonts normally. The crash only happens when the text layer is selected and I type into the font search field.  AE does NOT freeze or lag — it instantly closes or gives a controlled crash Reset Preferences does NOT fix it Clearing cache does NOT fix it Safe Mode does NOT fix it Reinstalling AE does NOT fix it I did NOT modify AE or install plugins This only happens on text layers that already exist in the comp Creating a new text layer sometimes avoids the crash, but the problem returns when searching fonts I recently activated some Adobe Fonts, but the crash still happens even after deactivating them Other Adobe apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc

  “When I enable Per-Character 3D on a text layer in After Effects, the text disappears. I want to apply a mask and rotate the text 90 degrees while keeping Per-Character 3D enabled. In Advanced 3D, I can extrude the text, but it disappears when I switch modes. How can I fix this, and what causes the issue?

When tracking is terminates prematurely, there is no way to escape. Mocha has to be forced quit. And more: saved versions are not recovered, only a dialog for opening 'autosaved' versions is popping up.Please repair this - it's almost impossible to work with Mocha for Ae now.

When I try to change a font on a text layer, it gives me “After Effects warning: Unknow BIB Error: Probable invalid access, CT, 0 ( 83 :: 3 )”, specifically when I write only “si” in the properties panel. This is the first time that this problem has occurred. Prior to this problem happening, I downloaded 4 fonts from Adobe Fonts: ‘Cheddar Gothic’, ‘Six Hands’, ‘JohnDoe’, and ‘Papyrus’. As I went in After Effects and tried to change the font to an already existing text layer and started typing “si” (only with the letters si together) in the properties panel to select the ‘Six Hands’ font it gave me this error, for the first time. (I have a video of the problem) I tested a couple of things to see if it would be tied to that font, I deleted it, tried again and it did the same thing. The confusing part is, when I typed only “s” in the fonts properties panel, I scrolled down to the ‘Six Hands’ font, selected it and didn’t have a problem of using it in the project (I forgot to record this pa

I would like a mobile version of after effects because i've seen many good edite made with after effects and i want to make the same too, but can you make it simple like capcut for mobile in the future?,Thanks

I'm running into what feels like a workflow dead end in After Effects, and I'm wondering how experienced users deal with this.Here's my setup: I have multiple levels of nested precomps. Deep inside those precomps are vector shape layers with effects applied (for example CC Bend It, used to animate things like plants or grass bending in the wind). My top-level precomp is placed inside the main composition and treated as a 3D layer. The issue appears when I animate a 3D camera.Without Continuously Rasterize, everything works correctly, but as soon as the camera gets closer, the entire precomp becomes soft/blurry (Depth of Field is disabled). I understand that's expected because AE is treating the precomp like a rasterized image.If I enable Continuously Rasterize on the precomp, the image stays perfectly sharp, which is exactly what I want. However, this creates two new problems: The internal transforms of the nested layers can change, although enabling 3D on the appropriate precomps

The same scene that took 45 minutes to render in 26.2.1 now takes 2 hours with the same settings, objects and lighting setups. I even made sure Depth of Field is turned off.Also, light objects in the preview tab cause the project to crash. Had to hide them from the preview.

So I have a 2D project of a line that is moving from left to right while the "camera" follows it (by adjusting a null's anchor point to always have it in the center of the screen so it looks like the camera is following the line movement). I can successfully attach an object (i.e TEXT) to the line's movement so it looks like the Text is at the front of the line and directing the path. However when the line goes up and down, the text rotates it's shape WITH the line instead of staying horizontal. Is there a way to LOCK the text's rotation so it still follows the line's path, but doesn't rotate and stays rotationally stationary but still moves with the line?Thanks guys -- any ideas?

​Here are the steps to reproduce the problem:Create a comp, 1024x1024 Create any 2D object, e. g. a text and center it in the comp Add the VR Converter effect to the text layer Set Input to 2D Source, set output to Fisheye (Fulldome)Result: The text just disappears. Re-orienting the camera view does not do anything visible.Expected result: The text is distorted for Fulldome and can be placed in the dome by re-orienting the camera view. This used to work in older versions of After Effects, as you can see for example in this Youtube tutorial at 1:35 : My system: After Effects 26.3.0 (Build 87), WIndows 11, Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, Driver 610.62​

As the title says, the UI fonts are blurrier than in After Effects 2024 and earlier. Since I'm on a 1080p monitor, it is very hard to look at that much antialiasing. Can I get UI looks similar to After Effects 2024? I did everything to fix that, changed settings, display settings, etc., on the internet. cause of this issue, I can't go for future upgrades, sadly. Still stick with After Effects 2024. seems like bold and antialized UI text and icons on 2025 and 2026 give unwanted eye strain if used for while, compared to 2024 and earlier. Those earlier versions has more crispier UI fonts and ui and theme. I downloaded photo from another bug report which you simply ignored. I don’t want to continue this chat, when you can clearly see it.. or you can ignore this tooo and wait until 7 years to fix that.. 

I am running mac os 26.5.1, and since the point one update, any project that has to be converted from an older version of After Effects, the media will say it’s missing. When trying to replace the missing media by pointing to the missing file, it says Can’t import, found no matches for the selected file.If I open and resave every media file, it will import.

I am experiencing a problem in one of my After Effects projects when working with Hebrew text.When I press Ctrl+T and try to click on the screen, the project suddenly jumps back to the beginning of the timeline, and there is no response from the text layer.When I exit the project, I also receive the following warning: Error reading the text layer, skipping the text layer After Effects Warning: your project file is apparently damaged. (Skip section: 1) Please save using a different name I saved the project under a different name, but the issue still comes back.I am working with After Effects 26 on a MacBook Max 3, so this does not seem to be a system performance issue.Is there any way to fix this problem? I would appreciate your guidance.i also cleaned the cache

I am working on a motion graphics project in After Effects where I need to use video clips that were originally posted on Instagram as source footage. The problem I keep running into is that Instagram provides no built in way to retrieve your own previously published videos in original resolution once the local file is deleted from your device. Screenshots and screen recordings are not suitable because the output quality is tied to screen resolution rather than the actual source file quality, which creates noticeable compression artifacts when working in After Effects at higher resolutions.I recently tried using snapinstaink as a browser based solution to retrieve the original quality video file from the public post URL before importing it into After Effects and the quality difference was significant compared to screen recording. However I noticed that some retrieved video files from Instagram have a variable frame rate which causes sync issues when working with compositions set to a f

I’ve done another deep dive into VFX lore and this time it is about After Effects itself.  The origin story is crazy and to tell it I got to speak to Brian Maffitt (the first video tutorials creator) and Chris and Trish Meyer (the beta-tested v1 and wrote the first book on learning AE).  I also discovered an emulator capable of running AEv1 and got JakeInMotion and SternFX to try it out.If you have a spare 45 minutes, I hope you’ll enjoy learning a bit about the early days of After Effects. 

How to make a effect like this in after effectsThe Original effect comes from Davinci, using something called “fast noise” I really like how this one looks and ive been struggling to remake it 

Hi, trying to send logo I extruded via Illustrator and Painter using this tutorial -  In Painter, I use the ‘send to After Effects’ shortcut and the error I receive is this I’m operating on a MacOS and saw that there was a bug fix from August 2025 regarding this, but do you have any suggestions or recommendations?

It seems the last two weeks AE has been hanging more and more. Hangs during document opening about half the time rn. Deleted cache, it helps but doesn’t solve. What solves is restarting, at least mostly and temporarily. I’m on mac os 15.7.5 (sequoia). AE is latest at 26.3.0 build 87

Hi,everytime I try to export an H264 video from After Effects I need to change “Audio Output” to “Audio Output ON” cause if I use “Audio Output Auto” my audio layer hadn’t recognize and output file is without audio.Of course if I use “ON” my output file has audio.Can someone help me?

since the last update I'm facing a problem with text layer properties like I have 2 text layers, I apply effect on the first than once I wanna change properties for the second one it effect the first one only , even if I add more text layers and trying to change properties fro the 3rd one for example position it change the position of the first one only , but when I RESTART AE it works for a while than the same problem!

How to copy object in video and paste that object to another video with that object rigged to fix an Ai text to video generator. Like copy person in video and paste it to a whole another video. What tools and features do I need and where are these tools located?

AE is unusable. All solutions online are not working. What is going on?I have hardly been pushing the program to it’s limits and it pretty useless right now.Cache size is 100GB. It has been cleared. Bin emptied. Comp restarted. AE updated. Purged all memory and dish cache.

I want to assign a hotkey for "Snapping" check mark/switch but I didn't find this option in the keyboard settings. Is there a way to do this? I use it very often and on a huge screen it is very inconvenient to constantly reach the top left corner.