After Effects

WARNINGI recently purchased an expensive new Mac Studio M4 for my work as a motion graphics artist. specs PROCESSOR AND GRAPHICS 065-CGWJ M4 MAXWITH 16C CPU, 40C GPUMEMORY 065-CGWP 64GB UNIFIED MEMORY  I needed a reliable, powerful main machine for my work having previoulsy been using a 2017 Imac which has been great for the past 7 years, but started to slow down noticably in the past year or so. I have been using the new Mac Studio machine over these past 2 weeks for some important element 3d/4k work which I began on my old machine. Unfortunately I have been plagued with constant freezes, crashes and GPU memory failures when attempting to render even png sequences from After effects desite paying extra for 40 cores of GPU . . . .(see attached images)  I have never seen these errors appearing on any project on the much older and less spec 2017 imac in all the years of intense After effects work i put it through, And, moreover did not expect to see err

 Hello,I am using Adobe After Effects 2026. I am unable to see the dropdown menu for changing the mask mode (e.g., Add, Subtract, etc.) on the 'Mask 1' line of my layer. Can you help?

Just seems like an easy win when people keep asking for it.  It's just basic functionality really. 

We use OCIO color management in AE 26.3, but we have run into a limitation where the existing API setters for the Project Working Color Space still seem to rely on the legacy ICC workflow.Currently, we can successfully query the active OCIO space, but we are unable to set it programmatically: JSX: app.project.workingSpace currently only accepts legacy ICC profile description strings. When the project's Color Engine is set to "OCIO Color Managed", trying to pass an OCIO color space to this property fails. C++ SDK: AEGP_UtilitySuite6 provides AEGP_GetOCIOWorkingColorSpace to read the active space as a string, but the available setter AEGP_SetWorkingColorSpace strictly expects an AEGP_ConstColorProfileP (ICC profile pointer). There doesn't seem to be a symmetrical way to pass an OCIO string back into the system. Our Request: Could you please consider updating both the JSX and C++ APIs to support OCIO setters?Thank you for your time and help!

Ever since Premiere 26 I've been having issues with the tracking, specifically for work I use perspective corner pin tracking for applying written text to a white board every month or so. We draw black dots in each corner for After Effects to track and apply text in the form of a PNG that matches the board’s aspect ratio after tracking. However, since moving to 26 I’ve been finding that after 5 or 6 frames it starts to drift out from the tracking dots and then it loses it entirely. jobs have been done essentially babysitting the software every 3 or 4 frames with the end result looking not quite as smooth as I would’ve liked without a lot of going back in and adjusting frame by frame, which isn’t the point of this software at all. Same problem on 26.3, in fact there was an additional problem that kept coming up with “media smaller than previous frame” or somehting like that, and then would refuse to analyze next frameGoing back to 25.6.6 I’ve been able to do the last 3h of work in the 3

Hello, Issue Description:I have searched for this issue, tried multiple troubleshooting ideas, but cannot seem to find any similar issues or fixes that work.I press play in the preview buttonAE proceeds to cache all of the frames in my workspace (full green bar)The play icon is displayed but I see no playback/no audio, and timeline marker does not moveThe timeline marker just appears to freeze as shown below. You can see the preview status (square) acts as if it's playing, and all frames are cached, but the playback is just frozen.If I press the stop preview button, the timeline marker will jump back 1 frame specificallySee below screengrab from this frozen preview:It happens at any playback resolution (full/half/quarter/auto) and any location in my timeline.  The weird thing is I can get RAM preview to work properly upon my first initial startup of AE. Once I make more than a couple edits to my comp and try to preview though, the freezing playback issue occurs again. On

On the project I am working on I used the auto tracing along with the generate stroke effect on the hands of the logo. I notice the tracing isn’t as clean as I would like and the lines aren’t dark enough for me to properly see them. I changed the size of the pixels and the brush hardness. 

Why AE is still in 2026 absolutely garbage and unoptimized? Why at more than 70$ moth is still full of bugs? Why rendering is still underusing the machine? Why adobe? Why dont you destroy the program and rebuilt from zero? Years, more than 12 years working daily with it and every day I have to FIGHT with the software, every day. Every day I discover a new tricky way to solve a NEW problem. 

The MIR effect doesn’t work for me. Every time I apply it, the whole comp goes dark and I get this error: “After Effects error: MIR: OpenGL error: Could not allocate texFBO (glFlush()) (512) (25::241)”. This only happens with MIR. Other Trapcode effects like Particular and Tao work fine.I’ve already tried reinstalling different AMD driver versions (clean installs), reinstalling Windows, installing OpenGL compatibility packs, and using older versions of the plugin and After Effects. Nothing helped.I use a single monitor, my GPU is an RX 580 8GB, and my CPU doesn’t have integrated graphics. Other effects that use OpenGL work normally. Tech support told me there have been issues with AMD drivers, but if that was the case, old versions should have worked — and they don’t.I don’t know what else to try. Has anyone run into this and found a solution?

Hello,  Im trying to open in after effects 24.6.2 a file from 24,0 but I´m getting the following error message. Is there any chance that I can open? I have the same problem with all files.Thanks!

I noticed that the premade output preset “High Quality, which uses ProRes 422 is set to 16.7 millions colors which is 8-Bit per Channel. Why? ProRes 422 is 10 Bit codec, so the setting should be set to billions colors.Of course I can change it myself, but in my eyes the preset should be corrected, many people render their movies in bad color quality. 

I'm experiencing what appears to be a VRAM memory leak in Adobe After Effects.When working on a project, GPU VRAM usage gradually increases over time, especially when repeatedly adjusting effect properties or previewing the composition. The VRAM is not properly released, eventually reaching the full 16 GB capacity and causing After Effects to crash due to running out of GPU memory.What's strange is that even after closing the project, the VRAM usage remains high instead of being released. The only reliable way to free the VRAM is to completely close After Effects.Here's what I've already tried:- Purging all caches- Switching the renderer to Mercury Software Only- Reinstalling the GPU driverThe issue still occurs. I have also observed similar VRAM behavior in Premiere Pro.My system:- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16 GB VRAM)- CPU: Intel Core i5-14400F- RAM: 48 GB- Windows 11 25H2- After Effects version: 26.3Has anyone experienced a similar issue?Is this a known problem with After Effects,

I'm trying to find an effect that is equal to Flip Horizontal.I want the objec to flip from one side of the screen to the other. What Effect can I use for this?

After effects recently did an auto update and now I see the New viewer option is gone??This is a crucial funtion I need to see how my precomps update in the main comp.  Is this a mistake? Has it moved somewhere else?? After Effects 25.2.2 

When I hit play, it starts playing after 2 seconds or so when I use the Studio Display XDR speakers. If I change the speakers to MacBook Pro speakers or my audio interface, the latency goes away.

Dear Adobe Team,I'm writing to report an ongoing issue that's frustrating many motion designers, including myself.I originally reported a similar problem back in 2023 (), and unfortunately, it was never fully resolved. I managed to work around it by juggling older versions, installing and uninstalling as needed, but it's unbelievable that we face these kinds of problems with such an expensive Creative Cloud subscription. The situation has become much worse with the latest 2025 and 2026 updates.I regularly work on large projects with 500+ assets (PNG, JPG, SWF, audio, video files, etc.). I collect files properly, start working, and everything seems fine at first. But the next day, or after a few days, when I reopen the project, many MP4 and SWF files appear as "missing," show compatibility errors, or fail to display correctly. This isn't a one-time or occasional glitch; it's now my standard workflow. I've wasted countless hours reinstalling software, restarting, and even re-rendering fi

Hello Houston, we have a problem with the Selection Brush Tool's display in Color Theme Light.  

Dear all,I am hyper-new to After Effects but I could not refuse this job as it is for a friend so I need to learn this and just do it! I have gone through all of the ‘Learn’ in-app tutorials but, regardless, I am stuck. The project is about animating music notation transformation over a musical score. The process is therefore something like this:prepare the notation file in the music notation program export it in SVG (or PDF, but I prefer to work in SVG, unless you think PDF is better for this) import SVG in Illustrator (Ai), adjust the colours and layers (every object that needs to be moved on its own layer as instructed). animate in After Effects (Ae)Now, since the Ae canvas is in 1920x1080, I’ve created an Ai document with an dartboard of the same size and imported the SVG in it. I manipulated it as needed, then saved it as an .ai file. In Ae, I’ve created a new project, then pressed Cmd-I to import, selected the .ai file and, from the dropdown, changed the type to ‘Composition - Re

 Mi pc no soporta la ultima version,tengo una i core 7 de segunda generacion con una tarjeta nividia 960 drr4,me dice q probando un after effect mas antiguo de la version 23 me puede servir,como puedo conseguir esas versiones antiguas??

Whenever I click the dropdown to change the font for text, it glitches, won't let me, and says that error, "After Effects warning: cannot create font [insert font]" (a few different fonts have been cited). I'm by no means talented with this software, I'm a Premiere woman, but I've tried all the basics. Trash preferences, clear cache, new project, restart AE, restart computer, etc. Is anyone familiar with this error?

Bug Report: Inner Glow and Outer Glow Layer Styles Not Working Properly in After EffectsI am experiencing an issue with the Inner Glow and Outer Glow effects under Layer Styles in After Effects.Issue Description:When I apply either Inner Glow or Outer Glow to a layer, the effect does not produce any visible glow. Instead of creating a soft glowing effect around or inside the object, it simply fills the selected area with the chosen glow color, making it appear as a solid color overlay. Additionally, the Size parameter does not behave as expected. Increasing the Size value should expand or soften the glow effect, but instead it increases the apparent size of the shape itself rather than the glow. As a result, the Layer Styles Inner Glow and Outer Glow effects are unusable because they do not render the expected glow.Expected Behavior:Inner Glow and Outer Glow should create a smooth, feathered glow based on the selected color and blending settings. Increasing the Size value should only a

Every time I start up After Effects I'm getting the 'disc cache full' pop-up box (see screenshot) - yet my cache is empty and my hard drive has space on it. Screenshots showing that my disc cache is set to 92GB and my hard drive has 220GB of free space.