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Have tried all sorts of varieties of drivers, hardware acceleration on/off, Windows display scaling, high DPI Windows compatibility settings for application launch, nVidia Control Panel app settings, different cables, ports on my GPU, etc. Even fresh installed Windows 11 and AE and still have the issue. The most frustrating is the preferences panel does not size properly and cuts off buttons/options - making it basically useless.Clipped preferences window.In addition to that, pretty regular flickering of UI elements when resizing panels.Often the mouse cursor's hit detection boxes when resizing is extremely narrow. Divider borders feel like "dead zones". The mouse sometimes doesn’t change to the resize icon.  System info    Application: After Effects v26.5.0.89    OS: Windows v10.0.26200, RAM: 93.61 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 32GPU - nVidia RTX 4080, Studio Driver 616.92

I’m using an M1 Macbook Pro and have updated to After Effects 26.5.0Whenever I bring in an MXF file it either won’t play, or takes a few minutes to generate a few seconds of a preview. I’ve experienced this across the three Macs we use at my work. We’ve reverted to 2025 where the issue isn’t happening.We use a daily ‘master project’ that we duplicate every morning and use for that days work (for work on a daily tv show). If I create a brand new blank project and import an MXF it’ll play it fine, but as soon as I import the original project, it slows again. If I save the project in 26 as a 25 project and open it in 25 there are no issues.

Create a new project. Create a new composition. Add a new layer of any kind. Add a few keyframes to some value. Select the keyframes and open the graph editor. Press tilde (`) to maximize the graph editor panel inside After Effects. Use the middle mouse button to pan/scroll inside the graph editor. The graph editor panel erroneously returns to its original size.If no layers are selected, the problem does not occur. It also doesn’t happen when holding spacebar to pan/scroll.

When editing expressions in the Timeline panel, expressions that are located near the bottom of the visible timeline become difficult to edit because the expression editor cannot be fully expanded within the available viewport. After Effects Version: 25.6.4OS: Windows 11 Enterprise Steps to ReproduceCreate multiple layers with multi-line expressions. Place the layer containing the target expression near the bottom of the visible Timeline panel. Open the expression editor. Try to expand the expression editor vertically to view the full expression. Expected ResultThe expression editor should automatically stay fully visible, or the Timeline should scroll as needed so that the entire expression editor can be expanded and edited comfortably. Actual ResultThe expression editor is constrained by the bottom edge of the Timeline panel. As a result, only a few lines are visible, making it cumbersome to read and edit longer expressions. Users must constantly resize panels, collapse properties, o

Selecting mask path on solid layer and then hitting ctrl + t to transform whilst dragging the transform box edges the mode of the mask randomly changes or cycles through. It then remains on whichever random mode it was on when releasing the mouse. This occurs both with mouse and pen tablet. Video attached. AE version 26.5.0

There’s this very specific bug that has been happening to me since the later versions of After Effects 2025 and it’s still present on the latest 2026 release.I do a lot of transcriptions on Premiere, then convert those to captions, then convert those captions to graphics, and finally copy the graphics layers from Premiere to After Effects. This is a workflow that I’ve been doing for a while without any issues.These graphic layers are interpreted in After Effects as compositions with text layers inside. And this behavior is still true.But since later versions of After Effects 2025 (up to the current release of 2026), whenever there’s a line break (only on the first line of text) in this layer that comes from Premiere, the rest of the text just disappears. It’s still selectable and reappears if I remove the line break or convert the text layer from the original paragraph text to point text, but I just preferred if this wouldn’t happen in the first place.I’m on a 2021 M1 Macbook Pro. I’m

I found really interesting (and annoying) bug in simple use case of time remap loop.When I use loopout on precomp with animation and there is NO continuous rasterize, AE make glitch at last timeremap keyframe which describes loop area. It shows frame somewhere from middle of animation instead of last-first one.. So loop is unusable, because it always have this oneframe glitch at the end of cycle. There is no timestretching, no effects, the same framerate.. just really simple animation (without any keyframes, just offseted layers) which need to be looped.When you enable "Mr. Sunny" (continuous rasterize) switch on, everything is OK and loop working like a charm. I prepare simple project where you can test it. Just put playhead at 2nd keyframe of loop and switch the switch, you will see..It was tested in all latest major AE versions (23,24,25) and result is the same.I attached screenshots without and with rasterize switch on and also project file (AE 25, but as I said, it does not w

I'm attempting to add a motion blur to a graphic and experiencing an issue where the blur never "disappears" when an animation/motion is completed (see image below):The issue is appearing both in the comp preview and final renders/exports, and started after I updated AE to 25.1. The blur immediately appears on any graphic when it's applied, regardless of whether I have an animation/position keyframed or not. I've deleted my cache, removed all plugins and reinstalled AE to no avail. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Manually changing the position of a guideline now requires an additional step.  Steps to Reproduce:Add a guideline to a composition. Right click it, and select “Edit Guide”.In the old Edit Guide dialog box, I used to be able to press the Delete key one time, type the new number, press Enter, and the guideline would move without ever having to click the box. Now, I have to highlight the FULL text in the text box and delete it, then type the new number.  

Issue:Multiple critical regressions and long-standing workflow bugs in recent After Effects builds are severely disrupting professional VFX/post-production pipelines. Key native features—including Object Matte, Scene Edit Detection, and Auto-Save—are suffering from severe bugs that make them unusable or dangerous for client-facing work.As professional artists paying an ongoing Creative Cloud subscription, having to rely on external tools or spend double the time manually fixing broken automated features (or losing progress due to Auto-Save failures) is completely unacceptable.Issue 1: Object Matte (Model v4) — Severe Performance & Edge Chatter Steps to Reproduce: Import 4K ProRes 4444 footage into a composition. Apply the Object Matte tool using default Version 4.0. Select a basic, clear subject in a shot. Propagate the matte across the timeline. Expected Result: Clean, stable, full-resolution matte edges with fast propagation leveraging workstation hardware (T

Hi all,The behaviour of the zoom is reversed. When “centered” it follows the cursor and viceversa. 

Issue: In Local Axis Mode, the 3D Transform Gizmo's Z (depth) handle translates the layer along World Z instead of its local Z when dragged in the Active Camera or any perspective view. Local X and Y handles are unaffected. The same local-Z move performed in an orthographic view works correctly, isolating the fault to the gizmo's perspective-view drag rather than the transform engine.Steps to reproduce:Create a 3D Camera Tracked comp of a scene, add solids using the camera tracked points. In the Tools panel, select Local Axis Mode. With the comp set to Active Camera (or any perspective view), drag the gizmo's blue Z (depth) handle back and forth using a solid.Expected result: The layer translates along its local Z axis (its facing/depth direction), consistent with Local Axis Mode.Actual result: The layer translates along World Z, ignoring Local Axis Mode. Local X and Y handles behave correctly — only Z is affected. Dragging the same layer along local Z in an orthographic view (e.g. Top

Hi there, I’m on 2026.5.0 on a Mac Studio M2 chip running MacOS 26.6.2. Cryptomatte is not working consistently in this latest version. When freshly opened for the first time, I can apply Cryptomatte and select a single color to create a matte and after that the plugin becomes almost entirely unresponsive. Shift+clicking other colors does nothing in the viewport. Deselecting the current color does nothing in the viewport. The only indication I have that something is happening under the hood is that when I shift click to add colors to the matter I see the additional color ID being added to the list of color IDs that cryptomatte is using, but the minute I move my cursor off of said color, the ID disappears and nothing happens. The viewport is unchanged by this as well. Clicking a second color and seeing the ID list update is only showing in the effect control panel. the additional selected color in the viewport remains its original color. Once this behavior begins it occurs in every othe

can you please fix mocha AE to work with Mac OS 27.0 golden gate? it wont open now that i upgraded my OS. but i'm able to open mocha pro just fine. i'm using after effects 2025. 

I have used After Effects for over 10 years. Over approximately the last two years, a recurring issue has made basic timeline editing unreliable. It still occurs in After Effects 2026 on Windows. This workflow did not previously cause this behaviour.Steps to reproduce in an affected project:1. Open a heavier composition containing multiple animated layers.2. Select multiple layers, particularly all layers in the timeline.3. A blue spinning busy cursor appears and persists. After Effects remains partially responsive, but interaction becomes difficult and the cursor keeps spinning.4. Select a block of keyframes with the intention of copying and pasting them further down the timeline.5. After Effects hangs and the edit cannot be completed.Expected result:Layer and keyframe selection should complete, the busy cursor should clear, and normal copying and pasting should remain possible.Actual result:Selecting layers leaves a persistent busy cursor and partial responsiveness. Subsequently sele

Hi,Just upgraded to 25.2.2 and I am having a strange issue with adding layers its like it randomly clips or switches color space from one frame to the next. Only started happening after upgrading AE and NVIDIA.The screenshots are from the same project just different frames, as you will see it also affects the scopes. Only effect used is 'Fast Box Blur'Switching to 'Software Only' fixes the issue

Ever since version 25.2 we have been noticing a weird bug.We work in 32bit ACES exclusively.Every now and then we come across a composition that just clamps all the HDR values down to 1.I've managed to isolate a comp like that and the problem itself:- AE ver 25.2 or later (even Beta)- comp has minimum 3 layers- at least two layers must be in Add mode - both have to have motion blur turned on- motion blur in the comp is on The problem fixes itself in any of the following cases:- one of the layers gets hidden - so that only one additive layer remains- you disable motion blur in the comp- you disable motion blur on one of the layers, so that only 1 layer has motion blur- you switch renderer from GPU to software- you open the same project in AE 25.1 This occurs rarely, but if we find a comp like that it bugs out on all our machines- rtx 4xxxx or rtx5xxxx- win10 or win11- throughout the last year we've reinstalled gpu drivers 3-4 times already I have an example project - I can upload it, ju

They open up with a white green noise and there are 2/5 of the composition screen two-bar glitch at the bottom    Providing the link to some test footage of .CRM from Canon C50: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hJBx_KVy20I0wjVHAtCzzhE_orua7zrx?usp=sharing

Whenever I apply 3D animation to any of my videos, it gets stuck at the 'initializing' stage and doesn't proceed any further.

Hi everyone, ever since I updated AE to version 26.0.0 I have experienced render times as much as ten times slower than it used to be in version 25.x.x. For now, I have rolled back installation to a 25 version, but I would very much like to keep up with the versions, including all new features.I read somewhere that I'm not the only one bumping into this problem.What can I do to solve it? To be clear: I can create a project in v 2026 and it renders terribly slow; when I save it as 25.x version and then switch to AE v2025 everything works at proper render times.Will there be an update for v 2026 that solves this problem?

I have found a reproducible After Effects file-import problem when using an SMB network volume on the macOS Golden Gate beta.When I try to import a PNG file from a network path containing Icelandic characters, After Effects displays:After Effects error: File exists but couldn't be open for reading (3 :: 0)  Example failing path:/Volumes/markadsdeild/Markadsdeild/Sjónvarp/06 On-Air grafík/01 SÝN/Vatnsmerki/01 Renders/01 Taka 2/01 Hvítt/Syn-vatnsmerki-hvitt_00025.png The file is visible in Finder and can be copied to my local Desktop. After copying it locally, After Effects imports it successfully.I also tested the same file on the same network volume using an ASCII-only folder and filename:/Volumes/markadsdeild/AE_test/test_00025.png  That version imports successfully into After Effects.This suggests that After Effects may be encountering a path or Unicode-normalization problem when accessing files through an SMB volume. The problem appears to involve Icelandic characters such as í, ó, 

The Object Matte tool initially worked correctly in this project and I was able to identify and isolate several cars in the footage very accurately. After working for a while, however, it suddenly stopped functioning properly.Now, when I hover over a car, After Effects still appears to recognise the object and highlights it correctly. But when I click to confirm the selection, one of two things happens: The entire frame/layer becomes outlined in purple, as if Object Matte has selected the whole image instead of the car. Nothing happens at all and no object matte is created. The same problem can also occur when using the brush selection.I have already tried restarting After Effects, reopening the project, clearing memory and disk cache, reopening the footage in the Layer panel, switching tools, resetting preferences and trying again from frames where the tool had previously worked. None of this has resolved the issue.This is particularly frustrating because the exact same footage and

I can no longer copy text from illustrator and paste it into after effects.It used to copy and paste, including formatting. But now nothing at all happens!

Using paint brush tool, when you draw a stroke, set the stopwatch to animate the path then skip forward in the timeline and with current brush item selected and you draw a new stroke a path key frame should be created and there then should be an interpolation between keyframes of the stroke. This no longer works in 26.5 instead a new brush item is created when you have a brush item selected and you skip forward and draw a new stroke. Working normally as of 26.2.1 (Build 2)