After Effects

Is there a way to still obtain the AE 2024 in 2026?The oldest version I can find when I click on the three dots is version 25.0. If I click on "see more," I just get redirected to the website where the 2024 version is also not listed.Thanks

why is it showing a effect, i promise u its not under or behind the comp or anything under that i promise u i checked everything, so why is this buggy thing showing, its been showing all around my edit can someone please help me fix this???? 

I am experiencing an audio glitch/distortion issue in the latest version of After Effects.Whenever I import audio files into my project and play them back on the timeline, the sound becomes glitched, distorted, or stutters heavily. The original audio files plat completely fine in external media players. Macs version 26.6.2

My PC has a 3rd-gen i5 processor; I can't run After Effects versions newer than 24.x, so I'd like to download an older version... I have 16GB of RAM and my graphics card has 4GB of VRAM. 

I'm mostly a Maya animator, and although I've been using AE for 20+ years it's mostly been as a compositing tool and never really had to do too much fine editing of animation. I'm now doing a full 2D/2.5D animation project in AE, and I cannot BELIEVE how absolutely rubbish the graph editor and motion editing tools are. I know this is a well-known fact about AE, but I'm still flabbergasted at just how pathetic the graph editor is and how even the most basic animation curve editing features are rudimentary beyond belief and totally lacking in user friendliness. I am mostly trying to work with Puppet Tool animation. First issue there is NO ABILITY TO SEPARATE CHANNELS on position pins, a capability that exists on just about everything else. Why is this missing? This then has the knockon effect of not being able to frame only one X or Y curve easily, since the button to do this automatically frames both channels. I have yet to figure out if there is an easy way to zoom in and out of curves

Hi, I'm running into a reproducible visibility problem in After Effects 26.5x89 (release version) when several instances of the same precomp have Collapse Transformations enabled.Each instance has its own Essential Property settings, but the menu content inside them seems to follow the uppermost collapsed instance. The settings themselves stay correct. The three renders below show how changing only which instances are collapsed changes where the menu appears.Same frame, three Collapse configurations. The steps below explain the differences.My setupThe parent comp, Thumbnail (Hor) 01, uses Advanced 3D. The repeated precomp, Property, uses Classic 3D. Inside Property, Menu Comp is a 3D precomp layer, alpha-matted by Row. Its visibility is controlled by expressions using the instance's Essential Properties, including a dropdown called Value Type.The instance I'm focusing on is timeline layer 11, with Value Type = 4 (Menu). The values on layers 10–15 are:10 → 1; 11 → 4 (Menu); 12 → 3 (Bool

Hello After Effects SDK Support,We are developing an internal native AEGP plug-in for After Effects 2026, using After Effects Plug-in SDK 26.5 on Windows x64.The plug-in would retrieve the host window handle through AEGP_UtilitySuite6::AEGP_GetMainHWND. An external component would use this handle solely for read-only association with the running After Effects process. No UI manipulation or write automation is involved.Could you clarify these API contract details? Supported calling context Is calling AEGP_GetMainHWND from a registered AEGP IdleHook officially supported? If not, which AEGP callback or lifecycle point is recommended? Thread requirement Must this function run on the After Effects main/UI thread? If so, which supported AEGP callbacks guarantee that thread context? Initial availability At what lifecycle point is the main window guaranteed to exist? Is this call supported during the plug-in initialization entry point defined by AEGP_PluginInitFuncPrototype, or only afterw

After Effects 25.5 Crashes on launch. Splash screen launches but just a mere seconds after a crash window pops up. Splash screen never gets past “Initializing MediaCore”Crash Window always displays a different code or error. Latest one was this one. This is a fresh install of After Effects. No third party plug ins or preferences.I have the same problem with Illustrator. I already tried:Uninstall AE and Creative Cloud and do a fresh install (deleting all related adobe files from C:/) Using Adobe Cleaner Tool Using Adobe CC diagnostics tool (for some reason it only wants to diagnose troubles with premiere pro, which is not installed) Install another version Graphic Drivers are up to date Reinstalled Graphic drivers Windows is up to date (WIN 10) Restarted my PC several times Run as administrator  Installing Older BuildsMy PC specs areWindows 10 build 19045Nvidia GTX 1660 OCRAM 32GBAMD Ryzen 5 3600 (no integrated graphics so disabling GPU is not an option) I would appreciate any help you

Importando una composición con capas de un archivo .ai de illustrator, importa las capas con fondo blanco en lugar de con la transparencia correspondiente, tanto en capas con texto como de elementos vectoriales. Todo el tamaño de todas las capas sustituyen la transparencia por un fondo blanco. He probado a iniciar el programa en modo seguro y continúa haciendo lo mismo.

Is there a list yet for MacOS 27 Golden Gate Compatibility with After Effects?

I really need the versions from 2021 to 2024, the support didn't help me at all and I don't know what to do. I just physically can't work normally in the 2025 and 2026 versions, even with good hardware, the optimization is terrible for me. How can I get the archives, maybe someone has them if that's possible?

I am recording a CRT vector display with my Iphone. The display I am recording is a modified game console called a Vectrex. I want to composite multiple frames of the vector drawing to create a temporal accumulation/trail effect. What is the best After Effects workflow for isolating the phosphor signal and combining multiple time-offset copies using Add/Screen while retaining the fine vector lines? Any assistance would be great.

We are developing a native SmartFX effect on macOS/Apple silicon, tested in AE 26.5x89. We need to analyze the current frame's upstream alpha at a consistent resolution while rendering Full/Half/Quarter previews. This is not a request for a historical frame or time-remapping support.The effect derives content bounds and occupied cells from alpha. Reduced input can lose a faint detail and change the occupied-cell set, which then changes the timing of other visible cells. We can reproduce that in AE with a synthetic 32×8 PNG: two opaque 4×4 corner patches and one alpha=4/255 pixel. At Quarter, the faint feature disappears while the opaque patches remain. Input dimensions or a conservative bounding rectangle alone cannot supply the missing occupancy information.Ordinary SmartFX checkout supplies the complete required extent in our text test, but PF_RenderRequest has no documented per-checkout resolution override. Our isolated diagnostic also tried this acquisition chain:1. PFInterfaceSuit

Okay so i recently bought after effects newest version to fix this problem but it still isnt fixed!So everytime i play my project back a few times i get these errors below and honestly its getting tiring having to reload footage/readd footage/replace footage, is this a bug with everyone or just me?All my clips are in one file, i cleared my disk cache and everything. these clips are not premier related so i dont know what other fixes may help end this issue because it is honestly very  inconvienient. 

When option dragging or via menu. Just what to replace but at a specific point 

I have this GIF animation for my job that I created in After Effects and sent to Media Encoder I set it to Animated GIF and matched the settings. When i play it in my web browsers they all do the same thing. The text is repeating as it slides, can someone please explain what is causing this.

I’ve an interesting issue.  I have spent a bit of time recreating the look of AE’s expression editor as a Per Character styling expression.  It’s not complete yet, but serves my purposes… but the per-frame render time add 5s each frame.  And rendering out a 90 second sequence took 90 minutes. I’m wondering if there’s a way to bake the expression styling once done. Here’s the code if anyone wants to experiment:///// HEX COLOR CONFIGURATION //////var hexBase = "#D4D4D4"; // Off-whitevar hexBlue = "#3E8FE1"; // Blue (Keywords)var hexLtBlue = "#48D9FD"; // Light Blue (Numbers)var hexPink = "#F67476"; // Pink (Strings)var hexYellow = "#9D9039"; // Yellow (Brackets)var hexLightYellow = "#DCBE84"; // Yellow (reserved terms)var hexGreen = "#6A9955"; // Green (Comments)var hexCursor = "#FFFFFF"; // White (Cursor)///// Convert Hex to AE-friendly RGB [0,1]function hexToRgb(hex) { var r = parseInt(hex.slice(1, 3), 16) / 255; var g = parseInt(hex.slice(3, 5), 16) / 255; var

Does anyone know how to fix my After Effects 2024? I try loading it up, and it starts loading as normal, but then just stops and disappears off my screen and from my Task Manager. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling 2024 individually to fix the problem, but that didn't work. My other versions (2025/2026) work despite the issue with 2024. 

i can’t find the contextual task bar after hiding temporally and inot know how find now 

I’m having multiple issues with a project and rather than trying to explain in detail every problem, It’d be a whole lot easier to just share my screen with an After Effects expert and show them what the problems are.

Hello,I have this weird thing happening in AE 2026 (Version 26.5.0 Build 89) on Win11:I created a simple comp to generate a Mogrt from. I did this hundreds of times of the last years so I know the procedure.This time however, when hitting the Export Motion Graphics Template… button in the Essential Graphics Window, AE only creates a Temporary Comp for Preview Generation (basically a duplicate of the comp I creating a Mogrt from).AE doesn’t give me the typical window for further details of where to store it/what to include/etc.It simply stops after generating that duplicate comp.I tried the same thing on Mac and it works as it should. Same version, same build: AE 2026 Version 26.5.0 Build 89.On the Win11 machine, I emptied all the caches, even reset all the preferences to default, comp 3D renderer set to Classic, etc. Nothing works.I attached a video of the whole process...What to do? Is it a bug?Please advice. Thank you. 

Any and every file I import from Cinema 4D into After Effects has the sequence much shorter than the file in Cinema 4D. But it is always 3 seconds long. I have adjusted the length in Cinema 4D. I have also clean installed after effects and all. I am on a mac with the newest version of the OS and the Cloud.

Is there a way to take a precomp and eliminate it and simultaneously move all the elements within it up stream to the parent composition while maintaining all keyframe data?Funny enough, I've never had to do this until now, but another way to ask this is: can one simply move items out of a precomp into its parent?Thanks forum.