After Effects (Beta)

Today we are excited to announce the availability of Render Queue Notifications in After Effects beta, available in builds 18.4x37 or newer.   What are Render Queue Notifications? Render queue notifications allow you to be notified when a Render Queue job completes (or fails) as well as when your entire queue of jobs complete. You can receive notifications in the Creative Cloud Desktop (Window and macOS) and Creative Cloud Mobile applications (iOS and Android). Download the latest build from Creative Cloud Desktop.   You can see Render Queue Notifications in action in the attached video.   Please use this forum post to discuss and provide feedback.   Thanks!

Today, we’re proud to announce a new look for After Effects in Beta!   As of Beta Version 24.4 build 20 — available today — After Effects is themed and styled using Adobe’s Spectrum design with a new modern look across the entire app.   After Effects Beta now ships with three different themes: Darkest, Dark and Light. There’s also a new toggle for switching between a high-contrast mode for easier visibility and accessibility or a low-contrast mode for focusing on your content.   Additionally, we’re also shipping GPU-accelerated UI performance improvements on Windows computers. This improvement may be most noticeable in timeline interaction, comp overlay drawing, and on multiple monitors. This is a beta release with additional fixes and changes rolling out in the coming weeks. Please let us know if you encounter any issues — particularly with specific GPUs — or have suggestions. Feedback from our beta community is appreciated and essential for building better and str

As of the After Effects Beta24.6x35 update, we are including support for macOS Dark Mode, as well as some performance improvements on macOS.       This means that not only will all After Effects dialogs will have appearance-appropriate Title Bar coloring, but system windows like File Import will render with the correct appearance for your current system setting. After Effects appearance theme coloring is not tied to System Appearance, so you can have a light AE with a dark macOS, if you so want.   We have seen occasional rendering-only issues in custom button UI in the Effects Controls Panel that don't affect functionality. We've reached out to the developers of those plug-ins but as Beta Testers, please let us know if you observe any unwanted UI rendering differences in new beta builds, particularly with third-party plug-ins. If you are a developer, please test your software with this new release, particularly if there is any custom rendering.

I occasionally find myself trying to align things an equal distance from the edge of a comp. I can drag a guide and specify its position, and then subtract that amount from the width of the comp and drag another one to that position, but that's a bit of a faff, especially if I want to then adjust both guides "in a bit more" for example. Many years ago, I remember using an external box (probably a hardware scope) that had a knob-adjustable guideline thing, which would display a couple of guides that were equidistant from the edge of frame. The knob would adjust the distance of both of them from the edge of frame. It was very useful. To replicate this, it'd be nice if AE provided a way of adding these "equal" guides. Maybe alt-dragging a guide onto the comp would add a pair of guides, each the same distance from the edge. They could be a different colour from regular guides, and if I adjusted the position of one, the other one of the corresponding pair would also move. This wou

Hi,   We've noticed a critical bug in Essential Graphics. The text is not updating outside of the EG comps when it's changed in the source. It updates the color but not the font size or type or other aspects. This problem wasn't present in v23 but seems to be in 24.x all the way up to this beta.   Steps to reproduce: - Create comp with text layer with any formatting. - Promote 'source text' in Essential Graphics of that comp. - Make another comp and put that setup comp in it. - Change the EG text to something else or link it to a new source text of a text layer. - Change the font type and size inside the setup comp. - The updates are not reflected outside in the other comp.   This has been a workflow breaking issue for us. Project made in 23 are completely broken and are only fixable by going to every place where the text has been adjusted and re-read from primary comp then apply the adjustment again. This is a no go for projects where such things are referenced over 100

 

After Effects (Beta): Unable to allocate 132.563 MB of memory. Either decrease the memory requirements for the rendering of this frame, or install more RAM. (12803 / Unidentified caller.). For more information, see www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_mem I'm testing the "beta" of AE and wanted to report this issue.. (which even happens in the official version 25.1) but here it's more constant because as you can see I'm rendering my video and I get this error, and they are just aligned clips without any effect (well, just one, the "twixtor pro" effect) which doesn't take up much space! but still it tells me that I'm out of memory idk.. I have 24 gb of ram of which I have assigned 16 to after effects (leaving 8gb so that windows 11 runs correctly) also even if I add the maximum it still shows up "even though it's a super light project" I'm also noticing that pressing the "space" key to preview has a delay of about 3-5 seconds " it seems that it lacks optimization in the render, I don't know,

3d camera tracker keeps giving timed out while obtaining dynamic link , but i can use it once if i restart my pc then it starts bugging out

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And this is on a 16 gb macbook proSystem info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v25.2.0.121    OS: macOS v15.3.1, RAM: 16.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10

I'm not sure if it's something to do with preview caching, but if I leave it on in the background, my PC (it's a pretty good gaming PC) becomes unbearably slow. My PC froze for 3-5 minutes today and I couldn't even close After Effects.

Hi everyone, We’re working to expand After Effects’ HDR capabilities. Starting with AE 25.2 build 81, HDR Preview and Transmit is available. This support for Extended Dynamic Range on Mac and DirectX HDR on capable Windows machines will enable you to preview HDR compositions in full dynamic range in Adobe Color Managed projects on an HDR-capable display or through Mercury Transmit. Usage Make sure your OS/Display HDR settings are turned on (if needed), then go to Color Settings. Set your project to Adobe Color Managed, Bit Depth to 32 bits per channel and choose a Working Color Space that supports HDR, like Rec.2100 PQ. Your composition will automatically be displayed in HDR. You can also send frames in the project’s working color space to external devices via Mercury Transmit. You will need to select the proper profile in the device settings. We are working with our third-party partners to update their drivers to more fully support AE workflows. Please give this new function

Hi everyone,   We're continuing our work to expand After Effects' HDR capabilities. Starting with AE 25.2 build 102, Import and Export of CICP Metadata is available, a broadcast industry standard way of specifying color spaces.   What is CICP The CICP chunk specifies the video color space (primaries), transfer function, matrix coefficients and scaling factor of the image using the code points in accordance with ITU-T H.273 standard. After Effects now supports CICP metadata in MOV (ProRes), MP4(H264/HEVC), MXF(XAVC), PNG and ICC profiles if included.   Usage In Project Settings, make sure you have selected an HDR compatible Working Color Space such as Rec.2100 PQ. Import a file containing CICP metadata (Quicktime, PNG file or TIFF, for example, with an ICC profile) and it will be interpreted correctly.   To Export with CICP Metadata, add your composition to the RenderQueue, and select PNG Sequence from the Output module. In the Color tab, select a desired output c

Hi beta users!    Version 25.2.0.098 of After Effects Beta introduces support for Animated Environment Lights.   Illuminate your Advanced 3D compositions by choosing a composition, video or image layer as an Environment light source.     Getting Started  Previously, Environment lights were limited to HDR and EXR still-image files as sources. Now, you can use any 2D layer to light your 3D scene.    Environment Lights turn their source into a sphere to light the scene from all angles, so they will treat the selected layer or composition as if it is equirectangular – a 2:1 360-degree projection where the pixels at the top and bottom are stretched. Thus, using equirectangular video (e.g. footage from an Insta360 video camera or equivalent) will provide great results. However, for many scenes, using a flat video source will still provide convincing results that are “good enough”.      Environment lights will respect the overb

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Colormatch between Premiere Pro beta and After Effects beta via Dynamic Link does not work. Now that I can work in the ACEScct color space in Premiere Pro beta, I am very happy with the output of my SLOG 3 footage. It was also announced that I would get the same colors in After Effects via the Dynamic Link, but this is not the case. No matter which color space I use and how I interpret the clip, the image in After Effects is far too bright and the highlights are completely overexposed. It doesn't matter whether I create a project using Dynamic Link or manually. It also doesn't matter whether I use the color space selected by Dynamic Link (which is actually the right one) or set it myself.Here are the pictures for comparison.I am using a MacBook M3 Max with Sequoia 15.3.1.Premiere Pro and AfterEffects are also up to date (both 25.2)

When i Import a 3d model into AE Beta it doesn't show up. The controls to move it around do, it's like it's invisible. Does anyone know a fix?

Howdy motion friends!    Version 25.2.0x109 of After Effects Beta introduces new 3D Helper Tools!    These are three new commands that reduce common 3D workflows to single clicks.  Have you ever wanted to control a light as if it was a camera, just like in 3D apps? What about easily applying 2D effects to 3D models? And how about that Environment light, wouldn’t it be awesome to see a 360º representation of it in your comp? Now you can do each of these things in one click!    Getting Started Select the relevant layer type and run the following commands from the menu:    Layer > Create > Create 3D Layer Instance creates a Solid at the top of your composition with CC Composite referencing the selected 3D layer. Your referenced 3D layer is turned off, but if you want to retain your layer’s shadow, just turn it back on! You can also right-click on your 3D layer to access this command.  A 3D donut cat with Colorama applied...a Glo

I'm not sure when this stopped working but lately I've been doing a lot of disclaimers and it seems like After Effects' justified text paragraph modes are broken (whether it's Last-Left, Last-Centered, Last-Right, or Justify All.) Words overflow out the right side of the text box, and I have to manually edit and shift-enter line breaks in after the next-to-last word on those lines (and then pull up the rest, which changes the results of subsequent lines, etc.) I was still on AE 2023 but recently upgraded machines and got on 2024, going from Windows 10 to 11, but can say that it definitely was broken in 2023. Then I installed the current beta (24.2.0) to check and it's still broken there too:  As you can see the first line is fine, the next 4 aren't, the following 4 are, etc. Font doesn't matter; size doesn't matter; changing either does give you different results obviously, but still will result in many jagged right-hand lines. Photoshop and Illustrator format corre

Hello beta users,   Version 25.2x85 of After Effects Beta introduces support for 3D model options in the Properties panel, making it fast and easy to adjust how a 3D model layer responds to lights and shadows and to select embedded animations.     Compositing Options are available for all supported 3D model types; Animation Options are available for GLB and GLTF layers.     Please give this new functionality a try and let us know how it’s working for you.

I have a few issues with NaN pixels in 32 bit projects.  These problems are still in the latest Beta, but are the same for earlier public releases too.  It does look like the problem is different when using the software renderer (worse) than the Mercury GPU accellerated renderer. I have a project that I have zipped up ready to share, but I don't seem to be able to upload a .zip  Contact me to send you the file, it's less than 5 meg in size. Basically: The combination of the advanced spill supressor and lumetri plugins produces rogue pixels that are way out of range.  These pixels then cause more artefacts / corruption when other effects such as blur & sharpen are used.There's a freely available "NaNny" plugin that exists to fix NaNs.  Oddly, this plugin doesn't seem to work when applied to an adjustment layer.  However it does work when applied in an effects stack.Adding a non-32bit plugin to the original layer also fixes the issue. NaNs

After last 2 updates I cannot see anymore selection rectangle while drag-selecting in composition view or layer view. It works as usual in timeline and project panels, but not in view panels.The selection itself works, I am able to select layers or mask vertices, but I cannot see the "selection rectangle". Had to return to regular AE version.Any ideas how to resolve this issue? using now AE Beta version 25.2.0 (100)

I'm trying to give a speed acceleration (Vox style) to a vertical bar for a bar graph. The problem is that when I try to do that it has no effect in the speed graph editor. I'm able to achieve the speed curve I want when I apply it to the position property of the moving rectangle, but not the height scale property of the bar. Notice that I pulled the handle of my second keyframe for the vertical bar all the way to the left to have the bar begin scaling up fast and then slow down to a stop (like I did for the rectangle position). But the speed scale curve of the vertical bar hasn't changed. That's my issue.     

I'm getting tired of this. I start a project and about 20 minutes in, the program crashes and I get some unknown error dialogue that won't go away no matter how much I click it. I've lost countless hours of work at this point (Yes I know I should save more often) and i'm fed up with it. Never had this issue before with the regular AE. I've set the allocated RAM to other programs to the lowest I have, cleared my disc cache several times, made sure I have space on my local drive and hard drive, etc. This program is not good. Adobe fix this.