After Effects Flashing black frames

Hi all,

Thanks again for your reports of this issue. We have been able to reproduce the flash frames and are investigating potential fixes. We will update this thread once a fix is available in the Beta builds.

Thanks again,

- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

I think it may be a GPU caching issue.

The only solution is rolling back to 25.2.2 until they get this problem fixed.

Hello, I've been having exactly the same problem since the latest update to AE 25.3.0 Build 71.

• MacBook pro Apple M3 Max 96 Go
• macOS Sequoia 15.5 (24F74)

I thought it depended on the footage, but it doesn't. QuickTime, Photoshop or Illustrator, and JPEG files are affected.

Clearing the cache and restarting AE temporarily resolves the problem. The AE project isn't affected by the bug.

I think it's a caching issue. This isn't the first time this has happened after an update, and it's usually quickly resolved with a new one. However, this time, the problem is particularly annoying, in my case I have to clear cache and restart very often.

Stay strong, we look forward to your solution!

8^)

Confirming this is also happening for me, I just updated to 25.3 and I'm frequently getting the black frame bug. Tried with hardware accelation on and off. 

For some reason every since about a week ago every time I try to edit on after effects my project glitches and sometimes crashes. I have after effects 25 and this started happening randomly. I use a macbook pro 2023 36 gb of ram. I'm not a big laptop nerd or anything so I'm not sure what to do. But I factory reset my macbook just because of this and it did nothing. Or if I add an effect it makes it worse. Please can someone help me. 

I tried all steps you recommend. - purge all, disable effects, disable HW acceleration, restart..  None of them fix the issue. 
Flickering is still there. It affects different types of footage. in one project it is retimed (stretched to 120%) mp4, other is mov/proress422 at 100%... 

Hello. Since the 25.3.0 update on macOS 15.5 with Apple M3 Max, using QuickTime Apple ProRes 422 HQ Trillions of Colors 4K files, I experience the return of a quite classic bug : blank images (full black) very often, here and there. Purging cache helps a litle bit but quitting and restarting is more efficient. It's not a huge bug but it's still annoying a lot. I hope there's a fix soon 8^)

Hi, so sometimes when I'm editing in After Effects the screen decides to go black for certain frames in the comp, when I purge everything it goes away sometimes but recently it's been happening more often and it's getting annoying...

Roll back to 25.2.2.... it solved it for me.