Bug Reports

I can't say for sure, but after two or three more recent versions of AE Beta I started to get a random error, after working for a few minutes the whole computer crashes and then this Direct2D Drawbot Error box. HRESULT:-2005270523 appears, but I can't close it, it keeps reopening endlessly and then I have to force close the program.   I've been using AE Beta since they redid the interface, it's just become another program! It's very fluid and enjoyable. I'm not using to use the retail version because he not received the interface update., but I can say that the problem is in the beta, because when i use the reail version there is no issue i don't have any errors or freezes.   Here's a picture of the error I get when I close.     AE Beta V24.6.0 b23 Windows 11, i7 9750H, GTX 1660TI 6GB, 32gb de RAM, 512gb SSD. Driver Nvidea Studio  555.99.  

So I recently started a new Job where I connected my apple ID to the office intel iMac so i can use my iCloud since between my home Macbook M3 Pro and work. For the first few days it worked well there were no issues with nay of the projects but once premier updated to 26.0.2 the dynamic link stopped working between premier and After Effects so I had to move back to 26.0 on premier (Make that make sense adobe). Since that every day my file paths on After Effects have been breaking every day more and more, it started with maybe one or two clips that I would just reconnect manually but every day it got worst to the point where almost the whole project loses its file paths. I’ve tried downloading from iCloud before opening the AEP, I’ve tried changing the names of files and reconnecting, removed spaces, dots, dashes in the file names. After effects keeps telling me that some of the codexes are damaged or unsupported but every time I reconnect the EXACT SAME file it worked for the rest of t

Using a fresh install of AE 25.3.2 (build 2) i.e no previous versions ever installed on this machine. AE is fine until I resize any of the windows (libraries for example). Then the program freezes, followed by major lag, glitches, sometimes even strange beeps and noises then crashSteps to reproduce - 1. Open AE2. Open project3. Scrub timeline to check all is normal4. Resize any windowExpected result - The window should be resized with no performance problems at allActual result -  Immediate freeze followed by lag and glitches and crash. Can only stop it by using task manager to end the processAdobe After Effects version - AE 25.3.2 (build 2)Operating system - Edition Windows 11 HomeVersion 24H2OS build 26100.4652Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.128.0GPU driver version - NVIDIA Studio Driver Version 577.00 (just updated but also it did it with the previous version)Problem began today whilst working on a file with a modest

After Effects v: 25.6.4 (Build 3) Text In text box deselects when clicking the Character panel.Unable to format text or achieve different weights / sizes within a text box.Example text in 1 Tex Boxt:A sailor went to sea, sea, seaTo see what he could see, see, seeBut all that he could see, see, seeWas the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea!I cannot accomplish this:A sailor went to sea, sea, seaTo see what he could see, see, seeBut all that he could see, see, seeWas the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea!Rather, I get this:A sailor went to sea, sea, seaTo see what he could see, see, seeBut all that he could see, see, seeWas the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea! 

After Effects Version 23.2.0 (Build 65) Windows 11 22H2 (Build 22621.1265)   Menu items take a long time to drop down when clicked, sometimes over a minute. The software will hang while I wait. The Composition menu is the least responsive of the menus. This started after I upgraded to Windows 11.   Expected result: click on the Composition menu and see the dropdown instantly Actual result: click on the Composition menu and After Effects hangs for up to a minute before the menu appears.   Title edited by Mod.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/ae-stops-updating-interface-shows-spinning-cursor-when-rendering-via-script/m-p/8471675#M136397 same problem, almost 10 years!

Problem DescriptionThe ExtendScript API operation renderQueueItem.outputModule().file = has a character encoding problem: when setting output paths containing non-ASCII characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, European special characters, etc.), these characters are replaced with dashes (-----). Testing shows that manually setting the same paths in the AE interface works perfectly, and the API can correctly read manually set non-ASCII paths, but after setting through the API , it displays as dashes, indicating the issue occurs during the API's write process.Note: This functionality worked correctly in After Effects 2024.Version InformationAfter Effects Version: 2025 (latest version)Platform: Windows 11OS Version: 24H2Steps to ReproduceUse ExtendScript to create new render queue itemsTry to set output paths containing non-ASCII characters via APIObserve the display result in the render queue panelTest ScriptSimply create a new project and run this script directly:// Create three test comp

I am experiencing severe performance issues in After Effects 2026 with my brand new high-end system. Even on very small and simple projects, the software freezes, lags, and has render problems.My system specs:- After Effects 2026 (latest version)- Windows 11 64-bit- NVIDIA RTX 5090 (Driver 580.97)- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 32-Core (4.00 GHz)- 128 GB RAMIssues I experience:- Preview window freezes when pressing spacebar- Program freezes when adding effects- Render queue freezes even on small projects- Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (CUDA) renderer is grayed out and cannot be changed- GPU usage stays at around 1% during freezes — this is clearly not a hardware performance issueSteps I have already taken with no improvement:- Clean NVIDIA driver reinstall using DDU- Disabled Multi-Frame Rendering- Cleared all media cache and reset preferences- Adjusted preview quality settings- Updated all Adobe applications to latest versionsThis system is extremely powerful and should hand

Tengo un timeline con 10 capas de vídeo, de las cuales hay varias solapadas. Imaginemos que 1 es el vídeo más arriba y 10 el vídeo más abajo. El problema viene cuando cambio por ejemplo la escala de 10, con o sin keyframes, se modifica también la escala del vídeo 1, a pesar de tener su escala sin tocar. Fallo catastrófico aún sin arreglo...

Issue:If the Render Queue window or Project Window contains too many comps, then after you scroll past a certain point then the GUI visuals will freeze or turn black. Steps to reproduce:Add 1000 comps in the render queue and then try scrolling to the bottom of the Render Queue window. After you scroll past a certain point then the GUI visuals will freeze or turn black. Create 2000 comps within a single folder of the Project window and then try scrolling to the bottom of the Project window. After you scroll past a certain point then the GUI visuals will freeze or turn black. Note:The exact amount of comps varies to trigger the bug (perhaps by scene or computer). Screen capture of the bug in action: Adobe After Effects version - 26.0.0 (Build 67)Operating system - Both MacOS 15.7.4 and Windows 11 Does it affect all projects or only some projects? All projectsDoes it affect new projects? YesWhen did the problem begin? It's been an ongoing issue for many years.

Today AE starting seriously lagging and responding to anything.  Timeline frozen.  In one example working with one ten second video, the only video in the project.   Cache is clear, mouse and keyboard are wired.  This problem didn’t start until halfway through the day.  This was happening with 2026 version which is why I went back to 2025.  Mac Studio M2 Max / Sequoia / 64G ram, 90% of which allocated to AE.  

Depois de instalar a nova versão do after effects, passado algum tempo não conseguir fazer preview de uma animação relativamente simples. Já desisntalei e voltei a instalar, já limpei as informações disk and memory, do cache. E segui todas as hipoteses de solução de várias AI. Como posso fazer para recuperar o programa? 

Issue - After Effects 2026 crashes when enabling a layer's 3D switch under the "Advanced 3D" renderer, specifically when the Windows Computer Name contains non-ASCII characters (affecting Chinese/Korean localized versions).Steps to reproduce -In Windows Settings, set the Computer Name to a string with Chinese/Korean characters (e.g., "我的电脑") and restart the system. Launch After Effects 2026 (v26.x) with the UI language set to Chinese or Korean. Create a new composition and set the renderer to Advanced 3D in Composition Settings. Create a new layer (e.g., a Solid or Text layer). Click the 3D Layer switch for that layer to enable 3D mode.Expected result - After Effects should enable 3D mode for the layer and initialize the Advanced 3D environment normally.Actual result - After Effects crashes immediately as soon as the layer's 3D mode is activated.Adobe After Effects version - After Effects 2026 (v26.x)Operating system - Windows 10 / 11GPU - RTX5080GPU driver version - NVIDIA Studio Driv

TLDR; Adobe Media Encoder renders my project for about 8 seconds before it begins rendering the "Effects Heavy" part of my project, then COMPLETELY freezes. Attempts to render through AE2025 are arguably worse- as it stays stuck at 0%. GPU and CPU usage in task manager are not anywhere close to 100% utilization. Pausing, then closing AE in Task Manager, then resuming DOES work, HOWEVER- it only allows it to render another 1 or 2 seconds worth of footage. Detailed Story:I've gone down the rabbit hole and done an insane amount of research regarding this issue since for the most part, I just got AE and was really thinking that purchasing this product would SAVE me time and effort. The most common fix for this issue, at least to most people, has been to go into task manager, force-closing AE, allowing it to re-open, then resuming the rendering in Media Encoder. Although this does infact work, it only allows Media Encoder to render about 1 or 2 seconds worth of my project before f

I have a plugin with a bunch of parameters. I also want to show/hide some of these parameters depending on a checkbox. I do this by setting the flag AEGP_DynStreamFlag_HIDDEN. The part of hiding/unhiding parameters works but the panel size and scroll won’t update. This means that the parameters at the bottom go out of view when some other parameters change from hidden to shown, since the size of the panel doesn’t update. Expanding a group for example fixes the issue. Edit: Just found out that calling PF_UpdateParamUI after a parameter was unhidden, fixes the problem. It’s still a bug though.

Im working wit AE for about 15+ Years. Since i can think AE was reliable in terms of opening old files in newer versions and also saving files from newer versions to older versions. As it turns out this is no longer valid. Ive tried to save an downword compatiable version off a new macbook AE 2026 to work on an other station with a AE 2023 on it. Since the other workstation has old but yet reliable hardware its not able to uptate AE higer than 2023. Now its just not anymor possible to save downward compatible files. you guys are just out of your mind. 

Il est impossible d’importer des modèles 3D ans AE si le logiciel n’est pas configuré en anglais et c’est insupportable de devoir à chaque fois redémarrer 2 fois le logiciel pour pouvoir importer des objets 3D… Vos utilisateurs ne sont pas tous aux Etats Unis…Voici l’écran que l’on obtient en essayant d’importer un .glb dans AE en français :   

Hello Adobe After Effects Team,I would like to report a reproducible issue that appears in newer versions of After Effects when using the GeoLayers 3 plugin.SummaryProjects that contain GeoLayers 3 compositions work normally in After Effects 24, but when the exact same project is opened in After Effects 25 or 26, After Effects displays PNGIO errors and the map fails to load.Error messages After Effects: AEGP Plugin PNGIO Support: PNGIO library error: bad adaptive filter value (5027::12) After Effects: AEGP Plugin PNGIO Support: PNGIO library error: IDAT: CRC error (5027::12) These errors appear when the GeoLayers map tiles are loaded.Key observation The same project file works perfectly in AE 24. Opening the project in AE 25 or AE 26 immediately triggers the PNGIO error. The issue only occurs with GeoLayers 3 content. Some other users appear able to run GeoLayers in AE 25/26 without this issue. This suggests the problem may be related to changes in the PNG decoding / ImageIO pi

Von jetzt auf gleich hat After Effects angefangen beim Warp Strabilisator nicht mehr zu analysieren.Darüber hinaus funktioniert der Dynamic Link Server scheinbar nicht mehr. Ich verknüpfe oft Adobe Premire Projekte mit After Effects Projekten.Jetzt geht gar nichts mehr.Adobe Premire spuckt nur noch einen Blackscreen aus. Davor kommt ab und zu noch Media Offline und Media pending obwohl die Pfade korrekt verknüpft sind. Teilweise werden zufällig Dateien offline angezeigt. Neuinstalkation/ Neustart/ Chache lösche/ CPU rendering Optionveränderungen haben keinen Unterschied gemacht. Manuelles Dynamic Link Server in Premire hinzufügen lässt das ganze System aufhängen. 

Hi Adobe, after updated to After Effect V.26, one of my keyboard shortcut has been broken by the latest Parametric Mesh feature.I’ve customized my “Add to Render Queue” button to "Shift + D” to my workflow, but the latest Parametric Mesh uses this shortcut. I tried to remap the Parametric Mesh to “Shift + option + D” but it keeps overiding and remapping it back to “Shift + D”. I have no choice but to remap my own shortcut for the time being, much to the detriment of my own productivity.This is extremely annoying and I would appreciate a fix as soon as possible, thank you for your attention to this matter!

When I hover over a clip in Premiere, a gray box appears with the clip’s properties. If I toggle to After Effects with a keyboard shortcut without moving the mouse, the gray box remains. It doesn’t matter if I move the mouse now that I’m in AE, the box stays and shows the properties from the clip I hovered on in Premiere.  I’m in Premiere 26.0.2 and After Effects 26.0, but this has been an issue for a few versions.

I’ve noticed that during rendering a complete software crash occurs of After Effects 2026 during rendering with the latest nvidia graphics rtx driver for 4070 super -579.79 for both studio and graphics driver which are the same version, updated march 10 2026 - . After restarting the software, thanks to your programmers, the problem points to boris fx’s Sapphire Effect’s WarpBubble2 plugin. I have downgraded my nvidia driver to 595.71 and have been able to render normally without any crashes or malfunctions.I wanted to report this, as other parts of the software or GPu related plug-ins might fall into this issue. Regards. 

I’m working in linear ACEScg and I’m having an issue with AE motion blur clipping the highlights of footage when it’s active and the layer is set to ADD. The elements are interpreted correctly and works just fine until motion blur is enabled. I have the element on black in the examples below. You can see the scopes on the left where the motion blur is off has very bright highlights, and when the Motion blur is on those same highlights get clipped. Luckily, Lighten does work in these shots, but Add should not be clipping source. the only change is that Motion blur is enabled. This should not be happening.  

There are pale yellow HUDs that follow the cursor when mousing over the Graph Editor. When a layer and it’s keyframes have been stretched (via Time Stretch), the speed graph HUD shows the value (eg. in px/sec) as they would be if the layer was NOT stretched. This is incorrect and misleading, especially if the Stretch column is hidden. 

AE 2026 crashes when enabling "Advanced 3D" renderer if Windows "Computer Name" contains non-ASCII characters (Chinese/Korean localized versions only)Description:I have discovered a critical bug in After Effects 2026 (v26.x) where the application crashes upon enabling the Advanced 3D renderer specifically in certain localized versions if the Windows Computer Name contains non-ASCII characters (e.g., Chinese or Korean characters).System Environment:OS: Windows 10 / 11 App Version: After Effects 2026 (v26.x) Pathing: All installation directories and project paths are in pure English (default C: drive). User Account: The Windows user account name is in English.The Issue & Specificity:When the Windows Computer Name (found in Windows Settings > System > About) is set to a name with Chinese characters, the Advanced 3D renderer behaves differently depending on the application language:Chinese & Korean Versions: The app crashes immediately upon launching or switching to the Advan