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I have a 2TB SSD for cache, currently only 400MB is being used and After Effects warns me that I'm running out of space, what's happening?I'm worried, I've already deleted the temporary files and the same notification keeps popping up.  

Hello all,  Okay,   So this is an issue with After effects 2025 and Element 3d, the Video CoPilot Plugin.     I have been expereincing multiple crashes when using the plugin in a project.  After Effects will always fail to close and will need to have the task ended via Task Manager.    Then upon reopening AE, it will prompt with the Safe Mode/Reset Prefrences options and then once the project has been reopened Element 3d will be "missing" and I would then have to close the app out again (Which closes without crashing) and reopen it to proceed working in the file normally.   The second possible crash I experience usually happens (not always) when I open up a file browser or navigate outside of the app.   The whole Operating Software will freeze up and after about 30-60 seconds all screens will go black and I recieve two error messages (included below)  forcing me to close the App and go through the same proc

I'm using an Apple Mac Studio with M1 Max and 64gb of memory. Also using After Effects 25.2.2. I have a reset my preferences and made sure project link was checked in my quicktime prores 422hq output. Despite this, I cannot "edit original".  The video defaults to quicktime player instead of After Effects. As you already know, this is something we use all the time.  Any ideas of what to do next? thanks in advance, tom   Title edited by Mod.

The solutions given in the other threads do not work.. Whenever running After Effects my Wacom Intuos M starts having stuttery movement especially when After Effects is running in the background. As soon as I close After Effects, the issue is gone. The cursor seems to get stuck than moves again as if its lost communication. It is only when After Effcets is running or running in the background. Im on a Apple M1 Max running, OS 13.7.3

Since I switched to After Effects 2025 I can’t view my EXR HDR files properly when using Mercury GPU Acceleration (CUDA or OpenCL). As soon as GPU acceleration is on, everything caps at a max brightness of 100 and the highlights get totally clipped, whereas in Mercury Software Only (CPU) it works fine. In 2024 I could work in GPU mode no problem, but now I’m forced to stick to CPU.Also, when I’m using OCIO, AE only shows me one view transform option in the UI, so I can’t preview any specific look unless I drop in the “OCIO Look Transform” effect. It’s really important for an EXR workflow to be able to see the correct look while I work

I've been getting this quite a bit, (and my Sapphire plugins are just torturing After Effects. Constant crashes.) I have an NVidia RTX 3090.What's the recommended stable driver for AE 2025? How about 2024?

I have a project I made on this very same laptop (didn't change a thing) and now when I open the project, the app is stuck in a "not responding" state, and my cursor is stuck on the loading animation. It's just 6 simple trim path animations with track mattes on them, nothing 3D, no motion blur, no effects. Like I said, I made this entire thing on this laptop, and wherever I left it was playing back smooth and working fine. Now, I open it and the pre-comp that the animations are in just freezes the entire program, I can't move or click on anything because it's stuck trying to render a simple shape animation. Macbook Specs:M4 Pro24 GB RammacOS Seqouia 15.5

Every time I open After Effects, two error windows immediately pop up, and then the program shuts down automatically. I've already tried reinstalling it, but the issue still persists. Could you please help me solve this problem? Thank you. (QQ!!)

I am currently working on an AE comp (v. 23.1.o Build 83 - Mac OS Monterey v 12.6). I created a new comp and some text layers and discovered when typing the word "PEOPLE", the letter L automatically shows up as lower case and when I try to type it UPPER case it changes the font to Helvetica. It only happens when using the Extra Bold font style. 

After Effects Versions 22.5 to 24.2.1Operating System: Windows 11 ProMemory: 96GB DDR5 RAMGraphics Card: Asus TUF RTX 4080 OC with Studio Driver version 551.61Processor: AMD 7950X (Note: I've disabled the integrated GPU to allow Premiere to decode ProRes Raw. If not disabled, I encounter a decoding error. This workaround, which I found in an Adobe Community forum thread titled "ProRes RAW can't be decoded" (Thread ID: 13123838), has been a temporary fix for nearly two years, yet a permanent resolution is still pending.) All other ProRes Codec's work FlawlesslyIn my project configured with OCIO color management set to Aces 1.2, importing ProRes Raw clips operates smoothly unless I precompose or add any effects. When effects like Lumetri Color are added, the preview freezes, and actions like purging RAM and cache or closing the project cause After Effects to crash. Switching to Adobe's color management and modifying the ProRes raw source settings in the 'More Options' of the Interpr

Since I have a more powerful computer, After Effects crashes constantly during the simplest tasks like creating a mask. I have to restart the computer every two minutes while working. The computer has an AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX 16-Core Processor, 100 GB of RAM, and an RTX 5080 graphics card. All drivers are up to date. When I perform the same tasks on the old computer (Intel, 40 GB of RAM, RTX 3080), I have no problems. What could be the reason for that?

AE 25.3.2 upgrade hangs on file explorer when importing files, not even when you hit the import button. It will sometimes go unresponsive for around 20 seconds or crash. This started happening after updating and it happens around 30% of the time, on both the NAS and local drive. EDIT: It does not hang if I drag and drop files into the project. It's clearly the importerWin 112x RTX 4090Ryzen 9950x  

In After Effects, every time I import a 3D object, it is automatically recognized as a Trapcode object, even though I am using the correct AE version and workflow. Steps to reproduce:1. Open After Effects 2. Import a 3D object obj, gbl and verything else i tried3. Observe that AE labels it as a Trapcode object Expected result:The 3D object should import normally as a native 3D layer, without being converted or linked to Trapcode.Actual result:AE always treats the imported object as Trapcode, preventing proper use as a native AE 3D object.Platform: Windows 11 

More than once, in different projects that have nothing to do with each other (no merges or project imports), I have had After Effects alert me when deleting unused comps that they're in use. I know they're not in use because I'm familiar with the projects and After Effects itself shows that these comps are not in use by not displaying a "used X times" message next to the comp name in the project panel. Steps - search bar, type in Unused, select a comp listed, hit delete, get the alert. Finish by smacking After Effects for now having a problem with a process that didn't use to have a problem. v 25.2.0 Build 131Windows 11 

Hi there, I discovered a really annoying bug that needs to adressed asap. When I create a Premiere project with Dynamic links in After Effects on a Windows machine and later on open the same project on a Mac, upon saving the After Effects project, it deletes itself. It vanished, literally. Example: I create and work on a project with multiple dynamic links on a windows machine. Later I open the same project on my MacBook, and right click the dynamic link > edit original. Change the composition in AE, hit save and boom! Gone.  When you close out AE you're in bad luck. It;s nowhere to be found. Workaround is to hit 'save as...'  I've read online multiple people running into this problem. This is a serious and known problem and needs to be fixed asap! 

 I tried to export a video and when it got to the end it failed because it reached a composition. Then i went inside of that composition and tried to export it but it kept saying Connecting to Dynmaic Link server. My export settings are the default Match sorce - high bitrate settings and I don't really see any problem with the composition itself. 60fps 1920 x 1080

 ExtendScript’s conditional operator resolves expressions in the wrong order. In the case of:true ? a : true ? b : c;I would expect it to return a, but ExtendScript actually returns b. This behavior is a major source of latent bugs in scripts. It urgently needs to be fixed. I first noticed this when injecting polyfills into legacy ExtendScript. Common minification plugins like terser convert if statements into ternary expressions. To avoid relying on polyfills, Adobe should either update ExtendScript to support at least ES2015 or fix this egregious bug.

I'm working with a customizable MOGRT created from an After Effects. The project contains multiple precomposed media placeholders (e.g., "media 01", "media 02", etc.), each precomp includes a solid layer with time remapping enabled. Each placeholder is designed to be replaced by a video in Premiere Pro.Here’s what I’ve done so far:I precomposed each solid individually and enabled time remapping for all media placeholders.I made sure that each placeholder is exactly 50 seconds long to match the main “Render” composition duration.I exported the MOGRT and imported it into Premiere Pro.I replaced each placeholder with a new video (1 minute or more) using the Essential Graphics panel.Issues:Only the first 5–6 videos play properly, the rest freeze and display only the first or last frame.All media placeholders start playing from the beginning of the timeline, instead of starting from their respective position (e.g., "media 15" should start playing at 30 seconds, but instead it plays from fra

Hello I have a really critical problem: My After Effects Project just immediately being removed after quitting Ae. I lost everything I've done in the past several hours.Steps:1. Save everything in After Effects: The title bar does not have the "*" character. Everything is saved.2. Cmd+Q. Close After Effects. Done3. Back to Premiere Pro (which is openning and has linked comps) by Cmd+Tab.4. All linked comps are offline.5. Link media => browse to the project folder => the After Effects file is now lost.6. Re-check by Finder: lost file confirmed. What should happens: The AEP file is there.What actually happened: The AEP file is lost.Third-party plugins: of course I have some. But it does not seems to be the cause. I have those plugins on my Windows PC too, never experience this. My working context:Macbook Pro 14 inch M1 Pro, 32GB RAM. MacOS 14.7.5.After Effects 2025.2.2. Installed via Creative Cloud.Projects are on external nvme drive: Samsung 970 2TB. Connected via USB ty

When i try to open After Effects a pop up appears saying "After Effects warning: The directory 'D:' could not be created"Does anyone know what I need to do?Windows 10 ProVersion 22H2OS Build 19045.6093 CPU: AMD Ryzen 2700xram: 16gb ddr4GPU: GTX 1660TiAfter Effects version 25.3.2

I finally updated to the 25.3 versions after Adobe finally fixed the scopes bug introduced in 25.2. Happy to finally enjoy the new preview and HDR monitoring features, After Effects was working pretty good.BUT THEN..I go to export my video in media encoder as I always have. When it finally exports, it's completely blown out! All my settings are the same as before! Color management is still activated. Encoding presets are the same I always use! This is what it's supposed to look like: Oops, AFTER EFFECTS CRASHED when I tried to to drag AE to my non-HDR monitor to take a screenshot in it. I had to pull a preview screenshot from an email just to show it:I have tight deadlines and now I have to spend valuable time uninstalling these versions and re-installing the old working versions.This is absolute madness, why am I paying so much money for software that breaks something new on every update? While having a mile-long list of bugs that haven't been fixed in years (dynamic li

Since the update to 2025 I cannot drag-drop files into my project preview window (the empty space) anymore. This works fine on 2024. I thought this was a functionality, but turns out it is a bug.It happens when I start in Safe Mode. It also happens in Ae Beta. I had the problem in Ae Beta 2025 last year, I purposefully didn't upgrade to 2025 until I couldn't put it off anymore for work last month. Since then I cannot drag any kind of file into the project panel window. I also recorded this video in the #general-ae chat of the Adobe discord. NLE_Ninja (Kes) recommended I'd report this as a bug, as I was under the impression this was an intentional update (although I couldn't understand why). 

After Effects 25.3.2Mac Studio OS 15.564gb RamM1When I replace an element in a comp using the method of holding the option key while dragging a different video element from the project panel to the comp timeline onto the layer I want to replace, this version doesn't replace in place and at the same length.  I attached a video that demonstrates the problem.   

I'm trying to open about 6 projects I made in the last month (one was created last week) and After Effects (25.3.2 mac silicon, runing on M3) gets stuck. Then when I forcequit Ae, I see another file created next to the original one with a name like this: PMF Futuro FL bodega_1.8868.428512.aep (the original file is PMF Futuro FL bodega.aep).Then I restart Ae and it gives me options to start in safe mode, manage pluggins, reset preferences.. I've tried then all plus reinstalling Ae, downscaling to 25.0 version, removing all muy third party pluggins and nothing has worked so far. Please help, I'm desperated

When opening projects on Windows with deeply-subfoldered footage and/or extremely long file names, you'll find much of it unlinked, as expected, because it exceeds Windows' (frustrating) limits on file path/name length. .ai/.pdf files rightfully refuse to relink, telling you that their file paths are too long. However, most (all?) other file types WILL relink, and seemingly work while you're in the project, only to re-un-link themselves when you close/re-open the project. I understand this is an unfortunate limitation of Windows itself, but allowing the initial relinking without a warning can allow users to get into some very frustrating trouble, without alerting them to the trouble lurking below the surface.    Even if the relinking is allowed (this *is* very helpful in at least allowing you to make a new reorganized collect, for example), a warning message similar to what an .ai file gives you would be really helpful as a breadcrumb to the user, so they have