Bug Reports

Trying to find a way to calculate the total width of an animated variable font text layer but the sourceRectAtTime properties of a text layer are not updating / taking into account the variable font adjustment. Also in Box Text, variable fonts go outside the box too.Any help appreciated.Thanks! 

Hey ​@JohnColombo17100380 ! are you aware of this bug? this white flash when opening 😔 (Windows 11).I also noticed a longer startup time compared to older alternatives like ConsoleFX. 

Hi everyone,I keep getting a recurring error when trying to use After Effects. A crash window pops up saying: "GPUSniffer.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close."I have attached a screenshot of the exact error for reference. Can anyone explain why this background process is crashing and what I need to do to fix it?My Specs: GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 OS: Windows   

AE 26.2.1 and 26.0MACOS 26.5 (25F71) This happens when an animated property is added to Essential Properties.In the original comp, keyframes from several tracks can be copied and pasted in one go.But when the comp is inside a parent comp, the same keyframes have to be copied and pasted one by one. When several properties’ keyframes are selected, copy paste does nothing.   

Issue : “Fill” effect and other miscellaneous pre-installed effects are entirely missing from the Effects Panel and “Manage Effects” windowAE version : 26.2OS : MacOS Tahoe 26.3.1What I did to try and fix the issue : reset Preferences uninstalled and reinstalled AE opened the “Manage Effects” window and activated all effects uninstalled and reinstalled in an older version (25.6.5)The last step allowed me to see “Fill” again in the list

We have some AE licenses in the company. We usually work with raw sequences from Sony and Canon cameras on older versions of AE, but this time we upgraded from AE 24 to 26 (a bad decision). Now, when we import a Raw sequence, Camera raw opens and after we make some adjustements and clic “Save” it crash and AE too. Sometimes it works but if you want to make a new change in Camera raw, both crashes. I have tried all the following steps with several computers and the bug persists:1. Toggle Hardware Accelerated DecodingA known conflict often occurs when hardware acceleration interacts poorly with raw footage.In After Effects, go to Edit > Preferences > Import (or General on some versions).Uncheck Hardware accelerated decoding.Restart After Effects.2. Purge the Camera Raw CacheA corrupted or full cache can cause the ACR dialog to freeze or crash.In After Effects, go to Edit > Preferences > Camera Raw (or Media & Disk Cache).Navigate to the Performance tab if prompted.Click P

When an artist exports a video from After Effects in H.264 format, AE doesn't include colour metadata, unlike QuickTime or other software.When we perform certain operations after exporting from After Effects, we lose the exported colours because the metadata is missingTested on 2025 and  2026 Fichier : AFTERh264.mp4codec_name : h264width : 2048height : 2048r_frame_rate : 25/1pix_fmt : yuv420pcolor_range : unknowncolor_space : unknowncolor_transfer : unknowncolor_primaries : unknownFichier : DavinciH264.mp4 or QuicktimeH264_AE.movcodec_name : h264width : 2048height : 2048r_frame_rate : 25/1pix_fmt : yuv420pcolor_range : tvcolor_space : gbrcolor_transfer : bt709color_primaries : bt709

in 26,2,1 version Depencies/Collect files is working differently from older versions and it’s working WRONG…I have folders with names 001, 002, 003, 004 and inside are sub folders with rendered images.However when I do Collect files, all the folders are “flatened” and all image sequences are put in single folders with changed names, but not all folders are processed and half of the sequences are gone or replaced with wrong ones….

I was trying to figure out if any project was loaded using the call AEGP_GetNumProjects in the IdleHook. However, once a project is loaded, this function only returns 1, even if I close the project. The only situation where I got it to return 0 was when I tried to load an old project that failed to load. Pretty simple to replicate, just call AEGP_GetNumProjects from the IdleHook and check the returned value after closing the project from “File/Close Project”. I’m using the windows version of AE 2026 v26.2.1 (build 2). But I suppose this is common to other versions too.

Problem: A project from 6 months ago suddenly crashes upon render and during previews from out-of-memory errors. (May 2026)   Suspects:  Nvidia driver update, Win11 update, AE2026.02 updateCurrent conclusion: Dedicated GPU memory is not getting cleared. This results in an immediate crash the next time I try to render again. Screens start to go black, workspace won’t preview.Current workaround: Open Process Monitor and watch the dedicated GPU memory. I have 12GB on my Nvidia 5070.  Then, open your project in Media Encoder (just because it seems faster to me this way) and render a PNG sequence so you can capture the partial render. Start the render, watch the memory peak out at about 80%, and the render fail.  GPU memory doesn’t release until I quit AME. Re-open AME, try to find an approximate frame where I crashed (where are the frame numbers?!) and restart the process.Hardware: i9, Win11 Pro v 10.0.26200 Build 26200128GB RAM, Nvidia 5070

Issue - filling up ram, with a preview render, never releases that ram, causes the application to generally not work.  Steps to reproduce - I use a plugin, element 3d, and preview render a long comp, that fills the ram cache, then change the comp and try to work with it. AE refuses to render anything.  Expected result - AE clears up ram, prioritizes what it is supposed to be doing. Actual result -  preview is BLACK. AE does not render anything. eventually it will crash, as the app uses more and more ram. Screen recording – this is impossible, as AE sucks down all system resources Adobe After Effects version - Version 26.0.0 (build 67) Operating system - Mac os X Tahoe 26.2 GPU driver version (Windows only) - NA Video format -  Comparative information helps us understand more about when the issue occurs:  It seems to affect projects that use large amounts of ram, and possibly plugins.  yes  AE 2025, I discovered it in December of 2025. Optional but useful: other observations: Element

AE 2025 and 2026 will often (e.g. every 20 mins or so) tell me it cannot allocate memory and task manager shows it using all 128gb of RAM.  It seems to be irrelevant how complex the project is, the last crash I was simply animating the scale of a rectangle shape. I don't even need to be doing anything , simply being open will cause AE to consume all of the RAM my pc has. I have never encountered this before 2025/26 versions.  Adjusting memory preferences, clearing cache, disabling compressed frames, resetting preferences does nothing. 

I'm trying to use the new import illustrator SVG from clipboard feature in Beta, after pasting one object into after effects it keeps pasting in the same shape even when i copy next shapes in illustrator. To fix it i have to purge all memory in after effects and then i can keep pasting more shapes/SVGs from illustrator into after effects. So after each shape i have to purge, otherwise it keeps pasting the same thing 

If you move multiple items at once in the Project Panel, you then have to Undo each item move one at a time. This could be really annoying if you accidentally move a bunch of items. The expected result would be a single Undo Group for the entire move. This bug is in the latest update as well as the Beta

When trying to export a mogrt out of after effects, it gives me and unknown exception. I’m using After Effects 25.0, on Windows.It happens with every single project, even if I create a new one.It never happened before, until our team moved to a new building and are connected to a VPN.   

Issue: In Local Axis Mode, the 3D Transform Gizmo's Z (depth) handle translates the layer along World Z instead of its local Z when dragged in the Active Camera or any perspective view. Local X and Y handles are unaffected. The same local-Z move performed in an orthographic view works correctly, isolating the fault to the gizmo's perspective-view drag rather than the transform engine.Steps to reproduce:Create a 3D Camera Tracked comp of a scene, add solids using the camera tracked points. In the Tools panel, select Local Axis Mode. With the comp set to Active Camera (or any perspective view), drag the gizmo's blue Z (depth) handle back and forth using a solid.Expected result: The layer translates along its local Z axis (its facing/depth direction), consistent with Local Axis Mode.Actual result: The layer translates along World Z, ignoring Local Axis Mode. Local X and Y handles behave correctly — only Z is affected. Dragging the same layer along local Z in an orthographic view (e.g. Top

I have effect plugin that use the PF_OutFlag2_I_USE_3D_CAMERA flag. In the After Effects project I have such setup:Camera layer starts at composition frame 10 and have duration of 30 frames My effect layer also starts at composition frame 10 and have duration of 30 framesWhen I select composition frame in the range 10-20 and change the camera transform, my effect does not receive PF_Cmd_SMART_PRE_RENDER/PF_Cmd_SMART_RENDER events. For frames 20-40 everything works fine. Everything also works fine when I move both layers to composition frame 0.Test ProjectGitHub repository with reproduce for After Effects 2025/2026: https://github.com/K1tty/bug-repro-ae-camera

When I have text selected and try to change the font in the Character panel, I get an error message saying “After Effects warning: drawbot2 error,” so I can't change the font.I’ve tried all the tips online, but nothing changes. I installed the latest After Effects update, but that didn’t help. I installed a new graphics driver and then an older one, but that didn’t help either.I haven’t done anything out of the ordinary. Translated with DeepL.com (free version) 

It seems to be impossible to have stable shadows from a spot light with the Advanced 3D Renderer, the darkness just changes randomly on every frame. I’ve tried a lot of different settings and this issue seems impossible to solve.Higher Render Quality > FailsELS Resolution Double > FailsHigher ELS Smoothness > FailsBigger Casting Box Size > FailsMercury GPU Acceleration (CUDA) > FailsMercury Software Only > FailsMedia Cache On/Off > FailsThere are no overlapping layers either. Most recent GPU driver is installed. This occured on multiple projects in different AEPs.

IssueOn Windows (unsure of the exact Mac equivalent) pressing Ctrl+Backspace when editing text will typically delete the last word or set of characters up to a space or hyphen. In AE this behaviour does not happen.When editing the content of a text layer, pressing Ctrl+Backspace appears to have no effect.If editing a layer name (any layer, not just text layers) pressing Ctrl+Backspace will generate a non-printing character that displays as a rectangle, identified on https://invisiblecharacterviewer.com/ as U+007F. I don’t know if this will work in a post here, but the specific character has been pasted between the following marks ‘’.Interestingly, the new layer name sanitation system means that the non-printing characters are not shown when the layer name is committed with Enter, but will show again if the layer name is subsequently edited, but only in the live edit state.Ctrl+Backspace will also generate the U+007 character in text fields, such as those in the Essential Properties pan

To achieve pure perceptual white while working in ACES/OCIO (with viewer set to ACES/sRGB)  I will typically apply “Color Correction>OCIO Color Space Transform>sRGB” to white text or white solid. The same plug-in is used when importing footage that is in sRGB- with Preserve RGB checked. (An alternate route is to interpret footage as sRGB in the interpret footage color tab settings.)This is where the bug appears: Attempts to scale down the result causes degradation in the edges- particularly with fonts in logos set against a high contrast background. This bug does not appear when logos/text are scaled without sRGB applied (or alternately sRGB interpretation set on import.) The down side is that colors are incorrect- with whites remaining a subdued grey with text, solids and sRGB imports. My work around is to do my scaling/size transforms in a pre-comp with raw color and then apply “Color Correction>OCIO Color Space Transform>sRGB” downstream in the main comp to get non-ACES

 text does not work in advaced 3d when i try to connect it to a path (like a circle’ and it doesnt turn 90 degs)it also doesnt accept some of the light features/ (when i have 3 texts layers one beneath another only the bottom one works with the light)

IssueAfter Effects inconsistently interprets Panasonic V-Log/V-Gamut footage using the Embedded / Media Color Space workflow. One clip is converted correctly, while another clip from the same camera/project becomes extremely overexposed in After Effects. The same clips are interpreted correctly in Premiere Pro.Steps to reproduceOpen After Effects 26.2.1 or After Effects Beta 26.5.0. Create a new project. Set Project Settings > Color to: Color Engine: Adobe color managed Working Color Space: Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 Compensate for scene-referred profiles: enabled Import the two Panasonic Lumix S1 II V-Log/V-Gamut MP4 clips included here:https://bestanden.debeeldbrekers.com/shares/zGR8Tw Open Interpret Footage > Color for the clips. Confirm that After Effects detects: Media Color Space: Panasonic V-Log/V-Gamut Override Media Color Space: Embedded Preserve RGB: disabled Interpret As Linear Light: Off Place both clips in compositions. Compare the result in After Effects. Import the s

Hi, I have been having an issue since updating to After Effects 26. I use Adobe Libraries to transfer vectors from Illustrator to After Effects. Since the update, 75% of the time, my paths turn into solid boxes without any individual paths when I use the Create Shapes from Vector Layer command in AE. There are no individual shape paths or anything (see attached). It happens for compound paths as well as normal paths seemingly at random.I don’t want to have to release everything to layers and import a full AI file every time I want to transfer a shape from AI to AE. This has been a real annoyance, so if anyone has suggestions, please let me know. Thanks.

The fill effect is missing in my version 26.2.1. Have you encountered the same issue? Yes, I checked the Effects Manager: none of them are disabled.