Bug Reports

I have a Cinema4d animation: a Formula object whose Y(t) parameter changes along with frame number with Expresso and a small Python script. Rendering works correctly in Cinema4d but during rendering with After Effect V2025 the Y(t) is not changing. Here are the relevant pieces of information.Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

Under certain conditions, AE 25.01 is not auto-saving.When starting a new project in 25.01, auto-save works fine. However, when I open a project created in version 24 in 25.01, auto-save does not work.Here are the methods I’ve tried:Changed the auto-save interval to 1, 3, and 10 minutesSaved the project after loading a version 24 project in various ways: overwriting the file, saving under a new name, and saving as version 24xChanged the save location from the project folder to a specified folderEnabled save when starting the render queueDespite these attempts, it seems that no auto-save folder is created, and auto-save does not work.I accidentally deleted a composition, realized it a few minutes later, and couldn’t retrieve it, which was very frustrating. If you know a good solution, please let me know.OS Windows 11 Pro 23H2

Just some simple question: Why are we still in 2025 when working on a project and importing another project into it or dragging something from an extension? After Effects stays unresponsive for about 5 minutes each time and every time we need to lose our precious time waiting for After Effects to work again, and not stay either with a black canvas or with a frozen one. I work daily with After Effects which stresses me a lot and makes me lose a lot of time.  

Hey,I've spent most of my afternoon trying to fix a bug. Long story short, I've recieved a file from a mac which requires me to relink some assets. (I already had the assets from another project file I was working on) when I try to relink them I get the error "After Effects warning: Invalid ascent count '0'". This is happening on MP4s MOVs and PNGs, probably other file formats too... I have 500 files to relink...The strange thing is, in my other project file I can relink things fine. Also, I can directly import the files without getting the error and they work fine. So the files themselves don't seem corrupt. Is this a new bug? Or a long issue between mac and PC.(For context, these are a few of the files I'm trying to relink, I've tried coverting them to mp4, changing the name, everything... and always get this error) Any help would be amazing,Danny 

Please help! While I was editing the timeline disappeared and won't come back. I tried closing and reopening after effects but that didn't work, I tried switching workspaces and that didn't fix it either.

Trying to install and run AE 25.1. (or even the beta).  no luck.  the startup goes fine until it crashed with an error messaying  "Transmit plugin 'DecklinkTransmit' has crashed".25.01 started up just fine.   very frustrating. I've tired un-insalling, reinstalling  and starting up in safe mode,   no luck.tried to do a search to locate any plugin by that name, no luck.any idea?  thnks.

After Effects 25.1  freezes with an auto-save pop up. tried disabling effects, but there is no changes please advise,   sharing the error report below and  system details  PFA  2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4Mac os 15.1 (24B83)    

I'm having a repeat, and incredibly annoying bug happen with the latest AE.  I'm working in a particularly complex project, plenty of EXR passes, Particular, optical flares, RSMB, etc going on. It takes a long time to render (no problem there, that is as expected). When I RAM preview comps in it and then hit escape to stop RAM previewing, as it has taken so long to RAM preview the Autosave function kicks in straight away. Instead of Autosaving the autosave box pops up, completely greyed out and then AE just hangs there for eternity, meaning that I have to kill AE via the Task Manager and restart it - losing both my project progress and RAM preview progress (that may have taken 20-60 minutes to do). I don't particularly want to have to turn autosave off everytime I do a lengthy RAM preview. Also, when rendering the composite out via the Render Queue I'm having it hang on me when I cancel it there, also meaning that I have to restart AE. Please get this fixed!&nb

When turned on, draft 3d feature makes after effects closes each time when that project file is opened. It says "Before quitting, you have one chance to save your project" and after I save it, it closes itself. Doesnt happen when I open the file while holding Ctrl, but after releasing Ctrl it happens again.After effects is not saying the software is crashed either. It just automatically closes itself for no reason.What could be causing this?Version: 24.6.4Graphics card: rtx 3060available ram for after effects: 24 gbProcessor: not that good

After effects keeps crashing. I'm using the latest version, booting in safe mode, resetting settings, but it doesn't work. I've updated the Nvidia graphics card and bios, I've turned off the login screen, I've deleted and reinstalled, but it's still not fixed.My computer13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900HX 2.20 GHzRam 32.0 GBWin 11 pro 24H2Geforce RTX 4070

When moving the Canvas, it drags behind my cursor and its really irritatingly slow and laggy. This isnt happening on any other Adobe App and when reverting to an older Version of AE its not happening either. Ive tried uninstalling the App, clearing cache and nothing is working. When working on my less powerful MacBook im not experiencing any lag. What is going on??

Any font, any layer set-up the text layers input or editing is lagging for about 1-2 seconds after keystrokes. Pasting more than 10 words sometimes crashes the app. Started somewhere in 2021, still an issue.  Win11, v25.1.0 

Hello,Since the last AE update I am having this problem.I have a sequence in Premiere with an adjustment layer with a small zoom out from the center of the frame, but when I take this sequence to AE, there it scales from the top left corner &#x1f605Any help is welcome,Thank you very much.

I'm being sent an AE source file, but when I open it on my computer, the compositions inside are showing as glitched .MOV files. However, the person who has sent it to me sees no issues on their end. Has anyone encountered this before? I have version 25.1.0 and working on a Mac, Sequoia 15.1.1 

Time reverse keyframes should only affect selected keyframes 1 created three or more keyframes on a track2 select the first and the last keyframe3 invoke 'Time reverse keyframes See how all unselected keyframes are inversed too.

I have a single shape... with a reapeater set to 20... 1 effect and 2 key frames. If I render out in After Effects I will get a memory issue like "Unable to allocate 2.0 MB of memory"  If I render with Media Encoder I get an export frame error like "Accelerated Renderer Error" or "Unable to produce frame" If I make the entire project in AE 2024 and replicate the exact same project from scratch I get an error that says "Image buffers of sinze 25073 x 24258 @ 8 bpc (2.3 GB) exceed interenal limits."I cannot export on this version. I have tried the following:Turn off Hardware EncodingTry to reduce the amount of memory allocated to other applications and set RAM to max 29gbMercury Transmit is disable it.Completly removed every single plug-in. Only had 1 to remove.I have pre-composed my sceneI have reset preferences for after effectsI have tried to lower the effectI have dramatically reduced the number of repeated objectsChanged all keyframes to linear.rem

I have 60fps footage in a 15 second compostion which I cut and applied basic effects too. The playback is a little choppy on quarter resoluition but that's fine. What I can't handle is it won't play the Mp3 128kbps file smoothly. As happens when rendering (in the composition not for export) it either stops (if "mute audio when preview is not real time" option is checked in previews) OR in my case, drops into slow bass play back - not sure what you call it. WHY when my bar is green is this persisting? I need to check the timing of the music and the footage has rendered. Audio is unrelated to fps so it can't be that?   

After Effect 25.1.0 - MacBook Pro M3 Max - Mac os 15.2 (24C101) - (all in French) I would like to report some recent bugs, minor but annoying. All concern the import and save UI. As they are not fatal, they could go unnoticed and persist for a long time. To import a media by double-clicking in the 'project' window, you have to do it twice, the first time the import dialog window opens and closes by itself immediately.Previously, you could retrieve the name of a file by clicking on it in the save dialog box. The file extension was automatically replaced by the After Effect extension (.aep). Now, the two extensions are kept one behind the other (for example file.prproj.aep), too bad.Some projects saved with custom workspaces no longer open (to the point of having to force quit the application). They remain available by importing them into a new blank project. Overall, it seems to be a communication issue between the interface of the latest Mac Os and the latest versio

Hi, I have a problem with After Effects 24 and 25.I'm using a MacBook Pro M3 Max and AE 25.1.0 Every time my project gets a bit bigger (lots of different footage in a composition, about 50 layers, much of it animated and with effects), After Effects freezes. It happens seemingly at random, while I'm applying an effect, or moving around in the timeline, or starting playback, whatever. AE suddenly gives me the colorful spinning ball and no longer loads anything, no matter how long I wait. So I have to restart every time. If I do so, I get an AE allert and a crash Log. The problem is even more devastating for me. Once it occurs, it seems like the entire file is destroyed. As soon as I open the file again, AE freezes after about 10 seconds (or at the latest when I press the play button). The dubious thing is that even the auto-saves of the last few hours show the same error, although they didn't have the error before. Most of the time, an old version from a few day

On the left is the system I collected to edit in 2020 (I replaced the graphics card with an RTX 3060 Ti and increased the RAM to 32) and on the right is a friend's Monster Abra A5 v21.1 laptop. When using After Effects and Premiere Pro, Monster is like an airplane that processes much faster than my computer, but it slows down to a normal degree during rendering. The same thing that takes 3-4 hours to render on your own computer, takes 8-9 hours to render on Monster. Even though the CUDA feature in the GPU hardware acceleration section in the media encoder is active, the rendering time takes an incredibly long time. Monster's GHz is quite low compared to its own computer, but does this create such a difference? Is this a problem or is the rendering time always like this in general on laptops? If this rendering problem can be fixed, I want to buy Monster completely from my friend. How can I solve this problem? 

Hi,I have a very frustrating problem. I just shooted some advanced VFX video I need to have done in one month, I just wanted to start the VFX work, started After Effects, imported footage (DNG sequence from Blackmagic Cinema Camera 2.5K), clicked Rotobrush, tried to draw a circle around the actors head, but then - nothing happened.The cursor just changed to the “loading” and After Effects stopped responding.Tried it several times in several AAE versions (24.6.3 & 25.0), tried both Mercury software only & CUDA, tried to restart the computer several times, tried to clean the cache & database, tried to update the graphic drivers, but NOTHING helps - the Rotobrush tool still crashing like this - it doesn’t even shows a line when “drawing” - it just freezes from the first mouse click when in Rotobrush tool.I tried to do some Rotobrush stuff on the .braw footage from BlackMagic Pocket 4K and the Rotobrush worked without a problem. So I think the problem must be somehow related to

Bug description: When performing a final render out of After effects, Some animated elements in the video will shift over 10-15 pixels in a random direction. There are no keys on said element(s), and everything in the project appears to be fine, even in the ram preview. This issue only presents itslef in the final renders. Attempts to locate the source of the bug have proven to be incredibly difficult. Between three different computers, the bug has appeared differently not only in how it acts, but where it appears. Attempts to R&D the bug have shown promising results for one person, but not for others. After Effects version 25.0.1 (build 2)Operating systems - Windows 10, Apple Monterey 12.7.5 & Sonoma 14.5Steps to reproduce - Unsure. The bug presents itself seemingly randomly, and attempts to actually pinpoint the cause of the bug have had different results varying from - Disconnecting Parented nulls, Turning off Motion Blur, Turning off Constant Rasterize, Changing Shutte

Quiero exportar una animación en after effects en .mov pero al hacerlo, el resultado final es un archivo con los colores invertidos y a muy bajos fps. Lo exporto en formato quicktime con la opción de animación. ¿Qué puedo hacer para solucionarlo?

I have a problem with the essential graphics function when the same comp is used for multiple times in my project (kind of the point of the whole function :-)) I have made a headline comp that splits a string and animates each line.This comp recives but also provides info to its parent like the width and height of the text that is show.In the folder Work Comps you can see the problem: Bug when using same headline comp 2xThe bottom text is using its own height for the position. The correct postion is shown in the transform property but this is not the postion seen in the in the comp. Here you can see the height used is its ownWhen both comps are set the same you can see its using its own height and not the height of the subline above. This works with 2 uniqe but idential headline compsThis is the desired result but it only works when the headline and subline are 2 unique comps in the project. They are 100% identical just duplicated. I have attached the project a