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After Effects V26 has memory leaks! I'm having to restart after 45 minutes of use. Undo is causing memory failures and crashes. I'm on an M1 Ultra Mac Studio w 128G RAM and a terabyte of dedicated scratch space.

Estoy escribiendo y cuando quiero hacer que el texto vaya hacia abajo simplemente me desaparece…No tengo mucho más para describir.   

When enabling Mercury Transit in After Effects, the sent Video Preview does not contain any Alpha Channel information even if the entire composition is empty. The transmitted video sends the composition overlayed over the previewed composition's background color.This is occuring on Windows, AE 25.3.0. I am checking Mercury Transit using the NDI for After Effects plugin, and monitoring both the NDI Studio Monitor and an NDI Source.Not sure if this is more a bug or a feature-request (having this be toggle-able would be great).  

The red CTI (Current Time Indicator) suddenly stops at unexpected moments. Additionally while playing back with a buggy red line the viewport zoom stops working, but that is just extra information. This bug doesn't affect anything except the red line and zoom. I can still see the video and hear the audio. However, it's really annoying because you notice the timeline stopping while the animation keeps playing which feels out of sync. I've read every possible forum about this bug. Many users report it happening when After Effects and Premiere Pro are open together or when using Dynamic Link. The problem is I've never used Dynamic Link, I always render animations as mov-files and import them into Premiere Pro manually. System Specs:- CPU: Intel Core i7-12700K.- RAM: KingBank SharpBlade 6000 MHz 64 GB.- Primary Drive (OS/Software): NVMe SSD Lexar ARES 2 TB.- OS: Windows 11 24H2 build 26100.2605.- GPU: RTX 4070 Ti Super based on Studio driver version 566.36. Important No

Create a comp with one layer and expose the layer’s position as an essential property Put that comp into the main comp and animate the exposed essential position property. Try to copy paste one of those keyframes → works Now create a similar comp but having the position separated (separate x/y coords) and expose these separate x and y coords as essential properties Put that comp in the main comp and again animate the position (now via separate x and y coords). Try to copy/paste one of those keyframes → does not work (nothing happens on paste)Reproducible also in test project with freshly created comps that just represent the above setup.Example project attached…  System InfoAfter Effects: Version 26.0.0 (Build 67)macOS: 15.7.4 (24G517) 

Hello,After launching After Effects 2026, pressing the Spacebar does not start preview playback.While holding down the Spacebar, the Hand Tool becomes active temporarily. When I release the Spacebar, it switches back to the Selection Tool. However, playback never starts.  What I checked Verified Keyboard Shortcuts settings Checked the Preview panel configuration Confirmed no custom key remapping Searched for similar cases online All settings appear to be configured correctly.From what I found, this issue does not seem to affect many users and may be specific to my system.I have attached a sample video demonstrating the issue.I would appreciate any guidance or a fix in an upcoming update.Thank you.

I have recently been experiencing a black screen with the AEUX plugin, which is not working. is there any way to fix it? 

When I enable Show Layer Controls, if there are shape layers with many paths the entire UI becomes unusually slow and unresponsive.

Hello everyone, Since last week Thursday I have been having issues with After effects.After using after effects for a few minutes the preview screen freezes. Once that happens if I try to continue editing after effects will freeze. When trying to close after effects it won't work. Even closing it with task manager doesn't work. It only closes if I completely restart my laptop. The past few days I did more testing. trying to edit and restart after effects everytime it wanted to freeze and crash. The more I work in the project and add more things the faster it will eventually freeze. Doing simple things like masking a picture or adding beat markers also could make this freeze happen.  These past days new versions of after effects came out. sadly when updating these versions didn't fix the problem and today with the new update 25.5 it still didn't fix.  I already tried a few things:Reseting prefrences, Starting up in safe mode (same issues occured), turning off al

Hi. I work in post. We usually import an image sequence of cr2 / raw footage into After Effects, it shows a preview on the Camera Raw window, where we leave everything as it is by default, with Adobe Color profile.The producer let us know that my renders were looking a bit more desaturated and kind of dark, while my coworker's was just as expected, bright and vivid colors.  We rendered in Quicktime, with Apple ProRes 4444, we double checked all of our settings, everything was the same. The only different thing was the AE version. He was working with 2025 (25.1) and I was working with 2026 (26.0). I downloaded a previous AE version, imported the footage and it looked just fine.Overall, this seems to be a specific 2026 version problem. Please fix this asap. Luckily, we found a way for importing all my work into a past version of AE and it was an instant fix, otherwise it would have been a problem for the person working the color after me.Thanks.

Every time I select a text layer in After Effects using the monitor, a message box pops up with the following error:After Effects error: having to focus on ourselves(76 :: 59)When I click OK, the cursor jumps back to the beginning of the text instead of staying where I clicked to edit it.It’s a small bug, but when it happens 200 times a day, it gets pretty annoying.

Hi Guys.I have a serious problem with the latest version of after effects (AE24) but it seems to apply to AE 23 and all version in between as well, the extractor plugin is crashing after effects for fun when applied to EXRs, no matter what i change in the settings after effects just crashes when scrubbing, caching or rendering, this is a serious problem adobe, please sort your software out, this is unusable in its current state.the only half working solution i have tried so far is turning off multiprocessing so everything takes hours to render now. WTF is going on, CPU is more than powerful enough for this, (Blade 18 ,i9 13950, RTX 4080 96Gb of ram) sort it out adobe this is appaling for"professional software" has anyone come across this, anyone know real workaround that isnt using an entirely different piece of software. 

I used to use the puppet tool animating the pins in real time while the audio of the video was played. Since the after effects 2014 version there is a bug that no longer plays the audio of the video while animating the pins in real time, making the tool uncomfortable or impossible to use in case you are animating a character that speaks...

In After Effects 2026, content aware fill will only fill the first frame, the last frame, and then the second frame. After that it stops and doesn't do anything else. If those frames already have reference images, or otherwise don't need any fill, it does nothing. It doesn't move on to frame 3 if I try to force it. It just stops at frame 2. I can see the progress bar pop up, analyze, and start rendering, and then stop once frame 2 is done. It doesn't matter if it is set to object or edge blend or surface, it just doesn't do anything. But when I take the same shot over to AE 2025, it works just fine! In 2025 I follow the same steps and it has no problem rendering the entire shot.

Problem Description:In AE 25.5.0 both win / macOSAfter turning on 3D on layers in Advanced Renderer, if you turn them off, layers outside the comp will still have 3D wireframe displayed. Steps to Reproduce:Turn on 3D on a layerSwitch to Advanced RendererSwitch off 3D on the layer.If the layers goes outside the comp, AE will display 3D wireframe. Expected Result:  no wireframe at all.   

Ever since version 25.2 we have been noticing a weird bug.We work in 32bit ACES exclusively.Every now and then we come across a composition that just clamps all the HDR values down to 1.I've managed to isolate a comp like that and the problem itself:- AE ver 25.2 or later (even Beta)- comp has minimum 3 layers- at least two layers must be in Add mode - both have to have motion blur turned on- motion blur in the comp is on The problem fixes itself in any of the following cases:- one of the layers gets hidden - so that only one additive layer remains- you disable motion blur in the comp- you disable motion blur on one of the layers, so that only 1 layer has motion blur- you switch renderer from GPU to software- you open the same project in AE 25.1 This occurs rarely, but if we find a comp like that it bugs out on all our machines- rtx 4xxxx or rtx5xxxx- win10 or win11- throughout the last year we've reinstalled gpu drivers 3-4 times already I have an example project - I can upload it, ju

The last save file on after effects is not getting saved some times and also it was not saved in autosave. When I close and open its not showing it as saved.

When opening after effects, it will get to the splash screen scanning fonts and then crash. It crashes on a different font every time. I am working on a mac studio - M2 Max, 32GB.splash screen before crashingcrash notice 

Keyframe icons aren’t displaying properly in the timeline. A linear keyframe icon will randomly appear as a hold keyframe icon or an ease in keyframe icon etc. When I click on it, it reverts back to what it actually is. If I click away, it switches back to the wrong icon. AE 26.0.0. OS X Tahoe 26.2. 

System specsIntel Core Ultra 9Asus TUF GAMING Z890-PLUSCorsair Vengeance 128 GB RAMSamsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2Asus ProArt RTX 4070 Ti (latest driver installed)Windows 11 Pro 25H2I read that the Windows 11 update KB5074109 can be problematic.Since installing After Effects 2026, the interface lags and freezes.Sometimes it blocks for a few seconds.Sometimes it’s small delays, but frequent enough to make work annoying.This happens even with low system usage.CPU and GPU are not under load.……...I would also prefer fewer updates, but more stable ones.Not yearly changes that break workflows.In reality, we have to follow updates because clients update, it a ecosystems change, and compatibility issues appear if i am not on the same as other. I also feel that software companies focus too much on data collection.The software feels heavier, slower, and less focused on user experience.As a user, I don’t feel like the customer anymore.It feels like investors and data are the priority.

hallo liebes Adobe Team, ich nutze seit Jahren das kostenlose und tolle Plugin von Video Copilot namens FX Console.Ab der Version 26 und auch in der letzten Beta, lässt es sich nicht mehr richtig nutzen. In den Einstellungen funktioniert der shortcut “option+Space” nicht mehr. Was aber viel schlimmer ist: wenn ich den  Efffect “Füllen” in die Favoriten ablege, stürzt After Effects ab. Was mir auffällt, das die deutschen Sonderzeichen nicht ht erkannt werden, jedoch funktionieren die Verknüpfungen zu anderen Effekten mit Sonderzeichen.Ich hoffe das Problem wird gelöst denn es ist ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug für mich und viele Andere User geworden.In derVersion 25.64 funktioniert das selbe Plugin Fehlerlos.https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2018/05/fx-console-updated-to-v1-0-3/ 

I see that in ‘Fixed issues in After Effects’, in the ‘Fixed issues in the November 2025 release (version 25.6)’ section, it says: User Interface > Dialogs now open at their last saved position by default, with the Preferences dialog always opening centered.I am using v25.6.4, and none of my panels remember their saved positions, ever. I move them, open them again, and they are in the center of the frame again. I restart SE, same results..I’m guessing this is not a common problem, as I see no other posts about it.Why would this be happening?Using Windows 11 64 bitThanks

see attached file - when you nest the modify the path with essential properties, the null no longer traces the path if you enable continuous rasterize 😔

Hi, since I updated this morning, I can’t do any kind of customised blurring - it just blurs the whole thing. There is no elipse, rectangle of bezier option with Gaussian blur in the effects panel any more. I've tried to attach a photo but I don’t know if it’s worked. To reproduce, drag Gaussian blur onto a clip and go to that section in the efects panel. No masking options appear there, just a box to click with ‘surprise me’ written on it. If you click that it just all gets blurrier, but you still can’t mask anything. The whole lot is blurred.  Thanks. Imogen

I’ve used the . key (on the numeric keypad) to preview audio when adding markers since 2007. In AE 26.0 (build 67) this function now no longer works. When I hit the audio preview key, the start time of out by approximately 1 second (which makes it unusable). The . audio preview was good because after you play, the CTI would still be where you left it.When I preview with the spacebar, the CTI moves and stops when you hit stop.My primary reason four this is when i am marking up audio - music or a voiceover.I’m on Windows OS - 11 - 25H2 - Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.291.0AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor Nvidia Studio Driver - 591.74 - Mon Jan 5, 2026  misc extra detail:NVIDIA system information report created on: 02/10/2026 14:51:27NVIDIA App version: 11.0.6.383Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.26200DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12Driver: Studio Driver - 591.74 - Mon Jan 5, 2026CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor             RAM: 96.0 GBStor