Bug Reports

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? 

Acabo de comprarme una Mac Studio M3 Ultra, luego instale After Effects 2026 y estuve trabajando con inteligencia artificial tratando de resolver el problema de la previsualización y no logré nada. Cuando muevo una imagen en el pre Visual izado de After Effects se comporta como si estuviera trabajando en cuatro o tres cuadros por segundo y a veces más. Cuando comienzo una previsualización tarda entre uno y dos segundos en arrancar el previo. Es imposible trabajar así. No tengo ningún otro Soft instalado en la Mac.

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

I reinstalled my computer. My previous local fonts are not available anymore. I open a project I was working on, get this message. Ok, it works. But the problem is that after I click ok, after effects is not showing the missing fonts. I have no clue which fonts I am missing and it would take a lot of work to manually set all the text layers again. 

Getting this UI on my after effects whenever i try to change the color or anything. Is there any fix to this???

I updated After effects Beta to it’s latest Version (26.2) and then I find out that the new Object mask is not working, no brush no select .. nothing at all in the latest update of after effects Beta 26.2.the brush is not appearing to select any object, no object is going to be highlighted to select and isolate.

 Because it’s actually impossible to comp anything with highlights without them becoming inverted. These invalited pixels you are seeing here are only 1.100-1.500. They are not overly bright yet this happens. It’s a joke. Stop messing about without AI crap and fix the basics. This just a white line being screen over the top of my CG. It could not get any more simple. Adobe, you are a joke.

I migrated my preferences from 25.6 to v26.0. Now I can’t edit my custom shortcuts anymore. “After Effects warning: Invalid menu operation” appears, and then the program crashes. I’ve provided the .txt file that causes this error.

I made a team project on the AE and have created my .aep file as usual. Upon saving and exporting the final video. I’ve learned that the project file cannot be saved. I have searched online for it but I cannot find the same issue in this current version.Someone has suggested I use the “reveal project in finder” feature but it doesn’t work either. I have tried finding the location of the file through Finder app in Mac but the filename does not show. When I tried looking for the file location, I checked the original preferences of the application but project does not show in the location. Original folders of the adobe projects show 0 bytes too.When I close the team project and the application itself, the project shows up in the recently opened menu. I also tried opening it in adobe cloud storage but it does not show up. Good thing the file still opens even after closing the application. How can I save the project?Posting screenshots here as well.

If I turn a 2D layer into a 3D layer in the Advanced 3D renderer, the layer glitches. This has been happening to a image I placed behind 3D shapes, but occurs no matter what I placed in the comp (footage, images, .eps files). This only seems to occur when Advanced 3D renderer is selected (which is what I want to use), not in Classic 3D or Cinema 4D renderer. In the example attached, the 2D image layer is a starry sky scene and should turn into a 3D layer I can move behind my 3D shapes. It turns into a 3D layer, but the image becomes distorted. After Effects 26.0.0MacOS Sequoia 15.7.4Occurs in new and other existing AE projects Steps already taken: purge memory and cache, restart computer, reinstall AE

Objects are turning black, disappearing, and flickering. I didn't make any edits or anything since I last worked on it (worked fine then) but when I opened my computer to the open file it started glitching. I exited out of the document without saving because I assumed my previous save from when it worked normally would save me. When I opened my save from before the glitch, it was still glitching, and it got even worse. My layers are mostly imported from Illustrator, but I didn't touch the file I had on there either. The layers in the project window also show up mostly all black when I look at their previews, although I am new at AE so unsure if this is common. I am working on a Mac and the program should be up to date. Any ideas on what could make individual art objects flicker or turn black?