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MASKS STOPPED WORKING in AE 2025 stopped working yesterday Jan 23, when things were updated.

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January 24, 2026
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I'll see if I can go back to the previous version of AE 2025. Tried AE 2026 of course, but it repeatedly froze in places during render ... things that had rendered fine in AE 2025. 2026 froze rendering different comps in different projects, so I can't use that yet.

I'm running a Mac Studio M4 with maxed out everything, new but haven't had any problems with anything else.

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Jay C - AtlantaAuthor

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Perhaps do not update to Mac Tahoe 26.2.

I updated Mac OS X to Tahoe 26.2 and suspect that's my AE problem. The masks eventually started working again in AE 25.6, but other things are squirrely. Dissolving a layer out with liner opacity from 100 to zero, the opacity numbers display correctly, but the layer is 100% through the keyframe range, then cuts to zero on the last keyframe.

Also, RG Colorista HUE isn't acting right, with comps that previously had no problems. When Colorista Hue is anything other than zero, there are black artifacts inside of anything 100% white, particularly white text where it's the worst, and the black artifacts overwhelm more than half the white text.

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Jay C - AtlantaAuthor

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Masks work fine after downgrading to 25.6.0, and in a composition that added the mask in 25.6.4. Comfirming no working masks for me in 25.6.4.

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Jay C - AtlantaAuthor

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Sorry, I meant that AE 2025 was been updated yesterday Jan 23, when AE 2026 was installd, and the masks don't work in the AE 2025 update.