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Second line of text disappears after line break when copying from Premiere

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February 5, 2026
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There’s this very specific bug that has been happening to me since the later versions of After Effects 2025 and it’s still present on the latest 2026 release.

I do a lot of transcriptions on Premiere, then convert those to captions, then convert those captions to graphics, and finally copy the graphics layers from Premiere to After Effects. This is a workflow that I’ve been doing for a while without any issues.

These graphic layers are interpreted in After Effects as compositions with text layers inside. And this behavior is still true.

But since later versions of After Effects 2025 (up to the current release of 2026), whenever there’s a line break (only on the first line of text) in this layer that comes from Premiere, the rest of the text just disappears. It’s still selectable and reappears if I remove the line break or convert the text layer from the original paragraph text to point text, but I just preferred if this wouldn’t happen in the first place.

I’m on a 2021 M1 Macbook Pro. I’m currently on the latest release of macOS Tahoe, but it’s been happening since Sequoia.

I attached a file with a bugged text layer so you guys can see it.

Is it something I’m doing or is it really a bug?

Thank you.

LineBreakBug.aep

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tristansummers

Inspiring

I can confirm that the text is there, just not visible until I resize the paragaraph in AE

Inspiring

Inspiring

Also it makes no difference if Premiere text is sent to top middle or bottom (a feature AE still does not have or support natively, though AEScreens will be able to help you code the conversion if you ask nicely!) This can cause issues with text position in AE if you are trying to automate via API...

sskaz

Inspiring

I can reproduce this issue whenever an area/box-type text layer is not using the Adobe Single-line Composer and has multiple lines (with carriage returns/new lines—not just text wrapping onto additional lines). The width/dimensions of the text area bounds may also be part of it. See my screen recording, resizing the width can cause it to fix/reappear.

My screen recording is from AE 26.0.0 but it also happens in 25.6.4.

I originally noticed this when copying and pasting text from Illustrator and then seeing the similar “truncated” text bug threads here and on reddit. In my original Illustrator layers, neither Single-line nor Every-line was checked (mixed? indeterminate?), but manually setting them to Single-line prevented it from reappearing when pasted into AE.

For everyone else, the workaround is to select your text layers, then set them to Adobe Single-line Composer. (If you were relying on the better line wrapping from Every-line, you’ll have to manually rewrap it with new lines.)

everyline composer.mp4