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December 12, 2025

Still unfixed After Effects error: having to focus on ourselves. (76 :: 59)

  • December 12, 2025
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It's been reported before and has not been solved yet, double clicking a text layer having Animation Composer installed gives the annoying After Effects error: having to focus on ourselves. (76 :: 59).
Animation Composer team already has stated that it's a problem Adobe has to solve and it's been reported before, it's just a debug message that constantly pops in interrupting work, over and over again, just poping in, nothing else. It's beyond my comprehension why that message was not removed until now.
Please, save me the answers like "install a previous version of AE of AC" we all know that works, the problem needs to be fixed in the current version, it does not make sense to loose all the great new funtions because of a problem as simple as this one.

7 replies

December 16, 2025

Awesome, thanks so much for letting me know. 🙂

Participant
December 16, 2025

It works great! I've tested it all morning and I was not able to reproduce the error. Also, text interaction improved by a lot, much more responsive and with no errors at all. Thanks for the quick response and precise fix.

December 16, 2025

There is a fix available for this now in the AE Beta builds (from 26.1x13 or above). I know it may not be easy to reproduce this or if you even have the Beta version installed, but if you are able to test it out, that'd be really helpful to confirm the fix is working for you.

December 12, 2025

Moving status to Investigating

December 12, 2025

Yes, looks to be an easy fix to remove the message, though the message is there also for a valid reason. I'll see what AC is doing that is triggering it as well as clearing it out. 

Participant
December 12, 2025

Thanks for letting me know!

I was actually told by AC team that it was already reported and being worked on, also saw the posts here. I'm really glad I posted this and you're aware now. Hope it's an easy fix, I would love to not see that error never again!
Best regards!

December 12, 2025

I looked through our bug database and found the original report. Unfortunately it was assigned to someone who hasn't worked at Adobe for a number of years so the team wasn't even aware of the issue. 

 

I'll take a look at it, but the bug as far as I can see wasn't reported to us by the Animation Composer team, so I'm not sure who from that company is telling you they've reported it to us. 

 

It's also not a problem as far as I can see from the bug database with any other product or plugin, so it also seems like something the Animation Composer product is doing differently. 

 

Anyway, we'll look. Thanks for raising it.