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Bruno Quintin
Inspiring
July 19, 2024

Ungrouping empty shape group make crash

  • July 19, 2024
  • 3 replies
  • 410 views

Summary:
After Effects crashes immediately when attempting to ungroup an empty shape group.

Steps to Reproduce:

Open After Effects (version 24.5 or the Beta version) on either Windows or Mac.
Create a new comp.
Add a new shape layer.
Create an empty shape group within the shape layer.
Attempt to ungroup the empty shape group.

Expected Result:
After Effects should remove the group..

Actual Result:
After Effects crashes immediately upon attempting to ungroup the empty shape group.

Additional Information:

The issue has been reproduced multiple times starting from a blank project.
The crash occurs consistently on both Windows and Mac operating systems.

3 replies

JohnColombo17100380
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 2, 2025

Hi @Bruno Quintin
The 24.6 release of After Effects contained the fix for this issue. Thanks again for reporting it and please let us know if you continue to any related issues.

Cheers,
- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

Jenkmeister
July 22, 2024

A fix for this is now available in 24.6x62.

Jenkmeister
July 19, 2024

Thanks for the report. I can reproduce this and we'll get it fixed.