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Estoy teniendo serios inconvenientes con After Effects. Al exportar ciertos proyectos, se  tildado o arroja error al momento de renderizar.Lo llamativo es que la computadora está muy bien equipada y no debería presentar este tipo de fallas. Incluso tengo otra PC de prestaciones menores y en ella ambos programas funcionan sin problemas.A continuación detallo el hardware y software de la PC que presenta los problemas:Hardware:Procesador: Intel I9-14900K 6GHz 36Mb S.1700Motherboard: Gigabyte Z790A-K AORUS ICE DDR5 LGAMemoria RAM: Kingston Fury Beast RGB 32GB 5600 MHz DDR5Placa de video: Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 Ti Super EagleDisco sólido SSD: Kingston Fury Renegade 4TBDriver de video:Controlador de estudio NVIDIA 580.97Sistema operativo:Windows 11 Pro – Versión 10.0.26100Versión de Adobe:After Effects 25.4Acciones ya realizadas sin éxito:Reinstalé Premiere Pro y After Effects.Reinstalé los drivers de la GPU y actualicé a la última versión disponible.Liberé caché de medios y p

I have a problem with After effect when I try to open it, it always error recently and then pop up message appear like i've attached below,, is there anyone who know what happen with this? I'm so confused and need help! Thank You!!

Is there a way to repair this? Because every time I try to preview my footage the video shown is completely black. Is there an option to tick or something? This problem started after doing some 3D edits.

I’m trying to automate a trapezoid shape, that can be resized along the x or y axis (preferably with slider controls), but maintains four set angles. For instance, 90°, 90°, 100°, 80°. See attached image as an example: 

Since upgrading from windows 10 to 11 I have had this issue where After effects crash on startup once Bridge is installed.The only way to get it to working normal is to rename/delete Microsoft.AI.MachineLearning.dll from the plug-ins folder. Both programme will open and operate as expected but I lose all AI features in Bridge including masking which is a big part of my workflow.Has anyone solved this issue without deleting important .dll files?

Creating this as a thread for all small tweaks and suggestions to help everyday use.1.Being able to disable lock contraint for scale for selected layers in one go Being able to control additional layer properties via expressions, i.e. visibility.  This will need to be reflected in the layer visibility icon for example, that the visibility is connected to an expression Being able to replace sound files and control sound properties like volume in Essential Graphics If a layer has an expression, it would be nice to have an additional icon to be able to jump to the layer/layers, reference in that expression, and visa versa Direct Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets access for spreadsheets, rather than having to create a middleman csv/tsv file When using a linked csv/tsv and a user control dropdown effect, you can access the rows in the file with the dropdown by using “csv.dataValue”. This maps the dropdown index to the rows.  When adding this to essential graphics to override the spreadshee

I am trying to download After Effects 2026 onto my new laptop. It’s a high-end HP Omen and is equipped with all of the requirements. I have been looking at my creative cloud to see if its available to me to install but it hasn’t been there. I need to get it installed so I can see if a bug I have had problems with is gone. I have an adobe account through my school, so I don’t know if that has something to do with it or not. 

Hi all,I’m asking for some help about a project, for which I have a scene sitting on a couch, and on the coffee table in front of me, I’d like to place small demogorgons (from the Stranger Things show).I haven’t tried the environment light, the use of HDRI for lighting/shadows, and the direct import of 3D models, since all this became possible in AE. I’ve done this in Blender a few times and by no means am I an expert. So I got a free model of the creatures with different animation type hardcoded and I chose the ones I like. I found an HDRI that mimics the warm, orange colors I need for lighting and used it via the environment light. I also used a 3d solid , aligned with the table’s perspective and used it as a shadow catcher.The result for the shadows wasn’t good, though. No matter how I change the environment light’s rotations, I can’t get proper shadows from the proper angle. Even worse, they appear somewhat distorted with missing pixels and some jitteriness. The light also throws a

Hi! I can't seem to find how to create a repeater that scales the copies while keeping the same distance between them.

Hello community! I recently updated to AE26 and now when I paste text from illustrator, the formatting gets lost. Did anyone experience this? Please, is there a workaround in order to keep the text formatting, specially OpenType options?? 

애프터 이펙트 에서 3d 카메라 트래킹 기능을 사용하려고 합니다. 카메라 트래킹을 시작 하면 다이나믹 링크 서버 연결이 끊어졌다고 하며 작동하지 않습니다. 모든 버전 통일 하고 할수 있는 수단은 전부다 시도해 봤지만 소용이 없습니다. 맥북 m2 pro 모델입니다

I'd like to create a line that gets fatter as it lengthens from left to right, but I want the previous thicknesses to remain unchanged, so at full length it will look kind of like a stretched out triangle (one pixel on the left, 25 pixels on the right). I've tried combining the stroke width property with the trim path property, but that fattens the entire line as it grows (see attachment), not the effect that I want.I realize I could draw the final shape and reveal it with an animated mask, but I was hoping to do it just with properties for simplicity. Is there a way?

Don’t get me wrong. If this image showed up in an artist’s portfolio, I’d be more than happy to appreciate it.But for someone like me who opens After Effects multiple times a day, this splash screen feels like a jump scare. It actually gives me nightmares.I know I can modify the splash screen by following tutorials online, but doing so triggers Adobe to think I’m using a pirated copy and throws a five-day grace period warning at me. That doesn’t exactly feel like a long term solution.Other than that, I haven’t run into many issues with the 2026 version. It includes features I’ve been waiting for a long time, and I really don’t want to hold off on upgrading just to wait for the next release.

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I can access alt character styles in PSD but why not in AE?? I have a font called Helvetica Now which offers a curved lower case L and in PSD can access but not in AE. I have to create text in PSD and copy/paste over to AE.

Hello, I created some After Effects files on Windows one year ago with After Effects 2025 or maybe 2024. In november, my Windows computer crashed, as well as my old Macbook Pro 2019 Intel (!).So I had to buy a new Macbook M4Max.But I can’t open any old After Effects files on this new Macbook : it crashes.As far as I remember, I could open these files on my old Macbook Intel.Here is what After effects tells me :Can someone help me on this ?ThanksPS : I checked “enable Logging” in the help menu to see some log issues, and now I cannot uncheck it…. is there a way to stop logging ?

Adding in point controls only allows me to reposition by changing the values, not by sliding it around with my mouse. I want to be able to snap my mogrts to my guides.

 If you’re a plugin developer using the GPU API in the After Effects SDK, here’s a guide (written by Claude Code) on using Vulkan instead. I was completely stuck on a problem recently, where the GPU API just could not do what I needed it to do, and I was told that the Vulkan SDK could solve my problem.I hope this helps anyone in the same position. (See .md below)

Hi! I have a Premiere Pro timeline with  many linkes After Effects compositions (about 8 comps). Whenever I'm working in After Effects to change something and I save the project, ALL linked compositions in Premiere Pro go Offline. I need to relink them, and I can relink them no problem, becasue the project hasn't gone anywhere and hasn't changed name, but I lose my render files in Premiere and constantly relinking is being a total drag for my workflow. Does anyone know if there's a fix for that?  

어도비의 어떤 프로그램을 사용해도 멈추거나 하지 않지만애프터 이펙트만 실행하자마자 응답없음으로 멈추거나무사히 파일이 열린다해도 1분도 안되서 프로그램이 응답없음으로 멈추게 됩니다.얼마전까지 25.3 버전으로 잘 작동되었는데 갑자기 프로그램이 멈추고 충돌현상이 일어나서최종적으로 컴퓨터까지 갈아엎었지만 여전히 제대로 작동하지 않습니다.도대체 어떻게 해야될지 모르겠어요 

HiNot sure what is happening, but on my old iMac I have the AE 25 and I rendered out a video this afternoon and it was fine. So I thought I would pre-render some that I did a few years ago. I opened them, checked everything was there, trimmed them, and prepared for render. I added to ME and it said ready. Set it rendering and came back 3 hours later, and all three videos had some elements missing, and then after the main section it seemed to add like 20 minutes of blank video, that isn’t even in the timeline and then the end credit section.Does anyone know what this bug is?ThanksRob

I normally like to change the frame rate in the preview panel so that I can quickly check my video for anything that needs fixing. But I no longer see that option, has it been removed? 

After installing AE 2026. The application opens but then freezes. ALL UI panels present has white and the dark mode gradually appears. When any click is attempted the application freezes. Requiring a re-boot to clear. I’m running a Yoga 9i Pro with an RTX 4070 Laptop iGPU.With Microsoft warning the Jan-26 patch Tuesday “2026-01 Security Update (KB5074109) (26200.7623)” has caused widespread user issues. I suspect this may be the smoking gun?Has any community experienced similar performance issues? And are there any work aroundsAE 2025 works just fine.Regards Leicester 348

I've had AE on my computer for years, and finally had a potential use for it. I went to start it up and this message showed up.  I clicked OK, but this was followed by  And finally this showed up: To elaborate a bit more: I have been running the Lightroom family, Photoshop, Bridge, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, and Premier Pro with no issues at all. I have reset the Preferences I have reinstalled the application I have verified that all is well with Privacy and Security in Apple's System Settings.   Please note the very last suggestion in the screenshot just above where I am writing. It states it wants me to review and "fix" the issue that I encountered in the previous two messages. Other than the "OK" button, there was not much to go on.   BTW, as long as I have your ear, what is the difference between Adobe After Effects 2025.app and Adobe After Effects Render Engine 2025.app. (I get the exact same results whichever one I click)   I'm at a loss, suggestions?

My project consists of 2 spinning movie reels and a filmstrip composition with animated frames. I intend to align the filmstrip along a predefined path now, as if it loops between the movie reels. The common practice to copy the shape path and paste it onto the layer's position property displaces the filmstrip composition as a whole, but does not align it. Anyone has an idea how to proceed?