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In video to align right edge of the static image to left edge of the animated image, it was moved to align the left edge of the composition then again moved in the opposite direction and pinning was applied.What is purpose of moving animated image to left, to align left edge of the composition?Animate a Static ImageTime 2.17      

HiI am once again asking the boring question : why is ram preview so slow? It takes time to cache and is very jerky when it plays.But the reason why I’m asking is that ae barely taps into my computer’s resources at all. I have a ryzen 9, 200 gb ram, an rtx 5090, a 5th gen nvme, and ae barely uses 10% of it… But still lags?Why???And it’s a pretty modest scene, nothing crazy.So, how come? Is there anything I can do? 

The 2 images i will add here are a wide to a medium shot of my film. The background is 4K and there’s no problem to scale into the different shots (wide, close-up etc). However the animated characters are .mov files and if I was to simply take the composition as a whole and scale in (which would be so easy and great!) -the characters lose a significant amount of quality.If I parent the characters to the footage they will scale but at the scale they are already at in the wide shot -so for example -a character in image 1 above -the wide -might be at 30%. When I parent to the footage, the character will scale up but stay at 30% so not as good quality.  What I’ve been doing is scaling everything separately with key frames -for each shot -which takes a long time with all the above characters! There must be a better way -can anyone help?!

Somehow the properties panel doesn’t show detail info. For example, I used to be able to click on a layer with a shape, and the shape info would be accessible. No longer. Same with type, click on a text layer and nothing.  

Hello.I would like to understand the best way to migrate After Effects when upgrading to a new version.I recently installed After Effects 2025 while previously working in After Effects 2020. I used the “Migrate Settings” option, but I’m not sure what is actually supposed to transfer and what should be moved manually.I would like to know what is considered the best practice when moving between versions of After Effects so that future upgrades are easier and do not break things.Specifically:1. What is the recommended way to migrate settings and workspace between versions?2. How should plugins be handled when installing a new version of After Effects?     Should they always be reinstalled, or is it safe to copy the Plug-ins folder from the previous version?3. Some Animation Presets (for example Trapcode Mir 3 and Trapcode Tao) were visible in After Effects 2020 but do not appear in After Effects 2025.     Where are these presets stored and what is the correct way to migrate them?4. Some t

This version doesn't read Cryptomatte layers correctly for me, does anyone else get broken cryptomattes?

Just started working with AfterEffects & interested in working in C4D Lite. When I open a Cinema 4D file, or use FILE > NEW > MAXON CINEMA 4D FILE, the Cinema 4d Launcher window appears. After a moment, a popup from Maxon requires me to register an account on their website. I made sure that I registered on their website with the same login as my Adobe CC account. However, no c4d files can be opened, it asks me to activate a Cinema 4D trial instead of reflecting some kind of Lite license.  I'm not finding much information online about this license manager at all. In all the tutorials that I see, there is absolutely no mention of this License registration or MAXON account requirement - they all seem to just open straight into the 3d editor.  Is Cinema 4D Lite no longer included with After Effects in v17?   EDIT: I restarted the app again, and now when I open a Cinema 4D Lite app, this very confusing screen blocks me from doing anything:

Maybe someone here would know if it's possible to get rid of the " i " symbol below the playhead ? It's hard to find my keyframes ! Maybe a checkbox in UI settings… I don’t know what’s the purpose of them by the way... 

I was working fine until last Friday. Then it was the weekend, I didn't touch the Mac, and on Monday morning I get this fine error message from AE.  This is on a MBP M4 Pro, 24GB RAM, MacOS Tahoe (latest version), a fine machine that is working properly on anything (Premiere, etc), and was working properly with AE until three days ago. Nothing changed from the time AE was working to the time AE decided to throw this error and stop working. No new files, no new plugins, no new installations. Contacted Adobe support, allowed remote control, the support guy spent an hour trying to change folder permissions all over the place, nothing happened. All permissions seemed proper (that is, my user had R+W permissions on most of the folders, and “system” had R+W permissions on other folders that I guess just need system permissions). Nothing seemed out of place. Cleared everything, removed AE version 26, rolled back to 25.6. still the same message. I followed every article I found online, checked

Hi, I've just dowloaded Overlord 2, hoping it would offer a seamless way of working between illustrator and after effects but I'm still getting a lot of issues. I've attached a snippet of some of the illustrator drawing, I am trying to import and the one on the right is how it got imported to ae. Does anyone have any ideas what I've done wrong? I used the overlord panel to perform it. I just want to create a simple video with text values that change over time but is proving to be incredibly difficult.  

Does anyone know how to resolve this? I uninstalled and reinstalled and getting the same error. After Effects can’t continue: The Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) suite couldn't be loaded. You may need to reinstall. After Effects can’t continue: unexpected failure during application startup. I'm running (Mac) Yosemite 10.10.5, using After Effects CC 2015 v.13.6.1. Any help is appreciated!

I need to use some animated Arabic text in an After Effects file that I'm working on, but I don't have the'Text Engine' option in my menu to change it to ‘South Asian and Middle Eastern’: 

Hi everyone,I am trying to use the RenderQueueMonitorSuite to listen for render queue events, but I've hit a wall. While the registration function returns success, the registered callbacks are never actually triggered during rendering.I noticed some very old threads mentioning this suite might be non-functional. Is this still the case in 2026, or is there a known workaround?Environment: SDK & AE Version: CC 2019 (16.x) My Implementation Details: I updated AEGP_SuiteHandler.h to include the suite so I can call it via the standard handler pattern. Calling AEGP_RegisterListener inside EntryPointFunc causes AE to crash on startup. To avoid the crash, I moved the registration logic to a CommandHook. When triggered via a menu item, AEGP_RegisterListener returns A_Err_NONE (0), but the callback functions (e.g., RQM_RenderJobStarted) are never executed when a render starts. static A_Err RQM_RenderJobStarted(AEGP_RQM_BasicData *basic_dataP, AEGP_RQM_SessionId jobid){ // This alert ne

Hi everyone,I'm trying to develop a CEP panel for After Effects 2025, but it's not showing up in the application. Here's what I've done so far:I created the folder structure with manifest.xml, index.html, and main.js.The manifest.xml is configured with:xmlcopyEdit<ExtensionBundleId>com.victor.elevenaudio</ExtensionBundleId><Extension Id="com.victor.elevenaudio.panel" Version="1.0"/><Host Name="AEFT" Version="[16.0,99.0]"/><RequiredRuntime Name="CSXS" Version="12.0"/>I placed the folder at:C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\com.victor.elevenaudio.panelI enabled debug mode in the Windows registry:[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\CSXS.12]"PlayerDebugMode"=dword:00000001I restarted After Effects and still don’t see the panel under Window > Extensions (Legacy).I’ve also checked folder permissions and tried rebooting the machine, but nothing seems to work.Is there anything else that needs to be done in AE 2025 to make unsigned CEP panel

I have a LaunchKEY MINI MIDI controller. I wonder if I can use it in AE and Premiere for additional control? For example: assign a certain function to any of the keys. Or assign zoom or something else to a knob/pot. Is that even possible? Because I was thinking about buying a Stream DECK or something like that. Maybe it's not necessary if you have a MIDI controller. What do you think about it?

Hi community. Im using Element 3D plugin by videocopilot. I have a question regarding how 3D nulls behave. If I use the Create Null by the element 3D plugin, when I rotate the null object, the shape keeps its depth.But If I use AE null object, I also need to create a camera, and parent it to the null object, but when I rotate it in 3D space, Y Position, at some point during the rotation it becomes paper thin. But this behavior doesnt happen when Element 3D makes the null. This is the example for the null which element 3D creates, also camera is not needed when I rotate this shape.  Here is the 3D depth, when I use AE null at 90 degree Y axis, and I also need to use a Camera, because without the camera, the Null isnt animating any X.Y.Z positions. just the gizmo box animates.  Appreciate your help.

Hey everyone,I’ve been messing around with some GTA San Andreas gameplay footage, and I really love that stylized, slightly gritty look the game has — the colors, the outlines, and that almost comic-book vibe in some cutscenes. I want to try recreating something similar in After Effects for a short fan animation/video.I’m curious how other After Effects users would approach this. Do you focus mostly on color grading, use edge detection or cartoon effects, or maybe add some subtle motion graphics to capture that vibe? Are there plugins or techniques that really help bring out that “GTA” style without overdoing it?Would love to hear different workflows or tips — especially if you’ve tried recreating classic game aesthetics in AE before.

Hi! So I have rendered my character and unfortunetly the hair came out flickering, can any of you think of a good way to fix it if After Effects?https://www.itamargeller.com/kumucharacterFirst video in the page, I cannot upload videos here.Thanks!

I use cc particle world and a custom image to generate particles. The particles fades in during birth. I want them to appear solid right away. How?chat bots tell me there is an opacity map with a graph I can draw on. But I cannot find this map.The red line is where that map is supposed to be. It is not there.So how do I disable the particles fade in?

The issue is that aerender commands or after effects 25.6 or 26.0 is not opening with popup of dxcore.dll not found, I have already installed latestbeta version after effects but that didnt help

If i press spacebar and let it play, it gets blurry. Using mouse for fast preview or scrubbing on timeline, everything is fine. i’m on 100% magnification percentage. Resolution on Full. Cleared my cache. Updated to the latest After Effects 2026. But still nothing is working. Was working perfectly fine but suddenly this happened. On the picture, you’ll see its pixelated while it’s playing compared to the one that’s still (maybe need a bit of a zoom-in but trust me its very noticeable. Had this on other projects as well… Its a bit annoying. 

What features would you like to see implemented in After Effects? New ideas for plugins? Interface changes? Post 'em here! Let's keep bug identification to individual posts, as these will probably be addressed more readily. Let's use this thread for specific ideas about ways that AE can be improved and expanded. These Forums are for users, not Adobe employees, so don't forget to also fill in an Adobe feature request form. To view the Wish List posts prior to September 2009, look here.

Hi,I have a CEP plugin that works great in PPRO but is having a problem in AE. I have a simple function in a jsx file to return an object. I’ve tried returning the object or even a string with JSON.stringify() but the stringify seems to fail and return nothing and the object is just a string “object object”. The same code works in PPRO. I’ve tried this on a Mac (Tahoe) and Windows 11 but they both have the same problem.All I need to do is list out all the items in the project.Has anyone else seen this problem before? I’ve tried AE 2024/25/26. Any help would be amazing as it’s very odd!

我無法在AE中使用C4D(2024 build 5) 

Rendering in Adobe After Effects CC 2017 on my gaming laptop is too slow! I have performed a test with two laptops and a desktop PC.Let's name my gaming laptop as PC1. This computer is where the slow rendering happens. It took 4 hours to render my video. Here are the specifications of my laptop:CPU: Intel Core i5-7300HQ OS: Windows 10 Home (64-bit)RAM: 4GBGPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (2GB GDDR5)The next laptop will be named as PC2. This took only 40 minutes on rendering the same video. The specifications are:CPU: Intel Core i7-5500UOS: Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)RAM: 8GBGPU: NVIDIA GeForce 820M (4GB)The desktop PC will be named as PC3 and it took almost 50 minutes to render the same video. The specifications are:CPU: Intel Core i3-3210OS: Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)RAM: 8GBGPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 (4GB)How can I achieve fast rendering on PC1? Two of the major reasons in buying this laptop are video and photo editing. Can AE use my GPU on rendering? Please help me how to adjust or upgrade som