After Effects

How do I solve this?? "After Effects error: The file path to this PDF document exceeds 260 characters and cannot be used. Move the file to a location with a shorter path." I am unable to do this move as these are source files from client...

Using the latest version of After Effects - both my main Desktop machine (Windows 11) = and laptop (Windows 10) are freezing and crashing. Graphics and Video. No other app is causing this. Most often triggered when TAB through windows to different apps. Please sort this out. Not acceptable.

Hi,I want to animate only X of Scale properties of the white rectangle. But I notice a tiny movement in Y axis as well. I set the anchors perfectly. I dnt want any movement in Y axis. Please guide me. I tried both keeping the constrain and breaking it too. in both case the Y axis moves. 😣 

Estoy escribiendo y cuando quiero hacer que el texto vaya hacia abajo simplemente me desaparece…No tengo mucho más para describir.   

When I enable Show Layer Controls, if there are shape layers with many paths the entire UI becomes unusually slow and unresponsive.

Hello there,We are experiencing rendering issues with our EXRs in After Effects 25.4.Our images appear with several horizontal black lines at regular intervals, dividing the vertical image into 14 equal horizontal segments.These lines are 1 pixel high and transparent.The rendered EXRs do not present any rendering issues in Photoshop or After Effects 25.3.2.The EXRs are high resolution (4984x3584 pixels), come from 3dsmax/Vray, and are encoded in DWAB.Given that patch note 25.4 specifies improvements to EXR processing, it is possible that this is where the problem lies.No effect are in the scene, no nothing. Only the EXR sequence.The lines are not necessarily visible at the top of the composition and do not appear on all frames. However, they always appear in the same place in the composition over time.I have, of course, tried all the usual methods to remove these lines from the rendering, but I have not been successful. Purging all the data, switching to Mercury, changing the interpret

I am working in AE 25.1.0 on PC. I have a scene set up in Advanced 3D, using a mix of .obj and .glb files, alongside regular 2D and 2.5D layers. My camera starts wide before zooming in close. My issue is that when the camera gets very close to these layers, they start to clip against the camera. I have not had this issue with Classic 3D but can’t use that renderer if I want to get the most out of the 3D elements. I have tried adjusting my camera and 3D render options with no success. Any tips?

I have a fairly complex and large scene. I accept it’s going to be slow, especially with my system specs. I have been working on it in quarter res and it can easily preview render that.But what I can’t get over is the render time!A full quality preview takes 15-25 seconds to render a single frame. This is somewhere I would expect the final render to be. It doesn’t matter where I put the play head on the timeline it’s always between those times to preview a frame.When I start rendering, it seems to be around this time, but then it starts getting really slow.I have switched from ProRes to a PNG sequence to try and figure how long this is actually taking and where it’s slowing down and the results are...interesting.At a point during the animation it goes from slowly getting longer per frame (each frame is taking up to a minute or so) to suddenly getting really long per frame, each frame is then taking around 15 minutes longer than the previous, and now I am up to over 2 hours per frame. T

I have a really strange issue, where my audio is fine outside of After Effects, but breaks once it has been imported.  By "breaks up"I mean that some words in a sentence are completely omitted, however the audio plays at the correct speed.  This results in the audio ending way sooner than the video, and the video not being in sync with the audio.  It was fine yesterday, so I thought that it might have just been a problem while saving, so i tried it in Premiere.  Same problem.  It's not just a preview issue either.  After exporting from Media Encoder, the audio remains broken.  I can't even completely restart the project, as every time I import a video, the audio in the video breaks up.  A quick response would be much appreciated, as I would like to complete this project as soon as possible.EDIT: It's also only with specific clips.  Some clips are completely untouched, while others are unusable.

After updating After Effects from 25.6.4 to 26.0 - there is really undesirable and stopper bug with exporting shapes with color gradients through Bodymovin plugin. 

Trying to use Auto Trace to reveal a logo, but the bottom part of the logo shows up before the rest of it . Not sure how to fix that. Any suggestions would be helpful. I’ve added a screen cap for context.

Hi everyone,I’m hoping someone can help me out. This is a bit tricky to explain, so I’ve attached the After Effects file.I’m working on a Lower Third MOGRT in After Effects, and it’s almost finished. The only problem I’m stuck with is the anchor point behavior when changing the width of a shape.I have a shape behind the name that can be extended (x-scale) to the right using a slider in the Essential Graphics panel. Since it’s a bezier shape, I created null controllers for the path points. To scale the shape, I linked the position of these path-point nulls to a slider control. I had to do it this way because all corners except one are rounded, and I wanted to keep the amount of roundness when scaling.The anchor point of this shape should always stay in the top-right corner (the corner at 90 degrees). This is important because the shape has a pop-open animation, like a speech bubble, that scales from that corner.What’s happeningAt the minimum width, everything works correctly: the bubble

Hello everyone, Since last week Thursday I have been having issues with After effects.After using after effects for a few minutes the preview screen freezes. Once that happens if I try to continue editing after effects will freeze. When trying to close after effects it won't work. Even closing it with task manager doesn't work. It only closes if I completely restart my laptop. The past few days I did more testing. trying to edit and restart after effects everytime it wanted to freeze and crash. The more I work in the project and add more things the faster it will eventually freeze. Doing simple things like masking a picture or adding beat markers also could make this freeze happen.  These past days new versions of after effects came out. sadly when updating these versions didn't fix the problem and today with the new update 25.5 it still didn't fix.  I already tried a few things:Reseting prefrences, Starting up in safe mode (same issues occured), turning off al

Hello,I have a big problem since a while.One of my After Effects projects linked to my Premiere Pro project has completely disappeared from my computer due to an error in both programs.I had saved it in a dedicated folder but I can't find it anymore even though it was still there this morning.Even the auto backups of the AEP project are no longer there, I only have those of the day before.Can you tell me how to recover this file?This is the first time this has happened to me.Thanks in advance.

Hi. I work in post. We usually import an image sequence of cr2 / raw footage into After Effects, it shows a preview on the Camera Raw window, where we leave everything as it is by default, with Adobe Color profile.The producer let us know that my renders were looking a bit more desaturated and kind of dark, while my coworker's was just as expected, bright and vivid colors.  We rendered in Quicktime, with Apple ProRes 4444, we double checked all of our settings, everything was the same. The only different thing was the AE version. He was working with 2025 (25.1) and I was working with 2026 (26.0). I downloaded a previous AE version, imported the footage and it looked just fine.Overall, this seems to be a specific 2026 version problem. Please fix this asap. Luckily, we found a way for importing all my work into a past version of AE and it was an instant fix, otherwise it would have been a problem for the person working the color after me.Thanks.

Every time I select a text layer in After Effects using the monitor, a message box pops up with the following error:After Effects error: having to focus on ourselves(76 :: 59)When I click OK, the cursor jumps back to the beginning of the text instead of staying where I clicked to edit it.It’s a small bug, but when it happens 200 times a day, it gets pretty annoying.

I need to speak to a human support agent about After Effects. 

I was noodling around with captions in Premiere Pro and wanted to add animation and a bit of flexibility.  I had a quick look for tutorials and was surprised by how many talk about bring in captions as separate comps.  So I decided to see if I could use PP’s export as csv option to bring these into After Effects, as a single text layer.And then I thought I’d share the result:  

After Effects just auto updated to 25.3 last night and I had all my settings migrate over. However now Particular isn't showing up in the Trapcode menu with the rest of the suite's plugins. All the Trapcode plugins including Particular are where they should be in the correct plugins folder but even thought the rest of the Trapcode plugins are showing in After Effects, Particular is somehow missing. For context I am using a Legacy installer that I purchased in 2017. It has worked for me all these years with updated versions of After Effects and I never moved to the Red Giant subscription plan. Has this happened to anyone else?

I've updated After Effects to version 25.0.1, and now the color picker/eyedropper tool isn't picking the correct colors for shapes, text, etc. It’s close, but the hex codes don’t match exactly.I'm selecting colors from the Library window within After Effects.When I change the setting in After Effects > Preferences > General > system color picker, it does pick the correct color. However, I’d prefer not to use the system color picker—I want to use the default one.This issue didn’t occur in the previous 2024 version of After Effects, where everything worked perfectly with the same project color settings and color management.Has anyone else experienced this or found a solution?

Hi folks, B here.After trying to solve what may be a glitch or simple oversight I finally need to reach out to the hive mind. I am experiencing a problem in After Effects with a single MOV video My steps  Import the .MOV into a new composition. Select the video layer in the timeline. Use the Pen Tool or Rectangle Tool to draw a mask around a small bright blob in the footage. In the timeline under Mask 1:   Mask Mode = Add, no choice really works properly Inverted = unchecked Feather = 2–5 px   Observation: The video blacks out outside the mask, leaving only the masked area visible. Open Content-Aware Fill → Fill Method = Object → Range = Work Area → Generate Fill Layer.   The issue persists: original video outside the mask remains black.   Tried resetting workspace and creating a fresh composition. Mask path appears correctly under the video layer. Tried Pen/Rectangle tools with RotoBezier on/off. Timeline “None” dropdown ignored — no effect.  When I