After Effects

Hi everyone,I’m writing to bring attention to ongoing, severe performance issues in After Effects starting from the 2025 releases. As a paying Creative Cloud subscriber, the current state of the software has severely impacted my workflow and daily productivity. I cannot work anymore smoothly with the latest AE versions.The Key Issues: Memory & Resource Spikes: Rapid, unexplained RAM/disk usage leading to lag and full app freezes. Preview & Timeline Lag: Severe slowdowns during simple composition playback and UI interaction compared to previous versions (e.g., AE 2024). System Instability: Frequent crashes and memory leak behaviors even when standard troubleshooting steps are taken (purging media cache, resetting preferences, allocation adjustments). Sudden File Incompatibility (MP4 & MOV): Files that worked fine previously—especially standard .mp4 and .mov containers—are suddenly throwing errors, failing to import, or displaying as unsupported/corrupted media without

Hello!! I have to make a video template that features a single line of text which repeats using an echo effect and moves along a frame, similar to what the Montreal Victoire did for their goal videos as seen here. Because I’ll have to make about 30 of these videos and the text that needs to travel along the path will be different lengths, I set up a separate comp to use as a parent layer with an expression to scale text in that comp to its width (in this case, 200px), so I would only have to set up the number of echoes/delay between echoes one time. I tried using the expression “comp("Dynamic Text (player names)").layer("Player Name").transform.scale;” in my main composition to adjust the text moving along the path to match this scale, but this changes the scale of the path the text is travelling along as well. Is there an expression I can use to scale the text, but not the mask/mask path it’s travelling along? Alternatively, is there a way for me to have text move along a path in this

Working on an animation project and I ran into an issue with a piece of text where the percentage was supposed to be listed. The text read “...greater than or equal to %25 of...” and I flagged it as a typo. However, when I tried to fix it, no matter what I did or where I copied the text from, my “25%” formatted to “%25”. Was working in v26, but the issue carried over when I downgraded to v25 as well.Haven’t had this issue with any other project. I just tested it in another recent project (also v25) and was able to type the percentages okay, so not sure if this is project specific, v26 specific, or user/formatting error. Saw another couple posts on the Photoshop forums with the same issue, but no real fix.Two things I noticed/did to resolve the issue.For some reason, Hindi digits was checked. I got my project file from another editor, so maybe they had it enabled. Unchecked that box. It may help others, although I saw no change. I selected all my text, went to the Text settings on the s

Hi There,I'm doing a School of Motion tutorial, and am a little confused on a very basic function.When I hold cmd, the anchor point of a shape layer does not snap to either the center or corners etc. When I hold cmd on other layers, like a vector shape or comp, the anchor point snaps.Would you have any idea why this isn't working for shape layers? I've tried toggling the snapping box on the toolbar, and that doesn't seem to change the functionality.Thanks!

I saw this reference. -https://www.instagram.com/p/DcAvkW6DZVo/?igsh=bGp6d2Q0amRycm9iand really liked it. It is clearly based on images, turns them into particles, and morphs them. Is this possible in AE or does it look more like an effect in a 3D software? Thanks,J

I can't play through my sequence in Adobe After Effects my time bar keeps resetting mid session when I try to preview.

So I open a file through either Recent or from selecting a file on the Welcome screen when I open AE… and go to save it, and it saves into the last folder I had used from a previous different client job. This has been a PITA for years now. PLEASE FIX!

Hi,I have been going crazy looking for a solution to how to solve the 'blank frame' glitch when creating a looping composition using the loopOut() expression.I tried the current/previous solutions which involved adding a keyframe on the penultimate frame or manually setting the final keyframe value -1 frame. These worked, but I was still getting a visible animation glitch happening.My final solution, for a perfect loop with zero visible glitches or blank frames, was to open the pre-comp layer (the original composition that you're trying to loop) and for every layer that reaches the final frame, drag it beyond the end. These layers may appear to run to the very end of the comp and appear as though they reach the final frame, but manually dragging the end of the layer 'off' to the right of the comp was what was needed for that final 'missing' frame to show in the precomp loop.So, starting with a Time Wrapping comp that is showing a blank frame:1. Double-click the comp to show the content

日本語環境、windows11、複数のPC環境で再現GPUドライバー Nvidia 610.88AE2024　までは正常、AE2025以降のversionで問題あり１）画像１プロジェクトウィンドウ内の素材、コンプ名などすべてのUIフォントの英語の文字詰めがおかしく、読みづらい。AE2024　までは正常に読めていた。画像キャプチャでは「scale」の s,c や　l,e がつながって見えます。その他slowの　l,o がつながっていて作業しづらい。２）画像２特定のエフェクトウィンドウ　「Lumetri カラー」でホイールの説明で文字化けして読めない仕方なく英語環境で使っているがエフェクト等メニューの並び順が変わってしまって使いづらい。

After import an Adobe Illustrator file (30.7), After effects(25.0.0) displays the vector art with a white backgroundAfter effects shows me the vector art like a flattened image!This has never happened to me before, and I need a solution. 

PRO TIP for After Effects users using AI Assisted Coding tools - here's a short RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) you can use as part of your First Prompt or System Prompt to ensure your Coding Assistant writes compatible code --------------------------------Must be ECMA3-compliant (ExtendScript's engine) — no let/const, no arrow functions, no template literals, no array/object destructuring, etc.Must work across all language versions of After Effects.Use Scripting and Expression matchNames instead of localized display names wherever possible - this is critical for cross-language compatibility.Must work on both macOS and Windows.Targets After Effects version [** insert version number **] and newer.-----------------------------If you want to learn other insightful After Effects scripting and automation tips, I've got a LIVE Event with CreativeCOW on 23rd Aug. I'll be covering the GUTS Prompt Framework which will help you immensely get more out of your prompts.I will also cover the us

I've already managed to add the effects, but where did the subtitle files go? I can't find them. I don't know where they went. How can I get my screen back to how it was before? My screen before​​​​​​My screen afterwards I can already do the part about adding shadows. But how can I access my previous caption text again?Thanks in advance to anyone who can help! 

Gradient rendering issue (Grayscale) in Lottie/Bodymovin after After Effects 2026 (v26.0) update Issue: After updating to After Effects 2026 (v26.0), all gradients are being rendered in black and white (grayscale) when exported via the Lottie (Bodymovin) extension. The same project worked perfectly in the previous version (v25.x). Details: Setup: I am using standard Shape Layer Gradient Fills (not Layer Styles). Symptoms: All gradients in the project lose their color data and appear as grayscale in the exported JSON file and Lottie players. Suspected Cause: It seems like a compatibility issue between the new Color Management system (OCIO/Color Engine) in AE 2026 and the Lottie export data structure. Tested Workarounds: Changing Project Settings (Color Working Space to 'None') or saving the project before export does not resolve the issue in v26.0. However, the file exports correctly when opened in AE 2025. Environment: After Effects Version: 2026 (v26.0 or later) Extension: Bod