Welcome to After Effects 25.1 The Adobe After Effects 25.1 December release is now available for download, introducing significant enhancements to streamline your workflow. This latest update includes a notable feature allowing users to specify whether 3D objects in their compositions interact with scene lighting. Additionally, the release addresses multiple bugs, ensuring improved stability and performance. New in 25.1 Here are the new features coming with 25.1 Try the Latest Version Accepts Lights switch for 3D layers Disable a 3D layer from accepting lights to ensure the object’s appearance is unaffected by light sources in the 3D scene. 3D model preview thumbnail Preview 3D models as thumbnails in the Project panel to speed up model identification and enhance workflow efficiency. Cinema 4D 2025 upgrade in After Effects Take advantage of the Cinema 4D 2025 upgrade in After Effects and unlock the full potential of its new features and improvements. Fixed issues in 25.1 After Effects 25.1 brings enhanced stability and performance to elevate your creative experience, ensuring a smoother and more reliable workflow. Below is a list of fixes included in this release. Using the Shatter effect with specific settings no longer causes a crash on Apple silicon machines. Motion path dots are not visible when performing capture in Motion Sketch for After Effects 2025. The Broadcast Wave time reference field in XMP is no longer truncated, eliminating the issue of incorrect start media timecode values. After Effects Dynamic Link now adheres to the project’s hardware acceleration preferences. 3D models are no longer replaced by placeholders in exports. Exporting MP4 files at a width of 4100 px now accurately outputs at 4100 px instead of 4096 px. Using the middle mouse button to close panels no longer causes After Effects to crash when clicking elsewhere. Updated several keyboard shortcuts to include more user-friendly labels. After Effects now renders compositions with non-multi-frame rendering effects more quickly. Dialogs now always open on the same monitor as the main application window. New in Beta Check out what's new in After Effects Beta. Try the Beta app Customize Transparency Grids Use the new set of options in Grids & Guides preferences to change the size and colors of the transparency grids displayed behind the composition contents. Customize panel background colors Personalize the empty fallow area around your composition by selecting a background color from five grey brightness levels or choosing a custom color. Change anchor point in a more efficient way Effortlessly adjust the anchor point on 2D layers with Quick Set Anchor using the Properties panel or a keyboard shortcut. Here's how you can install the latest version Open the Creative Cloud desktop application and click the Updates tab on the top left. Find After Effects in the list and click Update. I don't see the update in my Creative Cloud desktop application. What should I do? Click Help > Check for Updates from the Creative Cloud desktop application to refresh it. If you are experiencing any issues, please create a new thread explaining your problem so we can help.

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After Effects 25.1 is now available to download!

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Welcome to After Effects 25.1

The Adobe After Effects 25.1 December release is now available for download, introducing significant enhancements to streamline your workflow. This latest update includes a notable feature allowing users to specify whether 3D objects in their compositions interact with scene lighting. Additionally, the release addresses multiple bugs, ensuring improved stability and performance.

New in 25.1

Here are the new features coming with 25.1

Accepts Lights switch for 3D layers

Disable a 3D layer from accepting lights to ensure the object’s appearance is unaffected by light sources in the 3D scene.

3D model preview thumbnail

Preview 3D models as thumbnails in the Project panel to speed up model identification and enhance workflow efficiency.

Cinema 4D 2025 upgrade in After Effects

Take advantage of the Cinema 4D 2025 upgrade in After Effects and unlock the full potential of its new features and improvements.

Fixed issues in 25.1

After Effects 25.1 brings enhanced stability and performance to elevate your creative experience, ensuring a smoother and more reliable workflow. Below is a list of fixes included in this release.

Using the Shatter effect with specific settings no longer causes a crash on Apple silicon machines.
Motion path dots are not visible when performing capture in Motion Sketch for After Effects 2025.
The Broadcast Wave time reference field in XMP is no longer truncated, eliminating the issue of incorrect start media timecode values.
After Effects Dynamic Link now adheres to the project’s hardware acceleration preferences.
3D models are no longer replaced by placeholders in exports.
Exporting MP4 files at a width of 4100 px now accurately outputs at 4100 px instead of 4096 px.
Using the middle mouse button to close panels no longer causes After Effects to crash when clicking elsewhere.
Updated several keyboard shortcuts to include more user-friendly labels.
After Effects now renders compositions with non-multi-frame rendering effects more quickly.
Dialogs now always open on the same monitor as the main application window.

New in Beta

Check out what's new in After Effects Beta.

Customize Transparency Grids

Use the new set of options in Grids & Guides preferences to change the size and colors of the transparency grids displayed behind the composition contents.

Customize panel background colors

Personalize the empty fallow area around your composition by selecting a background color from five grey brightness levels or choosing a custom color.

Change anchor point in a more efficient way

Effortlessly adjust the anchor point on 2D layers with Quick Set Anchor using the Properties panel or a keyboard shortcut.

Here's how you can install the latest version

Open the Creative Cloud desktop application and click the Updates tab on the top left. Find After Effects in the list and click Update.

I don't see the update in my Creative Cloud desktop application. What should I do?

Click Help > Check for Updates from the Creative Cloud desktop application to refresh it.

If you are experiencing any issues, please create a new thread explaining your problem so we can help.

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eme_1597

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Hey, There's a bug so now people who just got the Affter effects app cant use it (I'm on windows so this might be only me)

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fashionable_Jubilee5FEC

Participant

Glad to hear! When will we be able to run and use Adobe After Effects on our WindowsARM computers? And is there a discount on the Adobe Creative Suite subscription planned for Windows ARM users who cannot run all of the applications included in the subscription on their Windows 11 devices because they are not available for this system?

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d35496882hfi1

Participant

Hello, I ve updated After Effects from 25.01 to 25.1 and the main problem I ve got - it is very slow feedback from AE preview window. Unfortunately, I have to install previous 25.01 version and it is ok now. The newest 25.1 version doesn't work for me.

rtdc

Known Participant

My preview screen is also freezing. Tried to scale some footage to fit screen, I can see that after changing scale property footage bounds box changes it's scale, but preview screen still showing unscaled footage. Turning layer (with footage) visibility on and off still doesn't hide footage on preview screen - it's like frozen. Then cursos changes to spinner for some time, stops spinning, but any click on screen or menu item triggers spinner again and again, so basically I have to force quit. Tried restart few times - unusable. I'm forced to downgrade. That's insane.

Welcome to After Effects 25.1

New in 25.1

Accepts Lights switch for 3D layers

3D model preview thumbnail

Cinema 4D 2025 upgrade in After Effects

Fixed issues in 25.1

New in Beta

Customize Transparency Grids

Customize panel background colors

Change anchor point in a more efficient way

Here's how you can install the latest version

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