After Effects 25.2 is now available to download!

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Welcome to After Effects 25.2

The Adobe After Effects 25.2 April release is now available for download, bringing a host of quality of life features and a comprehensive list of bug fixes to enhance your overall experience. This latest update includes significant improvements to streamline your workflow, ensuring better stability and performance.

New in 25.2

Here are the new features coming with version 25.2

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High Performance Preview Playback

Experience smoother and significantly longer preview durations without any limitation of RAM size allocated to After Effects.

HDR preview support

Preview and monitor your work in HDR for high dynamic range motion design and visual effects.

3D model animation controls in the

Properties panel

Easily modify the lighting and shadow effects on a 3D model layer and select embedded animations through the Properties panel.

Animated Environment Lights

Illuminate your Advanced 3D compositions by choosing a composition, video, or image layer as an Environment light source.

Helper commands for common 3D workflows

Use new commands to simplify common 3D workflows with single-click actions, such as linking a camera to a light, applying 2D effects to 3D objects, and visualizing the Environment Light's source.

Customize Transparency Grids

Use a 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.

Maintain your workspace when opening projects

Keep your current workspace layout consistent when opening projects saved with different workspaces in After Effects.

New and improved Null creation commands

Effortlessly create Null controllers for positional properties such as the gradient points of Shapes, Puppet Pins, and effect points, simplifying your workflow and enhancing efficiency.

Fixed issues in 25.2

The After Effects product team has diligently worked on the 25.2 April release, which brings a comprehensive list of bug fixes to enhance the overall user experience.

Click here to check out the list of bugs that were fixed.

New in Beta

Check out what's new in After Effects Beta.

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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.

Smooth Zoom

Experience smooth and fluid magnification while scrolling, using pinch-to-zoom, or scrubbing with the Zoom tool in the Composition, Layer, and Footage panels.

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.

[Pablo-D]

Thanks for the reply David,
before when it ran on RAM I couldn't render a lot of time, but at least it
ran smoothly when it was charged, not because it uses all the space in my
computer so it crashes. so i have to make space for it, and still it takes
longer to preview and when it does it does not cover the full extent of the
in and out of the render bar. I used to render. project in about 8 min, and
now for the same projects it takes about an hour, and crashes in the middle.
So I don't know what else has changed in the update but it is not working,
is there a way to go back so that it only uses the RAM i assigned ?
Thanks

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[David.Arbor]

You can disable the new system from Preferences > Media & Disk Cache > Enable Preview from Disk Cache, but before you do that, perhaps try lowering your Disk Cache amount (directly above this checkbox) to reduce the size your disk cache uses. The new system is very powerful, and shouldn't be causing these types of issues, so I suspect something else might be going on. But go ahead and disable it, see if the problem goes away, and if it does, we would greatly appreciate if you could start a new thread with as much detail as possible on how to reproduce the issue. You're also welcome to send us your project so we can repro the issue on our end.

If the problem doesn't go away after disabling the new system, then let's still talk and figure out what's these issues.

Thanks,
- David, After Effects Engineering Team

[Pablo-D]

Here is an example, is so frustating than even in really simple stuff I can't load a real preview of the actual timming. it gets stuck, even when the ram preview is cleared. How is this update better? it also have new issues, it crashes more , yesterday even it turn my computer off, something that never ever happened to me. 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3lpsk67x7q963b9xd7yqv/Screen-Recording-2025-05-14-at-11.34.13-a.m..mo... 

[David.Arbor]

I'm not sure I understand what's happening in your screen recording. Are you talking about how the animation plays back smoothly and then at around 0:03 in your recording the animation goes very slowly, or are you talking about thow the cache bar changes in the Timeline?

Two questions:

1. If you render the animation via the Render Queue, does it look the same as in your screen recording?
2. In the Preview panel, do you have the "Cache before playback" box checked? If you don't see it, you might have to expand the panel by pulling it down. Also, make sure you're looking at the settings for whatever keyboard shortcut you're using to Preview the timeline.

- David, After Effects Engineering Team

[Pablo-D]

In the video yo can't see the actual speed of the animation. it plays fast as it's for cache, and the it get stuck, it never loops with the actual timming.

[Pablo-D]

[David.Arbor]

What happens if you disable "Cache Before Playback" and try? That setting fully caches a timeline before trying to play back and can make the preview go slower or faster than real-time before playing the timeline back in real-time. 

- David, After Effects Engineering Team

[Mag32990348sl2v]

Since the new update i have the same issues

[David.Arbor]

Hi @Mag32990348sl2v ,

Can you file a new bug with your exact version of AE, machine configuration, and as much detail as possible, including screen recordings? We want to solve any issues you're running into, and a new thread will help us track your issue and troubleshoot better. 

Thanks,
- David, After Effects Engineering Team

[koralfx2]

In the latest version 25.2.2, windows (e.g. color palette, animation keys) forget their position on the screen. It’s impossible to work like this.

[David.Arbor]

Hi @koralfx2, sorry to hear you're having issues with the patch update. Could you please start a new thread with a full UI screen recording that clearly shows the problem. This will help us either reproduce the issue on our side or better troublehshoot with you.

Thanks,
- David, After Effects Engineering Team

[koralfx2]

Done

[michak19395341]

Hey there, I would love to use the latest version as it seems to have some awesome changes but in both versions I had the problem that dragging keyframes is extremely sluggish and not usable. I used the normal latest AE version and not any Beta. Is this a known error or is there any fix for this?

[martinc13962311]

Are 50 series Nvidia GPUs fully supported in this version?

[martinc13962311]

Hello!!! Anyone there????

[David.Arbor]

Hi there,

Nvidia 50 series GPUs should just work in the latest version of AE; there's no special support that needed to be added. Make sure you're using the latest Studio driver. But if you do run into any issues, please report them in the forums.

Thanks,
- David, After Effects Engineering Team

[curt.gallery]

Highly recommend not updating. Hosed my entire project, could not find footage would not resync or allow me to replace or reimport any thing. It struggles with sending compositions to the Media Encoder too. Lost nearly a day of time sorting it out. The solution was to go back a version. Be warned. 

[rtdc]

In your case, if AE doesn't allow to replace missing file with the one on your HDD, try to duplicate that file, and then replace missing footage with the duplicate you just made. Just make sure the duplicated file has different name (like "footage-copy.mp4"). Hope this helps.

I think it really depends on OS version and hardware. When I had latest AE version on my iMac2020 (i7 3.8, Radeon 5700, 96Gb RAM), I had so many bugs I didn't even want to list them here, cause then I would have to troubleshoot everything, and write essays here nobody @adobe reads. I had a suspicion that Adobe doesn't care so much about Intel versions anymore, and mayor resources could be focused on Apple Silicon, so I upgraded.
Now, on 16" MBP M3Max 48GB RAM and AE 25.2.2 (apple silicon ver) I feel almost comfortable. [M4Max with 2x bandwidth was not in my budget]. Timeline preview is very fast compared to iMac, old bugs are gone. OK, there are few minor bugs like this one (attached) where panels stretch incorrectly, but it is not something that worry about.

[curt.gallery]

Thanks the only thing that remains and this seems to be an ongoing are preview performance issues. Randomly preview behaves as expected, quickly renders frames at 1/4 quality quickly and then all of a sudden it refuses to rendering any frames and it becomes ten times faster to just export that section, which is not a great work flow and makes no sense. How could rendering the file in full rez take less time then a 1/4 quality preview?! 48GB of RAM?! SWEET!

[Vasco Mamede]

Olá meus caros. Estou tendo um problema que está destruindo minha usabilidade no programa.

Segue víddeo do ocorrido.

É como se o AE não detectasse minha placa de vídeo. O preview fica EXTREMAMENTE LENTO e sempre que clico e arrasto algum item ele se movimenta extremamente lagado.

Poderiam me ajudar?

RX 7600 (já reinstalei os drivers desinstalei e instalei novamente com DDU)
R5 5600X
32gb RAM

Já fiz tudo de superfulo que o youtube pode oferecer para solucionar esse problema. Nada acontece.

Minha placa de víddeo está funcionando normalmente.

[David.Arbor]

Hi @Vasco Mamede ,

This sounds like a problem we fixed in a recent version of the AE Public Beta. Can you install it and give it a try? Alternatively, the fix will be included in the upcoming release of 25.3.

To install the public beta, open the Creative Cloud desktop app, click the "Apps" button on the left sidebar, then click the "Beta" icon in the top row. You'll be able to install the release version and the public beta alongside each other.

Thanks,
- David, After Effects Engineering Team