After Effects Stuck Off Screen

If you cannot grab any edge, you can do this:

1. change your screen's resolution. This will reset the size of AE window.

2. If you have a second display, move the window to the other display, then return your resolution to its original size.

3. You can now adjust the AE window to any size you wish on either display.

I read this in the AE forum with the same problem and an Adobe Employee posted this:

@stefan_gru wrote:

This happens to me on occasion as I move from large monitor to laptop while on the go. Just press Command+\ (macOS) and everything will snap into view on the smaller monitor. I assume Control+\ does the same thing in Windows. This works in Premiere Pro too.

Also, I found this. It might work with PR:

@Byron Cortez wrote:

1) Close After Effects.

2) Set your screen at resolution you want.

3) Shft  + Alt + Cmd immediately when you click in application icon to run it, clic OK.

With this action you clear the preferences and when AE opens it's gonna be ok in fullscreen.

Hope this helps.

After a lot of struggling, I made it work just by hold option + command and double clicking the bottom edge of the After Effects window.

Thanks Man, you are a hero

@uedvincent

Life saver!

Just happened to me using latest versions of AE and MacOS. Nothing else would work besides zapping the AE preferences.

All way described didn't work for me, I found the CMD+SHIFT and drag the side of the window, that will resize in a scale mode the window

Don't know if you'll ever read this but thank you so much. I had this problem and had no idea what to do. This helped a lot.

Super helpful tip! Thanks

This was driving me crazy for some time.

I am sure most of you have tested this solution out before trying all the time consuming ones,
as it sometimes works:

Double click the grey bar on the very top of After Effects.
It magically adjusts the size of my AE window and i could reach the bottom edge.

Probably well known,
but I did not know of it until today.