After Effects

Greetings! I have which I had for some time and AE worked just fine. Then suddenly it began to misbehave - freezing after several minutes of work, just a rotating circle instead of cursor. The comp is not affected, just AE is freezing. So I have to force quit it. Although I am in Moscow, Russia, not everyone here is an evil pirate) so our company pays for a license, so I reinstalled AE via Creative Cloud, removing preferences and settings, to no avail. I cannot figure out what could be a problem, it began yesterday, and not going away( No changes in configuration or setup, no obvious trigger…. No error messages, no warnings...Also, if I need to quit AE before it freeezes, it starts to freeze then, and fun lollipop begins to rotate...

Excuse moi… What the hell is that?! It’s the first time in 15 years in After Effects I’ve had this: Absolutely nothing special here. A fresh project with one video precomped, tracked, camera and text added. That is all. I cannot use Advanced 3D today because it messes up my font. Tried resetting AE preferences with Ctrl+Shift+Alt on load.  Tried resetting font preferences, choose other fonts. Tried changing Advanced 3D preferences.AE 26.0.0, 14700K, 4080, 64 Gb of ram

Uppercase * is not uppercase when used in linked text fields or essiential graphics. Bonus wish - let me disable caps lock, im sick of the diable refresh.Other then that i Love AE ;)

There’s this very specific bug that has been happening to me since the later versions of After Effects 2025 and it’s still present on the latest 2026 release.I do a lot of transcriptions on Premiere, then convert those to captions, then convert those captions to graphics, and finally copy the graphics layers from Premiere to After Effects. This is a workflow that I’ve been doing for a while without any issues.These graphic layers are interpreted in After Effects as compositions with text layers inside. And this behavior is still true.But since later versions of After Effects 2025 (up to the current release of 2026), whenever there’s a line break (only on the first line of text) in this layer that comes from Premiere, the rest of the text just disappears. It’s still selectable and reappears if I remove the line break or convert the text layer from the original paragraph text to point text, but I just preferred if this wouldn’t happen in the first place.I’m on a 2021 M1 Macbook Pro. I’m

Hello, I’ve been working on developing a plugin using the AE SDK (essentially an AE-style plugin for PR). However, I’ve been unable to successfully compile Chinese effects names.Here is the command I’m using:cl /D "PRWIN_ENV" /I "$(AE_SDK_BASE_PATH)\Examples\Headers" /I "$(AE_SDK_BASE_PATH)\Examples\Resources" /EP "..\%(Filename).r" > "$(IntDir)%(Filename).rr""$(AE_SDK_BASE_PATH)\Examples\Resources\PiPLTool" "$(IntDir)%(Filename).rr" "..\%(Filename).rcp""-c"Even after adding the -c option, it still fails. I suspect this tool might not support it, because I know that Cnvtpipl.exe does support Chinese attribute names.

# Adobe Community Forum Bug Report (Form Format)## Title:“Create Multiple Compositions” produces comps that render completely black — silent failure, no error-----## Issue:Compositions created by dragging multiple MOV files onto the New Composition icon in the Project panel (“Create Multiple Compositions”) render as completely black output. Preview plays back normally. The render completes with a success status and no error message, making this a silent failure.## Steps to reproduce:1. Import multiple MOV files into the Project panel1. Select the MOV files and drag them onto the “New Composition” icon (film strip icon at the bottom of the Project panel)1. AE creates one composition per MOV via “Create Multiple Compositions”1. RAM Preview any of the created comps — video plays normally1. Add the comp to the Render Queue1. Render using any format (ProRes 4444, PNG sequence, etc.)1. Check the output — completely black## Expected result:Rendered output matches the preview with visible vide

Opening someone else’s project I get “Could not create Essential Graphic parameter because it refers to a non-existent layer.”→ How does one find out why Essential Graphics failed, what the layer(s) might have been?Similar to when expressions break .. you can click the magnifying glass in the orange alert bar to go directly to the broken expression, or type “missing” in the search field to solo footage files that the After Effects project cannot locate.Thanks,Marc Chep

Why AE is still in 2026 absolutely garbage and unoptimized? Why at more than 70$ moth is still full of bugs? Why rendering is still underusing the machine? Why adobe? Why dont you destroy the program and rebuilt from zero? Years, more than 12 years working daily with it and every day I have to FIGHT with the software, every day. Every day I discover a new tricky way to solve a NEW problem. 

hello,i have after effects 2024,and when i preview my video or photo,the preview gets very slow,and a red warning appears in my preview pannel saying that my preview is not in real time.i think this has a connection with the green line,because when i preview,a lot of empty spaces appear on it.this issue happens with all of my projects.already tried to change the resolution,allocate more RAM to ae,cleaning cache,and nothing works.i ask for solutions please.

I need to reset an anchor point to the center of a shape. I can use the Pan Behind tool to drag the anchor point back, though I do not know how to get it right back in the center. Searching Google told me to hold down Command while dragging and it should snap to the center, though that is not working for me. What do I do to get the anchor point right back in the center?Thanks

I started encountering a bug yesterday where my after will not allow me to click on any effects or presets in the effects and presets window. I am still able to add effects by right clicking my footage and choosing effect.You can see in the screenshot that the create new animation preset button at the button is not appearing.The only way I am able to fix this is to reset after effects multiple times. I dont even know where to being troubleshooting or what information to provide.

 AE crashes during render after a few minutes. My comp is Intel TM i9-14900 3.2GHz, 96 GB RAM, £TB of storage available, 64-bit op system and processor

I am troubleshooting a MacBook with AE 2026 (completely updated) using significant energy over a 12-hour period, causing slow-downs and battery drain. (Activity Monitor → Energy → 12 hr Power). On this machine, it’s hovering right around 15%; while on my own MacBook, it sits at about 7%. The laptop is also very hot, with fans turning on intermittently. I have tried clearing all caches, reinstalling AE, updating it, and resetting the Mac’s SMC. It’s not actively using energy, but the 12 hr Power does not budge. What could this be? Laptop is a 16-inch 2019 MacBook Pro. Specs below, if it matters. Graphics:2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB Memory:32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 macOS: Tahoe 26.4.1

I have been editing this comp for a couple of days and when I went to edit opacity the scale from 0-100 was gone and so was the “Add: ▶” to add an effect. I am super confused and don’t recall doing anything to remove this, see pics (this was an existing comp that I no longer know how to adjust in terms of the amount. However, after hours I realized that I could use the Properties tab on the left side panel, but it is just inconvenient and hope to have it back. Anyone know how? I have to have this project done soon so any tips are appreciated! 

Issue: Keyboard shortcut for “Don’t Save” in the Save Changes dialog no longer works.Steps to reproduce:Make a new empty project, make a new comp, close the project to the trigger the Save Changes dialog. Press command-D to trigger “Don’t Save”.Expected result: Don’t Save should be triggered and the dialog goes away.Actual result:Nothing happens in the save dialog. In the menubar, the Edit menu highlights because it probably thinks I’m triggering the keyboard shortcut for Edit > Duplicate.Adobe After Effects version: 26.2.0, 26.2.1, 26.3.0b53Operating system: MacOS 15.7.5 The shortcut works in AE 25.6.5. Escape (Cancel) and return/numpad-enter (Save) both work correctly.While the dialog is open, opening menus shows that many menu commands are correctly disabled, but many are still actionable and their keyboard shortcuts are still trigger-able—even if none of them do anything other than quickly highlight the menu.

Ran into some confusion when attempting to animate some shoe laces today. I was wondering what the best way to animate them would be. I wanted to achieve a realistic feel, where the end of the lace pulled first, then the rest followed eventually ending in a knot of some sort, the knot didn't need to be accurate, but I of course wanted the movement to feel and look good.  My first thought was manually animating the path but I ran into the problem of spacing between keyframes, which would cause the stroke to distort and not follow a natural line/ flow that the lace would naturally achieve, animating each keyframe could be possible with a reference for timing and spacing but still felt very slow and inefficient. I then attempted to use Bones, which also didn't work and distorted the stroke. Finally landed on points follow nulls. Which seemed at first to do the trick, only to run into the problem of the bezier handles causing the stroke to distort, as you cannot edit the path due to the po

OK, here goes.Select an image, say a narrow street showing to the end.In Photoshop,select Filter > Vanishing Point.Go through the process of making the Planes required. Export for After Effects .vpe > Open After Effects, import the .vpe you just created.Double click the Composition folder > AAAARGHThis is where it goes pear shaped and is my question, See the attached screenshot.How on earth do I put the Planes into the viewport, is there an easy way to do this, I have tried dragging, fiddling with Parent / Transform settings. It is a nightmare to place the planes in the viewport, and I’ve never managed to make it fit nicely. Can anyone suggest a method?Thanks in advance. 

After updating to 22.2.1 build 3 I've got strange problem with "All Caps" feature in Character control.Some letters are "caps" and some are not, some letters can be made bold after that and some not. No issues like that were present in previous version.See attached file. If font is anything else that "Regular" "All caps" is tottaly crazy.

Hi Adobe Community,I’m experiencing an issue with Adobe Media Encoder where Hardware Encoding is not available, even though I have an NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti installed.When I try to switch to Hardware Encoding in the H.264 export settings, I receive this error message:“Your system's hardware does not support hardware acceleration for the current settings.”