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Product: Adobe After Effects 2026Operating System: Windows 11Export Method: Native After Effects Render QueueOutput Format: H.264 (.mp4)Color Depth: 8 bits per channelFrame Rate: 30 FPSIssue Type: Resolution-dependent color shift during video export1. Issue DescriptionI discovered an unusual and repeatable color reproduction issue when exporting videos from Adobe After Effects 2026.When exporting a composition at 1024×512 pixels, a specific turquoise color becomes noticeably greener than its original appearance inside After Effects.The original color is:HEX: #008C95RGB: 0, 140, 149Inside After Effects, the color appears correctly as turquoise. However, after exporting to H.264 (.mp4), it shifts toward a noticeably greener shade.The most unusual part is that increasing the composition width by just 2 pixels — from 1024 to 1026 — completely eliminates the visible color shift.At 1026×512, the turquoise color appears correct again.All tests were performed within the same After Effects proj

Hi,Just upgraded to 25.2.2 and I am having a strange issue with adding layers its like it randomly clips or switches color space from one frame to the next. Only started happening after upgrading AE and NVIDIA.The screenshots are from the same project just different frames, as you will see it also affects the scopes. Only effect used is 'Fast Box Blur'Switching to 'Software Only' fixes the issue

Create a new project. Create a new composition. Add a new layer of any kind. Add a few keyframes to some value. Select the keyframes and open the graph editor. Press tilde (`) to maximize the graph editor panel inside After Effects. Use the middle mouse button to pan/scroll inside the graph editor. The graph editor panel erroneously returns to its original size.If no layers are selected, the problem does not occur. It also doesn’t happen when holding spacebar to pan/scroll.

If an effect plugin creates a project item while it's being applied, After Effects 2026 stops rendering new solids and footage in that project until the project is closed and reopened. Saving the project doesn't help, but File > Close Project followed by reopening it does, with no After Effects restart needed.Specifically, this means calling AEGP_ExecuteScript with app.project.items.addComp(...) from PF_Cmd_SEQUENCE_SETUP.The new layers show up in the timeline with a normal selection box, but nothing draws. Removing the effect and purging caches don't fix it either. The project file itself is not damaged.The AE log shows the render thread's copy of the project falling out of sync and never recovering:<DBSync> ProcessFromRenderThread ZANZIBAR-1: synchronization integrity correction: database timestamp mismatch: proj=64, sanity=88<BEE WorkQueue General Render Thread> <assert> Assertion Failed message: "Render_ExecuteCommand: serialization failed; need a full sync:

Since AE 2026, the crosshair button on effect Point parameters is broken. If I click the crosshair and then click anywhere outside the bounding box of the layer the effect is on, AE doesn't set the point. Instead it selects whatever layer is under the cursor (or above it), and usually throws "internal verification failure, sorry! {invalid index in indexed group}". Sometimes on the first click, otherwise within a few tries.Clicking inside the layer's bounding box works fine. In AE 2025 the same thing works anywhere in the comp.It happens with the built-in Point Control and with my own native plugin, so it isn't specific to one effect.Steps to reproduce:1. New project, import any footage and create a comp from it or add a full-frame solid.2. Add a small text or shape layer on top.3. Apply Effect > Expression Controls > Point Control to the text/shape layer.4. Click the crosshair next to the Point value.5. Click in the comp somewhere outside the text/shape layer's bounding box.6. Re

Issue:Multiple critical regressions and long-standing workflow bugs in recent After Effects builds are severely disrupting professional VFX/post-production pipelines. Key native features—including Object Matte, Scene Edit Detection, and Auto-Save—are suffering from severe bugs that make them unusable or dangerous for client-facing work.As professional artists paying an ongoing Creative Cloud subscription, having to rely on external tools or spend double the time manually fixing broken automated features (or losing progress due to Auto-Save failures) is completely unacceptable.Issue 1: Object Matte (Model v4) — Severe Performance & Edge Chatter Steps to Reproduce: Import 4K ProRes 4444 footage into a composition. Apply the Object Matte tool using default Version 4.0. Select a basic, clear subject in a shot. Propagate the matte across the timeline. Expected Result: Clean, stable, full-resolution matte edges with fast propagation leveraging workstation hardware (T

No updates were downloaded, and after effects used to work pretty well up until recently. the only out of ordinary thing I did was uninstall and reinstall adobe again with no issues when reinstalled but now it seems to refuse to run after the launch.  

After Effects 2026 (26.5) freezes when using the Numbers effect — HP Victus / Windows 11Environment Computer: HP Victus laptop OS: Windows 11 After Effects: 2026, version 26.5x89 Graphics: NVIDIA and AMD GPUs Problem descriptionAfter Effects intermittently becomes completely unresponsive when opening a project containing the built-in Numbers effect.The project sometimes opens successfully but freezes shortly afterward. Windows reports "Not Responding", requiring AfterFX.exe to be terminated through Task Manager.The issue also occurs in a newly created project when applying the Numbers effect to a text layer.The affected project worked normally on the same HP Victus laptop through May 1, 2026. I used it extensively for text animation and video production at that time.The exact date when the problem first appeared is unknown.Steps to reproduce Launch After Effects 2026. Create a new project and composition. Create a text layer. Apply the built-in Numbers effect. After Effec

I have a problem. Adobe refuses to modernise AE, you ignore all feature requests and you treat your users like garbage. In wish I could be paid to steal a living like Adobe 

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

I have found a reproducible After Effects file-import problem when using an SMB network volume on the macOS Golden Gate beta.When I try to import a PNG file from a network path containing Icelandic characters, After Effects displays:After Effects error: File exists but couldn't be open for reading (3 :: 0)  Example failing path:/Volumes/markadsdeild/Markadsdeild/Sjónvarp/06 On-Air grafík/01 SÝN/Vatnsmerki/01 Renders/01 Taka 2/01 Hvítt/Syn-vatnsmerki-hvitt_00025.png The file is visible in Finder and can be copied to my local Desktop. After copying it locally, After Effects imports it successfully.I also tested the same file on the same network volume using an ASCII-only folder and filename:/Volumes/markadsdeild/AE_test/test_00025.png  That version imports successfully into After Effects.This suggests that After Effects may be encountering a path or Unicode-normalization problem when accessing files through an SMB volume. The problem appears to involve Icelandic characters such as í, ó, 

Hi there, I’m on 2026.5.0 on a Mac Studio M2 chip running MacOS 26.6.2. Cryptomatte is not working consistently in this latest version. When freshly opened for the first time, I can apply Cryptomatte and select a single color to create a matte and after that the plugin becomes almost entirely unresponsive. Shift+clicking other colors does nothing in the viewport. Deselecting the current color does nothing in the viewport. The only indication I have that something is happening under the hood is that when I shift click to add colors to the matter I see the additional color ID being added to the list of color IDs that cryptomatte is using, but the minute I move my cursor off of said color, the ID disappears and nothing happens. The viewport is unchanged by this as well. Clicking a second color and seeing the ID list update is only showing in the effect control panel. the additional selected color in the viewport remains its original color. Once this behavior begins it occurs in every othe

When using the "Stabilize Motion" function in the Tracker panel, After Effects becomes inaccessible after switching to another application while the tracking process is still running.This happens both when using Alt+Tab and when simply clicking on another application's window to bring it to the foreground.Once switched away from After Effects, it is no longer possible to bring it back to the foreground until the entire clip has been tracked.Steps to reproduce: Open a composition containing footage. Open the Tracker panel. Select "Stabilize Motion". Start the tracking process. While tracking is still in progress, switch to another application using either Alt+Tab or by clicking on its window. Try to return to After Effects using Alt+Tab or by clicking on its window in the taskbar. Actual behavior:After switching to another application, After Effects cannot be brought back into the foreground. The application remains inaccessible until the tracking process has finished complete