After Effects

Hi! I can't seem to find how to create a repeater that scales the copies while keeping the same distance between them.

AE is stealing focus after rendering finishes. The AE window automatically pops in front although I'm using another application. Please fix this. This is highly annying!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Creating this as a thread for all small tweaks and suggestions to help everyday use.1.Being able to disable lock contraint for scale for selected layers in one go Being able to control additional layer properties via expressions, i.e. visibility.  This will need to be reflected in the layer visibility icon for example, that the visibility is connected to an expression Being able to replace sound files and control sound properties like volume in Essential Graphics If a layer has an expression, it would be nice to have an additional icon to be able to jump to the layer/layers, reference in that expression, and visa versa Direct Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets access for spreadsheets, rather than having to create a middleman csv/tsv file When using a linked csv/tsv and a user control dropdown effect, you can access the rows in the file with the dropdown by using “csv.dataValue”. This maps the dropdown index to the rows.  When adding this to essential graphics to override the spreadshee

Issue - filling up ram, with a preview render, never releases that ram, causes the application to generally not work.  Steps to reproduce - I use a plugin, element 3d, and preview render a long comp, that fills the ram cache, then change the comp and try to work with it. AE refuses to render anything.  Expected result - AE clears up ram, prioritizes what it is supposed to be doing. Actual result -  preview is BLACK. AE does not render anything. eventually it will crash, as the app uses more and more ram. Screen recording – this is impossible, as AE sucks down all system resources Adobe After Effects version - Version 26.0.0 (build 67) Operating system - Mac os X Tahoe 26.2 GPU driver version (Windows only) - NA Video format -  Comparative information helps us understand more about when the issue occurs:  It seems to affect projects that use large amounts of ram, and possibly plugins.  yes  AE 2025, I discovered it in December of 2025. Optional but useful: other observations: Element

Hoje eu estava editando um video no After Effects, e aconteceu o seguinte erro: "Aviso do After Effects: formato incorreto ou ilegível", isso se deu depois que eu reiniciei o computador para a atualização do Windows Update, após esse erro, tentei restaurar o computador para um horário antes da atualização! Assim fiz, e o problema ainda persistiu, não sei mais o que fazer, já olhei diversos videos no youtube e não tem nenhuma solução para esse tipo de problema, alguém poderia comentar a respeito, se tem como recuperar o arquivo ou eu posso abandonar?!

I’m completely stuck with a critical After Effects issue and I really hope someone here can help.Here are the exact technical facts....The main issueAfter Effects crashes with:“Unable to allocate XXX MB of memory”Or random GPU/CPU errors during preview or renderThis happens even on very small projects, sometimes after 1–5 minutes.Hardware diagnostics already doneI tested absolutely everything on the hardware side:MemTest86 — 4 passes — 0 errors → RAM is 100% stableMotherboard BIOS updated (MSI B550 Gaming Plus – latest version)AMD chipset drivers updatedAMD Radeon 6700 XT → clean driver install (Factory Reset)XMP disabled for testingTemps are normal (no thermal throttling)After Effects troubleshooting already doneReset AE preferences (Ctrl + Alt + Shift)Disabled GPU acceleration (Mercury Software Only)Cleaned media cache (manual + preferences)Deleted all Adobe cache folders in AppDataMemory & Performance: multi-frame render disabledMemory virtualized by OS (auto)Fresh installation

After effect version 25.4.0 After importing a sequence of exr images that were used as a black and white mask for rotoscoping, the silhouette was offset or cut off completely. After refreshing the composition and sequence, these offsets randomly appear in other places. I checked in the program "nuke" and there was no problem with these exr.

Hello community! I recently updated to AE26 and now when I paste text from illustrator, the formatting gets lost. Did anyone experience this? Please, is there a workaround in order to keep the text formatting, specially OpenType options?? 

hallo liebes Adobe Team, ich nutze seit Jahren das kostenlose und tolle Plugin von Video Copilot namens FX Console.Ab der Version 26 und auch in der letzten Beta, lässt es sich nicht mehr richtig nutzen. In den Einstellungen funktioniert der shortcut “option+Space” nicht mehr. Was aber viel schlimmer ist: wenn ich den  Efffect “Füllen” in die Favoriten ablege, stürzt After Effects ab. Was mir auffällt, das die deutschen Sonderzeichen nicht ht erkannt werden, jedoch funktionieren die Verknüpfungen zu anderen Effekten mit Sonderzeichen.Ich hoffe das Problem wird gelöst denn es ist ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug für mich und viele Andere User geworden.In derVersion 25.64 funktioniert das selbe Plugin Fehlerlos.https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2018/05/fx-console-updated-to-v1-0-3/ 

애프터 이펙트 에서 3d 카메라 트래킹 기능을 사용하려고 합니다. 카메라 트래킹을 시작 하면 다이나믹 링크 서버 연결이 끊어졌다고 하며 작동하지 않습니다. 모든 버전 통일 하고 할수 있는 수단은 전부다 시도해 봤지만 소용이 없습니다. 맥북 m2 pro 모델입니다

I’ve tried with Multi-Frame Rendering and without it and result same. I trying switch nvidia drivers to studio from game ready and it not help. crashes even when idle.My specs are:Processor: ryzen 7 7800x3dRAM: 32 GB usableOS: Windows 11 64-bitGPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070Dedicated Storage: 100 GBAE 2025

I'd like to create a line that gets fatter as it lengthens from left to right, but I want the previous thicknesses to remain unchanged, so at full length it will look kind of like a stretched out triangle (one pixel on the left, 25 pixels on the right). I've tried combining the stroke width property with the trim path property, but that fattens the entire line as it grows (see attachment), not the effect that I want.I realize I could draw the final shape and reveal it with an animated mask, but I was hoping to do it just with properties for simplicity. Is there a way?

Don’t get me wrong. If this image showed up in an artist’s portfolio, I’d be more than happy to appreciate it.But for someone like me who opens After Effects multiple times a day, this splash screen feels like a jump scare. It actually gives me nightmares.I know I can modify the splash screen by following tutorials online, but doing so triggers Adobe to think I’m using a pirated copy and throws a five-day grace period warning at me. That doesn’t exactly feel like a long term solution.Other than that, I haven’t run into many issues with the 2026 version. It includes features I’ve been waiting for a long time, and I really don’t want to hold off on upgrading just to wait for the next release.

I queue up a project with image 1 in the encoder render, then I go back to the project and change it to image 2 while the first video is still rendering. The encoder changes image 1 to image 2 halfway through the first video. The problem is that for the last two years I have been working the same way and nothing changed in the real-time render if I changed something in the project, but now it changes. This has never happened before. I asked couple of buddies and they said that it worked always like that :/

In AE 2026 is the new unmult effect which works well until you apply it to video which have transparency (alpha channel). Then the result is unacceptable with strong banding and color shift. If I compare result to other unmult effects or workarounds, the result of native new effect is totally different while other methods/plugins does well and practicaly the same output. I can provide the whole project with one frame from the footage, or the whole animation,Sample image attached.I tried change bit depth and colorspace but that does not change anything. 

only + option is coming  in menu, 

Problem DescriptionThe ExtendScript API operation renderQueueItem.outputModule().file = has a character encoding problem: when setting output paths containing non-ASCII characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, European special characters, etc.), these characters are replaced with dashes (-----). Testing shows that manually setting the same paths in the AE interface works perfectly, and the API can correctly read manually set non-ASCII paths, but after setting through the API , it displays as dashes, indicating the issue occurs during the API's write process.Note: This functionality worked correctly in After Effects 2024.Version InformationAfter Effects Version: 2025 (latest version)Platform: Windows 11OS Version: 24H2Steps to ReproduceUse ExtendScript to create new render queue itemsTry to set output paths containing non-ASCII characters via APIObserve the display result in the render queue panelTest ScriptSimply create a new project and run this script directly:// Create three test comp

I can access alt character styles in PSD but why not in AE?? I have a font called Helvetica Now which offers a curved lower case L and in PSD can access but not in AE. I have to create text in PSD and copy/paste over to AE.

Hi, Scince updating to the latest version  25.3.2 and something weird happened. I re named a file and it went missing of course. So I re linked it and saved the Ae files.But every single time I open the Ae file, I keep getting the same missing files msg and I have to re link it EVERY SIGNLE TIME. I tried saving a new file version but it's the same. I just installed a fresh windows 11 today and got the same thing!! Help please

Every time I work on a mdeium to large project, and I want to import one of my templates to speed up some comps, after effects preview panel goes black, and will not work.  Previewing sound won’t work, previewing video won’t work. Scrubbing won’t work. It sometimes comes back after 3-5 minutes. Clearing cache/memory does nothing. Restarting helps, but after restarting, it still takes time to generate preview. It happens across ALL after effects versions, 23, 24, 25, and now 26.

After Effects refuses to consolidate duplicate assets that share an identical file path.In Premiere Pro, I use the "Replace with After Effects Composition" command to send clips to a new project. This process automatically places the media at the root level of the After Effects Project Panel. At the end of the project, I need the assets in After Effects to match the organization I have in Windows Explorer so I manually import my Footage and Images folders from my hard drive into the project. This results in two versions of lots of different files. One version is the asset sent from Premiere Pro at the root level, and the second version is the one nested within my imported folder structure. Both versions point to the exact same file path on my disk and share identical interpretation settings. When I run the Consolidate All Footage command, After Effects fails to recognize them as duplicates and nothing is removed.How do I get this to work? I can’t have a messy project at the end and I d

Hello, I created some After Effects files on Windows one year ago with After Effects 2025 or maybe 2024. In november, my Windows computer crashed, as well as my old Macbook Pro 2019 Intel (!).So I had to buy a new Macbook M4Max.But I can’t open any old After Effects files on this new Macbook : it crashes.As far as I remember, I could open these files on my old Macbook Intel.Here is what After effects tells me :Can someone help me on this ?ThanksPS : I checked “enable Logging” in the help menu to see some log issues, and now I cannot uncheck it…. is there a way to stop logging ?