After Effects

ADOBE PLEASE FIX THIS AS IT IS A PITA!!!!!!!!! DOES ANYONE HAVE THIS PROBLEM??? So I open a file through either Recent or from selecting a file on the Welcome screen when I open AE… and make edits, do work, and save this file with new filename date (which is how I work - new day sees update file with _Sep4 (today)) so that I have daily backups, and go to save it, and it saves into the last folder I had used from a previous different client job. If I am not paying attention because I ASSUME WHEN I OPEN THE FILE THROUGH THE WELCOME SCREEN OR THAT HOME SCREEN WHERE IT LISTS LATEST/RECENT FILES THAT IT WOULD KNOW WHERE THAT FILE CAME FROM, BUT NO. This has been a PITA for years now. PLEASE FIX!

can you please fix mocha AE to work with Mac OS 27.0 golden gate? it wont open now that i upgraded my OS. but i'm able to open mocha pro just fine. i'm using after effects 2025. 

Have tried all sorts of varieties of drivers, hardware acceleration on/off, Windows display scaling, high DPI Windows compatibility settings for application launch, nVidia Control Panel app settings, different cables, ports on my GPU, etc. Even fresh installed Windows 11 and AE and still have the issue. The most frustrating is the preferences panel does not size properly and cuts off buttons/options - making it basically useless.Clipped preferences window.In addition to that, pretty regular flickering of UI elements when resizing panels.Often the mouse cursor's hit detection boxes when resizing is extremely narrow. Divider borders feel like "dead zones". The mouse sometimes doesn’t change to the resize icon.  System info    Application: After Effects v26.5.0.89    OS: Windows v10.0.26200, RAM: 93.61 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 32GPU - nVidia RTX 4080, Studio Driver 616.92

I'm running into what feels like a workflow dead end in After Effects, and I'm wondering how experienced users deal with this.Here's my setup: I have multiple levels of nested precomps. Deep inside those precomps are vector shape layers with effects applied (for example CC Bend It, used to animate things like plants or grass bending in the wind). My top-level precomp is placed inside the main composition and treated as a 3D layer. The issue appears when I animate a 3D camera.Without Continuously Rasterize, everything works correctly, but as soon as the camera gets closer, the entire precomp becomes soft/blurry (Depth of Field is disabled). I understand that's expected because AE is treating the precomp like a rasterized image.If I enable Continuously Rasterize on the precomp, the image stays perfectly sharp, which is exactly what I want. However, this creates two new problems: The internal transforms of the nested layers can change, although enabling 3D on the appropriate precomps

Hi there. Maybe it is a bug but I noticed strange behaviour.My compositions are set to 25fps, every .png sequence imported is set to 25fps. My Preview windows is set to 25fps. However when I import .wav file it is being interpret as 30fps. When I try to playback it in Footage windows it is pitched down. When I change framerate in Preview window to 30fps it plays exactly as it is suppose to, but then preview of my comp is pitched and sped up.When I manually adjust timecode of the .wav file in Interpret Footage window it says “… Base 30”. I assume that it automatically interpret footage as 30fps when I am trying to handle it outside the comp. When I add it to the comp and play it back in 25fps it works fine. What sucks is that I need to override timecode according to the inner timecode of the footage and cut it in exact frame. However I cannot to that because of 30fps vs 25fps.Is there a way to change Base framerate? 

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, 

Steps to recreate:-Create a Comp-Create a text layer (point or paragraph doesn’t matter)-Type in something like test01, or test6, or MyLayer72 (Must have a number at the end)-On the layers SourceText add the expression: thisLayer.name-Duplicate the layer at least 2 times (1 time does not appear to recreate the issue)-Highlight the duplicated layers and change the font size.  The name of the selected layers will start climbingWorks in ‘Legacy ExtendScript’ and ‘Javascript Expression’ engine.Can recreate it in After Effects 26.0.0 and 25.1.0 Windows 

Having issues with randomly not being able to make cryptomatte selections, the cursor simply doesnt change as it should when cryptomatte effect is selected. This can happen in projects which have worked well for days and suddenly it breaks and then i stays broken.Furthermore Im having trouble gettin cryptomatte working in already established AE projects - its like I HAVE to make my comp with the cryptomatte effect as one of the first comps in a project - otherwise same issue - cursor doesnt change when cryptomatte effect selected.My cryptomattes are generated with 3dsmax and vray and Im quite confident they are containing correct data its just the effect inside AE which stops working.Any ideas how to fix this?

i can’t find the contextual task bar after hiding temporally and inot know how find now 

The Object Matte tool initially worked correctly in this project and I was able to identify and isolate several cars in the footage very accurately. After working for a while, however, it suddenly stopped functioning properly.Now, when I hover over a car, After Effects still appears to recognise the object and highlights it correctly. But when I click to confirm the selection, one of two things happens: The entire frame/layer becomes outlined in purple, as if Object Matte has selected the whole image instead of the car. Nothing happens at all and no object matte is created. The same problem can also occur when using the brush selection.I have already tried restarting After Effects, reopening the project, clearing memory and disk cache, reopening the footage in the Layer panel, switching tools, resetting preferences and trying again from frames where the tool had previously worked. None of this has resolved the issue.This is particularly frustrating because the exact same footage and

Whenever I apply 3D animation to any of my videos, it gets stuck at the 'initializing' stage and doesn't proceed any further.

Why is the Object matte SO MUCH BETTER in Premiere than it is in AE? I feel like it should be the opposite. Its a welcome change from Roto brush, but hopefully it bogs down AE less soon. I am an AE lifer, with an AE tattoo, so I’m not complaining, just curious why its worse in AE.

Does anyone remember the good old days when software worked?Have made some good work with Trapcode Form in the past - pushed it quite far exploring it’s capabilities and use-cases.Now it seems, on my Mac at least, to be be extremely unstable - to the point of un-useable on latest After Effects

I am wondering if I an asking too much of this tool. I have 14000 frames of 4K footage. And the client wanted (last minuet) to cut out speaker  in front of some diagrams. Using the normal footage. (obviously without a green screen) Below is a small sample of of the image. You can see there isn’t much difference between between the hair and the shade of the blue curtains. Initially I tried the same (new) tool in premiere 2026, but the darkness of the curtains where still bleeding into the hair. I have now tried to roto  using the the object matte (4.0) in after-effects. It is working quite well however it is just so slow, I’m not sure it will ever render. I am now trying to freeze the Object matte, but, again painfully slow. Hoping to be able to render. In the setting, I have tried switching off some refinement settings and dialling down the search area. Gemmi and Lama4 reckon it can be done. So I am wondering if I am not doing something right? Thank you.  

I attempt to launch After Effects, but it reaches “scanning folder usdGeom” or some other “usd” file, and then it creates two “crash files” on my desktop and stops launching. I have attempted to launch it in “safe-mode”, “reset preferences”, “manage plugins” etc. to the same result. I am not currently running any plugins. Restarting my computer didn't change anything. Pressing the “update” button in creative cloud for AE didn’t seem to launch anything.Recently, I received a message from Photoshop that the scratch-disk was full, so perhaps I have accidentally deleted something important while trying to remove temporary files in the adobe files. However, Photoshop ran fine after removing some large files from my computer. I must have this program for work! Please help me resolve this.

Hi all,The behaviour of the zoom is reversed. When “centered” it follows the cursor and viceversa. 

AE 26.5 Install… open. ..crash.  Rinse and repeat.MacOS 27.2 BetaThat is all.

Good evening everyone.I'm using ChatGPT because my English isn't very good.Like many other users, i've been experiencing major issues with the latest version of After Effects. Despite working on a PC with 128 GB of RAM, a 32-core CPU, an RTX 4090, and an ultra-fast SSD dedicated to the cache, After Effects has become practically unusable.Not only am i constantly running into "Out of Memory" errors, but the entire system eventually becomes unstable and unresponsive. It's been a complete disaster.After searching all over the internet, i finally managed to get things working again by applying the following changes. i have no idea whether all of them are related to the fix or if only one of them is actually responsible, but it certainly doesn't hurt to try:Disable idle caching in the Composition Preview: Composition > Preview > Cache Frames When Idle. Disable Enable Compressed Frames in the Disk Cache options. Reduce the Idle Delay value in Preferences > Preview to a very low numb

After Effects 26.5 does not start, it crashes on the splash screen or the loading screen when I press open After Effects, and deleting the microsoft.ai.machinelearning.dll file located in: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CC\File Formats did not fix the problem.

We are developing a native SmartFX effect on macOS/Apple silicon, tested in AE 26.5x89. We need to analyze the current frame's upstream alpha at a consistent resolution while rendering Full/Half/Quarter previews. This is not a request for a historical frame or time-remapping support.The effect derives content bounds and occupied cells from alpha. Reduced input can lose a faint detail and change the occupied-cell set, which then changes the timing of other visible cells. We can reproduce that in AE with a synthetic 32×8 PNG: two opaque 4×4 corner patches and one alpha=4/255 pixel. At Quarter, the faint feature disappears while the opaque patches remain. Input dimensions or a conservative bounding rectangle alone cannot supply the missing occupancy information.Ordinary SmartFX checkout supplies the complete required extent in our text test, but PF_RenderRequest has no documented per-checkout resolution override. Our isolated diagnostic also tried this acquisition chain:1. PFInterfaceSuit