Adobe After Effects 2026

The new, more connected After Effects  can make the impossible possible. Get powerful new features like a Live 3D Pipeline that brings CINEMA 4D scenes in as layers – without intermediate rendering. Share work directly from within the application and get access to new features the moment they’re released. Your entire creative world, together in one place.

 

After Effects CC is part of Creative Cloud. That means you have access to all the latest updates and future releases the moment they’re available. Sharpen your skills and master new tools with a rich library of training videos. And Creative Cloud is integrated with Behance, so you can share your projects and get immediate feedback from creatives around the world.

WHAT’S NEW

Version 26.0.0:

• After Effects no longer crashes when selecting the October India Compressed Hairline font.

• Line breaks are now preserved when scripting marker comments that include carriage return characters.

• Scale, rotation, and orientation values now update live in the properties panel as you adjust layers in the composition viewer.

• Undoing a change to a light’s falloff type now correctly updates the visibility of the falloff controls.

• Using expressions to create variable font animations no longer slows performance or creates extra font-style menu entries.

• Playback no longer drops frames when using cache before playback with cached frames.

• The info panel now updates correctly when navigating the layer stack using Cmd/Ctrl + arrow keys.

• Times in the project panel’s date column now display correctly without future offsets.

• The number effect now correctly displays date and time formats when After Effects runs in a language different from the OS.

• After Effects no longer crashes when creating shapes from text layers with special characters.

• The info panel now shows the number of timeline layers selected with edit > select all.

• Still footage duration settings no longer affect new non-still footage layers.

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