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April 2025 release (version 25.2)
The April 2025 (25.2) release includes new features, workflow improvements, and important fixes in After Effects.

High Performance Preview Playback

Experience smoother and significantly longer preview durations without any limitation of RAM size allocated to After Effects.

HDR preview support

Preview and monitor your work in HDR for high dynamic range motion design and visual effects.

3D model animation controls in the Properties panel

Easily modify the lighting and shadow effects on a 3D model layer and select embedded animations through the Properties panel.

Animated Environment Lights

Illuminate your Advanced 3D compositions by choosing a composition, video, or image layer as an Environment light source.

Helper commands for common 3D workflows

Use new commands to simplify common 3D workflows with single-click actions, such as linking a camera to a light, applying 2D effects to 3D objects, and visualizing the Environment Light's source.

Customize Transparency Grids

Use a new set of options in Grids & Guides preferences to change the size and colors of the transparency grids displayed behind the composition contents.

Customize panel background colors

Personalize the empty fallow area around your composition by selecting a background color from five grey brightness levels or choosing a custom color.

Maintain your workspace when opening projects

Keep your current workspace layout consistent when opening projects saved with different workspaces in After Effects.

New and improved Null creation commands

Effortlessly create Null controllers for positional properties such as the gradient points of Shapes, Puppet Pins, and effect points, simplifying your workflow and enhancing efficiency.

Fixed issues in the April 2025 release (version 25.2)

3D
Materials applied to Side or Bevel in a 3D shape layer now display correctly without requiring adjustments to Geometry Options.
Track mattes in Draft 3D now render correct colors and alpha, including proper transparency and feathering.
When enabling 3D for a mixed selection of 2D or 3D layers, the 3D layers retain their existing Z Position and other 3D property values.
When adding a 3D model to a scene, the composition viewer should no longer get "stuck" on the object placeholder.
Compositions, Timeline, and Layers
Keyframes in pasted property groups or effects no longer paste at the wrong time when the composition's frame rate is changed after the layer is created.
Keyframes from presets no longer apply at the wrong time when the layer's start time and comp frame rate are modified.
Keyframes with Ease In or Ease Out are now correctly reversed when using Paste Reversed Keyframes.
Typing in a Text layer now correctly enters the first character, even when the focus is not on the Composition panel.
Ellipses no longer appear in the Frame Aspect Ratio field of the Solid Settings panel.
Large positive values entered in the preview timecode box now display correctly without converting to negative values.
The Composition viewer now lists open comps in the correct numerical order.
Source Text keyframe values are now correctly returned when reading keyframes on layers offset from the composition start.
Effects and Presets
Renaming effects using tabs characters no longer convert the tabs to spaces.
The Presets folder no longer disappears, and the option to show presets remains active when filtering the Effects & Presets panel for GPU Effects.
The Hand Drawn Effect for creating animation "boil" now animates beyond 21 seconds with the default settings.
Applying animation presets to a composition no longer collapses the expanded preset listings.
Exporters and Rendering
Fixed rendering issues in After Effects when using 32bpc, 8bpc, or 16bpc, ensuring it matches Camera Raw output.
Text animation in a flip board project created in older versions of After Effects now displays correctly in the current version.
Rendering a composition with an audio Guide Layers set to All Off now correctly excludes the audio track in the output file.
The correct output module path and file name are now set when multiple output modules are selected in the Render Queue.
Camera Raw 16.0 HDR mode now renders correctly in After Effects.
Camera Raw images now match the CRAW preview color in the comp viewer.
Fixed artifacting issues when scrubbing H.264 renders on macOS Sequoia 15.0.1.
Expressions and Scripting
Scripting now correctly returns the overridden value of the Source Text essential property instead of the primary property's value.
Essential Properties driven by expressions now update live when the values driving the expressions are changed.
Up to 887 scripts can now be added to the File > Scripts menu.
Text driven by effect names via expressions no longer flashes between current and previously entered values.
Mercury Transmit
Mercury Transmit now works correctly after undoing and adding a new solid layer.
Transmit monitor no longer flickers after resizing the Composition panel.
Transmit monitor no longer displays output after removing a media clip and pressing Alt+Tab.
Enabling Draft 3D no longer causes the Transmit signal to display a harsh purple color or prevent Lumetri Scopes from functioning properly.
Properties panel
Camera options in the Properties panel no longer have clipped text when the panel is at its default size.
Right-clicking on a property with keyframes in the Properties panel now only selects the clicked keyframe, preventing unwanted changes to all keyframes.
The Properties panel now updates immediately to show 3D properties when enabling 3D via the Layer menu.
Stability and performance
Recovery projects are now saved when After Effects crashes.
After Effects no longer crashes when adding .obj and .c4d files to the composition.
After Effects no longer experiences delays when applying an effect to multiple layers simultaneously.
After Effects no longer hangs when opening the Camera Raw dialog while Preview or Cache Frames When Idle is running.
Third-party
Using the Select All command or shortcut no longer causes the Mocha AE window to close.
After Effects no longer crashes when double-clicking on Help... of Mocha AE in the Effects Control panel.
VideoCopilot Optical Flares version 1.2.0.3x132 is blocked on Windows to prevent crashes in After Effects.
Deep Glow versions prior to v1.6.3 have been blocked to prevent crashes in After Effects.
Animation Composer versions prior to v3.8.7 have been blocked on Windows to prevent crashes in After Effects.
User Interface
Line breaks are no longer removed from multi-line layer marker comments on macOS.
Custom UI controls for third-party plug-ins in the Effect Controls panel no longer exhibit flickering, duplicating, and glitching during interaction.
The Composition panel no longer flickers with Posterize Time on an Adjustment layer above a Guide layer.
The check marker now appears in the window menu for all open panels.
Holding Shift while drawing strokes with the Brush or Clone Stamp tool no longer creates multiple undo groups.
The Composition Settings in the Composition panel menu no longer incorrectly displays a checkmark.
Cosmetic
Adjusted Graph Editor background contrast for better consistency in different color themes.
ScriptUI panels are no longer cropped.
Rulers are no longer cut off at the top when a floating dialog shows up.
Fixed breadcrumb elements overlapping into the ruler space, causing part of the ruler to disappear in the UI.
Text in the Frame Rate dropdown menu of the Preview panel now displays correctly without truncation.
Icons next to effect names in the Effect Controls panel are now aligned.
Miscellaneous
A solid color now displays correctly as yellow in HDR after changing bit depth and working color space settings.
Improved Frame.io sign-in behavior when using Adobe ID, resolving login issues in the Review workspace.
Improved search functionality in the Learn panel to provide more accurate results for tutorial searches.
The Medium transparency grid preset now correctly displays the darkest color first, matching the other presets.
Memory allocation settings in After Effects now remain fixed and do not randomly reset when reopening the program.
Dragging a thumbnail in the Project panel no longer incorrectly moves items to the root of the folder hierarchy.