Adobe After Effects is a professional motion graphics and visual effects application used for compositing, animation, and post-production. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite and supports integration with Premiere Pro, Cinema 4D, and other tools. After Effects is widely used in film, television, and web video production.
Product released: January 1, 1993
Latest software version
Version 26.2, released April 1, 2026
What's new in version 26.2
After Effects no longer crashes when stopping an almost completed render to a QuickTime-encoded file.
Essential Property values are no longer shared across pre-comps in the same 3D bin when using the Advanced 3D engine with Collapse Transformations enabled.
Effect names are now correctly encoded for Unicode characters when accessed by third-party plug-ins.
Variable Font Axes pop-up values now support Up/Down arrow key increments and relative math input.
Pre-composing a pre-comp containing Essential Property instances of Trim Paths Start and End no longer causes a crash.
After Effects no longer displays error (76 :: 59) when entering text edit mode.
Empty compositions no longer display ghost imagery in the alpha channel or final renders after rendering.
Projects that previously opened with Substance 3D Materials offline now load correctly.
Custom keyboard shortcuts can now be assigned to the Parametric Mesh tool.
After Effects now supports Emissive textures in Substance 3D Materials ...
software version history
Version 26.2 - April 1, 2026
Version 26.0 - January 1, 2026
Version 25.4 - August 1, 2025
Version 25.6
Version 25.3
Update prediction
This product was recently updated. The next software update is expected between April 14, 2026 and July 23, 2026.
Adobe typically releases software updates for this product approximately every 41 days.