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Last updated on
May 7, 2026
Manage and organize effects in Adobe After Effects using the Effect Manager to locate, apply, and control effects more efficiently within your workflows.
After Effects comes with multiple effects that provide additional visual effects, tools, and workflows to enhance your video production. There are times when these effects could cause the application to crash.
With Effect Manager, when restarting After Effects after a crash, you get a notification explaining what effect may have crashed during the last session. You also get an option to either keep the identified effect enabled or disable it in the next startup.
Enable the disabled effect
If you've used the post-crash notification or Manage Effects under the Effect menu to disable an effect, it's removed from the Effect menu and Effects and Presets panel. You can enable the disabled effects at any time.
In the Effect Manager dialog box, use the Enabled and Last Crashed columns to identify the disabled effect.
Check the Enable check box for the disabled effect and select OK.
Restart After Effects for your changes to be applied.
View list of installed effects
You can also use the newly added Effect Manager under the Effect menu to view a list of all your installed effects with an option to enable or disable any effects on the next startup.
The Effect Manager dialog lists effect details:
- Enabled status
- Effect name
- Category
- Version
- Last crashed
- File Path
Effects you've disabled using Effect Manager will no longer be available in the Effect menu or Effects and Presets panel. You can always use Effect Manager to re-enable the disabled effects.
Note
Any projects that use a disabled effect will show that effect as Missing.
Crash Repair Options
If After Effects doesn't have a suspect effect that could have caused the last crash, it offers you ways to diagnose, identify, and repair through Crash Repair Options.
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Manage Plugins
View the list of effects and plugins available, disable potential faulty plugins or effects, and restart After Effects.
Reset Preferences
Reset preferences and restart After Effects with default preference settings.
Start in Safe Mode
Start After Effects with default values for everything in your preferences. This reset option at launch is a simple approach to finding any issue with your set preferences without having to reset them.
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