After Effects for Apple Silicon

After Effects now runs natively on Apple computers with Apple silicon chips with speed gains compared with similarly configured previous-generation Apple systems.   

Known differences and limitations

There are some differences in functionality and some features are not available with After Effects on Apple silicon:

• If there are third-party plug-ins installed that are not ported for Apple silicon, those plug-ins are unavailable when After Effects runs natively. 
• A warning dialog displays at launch listing any installed third-party plug-ins that aren't compatible with Apple silicon.
  
• Import and export of the GoPro Cineform codec is not supported.
  

For a list of unsupported file formats, see Premiere for Apple silicon. 

Are legacy versions compatible?

Previous versions (before 24.0) of After Effects are compatible with Apple silicon when run under Rosetta 2 emulation. The 24.0 versions of our video applications will not be supported on Rosetta. Mac users can continue to use the 24.0 version on Apple silicon and Mac Intel systems.

Best practices

• When you switch After Effects between Apple and Intel architectures, close and relaunch any open Adobe apps to ensure that the change to After Effects' architecture is honored by any instances of Dynamic Link. This ensures that all Adobe apps use the correct architecture when launching After Effects or After Effects' render processes.
• If you are running Adobe applications with a version of 22.2 or earlier along with After Effects 22.3, those apps only launch After Effects 22.3 and it's background processes in the native Apple architecture. This prevents the loading of any incompatible After Effects third-party plug-ins and formats, causing unexpected rendering results or failures. To avoid this issue, update all Adobe apps to version 22.3 or later when you run After Effects 22.3 on Apple silicon.