Status bar

A single strip along the bottom, in three groups. On a narrow window the less important items drop out first.

Left: the document

• Save state — Ready, or Unsaved changes with an amber dot. It is real state, not a label.
• Layer count for the open composition, and N selected when anything is.
• Info readout — After Effects’ Info panel, condensed: the pixel colour swatch and RGBA under the pointer, plus the composition-space X, Y coordinates. It shows a muted placeholder when the pointer is off the viewport, or when the colour cannot be read back. It says so rather than showing you a stale or invented value.

Centre: the composition chip

The open composition’s name, size and frame rate, with a dot while there are unsaved changes. Click it to open Composition Settings.

Right: what is running, and where you are

• Job tray — one compact chip per running background job: a render, a cache pass, a transcription, a model download. A progress toast can be dismissed; a render is not over because its toast is gone, so the tray is the persistent view. It shows running jobs only.
• VU meter — stereo peak bars. It only draws while playing, and it is hidden when there is no audio path — so an empty VU meter means “no audio path”, not “silence”. The Audio panel (Ctrl/⌘ + 4) has a larger VU with clipping indicators and peak hold. See Audio.
• Timeline zoom.
• FPS meter — off by default; click to toggle it on. It measures how often the interface is repainting. For what the engine is doing per frame, turn on View ▸ Viewport ▸ Performance HUD.
• Timecode at the playhead.
• Video health — appears when footage is dropping frames during playback.
• Search — opens the command palette (Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + P).

The account button is not here any more

It used to end this row. It is in the title bar now (the toolbar on macOS), beside Preview and Export.