Adobe After Effects for Mac

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Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.6.2
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Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.6.1
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Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.6.0
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Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.5.0
Fixed:
- After Effects no longer crashes when adding an asset from the library to a folder in the Project panel
- Animation presets are now applied correctly when Advanced 3D render is enabled
- Fixed memory leaks that caused users to run into application memory exhausted error where the mask path was keyframed
- Improved UI interaction performance in the composition panel with Faux Bold enabled
- Pasting a keyframe from a scale property no longer gives an error
- The 3D model layer keyboard shortcut to toggle shadows now works correctly
- Purging ALL_CACHES no longer shows a confirmation dialog when scripts are run from ScriptUI palette, ScriptUI window, or VSCode Extendscript debugger
- Purging ALL_CACHES now purges cache successfully if app.purge() is called from a ScriptUI dialog


Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.4.1
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Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.4
Fixed:
- Incomplete Warp Stabilizer tracking data no longer causes UI slowdowns and caching issues
- The composition panel no longer flickers when the Draft 3D option is enabled
- Changing the view mode to Draft 3D and enabling the Extended Viewer now renders layers correctly
- After Effects no longer shows “Unknown Error” when opening an AVI codec configuration window
- Slow model import can now be canceled
- Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to crash when using Adobe Dynamic Link to work with Premiere Pro sequence
- Multiple installations of the Microsoft ONNX Runtime should no longer cause After Effects to crash on startup


Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.3
- After Effects no longer crashes when you try to export tracking data to the 3D model layer
- The maximum values for specific layer style sizes (Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Outer Glow, Inner Glow, Satin, Stroke) have been reduced from 30,000 to 250
- The “Invalid clipboard format” alerts no longer show up when bringing After Effects in focus
- Textures now render for model exported in .obj format
- White Noise option is added to the Audio Tone effect
- After Effects no longer quits when undo is pressed during playback after a camera is created and the number of views is changed
- After Effects no longer crashes rendering track mattes using the Advanced 3D renderer
- Users who sign in to Creative Cloud within After Effects should no longer be signed out after 30 minutes
- Navigating After Effects menus on macOS Sonoma 14 should now work as expected


Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.2
Import OBJ 3D models:
- Natively import OBJ 3D models into your project and drop them into your composite alongside other 2D and 3D layers

Motion Graphics template preview thumbnails:
- Export Motion Graphics template with a video preview of the primary composition as a thumbnail for quick visualization within Premiere Pro

.exr file for environmental lighting:
- Use OpenEXR image (.exr) files in your composition to create realistic and high-quality lighting in your 3D scenes

Enhancements in Cycore plug-in effects:
- Plug-in effects-specific enhancements with new controls and fixes to support your diverse animation needs and workflows

Cast and accept shadows for 3D objects:
- Control how 3D objects interact with light and shadows in your composition by configuring their cast and receive shadows properties

Fixed:
- After Effects no longer crashes when you use Mask Feather Tool to adjust a feather beyond the bounds of a mask
- Ampersands "&" in the effect names are now correctly displayed in the Effects submenus
- Expression errors no longer cause "{PrepAndWhite() called on non-diskcacheable stuff}" error
- Preview no longer fails when collapsing transformations on a nested composition that has a layer with Puppet pins
- The Rotation value no longer resets to 0 after one rotation while holding the Shift key
- For image-based lighting, replacing footage now correctly updates Environment Light rendering
- For image-based lighting, Environment Light no longer renders too bright through intensity range
- When applying a preset, the Position of a layer will now be combined or separated automatically according to what the preset was saved with
- Error message when failing to read Project XMP data is correctly formatted
- Fixed a crash that could occur when using sampleImage()in a layer expression
- High-quality shadow settings no longer cause TDRs on systems with AMD Radeon PRO cards
- The tiling size is calculated correctly even when the shadow Smoothness value under Advanced 3D Renderer Options is set to greater than 1
- Adaptive Resolution will activate when needed and as expected when you change settings values in the Advanced 3D Renderer Options dialog
- 3D placeholder models no longer cast shadows
- Replacing the source of a 3D model updates the name and bounding box as expected
- After Effects no longer crashes when you modify Color settings in the Interpret Footage dialog box
- In Cineware, when you revert to Cinema 4D, the composition viewer updates to use the C4D camera as expected
- After Effects no longer freezes when you remove a Cinema 4D layer
- Updating Cineware to 5.1.10 allows projects with Cinema 4D files to open as expected when saving them to After Effects 23.x and 22.x


Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.1
- Clearing the preferences from Startup and Repair no longer crashes After Effects
- In the Properties panel, the Fill and Stroke colors no longer reset when switching from solid color to gradient and back
- In the Properties panel, Stroke controls now correctly toggle when the Stroke checkbox is changed
- Changing the frame rate of a composition no longer causes the UI to freeze or lag
- Keyframes on time stretched response design now correctly follow the cursor when dragged
- Blocked older version of Animation Composer that caused After Effects to crash


Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.0.3
- Change log not available for this version


Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.0.2
- Keyframes applied from presets should no longer appear offset from the Current Time Indicator location in the timeline
- Projects created in After Effects Beta builds containing 3D models will no longer open in 24.0.2 to avoid possible loss of layers from a composition


Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.0.1
- Change log not available for this version


Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.0
Next-Gen Roto Brush:
- A new AI model extracts objects from footage faster and more accurately than ever and requires fewer corrections. Refine your results for a beautiful composite, even when tracking objects that overlap or working with hard-to-mask footage, such as hair and transparencies.

OpenColorIO workflow enhancements:
- Additional OpenColorIO effects under the Effects & Presets panel add flexibility to this industry-standard color interchange workflow

Text Scripting support:
- New scripting hooks for text and font manipulation save you time and effort while working with complex text animation workflows

Fixed:
- Hide After Effects on macOS 13 and later now works consistently
- Resolved a performance slowdown that occurs when revealing many property streams from the Properties panel
- When using the Cinema 4D renderer, After Effects no longer shows the ‘zero denominator comparing ratios’ error when trying to preview
- CPU and GPU render for the Fill effect no longer mismatch when All Masks is checked, but the layer has no masks
- The video layer no longer freezes when the Shadow/Highlight effect is applied, and Effect Opacity is set to 0
- Improved performance of the CC Particle World effect when using animated textured particles
- Added Shutter Phase control in the CC Force Motion Blur effect and fixed potential invalid RGB values up zero alpha pixels in 32 and 16 bpc
- Fixed UI issues on macOS for the CC Split 2 effect
- Fixed potential invalid RGB values up zero alpha pixels in 32 and 16 bpc for the CC Power Pin effect
- Fixed potential invalid RGB values up zero alpha pixels in 32 and 16 bpc for the CC Light Burst 2.5 effect
- Fixed incorrect area sampling radius when using the CC Ball Action effect


Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.6
- Modifying the keyboard shortcuts for the Zoom In or Zoom Out commands for the Composition panel no longer causes the shortcuts to stop working
- In the Properties panel, choosing Reveal in Timeline for the Position property when multiple layers are selected now reveals the property for all selected layers
- In the Properties panel, clicking on the value of a property with an expression applied now correctly shows the pre-expression value
- Using Shift+J or K to navigate the Timeline panel works as expected when After Effects is installed in non-English languages
- After Effects no longer crashes when previewing for a long time with Draft 3D enabled
- After Effects no longer crashes when a script uses callbacks.callbackData
- Holding the Shift key while dragging the rotate handles of the 3D gizmo now constrains rotation to 5 degree increments instead of 45 degrees
- Duplicating both a layer and the track matte layer assigned to it now updates the track matte reference to the duplicated layer
- In the Properties panel, the Layer Contents window now auto-scrolls if necessary when you select a shape in the Timeline panel
- Reassigning certain keyboard shortcuts that have a default command assignment in the After Effects Menu bar (For example, Ctrl+Z for undo) now executes the new command instead of the default command
- The Roto Brush effect no longer causes After Effects to crash in certain cases where multi-threaded rendering fails
- In the Properties panel, changing stroke properties after changing stroke color type no longer shows an error


Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.5
- If multiple Fills or Strokes are applied to a Shape group, the Properties panel now shows the first Fill or Stroke with an info icon indicating more Fills or Strokes exist
- The Properties panel now snaps to its default width when part of a stacked panel group
- Changes made to Shape layer Fills and Strokes using the Properties panel are now applied to new Shape layers
- Rotation controls values in the Properties are drawn correctly after making edits to layer properties
- When making changes to multiple Text layers using the Text section menu, a single undo will now revert the changes for all selected layers
- Stroke Width is no longer reset to previous values when changing the Stroke type from None to Solid using the Properties panel
- Using the Cmd or Ctrl modifier keys to scrub by increments of .1 is now supported by Rotation properties in the Properties panel
- Absolute math operations are now supported for Rotation properties in the Properties panel
- When setting multiple Text layers to the same typeface using the Properties panel, the selected typeface is now correctly displayed
- The correct color values are now shown opening the Gradient dialog from the Properties panel after reordering multiple Gradient Fills or Strokes on a Shape layer
- After Effects no longers crashes while rendering the Bevel and Emboss Layer Style with Multi-Frame rendering enabled
- The Composition Profiler no longer causes After Effects to hang in some cases
- Audio preview now works when the Composition panel view is set to show two or four views
- Audio waveforms are correctly displayed for dynamically-linked Premiere Pro sequences, whereas previous versions might fail to show waveforms or give an "Audio conforming failed" error
- Variable fonts installed from Adobe Fonts now activate and sync properly in After Effects
- Variable fonts with custom PostScript names now work with Expressions and Scripting
- After Effects no longer crashes when using Apple's SF Pro and New York Fonts
- After Effects no longer crashes in multiple situations involving the Character panel, specific variable fonts, duplicate fonts, and missing fonts, amongst others
- Improved performance in the Character panel: custom variable fonts now display properly, duplicate font families are now supported, and Show English Font Names changes are respected in Favorites


Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.4
Fixed:
- an issue that caused some options from the camera submenu to be greyed out
- an issue where 12-bit color DNxHR HQX video in MXF files was being decoded as 8-bit
- an issue where Media Browser favorites were not being saved
- an issue with migrating preferences that caused After Effects to become unresponsive
- an issue with the render engine that caused After Effects to crash when choosing a folder from Watch Folder in the file menu
- an issue with Puppet Tool that caused After Effects to crash when changing the engine from Advanced to Legacy
- an issue that caused a ‘zero denominator in ratio addition.’ error when dragging the anchor point of a shape layer in 3D space
- an issue that caused MXF assets with Alpha Channel to not be transparent
- an issue that caused After Effects to hang when collecting files that contain a Cinema 4D file in composition
- rendering notifications for non-English OS languages
- an issue where footage containing audio using 16kHz, 64kHz, 88.2kHz, or 176.4kHz Sample Rates would not play or export correctly
- an issue where After Effects could crash when using a Wacom Tablet with Paint and Brush tools


Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.3
Fixed:
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when using certain MXF format files
- an issue where migrating preferences from the n-2 version did not migrate workspaces and keyboard shortcuts
- an issue that caused Adobe Illustrator files imported from Creative Cloud Libraries to be renamed
- an issue with long library file paths causing the import to a project to fail
- an issue where OCIO color management didn't update the display color space when the project color bit depth was changed
- an issue where ICC profiles were embedded in still exports (JPEG, PNG) when OCIO color management was in use
- an issue that caused the RGBA channel to be available for unsupported formats in Output Module Settings
- an issue with the Expression editor that caused text selection to be offset from the cursor
- an issue that caused the Expression editor to display incorrect font
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when applying Look LUT from Creative Cloud Libraries
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when resizing panels with EGP hidden behind another panel
- an issue where dropdown controls had stopped working in third-party panels
- an issue where PSD-based layers showed "Zero denominator comparing ratios" errors
- The gradient dialog is now color managed and will display accurate colors when project color management is enabled
- Embedded images in Adobe Illustrator documents animate more smoothly
- Additional improvements to the performance of scrubbing the Current Time Indicator on Windows devices

Fixed Cinema 4D issues:
- Crash when extracting data from Cinema 4D scene
- Switching back to After Effects from Cinema 4D
- Connecting to the Cineware Renderer failed
- Redshift materials are not displaying in the Draft mode
- Non-ASCII characters in lists


Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.2.1
Fixed:
- an issue that could cause layers and keyframes to update slowly while being moved around the timeline
- an issue where MXF files with non-English filenames failed to import, instead showing an error - "Failed to import. Unsupported format or damaged file."
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when using Roto Brush version 2.0 and Quality set to Best on macOS Ventura (version 13) on Apple silicon hardware


Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.2
Fixed:
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash on Windows when using Chinese characters in text layers
- an issue that allowed users to create new C4D layers when Cinema 4D wasn’t installed
- an issue that caused an error when saving the project with a media replacement control and a track matte
- an issue that caused After Effects to hang after presenting modal dialogs
- an issue that caused a delay in closing After Effects projects
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when enabling any of the Simulate Output profiles with HW acceleration enabled
- an issue that prevented users from canceling an ongoing import of media files into the project
- an issue that slowed or interrupted CAF processing when Cache Frames When Idle was active
- an issue with Selectable Track Mattes when clicking and dragging on Alpha/Luma/Invert icons didn’t change settings on multiple layers
- an issue that prevented AErender from showing progress with interlaced render settings


Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.1
Fixed:
- an issue that caused After Effects to show low memory warnings during preview
- an issue that caused the "Save as" dialog to close on machines with macOS 13 Ventura if arrow keys were pressed
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when opening Cinema 4D projects.
- an issue that caused the "Unable to obtain dynamiclink server" error when applying Warp Stabilizer VFX effect
- an issue that caused a long delay when closing large projects
- an issue that caused a long delay when trying to quit After Effects while the cache was full
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when converting the PSD text layer to editable text through the layer timeline context menu
- an issue with H.264 encoding that caused low audio bitrate when one render item used multiple output modules
- an issue that caused the animation preset "Fade In+Out – Frames" to fade in incorrectly when fade in frames number was set to 0
- an issue that caused the "Map output for" field in the "Audio Output Mapping" preference to be empty
- an issue with Keyboard Shortcuts that caused commands to be not added back when commands with the same name existed in other sections
- an issue that caused Keyboard Shortcuts for zooming Effects Control panel to not work
- an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused the central handle to not work properly
- an issue with Classic 3D that caused the Environment Layer menu item to be active despite the comp renderer not supporting it
- an issue with Draft 3D that caused transformed track matte layers to stretch to comp bounds for 2D layers.
- an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that caused 3D Reference Axes to move when using the hand tool in composition with Pixel Aspect ratio correction enabled
- an issue where saving a project for After Effects v22 or prior created a project that showed an extra track matte connection than what was present in the original project
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when clicking on "Reset" in the Lumetri Color Effect Control window


Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.0
- Select Track Matte Layers:
- Choose any layer as a track matte using a new drop-down menu in the Modes column. Position the matte layer anywhere in the timeline stack and reuse it for multiple other layers making compositions simpler and more flexible to create

Native H.264 Encoding:
- Export your projects quickly with hardware accelerated output and direct rendering of H.264 files from within the Render Queue, giving you the flexibility of choice to natively import out of After Effects or with Adobe Media Encoder

Composition Presets:
- Find the most commonly used presets quickly in the Composition Settings with the revamped Composition Presets list. Plus, the composition presets now include sizes for a variety of social platforms

New Animation Presets:
- Get over 50 new animation presets created by our After Effects community. Designed for modern motion design workflows, these presets save you time on the techniques you use most, so you can create quick animations and don't have to start from scratch

Faster timeline navigation:
- Add Shift to the J and K hotkeys to quickly jump between keyframes and markers of selected layers and properties

Cinema 4D optional installer:
- Choose when to download Cinema 4D with the new Add-ons option during After Effects installation. Install it using the Creative Cloud application when required, or skip it altogether

Bugs fixed in the October 2022 release (version 23.0):
- Fixed an issue where only five frames would render on machines with shared system/GPU memory, such as Apple silicon M1 machines
- Fixed a crash when using the Cinema 4D renderer
- Fixed an issue where .fla files would not import
- Fixed an issue where Scripts would not run if a modal dialog were displayed
- Fixed a crash when executing complex layer/property expressions
- Fixed a crash when copying Camera options between Camera layers in the timeline
- Fixed an issue where the Application Menus on macOS may not work or act erratically if scripting or licensing dialog appeared during application startup
- Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to crash when opening the project from the Home screen
- Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to crash when opening preferences
- Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to crash when the migrate preferences dialog was up
- Fixed an issue with loading workspaces that sometimes caused After Effects to crash on launch
- Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to become unresponsive and eventually crash when invalid characters are entered in the Timeline panel's 'Time duration' text field
- Fixed an issue that caused a memory leak followed by a crash when trying to quit After Effects
- Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to crash when applying Roto-Brush with Refine Edge activated to a pre-composition
- Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to crash when importing certain PSD files
- Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to crash when applying some third-party effects to the adjustment layer with no rendering layers below it
- Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to crash when using certain third-party plugins from Trapcode Suite
- Fixed an issue that caused some operations to not work on sub-selected text from the text layer
- Fixed an issue that prevented selecting some characters on the text layer
- Fixed an issue that caused the cursor to draw in the wrong location when working with mixed paragraph directions
- Fixed an issue that caused more than one instance of After Effects to open when repeatedly clicking the Open button in CCD to launch it
- Fixed an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo where dragging bounding box Z handle on 3D layer scaled inversely from drag direction


Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.6
- The August 2022 (22.6) release includes the Keyframe Color Labels and Essential Properties in the Properties Panel (Beta). It also offers several stability and performance fixes in After Effects.

Fixed:
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when opening certain CMYK Illustrator files
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash on quit when the app was trying to save the workspace changes
- an issue that caused After Effects to hang when initializing Adobe Type System
- an issue that caused an ‘Illegal Argument Flag: -reuse” error when running aerender with -reuse flag
- an issue with preview that sometimes caused After Effects to become unresponsive if caching frames when idle
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash on double-clicking in the project panel after selecting a learn tutorial from the Home screen
- an issue where zero denominator errors would occur on project open
- an issue with CC Libraries that caused preview and thumbnail for some footages to break when dragged into the project panel
- an issue with Stroke that caused the ‘Below Previous in Same Group’ option to not show up in the Stroke settings
- an issue that caused drop-down menus to be cut off on dual monitor workspaces with different resolutions
- an issue that caused comp interactive re-draw to slow down if multiple font styles of Apple SF symbols fonts were being rendered in test layers
- an issue with Solid layer that caused the Lock Aspect Ratio to not stick
- an issue where the Application Menus on macOS may not work or act erratically if a dialog was displayed during application startup
- an issue on macOS where Save/Open/Import dialogs would not show up when After Effects was offline from the network
- an issue on macOS where files copied during a Collect Files operation may copy as 0-bytes in size
- an issue where 3D Camera Tracker and Warp Stabilizer would stop after analyzing the first frame of footage
- an issue where After Effects would crash on shutdown if a third-party ScriptUI-based panel had been displayed


Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.5
Text animation updates:
- After Effects now animates text for right-to-left languages properly. The text does not animate backward anymore, so no need for workarounds to fix it. This saves time, and is quick and simple. Existing animation presets also work correctly when applied to right-to-left text.
- Combining numbers or English letters with the right-to-left languages is seamless. After Effects identifies these characters and automatically animates them in the correct character order. So, you don't need to animate them separately.
- The Character Offset Effect now identifies the correct unicode range for both the Korean and Hebrew languages, ensuring that the effect only displays characters specific to those languages. For more information, see Expanded text support - Unified Text Engine.

Fixed:
- to a host of performance and stability issues. For the complete list, see Fixed issues in After Effects
- an issue that caused After Effects to not startup when running on MacOS 10.15.0 through MacOS 10.15.3
- an issue that caused intermittent crash when quitting After Effects on Mac Arm machine
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when running natively on Apple silicon hardware with Mercury Transmit enabled and Blackmagic Desktop video version 12.1 or earlier installed
- an issue with Optical Flow GPU rendering that caused After Effects to become unresponsive
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash while transferring frames over Dynamic Link
- an issue that caused responsive time to break in Dynamic Link Mogrts
- an issue that caused the Migrate Preferences dialog to show an error when moved during application startup
- an issue with comp previewing that caused “Two frame preview error” due to memory constraints
- an issue that caused memory usage to go beyond the assigned threshold
- an issue that prevented certain .jpeg files from Illustrator to be imported correctly
- an issue with multilingual text that caused typing issues
- an issue that caused aerender to crash on Windows when using the ‘-reuse’ flag
- an issue that caused Hardware Accelerate preference to be automatically disabled when using Remote Desktop
- an issue with Motion Graphics Templates that caused AeGraphics that are alt-replaced to be improperly upgraded to source graphics in the Project Panel
- an issue that caused Collect Files to hang on MacOS


Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.4
Fixed:
- an issue where setFontName() would appear in an error message for setFont()
- an issue where Motion Graphic Templates that use the Mocha Shape Importer on Apple silicon hardware would show an unsupported error in Premiere Pro.
- an issue that caused projects with Lumetri parameters not to be backward- or forward-compatible in After Effects 22.3
- an issue that prevented certain .png files from importing properly
- an issue that caused prevented workspaces from reverting to saved layouts via Reset Workspace to Saved Layout option
- an issue that caused slow playback of video footage when Multi-Frame Rendering is enabled
- an issue that resulted in errors when refreshing the contents of the Effects and Presets panel
- an issue that caused text animators and highlight/text selection to not work correctly for right-to-left-aligned languages
- an issue that resulted in After Effects becoming unresponsive while using the Mocha plugin


Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.3
Bugs fixed in the April 2022 release (version 22.3):
- Fixed an issue that caused Cache Frames When Idle to use system resources inefficiently
- Fixed an issue where After Effects would crash while using Apple SF Pro font version 17.1d1e1
- Fixed an issue with 3D Scene Navigation where Camera tool options would cycle backwards when using the Shift key
- Fixed an issue that prevented Exposure Control from automatically enabling when Exposure value was changed
- Fixed an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused layers to not stay under the mouse cursor during drag interactions in Z
- Fixed an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that prevented moving layers in increments of 10 pixels when holding shift key and slowly dragging
- Fixed an issue where temporary files created during an image sequence export were not deleted if both Skip Existing Files and Multi-Frame Rendering were enabled
- Fixed an issue with Draft 3D that caused comp to flash when changing magnification in auto resolution mode
- Fixed an issue that caused After Effects generated QuickTime DNx sources with alpha to be decoded incorrectly in Avid Media Composer

New features:
Frame.io integration:
- Now built into After Effects and Premiere Pro, Frame.io for Creative Cloud gives you real-time review and approval, and cloud media sharing

Native Apple Silicon support:
- Experience shorter launch times, improved UI responsiveness, and faster rendering on Apple M1 devices

Extended Viewer:
- Now expand your composition view beyond the frame edge in order to navigate the Draft 3D space more easily and view what's outside the composition area

Scene edit detection:
- Powered by Adobe Sensei, automatically detect scene changes in an edited clip and place scenes as individual layers or create markers at edit points for a faster project setup.

Binning indicators for 3D layers:
- The new 3D binnig indicators provide a visual map of how After Effects composites 2D and 3D layers together in a composition

Coach marks:
- After Effects displays coach marks when you first launch the app after updating or installation. These are short descriptions about the different functionality.

Constrained shapes:
- Now create perfectly centered squares and circles by holding Shift and double-clicking the Rectangle or Ellipse tool


Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.2.1
Fixed:
- output module templates being corrupted on exit of After Effects
- an issue where calling CompItem.markerProperty.setValueAtTime() caused an error


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 22.2
- The February 2022 (version 22.2) release of After Effects offers fixes to host of stability and performance issues along with an issue that caused Cineware to crash

Fixed issues in After Effects:
- an issue that caused the composition profiler to crash certain compositions
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when adding/removing dropdown menu items in the Essential Graphics Panel
- an issue that caused Cineware to crash
- an issue causing render queue items to be incorrectly marked as Ready for rendering
- an issue for Windows that caused the memory usage to exceed the assigned threshold when rendering projects with 32-bit EXR files
- the Vegas effect generating flickering output when the Random Phase checkbox is enabled while rendering with Multi-Frame Rendering
- an issue with Draft 3D that caused composition tool cursors to appear in non-composition panels
- an issue with Draft 3D that caused RGBA values to not show up in the info panel
- an issue that caused the color picker to not work in Draft 3D
- an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that resulted in in an error when using anchor point tool with layer at zero scale
- an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused n-up view label size to change when interacting with the gizmo
- an issue that caused 3D Ground Plane to be able to be turned on/off during a preview if Draft 3D was on
- an issue that caused the cursor to flicker when trying to resize the panels inside After Effects


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 22.1.1
Fixed:
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash on quit after using Maxon Cinema 4D exporter
- an issue with CryptoMatte plugin that caused After Effects to crash if EXR sequence was larger than the composition
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when starting audio only preview while using Draft 3D
- an issue with sync settings that caused After Effects to crash on quit after downloading the preferences
- an issue where re-linking a multi-layer PSD file would produce an invalid buffer error if one of the layers was deleted
- an issue where PNG files with an embedded ICC profile were not being rendered correctly when the Linearize Working Space option was enabled for the project
- an issue where the Preserve RGB option in the Interpret Footage options was not preserved when opening projects saved in After Effects 17.7 or earlier
- an issue with Text layers that prevented copy pasting South Asian and Middle Eastern text into a text layer that previously housed Roman or Greek characters
- an issue where Adjustment Layers would not be copied correctly from After Effects to Premiere Pro
- an issue where Cache Frames When Idle may start when a plugins UI was active in the foreground which could cause the plugin to respond slowly or hang
- an issue that caused After Effects to crash when using Hand tool when the Fractal effect has been applied to a layer and has focus
- an issue with Composition toolbar that prevented new composition from inheriting the 3D renderer used in previous composition
- an issue with Ground Plane that caused 3D grid lines to have inconsistent thickness
- an issue with Draft 3D that caused blank or offset comp content when resizing panel or changing magnification in auto-resolution mode
- an issue that caused rendering of After Effect projects that use C4D renderer or Cineware to fail with Dynamic Link


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 22.0.1
Fixed:
- an issue where Premiere Pro or Adobe Media Encoder may stop working while rendering an After Effects composition
- an issue where an invisible After Effects process (aerendercore on MacOS or AfterFX on Win) may stop working when a dynamically-linked application, such as Premiere Pro or Media Encoder was closed or Edit Original was invoked


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 22.0
New features:
Faster Previews and Renders with Multi-Frame Rendering:
- Accelerate your creative process by taking advantage of the full power of your system’s CPU cores when previewing and rendering. After Effects automatically adjusts resource usage to render your compositions as fast as possible on your machine.

Reimagined Render Queue with Remote Notifications:
- The Render Queue, also taking advantage of Multi- Frame Rendering, highlights the most important information such as your rendering progress. Get notifications even on your smart watch, when renders are complete via the Creative Cloud desktop or mobile app.

Composition Profiler:
- Learn which layers and effects in your composition are taking the most time to render in relation to other layers and effects. The layer profiler highlights which areas of the composition impact your processing time and enable you to optimize your project for faster rendering as you iterate.

Speculative previews:
- Work faster even when you’re not working. After Effects renders your composition when it has been idle for a set amount of time, so your composition is ready to preview when you are.

Export Faster with Adobe Media Encoder:
- With Multi-Frame Rendering, export your compositions up to 4x faster using the full power of your system and without upgrading your hardware. Render while you work on your compositions while Adobe Media Encoder renders faster in the background.

Improved playback for 10-bit HEVC:
- New hardware-accelerated decoding for 10-bit HEVC 422 provides improved playback and editing on Intel Windows systems

Enable LUT Interpolation method selection:
- Enables you to select the LUT Interpolation method from dropdown under Project Settings. Currently After Effects only supports Trilinear or Tetrahedral interpolation.

Unified version numbers:
- With this major release, all the Adobe video and audio applications will align on version number 22.0, making it easier to ensure compatibility across the applications

Fixed:
- Fixed an issue resulting in an incorrect error message when user stops a render in progress
- Fixed an issue that resulted in an error message when render is resumed after being previously stopped
- Resolved an issue that caused misestimation of render output file size
- Fixed an issue that caused renders to be sent to incorrect destination folder on Windows
- Fixed an issue that caused existing renders to be overwritten without warning on Windows
- Fixed an issue that resulted in template-generated render output paths not being sent to Adobe Media Encoder
- Fixed an issue where comp pixel aspect ratio was not respected in Draft 3D
- Fixed an issue that caused jagged drawing of 3D Transform Gizmo when switching gizmo modes
- Fixed an issue where opacity slider bar control did not move to mouse position in 3D Scene Navigation
- Fixed an issue that caused new comps to inherit 3D view from most recently viewed comp
- Fixed an issue that caused preview screen to flicker when creating a long text frame
- Fixed an issue where pixels weren’t displayed at certain composition resolutions
- Fixed an issue that caused layer markers to remain past the split point when splitting layers
- Fixed an issue with Cinema4D that caused After Effects to crash when resetting Camera/Take


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.4.1
- Fixed an issue that prevented pasting into text layers from other applications


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.4
Fixed:
- an issue that caused certain EXR footage to import incorrectly cropped
- an issue with 3D Fast Draft that caused the buffer to not clear in certain cases when the next frame was drawn
- an issue that caused the overlays for Shapes/Masks to be offset by a pixel or two when zoomed in above 800%
- an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that prevented using it with Track Matte layer
- an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused Gizmo and POI to be incorrectly positioned after setting negative scale for a camera or light parent
- an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that prevented assigning a keyboard shortcut for View > Look at all Layers
- an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that prevented comp tool bar from honoring Cmd/Ctrl to share view options
- an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that prevented n-up view layout setting for 3D comp to be retained when opening a saved project
- an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that prevented comp tool bar Ground Plane switch to not honor Shared View Options settings
- an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that prevented right click in non active n-up view to switch activation for bringing up the corresponding context sensitive menu
- an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that prevented non-uniformly scaled layer to uniformly scale
- an issue causing some JPEG images to fail to load from older projects


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.2.1
- Updates to project loading to better handle corrupted files


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.2
- Support for DirectX12 technology on Windows: DirectX12 now replaces OpenGL as the default display rendering technology for After Effects and Premiere Pro on Windows, providing a more modern codebase with improved stability and performance
- Fixed an issue that caused After Effects 2021 to create and utilize “After Effects 2020” folder for User Presets, User Libraries, and User Videos
- Fixed an issue with Real-Time 3D Draft Preview that caused the state to not be preserved when opening a saved project
- Fixed an issue with Real-Time 3D Draft Preview that caused compositions to render incorrectly when multiple compositions were opened in individual viewers with Draft 3D enabled
- Fixed an issue that caused panning using space bar shortcut to not work in the render queue
- Fixed an issue that caused using the custom keyboard shortcuts from After Effects 18.0 in After Effects 18.1 to break the “V” hotkey for Selection tool


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.1
Fixed:
- an issue that could cause After Effects to crash when copying layers using Linear Color key
- an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that caused spring loaded “C” AND “V” keys to not work correctly
- an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that caused “Shift+C” and “Shift+V” to not cycle through the camera tool options and gizmo modes respectively
- an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that caused camera tools to not activate when all 3D layer’s visibility switches were toggled on/off
- an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused light gizmo and wireframes rotation to not respond to expression
- an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused it to draw with incorrect proportion when changing composition pixel aspect ratio
- an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused layer to incorrectly rotate in World and View Axis mode when rotating in X, Y or Z by gizmo in rotation mode
- an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused gizmo and camera or light axis to jump when adding a parent with rotation or negative scale
- an issue with Draft 3D preview that caused the viewport to not refresh on Windows if the project is set to Mercury Software and the composition has a transparent background
- an issue where the right-most column of pixels in a composition preview could display incorrectly
- an issue where links in the After Effects Help menu did not point to the correct locatio
- an issue that could cause a matted layer to be hidden when a GPU-enabled effect was used on a lower layer
- an issue that caused a color shift when converting some illustrator files to shapes
- an issue that where pressing Escape would not revert the original expression after replacing an expression using the pick whip in the Graph Editor
- an issue that caused a pick-whipped expression reference to be inserted at the start of the expression when using the pick whip to replace an expression that is visible in the Graph Editor expression field
- an issue when importing TIFF files that contain pixels with zero alpha
- an issue that caused Render Queue log files to be created while exporting a single item when logging level was set to Errors Only


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.0.1
- Fixed a crash when closing a Timeline panel when After Effects is running on an external monitor with multiple timeline windows open


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.0
Fixed:
- an issue with the Levels and Shift Channels Effect that caused rendering differences between Mercury Software and Mercury GPU modes
- an issue where ScriptUI embedded panels would cause AE to crash when selecting ‘Use Legacy UI’ option
- an issue where mask and shape paths may result in low resolution Bezier splines
- an issue with Roto Brush where the propagation of the mask may occur multiple times
- an issue with the Expression Editor that caused mismatched parentheses when pick-whipping or pasting between closed parentheses
- an issue where the Dropdown Effect Control could only be applied once per layer
- various issues with Roto Brush when propagating mask changes in multiple clips in a single composition at the same time
- an issue that caused AE to crash when using Auto-trace with Camera or Light layers
- an issue that caused the color picker or eye dropper to fail to pick color on Windows when using secondary monitor
- an issue that caused CEP panels to not draw properly on Windows if changing display scale while the app was running
- an issue that caused ‘New Composition’ and ‘ New Composition From Footage’ text in an empty composition and layer window to scale correctly
- an issue that caused alternate toolbar options to display incorrectly on Windows when using secondary monitor
- an issue with the Graph Editor that caused all text in the Expression Editor to be highlighted when reverting changes using Escape key
- an issue with Graph Editor that caused ‘(No selected properties have expressions)’ message to show up in the expression editor when committing a change the expression
- an issue where Create Shapes from Vector Layer could cause color shifts when project working space was different from source working space
- an issue that caused Radiance.8BI footage to fail to import on Windows
- an issue that caused AE to become unresponsive when importing footage while concurrently previewing a composition on Windows
- an issue that caused UI drawn into the Effect Parameter Title area to not be displayed
- an issue where an error would be shown unexpectedly when using output path templates (“The directory originally specified in the selected output module no longer exists”)
- Overall improvements to After Effects when using a Hi-DPI monitor


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 17.7
Fixed:
- 3D Reference Axis colors now match the 3D gizmo
- 3D Reference Axes are now on by default. To disable them, click on the Grid and Guide Options button at the bottom of the Composition panel
- Fixed an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused gizmo components to render overlapped when using negative scale
- Fixed an issue that prevented dragging to reorder more than one effect at a time in the Effect Controls panel
- Fixed an issue that caused tools at the bottom of Lumetri Scopes panel to be clipped on a HiDPI Windows system
- Fixed an issue with Content Aware Fill that caused a color shift in generated fill layers when switching Project Working Space from ProPhoto RGB to Rec.709 Gamma 2.4
- Fixed an issue in the Content Aware Fill options where the lighting correction checkbox would show as checked when a Fill Method that didn’t support lighting correction was selected
- Fixed an issue with Content Aware Fill when using 16bpc projects
- Fixed an issue where CMYK files may shift colors unexpectedly when the Project Working Space is linearized, or using a non-display-style color profile
- Fixed an issue where an Alpha channel dialog may display incorrectly when importing a CMYK Photoshop file
- Fixed an issue where expression edits made in the Graph Editor were not applied consistently


Adobe After Effects CC 2021 17.6
More accurate Content-Aware Fill:
- Handle lighting shifts in footage better with improved Content-Aware Fill. It helps you cleanly remove objects from footage where harsh lighting changes occur throughout the footage.

Color Space and Gamma Changes:
- The default working space and Gamma curve is modified for all RED files.

3D Scene Navigation:
- Fixed an issue that caused the mouse cursor to change to the camera tool instead of zoom out when holding the option key with zoom tool is selected
- Fixed an issue that caused incorrect camera manipulation point for overlapping layers in Z-axis
- Fixed an issue that caused an error when panning in the same position as POI

3D Transform Gizmo:
- Fixed an issue that prevented using gizmo with scale zero
- Fixed an issue that caused the scale readout UI to overlap when scaling down
- Fixed an issue that caused a layer to tilt in the wrong plane if pressing shift while dragging rotation handle on reoriented layer
- Fixed an issue that caused light and camera gizmo components to render overlapped

Other bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue with Color Management that caused ‘Use Display Color Management’ to not be enabled by default when setting project working space
- Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when using Key Cleaner with HDR footage
- Fixed an issue that could cause an expression to be replaced instead of appending when using expression or property pick-whip
- Fixed an issue with Roto Brush that caused incorrect propagation cached markings to show up when switching layers in the Layer panel
- Fixed an issue that caused longer load times for projects with compositions that have more than a hundred layers
- Fixed an issue that caused the Roto Brush modified span bar duration to reset when adding a stroke
- Fixed an issue that caused drag operations such as moving panels within a workspace or repositioning guide lines to not work properly on Mac, after changing the display resolution in System Preferences.
- Fixed an issue with Essential properties that caused an error when duplicating a master property group in the timeline
- Fixed an issue with Essential properties that caused a master property name to increment when duplicating it
- Fixed an issue that caused the app window to open larger than the monitors screen size if the ‘ModifiedWorkspaces’ folder was deleted
- Fixed an issue that caused a panel to not show at the correct height when undocking it from a stacked panel group
- Fixed an issue that caused a panels snap points to be incorrect when display scale was greater than 100%
- Fixed an issue that caused the bounding box handles for selected shape groups, paragraph text, and motion tracker points to not draw at the correct size when the monitor resolution is scaled.
- Fixed an issue that caused snapping to be not accurate when using the graph editor
- Fixed an issue that caused adjacent Bezier keyframes with zero velocity and same values to not cache properly
- Fixed an issue that caused the app to crash when using Boris Reactor plugin with a no audio footage
- Fixed an issue that caused scripting of Render Queue crop attributes to swap right and bottom values
- Fixed an issue that caused dragging the current-time indicator (CTI) to leave black trails at certain display scales


Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.5.1
Roto Brush 2:
- Use Roto Brush 2 to separate a foreground object from its background faster and more accurately. Powered by Sensei, it uses machine learning to propagate selections over time, saving hours of laboriously rotoscoping frame by frame.

3D Design Space:
Use the new mode to design and navigate content in 3D space better and faster in After Effects. This release introduces the following tools:
- 3D Transform Gizmos
- Camera tools for improved navigation in 3D

3D Transform Gizmos:
- Use the new 3D Transform Gizmo to rotate, scale and position a camera. Use the Dimensional guides to view how far a camera has moved or how many degrees it has been rotated. Quickly switch between gizmo modes to focus on a single task.

Improved camera tools for navigating 3D:
- Quickly move around 3D space right after turning a 2D layer into a 3D layer. Add multiple cameras to a scene based on various viewpoints. Intuitively orbit, pan, and dolly around a scene using customizable keyboard shortcuts.

Bugs fixed:
3D Transform Gizmo:
- Fixed an issue that caused the camera and light wireframes and position paths to draw incorrectly for some view angles
- Fixed an issue that caused the 3D Transform Gizmo to disappear when using the rotate tool
- Fixed an issue that caused an error when using large layer scale value with Rotation Gizmo
- Fixed an issue that caused a crash when setting X-scale to zero
- Fixed an issue that caused the UI element of Rotate Gizmo to draw when layer is out of view
- Fixed an issue that caused drawing problems in comp panel when using a Custom View
- Fixed an issue that caused the Gizmo size to be relatively large or small depending on the size of the comp
- Fixed an issue where the wrong rotation values could be shown when using View Axis modes
- Fixed an issue that caused the Z-scale to not work when using the transform gizmo in some cases
- Fixed an issue that caused the UI showing how far you have moved an element to overlap with other UI elements unexpectedly

3D Scene Navigation:
- Fixed an issue that caused all the camera keyframes to be removed when resetting camera
- Fixed an issue that caused an error when dollying camera in same position as POI
- Fixed an issue that prevented using Option/Alt key as tool modifier key on 2D layer in a 3D comp
- Fixed an issue that prevented keyboard shortcut Alt/Option to not engage wireframes interactions in 2D comps

Other bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue that caused AE to crash when creating a new layer viewer while paint tool is selected
- Fixed an issue that caused AE to freeze when moving the cursor over a footage panel with pen tool selected
- Fixed an issue that caused the Linear color key controls to disappear when using the effects own color picker in the comp panel
- Fixed an issue that caused a black dialog window to pop up in case of a mismatch between Operating Systems locale and CCD installer app language
- Fixed an issue that caused QuickTime DNxHR files generated via Avid Media Composer's Universal Media Engine to import as audio-only
- Fixed an issue that caused all-black frames when exporting a comp to QuickTime with the Avid DNxHR 444 codec with an alpha channel
- Fixed an issue that caused import to fail for Quick Time ProRes files
- Fixed an issue that caused garbage pixels when exporting a comp to QuickTime DNxHR 444 with uncompressed alpha
- Fixed an issue that caused Content Aware Fill PNG export files to be large
- Fixed an issue with Essential Graphics Panel that caused a crash when closing the Edit Properties dialog
- Fixed an issue that caused the render to fail when running aerender from CMD
- Fixed an issue that caused AERenderCore to not terminate when quitting the app in some cases
- Fixed an issue that caused memory error when rendering AI files in “More Accurate” mode
- Fixed an issue that caused AMD integrated GPUs to not be used for effect rendering in higher resolution comps


Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.5
Roto Brush 2:
- Use Roto Brush 2 to separate a foreground object from its background faster and more accurately. Powered by Sensei, it uses machine learning to propagate selections over time, saving hours of laboriously rotoscoping frame by frame.

3D Design Space:
- Use the new mode to design and navigate content in 3D space better and faster in After Effects. This release introduces the following tools:

3D Transform Gizmos
- Camera tools for improved navigation in 3D

3D Transform Gizmos:
- Use the new 3D Transform Gizmo to rotate, scale and position a camera. Use the Dimensional guides to view how far a camera has moved or how many degrees it has been rotated. Quickly switch between gizmo modes to focus on a single task.

Improved camera tools for navigating 3D:
- Quickly move around 3D space right after turning a 2D layer into a 3D layer. Add multiple cameras to a scene based on various viewpoints. Intuitively orbit, pan, and dolly around a scene using customizable keyboard shortcuts.

Fixed bugs:
- Fixed an issue that caused a crash when changing a drop-down list value in the Essential Graphics panel
- Fixed in issue where After Effects could hang when reading from the disk cache while in low memory situations
- Fixed an issue that caused a crash when trying to use hotkeys and shortcuts before creating a composition
- Fixed an issue that caused a crash when switching between layer and comp viewer while ‘Content Aware Fill’ was generating Fill Layer
- Fixed an issue with motion graphic texts that caused incorrect rendering for South Asian Languages
- Fixed an issue that caused Adobe Media Encoder to hang when trying to render comps from After Effects
- Fixed several caching related issues that caused cache markings to not update or even purge in some situations
- The tool tip no longer flickers when you hold the cursor over the time ruler in the Timeline panel
- Using an expression control as a master property again displays the control’s customized name correctly


Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.1.4
- The Create Shapes from Vector Layer command is now disabled for Illustrator layers if the source file is missing
- Bug fixes for the Median effect when rendering transparent pixels: alpha channel edges render correctly in 32-bpc color, and layers that are completely transparent no longer return an error message, “Photoshop Library operation failed”
- Fixed an issue where using shape stroke taper was generating a spike at start and end points
- Fixed an issue with Master Properties that was causing the push and pull buttons to be grayed out after keyframe interpolation changes
- Fixed an issue where adding dropdown menu items to existing Motion Graphics templates and replacing in Premiere was resetting previous selections
- Fixed an issue in Echo effect, where it could produce garbage pixels in output


Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.1.3
Bugs fixed:
- Improved EXR performance: Multi-part and multi-channel EXR files preview up to 3x faster
- Fixed a crash that could occur when creating a composition using a CSV file containing Chinese characters
- Fixed an issue where the status info along the bottom of the Render Queue Panel was not appearing at non-100% display scale


Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.1.2
- Fixed a bug where previews could not be stopped during playback.
- Fixed an issue where Markers could not be referenced by name in the JavaScript Expressions Engine.
- Fixed an issue with Roto Brush where Refine Edge strokes failed to morph and adapt to changes in footage over time.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if a script attempts to display a dialog box when you switch workspaces.
- Fixed an issue so that clicking on a property’s “Include in graph editor” button no longer causes a “Could not convert to Unicode” error when After Effects is run in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
- Fixed crashes related to using South East Asian languages in a composition.
- Fixed an import issue where Illustrator REC709 files were incorrectly interpreted as sRGB.


Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.1.1
- Fixed an issue that was causing custom preview thumbnails created in the Essential Graphics Panel to appear black when duplicating the composition
- Fixed an issue where tapered strokes were generating the wrong start and end edge for ellipse shapes when using modified trim path values
- Fixed an issue with tapered strokes where the inner corners were torn or pinched incorrectly
- Fixed an issue on Apple hardware where the composition panel could fail to display correctly when the GPU driver failed to initialize
- Fixed an issue that was preventing After Effects compositions being used with Dynamic Link, such as Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, when certain plugins were used in the composition&l