Adobe After Effects Changelog

What's new in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.3

Mar 26, 2024

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.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.2 (Feb 7, 2024)

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.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.1 (Dec 5, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.0.2 (Oct 31, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.0 (Oct 11, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.6 (Aug 9, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.5 (Jun 20, 2023)

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.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.4 (May 9, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.3 (Mar 28, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.2.1 (Feb 23, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.2 (Feb 7, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.1 (Dec 6, 2022)

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

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.0 (Oct 19, 2022)

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.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.6 (Aug 23, 2022)

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

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.5 (Jun 21, 2022)

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

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.4 (May 10, 2022)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.3 (Apr 12, 2022)

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.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.2.1 (Mar 8, 2022)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.2 (Feb 8, 2022)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 22.1.1 (Dec 14, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 22.0.1 (Nov 11, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 22.0 (Oct 26, 2021)

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 bugs:
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.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.4.1 (Aug 17, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.4 (Jul 20, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.2.1 (Jun 8, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.2 (May 11, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.1 (Apr 13, 2021)

Bugs Fixed:
Fixed an issue that could cause After Effects to crash when copying layers using Linear Color key.
Fixed an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that caused spring loaded “C” AND “V” keys to not work correctly.
Fixed 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.
Fixed an issue with 3D Scene Navigation that caused camera tools to not activate when all 3D layer’s visibility switches were toggled on/off.
Fixed an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused light gizmo and wireframes rotation to not respond to expression.
Fixed an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused it to draw with incorrect proportion when changing composition pixel aspect ratio.
Fixed 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.
Fixed 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.
Fixed 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.
Fixed an issue where the right-most column of pixels in a composition preview could display incorrectly.
Fixed an issue where links in the After Effects Help menu did not point to the correct location
Fixed an issue that could cause a matted layer to be hidden when a GPU-enabled effect was used on a lower layer.
Fixed an issue that caused a color shift when converting some illustrator files to shapes.
Fixed an issue that where pressing Escape would not revert the original expression after replacing an expression using the pick whip in the Graph Editor.
Fixed 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.
Fixed an issue when importing TIFF files that contain pixels with zero alpha.
Fixed an issue that caused Render Queue log files to be created while exporting a single item when logging level was set to Errors Only.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.0.1 (Mar 17, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.0 (Mar 10, 2021)

Fixed an issue with the Levels and Shift Channels Effect that caused rendering differences between Mercury Software and Mercury GPU modes.
Fixed an issue where ScriptUI embedded panels would cause AE to crash when selecting ‘Use Legacy UI’ option.
Fixed an issue where mask and shape paths may result in low resolution Bezier splines.
Fixed an issue with Roto Brush where the propagation of the mask may occur multiple times.
Fixed an issue with the Expression Editor that caused mismatched parentheses when pick-whipping or pasting between closed parentheses.
Fixed an issue where the Dropdown Effect Control could only be applied once per layer.
Fixed various issues with Roto Brush when propagating mask changes in multiple clips in a single composition at the same time.
Fixed an issue that caused AE to crash when using Auto-trace with Camera or Light layers.
Fixed an issue that caused the color picker or eye dropper to fail to pick color on Windows when using secondary monitor.
Fixed an issue that caused CEP panels to not draw properly on Windows if changing display scale while the app was running.
Fixed an issue that caused ‘New Composition’ and ‘ New Composition From Footage’ text in an empty composition and layer window to scale correctly.
Fixed an issue that caused alternate toolbar options to display incorrectly on Windows when using secondary monitor.
Fixed an issue with the Graph Editor that caused all text in the Expression Editor to be highlighted when reverting changes using Escape key.
Fixed 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.
Fixed an issue where Create Shapes from Vector Layer could cause color shifts when project working space was different from source working space.
Fixed an issue that caused Radiance.8BI footage to fail to import on Windows.
Fixed an issue that caused AE to become unresponsive when importing footage while concurrently previewing a composition on Windows.
Fixed an issue that caused UI drawn into the Effect Parameter Title area to not be displayed.
Fixed 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.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 17.7 (Feb 9, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 17.6.0.46 (Jan 14, 2021)

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.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.5.1.47 (Nov 17, 2020)

Bugs fixed in the November 2020 release (version 17.5.1):
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.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.5.0.40 (Oct 21, 2020)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.1.4.37 (Sep 17, 2020)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.1.1.34 (Jun 16, 2020)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.0.6.35 (Apr 14, 2020)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2019 16.1 (Apr 5, 2019)

Repair videos when you remove unwanted objects from your video with the Content-aware fill tool:
Remove unwanted objects from footage, such as boom mics, distracting signs, and people. Powered by Adobe Sensei, Content Aware Fill for video makes it easier to cleanly remove unwanted elements, saving hours that used to be spent erasing or replacing objects, sometimes frame by frame.
Expression Editor Improvements:
The expression editor field in the Timeline panel now provides a full code editor interface. Navigate expressions visually with line numbers, matching brace highlighting and code folding. Customize your coding environment with syntax highlighting themes. Identify and fix problems with in-line error messages and matching brace highlighting.
Performance improvements:
Preview your work quickly with hardware-accelerated previews using Metal, OpenCL and CUDA. Experience faster rendering times when applying GPU effects such as Roughen Edges. When working with Team Projects, work faster when using multiple assets between team members.
Save Guides to share with editors:
You can now load and save guide setups for reuse in new projects and share with Premiere Pro editors who need it to set parameters for their sequence.
Adobe fonts automatic sync:
When you open a project in After Effects that contains a missing font, if the font is available from Adobe Fonts as part of your Creative Cloud subscription, Creative Cloud will automatically sync the font.
Video and audio import support enhancements:
After Effects introduces RED and Sony camera raw format support improvements, and Hardware-accelerated HEVC decoding improvement for improved video and audio performance.
Preferences changes:
After Effects introduces new Home screen and Home button preferences. The existing preferences related to scripting and expressions have been moved from the General preferences pane to the new Scripting & Expressions panel.
Update Legacy Expressions script:
A new script Update Legacy Expressions.jsx is installed with After Effects that analyzes all the legacy syntax in expressions and updates them to be compatible with the new JavaScript expressions engine.
Frame Blending and Motion Blur composition switches automatically enable and disable:
When you enable or disable frame blending or motion blur for a layer, After Effects automatically enables or disables them in the Timeline panel.
Scripting Changes:
After Effects has added multiple scripting capabilities to the following features:
Essential Graphics panel item names and count
Guides and Rulers
Team Projects improvements:
With better search navigation, and parity in Team Projects UI in After Effects and Premiere Pro, you can save time and get streamlined workflows in Team Projects.
More features:
Find information about other enhancements in this release such as the Edit Original command has been added to the Open sub-menu of the layer context menu.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2018 16.0.1 (Dec 11, 2018)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2018 16.0 (Oct 16, 2018)

Advanced puppet tools for mesh sculpting:
New Advanced and Bend pins let you precisely twist, bend, curve, and scale animations.
Native 3D Depth passes:
Generate a depth pass with the After Effects Classic 3D or INEMA 4D renderer. Composite objects quickly and easily in 3D space. Apply depth effects such as Depth of Field, Fog 3D, and Depth Matte so elements look natural or use depth data to simulate 3D looks.
Easier and faster expressions:
A new JavaScript expression engine supercharges your animation workflow and processes expressions up to 6 times faster. Write expressions with a new editor that makes creating expressions more accessible.
Responsive Design — Time:
Create motion graphics that can adapt to changes in length while preserving the integrity of protected keyframes. Export your designs as Motion Graphics templates for increased editorial flexibility.
Selective color grading with Lumetri Color:
Take the guesswork out of curve adjustments with innovative new Lumetri Color tools for selective color correction. Each curve has two axes with paired values, making it easy to fine-tune colors accurately.
Display color management:
Get accurate color representations and maintain color fidelity across your workflow, from After Effects to Premiere Pro and on rec709, rec202, and P3 displays.
Improved Motion Graphics templates file exchange with Premiere Pro:
Access, modify, or replace CSV and TSV spreadsheet data in Premiere Pro to create dynamic, data-driven templates. Group controls so it’s easy to find editable properties in your Motion Graphics templates. Unlock font settings to let editors change fonts.
Native Mocha AE plug-in for After Effects:
Get fast, accurate, precision planar tracking with the GPU-accelerated Mocha AE plug-in. It’s updated with a simplified interface, includes retina/high DPI support, and works natively inside After Effects.
Create in VR 180, preview in headset:
Jump into immersive video with support for 180 VR. Add VR effects and work with 180 and 360 material interchangeably. Publish finished videos in the Google VR 180 format on YouTube or other platforms. A new Theater Mode option allows you to preview rectilinear content in a head-mounted display (HMD).
Performance and GPU optimizations:
New GPU- and performance-optimizing effects include Fill, Curves, Exposure, Noise, Tritone, Set Matte and Color Balance. The Wave Warp effect is now multithreaded and renders 2-3x faster by using multiple CPU cores. Experience faster H.264 and HEVC decoding on the latest macOS.
Master Properties refinements:
Master Properties now enable more advanced workflows with support for Collapse Transformations, Time Remap, audio effects, motion blur, mask and shape path expressions, 3D cameras and lights.
Learn Panel:
After Effects beginner? The new Learn panel introduces you to the Timeline and controls via interactive tutorials to start you creating your composition
quickly.
Tighter integration with Animate and XD:
Import Animate .fla files as layered compositions directly into After Effects. Send your XD designs to After Effects with high fidelity to add advanced animation or build them into your motion graphics projects.
Group invites for Team Projects:
Invite groups and team members from your enterprise address book — without typing in addresses — for more efficient communications.
Format support improvements:
Get better performance from Panasonic, RED, and Sony camera formats with the latest support.
Creative Cloud Library improvements:
Drag and drop assets such as Illustrator or Photoshop files into your CC Libraries panel to quickly access your After Effects compositions. Share your Libraries and assets with team members or export and store them with your project.
And so much more:
Also includes easier ways to find GPU-accelerated effects, install scripts, and quickly enable or disable expressions.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2018 15.0.1 (Apr 3, 2018)

Streamline graphics creation with Master Properties:
Create multiple variations of a single composition with Master Properties. Choose properties like text, position and color to adjust in context, without having to open a precomp to make changes.
Advanced Puppet Engine:
Twist and bend layers with greater control and smoother deformations. Add pins to any shape and the Advanced Puppet Engine adds mesh detail where you need it most.
Essential Graphics Panel improvements:
Add most timeline properties to the Essential Graphics panel, including 2D position, rotation and scale. Export them as Motion Graphics template controls to customize your design in Premiere Pro.
Data-driven animation improvements:
More easily import and use native data files (including JSON, CSV, and TSV) right in the timeline. A public API lets third parties implement other data file format support. Link properties to data more easily with the pick whip without enabling expressions first.
Performance and GPU optimizations:
The Add Grain, Remove Grain and Match Grain effects are now multi-threaded for up to 5x faster performance. GPU usage is more efficient: work with larger frame sizes without memory errors.
Open Motion Graphics templates in After Effects:
Motion Graphics templates can be opened as a project in After Effects, retaining compositions and assets. Make edits and then save as a project or export as a new Motion Graphics template for users of Premiere Pro.
Support for Adobe Immersive Environment and improved VR Plane to Sphere effect:
Preview your VR composition the way it’s meant to be seen, in a VR head-mounted display. The Adobe Immersive Environment supports the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on Mac and Windows. An overhauled VR Plane to Sphere effect delivers higher-quality transformations.
Video Limiter effect:
Limit chroma and luma values to meet broadcast specifications. Apply to individual layers or to an adjustment layer to limit your entire composition.
Enhanced support for Team Projects:
Enhancements include improved tracking of collaborators, better project management, and more.
And so much more:
Also includes: A shortcut to quickly cycle through mask modes, the ability to automatically center shape layer anchor points, better disk cache management, and project organization improvements.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2018 15.0.0 (Oct 18, 2017)

Data-driven animation:
Animate motion graphics, such as charts and graphs, using imported data. With custom schemas, third-party partners can write data that can be used by others to generate motion graphics.
See how it works ›
Immersive effects:
Add virtual reality effects to your 360/VR videos without creating unwanted distortions at the poles or artifacts along the back seamline. Effects include Gaussian blur, color gradients, chromatic aberration, de-noise, digital glitch, glow, fractal noise, and sharpen.
Immersive Video Titling and Graphics:
Instantly format graphics, text, images, or other video clips to look correct in a 360 video.
VR Comp Editor:
Using a view window rather than working directly with 360/VR footage lets you edit from the same perspective you see when the video is played back in a headset or on a smartphone.
Extract Cubemap:
Convert 360 footage into a 3D cube map format to easily do motion tracking, remove objects, add motion graphics and visual effects, and more.
Create VR Environment:
Automate the creation of necessary compositions and camera relationships to create a 360/VR authoring environment for infographics, animated sequences, abstracts, and more.
VR Converter:
Easily switch between editing formats and export to a variety of formats including: Fisheye, Cube-Map Facebook 3:2, Cube-Map Pano 2VR 3:2, Cube-Map GearVR 6:1, Equirectangular 16:9, Cube-Map 4:3, Sphere Map, and Equirectangular 2:1.
VR Rotate Sphere:
Easily adjust and rotate your 360 footage to level horizon lines, align viewpoints, and more.
VR Sphere to Plane:
See your footage in a perspective-based view similar to what it would look like with a headset even if you’re not wearing one.
Expression access to mask and shape points:
Animate your graphics like never before. Link masks and shape points to other masks, shapes, or layers with expressions without animating frame by frame. Work with one or multiple points and control handles, and apply new data-driven features.
Enhanced 3D pipeline with Cinema 4D Lite R19:
Work in 3D right inside After Effects with Cinema 4D Lite R19. Get viewport improvements with enhanced OpenGL and updated Cinema 4D Take System, support for Parallax Shader, Vertex Color, and BodyPaint Open GL, and the ability to import FBX2017 and Alembic 1.6.
Performance enhancements:
Render layer transforms and motion blur on the GPU.
Keyboard shortcut mapping:
Find and customize keyboard shortcuts quickly using a visual map.
Helpful start screen:
Speed through project setup and jump into editing with a new, intuitive start screen that also includes easy access to CC Learn tutorials.
Auto-saves in Team Projects:
Check when auto-saves of your edits were made. Easily revert to a previous auto-save or create a new team project from an auto-save.
New font menu:
Get font previews and select your favorites with filtering and search options.
Motion Graphics templates in Adobe Stock:
Sell your Motion Graphics templates on Adobe Stock, or share them with Premiere Pro users, who can use most templates without having After Effects installed.
And so much more:
Also includes: Animated GIF export on Mac via Adobe Media Encoder and improvements to MENA and Indic text.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017.2.1 14.2.1 (Jun 13, 2017)

Performance improvements:
We fixed the “Cached preview needs 2 or more frames to play back” memory allocation errors, caused by an incorrect estimate of free memory when After Effects attempted to render or preview frames. (Note that you will, however, still see this message if you attempt to preview a single frame.) These fixes should also enable you to preview longer stretches of your timeline.
Text rendering has been optimized. As a result, Dynamic Link rendering performance of After Effects compositions, including Motion Graphics templates and legacy text templates, is now significantly faster, up to 4x faster depending on the composition.
Importing Illustrator or PDF files, or opening a project containing those files, is now 3-4x faster for files with many layers or a very large number of vectors to parse.
Miscellaneous bug fixes:
The Camera-Shake Deblur effect now renders correctly when the project color depth is set to 16-bpc or 32-bpc.
Buttons in ScriptUI panels have been reverted to the rectangular appearance seen in After Effects 14.1 and previous releases.
The Lumetri Scopes panel no longer displays at a reduced size on Windows when HiDPI display scaling is enabled.
Overbright pixels in 32-bpc compositions no longer lack a color cast, when appropriate, if the Hardware Accelerate Composition, Layer, and Footage Panels preference is enabled.
Opening a project that contains a missing JPEG sequence footage now reports the missing sequence correctly instead of “file ‘<folder name>’ cannot be imported this ‘????’ file is damaged or unsupported.”
The CINEMA 4D renderer no longer fails to render the frame or give an error, “CINEMA 4D Render Failed (5070::0)”, if you enable motion blur when the Composition panel is set to an orthographic 3D view.
Changing Brightness in Preferences > Appearance no longer leaves some parts of the user interface at the previous brightness until you restart After Effects. Note that CEP panel tabs, such as the Libraries panel, still have this problem; we are investigating this remaining problem for a future release.
After Effects – Premiere Pro interoperability improvements:
The sample Motion Graphics templates installed by After Effects have been updated so that they no longer fail to render correctly in Premiere Pro if After Effects is installed in a non-English language.
Text layers in a Premiere Pro graphic object now include tracking, kerning, and tsume values when they are brought into After Effects. Also, vertical text is no longer changed to horizontal text.
Shape layers in a Premiere Pro graphic with the fill attribute disabled no longer have a red fill when they are brought into After Effects.
Premiere Pro graphic objects that have effects applied between graphic object layers now replicate the effects on adjustment layers when they are brought into After Effects. A similar problem with masks is solved by replicating the mask as a track matte. Also, keyframes at frame zero in the graphic object are no longer adjusted forward one frame.
Premiere Pro graphic object layers with their visibility eyeballs disabled no longer have their visibility re-enabled when they are brought into After Effects.
Bars and Tone and HD Bars and Tone clips in a Premiere Pro project are now replicated as a placeholder footage object instead of a solid layer when they are brought into After Effects. (Note that the audio tone is still not included, you can add the Tone effect to manually replicate that.)
Team Projects fixes:
Team Projects no longer prevents footage from being deleted from the project if a composition or sequence has a dependency on the footage.
Team Projects no longer flags a footage item as needing to be shared if the only change was that the footage was relinked to the same source media.
Scripting and Expressions fixes:
The AVItem.setProxyToNone() scripting method no longer fails with an error message, “After Effects error: AEGP trying to add invalid footage”.
The system.callSystem() scripting method now waits for all tasks called by the command to complete, instead of failing when the command takes a long time to complete.
Enabling expressions for a property on macOS 10.12 using the Option+Shift+= (equals sign) keyboard shortcut no longer replaces the default expression with the ± (plus-minus sign) character.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017.2 14.2.0.198 (May 4, 2017)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017.1 14.2.0 (Apr 19, 2017)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017 14.1.0 (Jan 19, 2017)

The January 2017 update for After Effects CC (version 14.1) fixes these bugs:
Adobe Media Encoder and Premiere Pro again render compositions at full resolution, regardless of the resolution set in the Composition panel in After Effects. (When using the Queue In AME command, the resolution you specify in the Render Settings dialog will be used.)
JPEG image sequence footage no longer changes its frame rate and duration when the project is saved, if the frame rate assigned in the Interpret Footage dialog differs from the preference for sequence footage frame rate. Note: JPEG sequences in projects last saved by versions 14.0 or 14.0.1 are not automatically corrected to their previous frame rate. To fix such projects, change the frame rate to the expected value in the Interpret Footage dialog for these JPEG sequences.
After Effects no longer crashes when you open the preferences if the audio device last used by After Effects was disabled or disconnected.
Auto-save timing has been fixed so that the timer only starts after you make a change to a saved (or new) project. This prevents problems where the timer would run while the project was saved but not changed, resulting in auto-save occurring after you make the next change.
After Effects no longer disables the Hardware Accelerate Composition, Layer, and Footage Panels option on Windows when you unlock the computer while After Effects is active. (You should no longer receive the warning, “Hardware-accelerated views have been disabled because they are not compatible with Remote Desktop”, unless you are actually using Remote Desktop.)
Text templates that use sourceRectAtTime() in an expression now update the comp correctly when the text is changed in Premiere Pro.
Text templates that use expressions to reference other layers now update the comp correctly when the text is changed in Premiere Pro.
Text templates no longer display layers as offline in Premiere Pro if the source file for that layer uses non-English Unicode characters.
When you select a template project in Preferences > New Project, the file dialog box allows you to select all project format types (.aet, .aep, and .aepx) without changing the format type selector.
Creating a new project from a template, when enabled in Preferences > New Project, no longer adds the project template to the File > Open Recent menu.
Orthographic views of compositions using the CINEMA 4D renderer are no longer offset and shifted from layer handles.
Previews with the Skip option enabled (i.e., not zero) in the Preview panel no longer play at less than real-time when you play through previously cached frames.
Composition and layer viewer panels no longer downsample the preview image if you make a change during playback and the composition Fast Preview option is set to Adaptive Resolution.
After Effects no longer crashes when you quit on a Mac computer with an Intel GPU, after you import video footage or JPEG images.
After Effects no longer sometimes crashes when you quit while a preview is playing back.
After Effects no longer crashes on start when trying to load a plug-in from a folder with a very long name.
After Effects no longer crashes if you apply the Glow effect to a synthetic layer (e.g., solid, shape, text, etc.) and the layer is outside of the comp bounds, if the project is set to use GPU acceleration and is in 8- or 16-bpc mode.
The January 2017 update for After Effects CC (version 14.1) also includes these improvements to Team Projects (Beta):
Team projects can now be saved as a local project (.aep) by choosing Edit > Team Projects > Convert Team Project to Project.
The Edit > Edit in Adobe Audition command is now available for layers with audio in a team project.
Many bugs with team projects have been fixed.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017.0 14.0.1 (Nov 17, 2016)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017.0 14.0.0.207 (Nov 2, 2016)

3D rendering engine:
Improve rendering performance on your CPU and create elements such as extruded text and shape layers directly inside After Effects with the new 3D rendering engine from Cinema 4D.
Team Projects (Beta):
Collaborate and share sequences and compositions in real time with Team Projects (Beta). Features like version control and conflict resolution are built right into After Effects, Premiere Pro and Prelude so teams can work better together. Available now for Creative Cloud for teams and enterprise customers.
Real-time playback:
Speed up your workflow by playing back most raw footage in real-time without rendering or caching first.
Faster effects and interactive performance:
Get rid of bottlenecks and work faster with more GPU-accelerated effects, as well as Dynamic Link improvements that eliminate intermediate rendering between Premiere Pro and After Effects
Live Text Template improvements:
Package your compositions in a single file that allows users to easily share Live Text Templates with Premiere Pro.
Character Animator enhancements:
Make Photoshop and Illustrator changes to your puppet and update faster with improved Character Animator performance. Switch easily between Character Animator, After Effects and Premiere Pro using Dynamic Link.
Typekit updates:
With Typekit Marketplace, you can buy fonts from some of the industry's biggest names and use them in your After Effects projects. Instantly sync your purchased fonts to your devices and bring them directly into your compositions.
Creative Cloud Assets improvements:
Archive and restore all your assets stored in Creative Cloud, including the ones in your Creative Cloud Libraries, assets created with CC desktop products, and mobile projects.
Shared templates:
Make sure your team and freelancers are always working off the same page by creating your own new project template with set color guides and file structure, and sharing it in Creative Cloud Folders.
Date and time tokens:
Keep track of multiple outputs from the same file by adding date and time tokens to your file name output template.
And so much more:
Also includes: Better UI retina support, improved markers, scripting enhancements, Adobe Media Encoder export improvements, enhanced Time Remapping, a 360-degree preset for monoscopic equirectangular video viewing, and more.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2015.3 13.8.0.144 (Jun 21, 2016)

Enhanced video and audio playback:
This release of After Effects introduces a superior video and audio preview architecture that delivers real-time playback of cached frames with synced audio. The new preview engine architecture shares its foundation with other Adobe video applications for a more consistent experience across Creative Cloud applications.
Interactive performance improvements:
After Effects CC is now significantly faster and reliable across workflows, from file import and project load through to final render. You can now swiftly work through scrubbing your timeline, working with complex masks, and editing large numbers of keyframes.
GPU-accelerated effects:
Some of the most commonly used effects, such as Lumetri Color and Gaussian Blur, now use GPU acceleration. GPU-accelerated effects deliver up to 5x performance, enabling you to make changes and view the results instantly.
Improved Maxon 4D Cinema importer:
You can now export animated 3D text and shape layers to Cinema 4D for a roundtrip Live 3D motion graphics workflow. Customize your exported elements in Cinema 4D using the integrated Cinema 4D Lite application, save your changes, and see them update live in After Effects via CINEWARE.
Faster image sequence import:
After Effects now imports image sequences up to 10x faster. You can see the improved performance especially when you import image sequences from a shared network storage. Some of these changes were introduced in the recent 13.7.1 patch.
Improved Creative Cloud Libraries and Stock experience:
Searching Adobe Stock and CC Libraries for assets just got faster. You can now add Adobe Stock assets to your project — including 4K video — and then license them directly within After Effects. Licensed Adobe Stock assets in your library are now badged for easy identification. Videos in your library are displayed with duration and format information and have links to video previews. With this Creative Cloud libraries update, the library owner can be sure that the library users always get the latest version of the assets and be informed about the changes. The following new capabilities are available:
Filtered Stock and Library search results that help you find the content you want faster.
Licensing Stock badging in the Library view to make it easier for you to identify if a Stock asset is licensed.
Video badging and Linking to Preview in Library view to ensure consistency across the users’ view of assets in both search results and their libraries.
Search for Stock 4k video to provide users with the full breadth of Stock video content and ensure a consistent user experience with the Stock site.
Character Animator Preview 4:
This release of After Effects includes with the Preview 4 of Character Animator, which offers the following features:
Visual layer tagging: The new tag-based rigging system that enables you to assemble your puppet directly inside Character Animator.
Dynamic Link to Adobe Media Encoder: Export directly to a wide array of video and image sequence formats via Adobe Media Encoder.
Syphon support: Pipe your performance to any Syphon client application in real time to work with Character Animator in a live production environment.
Get precise control of your animation: Control recording and playback speed to capture and review detailed performances, or capture frames individually for a pose-to-pose workflow.
Improved behaviors: Improved behaviors include take grouping for draggable handles and smoothing for face tracking. This makes creating and performing expressive characters easier and more intuitive. Improved lip sync gives you more accurate tracking and support for new visemes.
New Motion Trigger and Auto Blink behaviors: Motion Trigger enables users to drag their character across the screen and have it animate in response to their movements. And Auto Blink makes it easy to control blinking without using facial tracking.
Simplified puppet setup: Multi-view characters now require only one set of Face and Lip Sync behaviors. Dangle behaviors are much easier to apply and configure, and include per-puppet gravity controls.
Character Animator has come a long way since last spring’s Preview 1, but Character Animator remains preview software. This means that we think that it’s ready to be used in real animation workflows, but we also know that we need more input from you to bring it to the level of completeness and quality that you’ve come to expect from Adobe creative applications. When you use Adobe Character Animator, you’ll be able to submit feedback through a forum linked to directly from the application itself. We want to hear from you so that we can build the best possible experience for you.
Improved Cache Before Playback:
When the Cache Before Playback option is enabled in the Preview panel, After Effects previews the frames as they are rendered.
As the frames are rendered:
Only newly rendered frames are previewed; previously rendered frames are skipped over
Newly rendered frames are played back as fast as possible (note that the maximum preview frame rate is limited by the monitor refresh rate; for example, 60Hz = 60fps).
After all the frames are rendered, preview of the cached frames begins (with audio, if it is enabled).
Auto-save while starting render queue :
You can now control whether After Effects automatically saves the project when you start the render queue by choosing Preferences > Auto-Save.
The new Save When Starting Render Queue option is enabled by default. This new option is a separate control from auto-saving at intervals ("Save every X minutes"). The Auto-Save options have been modified to make it clear that you can choose to save at intervals, save when starting the render queue, or both.
Since After Effects 13.6, auto-saving does not occur when the render queue is rendering. In After Effects 13.6, if the Automatically Save Projects option was enabled in Preferences > Auto-Save, projects were always auto-saved when you started the render queue; After Effects 13.7 now allows you to control this behavior.
Maxon CINEWARE 3.0 integration:
This release of After Effects gives you the capability to work natively with Maxon CINEWARE 3.0 Cinema 4D files. The integration provides the following features:
Live Link:
Live Link enables synchronization of the timelines of Cinema 4D and After Effects. To use Live Link, ensure that the Cinema 4D paths in the CINEWARE Options dialog are set to a version of Cinema 4D that supports Live Link. When you click the Enable button for Live Link (under the Show help button), the specified Cinema 4D version opens the current file. If Live Link has not been enabled in Cinema 4D, brief instructions appear.
To enable Live Link in Cinema 4D:
Choose Edit > Preferences > Communication > Live Link.
Select Live Link Enabled At Startup. The timelines synchronize while switching between After Effects and Cinema 4D.
When you select a different C4D layer in After Effects, press Enable to synchronize that layer.
Take system:
The Cinema 4D R17 Take System has been integrated into CINEWARE. The Set Take button in the CINEWARE effect is enabled if the C4D file contains takes. If the current renderer does not support take selections, After Effects uses the main take.
Extract C4D timeline markers:
Timeline markers in C4D files are now added to the C4D layer in After Effects when you click the Extract button.
OpenGL renderer:
The CINEWARE renderer can now be set to OpenGL for hardware-accelerated rendering.
No renderer limitations for Physical, Hardware, and Sketch and Toon
Renderer limitations have been removed in CINEWARE. When your C4D file has been saved in a full retail version of Cinema 4D with Render Settings set to the Physical or Hardware renderer, it renders with those settings when the CINEWARE renderer is set to Standard (Final) or Standard (Draft). Sketch and Toon render when the CINEWARE renderer is set to Standard (Final).
Multi-pass alpha channels:
Multi-pass layers are now created with an alpha channel.
Synchronize C4D Layers:
When the Cinema 4D Layers option is enabled, After Effects give you a new option to Synchronize C4D Layers available when there are multiple instances (including extracted passes) of the C4D layer in the composition. All instances of the same layer with Synchronize C4D Layers enabled will synchronize changes made when enabling or disabling Cinema 4D layers by clicking Set Layers.
The difference between the two synchronize options in CINEWARE is as follows:
Synchronize AE layer: Render Settings and Camera options are synchronized on all instances of the C4D layer.
Synchronize C4D Layers: Cinema 4D Layers settings are synchronized on all instances of the C4D layer.
Other changes:
The No Pre-calculation option is now enabled by default. This disables pre-calculations for computing motion dynamics or particle simulations. You may need to disable No Pre-calculation for final rendering, depending on the animation used in your c4d file.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2015.2 13.7.1.6 (Apr 6, 2016)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2015.2 13.7.0.124 (Jan 28, 2016)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2015.1 (Dec 1, 2015)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2015.0.1 13.5.1.48 (Jul 28, 2015)

BUG FIXES:
Fixed a problem that caused After Effects to not respond to commands to stop previews or to respond slowly when changing layer parameters, including entering text in a text layer. When the Warp Stabilizer VFX and 3D Camera Tracker effects were present anywhere in the project, they caused After Effects to become unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input during frame renders.
Auto-trace has been rewritten to address problems with the new threading architecture.
The z-axis handle on 3D layers works as expected.
Changes to Camera Raw settings apply to the footage as expected and without causing Photoshop File Format errors.
MXF files from Sony cameras again import as expected.
Audio plug-ins like Trapcode Sound Keys and BorisFX Beat Reactor now function correctly.
Multiple copies of certain effects, like those from RE:Vision Effects, no longer produce errors about I_MIX_GUID_DEPENDENCIES.
Several audio-related fixes:
Audio now starts immediately during previews.
Stopping an audio preview returns the current-time indicator (CTI) to the previous position, as it did in previous versions of After Effects.
Adding audio markers during a preview (by pressing * on the numeric keypad) no longer causes the preview frame rate to slow down, which then caused audio to drop or stutter.
Scrubbing audio slowly now has a delay before beginning a loop around the CTI.
The CTI and preview-time indicator (PTI) no longer disappear after scrubbing audio.
In addition to the above, a number of other bugs have been fixed:
Copying a Layer Control expression control effect from one layer to another no longer causes After Effects to crash.
Effects with a layer parameter referring to the effect’s host layer now work as expected when that layer is copied and pasted.
Clone Stamp strokes no longer fail to render if the source layer is of different dimensions than the target layer.
Rendering to an image sequence no longer fails if the destination folder contains an image sequence that is in use by the project.
Animation presets that contain only an expression no longer cause an error message or in some cases create erroneous keyframes.
Stopping the render queue with a render item that was previously in WILL_CONTINUE status no longer causes that item to change to an incorrect status.
Preview frame rate no longer slows down when you move the pointer over a previewing Composition, Layer, or Footage panel.
The Radio Waves effect should no longer produce an uninitialized memory read error.
After Effects no longer crashes when a layer’s scale is set to 0% at the same time an effect on that layer with custom UI is visible.
After Effects no longer crashes in certain cases during processing of expression errors.
After Effects no longer crashes or produces memory errors in certain cases using both expressions and time remapping.
Audio preview now works in all non-English languages.
After Effects compositions with the Warp Stablizer VFX or 3D Camera Tracker effects that are used in Premiere Pro via Dynamic Link no longer cause the error message: FLT_GeneralEffectCallPlus can not be called reentrantly. ( 25 :: 222 )
MUTE AUDIO WHEN PREVIEW IS NOT REAL-TIME NOW DISABLED BY DEFAULT:
The Mute Audio When Preview Is Not Real-Time option in Preferences > Previews is now disabled by default. The intent of this preference is to avoid playing stuttered audio in known cases when the preview frame rate will not be real-time, for example during the first pass of a preview while frames are rendered and cached. But because several bugs remain present After Effects CC 2015 that cause the preview frame rate to slow down during user interaction, even when the preview is playing back cached frames, we decided that hearing some audio is better than the audio dropping out. We will continue work on these bugs for a future update.
SYNTHETIC APERTURE COLOR FINESSE 3.0.12 PLUG-IN:
After Effects CC 2015 (13.5.1) includes an update for the Color Finesse plug-in from Synthetic Aperture.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2014.2 13.2 (Dec 17, 2014)

Scripting improvements for text layers:
You can now read additional information through scripting about the properties of a text layer, including the layer coordinates and additional character properties.
These new attributes for the textDocument object are read-only. The value returned is for the first character in the text layer at the current time.
The following attributes return a boolean value
fauxBold
fauxItalic
allCaps
smallCaps
superscript
subscript
The following attributes return a float value:
verticalScale
horizontalScale
baselineShift
tsume
The following attributes return an array of ([X,Y]) position coordinates for paragraph text layers only
boxTextPos: returns the layer coordinates from the text layer anchor point
sourcePointToComp(): converts layer coordinates, such as boxTextPos, to composition coordinates
compPointToSource(): converts composition coordinates, such as sourcePointToComp, to layer coordinates
Expression access to dynamic layer bounds, including text layers:
You can now read the rectangle bounds of a layer’s content, including the corrected bounds of a text layer, for any time in a composition. The sourceRectAtTime() method from the After Effects scripting API is now accessible in expressions as a read-only layer object attribute.
The values returned are calculated before effects and layer styles are applied.
layer.sourceRectAtTime(t = time, includeExtents = false)
t: the time index, in seconds. A floating-point value.
includeExtents: true to include the extents, false otherwise. Extents apply to shape layers only, increasing the size of the layer bounds as necessary.
Returns a JavaScript object with four attributes: [top, left, width, height]
New keyframe icons:
We received a lot of feedback that keyframe icons in After Effects CC 2014.1 (13.1) are difficult to visually distinguish in the refreshed user interface design. In After Effects CC 2014.2 (13.2) all keyframe icons have been updated to address this feedback. The new icons are a little bit brighter overall and have bright edges instead of dark edges so that they stand out better against the background.
The icons for roving keyframes and summary keyframes (displayed when a property group is collapsed) have been updated but are changed to the dark dot that appeared in After Effects CC 2014 (13.0) and previous, instead of the bright dot that appeared in After Effects CC 2014.1 (13.1).
We will be making additional improvements to the user interface for all Adobe applications based on user feedback in updates scheduled for the coming year. We’ll publish details of our plans in this area in a post on this blog later this week.
A few choice bug fixes:
Applying animation presets from Bridge works as expected and no longer results in an error message.
Color management no longer causes a color or gamma shift in rendered images when multiprocessing is enabled.
Warp Stabilizer effect has been updated to fix a cause of crashes on the late 2013 model Mac Pro.
A cause of poor Dynamic Link performance when the main After Effects application is open has been fixed.
The sampleImage expression method no longer causes multiprocessing to disable.
The cursor icon changes immediately when you press a keyboard shortcut to change the active tool.
Layers now highlight as expected in the Composition panel when you roll over the layer in the Timeline panel.
Dragging an instance of an After Effects text template composition in Premiere Pro from the Project panel to the Timeline panel no longer causes a delay before the composition can be dropped.
Creating shape layers from Illustrator layers no longer creates the shapes at the wrong coordinates if the Illustrator artboard uses a video preset and the layer was imported at layer dimensions (instead of document dimensions).
Layers in a .c4d file in an After Effects CC (12.x) project retain their visibility state in the Cineware effect when the project is opened in After Effects CC 2014.2 (13.2).
Windows high-DPI displays now correctly draw layer controls (anchor point, mask path, layer handles, etc.).
Multiple fixes for Mac OS Retina displays: layer wireframes now draw correctly; setting the ruler origin in viewer panels no longer has an offset.
The color of all characters are now the same in the value of a property with an expression. For example, the % symbol in Opacity values is now red instead of blue.
Rolling over the value of a property with an expression no longer changes the value’s text color to yellow.
A cause of crashes on startup if the Adobe preferences directory is set to read-only was fixed.
A cause of crashes on quit after Video Copilot Element 3D is used was fixed.
A cause of crashes when effects make certain OpenGL requests was fixed.
Aliases to files and folders on Mac OS 10.10.1 and later are now resolved correctly.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2014.1 13.1.0.111 (Oct 6, 2014)

Refreshed interface design:
After Effects has a new darker design. You can change the brightness of the interface in Edit > Preferences > Appearance, though the slider range is more limited; you can no longer change the appearance of the user interface to a light mode.
There is some simplification to the panel functionality. The following changes have been made to the icons, panels, and buttons:
The icon for the panel menu has been moved from the upper-right corner of the panel to the panel tab, making the panel menu easier to discover.
The panel grabber and frame grabber icons have been removed; you can drag panels using the panel tab.
The close button (x) has been removed from all panels except the Timeline, Composition, Layer, Footage, Effect Controls, and Flowchart, and Render panels. In these panels, the close button has moved to the left side of the panel tab. To close a panel without the close button, open the panel menu or right-click on the panel tab and choose Close Panel, or use the keyboard shortcut, Command+W (Mac OS) or Ctrl+W (Windows).
The panel tabs for the Composition, Layer, Footage, Effect Controls, and Flowchart panels have been updated. Clicking the blue text of the composition, layer, or footage name in the tab will display the viewer menu.
The application's title bar now shows the full path to the project file.
Support for HiDPI display:
The latest release of After Effects CC includes HiDPI support for both content viewers and user interface scaling. This inclusion makes After Effects easier to use on high pixel density monitors.
User interface elements such as icons, text labels, pointers, and buttons now scale according to the display settings of the operating system. Mac OS computers with a Retina display scale to 200%. Windows computers with a HiDPI display scale to 150% or 200%.
After Effects CC now includes Cineware 2.0, which adds CINEMA 4D R16 compatibility. Cineware 2.0 includes the new Reflectance Channel, enables you to work with 3D elements faster, and provides improved layer support.
Automatic settings synchronization - The Synchronize Layer setting enables you to automatically synchronize your Cineware settings with all the layers in a composition. When you add multiple instances of a CINEMA 4D scene layer in a composition, including adding Multi-Pass layers, you will see a new checkbox, Synchronize Layer at the top of the Effect Controls panel. When the box is checked (default), the Cineware effect settings on all instances of the layer synchronize automatically. If the checkbox is disabled for a specific CINEMA 4D scene layer, then that layer's settings will not synchronize with the rest of the layers in the composition.
Default Layer support - The CINEMA 4D layers dialog displays a Default Layer option if the renderer supports it. Layers that have not been assigned to an explicit layer in the .c4d project files are displayed with the Default Layer enabled.
Content Browser support - When using a full retail version of CINEMA 4D R16 as the renderer, textures applied through installed content libraries (.lib4d files) are rendered in After Effects using Cineware.
Region of Interest - You can now render substitute composition regions using the Region Of Interest control in the composition panel. When a Region of Interest has been defined in the composition panel, and the Renderer control is set to Standard (Final), Cineware renders only what is inside the bounds of the region.
Collect Files: Collect Files now collects assets associated with .c4d footage items, such as textures.
Purge Memory - For complex scenes, the render server may use memory for internal caches. To free up the internal memory, click Purge Memory to extend the length of previews in After Effects. The Purge Memory option works only when the CINEMA 4D render path is set to one of the following:
The default render server Cineware R16.
A full retail version of CINEMA 4D R16 or later.
Copy with Relative Property Links:
There is a new command in the Edit menu, Copy With Relative Property Links. This command is similar to the existing Copy With Property Links command, except that it creates expressions that do not reference the source composition by name.
This command maintains a relative link between the layer with the expression and the composition containing that layer. Use this command when, for example, you want to move expression-rigged layers from one composition to another but let the layers reference a control layer only in the same composition.
Dynamic Link color management (Rec. 709 only):
When color management is enabled for an After Effects project, compositions viewed over Dynamic Link will be transformed using the Rec. 709 color profile. This prevents color or gamma shifts in the appearance of these compositions in Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder.
Dynamic Link always assumes that all incoming frames are in Rec. 709. In previous releases of After Effects, compositions in a color managed project were sent to Dynamic Link in the project's working color space; they were not adjusted for Dynamic Link's assumption of Rec. 709. This mismatch resulted in a noticeable color or gamma shift when the project's working color space was significantly different from Rec. 709 or when Linearize Working Space (under File > Project Settings) was enabled.
In the latest release of After Effects CC, a color transformation is applied to the composition as a last step before the images are passed to Dynamic Link for use in Premiere Pro or Adobe Media Encoder. This corrects the composition image to the color space used by Dynamic Link, similar to how the View > Enable Display Color Management option in After Effects corrects the image for your monitor.
Automatic encoding of After Effects projects using watch folders in Adobe Media Encoder:
If you copy an After Effects project (.aep) file into one of Adobe Media Encoder's watch folders, the compositions at the top level of the project (compositions that are not in folders in the Project panel) are automatically added to the Adobe Media Encoder encoding queue.
Support for native encoding and decoding of movies using GoPro CineForm codecs:
After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Adobe Media Encoder can natively decode and encode QuickTime (.mov) files using the GoPro Cineform codecs on Mac OS and Windows. This means that you do not need to install additional codecs to use and create such files.
Use this codec with the higher-quality settings, to send intermediate files from one application to the next application in a post-production pipeline. Movie files encoded with the GoPro Cineform codec at the higher quality settings include an alpha channel.
Miscellaneous updates:
The Anchor Point icon on selected layers has been enhanced for better contrast and visibility. The icon's hit area changes with the Path Point & Handle Size preference.
While tracking masks that are applied to an effect, the mask mode now no longer changes to None. This preserves the appearance of the masked effect during tracking.
Double-clicking a project in Finder or Explorer automatically closes the Welcome Screen dialog.
Use the new Browse Add-ons... command in the File menu to open the Adobe Add-ons page (formerly Adobe Exchange) in your web browser.
The new Adobe Color Themes replaces the previously named Adobe Kuler panel. Choose Window > Extensions > Adobe Color Themes to open this panel.
You can speed up VFX-heavy After Effects compositions using the new Render and Replace feature in Premiere Pro. This feature enables you to flatten After Effects compositions into video clips thus speeding up the performance of VFX-heavy sequences.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2014 13.0.2 (Aug 8, 2014)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2014 13.0 (Jun 19, 2014)

Key Cleaner effect and Advanced Spill Suppressor effect:
The Key Cleaner effect recovers alpha-channel detail from a scene keyed by a typical keying effect, including recovering detail lost due to compression artifacts.
The Advanced Spill Suppressor effect removes color spill on a foreground subject from a colored background used for color keying.
Starting with the 2014 version of After Effects, the Spill Suppressor effect has been moved to the Obsolete effects category. Users are recommended to use the Advanced Spill Suppressor effect instead.
Compositing Options (including effect masks):
The Compositing Options property group for each effect includes a new Effect Opacity property, which provides similar functionality as the Blend With Original compositing to every effect. The Effect Opacity allows you to blend between the effect results and the image without applying the effect. You can precisely apply any effect to a particular area of an image by masking and matting the desired area.
Importing masks from Premiere Pro:
When you import a clip from Premiere Pro that includes masks, the masks from Premiere Pro are preserved and converted to After Effects masks. This works for all methods of importing clips from Premiere Pro including:
Using the Replace With After Effects Composition command in Premiere Pro
Copying and pasting the sequence from Premiere Pro to After Effects
Importing a Premiere Pro project into After Effects.
Live text templates - Edit After Effects text templates in Premiere Pro:
You can create text template compositions in After Effects wherein the source text can be edited in Premiere Pro. Any composition with text layers can be used as a text template, and any unlocked text layers in that composition can be edited in Premiere Pro.
Video preview on external monitor using Mercury Transmit:
The Mercury Transmit system for video previews sends the contents of the Composition, Layer, or Footage panel to an external monitor. The external monitor can be one of the following:
A video monitor connected through third-party video hardware such as AJA, Blackmagic, and Matrox I/O devices
A DV device connected over FireWire
A computer monitor connected to your video display card via such as HDMI, DVI, VGA, or DisplayPort.
Add fonts from Typekit in After Effects:
You can download and install hundreds of fonts from within After Effects CC through the integration of Typekit in the June 2014 release of After Effects CC. Click File > Add Fonts from Typekit.. to launch the Typekit website.
Integration of Kuler panel into After Effects:
The Kuler panel that is integrated into After Effects CC is one of the first instances of an HTML5 CEP panel built for After Effects. Using the Kuler panel, you can :
Browse color themes that other users have shared through Creative Cloud
Load color themes from your own library on Creative Cloud
Create color themes on your iPhone or in your browser using various color models.
HTML5 panels using CEP infrastructure:
After Effects now includes the CEP (Common Extensibility Platform) infrastructure for loading and using HTML5 panels. These panels have access to the entire After Effects scripting object model in addition to being able to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Hence a very wide variety of extensions can be created using this system.
Improvements to Curves effect user interface:
The primary user interface element in the Curves effect (the curves themselves) is now resizable using buttons immediately above the curves.
New improvements have the following advantages:
Click one of the three sizing icons at the top of the effect to adjust screen sizes.
Channels will show separately and concurrently in White, Red Green Blue, and Gray(alpha).
Channel selection is automatic when a curve or vertex is clicked to add or move a point.
The curves are drawn more smoothly.
Auto Adjustment in Curves effect
To adjust the curves in the Curves effect automatically, click the Auto button beneath the curves in the Effect Controls panel.
Supported file formats:
Sony RAW files (raw footage files from F5, F55, and F65 cameras)
MPEG-4 SStP (Simple Studio Profile) Sony SR MXF files
indexed-color PNG files and grayscale PNG files with transparency
Photoshop Large Document (.psb) files
CMYK JPEG files
RED EPIC Dragon 6K files
Cinema 4D (.c4d) 3D scene files
DNxHD MXF OP1a and Op-Atom files
QuickTime (.mov) files using DNxHD codecs (without installing additional codecs)
QuickTime (.mov) files using ProRes codecs (without installing additional codecs) on Mac OS
XAVC (Sony 4K)
AVC-Intra 200
Miscellaneous updates:
Use File > Save As > Save A Copy As CC (12) to save a project as a copy for the previous version. To open a project created in the latest version of After Effects in After Effects CS6, you have to save back from After Effects CC (12). See Save and backup projects for detailed information.
You can now import raw files from Sony F5, F55, and F65 cameras into After Effects. As with ARRIRAW files, the source settings are not carried over when transferring a clip from Premiere Pro to After Effects.
After Effects CC now installs mocha-AE version 3.2.1. Previous versions of After Effects CC installed mocha-AE v3.1.0. See the release notes (pdf) on the Imagineer Systems website for details of what's new in mocha-AE v3.2.
You cannot export to the following formats in the 2014 version of After Effects CC. However, you can still import these file formats into After Effects.
FLV/F4V
MPEG-2
H.264
WMV
SWF

New in Adobe After Effects CC 12.2.1 (Feb 14, 2014)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 12.2 (Dec 14, 2013)

New:
Auto-save enabled by default
file name and location templates, plus automatic creation of folders for image sequences
settings migration
snapping improvements: shape layers, cameras, and lights
option for creating shape layers based on Bezier paths
command for converting a parametric shape layer path to a Bezier path
new version of OptiX library and new behavior of OptiX library loading and initialization
plus many miscellaneous new and changed features and bug fixes, detailed below
Auto-save enabled by default:
The Automatically Save Projects preference in the auto-save category is now on by default.
Note: An even better approach than relying on auto-save is to use the File > Increment And Save command regularly and habitually. The Increment And Save command has a couple of advantages: it allows you to determine exactly when to save, and it does not overwrite previous saved versions. Once you have developed that habit of using Increment And Save, you may choose to turn off auto-save. (That’s what I do.)
File name and location templates, plus automatic creation of folders for image sequences:
The output file name templates feature has been extended to now include output paths. As part of setting up an output module, you can specify a folder in which to place the output file(s), and this can be a folder that After Effects will create at output time.
There is a new preset output file name and location template, called ‘Comp Folder and Comp Name’.
There is a new projectFolder element in the Add Property menu in the File Name And Location Template dialog box. Adding the projectFolder element to a file name and location template specifies that that output file should be placed in the same folder as the one in which the project is saved.
For example, the following template specifies that the output file file should be placed in a folder named ‘output’ inside the project folder, and that the name of the output file should begin with ‘final_’ and end with the composition name followed by a dot and the file-name extension:
[projectFolder]/output/final_[compName].[fileextension]
You can also use the .. operator to go up one level in a path. For example, the following template specifies that the output file file should be placed in a folder named ‘output’ that is next to the project folder, and that the name of the output file should begin with the composition name, followed by ‘_matte’, followed by a dot and the file-name extension:
[projectFolder]/../output/[compName]_matte.[fileextension]
Also, when you are specifying an output file name and location through the Output Movie To dialog box, you can choose the Save In Subfolder option to create a new subfolder at output time.
Image sequences and movie files have different defaults for output file name and location templates, with the primary difference being that image sequences will be placed into subfolders. When you choose an image sequence output module template, if your current file name and location template is the default, then After Effects will switch to using the ‘Comp Folder and Comp Name’ template, which will create a new folder for the image sequence.
Settings migration:
You can migrate settings from a previous minor version of After Effects. For After Effects CC (12.2), you can migrate settings from After Effects CC (12.0) or After Effects CC (12.1).
To initiate the settings migration at any time, click the Migrate Previous Version Settings button at the bottom of the Preferences dialog box (in the General category).
When you initiate the settings migration, After Effects checks to see whether there are settings folders on the computer for 12.0 and 12.1. For each version for which a settings folder is found, After Effects presents a button with the respective version number, as well as a Do Not Migrate button. If you click one of the buttons corresponding to a previous version, then After Effects will copy and process the appropriate settings files from the previous version’s settings folder into the 12.2 settings folder. To complete the process and load the migrated settings, you need to restart After Effects, so After Effects prompts you to quit and restart.
When you start After Effects CC (12.2) for the first time with default settings, After Effects will automatically initiate the settings migration process.
Settings that are migrated include the following:
preferences
interpretation rules
workspaces
render settings templates
output module settings templates
composition settings templates
keyboard shortcuts (migrated from version 12.1, but not from version 12.0)
user scripts (i.e., scripts saved in the Scripts folder in the user’s settings folder)
Snapping improvements: shape layers, cameras, and lights:
Beginning with After Effects CC (12.0), you have been able to snap various layer features to one another by dragging in the Composition panel.
After Effects CC (12.2) adds shape layer paths, bounding boxes for shapes within shape layers, cameras, and lights to the list of items that you can snap together by dragging in the Composition panel.
When you click near a shape layer path, After Effects will use a point on that path that is nearest to where you clicked as the snapping point, very much as with masks.
You can snap a shape in one shape layer to a shape in another shape layer, but you can’t snap shapes within one shape layer to one another. If you need to snap two shapes together, they must be in separate shape layers.
One quick and useful trick is to snap a light layer to a camera layer, so that you can effectively “look through” a light or simply illuminate wherever your camera is pointing.
New version of OptiX library and new behavior of OptiX library loading and initialization:
After Effects CC (12.2) integrates a new version of the Nvidia OptiX library, which fixes some crashes related to the ray-traced 3D renderer. Also, this library is now loaded and initialized when the ray-traced 3D renderer is used for the first time, rather than when the application starts. This reduces the time that the application takes to start, as well as preventing users who don’t use the ray-traced 3D renderer from being exposed to any problems that might remain with this renderer.
Option for creating shape layers based on Bezier paths:
When a shape tool (Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Polygon, Star, or Ellipse tool) is active, you can use the new Bezier Path option in the Tools panel to create a new shape based on a Bezier path, as opposed to the default of creating a new shape based on a parametric path. Holding the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key while drawing a shape causes the opposite behavior—i.e., if the Bezier Path option is enabled, holding the Alt or Option key causes the shape tool to create a parametric path; if the Bezier Path option is disabled, holding the Alt or Option key causes the shape tool to create a Bezier path.
Command for converting a parametric shape layer path to a Bezier path:
You can convert a parametric path to a Bezier path after the parametric path has already been created by context-clicking (right-clicking or Control-clicking on Mac OS) the property group for the parametric path (e.g., Rectangle Path 1) and choosing the Convert To Bezier Path command from the context menu. If the parametric path is animated (keyframed), the converted Bezier path is a static path based on the parametric path at the current time; keyframes are lost.
IMPORTANT: When you use the Convert To Bezier Path command to convert a parametric shape path to a Bezier shape path, the Bezier path that is created does not animate well (i.e., interpolation between paths behaves strangely and unpredictably). This is related to path direction and how transformations are stored. For now, you should not use these converted paths for animated paths (interpolation between paths); but, if you do want to try, you may be able to work around the issues by reversing the path before conversion.
Miscellaneous new and changed features:
The Reload Footage command now attempts to reload items that were previously missing (e.g., because a drive volume needed to be mounted).
The Channel Mixer effect is now a 32bpc effect.
If you drag and drop a script (.jsx or .jsxbin) file onto the Project panel, it will be placed in the user’s Scripts folder. (Note: The standard Scripts folder in the Applications or Program Files directory is still a better place to install scripts, since scripts in the user’s folder can be deleted when clearing preferences, et cetera.)
Layer names are not forced to be unique. When using the Copy With Property Links command or using the expression pick whip, layer names are still made to be unique.
You can move effect control points in the Mesh Warp effect using the arrow keys.
The Brush Size properties in the Stroke effect and in the Write-on effect now have a maximum value of 200, rather than the previous maximum value of 50.
Purging the disk cache for the current version also purges the disk cache for other minor versions within the same major version (e.g., purging from within After Effects 12.2 also purges After Effects 12.0 and 12.1 disk caches).
The default value for the Zoom Quality preference in the Viewer Quality section of the Previews preferences is now More Accurate, rather than the previous value of More Accurate Except RAM Preview.
The minimum size at which the region of interest (ROI) can be drawn with an initial click or drag is 25×25 pixels. This prevents accidental creation of a hidden ROI box.
When you open the color picker dialog box, the text field for the hexadecimal color value is selected. This enables rapid copying, pasting, and manual entry of color values.
Negative times can now be used in composition settings, and negative times can be represented in the Timeline panel.
The Auto-keyframe button has been removed from the default state of the Timeline panel. You can enter auto-keyframe mode by choosing Enable Auto-keyframe from the Timeline panel menu.
A few choice bug fixes:
Fixed a lot of bugs in this update. Here are a few that I think are especially worth calling out:
Red frames in renders for preview or final export when using ProRes media. This is fixed.
Cycore (CC) effect plug-ins have been updated to fix a bug with the CC Power Pin effect’s UI drawing incorrectly.
The Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse plug-in has been updated to address several bugs, as well as to make installation and activation easier on render-only systems.
Fixed Three-Way Color Corrector effect exchange with Premiere Pro.
Fixed cause of crashes when using Auto Contrast effect or Auto Levels effect.
Fixed crashes on application startup caused by OptiX library for ray-traced 3D renderer. This update, like the After Effects CC (12.1) update, includes a version of the OptiX library that allows After Effects to start on Mac OS X v10.9 (Mavericks) without crashing. The After Effects CC (12.2) update has additional fixes, including better handling of VRAM.
The Detail-Preserving Upscale effect would sometimes render transparent frames or crash with very large scale values. This is fixed.
After Effects would hang when conforming audio from a sequence served by headless Premiere Pro over Dynamic Link. This is fixed.
After Effects hung when importing a Premiere Pro sequence containing a universal counting leader. This is fixed.
If you had certain fonts disabled, After Effects would fail to start, giving the error ‘Unable to load font “^0″ “Helvetica Neue”‘. This has been fixed.
After Effects CC (12.1) had problems with zooming with the scrollwheel on Mac OS. These problems are fixed.
After Effects would give the error message “Unable to allocate 0.000 MB of memory” or “Unable to allocate 0.003 MB of memory” (or similar) when there was plenty of RAM available. This has been fixed.
Changing the file format to After Effects Template in the project save dialog box on Mac OS did not correctly change the file-name extension to .aet. This is fixed.
A custom value for Starting Number in Output Module Settings was not saved; always reset to zero. This is fixed
Fixed several other causes of crashes and errors.

New in Adobe After Effects CC 12.1 (Nov 1, 2013)

TOP NEW FEATURES IN AFTER EFFECTS CC (12.1):
mask tracker
Detail-preserving Upscale effect
improved performance for analysis phase for 3D Camera Tracker and Warp Stabilizer effects
property linking
HiDPI content viewers for Retina displays on Mac computers
improved snapping behavior, including snapping beyond layer boundaries and to internal wireframes
OptiX 3.0 library for GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer
improved Cinema 4D integration
Adobe Anywhere integration and an early preview of the Media Browser panel
(NEARLY) ALL NEW AND CHANGED FEATURES IN AFTER EFFECTS CC (12.1):
mask tracker
improved performance for analysis phase for 3D Camera Tracker and Warp Stabilizer effects
Detail-preserving Upscale effect
bicubic sampling option in Transform effect
OptiX 3.0 library for GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer
OpenGL features enabled for all Intel GPUs
preference for bypassing whitelist for GPU acceleration of ray-traced 3D renderer
property linking
option when precomposing to trim precomposition duration to duration of selected layers
layers created immediately above topmost selected layer
user-defined location for Auto-save
improvements to keyboard shortcuts for showing properties with keyframes, expressions
command for moving anchor point to center of content
mask path drawn using color that differs from region in which first click to draw mask is made
improved Cinema 4D integration, with updated Cineware functionality
HiDPI content viewers for Retina displays on Mac computers
snapping beyond layer edges, to align layers in 2D and 3D space along lines defined by layer features
rectified audio waveforms
added iris and highlight properties for camera layers to the expression language menu
automatically opening and closing folders in Project panel when dragging
default number of Undo operations available increased from 32 to 99, and preference removed from user interface
commands for turning logging on and off and for revealing log files
new Enable QuickTime Video Preview preference in Video Preview preferences category on Mac OS
better error message for duplicate plug-ins
better expression error messages
removal of extraneous warnings regarding missing custom effects
Adobe Anywhere integration
cards added to CUDA whitelist for Optix (for GPU acceleration of ray-traced 3D renderer):
GTX TITAN (Windows)
GTX 780 (Windows)
GTX 770 (Windows)
GTX 760 (Windows)
GTX 680MX (Mac OS and Windows)
GTX 680 (added for Mac OS; was already on Windows list)
GTX 675MX (Mac OS and Windows)
GT 650M (added for Windows; was already on Mac OS list)
GTX 590 (Windows)
Quadro K6000 (Windows)
Quadro K4000 (Windows)
Quadro K2000 (Windows)
Quadro K5000M (Windows)
Quadro K4000M (Windows)
Quadro K3000M (Windows)
Quadro K5100M (Windows)
Quadro K4100M (Windows)
Quadro K3100M (Windows)
Quadro K2100M (Windows)
MISCELLANEOUS NEW AND CHANGED FEATURES:
The preference Write XMP IDs To Files On Import (in the Media & Disk Cache preferences category) is now disabled by default.
The Color Key effect and Luma Key effect are now in the Obsolete category. (In most cases, you should be using superior effects such as Keylight and the Extract effect.)
The Create Shapes From Vector Layer command works on multiple selected layers.
The Cycle Mask Colors preference is enabled by default.
The Viewer Quality preferences are set to More Accurate Except RAM Preview by default, rather than Faster (which wasn’t all that much faster and looked bad).
The kerning option in the Character panel persists so that you no longer need to set the kerning option in the Character panel to Optical every time you want to use this option.
In previous versions of After Effects, if you made a change to the composition while the composition view was not centered (e.g., because you used the Hand tool to look at another part of the composition), the composition view would become centered after the change. This forced you to drag again with the Hand tool to get back to the part of the composition that you were looking at. This is fixed. Of course, if the change made to the composition affects the size or aspect ratio of the composition, it will still be re-centered.
Freezing the segmentation for the Roto Brush & Refine Matte effect operates on all spans withing the entire composition duration, instead of only within the work area.
Wireframes for cameras and lights are shown by default, even when these layers not selected.
After Effects now gives a better message and an alert sound when you try to open a layer in the Layer panel that can’t be opened there (e.g., precomposition layer with collapsed transformations, continuously rasterized layer, shape layer).
Indexed-color PNG files and grayscale PNG files with transparency can be imported.
Photoshop Large Document (.psb) files can be imported.
CMYK JPEG files can be imported.
Dashes and gaps are now explicitly numbered (Dash 2, Gap 2, …) when adding multiple dashes and gaps to a shape layer stroke. (This makes referring to them with expressions easier.)
The Brightness & Contrast effect has been improved and now matches the filter in Photoshop. You can still choose to use the legacy algorithm, which allows HDR results.
You can now open a dialog box for editing values for 3D Point Control effect (by context-clicking and choosing Edit Value).
There are significant performance improvements in propagation for Roto Brush and Refine Matte effects.
The layer index number is now shown in the menu for choosing a target for motion tracking data (opened with Edit Target button in the Tracker panel).
The correct name of the 3D renderer is shown for third-party renderers (e.g., AtomKraft).
Added Center property for shape layer Twist path operation.
There is now an improved error message telling people to update their CUDA drivers.
When converting a layer based on an Illustrator file to a shape layer, the Video (eyeball) switch of the original layer is turned off only if the conversion is successful.
Improvements to Shift-parenting behavior when the target layer already has a parent layer.
Improved performance with imported DPX image sequence read over network.
Ability to use the RED Rocket-X and EPIC Dragon footage.
A FEW CHOICE BUG FIXES:
Between clicking a menu to open it and the menu actually opening, several seconds could elapse on some computers. The same problem occurred for keyboard shortcuts. This is fixed.
Crashes using Timecode effect, Basic Text effect, and Numbers effect. These are fixed.
Crash with message “After Effects error: CT bad param: TrueType or CFF font expected (83 :: 2)”. This is fixed.
Custom output modules were ignored by aerender and lost when the full After Effects application was started. This is fixed.
Crash because of missing interface font, with message saying unable to load or unable to create font (Verdana or Arial). This is fixed.
Exported DPX files had wrong results when negative color values present in composition. This is fixed.
Performance with DPX files being read across a network was poor. This is fixed.
CC Force Motion Blur and CC Wide Time caused very long delays, making the application appear to hang. These are fixed.
Crash using Timewarp effect on Mac OSX v10.9 (Mavericks). This is fixed.
Error “Unable to invert matrix (17::45)” when using the snapping features. This is fixed.
scripting: The onClose callback wasn’t called when closing an embedded panel using the close (x) button on the panel’s tab. It works now.
scripting: Scrollbars in ScriptUI panels were drawn in the wrong place under some circumstances. This is fixed.
Many other causes of crashes and other errors and misbehaviors were fixed.

New in Adobe After Effects CS6 11.0.3 (Oct 4, 2013)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 12.0.0.404 (Jun 19, 2013)

A more connected After Effects:
After Effects CC is part of Creative Cloud. That means you have access to all the latest updates and future releases the moment they're available. Sharpen your skills and master new tools with a rich library of training videos. And Creative Cloud is integrated with Behance, so you can share your projects and get immediate feedback from creatives around the world.
Live 3D Pipeline:
Objects and scenes from popular 3D modeling and animation software CINEMA 4D can be used directly as footage inside After Effects CC without rendering first. This eases roundtripping between the programs and opens up numerous creative possibilities.
Refine Edge tool:
It's the end of hard matte lines. Keep the details when separating complicated foreground elements like frizzy hair or motion-blurred edges from complex backgrounds. This means you can create natural-looking composites without keying specially shot footage.
Warp Stabilizer VFX:
A major upgrade to the much-loved Warp Stabilizer, VFX adds the ability to choose which objects within a scene get stabilized, reverse a stabilization, and preserve a scene’s original scale to fix tricky shots such as aerial fly-throughs.
3D Camera Tracker:
The 3D Camera Tracker makes it possible to reproduce the original camera movement in a scene so you can add new layers - including video and text layers. It also now features much-requested Track Optimization, so you can refine tracking points over time.
Global Performance Cache:
Create more in less time, even in high-resolution projects. With Global Performance Cache, your previews are saved and ready when you are, even if you close a project and open it later. Duplicate compositions and undo edits without waiting for After Effects to catch up.
Optimized and accelerated:
Inspiration doesn't like to wait. That's why After Effects crunches pixels using multiple processors and has improved support for NVIDIA GPUs. It's a full 64-bit application that uses all the RAM your OS allows, for caches and to render multiple frames simultaneously.
Pixel Motion Blur:
Add or enhance motion blur for moving objects in live footage and rendered scenes. You can use this effect to add realism, exaggerate movement, match shots, and make stuttery footage easier to watch.
Text and shape layers:
A powerful typesetting and text animation engine lets you craft titles from classic to manic, in either 2D or ray-traced extruded 3D. Define, draw, and animate vector shapes to create almost anything from a lower-third bar to animated characters.
Essential bundled software:
After Effects CC includes CINEMA 4D Lite for 3D animation, the award-winning Keylight for color keying work, the popular motion tracker mocha for After Effects, and the powerful color correction tool Color Finesse. Plus Cycore FX HD adds dozens of creative effects.
Rich developer community:
After Effects is a media creation and processing platform that can be extended with hundreds of third-party effects and file format plug-ins. Download and install scripts created by fellow users to automate a variety of essential tasks.
Deep, accurate color:
See all of your sources as originally intended. Manage your source, monitor, and destination color spaces with color management and LUT support. Work at multiple bit depths, including 32-bit floating point, and well as linear gamma.
Bicubic resampling:
Whether you’re scaling a layer up or down, you can make sure every pixel looks its best with your choice of bilinear and bicubic resampling algorithms.
Motion control tools:
Choose from a variety of options for controlling and smoothing motion within your shots, including a graph editor, subpixel positioning, motion blur, and frame blending. Multiple motion trackers and stabilizers are also available.
Support for multiple dimensions:
Work smoothly in 2D, 2.5D, and extruded 3D spaces. You can even combine 2D and 3D in the same composition. Use native 3D tools, and import data such as camera position from a variety of dedicated 3D applications.
Hundreds of effects:
If you can imagine an effect, After Effects can help you create it. Hundreds of plug-ins let you add blurs, shadows, distortions, particles, colorizations, transitions, and much more. Effect presets help you get the results you're looking for, fast.
Tools to mask, key, and rotoscope:
There’s more than one way to cut an alpha channel. That’s why After Effects includes a variety of color keyers as well as the revolutionary Roto Brush, which automatically finds the edges of objects. You also get masks with variable-width feathering, and more.
Streamlined user interface:
More tasks are now streamlined. Locate missing fonts and effects in your compositions so you can relink or replace them quickly. New layer and mask snapping behavior makes aligning both 2D and 3D objects much simpler, without needing to calculate and type in values.
Animation presets:
Save time by using hundreds of presets to generate text animations, backgrounds, shapes, lower thirds, transitions, and more. Plus you can create and save your own. There are even behavior-style presets for automatic movements.
Expression and scripting languages:
Write expressions that can control virtually every parameter stream in the After Effects timeline to coordinate animations across layers or even compositions. Create scripts to automate broader functions and streamline repetitive actions.
Paint and clone tools:
Use vector-based brushes to clone, erase, and paint over any portion of your image. Animate brush strokes to create hand-drawn effects. You can use your Wacom tablet as well, including pressure support.
Avid AAF and FCP 7 XML import:
Pro Import AE makes it possible to work with files created in Apple Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier versions, as well as Avid Media Composer and Symphony. This lets you integrate After Effects with a wider range of professional production workflows.
Support for multiple media types:
Mix media from multiple sources, including industry standards like QuickTime and CinemaDNG, as well as vendor-specific formats such as AVC-Intra, XDCAM, and RED raw files. Pair After Effects with Adobe Media Encoder CC to deliver your masterpiece to multiple devices.
Frame-accurate audio support:
After Effects offers multi-track audio support, including the ability to mix, process, and even generate animations from your soundtracks. Extend these powers with Adobe Audition, also in Creative Cloud, for more sophisticated audio editing chores.
Adobe Anywhere integration:
Work in a group? Adobe Anywhere for video provides an innovative new way to collaborate with other After Effects users on the same project. (Integration expected in 2013; requires separate purchase and implementation.)

New in Adobe After Effects CS6 11.0.2 (Oct 12, 2012)

Changes to GPU functionality in this update:
three additions to the list of Nvidia GPUs that After Effects will use for CUDA acceleration of the ray-traced 3D renderer: GeForce GT 650M, the card used in newer MacBook Pro computers (Mac OS), GeForce GTX 670 (Windows), GeForce GTX 690 (Windows) Note: An additional delay (approximately one minute) will occur the first time that you start After Effects with a Kepler-class GPU as the new ray-traced 3D library is initialized. Installation of updated display drivers may require this initialization step again.
Intel HD Graphics 4000 chipset added to the list of devices that After Effects will use for level 2 GPU functionality (Fast Draft, Hardware BlitPipe, and GPU acceleration of Cartoon effect) on Mac OS. This functionality was added for the Intel HD Graphics 4000 chipset on Windows with the After Effects CS6 (11.0.1) update.
New memory handling preference:
After Effects CS6 (11.0.2) has a new preference in the Memory & Multiprocessing category: Reduce Cache Size When System Is Low On Memory. The new preference in After Effects CS6 (11.0.2) gives you the ability to choose whether to keep the After Effects CS6 (11.0.0 and 11.0.1) behavior of performing the strict check and never swapping or allowing swapping to sometimes occur and not performing this strict check.
Bugs fixed in this update:
In After Effects CS6 (11.0.0 and 11.0.1), Reduce Project would retain any composition that had ever been referred to by the selected composition in an expression, even if that reference had since been removed. The change in After Effects CS6 (11.0.2) returns the behavior of Reduce Project to that of After Effects CS5.5 and earlier.
Fixed issues with refractions through extruded objects not rendering correctly using the ray-traced 3D renderer. For example, when a ray passed through an object with two parallel faces (like passing through a plate of glass), the ray did not exit at the correct angle (i.e., at the same angle as it entered). This meant that items on the far side of the object with parallel faces would seem magnified or distorted rather than simply offset.
Fixed scaling issues relating to lights and shadows when light layer parented to another layer.
Fixed expression error when using the activeCamera expression method if the composition includes an instance of the Trapcode Particular effect.
Fixed difference in rendered result between ray-traced 3D renderer and Classic 3D renderer when using time-remapping on precomposition layer with collapsed transformations.
After Effects icon in Mac OS dock grew to twice normal width and height when rendering a RAM preview on a MacBook Pro with Retina display.
Exporting a composition or layer containing references to a PSD file with groups of layers to Premiere Pro didn’t work.
Adjusting a path for 3D extruded text on a path was very difficult or impossible.
Rendering a precomposition layer with collapsed transformations and motion blur was taking a very long time.
Fixed occasional glitches when using Mask Expansion property for variable-width mask feather.
AA keyboard shortcut was not expanding the Options property group for an environment layer.
When previewing in Fast Draft mode at a zoom level other than 100%, track matte jumped out of position.
Shadow catchers and layers set to appear in reflections only were not rendered correctly in Fast Draft mode.
Light emission pattern was ignored when rendering shadows with lights that that have falloff.
Lights and shadows didn’t render correctly in a composition using the ray-traced 3D renderer with multiple lights.
Fixed incorrect rendering of shadows on shadow catcher layer with spotlight.
Fixed error message “Attempt to get an item from a position outside of list length (27::12)” when adding a path to a shape layer.
Dragging the anchor point while zoomed in was difficult or impossible.
“Ray-traced 3D: Ray tracer failed to launch. 5070::00″ error message and composition rendered blank if a mask extended outside the layer.
Depth-of-field blur rendered incorrectly with iris roundness values below 99%.
Phase control for Wave Warp effect was only functioning for values between 0 and 1.
Fixed pixelation when CC Sphere effect used in 32-bpc project.
Fixed problems when rendering interlaced video when layer has one of several Cycore (CC) effects applied.
Masks pasted from mocha-AE were not correct if they contained bezier curves with manual keyframes.
Fixed various other crashes and errors.

New in Adobe After Effects CS6 11.0.1 (May 26, 2012)

Features added or changed in this update:
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 (a new Kepler-class GPU) can now be used for GPU acceleration of the ray-traced 3D renderer on Windows.
Note: An additional delay (approximately one minute) will occur the first time that you start After Effects with a Kepler-class GPU as the new ray-traced 3D library is initialized. Installation of updated display drivers may require this initialization step again.
Enabled basic support for the AtomKraft composition renderer (requires plug-ins from Jupiter Jazz).
Bugs fixed in this update:
Several bugs with the global performance cache were fixed, which were causing the cache to not be invalidated at some times when it should have been. This meant that sometimes old, invalid image information was being read from the cache and used instead of re-rendering when an aspect of the composition had changed.
If you encounter a remaining bug of this sort, purging the cache will generally fix the problem (choosing Edit > Purge > All Image Memory to clear RAM cache and Empty Disk Cache in Media & Disk Cache preferences to clear disk cache). If you encounter such a bug after installing this update, let us know by submitting a detailed bug report, being especially certain to list any third-party effects used.
One remaining known issue of this sort relates to font substitution: If you load a project with a missing font, After Effects will substitute a placeholder font. If you then install the missing font, After Effects may not update cached image information with the new font. So, if you install a font after loading a project for which that font was reported as missing, purge the cache to force the cached image information to be updated with the new font.
Effects that use the composition camera (e.g., Shatter) did not render correctly in orthogonal and custom views, or when changing the active camera.
After Effects would crash when evaluating some expressions, including expressions added by the Ease & Wizz script, expressions using the this keyword, in-line functions, and nested functions.
After Effects was returning an error “After Effects Error: Ray Traced 3D: … (5070::0)” under various circumstances. Several of these have been isolated and fixed. If you get such an error message after installing this update, let us know by submitting a detailed bug report.
Crash on quit if Nvidia cards running in Maximus configuration are running in TCC mode (on Windows).
Crash using 3D Camera Tracker effect.
Crash resetting Puppet effect.
Unexpected results using Mask Feather tool in various circumstances.
Black frames appeared in MXF footage from Canon EOS C300 camera.
Canon 5D MKIII 720p footage was imported with the wrong timecode.
Error occurred when setting a proxy to a nested composition: “After Effects error: Internal verification failure, sorry! {Src and dest bitdepths are different in PF_World::CopyRect} (37::109)”
Snapping and using the J and K keys to move to keyframes and other items in the Graph Editor didn’t work.
Using the Clone Stamp tool expanded property groups in the Timeline panel.
SDK: The AUTOMATIC_WIDE_TIME flag was not working correctly with the NON_PARAM_VARY flag.
SDK: The AUTOMATIC_WIDE_TIME flag was returning an empty region when attempting to check out a layer at the current time.

Adobe After Effects Changelog

What's new in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.3

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.2 (Feb 7, 2024)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.1 (Dec 5, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.0.2 (Oct 31, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 24.0 (Oct 11, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.6 (Aug 9, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.5 (Jun 20, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.4 (May 9, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.3 (Mar 28, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.2.1 (Feb 23, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.2 (Feb 7, 2023)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.1 (Dec 6, 2022)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2023 23.0 (Oct 19, 2022)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.6 (Aug 23, 2022)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.5 (Jun 21, 2022)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.4 (May 10, 2022)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.3 (Apr 12, 2022)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.2.1 (Mar 8, 2022)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2022 22.2 (Feb 8, 2022)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 22.1.1 (Dec 14, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 22.0.1 (Nov 11, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 22.0 (Oct 26, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.4.1 (Aug 17, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.4 (Jul 20, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.2.1 (Jun 8, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.2 (May 11, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.1 (Apr 13, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.0.1 (Mar 17, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 18.0 (Mar 10, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 17.7 (Feb 9, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2021 17.6.0.46 (Jan 14, 2021)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.5.1.47 (Nov 17, 2020)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.5.0.40 (Oct 21, 2020)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.1.4.37 (Sep 17, 2020)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.1.1.34 (Jun 16, 2020)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.0.6.35 (Apr 14, 2020)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2019 16.1 (Apr 5, 2019)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2018 16.0.1 (Dec 11, 2018)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2018 16.0 (Oct 16, 2018)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2018 15.0.1 (Apr 3, 2018)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2018 15.0.0 (Oct 18, 2017)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017.2.1 14.2.1 (Jun 13, 2017)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017.2 14.2.0.198 (May 4, 2017)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017.1 14.2.0 (Apr 19, 2017)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017 14.1.0 (Jan 19, 2017)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017.0 14.0.1 (Nov 17, 2016)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2017.0 14.0.0.207 (Nov 2, 2016)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2015.3 13.8.0.144 (Jun 21, 2016)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2015.2 13.7.1.6 (Apr 6, 2016)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2015.2 13.7.0.124 (Jan 28, 2016)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2015.1 (Dec 1, 2015)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2015.0.1 13.5.1.48 (Jul 28, 2015)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2014.2 13.2 (Dec 17, 2014)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2014.1 13.1.0.111 (Oct 6, 2014)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2014 13.0.2 (Aug 8, 2014)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 2014 13.0 (Jun 19, 2014)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 12.2.1 (Feb 14, 2014)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 12.2 (Dec 14, 2013)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 12.1 (Nov 1, 2013)

New in Adobe After Effects CS6 11.0.3 (Oct 4, 2013)

New in Adobe After Effects CC 12.0.0.404 (Jun 19, 2013)

New in Adobe After Effects CS6 11.0.2 (Oct 12, 2012)

New in Adobe After Effects CS6 11.0.1 (May 26, 2012)

New in Adobe After Effects CS6 11.0.0.378 (May 8, 2012)

New in Adobe After Effects CS5.5 10.5.1 (Jun 30, 2011)

New in Adobe After Effects CS5 10.0 (Apr 30, 2010)

New in Adobe After Effects 7.0 (Dec 16, 2006)