Adobe has released a new version of After Effects, adding several new features including:
- Master Properties that enables users to control selected parameters of layers inside a nested composition from within the main timeline. To access a property it is added to the new Essential Graphics Panel.
- Advanced puppet tool, that adds smoother deformation and new features to the original version including
- The ability to preview VR compositions in HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Rift and others.
- Improved output quality for the VR Plane to sphere effect.
- A property link pick whip for wiring together parameters. An expression to link together properties is created automatically.
- The ability to open a motion graphics template as a project.
- Improvements to Data Driven animations including support for CSV and TSV.
- A new GPU accelerated Video Limited effect that restricts the signal to a broadcast legal range.
- The ability to install custom LUT files for the Lumetric effect.
- Several other improvements to performance and format support.
After Effects is available as part of Creative Cloud rental. Find out more about the release on Adobe’s help pages.
Not tested it yet myself but seems like a great update! This will hopefully help forget the past 25 years of workarounds. 🙂 Love this app regardless!
One potential teeth snapper: they have updated some blending modes….:
“Note:
If you render projects saved in earlier versions of After Effects, the results might look different as they use the new blending modes.”
This is an interesting aspect of rental licensing and continual updates going into the future . If your unable to go back a few versions of legacy, then there is a good likelihood that old projects once re-opened, will look different.
True, but as for now you can still install old versions up to CS6
Yeah fair enough, it’s just one of those changes you want as many people to know about as possible…nothing worse than a Friday night deadline, you just had to re-render an old sequence from a project built by somebody you’ve never met, you’ve gone for a pint in Soho and someone is calling you up at 21:30 saying they are at the grade with the clients and it all looks mental. You head back to the office you are freelancing at, which uses Macs for some reason (is that it? some gamma issue? no.) You’ve no idea what it is. Your nice night is ruined.
This will happen to somebody.
Hopefully they read this article and subsequent comments and get back out in time for last orders.