After Effects is the industry-leading motion graphics creation and layout software used by many visual effects and motion graphics developers.
It offers great control features, a wide range of creative tools, and the ability to integrate with other video post-production applications.
Make the impossible possible with the new, more versatile After Effects® software.
Experience powerful new features such as Live 3D Pipeline, which lets you use CINEMA 4D scenes as layers – without intermediate rendering.
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Team Projects is a new collaboration service that is part of Adobe Anywhere technology that allows editors to easily collaborate on real-time editing. With Team Projects, editors and motion graphics artists can collaborate on projects simultaneously in Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC, and Adobe Prelude CC without the need for additional hardware. Team project data is stored securely in the cloud, and media files referenced in a project are stored in local source files or shared lightweight proxies. Team Projects also includes special collaboration features such as version control and smart conflict resolution.
New 3D composition renderer: CINEMA 4D. This release of After Effects includes a new 3D renderer that uses Maxon’s Cinema 4D rendering technology. Now you can quickly create 3D text and logos without the use of special equipment, bend planes and extrude 3D text and shapes directly on the timeline. A simplified workflow for working with 3D objects allows you to easily control quality and rendering settings with a single slider using the same camera, lighting and text animation tools.
Productivity increase. Based on the new high-performance architecture introduced in the latest version, the new release improves performance and some internal features that speed up operations with faster and smarter GPU processing. Most video footage can now be played in real time before applying effects without waiting for caching to occur.
More GPU-accelerated effects. Performance improvements in this release include more GPU-accelerated effects. The following effects are now GPU accelerated: Brightness and Contrast, Edge Enhancement, Hue/Saturation, Mosaic, Glow, Hue, and Invert.
Improved workflow with interactive text templates. Currently, you can only share interactive text templates with Premiere Pro users by providing a complete project file with the appropriate assets. With this release, you can save a composition, along with its assets, in a single, easy-to-share file format that contains everything your editor needs. Simply save the composition as a text template using the Composition > Export as Text Template menu item, and the editor can work with the template and assets in Premiere Pro.
Character Animator scenes in After Effects using Dynamic Link. You can now open Character Animator scenes directly in After Effects or Premiere Pro and keep an active connection to the original scene in Character Animator using Adobe Dynamic Link. Scene changes made in Character Animator are automatically displayed when switching to After Effects or Premiere Pro.
Seamless integration of TypeKit fonts. If you use TypeKit fonts in a composition and share the project with collaborators, any fonts that aren’t installed on their computer are automatically synced when the file is opened.
New project from template. You can now create a template with your own preferred project settings, such as color management and folder structure, and use it as the basis for all new projects. This is especially useful when collaborating with other users and freelancers, as you can make changes to the template and sync changes using Creative Cloud.
Freeze frame on the last frame. You can now freeze the last frame of the layer before the end of the composition using the Freeze Last Frame command in the Layer > Time menu. After Effects sets time remapping keyframes on the layer and extends the layer to the end of the composition.
Set marker duration by dragging. Set the duration of the composition or layer marker by dragging the marker’s out point in the Timeline panel. Marker icons now split into two halves to clearly indicate the in and out points of the marker. Dragging a marker’s in point changes the marker’s time, and dragging a marker’s out point changes the marker’s duration.
Built-in export of QuickTime files created using the Avid DNxHD/HR codec. With After Effects CC 2017, you can export QuickTime files created with Avid DNxHD and Avid DNxHR codecs without the Avid Codec Pack and without using QuickTime 7 on Windows or the Adobe QT32 Server process on macOS. In the QuickTime Options dialog box (click the Format Options button in the Output Module dialog box), you can change the DNxHD and DNxHR settings. You can select a flavor of DNxHD or DNxHR (HQX, HQ, SQ, etc.) and enable alpha channel encoding.
Date and time values in output file name patterns. Name and location templates for output modules can now be configured using date and time tokens. The new Song Name and Date/Time preset helps you add the date and time in Y-M-D_H-M format to the song name.