After Effects 18.4 is now available!

Hi everyone,

After Effects 18.4 is now available for download from the Creative Cloud desktop application. This release of After Effects includes security updates, performance improvements & several bug fixes.

What's fixed?

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

To check out bug fixes for earlier versions, visit the Fixed Issues page.

How to update After Effects to version 18.4?

Open the Creative Cloud desktop application and click the Updates tab on the top-left. Find After Effects in the list and click Update.

If you don't see any update in the Creative Cloud desktop application, click Help > Check for Updates from the Creative Cloud desktop application to refresh it.