Hi, community!

April was a huge month for After Effects and the post-production world. Earlier in the month, we released After Effects 22.3 which is natively supported on Apple Silicon, and then there was the NAB Show. I couldn't attend this year but look forward to attending next year. 

Community Highlight

With around 53K registered attendees this year, exhibitors, attendees, and partners from all corners of the world turned out in force in Las Vegas. The After Effects product team was there along with other Adobe teams, showing all the latest After Effects features. Let's look at some of the highlights from the show.

Our community rockstar, @Kyle Hamrick, featured in one of the sessions at the Adobe booth.

On Monday, May 9, 25 of the most popular sessions will be posted on their website.

Best of 2022 NAB Show

These awards honor breakthrough products from the 2022 NAB Show.

Winners of 2022 Product of the Year Awards

Check out the videos on demand from April 24 — April 27.

Videos on demand

Top troubleshooting topics from April 2022

Issue: Some users reported that there were unable to open projects in After Effects 22.3 that were created in previous versions with the following error message:

"AE error:  The file you are attempting to open is corrupt and has an invalid number of Default, Side View or Custom cameras."

Status: The After Effects team is aware of this bug that got introduced in After Effects 22.3 and will be fixed in the upcoming release.

Tutorials from April 2022

1. Hologram / Projector Beams without plugins by ShiveringCactus

2. Special thanks to our new community member, Happy Motion, for posting three tips

• AE TIP #042 - How to make rain without particle systems
• AE TIP #044 - Fake 3d Ball
• AE TIP #045 - Set First Vertex

3. Top 5 AFTER EFFECTS Tutorials APRIL 2022 by LiamCarlin

4. Four new tutorials by davidlindgren89

• How to create keyboard shortcuts in After Effects
• How to move animation to another clip
• How to speed up clip in After Effects
• How to import Illustrator files or layers into After Effects

5. Three new tutorials by Mathias Moehl

• Ae Tutorial: Motion Design Essentials 29: Focus and Motion
• Ae Tutorial: Motion Design Essentials 30: The Red Thread
• Ae Tutorial: Motion Design Essentials 31: Focus Guides

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