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October 14, 2024
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The New Spectrum UI in After Effects 25.0

  • October 14, 2024
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A Fresh, Modern UI

 

Adobe Video apps are getting a fresh, modern, and consistent design with the new Spectrum UI. 

 

 

 

 

Key Features

 

Here are a few key features that become available with the new Spectrum UI

 

Cleaner Design

You get cleaner fonts and typography for better legibility and consistency with other Adobe Creative Cloud apps. That means you’ll spend less time re-learning how to use tools in our different apps and more time creating. 

 

Switch to High-Contrast

There is now a new toggle for switching between a high-contrast mode for easier visibility and accessibility or a low-contrast mode for focusing on your content. 

 

Color Themes

With Theme modes—a standard dark, darkest, and high-contrast accessibility mode—you can customize the look and feel of After Effects to your preference. Switching between these modes gives you the flexibility to select the setting that best matches your environment and personal preference, whether for enhanced readability or improved visibility based on current lighting conditions.

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    Мишер24823238x4sd
    Participant
    October 17, 2024

    Will the accent color change be returned to the new Spectrum UI interface, as on older versions, using the Enable_Colorizing_Theme tag in the console? It's unusual to return to a blue accent after your yellow one 😞

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      CucaramblaX
      Known Participant
      October 16, 2024

      @nishu_kush Could Adobe publish a dedicated Help section and/or tutorials on how to prepare 3D objects (GLB's and OBJ's) for After Effects, listing to what features are actually supported? Those formats have something different than Adobe Standard Material (ASM).

      Same for the regular flat 3D layers (e.g. PNGs/PSDs), which have just a few material properties, can't use texture maps to simulate PBR pipeline and have no apparent relation to ASM pipeline. Still waiting for AcceptLights switch for 3D layers in Advanced3D, which was "on the table" some ten releases ago.
      Besides that, could this fundamental time sampling bug be fixed asap?

      Thank you.

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        2Majoecober
        Participant
        October 15, 2024

        Can you make the font bigger? I might go blind.

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          theoliverhenry
          Participant
          January 25, 2025

          are you talking about the community or the app?

          oliverhenry
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          JeamCJ
          Participating Frequently
          October 14, 2024

          How can I access color themes and accent colors via scripting?

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            Jessica McMillanCommunity Manager
            Community Manager
            October 25, 2024

            Hello @JeamCJ 

            Are you looking for scripting access to ask which theme is active in the UI or what exactly are you looking for?

            Thanks for your time.

            All the best,
            Jessica McMillan

            All the best,Jessica McMillan - AE Engineering
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              Jessica McMillanCommunity Manager
              Community Manager
              October 28, 2024

              Hello @JeamCJ,

              In case it is the scripting side, this will be added to the help docs, but scripting access was added.
              On the application
              getAppTheme - returns a string of the current theme
              getUseReducedContrast - returns a bool indicating whether this is on or off
              getAllowedAppThemes - returns an array of our theme names
              Recommendation would be to getAllowedAppThemes, and check if your plugin has a handle for them all, then getAppTheme + getUseReducedContrast to then use one of those methods you have to update your ui.

              All the best,
              Jessica 
              AE Engineering

              All the best,Jessica McMillan - AE Engineering
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