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After Effects 22.3 is now live: Native Apple Silicon support, Frame.io integration, and more...

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April 12, 2022
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Hi After Effects community,

Today, we're releasing After Effects version 22.3, which is available for download from the Creative Cloud desktop application. I'm excited to announce that After Effects is now natively supported on Apple Silicon. This release's other key features include Frame.io integration, Extended Viewer, Scene Edit Detection, and more.

After Effects team blog: New in After Effects: native Apple M1 support, integrated reviews and Scene Edit Detection

What's new in After Effects 22.3?

Native Apple Silicon support:

After Effects now allows you to take advantage of Apple's M1 series of chips. That means After Effects is now faster in every way — quicker launch times, improved UI responsiveness, and faster rendering.

NOTE: For known differences, limitations, plugin compatibility, and best practices visit our FAQs page.

Frame.io integration:

Frame.io is now built into After Effects — share video projects, work in progress and receive feedback without leaving your composition. Frame.io for Creative Cloud includes 100 GB of Frame.io cloud storage, up to five projects, unlimited reviewers, file sharing, and Camera to Cloud with support for uploading via Teradek, Atomos, and Filmic Pro. To learn more, visit:

3D Extended Viewer:

The Extended Viewer extends real-time 3D draft previews and allows you to view the 3D content outside the composition frame boundaries. You can switch back to the standard frame view when you need to see your composition’s final look. For more information, visit the Extended Viewer article.

Binning indicators for 3D layers:

Binning Indicators for 3D Layers show which 3D layers render together in the same 3D space, enabling them to intersect and cast shadows on each other. This gives you a visual map of how After Effects composites 2D and 3D layers together. For more information, check out the documentation for Binning indicators for 3D layers.

Scene Edit Detection:

Powered by Adobe Sensei, Scene Edit Detection automatically detects scene changes in an edited clip and creates markers at edit points or split scenes into individual layers. Visit the Scene Edit Detection article for more information on using this feature.

Coach marks:

After Effects automatically displays Coach marks when you launch After Effects for the first time after installing or updating it. Coach marks provide short descriptions of the newly added features within After Effects. In this release, Coach marks are available for:

Frame.io: Displays on the first launch to let you know where the new Review workspace is.
Binning UI: Points to the new UI when creating or modifying a 3D bin in your workflow.

Constrained shapes:

After Effects 22.3 allows you to create perfect squares and circles more easily by holding the Shift key when you double-click the Rectangle or Ellipse tool. This enables you to create commonly-used shapes quickly and efficiently.

What's fixed in After Effects 22.3?

Fixed an issue that caused Cache Frames When Idle to use system resources inefficiently.
Fixed an issue where After Effects would crash while using the Apple SF Pro font version.
Fixed an issue with 3D Scene Navigation where Camera tool options would cycle backward when using the Shift key.
Fixed an issue that prevented Exposure Control from automatically enabling when the Exposure value was changed.
Fixed an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused layers to not stay under the mouse cursor during drag interactions in Z.
Fixed an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that prevented moving layers in increments of 10 pixels when holding the Shift key and slowly dragging.
Fixed an issue where temporary files created during an image sequence export were not deleted if both Skip Existing Files and Multi-Frame Rendering were enabled.
Fixed an issue with Draft 3D that caused comp to flash when changing magnification in auto resolution mode.
Fixed an issue that caused After Effects generated QuickTime DNx sources with alpha to be decoded incorrectly in Avid Media Composer.

Visit the Fixed Issues page for more information on bugs fixed in earlier versions of After Effects.

How to update After Effects to version 22.3?

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

I don't see the update in my Creative Cloud desktop application. What should I do?

This update is a phased rollout and should be available to all the users by April 14.

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nubnubbud

Inspiring

just tried it with my test file.
Congrats! it's even slower and buggier than before! I sure do love licking up those memory leaks from my crashed 800 buck program.

Rameez_KhanAuthor

Legend

Hi @nubnubbud,

I'm sorry that it's slower for you, but you haven't provided any information for us to help you.

I'm happy to troubleshoot if you can provide details about the bugs you're experiencing.

Best,

Rameez

nubnubbud

Inspiring

(belated)
don't worry, I talked to the dev team on the phone! or people who said they were the dev team. they basically said "yeah them's the breaks so suck it up" because I had some of the best hardware available for the program.

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haroldk87537308

Participating Frequently

Updated to the lastest version and found out that the DNxHD codec that we used in our pipeline has lost the alpha channel.

We have tried to use the other DNxHD codecs that comes with alpha channel, but our editors, who are using Harris Velocity ESX, can't see the alpha or the videos comes in as white when there are imported into the timeline.

Any way to get alpha channel back for the 1080i DNxHD SQ Thin Raster 8-bit Resolution? See screenshot below for AE ver22.2.1 VS AE ver22.3

Thanks!

AE ver 22.2.1 below

AE Ver 22.3 below

Rameez_KhanAuthor

Legend

Hi @6432386,

This is expected behavior. Please read this article for more information: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/announcement-changes-to-quicktime-dnxhd-support-in-premiere-pro-22-3/m-p/12905939#M408114

Thanks,

Rameez

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haroldk87537308

Participating Frequently

Thanks for the reply.

Seems unfortunalte that we've lost the DNx alpha support.

Anyone that's curious, we are now testing to see if TIFF sequence is the next option for us.

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thibaudl10621577

Participating Frequently

I am very sorry but I have been using After Effects Beta on the M1 Max for months, while it looked very good at first, it turns out being EXTREMELY slow for sometimes dead simple projects. It is absolutely not usable. At first I thought of blaming the M1 Max or my laptop but DaVinci Resolve works so amazingly well with no issues that I think it's really an Adobe problem guys.

I had to move AE back to my PC workstation since I run it on a daily basis. You should not have pulled the M1 support out from beta I think

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

I am getting very good results with my M1 Macbook Pro and even with the base model M1 Mac Mini that I bought to test the performance before spending a lot of money.

I use a bunch of 3rd party plugins that are not Universal (M1) compatible yet, so I often switch between Universal and Rosetta using the Get Info panel available in Finder. I will even switch in the middle of a project taking full advantage of the M1 capabilities and speed for the Pencil Test part of my project. A Pencil Test is what animators use to make sure that the timing, blocking, and scene work before doing the Ink and Paint part of the project. Ink and Paint, or all effects including motion blur, is usually done using Rosetta because of the dependence on the incompatible 3rd party effects. I rarely run full-resolution previews longer than four or five seconds with full effects. I check my hero frames and run two or three-second previews to make sure the key parts are working before rendering to edit the shot.

I use Premiere Pro, Davinci, or Final Cut to edit my movies. My AE comps do not have cuts between shots, so most are seven seconds or less. After Effects is a terrible video editing tool, but it is excellent animation, visual effects, and compositing tool.

My NLE choice depends on the project. I use all three—Premiere Pro for most projects, Davinci for others, and occasionally Final Cut because of its integration with Motion. Apple Motion is an easy way to create simple animated graphics, so if the budget doesn't allow complete custom design, the Motion/Final Cut workflow may be a decent option.

I hope this helps others struggling with the M1. My loaded MacBook Pro outperforms any other system I have access to by quite a bit.

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

It's been a couple of days and 22.3 is still not showing up. Has the release been delayed?

Rameez_KhanAuthor

Legend

Hi Rick,

The update was released in phases and was made available to all the users in a few days. Were you able to download it?

Thanks,

Rameez

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creggor

Inspiring

Hey there Rameez!

I need to keep a version of 22.2 (for Element 3d mainly) but would like to also use the new version for native Apple Silicon support. I'm running the beta currently.

I can't figure out how to install 22.3 without deleting 22.2? There's no "Advanced" setting like there used to be, allowing multiple installs.

Can you help?

Thanks!

J

Jack23830736cfvd

Participant

Hi @Rameez_Khan,

I'm having an issue with the newest AE update on my 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max (64GB, 32 core GPU) running OS Monterey 12.3. Oddly, using the brush tool and painting is resulting in extremely slow performance. I've included an example video of this slow performance where I attempt to create a simple "write-on" animation in a very small AE project. This is occuring in both the newest AE version and the newest AE Beta (both the update yesterday and the one that came out today) when running them on Apple Silicon.

That said, I've had no issues in this area with the newest AE update when using my 2016 MBP running Intel. It runs very smoothly on that device and loads much faster than it does when I attempt the exact same animation on my new M1 Max MBP. Additionally, reverting to AE 22.2.1 resolves the issue on my new M1 MPB. Unless there is something else causing this problem, it seems this newest update of AE just isn't playing well with my Apple Silicon device when using the brush tool. Have you seen any other reports of this?

Thanks for your time,

- Jack

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Rameez_KhanAuthor

Legend

Hi Jack,

Thanks for sharing the video! I haven't seen any other reports of this yet.

I don't have an M1 machine, but I'll share this info with an After Effects engineer who has the M1 MBP. I'll get back to you after we test this in-house.

Best,

Rameez

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Jack23830736cfvd

Participant

Thanks so much for the response, @Rameez_Khan! I look forward to hearing from you.

Also want to let you know that I really appreciate the hard work everyone at Adobe is doing on these new AE updates (especially the work going into Apple Silicon compatibility). The Frame.io integration is truly a game changer!

Best wishes,

- Jack

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RedSkyPost

Participant

Attempting to open the new build (Apple Silicon) after the update, nothing but a crash every time.
Opening the Intel Version via CC has no problem (v 22.3.0 Build 107).

Deleted the preference folder. Attempted "Do Not Migrate" preferences on reinstall. Still not able to open it.

Hoping there is an easy solution to this.

macOs Monterey
Version 12.3
MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021)
Chip Apple M1 Max
Memory 32 GB

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ChristopheSceno

Participating Frequently

I had the same problem on a macbookpro M1max. I don't have any plug/extension/script from a third party... I removed and re-installed AE several times...

Now, i discover that if i wait 3/4 minuts, it finally start to work... But it's not normal. Any suggestion ?

C

ChristopheSceno

Participating Frequently

Hi again, C.

Instead of uninstalling and cleaning via the CC Cleaner, I'd suggest you create a new user account on your machine and see if you experience a similar behavior.

Best,

Rameez

Hi Rameez,

Thanks, it work normally with a new user account on my mac. So the problem come from something in my account wich is not compatible with the app... By the way, i can use the other apps of the suit ithout any problem. Do you think about something with this new lightning ?

Best,

C

Mattatarian

Participant

This is awesome news! Do you know what time the update will appear in the CC app? The update has yet to appear for me.

Rameez_KhanAuthor

Legend

Hi @Mattatarian,

This update is a phased rollout, so you can expect a delay in seeing this update.

Thanks,

Rameez

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