Hey everyone,

Hope you all are doing great. With Christmas & New Year just a few weeks from now, I want to wish you all a great Holiday season! In this edition, let’s look at the major highlights of the After Effects community from the month of October & November.

Community Highlight

This month, we want to highlight our long-time Adobe Community Professional (ACP)- Rick Gerard. Rick has been part of our community since 2007 & has contributed to more than 22000 posts.

Rick has 40+ years of experience in film and television. He is the winner of 9 Emmy's & several other awards. Rick is a long-term user of After Effects & has been using the app since 1993. He also posted his first set of online tutorials in 1995.

Rick, we thank you for your amazing contribution to our community.

Adobe Video Community Meet-up

Earlier last month we had an amazing online meetup where we talked about a lot of cool stuff like creating Visual Effects & Animations, the workflow between After Effects & Premiere Pro and the best practices for editors. 

Part 1

Part 2

MAX 2021

With Adobe MAX 2021, we introduced a new version for After Effects and other DVA apps. With this major release, we unified the version number for our video & audio apps making it easier to ensure compatibility between the apps. This MAX After Effects was introduced with Multi-Frame Rendering to accelerate the rendering process along with other new features.

Multi-Frame Rendering in After Effects

Puget Systems recommendations on How to Choose the Best Hardware for Multi-Frame Rendering in After Effects - Link to the article

Links to all the new features of After Effects v22

Faster Previews and Renders with Multi-Frame Rendering
Reimagined Render Queue with Remote Notifications
Composition Profiler
Speculative previews
Enable LUT Interpolation method selection

Beta Features
In the Beta version of After Effects, we introduced Scene Edit Detection which makes it much quicker and easier to reuse part of an edited video clip. Also, a new Properties panel has been introduced in the latest Beta. Refer to the discussions on After Effects Beta community for more details.

A few interesting MAX Sessions

Wicked Fast Multi-Frame Rendering with Threadripper PRO

Kick-starting Your Motion Journey: Decoding Motion Design

Beginning Motion Design: Must-Know Techniques

Improving Efficiency with After Effects Power Tips

Demystifying After Effects: Motion Graphics for Video Editors

Typography, Play, and Animation

Creating Animated Cinemagraphs with Photoshop and After Effects

Top troubleshooting topics

1. Premiere Pro or Adobe Media Encoder may stop working while rendering an After Effects composition.
   After Effects process (aerendercore on MacOS or AfterFX on Win) may stop working when a dynamically-linked application, such as Premiere Pro or Media Encoder was closed or Edit Original was invoked.
   After Effects v22.0.1 was released to address this issue.
   Refer to this FAQ for more info.
   
   
2. After Effects v22.0 might crash at launch with the older versions of the AEJuice plugin. A newer version of the plugin is now available which takes care of this issue. More info here.

Refer to this link to know more about the known issues.

Tutorials from the Learn from the Pros series

Rotoscoping with Max Novak

Creating Smooth Motion with Max Novak

Animated Neon Logos with Max Novak

Seamless Transitions with Max Novak

Objection Duplication Trick with Josh Olufemii

Previous editions of our community recap