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Adobe MAX and After Effects 17.0

Nov 04, 2019 Nov 04, 2019

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It's Adobe MAX time and with that we are seeing a new version of the application, After Effects 17.0. If you're at MAX, please check out the After Effects sessions. If you're not at MAX, we'll go over the key new features below.

 

After Effects 17.0 Key New Features

 

Dropdown Menu Control effect: After Effects now allows you to hook up properties of a layer to a dropdown menu in addition to sliders and checkboxesDiscuss this feature here

 

Shape Layer performance improvements: Discuss this feature here.

 

Enhanced EXR improvements: Discuss this feature here.

 

Other New Features

  • System Compatibility Report: After Effects detects and alerts you to any known issues with specific hardware and older hardware drivers you are using on the computer.
  • Expression Editor Improvements: Smarter autocomplete, support for Hi-DPI displays and more.
  • Save Project Version and History panel changes: 
  • Layer transforms and blending may now utilize the GPU instead of the CPU for increased rendering performance: 
  • Expressions Performance Improvements: After Effects now attempts to detect an expression that does not change throughout a comp and calculates the expression only once.

 

Relevant documentation

 

In addition to the new features, please review the following items before updating to the new version.

 

Breaking news, information, and new videos.

Watch the Tuesday MAX Keynote Live. 10AM PST here.
Tuesday MAX Keynote Live. Live Blog here.
Watch the Monday MAX Keynote Live. 9AM PST here.
MAX Live Blog here.
MAX 2019 live events on YouTube here.

 

UPDATE: 

How to use the Drop-Down Menu effect:

 

Duik Bassel.2 has been released and it leverages the performance improvements in After Effects to make it faster to rig characters and use them in different animations. 

 

Read this blog post for more details: https://rainboxlab.org/documentation/performance-and-master-properties-in-after-effects-2020-and-dui...

 

School of Motion: After Effects 17.0: New Features

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Nov 07, 2019 Nov 07, 2019

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Wow. Shouts out.

Finally you got the cached/ram preview to work on a big screen (4K). Was waiting from v15 for this.

So thanks a lot.

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Woohoo! Great to know that you're experiencing better performance in After Effects 17.0 with 4K resolution. The After Effects team deserves kudos and I will share your comment with them. 

 

Thanks,

Rameez

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