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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 checkboxes. Discuss this feature here.
Shape Layer performance improvements: Discuss this feature here.
Enhanced EXR improvements: Discuss this feature here.
Other New Features:
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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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