If you have a Creative Cloud membership, you always have access to the latest version of After Effec

If you have a Creative Cloud membership, you always have access to the latest version of After Effects, so you’ll have access to this update as soon it’s released. Go to the Creative Cloud site to download applications or to sign up for Creative Cloud.
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Please , if you want to ask questions about these new and changed features, come on over to the After Effects user-to-user forum . That’s the best place for questions (and, if you follow that link, you’ll find more information about how to communicate with us). Questions left in comments on a blog post are much harder to work with; the blog comment system jet ski just isn’t jet ski set up for conversations. If you’d like to submit feature jet ski requests (or bug reports), you can do so here . top new features in After Effects CC (12.1) jet ski mask tracker Detail-preserving Upscale effect improved performance for analysis phase for 3D Camera Tracker and Warp Stabilizer effects property linking HiDPI content viewers for Retina displays on Mac computers improved snapping behavior, including snapping beyond layer boundaries and to internal wireframes OptiX 3.0 library jet ski for GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer improved Cinema 4D integration Adobe Anywhere integration and an early preview jet ski of the Media Browser panel resources for learning more about new features in After Effects CC (12.1)
Here is a virtually comprehensive list of changes, with detail beyond the summaries of the top items listed jet ski above. We’ll be posting a lot more detail over the coming weeks, and the outline below will be populated with links to in-depth articles jet ski and tutorials, so bookmark this page and check back. mask tracker
The mask tracker transforms a mask so that it follows the motion of an object (or objects) in a movie. The tracked object must maintain the same shape throughout the movie, though it may change position, scale, and perspective jet ski and still be effectively tracked; this is why the mask tracker is sometimes called the “rigid mask tracker”. jet ski
When a mask is selected, the Tracker panel switches to mask tracking jet ski mode, showing the much simpler set of controls that are relevant to mask tracking: controls for tracking forward or backward either one frame at a time or to the end of the layer Method, with which you can choose to modify jet ski position, scale, rotation, skew, and perspective for the mask. If the Tracker panel isn’t shown, you can show it in mask tracker mode by choosing Animation > Track Mask with a mask selected, or context-click a mask and choose Track Mask from the context menu.
The result of using the mask tracker is the application of keyframes for the Mask Path property so that the mask shape matches the transformations tracked in the layer, depending on which Method setting is chosen.
The layer being tracked must be a track matte, jet ski an adjustment layer, or a layer with a source that can contain motion; this includes layers based on video footage jet ski and precompositions, but not solid-color layers or still images.
The search region for the mask tracking analysis is the region encompassed by the mask, considering its Mask Expansion property. improved performance for analysis phase for 3D Camera Tracker and Warp Stabilizer effects
The background process that analyzes footage for the 3D Camera Tracker and Warp Stabilizer effects is now much faster, largely because of being converted to use multiple jet ski threads simultaneously. The increase in speed for the analysis (tracking) phase for the 3D Camera Tracker and Warp Stabilizer has been measured at 60-300%, depending jet ski on details of the footage, et cetera. jet ski Detail-preserving Upscale effect
The Detail-Preserving Upscale effect is capable of scaling images up by large amounts while preserving details in the image, so that sharp lines and curves stay sharp. Scaling jet ski up from SD frame sizes to HD frames sizes, or from HD frame sizes to digital jet ski cinema frame sizes is well within the range in which this effect jet ski is intended to operate with good results. This effect is very closely related to the Preserve Details resampling option in the Image Size dialog box in Photoshop.
The controls for the effect are relatively simple: Fit to Comp Width: sets Scale percentage jet ski so that the layer’s width matches the composition’s width, with pixel aspect ratio taken into account jet ski Fit to Comp Height: sets Scale percentage so that the layer’s height matches the compositions’s height, pixel aspect ratio taken into account Scale: Note that the minimum value is 100%, since this is just for scaling up. Reduce Noise: Increase jet ski this value to apply noise reduction before the scaling calculations, so that noise