Faster, more precise animation and compositing
The After Effects team introduced a new Advanced Puppet Engine that gives users more control over Puppet Tool deformations. This fall, AE will be added two new pin types that open up whole new ways to animate. Bend, twist, scale, and warp your layers with new Advanced Pins and Bend Pins that take Mesh Sculpting to a whole new level.
Adobe is enabling you to access depth passes for native 3D layers. Read Z-depth data from any 3D composition using either the Classic 3D or CINEMA 4D renderer: simply apply 3D Channel effects (Depth Matte, Depth of Field, Fog 3D) directly to a 3D precomp, or use 3D Channel Extract to access the depth pass directly for other purposes. And, as a bonus, 3D Channel Extract is now 32 bit.
New JavaScript expressions engine was built on modern frameworks, which means access to all kinds of new coding techniques, it’s up to 5x faster.
Trading features with Premiere Pro
Lots of AE user asked for a great time-saving feature from Premiere Pro: Responsive Design – Time, which lets you create regions where animation maintains precise timing, even as you time-stretch your graphics. Now it’s available in After Effects, with added flexibility. Easily freeze intros and outros, or use the work area to select a custom region to protect.
On the other side, Premiere Pro users have been asking for access to After Effects’ tools for data-driven animation. You can now design spreadsheet-driven infographic templates, and editors can update their content dynamically by updating their data.
Additionally, new Motion Graphics template authoring improvements allow you to hand off uncluttered Motion Graphics templates with editable parameters organized into groups with custom headings and twirl-downs for showing and hiding each set of controls. You can also allow editors to change various font properties — which ones they have access to are up to you. (This one was a popular request from After Effects and Premiere users alike.)
We also have some fabulous color features coming to both applications. With innovative Lumetri Color tools for selective color grading, you get powerful new curve adjustments, such as Hue vs. Hue, or Luma vs. Saturation, so you can fine-tune selected colors with ease and accuracy. And, to ensure things look right across different types of displays, Display Color Management in both Premiere Pro and After Effects will automatically detect rec709, P3, and rec2020 displays and apply the correct color space for viewing.
Speed boosts
The team is replacing the bundled version of Mocha with a new GPU-accelerated Mocha Plug-In. Mocha AE tracks surfaces faster and more accurately with a simplified interface and Retina/high DPI support for high-resolution displays — all without leaving After Effects.
GPU-accelerated nine more effects, including Color Balance (HLS), Curves, Fill, Exposure, Noise, Tritone, and Set Matte. Wave Warp and Median are now multi-threaded and running faster on the CPU.
Format support improvements enable you to work faster with hardware-accelerated decoding of H.264 and HEVC video on macOS. You’ll also be able to import files encoded with the HAP codec. New support for VR 180 immersive content in VR effects enables you to work interchangeably with 180 and 360 material — and output finished videos in the Google VR180 format for viewing on YouTube or other platforms.
More details can be found here! More about After Effect [post_ads_2]