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Yes it’s a complex piece of software, but it allows you to do so much to your video clips, and now, it can do it faster, easier - in some cases - and is much more stable. Final verdictĪfter Effects is huge, and no review can truly do it justice, but the major changes in this version are all designed to simplify and speed up your work, and in that sense, there’s very little reason not to upgrade. Certainly much quicker and easier than the old way (which was to create a group and drag and drop layers into it). Another right-click and you can ungroup them just as quickly. You can now select a bunch of them and with a right click, or a keyboard shortcut, just group them together. One such improvement was done with Shape layers. These are all huge improvements, but Adobe have also worked on the little things - tweaks which make your work so much quicker and easier, you’ll wonder why this wasn’t implemented sooner. In comparison to other features, warp stabiliser still takes a while to analyse and alter your footage, but the end results have been improved compared to previous versions (Image credit: Adobe) The little things

If you have a complex text effect which you need to reproduce, you’ll find this another great, powerful and versatile feature. Using this method, you can grab parameters from one text layer and set them on another. If you’re into Expressions, you will likely appreciate being able to access text property parameters through Expressions. This will be a huge time saver to all those who use Expressions when creating effects and templates. Prior to this you had to use sliders to switch between settings, but now, you can use a drop down menu instead, and even rename each menu to exactly what you need, making such alteration much easier to perform. It should help make templates much easier. However this means that these dropped down menus can be used as master properties, and when you add them to a new composition they’ll be available there as well. Now this can make it easier to access should you need to change the values often over time, or when building a template for instance. Essentially, any drop down menu you can access from the list in the timeline can be dragged in its entirety to the Essential Graphics Panel. Once done, After Effects will then use that altered frame as a reference to improve its own calculation and give you a more seamless result for your clip.ĭrag a menu from the timeline to the Essential Graphics panel, and even to Master Properties for greater ease and customisation of your effects and templates (Image credit: Adobe) Drop down menusĪ big improvement has been made to the interface with the way you can control parameters in drop down menus.

Activating this bring said frame into Photoshop, where you can work on removing the offending object, by using that app’s Content Aware Fill to recreate the background. However, you can also see the huge advantage Adobe has in controlling so many properties: in order to improve the effect, you can create a reference frame. As always, your results will depend on your clip’s content, and we found simple a background yields much better results. What you could do with a still image in Photoshop, you can now do to video in After Effects. Photoshop users undoubtably have been aware of a similar feature for a while: it allows you to remove an object from the screen and the background to be seamlessly extended over this gap to essentially make that object disappear. We’re well aware this isn’t actually a new feature introduced with the latest release, but it’s so important, we felt we needed talking about it. You’ll notice that Content Aware Fill has been significantly sped up in this latest version (Image credit: Adobe) Content Aware Fillīut what’s Content Aware Fill we hear you ask? That’s one of the big ones that were introduced between 20, and is a great new addition to After Effects.