Adobe After Effects CS6 11.0.1

Adobe® After Effects® CS6 11.0.1

features added or changed in this update
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 (a new Kepler-class GPU) can now be used for GPU acceleration of the ray-traced 3D renderer on Windows.

See this page for details of GPU features in After Effects CS6.

Note: An additional delay (approximately one minute) will occur the first time that you start After Effects with a Kepler-class GPU as the new ray-traced 3D library is initialized. Installation of updated display drivers may require this initialization step again.

Enabled basic support for the AtomKraft composition renderer (requires plug-ins from Jupiter Jazz).
bugs fixed in this update
Several bugs with the global performance cache were fixed, which were causing the cache to not be invalidated at some times when it should have been. This meant that sometimes old, invalid image information was being read from the cache and used instead of re-rendering when an aspect of the composition had changed.

If you encounter a remaining bug of this sort, purging the cache will generally fix the problem (choosing Edit > Purge > All Image Memory to clear RAM cache and Empty Disk Cache in Media & Disk Cache preferences to clear disk cache). If you encounter such a bug after installing this update, let us know by submitting a detailed bug report, being especially certain to list any third-party effects used.

One remaining known issue of this sort relates to font substitution: If you load a project with a missing font, After Effects will substitute a placeholder font. If you then install the missing font, After Effects may not update cached image information with the new font. So, if you install a font after loading a project for which that font was reported as missing, purge the cache to force the cached image information to be updated with the new font.

Effects that use the composition camera (e.g., Shatter) did not render correctly in orthogonal and custom views, or when changing the active camera.
After Effects would crash when evaluating some expressions, including expressions added by the Ease & Wizz script, expressions using the this keyword, in-line functions, and nested functions.
After Effects was returning an error “After Effects Error: Ray Traced 3D: … (5070::0)” under various circumstances. Several of these have been isolated and fixed. If you get such an error message after installing this update, let us know by submitting a detailed bug report.
Crash on quit if Nvidia cards running in Maximus configuration are running in TCC mode (on Windows).
Crash using 3D Camera Tracker effect.
Crash resetting Puppet effect.
Unexpected results using Mask Feather tool in various circumstances.
Black frames appeared in MXF footage from Canon EOS C300 camera.
Canon 5D MKIII 720p footage was imported with the wrong timecode.
Error occurred when setting a proxy to a nested composition: “After Effects error: Internal verification failure, sorry! {Src and dest bitdepths are different in PF_World::CopyRect} (37::109)”
Snapping and using the J and K keys to move to keyframes and other items in the Graph Editor didn’t work.
Using the Clone Stamp tool expanded property groups in the Timeline panel.
SDK: The AUTOMATIC_WIDE_TIME flag was not working correctly with the NON_PARAM_VARY flag.
SDK: The AUTOMATIC_WIDE_TIME flag was returning an empty region when attempting to check out a layer at the current time.


Adobe® After Effects® CS6

Create visual effects faster in Adobe® After Effects® CS6 software with Global Performance Cache, which optimizes and keeps your previews so you can beat deadlines instead of waiting for frame updates. Boost your creativity with a new 3D engine for text and shape extrusions, a 3D camera tracker, and variable-width mask feathering.

Global Performance Cache
Create more in less time. With new Global Performance Cache, your previews are saved and ready when you are — no more waiting for the application to catch up. This revolution "under the hood" makes After Effects extremely fast and responsive by taking full advantage of the power of your computer’s hardware for visual effects and motion graphics.

3D Camera Tracker
Track 3D elements with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections. Automatically analyze and place 3D track points onto 2D footage in the background while you work.

Ray-traced, extruded text and shapes
Extrude fully ray-traced text and shapes natively and take full advantage of reflections, environment maps, and more.

Variable mask feathering
Create a separate set of splines to precisely control mask feathering. Get the exact shape you want with the proper degree of softness at any point along the mask edge, resulting in a big boost to creative flexibility.

Integration with Adobe Illustrator
Instantly convert Illustrator vector art (AI and EPS format) into shape layers. Easily animate vector art in 2D or extrude to 3D.

Rolling Shutter Repair
Remove rolling shutter artifacts such as skew and wobble without forcing stabilization.

New and updated effects
Enhance your creativity with 90 new and updated built-in effects, including the complete 16- and 32-bit CycoreFX HD suite.

Avid AAF and FCP 7 XML file import with Pro Import AE
Import and work with files created in Apple Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier versions, as well as Avid Media Composer and Symphony, letting you integrate After Effects with professional production workflows.

mocha for After Effects CS6
Launch mocha for After Effects CS6 directly within After Effects CS6*.


After Effects® CS5 10.0.2

Notable fixes
• Issue where users may encounter a persistent “unexpected data type” error message when opening projects containing missing effects with layer parameters at non-default values. (54666)
• Crashing condition when importing compositions created with Automatic Duck’s Pro Import AE plug-in (W2796549)
• Crashing condition when using the Directional Blur effect with Mthread.plugin enabled. (55603)


What's new in After Effects CS5 10.0.1

Notable fixes
• Crash on launch after creating a custom workspace (e.g., if Project panel was undocked and Brushes panel was opened in the last workspace). (2607269, 54196)
• Crash on quit when not saving changes to a project after Auto-save interval has passed. (54129)
• Crash on launch due to bad fonts.
• Crash when scrubbing through time in a complex or per-character 3D text project when OpenGL is engaged; problem with OpenGL contexts. (54197, 54198)
• Crash previewing or scrubbing properties to create blur with Depth of Field effect when OpenGL is enabled. (54253)
• Crash when copying and pasting Roto Brush effect to text or shape layer. (54086)
• Crash when using a PNG file whose path name is longer than 256 characters. (2620506)
• Crash duplicating a layer after RAM previewing in the Layer panel, with disk cache on. (54350)
• Crash importing Sony XDCAM HD from Sony XCAM Transfer application. (2662575)
• Audio rendered to QuickTime .mov is “jumbled” when using AIFF source audio. Also, RAM previews are being shifted randomly in much the same way. (2632383)
• Slow playback of compositions containing several footage layers, especially for long-GOP footage from DSLR cameras. (53969)
• Cannot snap keyframes or layer markers (via Shift-drag) to layer, current-time indicator, or work area at start of composition. (2576113)
• Cannot auto-scroll in the Composition or Layer panel when dragging a UI item (e.g., track point or mask vertex) off the edge of the panel. (53909)
• RAM preview erroneously states that the composition must have 2 or more frames to work, but purging the cache allows it to work. (54202, 54169)
• 3D View popup does not update if switching between views using the Esc key or reordering cameras in the Timeline panel. (2624299, 2594727)
• Temporary freeze while dragging floating panel to or from another panel that contains a search field if using a Japanese input mode. (2657079)
• Hang (no control comes back) when unfreezing a precomposed layer with Roto Brush effect (with Refine Matte enabled) on it. Also, freeze can sometimes stop when calculating the back part of a span. (54141, 53482)
• Cannot import DPX image sequence either manually or via Automatic Duck Pro Import AE if GlueTools is installed. (2608269)
• “AE_OpenGL: Unexpected Condition: No active gl context for line drawing (due to interrupt during N-up frame render?)” error interrupting render of moderately complex 3D project. (54264)
• Apply Color LUT effect renders .cube files incorrectly, or cannot handle .3dl files with floating-point values, with 3DMESH/Mesh keywords, or exported from ASSIMILATE SCRATCH systems. Also, fixed a memory leak. (2612925, 2619034, 2617393, 2639953, 54417)
• CC Particle World: Crash/hang if Birth Size was set to 0 when using Stars particle type on a motion-blurred layer. (2619917)
• CC Glass Wipe: Crash using a gradient layer larger than the layer on which the effect is applied. (54216)
• CC Composite: Can’t uncheck the RGB Only option after reopening the project or when duplicating the effect. (2602796)
• Color Finesse 3: Hang if certain LUT formats were exported or a modal dialog box appeared above the application. Black and white film profiles might leave the view in color. Color Match button might fail to work. Presets might not appear or be refreshed in the Gallery. Windows taskbar icon might not appear. Can’t type a decimal point in numeric fields in the Full Interface. Problems using an incorrect serial number. (53864, 54387, 2548111, 53755)
• mocha: Issues with QuickTime-related crashes, performance on Windows, and miscellaneous incorrect behaviors.
• Scripting: Crash using Item setProxyToNone() method. (54164)
• ScriptUI: Horizontal or vertical scrollbar in a listbox does not appear when the contents exceed the viewable area. (2538608, 2632237)
• ScriptUI: Controls in a dialog stop responding if the Down Arrow key was pressed for a focused dropdownlist control showing the last item in the list. (2632230)
• ScriptUI: (Mac only) Single white


What's new in After Effects CS5

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PlayDramatically improved performance thanks to native 64-bit OS support
Native 64-bit OS support new

Work fluidly on high-resolution projects — even at 32-bit-per-channel color inside HD, 2K, and 4K compositions. Use all of your system's RAM. View a list of 64-bit third-party plug-ins.



VideoRotoscoping in a fraction of the time with the new Roto Brush
Roto Brush new

Isolate foreground elements from backgrounds in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take using this revolutionary new tool.

AVC Intrat Support
AVC-Intra and enhanced RED support new

Work natively with tapeless footage from the newest high-quality Panasonic cameras thanks to AVC-Intra 50 and AVC-Intra 100 support. Take advantage of improved support for RED R3D formats, and gain additional controls for working with raw footage. Do more with tapeless workflows

PlayDozens of enhancements
Dozens of enhancements new

Benefit from dozens of customer-requested refinements that yield big productivity gains — such as the ability to align layers to comps.

Close lookColor Finesse 3
Color Finesse enhanced

Enjoy an enhanced color correction workflow with the new features, finer control over hue and saturation, and ability to export settings as color lookup tables (LUTs) in Color Finesse LE 3.

DigiEffects FreeForm
Digieffects FreeForm new

Turn flat objects into virtually any 3D shape using this popular 3D mesh warp plug-in.
Expand your video options

Go further with Production Premium

Include After Effects elements in Adobe Premiere® Pro timelines without rendering intermediate files, thanks to Dynamic Link. Animate 3D objects created in Adobe Photoshop® Extended and combine them with other video and graphical elements.
Do more with Creative Suite® Production Premium

Videomocha including variable width mask feather and trackable masks
mocha for After Effects v2 enhanced

Apply motion tracking to hand-drawn masks and import variable-width mask feathers. The powerful mocha shape plug-in is also included.

Auto-Keyframe Mode
Auto-Keyframe mode new

Animate quickly by setting starting keyframes automatically.

Close lookColor Look-Up Table (LUT) support
Color LUT support new

Get consistent color in your workflow by using industry-standard 3DL and CUBE lookup tables.
Refine Matte effect new

Apply intelligent edge tracking, dechattering, and motion blurring capabilities to any layer with a problematic alpha channel, such as keyed footage.


After Effects® CS4 9.0.2

Notable fixes
* Crash on quit if the active workspace when After Effects starts includes a ScriptUI Pane
(48419, 49138, 49163)
* Several memory corruption issues; fix should improve overall application stability.
* Crash on startup on computers with very old OpenGL drivers, or unsupported video card
manufacturers. (49698, 2266571, 2283657, 49758)
* Crash on startup due to a corrupt XML file in the preferences directory, such as used by
workspaces, dialog boxes, and Pixel Bender. Now, the corrupt file will be appended with
a .old extension so that startup can proceed. (49837)
* Crash on startup due to unsupported codec. Now, a warning message will identify the
unsupported codec and associated file name. (49876)
* When a PDFL crash occurs during startup, more information is now provided, indicating
that a bad font may be causing the crash. (49901)
* (Windows only) Drawing surface errors and short RAM previews due to exhaustion of
GDI resources (handles). Now, you should have better memory usage, resulting in longe
RAM previews and improved performance. (49912)
* Cannot open DPX file that can be opened in Photoshop CS4; file converted from
Phantom .cine to DPX using Glue Tools. (49330)
* "After Effect error: internal verification failure, sorry! {fill me in}" error trying to import
multi-image element DPX footage, such as from a Northlight Film Scanner. (50121)
* Audio conforming failure when importing certain FLV files. (2319601)
* Crash when using Pixel Bender effects, GPU-accelerated effects, and Cartoon effect in
low-memory situations. Instead of being marked invalid, Pixel Bender effects can be
reapplied when memory becomes available. (2276200, 50174)
* Crash in the Puppet effect when generating the mesh on a complex shape (possibly
when Expansion is zero). (49971)
* (Mac OS only) Crash in the Puppet effect when pasting keyframes into a non-keyframed
Puppet pin Position property. (49508)
* "could not convert unicode characters (23::46)" error applying CC RepeTile effect in
Chinese OS (49988), or crash using CC Particle World on Mac Pro 8-Core i7 (Nehalem)
machines (50366).
* Crash trying to interrupt rendering (e.g., dragging to adjust values) for the Fog 3D, Depth
Matte, or ID Matte effect when placed after other effects (49491, 49492, 49493); for Fractal Noise and Turbulent Noise effects (50111); and for EXtractoR and IDentifier
effects when placed after other effects. (49921)
* Crash when deleting the Tone effect from one composition, when that composition is
used (nested) in another composition. (50081)
* (Mac OS only) Incorrect Mac type/creator codes for OpenEXR, PICT, PNG, TIFF, and
Cineon rendered files, which made them unrecognizable by Final Cut Pro. (49811)
* Crash on quit or close of project after multiple layers with various video/audio states
(active, solo) are copied. (49632)
* Crash on quit with layers on the clipboard that are adjustment layers with effects with
points or collapsed layers. (50079, 49922)
* Incorrect dimensions of a multiple-layer Photoshop file imported as a composition with
cropped layers and merged layer styles. (50146)
* (Mac OS only) "invalid file location specification (must include name) (3::45)" error on quit
if you create or open a project containing Particle Playground effect. (49892)


4.0.1
Notable fixes
* Miscellaneous performance improvements with MediaCore video formats.
* General improvements to Dynamic Link workflows.
* Mocha AE doesn’t read v210 QuickTime files correctly. (49015)
* On some systems, the application may suspend rendering when the display turns off due to power management or screen saver settings. (49146)
* All Render Queue items are removed when opening or importing a saved project in which the first item has no comment, but other Render Queue items have comments. (49186)
* Crash using “Open Layer” when multiple layers are selected if one of the selected layers does not have a source or has a collapsed transformation. (49207)
* Auto-save is marking a project as saved; user can close project without being prompted to save changes, and multiprocessing can return old frames. (49209)
* (Windows only) Custom eyedroppers in keying effects pick up wrong colors when clicked in custom thumbnail. (49248)
* Exposure effect: negative offset values render garbage/underflow in 8bpc and 16bpc. (49294)
* Puppet Tool: For a 3D layer, results are being clipped to layer bounds. (49267)
* Importing a still sequence via Recent Footage imports only a single still instead of a sequence. (49265)
* For some OpenGL effects in 32bpc projects, overbright colors are getting clipped. (1893997)
* When the “Write XMP IDs to Files on Import” option is selected, MediaCore playback can make some files appear out of sync. (1880742)
* Application may appear to hang for several minutes “Reading XMP markers from footage” (status message) with files that contain deeply nested metadata. (1874477)


v7.0
Adobe® After Effects® 7.0 software is loaded with improvements designed to help you create outstanding, original work. A redesigned UI and a new Graph Editor help streamline your workflow, new presets and effects enhance your creativity, and 32-bit float High Dynamic Range (HDR) color support (Professional Edition only) helps you achieve greater precision.
http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/newfeatures.html


v6.5.1
Adobe After Effects 6.5.1 update - English, French, German, and Japanese
This Adobe® After Effects® 6.5.1 update upgrades After Effects 6.5 software to version 6.5.1 and resolves a number of problems, including crashes at launch with certain hardware configurations when initializing the user interface, layers becoming invisible when soloed, and sluggish performance on certain projects.


v6.5
Advanced Clone tool
Remove unwanted elements from multiple frames more accurately using the advanced Clone tool, which offers five presets and the ability to simultaneously view the source frame as an overlay while you paint.

Disk caching
Take advantage of disk caching to speed up your interactive work.

Animation Presets
Save any combination of animation parameters — including transformations, masks, Expressions, effects, and text — as Animation Presets to quickly reuse without setting keyframes.

Tighter Adobe integration
Import Adobe Photoshop® CS and Illustrator® CS files with layers and other attributes preserved. In Windows®, copy and paste selected Adobe Premiere® Pro clips into After Effects, and create motion menus and buttons for use in Adobe Encore™ DVD and much more.

Color correction and grain management effects
Adjust the color of footage and other elements with powerful color correction tools, such as Color Finesse™. Use grain management tools to add grain to make video look more like film, or remove grain to give film the look of video (Professional edition only).

New special effects plug-ins
Add dramatic effects to your compositions with more than 60 new plug-ins, including Particle World, Light Burst, Light Sweep, and Toner.

New text animation features
Set blend modes between characters, randomize text, write scripts to automate text changes within animations (Professional edition only), and more. Enjoy over 250 professionally designed text Animation Presets.

FireWire video output
Preview your compositions on NTSC and PAL video monitors whether you're using a Windows or a Mac OS X system.

More flexible Motion Tracker
Zero in on any element with the enhanced Motion Tracker, which lets you use as many points as you like or standard one-, two-, and four-point settings; track change in scale or just horizontal or vertical movement; and edit the motion path (Professional edition only).

Enhanced scripting
Use scripts to automate management of the Render Queue as well as production tasks including changes to text and layers, creation of custom palettes, and more (Professional edition only).

All new features:
http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/pdfs/aftereffects_nfhs.pdf