The After Effects CC 2015 (13.6.1) bug-fix update is now available. This update fixes multiple bugs, including a bug that caused After Effects to not update the preview image in the Composition panel, which happened most commonly after using Undo. Adobe After Effects CC 2015 13.6.1 Multilingual merupakan software untuk edit video dan membuat visual effect, di tangan para ahli software ini menghasilkan karya yang luar biasa, dengan fitur lengkap dan membingungkan untuk orang awam, butuh banyak - banyak latihan untuk menggunakan Adobe After Effects CC 2015 13.6.1 Multilingual.
![]()
The After Effects CC 2015 (13.6.1) bug-fix update is now available. This update fixes multiple bugs, including a bug that caused After Effects to not update the preview image in the Composition panel, which happened most commonly after using Undo.
You can install the update through the Creative Cloud desktop application, or you can check for new updates from within any Adobe application by choosing Help > Updates.
For details of what was added, changed, and fixed in After Effects CC 2015 (13.6), see this page. For details of all the other updates for Adobe professional video and audio applications, see this page.
If you want to ask questions about this update, come on over to the After Effects user-to-user forum. If you’d like to submit feature requests or bug reports, you can do so here.
The After Effects team is continuing to investigate other bugs for future updates. Refer to this article for current information about known issues.
The After Effects CC 2015 (13.6.1) bug-fix update addresses these significant bugs:
Twitter™ and Facebook posts are not covered under the terms of Creative Commons.
Legal Notices | Online Privacy Policy
The After Effects CC 2015 (13.6) update is now available.
For an overview of what’s new in all of the Adobe professional video and audio applications and services, see this page. For details of the updates for all Adobe professional video and audio applications and services, see this page.
![]()
If you’re a Creative Cloud subscriber, you can download the new version by checking for updates through the Creative Cloud desktop application. For information about purchasing a Creative Cloud subscription, see this page about plans and this page with current promotional offers.
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. Questions left in comments on a blog post are much harder to work with; the blog comment system just isn’t set up for conversations. If you’d like to submit feature requests or bug reports, you can do so here.
summary of what’s new in the After Effects CC 2015 (13.6) update
Karl Soule shows several of these new and changed features in this video.
updated preview behaviors and Preview panel options
Since the release of After Effects CC 2015 (13.5), the After Effects team has been listening closely to user feedback about the changes to preview behaviors and the Preview panel controls. Several changes were made in the After Effects CC 2015 (13.6) update to accommodate that feedback.
previews can be nearly twice as long for same content (compared with previous versions)
We have optimized how frames are cached and how frames are transformed for screen display such that only about half as much memory is required for typical content. Though this change is primarily about memory efficiency, it also contributes to rendering and playback performance.
improved caching behaviors and controls
The Preview Favors control has been removed. This option did not clearly express its intent of changing the caching behavior, and it received very little use. There is now a single caching behavior. The new caching behavior is a hybrid of the former Preview Favors Frame Rate and Preview Favors Length behaviors:
A new Cache Before Playback option has been added. When this is enabled, After Effects will cache frames before starting playback. This behavior is similar to how RAM Preview behaved in past versions of After Effects. However, note that frames are not displayed to the Composition, Layer, or Footage panel as they are cached. This option is not enabled by default for any of the preview shortcuts. If you Option-click (Mac OS) or Alt-click (Windows) the Reset button in the Preview panel, Cache Before Playback will be enabled for Numpad-0.
audio preview changes
The Audio Preview Duration control in Preferences > Previews has been removed. This option conflicted with the Range option in the Preview panel. When audio must be rendered for a preview, it is now rendered for the duration defined by the Range control. The new Play Around Current Time range option can be used to emulate the behavior of the Audio Preview Duration preference.
Regardless of the range, longer audio durations require more memory to store the rendered audio for playback. This could result in shorter overall preview durations and also a longer pre-preview delay to prepare the audio (the Info panel will display “Mixing audio for preview”).
The Composition > Preview > Audio Preview commands have been removed. These menu commands, Audio Preview (Here Forward) and Audio Preview (Work Area) described behaviors that can now be modified in the Preview panel, now that the audio-only preview keyboard shortcuts can be configured in the Preview panel (see below). To reduce confusion, they have been removed. The remaining Composition > Preview > Play Current Preview command can still start an audio-only preview, if that is the current state of the Preview panel.
The Mute Audio button at the top of the Preview panel mutes or unmutes audio during playback. It will also enable or disable the Include Audio button for the keyboard shortcut that you used to start that preview.
To change whether audio is played when you start a preview, use the new Include Audio button, described below.
new controls for determining what happens when you stop a preview
In previous versions of After Effects, including After Effects CC 2015 (13.5), the behaviors that occur when you stopped a preview were dependent on what type of caching was being used by the preview and what keyboard shortcut you used to stop the preview. These behaviors were not user-configurable.
With the After Effects CC 2015 (13.6) update, you can configure the stop behaviors for each keyboard shortcut using new controls at the bottom of the Preview panel. In the On (shortcut name) Stop section (e.g., On (Spacebar) Stop), you can enable the following options:
The spacebar shortcut now has “If caching, play cached frames” disabled by default. In After Effects CC (13.5), this behavior was enabled for the spacebar shortcut and caused confusion among some users.
new Include buttons for video, audio, and overlays and layer controls
Below the Shortcut control are three buttons that control whether any keyboard shortcut starts a preview that plays video, plays audio, or shows overlays and layer controls. You can now configure any preview shortcut to start a preview with or without video, audio, or overlays and layer controls.
You can not disable all three of the Include buttons simultaneously, at least one button must remain enabled. If you try to disable the third button, one of the other buttons will become enabled.
new configurable keyboard shortcuts for previews
new range options, including option to play around current time
The Audio Preview Duration preference in the Previews preferences category has been removed. This option conflicted with the Range option in the Preview panel. When audio must be rendered for a preview, it is now rendered for the duration defined by the Range control. The new Play Around Current Time range option (see below) can be used to emulate the behavior of the Audio Preview Duration preference. Regardless of the range, longer audio durations require more memory to store the rendered audio for playback. This could result in shorter overall preview durations and also a longer delay before preview began, to prepare the audio (the Info panel will display “Mixing audio for preview”).
The Range control includes a new option, Play Around Current Time. This option behaves similarly to the Play Around command in Premiere Pro. When you start a preview with Play Around Current Time enabled, the preroll value is subtracted from the current time, the postroll value is added to the current time, and the frames in between are previewed.
To set the preroll and postroll values, choose Play Around Current Time from the Range menu. Set your desired preroll and postroll values in seconds, then click OK.
Play Around Current Time is enabled by default for the Numpad-.(decimal) audio-only preview keyboard shortcut, with a preroll value of 0 seconds and a postroll value of 30 seconds. This emulates the default cache duration defined by the Audio Preview Duration preference that was removed.
current-time indicator color change
The current-time indicator (CTI) now draws as blue through its entire length at all times, including when preview is stopped. This resolves a consistency issue between the CTI and the red preview-time indicator (PTI) that appears only during previews to show which frame is being previewed.
user interface improvements for touch screens, multi-touch devices, and small screens
As more and more people use After Effects on small laptops and tablet devices—many of which have touch screens and multi-touch input devices—it is increasingly important for After Effects to work well on such small screens and take full advantage of these touch input systems.
stacked panel groups
Stacked panel groups give you one-click access to panels while keeping your workspace clean and uncluttered. Stacked panel groups function similarly to the panels in Adobe Lightroom.
Panels in a stacked panel group are minimized to their panel tabs and stacked vertically. Clicking on a panel tab will expand that panel, and by default will solo that tab by simultaneously minimizing the other panels in the group.
Stacked panel groups are best used to quickly show and hide panels that typically appear along the right side of the After Effects workspace, such as the Character, Paragraph, Paint, Brushes, Tracker, and other panels that you do not use all the time.
To create a stacked panel group, click the panel menu on the tab of any panel in the panel group choose Stacked Panel Group from the Panel Group Settings menu.
To restore the stacked panel group to a non-stacked panel group, disable the Stacked Panel Group option.
You can reorder and resize panels within a stacked panel group.
When you click on a panel in a stacked panel group, other panels in that stacked panel group will minimize to their tabs (solo mode). To allow more than one panel in a stacked panel group to be expanded simultaneously, disable Solo Panels In Group in the Panel Group Settings menu for that panel group.
Regardless of the solo setting, you can simultaneously expand or minimize all panels in a stacked panel group by Command-clicking (Mac OS) or Ctrl-clicking (Windows) the tab of a panel in that group.
workspaces and the workspace bar
The new workspace bar gives you one-click access to default or custom workspaces. It functions similarly to the Workspaces panel in Premiere Pro CC 2015. Please read this article in Premiere Pro Help to learn how to modify, arrange, and choose workspaces in the workspace bar.
In previous versions of After Effects, workspaces were available through the Workspace menu on the right side of the Tools panel. This has been replaced by the workspace bar, which occupies the right side of the Tools panel. Workspaces that do not fit in the available space are displayed in the overflow menu (>>) on the right side of the workspace bar.
When the Tools panel is moved from its position at the top of the workspace, the workspace bar is replaced by the Workspace menu.
Workspaces and the new Edit Workspaces dialog box can also be accessed through the Window > Workspace menu.
New workspaces have been added to take advantage of stacked panel groups and the workspace bar, and the order of the workspaces has been rearranged. By default, the workspace bar shows three workspaces: Essentials, Standard, and Small Screen. Other workspaces are available in the workspace bar’s overflow menu.
Important: Due to the changes to workspaces, custom workspaces are not migrated from previous versions of After Effects.
other panel and tab improvements
Panel tabs can be set to a larger size for easier selection on a touch device. To enable this for all tabs in a panel group, click on the panel menu for any tab in the group, choose Panel Group Settings, then disable Small Tabs.
When you rearrange panels in a tabbed panel group, other panels now automatically move out of the way to make room for the dragged panel. This includes automatically scrolling hidden panels when you drag to the end of a full panel group.
The overflow menu for tabbed panel groups now shows all panels in that group.
multi-touch zoom, pan, and scroll gestures
When using a multi-touch input device—such as a touchscreen display (e.g., Microsoft Surface or Wacom Cintiq Touch) or multi-touch trackpad—you can zoom, pan, and scroll in the Composition, Layer, Footage, and Timeline panels using multi-touch gestures.
improved color fidelity
Several changes were made with the After Effects CC 2015 (13.6) update to extend the After Effects color management feature set and to improve the ability to bring in assets from many different sources while preserving color information at the highest possible fidelity. There’s more information about the improvements that we’re making across our applications for ultra-HD and high-dynamic-range (HDR) color on the Premiere Pro blog, here.
Among the small changes to color management, automatic interpretation of color data has been improved in a few ways: e.g., linear color pixel formats are now recognized automatically, and half-resolution HD footage is no longer tagged with SD color profiles.
Lumetri Color effect
The After Effects CC 2015 (13.6) update includes the Lumetri Color effect, which is being added so that color grading work performed in Premiere Pro can be preserved in After Effects when copying clips from Premiere Pro to After Effects, importing a Premiere Pro project into After Effects, or using the Replace With After Effects Composition command in Premiere Pro.
IMPORTANT: The intent of the Lumetri Color effect in After Effects is to preserve color adjustments on clips brought from Premiere Pro into After Effects. Refer to the Premiere Pro color workflows documentation for a description of the different controls. You can apply the Lumetri Color effect to any layer in After Effects, but note that not all controls are fully replicated.
For best results, set the project color depth to 32 bits per channel if you enable the High Dynamic Range option in the Lumetri Color effect.
additional ICC profiles for color management
The After Effects CC 2015 (13.6) update includes several new ICC profiles for correctly interpreting colors from a variety of sources—including ARRIRAW footage—as well as new profiles for simulating color output and for choosing a working color space for the project:
new importers for additional formats and codecs
The After Effects CC 2015 (13.6) update can natively import HEVC (H.265) footage, QuickTime (.mov) files encoded with the Avid DNxHR codec, and Dolby Vision PQ color data in MXF files encoded with the JPEG2000 codec.
streamlined workflow for using CC Libraries and Adobe Stock
Graphics and video assets can be dragged from the Libraries panel directly to the Composition and Timeline panels. The asset will automatically be imported into your project; you no longer have to import and add to the composition as separate steps.
At the top of the Libraries panel is a new search field; from the drop-down menu you can choose to search either your libraries or Adobe Stock. When you search Adobe Stock, results will be displayed in the Libraries panel.
When you mouse over the results, buttons for Buy and Save Preview appear over the image or video. Buy will purchase a license for that asset and save it to your libraries, and Save Preview will add a watermarked preview of that asset to your libraries. From here you can add the assets to your After Effects project.
If you want to license a preview image or video after adding it to your libraries, right-click on the asset in your library, then choose Buy Image or Buy Video. The preview image or video will automatically be replaced with the non-watermarked, licensed version.
IMPORTANT: In After Effects CC 2015 (13.6), licensed still images do not automatically replace preview still images. This will be fixed in a future release. If you have used a preview still image in a composition for which you’ve purchased a license, you can work around this: Add the now-licensed image to your project, then hold the Option (Mac OS) or Alt (Windows) key and drag the licensed image from the Project panel onto the preview image in the composition to replace it.
When you add an Adobe Stock video to your After Effects project, the video will initially appear as a placeholder (color bars) while the video file is downloaded. Once the download completes, the placeholder will be replaced with the video file. You can monitor download progress in the new Progress Panel (Window > Progress Panel). When you license a preview video that was used in your project, the licensed video will also need to download before the preview video is replaced.
scripting access to text baselines
You can read the baseline (x,y) locations for a text layer using scripting with the After Effects CC 2015 (13.6) update. The new
sourceText.value.baselineLocs attribute for TextDocument objects returns an array of floats indicating the starting position of each line of text’s baseline x and y value.
Line wraps in a paragraph text box are treated as multiple lines.
The array returns float values in the form of: line0.start_x, line0.start_y, line0.end_x, line0.end_y, line1.start_x, line1.start_y, line1.end_x, line1.end_y … lineN-1.start_x, lineN-1.start_y, lineN-1.end_x, lineN-1.end_y
Note: If a line has no characters, the x and y values for start and end will be the maximum float value (3.402823466e+38F).
new scripting method to generate random numbers
There is a new scripting method to generate random numbers,
generateRandomNumber . We recommend that you use this function instead of Math.random when you want to generate random numbers that will be applied as values in a project (e.g., when using setValue ).
This new method avoids a problem where
Math.random would not return random values in After Effects CC 2015 (13.5.x) due to a concurrency issue with multiple CPU threads.
Sample use of the
generateRandomNumber method:
var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var x = 0;
for(var i = 1; i <= myComp.numLayers; i++){
// If you use Math.random(), this does not work
// x = 400*(Math.random()) – 200; // use new generateRandomNumber() instead
x = 400*(generateRandomNumber()) – 200;
currentPos = myComp.layer(i).property(“Position”).value; myComp.layer(i).property(“Position”).setValue([currentPos[0]+x,currentPos[1]]); } CycoreFX HD 1.8.1 effect plug-ins
The CycoreFX HD 1.8.1 plug-in package includes the following new effects:
Adobe Media Encoder improvements
Though not in After Effects, per se, the improvements coming in the next version of Adobe Media Encoder include several that are of great interest to After Effects users, including the ability to use image sequences in watch folders, the ability to directly publish to Facebook (as well as Vimeo and YouTube), and the ability to export HEVC (H.265) video. See this page for details.
Character Animator (Preview 3) improvements
Character Animator (Preview 3) adds much new functionality and improves performance and usability in several areas. See this page for details.
miscellaneous new and changed features
notable bug fixes
If you’d like to let us know what you’d like to see addressed in a future update, let us know with a bug report or feature request here. You can also talk with us on the After Effects user-to-user forum. Please, do not leave comments on this blog post, since the blog comment system is not set up well for bug reports or conversations.
After Effects, General, Region of Interest
![]() Comments are closed.
|
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
January 2023
Categories |