
What’s New and Changed in After Effects CC
After Effects CC 2017 (14.0) is now available. This release is all about collaboration and streamlined workflows, helping you work faster alone or with a team. Keep everyone in sync with Team Projects, work with extruded 3D text and shapes right in the timeline, and render faster with more GPU-accelerated effects. Live Text Templates have a new workflow, enabling smoother sharing between After Effects CC and Premiere Pro CC. We’ve also added lots of new features that make everyday tasks easier, like draggable marker duration and a freeze on last frame command to automatically extend footage.
Installing After Effects will install Character Animator CC (Beta), which is also now available as a separate download through Creative Cloud. The latest Character Animator includes substantial performance improvements, shareable puppet files, refined behaviors and a great new interactive tutorial to help you get started.
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 note that the newly released versions of Adobe Creative Cloud applications will overwrite prior installations by default. This behavior can be changed in the Creative Cloud desktop app.
Note that third-party plug-ins and scripts are not automatically migrated from previous versions of After Effects. Read this older blog post about managing settings and plug-ins. As always, we recommend checking for updates to plug-ins.
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