What's New In After Effects CC

I made a overview of some of the cool new features in After Effects CC
What new features are you most excited about? The intergration with C4D looks amazing! Wonder how Andrew Kramer will kick it up a notch with Element 3D? Both are great plugins.

All of this is cool, which one revs me up the most?
Probably the Detail-preserving Upscale effect, echoing the amazing new upscaling ability of the current Photoshop. I wind up mixing in all kind of footage from who knows where, attached who knows how to who knows what, and it will be great to be able to use it more readily even if a full "standard" size down from the project.

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    Here it is:
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    > -Still no real 3D or ability to import 3D-files without Photoshop. The
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    I was really annoyed at all of the YouTube videos that said that was going to be in CS5. It just goes to show that you can't believe what you see on the Internet. ;-)
    Seriously, though, those folks are just down the hall from me, and they are always doing great stuff---much of which eventually makes it into products. Several of the cool features from this and previous release have come in part from them. So, don't lose hope.

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    Hello there,
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  • What is your Premiere, After Effects and SpeedGrade Workflow?

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    Let's say I finished the edit of the project and send the project via Dynamic Link to SG. I finish the grade and then decide to use the Dynamic Link to AE to add some titles with shapes and effects such as Fast Blur. This is where I'm facing the first problem. When I choose a clip to be 'Replaced with an AE Composition', the color correction is gone, and now if I grade in SG, it will naturally grade the titles I added. So, it seems as though my color grade is a waste of time and I have to do it the old school way of first absolutley completing the color grade, exporting, re-importing and then heading for titles and effects. That makes you lose quite a bit of "dynamics" in your work (and time aka money), if my clients want changes for example.
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  • What is the Best After Effects Version for my Computer?

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  • Smooth render/new to after effects plz help

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  • Where is the "what's new" link after an upgrade as with 4.0.1

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    Is there still a place where you can find the changes/fixes incorporated in a given upgrade?

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  • What happened to my after effects cs6 trial?

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  • Im new to after effect and my composition screen is black and I can't see the video. Any Ideas?

    I just bough after effect cs6 and I have installed it on my laptop but my composition screen is black and I'm not able to see the video. These are the following info about my computer. 1366x 768 resolution,  referesh rate 60, graphoc memeory 1792 MB. 1 TB Hard drive, 12 GB RAM
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  • Reloaded Adobe Master Suite CS4 to new PC - After Effects does not appear

    Recently had a PC take a lightning strike! Upon re-loading the Adobe Master Suite CS4 to my replacement machine, After Effects does not appear.  Any suggestions besides re-loading the whole suite?  Thanks!

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  • Building a new Premiere/After Effects Rig

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  • After effects 132 new keyframes... it's a joke isn't it ??

    Hello,
    I'm sorry to says, but It's getting worse and worse.
    Come on guys, what is better in this ?
    Blurred my eyes see? It's just a pile of keys all glued together ... Someone beta tests in adobe?
    how far we have to zoom in to see something? Please go back, I will do with the keys to version 13.1

    kanadiou, thanks for posting. As I was one of the people involved in making this change in After Effects 2014.2 (13.2), I have some perspective to share with you.
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    4. The icon color and brightness can't be changed from blue to the amber used in previous releases of After Effects. The color of the icons (or any other part of the user interface) was not within scope of what we were changing in After Effects 2014.2 (13.2). We have been reading all of your comments, forum posts, and feature requests to make the highlight indicator color and brightness a customizable setting in After Effects and the other Adobe digital video and audio products. Our User Experience group has been carefully considering how that can be achieved. We intend to talk about this more in the future.
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