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Version 13.7:
Note: Update is ~587 MB.
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- Live Link, which synchronizes the timelines in After Effects and Cinema 4D (R17 SP2)
- support for the Cinema 4D Take System (R17)
- extract .c4d timeline markers
- other enhancements and fixes
New preference to auto-save when starting the render queue
- In Preferences > Auto-Save, you can now control whether After Effects automatically saves the project when you start the render queue. The new Save When Starting Render Queue option is enabled by default. This new option is a separate control from auto-saving at intervals ("Save every X minutes"). The Auto-Save options have been modified to make it clear that you can choose to save at intervals, save when starting the render queue, or both. Starting in After Effects CC 2015 (13.6), auto-saving does not occur while the render queue is rendering. In After Effects CC 2015 (13.6), if Automatically Save Projects was enabled in Preferences > Auto-Save, projects were always auto-saved when you started the render queue; After Effects CC 2015 (13.7) now allows you to control whether or not this auto-save occurs.
Improvements to Cache Before Playback previews
- When the Cache Before Playback option is enabled in the Preview panel, After Effects CC 2015 (13.7) now previews frames as they are rendered. As the frames are rendered, only newly rendered frames are previewed; previously rendered frames are skipped. Audio is not previewed during this caching phase of the preview. After all frames are rendered, preview of the cached frames begins (with audio, if enabled).
Notable Bug Fixes
- Resizing a panel by dragging panel borders with a tablet pen (e.g. a Wacom tablet) no longer causes the pointer to continue to drag the panel border the next time you touch the pen down, or to unexpectedly begin dragging after a single click.
- Zooming with the mouse wheel in a Composition panel set to multiple views will again zoom the view under the pointer as expected, instead of only zooming the first view.
- Audio is no longer silent for the first 2 seconds of previews after the composition has been fully cached, if the Mute Audio When Preview Is Not Real-time preference is enabled.
- Audio no longer plays out of sync if the frame rate of the comp or footage is different than the Frame Rate option in the Preview panel.
- Visual artifacts no longer occur in layers that use time remapping with frame blending set to Pixel Motion, or with Timewarp, Rolling Shutter Repair, and other effects that use the Pixel Motion (optical flow) method.
- Antialiasing in viewer panels (Composition, Layer, Footage) is improved when downsampling (e.g., viewer resolution is set to full and zoom is set to 25%) and the Hardware Accelerate Composition, Layer, and Footage Panels option is enabled in Preferences > Display.
- Layers draw their contents as expected, instead of a wireframe, when you hold the Option (Mac OS) or Alt (Windows) key while dragging the anchor point with the Pan Behind tool.
- Fixed several cases where the render progress bar in the Composition panel failed to appear or update as expected after modifying a composition.
- Resetting a workspace to its saved layout no longer opens empty Timeline panels.
- The Paint workspace now opens the Paint and Brushes panels instead of the Character and Paragraph panels.
- Audio-only previews no longer restore the workspace when the Timeline panel or other non-viewer panels are maximized.
- Choosing Replace With After Effects Composition in Premiere Pro no longer fails with an error, "Importer reported a generic error", if the Premiere Pro sequence is set to greater than 99fps. Note that while the new composition in After Effects will be at the expected frame rate, changing that composition's settings will reduce its frame rate to 99fps. (99fps is the maximum value allowed by the Composition Settings dialog. This bug fix behaves similar to dragging footage that is greater than 99fps to the New Composition button at the bottom of the Project panel in After Effects.)
- Previews now play the composition, layer, or footage only once when the Loop control in the Preview Panel is set to Play Once, even when the playback requires frames to be cached and causes it not to play in real-time. Note that when Cache Before Playback is enabled, the caching phase is separate and not considered to be playback; once all frames are cached, then the single playback loop begins.
- Scrolling in the Render Queue panel during rendering works again.
- Previewing with Full Screen enabled no longer causes an error message: internal verification failure, sorry! {no current context}
- After Effects no longer crashes when you select multiple keyframes, then open the Keyframe Velocity dialog and enable Continuous.
- Executing After Effects via the command line no longer fails if the file path to a project file or script contains "-ep".
- OS X 10.9 or later
- 64-bit multicore Intel processor
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
- 6 GB available hard-disk space for installation
- 1440x900 display
- OpenGL 2.0-capable system
- QuickTime 7.6.6 for QuickTime features
- Internet connection
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