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After Effects
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KeenTools 2025.3 Brings Blender 5, Character Creator 5 & AE Exports
KeenTools 2025.3 expands host support with Blender 5, Character Creator 5 export from FaceBuilder and Alembic output from GeoTracker for After Effects.
RealFX Part 2: From the loading bar to the keyboard
Three scripts, one goal: easyRulers, LoadUP and keyboardFX bring clean, functional motion graphics utilities for everyday After Effects work.
Text2Spreadsheet bridges AE and spreadsheets with one click
Text2Spreadsheet exports all text layers in After Effects to a spreadsheet for editing, then re-imports them in one click. Simple.
Photoshop Joins Overlord 2.6
Overlord 2.6 links Photoshop to After Effects for the first time, with a new image scale selector and expanded 265 MB transfer limit.
After Effects Gets Hands-On: Victoria Nece Shows Off Quick Offset & Co.
At IBC 2025, I talked with Adobe’s Victoria Nece about Quick Offset, Smooth Zoom, and 3D compositing in After Effects. It’s tactile, fast and oddly fun.
Premiere Pro gains 90+ Film Impact effects – plug-in now built-in
Premiere Pro 25.5 folds Film Impact into the app. 90+ GPU-accelerated effects now ship natively, real-time playback, no plug-in, no red render bars.
After Effects 25.4 Lands in August: HDR Metadata, Text-Format Paste, and Layer Staggering
Adobe After Effects 25.4 introduces Quick Offset, Paste Text Formatting Only, and HDR CICP metadata support.
After Effects 25.3 Adds Smooth Zoom
After Effects 25.3 brings smooth zoom, file reveal, and serious 3D model handling—ready for professional use but test in your pipeline.
Adobe unveils Premiere Pro and After Effects 25.2 at NAB 2025, introducing AI-driven tools like Generative Extend, enhanced search capabilities, and HDR monitoring.
Using 3D Objects in After Effects
Since 2024, it has been possible to integrate 3D objects into After Effects Beta. The updated version of the Adobe compositing solution now also has this functionality.
Color Monitoring for Cheapskates?Part 1
Colour Monitoring is cheap, easy, and fast. As usual, you can pick two of those adjectives — and in this series, we are going for cheap and will make it easy for you!
Richard Rosenman Unveils IK Studio: Advanced Inverse Kinematics Plugin for After Effects
IK Studio introduces sophisticated inverse kinematics capabilities to After Effects, enhancing animation rigging and VFX workflows for professionals.
The Rise and Fall of Cyborg
When we think of compositing systems of the late nineties and early two thousands, Discreet and Quantel come to mind. But for a brief time, there was a real contender to those two powerhouses: 5D Cyborg!
Adobe After Effects Beta: HDR Preview for Precision Workflows
The latest After Effects beta introduces HDR composition previews, supporting more accurate workflows for HDR-ready monitors.
New After Effects Stuff!
Adobe has rolled out major updates to After Effects, enhancing 3D workflows for motion designers and VFX professionals. The new features focus on embedding 3D animations, improving shadows, and offering more depth mapping options.
Magic Nodes 2: New functions
The "Magic Nodes" extension for "Adobe After Effects" has
has been around for a while. This enables compositing in a Nodes network
with the Adobe programme. A look at the changes
and improvements in version 2.
Update to the MAX
As always, numerous innovative, experimental technologies were
experimental technologies were presented by Adobe researchers and engineers. Surprisingly, the focus was on artificial intelligence.
At NAB, Adobe presented innovations for the entire platform - here are the parts relevant for VFX and editing!
The Puppet Groove
The animated film "The Puppet Groove", which looks like a music video, shows a rocking puppet band on stage. In the background, the singer narrates their success story in an animated film sequence. But whether the musicians really have everything under control is only revealed at the end.
Creation Effects – Kreative Templates!
Creation Effects at DP reader price: As announced in the article, Noel has sent us a code for a 25% discount on the templates presented in the test!
After Effects! Substance! Oscars!
And once again news from Adobe: After Effects now supports every variant of OCIO and ACES, Substance Designer has received a bugfix, and there's also a Tech Oscar for the Substance team!
Release of the beta of GeoTracker 2022.2.2!
How can tracking and power moving be made easier in After Effects? GeoTracker from KeenTools is one possible answer. Now with support for After Effects 17.0!
Adobe announces the new After Effects!
The latest version of the compositing software will be presented at the Adobe Max industry event. One of the most exciting innovations for creative professionals is the Substance 3D Modeler. An overview.
News in After Effects?
The fun thing about IBC is that you meet interesting people - and as we were walking through Hall 7, we met Victoria Nece from Adobe!
Simplify lighting in After Effects with this free plugin
The ProductionCrate asset library has released Crate's Godrays - an AE plugin that can be used to generate volumetric lighting effects.
Adobe releases After Effects 22.5!
Speakers of Korean and Hebrew, prick up your ears: The latest version of the compositing software now recognises the Unicode area correctly! But also: Now you can finally animate left-hand fonts without errors!
Insider tips from the content creator pope for musicians: Will Harvey, aka Revilo, teaches you how to create stylish VJ loops with C4D and After Effects. Not only does it look good, it sounds good too!
Frame.io now also available in Adobe’s Creative Cloud!
Work more efficiently with the video collaboration platform Frame.io. Plus: Adobe presents innovations for After Effects and Premiere Pro.
Loveletter
Who doesn't know it: the portable games console that saw the light of day at the end of the 1980s and gave us endless hours of fun and games for many years. We are, of course, talking about the Gameboy. A time when the potential of computer-generated graphics was in its infancy. But what if a creative team back then had had access to today's production pipelines and technologies?
Premiere listens – and types!
New functions and tools are added with every Creative Cloud update. In the last major update for Premiere, there was an entire subsection - transcribing. But how exactly does it work? (Including self-test and prize draw)
Cavalry Beta: Das neue Motion Design Tool?
More competition for the motion design software landscape? Cavalry is a promising tool - now in open beta.
Allan McKay: Decay VFX Training
New free VFX training from Allan McKay: This time there's a ten-hour session on how to realise this decay effect.
Adobe MAX 2017: 11 future technologies
A look into the future: At Adobe MAX 2017, there were insights into tools for upcoming releases - including Scene Stitch, Deep Fill, Project Cloak and more.
OctaneVR for After Effects and Nuke!
Otoy releases free versions of Octane for Adobe After Effects and Foundry Nuke - for all OctaneVR subscribers.
Spectracal Calman 2016
Why calibrate monitors? Our most important tool in the production of media content is the monitor, as a control tool in the first instance of production via the reference monitor in post-production during finishing and as a presentation tool in the final use of the content.
VR tools for the Creative Cloud: Adobe acquires the Mettle SkyBox Suite and plans seamless integration with Adobe products. CC subscribers can receive the plug-ins early via email support.
Adobe After Effects: April Update
The update for Adobe After Effects comes with interesting new features, including a Motion Graphics Panel, new Deblur effect, Lumetri Scopes and more!
After Effects Tutorial: Zordon Effect
In preparation for the Power Rangers film: In this tutorial you will learn how to create the modern version of Zordon with After Effects.
Adobe Update: After Effects 14.1
After the major update from Adobe in November, the 14.1 update for After Effects follows with bug fixes and changes for team projects.
Mini-Planet in After Effects
Charles Yaeger explains in the tutorial how to create a tiny planet in After Effects with SkyBox Studio and Element 3D - from the 2D outline to the finished globe.
Sci-fi weapons video from Video Copilot
Mr Video Copilot, Andrew Kramer, has released a sci-fi weapon video. He used plug-ins in AE, design elements from ShockWave and the new Sound FX Library.
