Adobe After Effects CC
Create cinematic movies, intros, and transitions. Start with a fire or falling rain. Animate logos or characters. Download After Effects CC , the standard visual effects & motion graphics software, you can bring any idea to life.
Create anything with Adobe After Effects CC
Animators, designers, and typesetting artists use Adobe After Effects CC to create graphics and animation effects for film, TV, video, and the web.

Roll title. Rotate word. Twist title.
Create dynamic titles, titles and lower thirds. Start from scratch or with one of the animation presets available right in the app. From rotate to swipe to slide – users have countless ways to animate text when using Adobe After Effects CC .

Explosive effect. Impressive results.
Combine videos & photos to create an unidentified flying object in the sky, blur a logo or create an explosion – Countless creative possibilities and hundreds of effects to achieve your desired results, from adding fog to change color or make it snow.

Vivid every detail
Animate everything from logos to shapes to animations with keyframes or expressions. Users can also use presets to start designing and get unique results.

Good interaction with other programs
Adobe After Effects CC works seamlessly with other Adobe applications. Complete designs and instantly see them in Premiere Pro CC with Adobe Dynamic Link. Import works from Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Character Animator CC, Adobe XD CC, Animate CC. Use Team Projects to collaborate with other editors wherever they are. Adobe After Effects CC integrates more than 300 software and hardware partners.
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Preview and render faster with Multi-Frame Rendering
Speed up photo editing by leveraging the power of a multi-core CPU when previewing and displaying results. After Effects automatically adjusts the resources used for faster rendering on high-performance computers.

After Effects supports remote notifications on mobile, smartwatch and desktop
Simulate queues with remote notifications
Render Queue, which leverages the power of Multi-Frame Rendering technology, highlights important information such as rendering progress. Get smart watch notifications when a visualizer completes via Creative Cloud on PC or mobile app.
Combination profile
Exploring layers and effects in a composition takes the longest time to render compared to other items.

Convenient preview mode
After Effects renders a quick combination of effects even without using the app for a long time.
Export faster with Adobe Media Encoder
With Multi-Frame Rendering, exporting effects combinations is 4 times faster on powerful computers.
Improved HEVC . 10-bit playback
HEVC 422 10-bit decoding technology enables higher performance playback and editing on the next generation of Intel Windows
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Replace media in Motion Graphics templates and Essential Properties
Create Motion Graphics templates with alternative media assets such as images and videos. Then use in Premiere Pro to create complex graphics and animations with custom parameters, flexible media.
Preview 3D drafts in real time
Create innovative products faster in 3D environments. Real-time 3D rendering engine allows for instant feedback in the Composition panel, thereby discovering new ideas and applying them to the design quickly.
3D Ground Plane
Orient the blueprint in space with the horizon and blind spots. You can toggle grid mode to accurately orient, arrange objects in space and logically relative to other objects. The Ground Plane button only appears while in the 3D draft preview.

Improved Composition toolbar on the new After Effects 2021
Improved Composition Toolbar
Supports both 2D and 3D environments, by rendering frequently used tools based on context. The Composition toolbar is reorganized and shows more intuitive options based on the selected layer.
Improve team performance
More fluid and efficient cloud coordination. You can share and test changes on Team Project super fast. Search is also twice as fast thanks to indexing.
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Content-Aware Fill with more precision
Supports a wide variety of video clips, including clips with light that changes continuously over time through Lighting Correction technology in Content-Aware Fill. This updated feature will remove moving objects through a range of different light intensities.
In the previous version, the Content-Aware Fill feature still maintains the original frame and does not handle the changing light, so it accidentally creates unreal shadows. When you turn on the light processing option, they will be more vivid and natural.

Changing Color Space and Gamma Curve on After Effects CC 2021
Color Space and Gamma Change
The default Gamma curve and color space will be processed in the RED file. Refer to the table below for the changes to the Color Space and Gamma curve in the Adobe Effects 17.6 update.
Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.1
New contour parameter in shape layer

When drawing a stroke on a shape layer, you can use the new parameters – Taper and Wave to create wavy, pointed, or rounded lines. You can vary the thickness of shape strokes, edit the taperedness of the lines, and animate them to create unique graphic elements and more impressive shapes.
Concentric Shape Repeater

The Offset shape effect has 2 new parameters:
- Copies
- Copies Offset
Create geometric patterns and concentric shape copies using these parameters. You can use them to create retro and mandala-style designs.
ProRes RAW import support

After Effects now offers the ability to import and edit Apple ProRes RAW
media files on properly configured systems.Copy media to a shared location
Using Team Projects, you can copy project media files to a shared location such as an available network storage, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Dropbox folder for multiple people to access.
Enable cloud document collaboration
Create multiple versions of your project and collaborate on shared progress when working remotely.
Other improvements
- Minimac Effects now supports GPU acceleration for faster processing and rendering.
- The Set Channels effect now supports 32-bpc color.
Adobe After Effects CC 2020 17.0
Improved preview and playback efficiency

Enjoy sharper and faster preview playback in After Effects 2020. You can also take advantage of the new GPU-accelerated rendering system core for a seamless, accurate view of blueprints without stopping the creative flow. GPU rendering boosts preview performance and provides a detailed, clearer project viewer in real time.
Enhancing the EXR . process

You can now import EXR files (OpenEXR Bitmap) as a work in After Effects to make them process faster. Importing EXR files allows you to apply multiple effects to component layers without going through the first complicated setup process. You can work with each layer and apply effects to make the renderings more natural in their environment. Improved performance also makes processing large files more responsive.
Faster shaping
After Effects 2023 improves responsiveness when handling shapes to speed up repetitive creative steps. Improved access to group controls also makes it easier to navigate and manage large numbers of shapes.
Improves overall performance on projects containing multiple shape layers
Users can now right-click to create or ungroup shape layers. Select multiple shapes in the Timeline panel, right click and select group/ungroup shapes. Another option to select multiple shapes in the preview window is to right click and from the Mask and Shape path use Group/Ungroup .
Upgrade graphics and text
Menu Control Dropdown Effect
When creating Motion Graphics templates, you can now use the Dropdown Menu Control effect to append the properties of a layer in your project to a drop-down list. You can now share sliders and checkboxes as editable controls, allowing others to change their properties in Premiere Pro.

Edit text attributes with expressions
For expressions that don’t change over time, After Effects applies them to the entire frame at once with up to 40% faster processing speed. Expressions applied to the main property also run significantly faster.
Extended format support and better playback
Format support includes Canon XF-HEVC along with two legacy formats. Animate with delta and MJPEG frames. Performance improvements for H.265 HD/UHD, HEVC HD/UHD, 10-bit ProRes files.
Other Upgrades
- Cinema 4D Lite R21 includes caret and bevel tools for creating text and spline functions. The new high-performance noise reduction filter improves image quality and reduces rendering times.
- Remove unwanted objects faster with Content-Aware Fill, now twice the speed and using only half the memory than before.