After Effects Help
What's new in Adobe After Effects
Learn what's new in the latest release of Adobe After Effects.
- What’s new
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Get started
- Technical requirements
- After Effects FAQ
- Get familiar with the interface
- Planning and setup
- Understand After Effects workflow
- Preferences and settings
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Supported file formats
- Arrange and manage panels
- Language support
- After Effects copyright and trademarks and third-party notices
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Work with projects
- After Effects Projects
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Work with compositions
- Composition settings
- CINEMA 4D compositions
- Composition Profiler
- Precomposing and nesting
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Work with footage items
- Import and interpret footage items
- Manage footage items
- Work with XMP metadata
- Scene Edit Detection
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Import files
- Import still images
- Import and add 3D models
- Interlaced video and separating fields
- Import SVG files
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Add text
- Create and edit text layers
- Formatting characters and paragraphs
- Text effects
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Animating text
- Text animation
- Text animation examples
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Variable Font Axes
- Work with Variable Font Axes
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Motion graphics
- Work with Motion Graphics templates
- Essential Properties
- Add responsive design
- Expressions to create dropdown lists
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Drawing, Painting, and Paths
- Shapes and shape attributes
- Null controllers
- Paint tools and paint strokes
- Taper shape strokes
- Vector graphics and raster images
- Work with masks
- Roto Brush and Refine Matte
- Remove objects from your videos
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Work with layers
- Create layers
- Layer properties
- 3D layers
- Manage layers
- Select and arrange layers
- Work with Layer and composition markers
- Work with layer blending modes
- Camera layer
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Animate in After Effects
- Animation basics
- Animate with Puppet tools
- Animate shape paths and masks
- Assorted animation tools
- Data-driven animation
- Animation keyframes
- Track motion
- Track faces
- Track mask
- Speed between keyframes
- Time-stretching and time-remapping
- Add timecode and time display units
- Keying
- Work with Keying effects
- Animate using the Properties panel
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Work with transparency and compositing
- Compositing in After Effects
- Work with Alpha channels and masks
- Work with Track Mattes and Traveling Mattes
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Adjust colors
- Color basics
- Color management
- Work with Color Correction effects
- OpenColorIO and ACES color management
- Enhanced HDR support
- HDR import and export
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Apply effects and animation presets
- Effects and animation presets
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List of effects
- Simulation effects
- Stylize effects
- Audio effects
- Distort effects
- Perspective effects
- Channel effects
- Generate effects
- Time effects
- Transition effects
- The Rolling Shutter Repair effect
- Blur and Sharpen effects
- 3D Channel effects
- Utility effects
- Matte effects
- Noise and Grain effects
- Detail-preserving Upscale effect
- Obsolete effects
- Cycore plugins
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Work with expressions
- Expression basics
- Edit expressions
- Expression controls
- Expression language reference
- Expressions to edit and access text properties
- Expression examples
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Automate in After Effects
- Automate animation
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Work with 3D composition
- Work in 3D design space
- Advanced 3D renderer
- Extruding text and shape layers
- Work with 3D animation settings
- 3D viewing and preview
- Create parametric meshes
- Work with materials
- Create realistic reflections and ambient lighting
- Cast and accept shadows
- Extract and animate lights and cameras
- Adjust Default Camera Settings
- 3D camera tracker effect
- Animate embedded 3D model
- Work with 3D scene depth data
- Stereoscopic 3D
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Immersive video and VR
- VR 360 and VR 180 videos
- Construct VR environments
- Immersive video effects
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View and preview
- Preview video and audio
- Copy frames
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Render and export
- Basics of rendering and exporting
- Render and export images
- Convert and reformat video footage
- Multi-Frame Rendering
- Automate rendering
- Export H.264 from the After Effects
- Export as an Adobe Premiere project
- Use the GoPro CineForm codec
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Work with other applications
- Work with Adobe Premiere
- Work with Dynamic Link
- Work with Creative Cloud Libraries
- Work with other Adobe applications
- Work with third-party plug-ins
- Work with Cinema 4D and Cineware
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Memory, storage, performance
- Memory and storage
- Improve performance
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Troubleshooting
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Fixed and known issues
- Fixed issues in After Effects
- Known issues in After Effects
- After Effects and macOS Ventura
- After Effects crashes on Windows
- How After Effects handles low memory issues while previewing
- Menus are disabled and Render Queue window is open in After Effects
- The font dictionary can't be read error in After Effects
- Unable to Export Composition using Media Encoder
- Unable to allocate memory | After Effects
- Error (21::31) starting After Effects after editing the keyboard shortcuts file | Mac OS 10.9 and later
- How to avoid crashes with Video Copilot Element 3D
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Fixed and known issues
