Create a composition and select Project Settings from the Project panel menu.
- Text
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Motion Graphics
- Work with Motion Graphics templates in After Effects
- Use expressions to create drop-down lists in Motion Graphics templates
- Work with Essential Properties to create Motion Graphics templates
- Replace images and videos in Motion Graphics templates and Essential Properties
- Animate faster and easier using the Properties panel
- Overview of shape layers, paths, and vector graphics
- Paint tools: Brush, Clone Stamp, and Eraser
- Taper shape strokes
- Shape attributes, paint operations, and path operations for shape layers
- Use Offset Paths shape effect to alter shapes
- Creating shapes
- Create masks
- Remove objects from your videos with the Content-Aware Fill panel
- Roto Brush and Refine Matte
- Create Nulls for Positional Properties and Paths
- Animation
- Keyframe
- Motion tracking
- Keying
- Effects and animation presets overview
- Effect list
- Effect Manager
- 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
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Expressions
- Expression basics
- Understanding the expression language
- Using expression controls
- Syntax differences between the JavaScript and Legacy ExtendScript expression engines
- Editing expressions
- Expression errors
- Using the Expressions editor
- Use expressions to edit and access text properties
- Expression language reference
- Expression examples
- Automation
- Construct VR environments in After Effects
- Apply immersive video effects
- Compositing tools for VR/360 videos
- Advanced 3D Renderer
- Import and add 3D models to your composition
- Import 3D models from Creative Cloud Libraries
- Image-Based Lighting
- Animated Environment Lights
- Extract and animate lights and cameras from 3D models
- Tracking 3D camera movement
- Cast and accept shadows
- Embedded 3D model animations
- Shadow Catcher
- 3D depth data extraction
- Modify materials properties of a 3D layer
- Work in 3D Design Space
- 3D Transform Gizmos
- Do more with 3D animation
- Preview changes to 3D designs real time with the Mercury 3D engine
- Add responsive design to your graphics
- Basics of rendering and exporting
- H.264 Encoding in After Effects
- Export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project
- Converting movies
- Multi-frame rendering
- Automated rendering and network rendering
- Rendering and exporting still images and still-image sequences
- Using the GoPro CineForm codec in After Effects
- Dynamic Link and After Effects
- Working with After Effects and other applications
- Sync Settings in After Effects
- Creative Cloud Libraries in After Effects
- Plug-ins
- Cinema 4D and Cineware
- After Effects User Guide
- Beta releases
- Getting started
- Workspaces
- Projects and compositions
- Importing footage
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Text and Graphics
- Text
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Motion Graphics
- Work with Motion Graphics templates in After Effects
- Use expressions to create drop-down lists in Motion Graphics templates
- Work with Essential Properties to create Motion Graphics templates
- Replace images and videos in Motion Graphics templates and Essential Properties
- Animate faster and easier using the Properties panel
-
Drawing, Painting, and Paths
- Overview of shape layers, paths, and vector graphics
- Paint tools: Brush, Clone Stamp, and Eraser
- Taper shape strokes
- Shape attributes, paint operations, and path operations for shape layers
- Use Offset Paths shape effect to alter shapes
- Creating shapes
- Create masks
- Remove objects from your videos with the Content-Aware Fill panel
- Roto Brush and Refine Matte
- Create Nulls for Positional Properties and Paths
- Layers, Markers, and Camera
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Animation, Keyframes, Motion Tracking, and Keying
- Animation
- Keyframe
- Motion tracking
- Keying
- Transparency and Compositing
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Effects and Animation Presets
- Effects and animation presets overview
- Effect list
- Effect Manager
- 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
-
Expressions and Automation
-
Expressions
- Expression basics
- Understanding the expression language
- Using expression controls
- Syntax differences between the JavaScript and Legacy ExtendScript expression engines
- Editing expressions
- Expression errors
- Using the Expressions editor
- Use expressions to edit and access text properties
- Expression language reference
- Expression examples
- Automation
-
Expressions
-
Immersive video, VR, and 3D
- Construct VR environments in After Effects
- Apply immersive video effects
- Compositing tools for VR/360 videos
- Advanced 3D Renderer
- Import and add 3D models to your composition
- Import 3D models from Creative Cloud Libraries
- Image-Based Lighting
- Animated Environment Lights
- Extract and animate lights and cameras from 3D models
- Tracking 3D camera movement
- Cast and accept shadows
- Embedded 3D model animations
- Shadow Catcher
- 3D depth data extraction
- Modify materials properties of a 3D layer
- Work in 3D Design Space
- 3D Transform Gizmos
- Do more with 3D animation
- Preview changes to 3D designs real time with the Mercury 3D engine
- Add responsive design to your graphics
- Views and Previews
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Rendering and Exporting
- Basics of rendering and exporting
- H.264 Encoding in After Effects
- Export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project
- Converting movies
- Multi-frame rendering
- Automated rendering and network rendering
- Rendering and exporting still images and still-image sequences
- Using the GoPro CineForm codec in After Effects
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Working with other applications
- Dynamic Link and After Effects
- Working with After Effects and other applications
- Sync Settings in After Effects
- Creative Cloud Libraries in After Effects
- Plug-ins
- Cinema 4D and Cineware
- Collaboration: Frame.io, and Team Projects
- Memory, storage, performance
- Knowledge Base
Learn the process of importing HDR content and how to export your final compositions while maintaining the HDR quality.
Use new beta features
HDR import and export is now available for testing and feedback. Try it now in After Effects (beta).
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CICP Metadata, a broadcast industry standard for specifying color spaces, defines the video color space (primaries), transfer function, matrix coefficients, and scaling factor of the image using code points in accordance with the ITU-T H.273 standard.
After Effects now supports CICP metadata in PNG, MOV and ICC profiles if included.
After Effects now allows accurate processing for HDR content on import. It recognizes high dynamic range (HDR) characteristics and ensures the preservation of the imported content's full dynamic range, brightness, and color accuracy.
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Use the Project Settings to adjust the Working Color Space for the project before you import the HDR content. Use the Project Settings to adjust the Working Color Space for the project before you import the HDR content. -
Under the Color tab, make sure you have selected an HDR-compatible Working Color Space, such as Rec.2100 PQ.
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Import a file containing CICP metadata such as Quicktime, PNG, or TIFF file with ICC profile.
You can export your composition in HDR to ensure the final output has high dynamic range (HDR) characteristics such as contrast, color accuracy, and brightness. This process includes exporting CICP metadata, which allows HDR content to be correctly interpreted by devices, ensuring the reproduction on HDR-capable displays matches the intended HDR content.
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To export with CICP Metadata, add your composition to Render Queue.
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Select PNG Sequence from the Output Module.
Use PNG Sequence as the format for high-quality image sequences, preserving color information and transparency. Use PNG Sequence as the format for high-quality image sequences, preserving color information and transparency. -
In the Color tab, select a desired output color space or keep it in the working space and select OK.
Select Output Color Space as Rec 2100 PQ to ensure that the colors in your project are accurately converted to high dynamic range (HDR) color space. Select Output Color Space as Rec 2100 PQ to ensure that the colors in your project are accurately converted to high dynamic range (HDR) color space. -
Select Render to start rendering and export. If the selected color space supports representation as CICP metadata, it will be automatically embedded in the rendered output.
If you are working with After Effects and Premiere Pro, you can send compositions with HDR and CICP embedded directly to Premiere Pro using Dynamic Link or as a Motion Graphics template.
Join the discussion on HDR import and export in the After Effects (Beta) community.
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