Fixed issues in After Effects

• 3D Reference Axis colors now match the 3D gizmo.
• 3D Reference Axes are now on by default. To disable them, click on the Grid and Guide Options button at the bottom of the Composition panel.
• Fixed an issue with 3D Transform Gizmo that caused gizmo components to render overlapped when using negative scale.
• Fixed an issue that prevented dragging to reorder more than one effect at a time in the Effect Controls panel.
• Fixed an issue that caused tools at the bottom of Lumetri Scopes panel to be clipped on a HiDPI Windows system.
• Fixed an issue with Content Aware Fill that caused a color shift in generated fill layers when switching Project Working Space from ProPhoto RGB to Rec.709 Gamma 2.4.
• Fixed an issue in the Content Aware Fill options where the lighting correction checkbox would show as checked when a Fill Method that didn’t support lighting correction was selected.
• Fixed an issue with Content Aware Fill when using 16bpc projects.
• Fixed an issue where CMYK files may shift colors unexpectedly when the Project Working Space is linearized, or using a non-display-style color profile.
• Fixed an issue where an Alpha channel dialog may display incorrectly when importing a CMYK Photoshop file.
• Fixed an issue where expression edits made in the Graph Editor were not applied consistently.

3D Scene Navigation

• Fixed an issue that caused the mouse cursor to change to the camera tool instead of zoom out when holding the option key with zoom tool is selected.
• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect camera manipulation point for overlapping layers in Z-axis.
• Fixed an issue that caused an error when panning in the same position as POI.

3D Transform Gizmo

• Fixed an issue that prevented using gizmo with scale zero.
• Fixed an issue that caused the scale readout UI to overlap when scaling down.
• Fixed an issue that caused a layer to tilt in the wrong plane if pressing shift while dragging rotation handle on reoriented layer.
• Fixed an issue that caused light and camera gizmo components to render overlapped.

Other bug fixes

• Fixed an issue with Color Management that caused ‘Use Display Color Management’ to not be enabled by default when setting project working space.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when using Key Cleaner with HDR footage.
• Fixed an issue that could cause an expression to be replaced instead of appending when using expression or property pick-whip.
• Fixed an issue with Roto Brush that caused incorrect propagation cached markings to show up when switching layers in the Layer panel.  
• Fixed an issue that caused longer load times for projects with compositions that have more than a hundred layers.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Roto Brush modified span bar duration to reset when adding a stroke.
• Fixed an issue that caused drag operations such as moving panels within a workspace or repositioning guide lines to not work properly on Mac, after changing the display resolution in System Preferences.
• Fixed an issue with Essential properties that caused an error when duplicating a master property group in the timeline.
• Fixed an issue with Essential properties that caused a master property name to increment when duplicating it.
• Fixed an issue that caused the app window to open larger than the monitors screen size if the ‘ModifiedWorkspaces’ folder was deleted.
• Fixed an issue that caused a panel to not show at the correct height when undocking it from a stacked panel group.
• Fixed an issue that caused a panels snap points to be incorrect when display scale was greater than 100%.
• Fixed an issue that caused the bounding box handles for selected shape groups, paragraph text, and motion tracker points to not draw at the correct size when the monitor resolution is scaled.
• Fixed an issue that caused snapping to be not accurate when using the graph editor.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused adjacent Bezier keyframes with zero velocity and same values to not cache properly.
• Fixed an issue that caused the app to crash when using Boris Reactor plugin with a no audio footage.
• Fixed an issue that caused scripting of Render Queue crop attributes to swap right and bottom values.
• Fixed an issue that caused dragging the current-time indicator (CTI) to leave black trails at certain display scales.

3D Transform Gizmo

• Fixed an issue that caused the camera and light wireframes and position paths to draw incorrectly for some view angles.
• Fixed an issue that caused the 3D Transform Gizmo to disappear when using the rotate tool.
• Fixed an issue that caused an error when using large layer scale value with Rotation Gizmo.
• Fixed an issue that caused a crash when setting X-scale to zero.
• Fixed an issue that caused the UI element of Rotate Gizmo to draw when layer is out of view.
• Fixed an issue that caused drawing problems in comp panel when using a Custom View.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Gizmo size to be relatively large or small depending on the size of the comp.
• Fixed an issue where the wrong rotation values could be shown when using View Axis modes.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Z-scale to not work when using the transform gizmo in some cases.
• Fixed an issue that caused the UI showing how far you have moved an element to overlap with other UI elements unexpectedly.

3D Scene Navigation

• Fixed an issue that caused all the camera keyframes to be removed when resetting camera.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused an error when dollying camera in same position as POI.  
• Fixed an issue that prevented using Option/Alt key as tool modifier key on 2D layer in a 3D comp.
• Fixed an issue that prevented keyboard shortcut Alt/Option to not engage wireframes interactions in 2D comps.

Other bug fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to crash when creating a new layer viewer while paint tool is selected. 
  
• Fixed an issue that caused After Effects to freeze when moving the cursor over a footage panel with pen tool selected.  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Linear color key controls to disappear when using the effects own color picker in the comp panel.
• Fixed an issue that caused a black dialog window to pop up in case of a mismatch between Operating Systems locale and CCD installer app language.
• Fixed an issue that caused QuickTime DNxHR files generated via Avid Media Composer's Universal Media Engine to import as audio-only.
• Fixed an issue that caused all-black frames when exporting a comp to QuickTime with the Avid DNxHR 444 codec with an alpha channel.
• Fixed an issue that caused import to fail for Quick Time ProRes files.
• Fixed an issue that caused garbage pixels when exporting a comp to QuickTime DNxHR 444 with uncompressed alpha.
• Fixed an issue that caused Content Aware Fill PNG export files to be large.
• Fixed an issue with Essential Graphics Panel that caused a crash when closing the Edit Properties dialog.
• Fixed an issue that caused the render to fail when running aerender from CMD.
• Fixed an issue that caused AERenderCore to not terminate when quitting the app in some cases.
• Fixed an issue that caused memory error when rendering AI files in “More Accurate” mode.
• Fixed an issue that caused AMD integrated GPUs to not be used for effect rendering in higher resolution comps.

• Fixed an issue where After Effects was crashing on launch or threw a "File is not found" error message when opening images with Camera Raw 13.0. This was caused due to OS incompatibility of Adobe Camera Raw 13.0 with macOS 10.13.
  
• Fixed an issue where After Effects would frequently crash during playback or while idle in the background.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a crash when changing a drop-down list value in the Essential Graphics panel.
• Fixed an issue where After Effects could hang when reading from the disk cache while in low memory situations.
• Fixed an issue that caused a crash when trying to use hotkeys and shortcuts before creating a composition.
• Fixed an issue that caused a crash when switching between layer and comp viewer while ‘Content Aware Fill’ was generating Fill Layer.
• Fixed an issue with motion graphic texts that caused incorrect rendering for South Asian Languages.
• Fixed an issue that caused Adobe Media Encoder to hang when trying to render comps from After Effects.
• Fixed several caching related issues that caused cache markings to not update or even purge in some situations.
• The tool tip no longer flickers when you hold the cursor over the time ruler in the Timeline panel.
• Master Properties again retain their custom names when viewed in the Timeline.

• Fixed an issue with the Transform Gizmo where the rotation tool is too sensitive and erratic.
  
• The Create Shapes from Vector Layer command is now disabled for Illustrator layers if the source file is missing.
  
• Bug fixes for the Median effect when rendering transparent pixels: alpha channel edges render correctly in 32-bpc color, and layers that are completely transparent no longer return an error message, “Photoshop Library operation failed”.
  
• Fixed an issue where using shape stroke taper was generating a spike at start and end points.
• Fixed an issue with Master Properties that was causing the push and pull buttons to be grayed out after keyframe interpolation changes.
• Fixed an issue where adding dropdown menu items to existing Motion Graphics templates and replacing in Premiere Pro was resetting previous selections.
• Fixed an issue in Echo effect, where it could produce garbage pixels in output.

• Added 32 bpc support for Set Channel, Channel Combiner, Shift Channel and MiniMax.
  
• Improved EXR performance: Multi-part and multi-channel EXR files preview up to 3x faster.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when creating a composition using a CSV file containing Chinese characters.
• Fixed an issue where the status info along the bottom of the Render Queue Panel was not appearing at non-100% display scale. 

• Fixed a bug where previews could not be stopped during playback.
• Fixed an issue where Markers could not be referenced by name in the JavaScript Expressions Engine.
  
• Fixed an issue with Roto Brush where Refine Edge strokes failed to morph and adapt to changes in footage over time.
• Fixed a crash that could occur if a script attempts to display a dialog box when you switch workspaces. 
• Fixed an issue so that clicking on a property’s “Include in graph editor” button no longer causes a “Could not convert to Unicode” error when After Effects is run in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. 
• Fixed crashes related to using South East Asian languages in a composition.  
• Fixed an import issue where Illustrator REC709 files were incorrectly interpreted as sRGB.

• Fixed an issue that was causing custom preview thumbnails created in the Essential Graphics Panel to appear black when duplicating the composition.  
• Fixed an issue where tapered strokes were generating the wrong start and end edge for ellipse shapes when using modified trim path values.
• Fixed an issue with tapered strokes where the inner corners were torn or pinched incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue on Apple hardware where the composition panel could fail to display correctly when the GPU driver failed to initialize.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing After Effects compositions being used with Dynamic Link, such as Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, when certain plugins were used in the composition.
• Fixed an issue where the wrong version of an After Effects composition would be rendered by Adobe Media Encoder when the composition was edited after being added to Adobe Media Encoder.

• Fixed an issue to allow negative values for the CompItem.displayStartTime and CompItem.displayStartFrame scripting attributes so we match the valid range allowed when setting the Start Timecode in the Composition Settings Dialog (-3:00:00:00 to 23:59:00:00).
• Fixed an issue with Dynamic Link where a composition with certain effect plugins would not appear in the Adobe Media Encoder queue.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Time Navigator Bar to work as expected when working with time-reversed layers.
• Fixed ability to sync settings in menus and through Home Screen.
• Fixed an issue to make sure that the composition preview remains in position while resizing comp panel during playback.
• Fixed an issue for the mask tracker text misalignment.
• Fixed an issue with VR Rendering on Metal.
• Fixed an issue with Expression editor to auto-complete ‘timeToFrames’ function.
• Fixed an issue with Tint Effect to show correct values in 8-bit or 16-bit when swapping colors.
• Fixed an issue where when you rename a layered file used by your project, such as PSD file imported as a comp, re-linking one layer now automatically relinks all layers of the file. 
• Fixed a crash on Mac hardware that does not support Metal. OpenGL is no longer used to display on these systems.
• Fixed an issue to ensure that all Premiere Pro keyframes are imported into After Effects correctly, including those on clips that were shifted forward in time.
• Fixed a crash on Mac that could occur when a text field is in edit mode and the cursor hovers over other UI elements.

• Fixed an issue where After Effects does not startup when a folder that After Effects needs to read is readable only by the root user on Mac. This bug was impacting the use of software such as Faronics Deep Freeze.
• Fixed an issue that causes an importer error when importing H.264 Mac OS Mojave screen recording clip.
• Fixed an issue for Windows that causes CIDFont, CMap and Font subfolders to appear in the same folder as the After Effects Project when double-clicking an .aep project file to launch the app and open a project.
• Fixed an issue with modified data files (JSON, CSV, TSV) not being used when compositions are exported via Adobe Media Encoder.
• Fixed an issue specific to XDCAM HD 422 file that causes artifacts when exporting as MPEG2 CBR50.
• Fixed an issue specific to H.264 120 fps files that show red frame at the end of the file.
• Improved performance for importing H.264 files created by Open Broadcaster Software (OBS – Screen Recording).
• Fixed an issue where a time stretched composition could cause After Effects to show an error, overflow converting ratio denominators (17::19) when queueing the comp to Adobe Media Encoder.
• Resolve out of bounds read security issue. See security update bulletin ID ASPB20-21.
• Add support for accurate half-NTSC frame rate (14.985 fps).

• Fixed an issue where pressing the Escape key while editing text in the Dropdown Menu dialog crashes After Effects.
• Fixed an issue where ProRes HDR footage that is graded and/or mastered in P3 was not using the correct color management workspace.
• Fixed an issue where the Link Focus to Layer command produced an expression that did not work with the JavaScript expression engine.
• Shift Channels effect can now utilize the GPU for processing.
  

• Projects saved in After Effects 17.0.4 containing rotoscope data open in After Effects 17.0.1 without causing a missing data error.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using scripting or, drag and drop of a file into a project. 
• Fixed an error, “After Effects Error: zero denominator in ratio multiply. ( 17 :: 17 )” that may show after opening the Render Queue window.
• Fixed an issue where a comp may display twice in the preview window when no dedicated GPU is available or detected.
• Removed the Pro Import After Effects plug-in on MacOS. For more information, see Pro Import plug-in is missing on macOS.
• Fixed the Dropdown Menu Control Effect where new items are not added when in active text edit mode.
• Enabled 32-bpc support for Minimax effect.
• Additional fixes for corrupted rendering on 16” MacBook Pro.
• Installing or Uninstalling After Effects no longer removes or overwrites newer Cinema 4D versions installed independently of After Effects.

• A project saved in After Effects 17.0.1 containing Rotoscope data would not open and would show an error related to Missing Data.
• On macOS, an issue can occur when the comp window is on a different physical display than the timeline window and the first click on the comp window would not allow selection of items in the comp.
• After Effects crashes when using puppet and clicking on an intersecting outline in certain situations.
• Added support for 11.988 fps as a standard import/export rate. Previously, clips imported or exported at this FPS rate may have a duplicated first frame.
• Updated OpenEXR suite of plug-ins to fix a number of issues identified after 17.0 release:
  • IDentifier: Improper keyframed effect properties are allowed.
  • EXtractoR: Error and crash previewing with keyframed effect properties, Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Assertion failed, Expression: FALSE
  • Cryptomatte: Error and crash previewing with keyframed effect properties, Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Assertion failed, Expression: FALSE
  • Cryptomatte: incorrect rendering and target selection when layer bounds are outside comp.
• Fixed the error message - "No valid color space in VideoFrameHeader" when Character Animator dynamic-link scene is rendered in AE with conversion to Rec. 709 set to True.
• Improved use of the GPU during preview display.
• Various improvements to preview panning and zooming while playing back a comp.
• Fixed an issue where wrong line numbers would be displayed related to errors in JavaScript expressions.
• Content Aware fill now supports Unicode characters in Fill folder path.

General stability, usability, and performance

• Fixed an issue where using the arrow keys to scroll through fonts in the character panel do not show a live preview on the selected text layer. 
  
• Updates for OpenEXR and Cryptomatte to fix a number of bugs.
• Can't open Cryptomatte effect modal settings dialog when launching with fresh preferences.
• Cryptomatte effect Layer settings popup is blank by default.
• Changing Cryptomatte effect Layer setting after making selection does not display warning.
• Save Frame As ProEXR does not update the default name in the save dialog.
• Fixed an issue where opening the layer preview window may show up blank. This may occur if a project has been saved on Windows, then opened on macOS. 
• Fixed an issue where the I and O keys may not work as keyboard shortcuts.
• Fixed an issue where After Effects may show a leaked memory warning on quit.
• Fixed Cartoon effect that may show corrupted or unexpected artifacts on some frames or after a purge of memory cache.
• Fixed a problem setting PWS through scripting where a requested profile may not be set.
• Fixed master properties not animating unless the original property is animated.
• Fixed an issue where shift-rescaling will incorrectly flip the layer if the layer has previously been flipped.
• Fixed an issue where the UI becomes unresponsive because the auto-save folder could not be created or is read-only.
• Fixed an issue where random characters may appear in Undo/Redo History when moving Footage to the Composition by drag and drop.
• Fixed an issue with GPU Drop Shadow effect that may cause hardware preview playback to stop.
• Fixed Dropdown Menu expression control effect duplicates not appearing in the correct order.
• Fixed an issue where audio may be muted when an audio-only preview is started.
• Restored default behavior of 16.x when dealing with YCC footage to be the full range Rec. 709 profile (Compensate is on).
• Fixed marquee selection in Warp Stabilizer tracking points not working correctly when not at 100% zoom.
• Fixed an issue where Colorama color picker may not pick the correct color.
• Fixed an issue where the timeline panel may become unresponsive during preview.
• Fixed an application hang that could occur if the timeline CTI was set to a negative time by an expression or script.
• Fixed an issue where the color workspace may not be honored between Adobe Media Encoder and After Effects.
• Fixed an issue where Pseudoeffect properties being used as Master Properties are zeroed out and keyframes removed on project open. If you have a project with this issue, you need to:
  • Start After Effects
  • Open the project
  • Clear any errors
  • Close the project, but not After Effects
  • Open the project again
  • Save the project
  • Close After Effects
  • Open After Effects and the project and the error should be gone.

Render and export

• Fixed a rendering issue where Mac hardware built before mid-2012 would show either a static preview or duplicate previews (one static, one animating).
• Fixed a rendering issue with Roughen Edges that may show additional content outside the bounds of a shape layer.
• Fixed a rendering issue with the new 16” Macbook Pro that would show a corrupted preview. 
• Fixed crash on macOS launch if the hardware does not support Metal rendering.
• Fixed hardware rendering issue on partially occluded small frames with large zoom.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when rendering a comp to Adobe Media Encoder when the encoder preset was trying to match the source quality for its settings.
• Fixed a rendering issue with time remapped comps.
• Fixed a crash when rendering certain motion graphic templates in Premiere Pro on Windows using CUDA rendering.
• Improved the rendering of frames when changing zoom level while a preview is playing back. If the comp quality is set to Auto, the preview can still show an incorrectly sized comp for a frame or two. Setting the comp quality to full or half, etc. will resolve this issue.

Crash

• Cryptomatte crashes with no layer selection in the effect settings dialog.
• Fixed a crash where Colorama color picker would crash on macOS 10.15.
• Fixed a potential crash when using macOS 10.15.1 and purging cache memory.
• Fixed crash that may occur when applying a motion graphic template to a Premiere Pro timeline when the fonts needed weren’t synchronized. 
• Fixed crash on macOS launch if the hardware does not support Metal rendering.
• Fixed crash that may occur while an error dialog was trying to be shown.
• Fixed unstable puppet engine crash when in a semi-untessellated state.
• Fixed random noise and crashes when using Shadow Diffusion in a Classic 3D comp.
• Fixed an error or crash when using the Mask Tracker in Perspective Mode.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using special characters in a drop-down control in the Essential Graphics Panel. 
• Fixed a crash that could occur when preview playback is below real time and the comp contains audio.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when rendering a comp to Adobe Media Encoder when the encoder preset was trying to match the source quality for its settings.
• Fixed a crash that might occur when a scrollbar is clicked in a panel that doesn’t have overflowing content.
• Fixed a crash that may occur when shape overlays are enabled in the comp window.
• Fixed a crash that could occur on macOS when clicking and scrubbing in the timecode edit control in the timeline window.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a project in a situation where After Effects has multiple importers to handle the file type.

• After Effects can crash if the OS changes the number of active CPU cores available to After Effects after the program starts.
• When using Dynamic Link with Character Animator, macOS 10.14 and 10.15 do not correctly ask for permission to use the microphone and camera within After Effects. This only occurs once now.
• Fixed crashes related to zooming in and out while previewing.
• Fixed a bug where 3D extrusion of text or shapes could be drawn with incorrect meshes.
• Various scripts built into After Effects such as VR environment, and Trace Path are not working correctly in non-Latin languages.
• Fixed keys such as I, O and C not being able to be reassigned in the Keyboard Shortcut system.
• Updated the CyCore plug-in suite with following fixes:
  • CC Overbrights: Better behavior when no over bright pixels present. Fixed alpha consistency between options, and changed the default view option to RGB Clip.
  • CC PixelPolly: Always depth sorted.
  • CC Cylinder: New Rotation Order control (Same as in CC Sphere). Select an axis combination. This selection is now used  to rotate the cylinder when using the Rotation control.
  • CC Vignette: Smartfx layer transform issues.
  • CC LightBurst: Layer resize issues.
  • CC Drizzle: Uninitiated output pixels on area sample overflow with small layers.
  • CC Hair: Minor light calculation error.
• Fixed crash that can occur when you output PSD sequence from the render queue.
• Fixed crash that can occur when you use certain plugins with a comp containing audio clips.
• Fixed crash that could occur on mac 10.15 when purging cache.
• Dropdown Menu scripting control should now work when using After Effects in Russian.
• Fixed an issue where comps using the OpenColorIO plugin might be removed from a project on open unexpectedly.
• Fixed the offset render issue with adjustment layers and an effect that has a layer parameter sampling the effect input.
  
• Display more readable and understandable color space name of media in UI.
• Fixed Dynamic Link: After Effects closes the open project when creating a new comp from Premiere Pro.
• Fixed crash when clicking on menu with text field open.
• Fixed crash when repeatedly opening and closing Lumetri scopes panel.
• Fixed dynamic link: Premiere Pro fails to connect to headless After Effects from headed server.
• Fixed adding dropdown effect fails and deletes all effects on layer.
• Fixed no context error on mac with puppet pin and new team project.
• Fixed Cache Before Playback not working as expected.
• Fixed script exception and alert dialog on app startup.
• Fixed issue with CEP extensions that distribute as compiled JSXBIN.
• “Unable to connect to adobe fonts” dialog was not showing when user was disconnected from internet.
• Fixed crash that would occur when pressing the tab key to move between timeline or effects properties.
• Fixed keyframes and expressions not recognized as Master Properties unless the original property has keyframes or expressions.
• Fixed VFR footage with interpret footage options set to preserve audio sync that would display green frames and flash frames out of sequence.
• Color Updates:
  • Match ProRes HDR rendering in 16.x for projects saved in 16.x.
  • Preserve color settings when duplicating certain types of footage.
• Make projects saved with Save As Previous match rendering to that version.
• Fixed asserts when opening projects with missing color managed footage that were saved in older versions of AE.
• Fixed Dropdown Menu Effect - Hitting ok via tab and enter will not commit changes on MacOS.
• Fixed issue where path is converted to Bezier Path and any other selected parameters are deleted leaving just  the path in the timeline.
• Fixed crash when generating a content aware fill layer for a comp that has a data layer.
• Fixed crash when canceling verifying fonts dialog box while exporting motion graphics templates.
• Fixed mismatch in handling over-range values between SW renderer with HWBP On and SW renderer with HWBP Off.
• Fixed evolution field of fractal noise triggering hard crash.
• Fixed aerender is not working - Crash on Win, ERROR -609 on Mac.
• Fixed various asserts being shown when previewing comps with various other panels open (e.g. Lumetri scopes).
• Audio sync should also be working again when previewing.
• Additional fixes for Cineware to fix server initialization errors.
• Drag and drop of items from the project panel to comp or timeline windows should now work on macOS 10.15.
• Fixed Cineware server startup failure to launch error.
• The Raytracing 3D renderer has been removed from After Effects.
• Performance improvements when using master properties combined with expressions. Performance fixes for macOS when using software render modes.
• Updates to Cineware plugin where certain script files were missing.
• Compensate for scene-referred profiles is no longer checked by default.
• Library for importing Flash SWF files has been updated to the latest release. Please check any and all Flash related files are still working.
• Force EXR to import as a comp even if it set to import as footage but Create comp checkbox is checked.
• Fixed using keyboard shortcut "Replace with Placeholder" on multiple footage items will crash AE.
  
• Fixed issue where some render queue settings were being ignored after duplication of queue item.
• Fixed issue where ACR Camera Raw files could not be imported.