After Effects Beta

After Effects AI Assistant

Describe what you need in the new Assistant panel, and let it organize your project, write and fix expressions, generate images and videos, and more.

Stylize footage with Contour Paint effect

Use the new Contour Paint effect to analyze the contours in your frame, then smear and posterize pixels along those contours for a highly stylized result.

Use layers as material sources

Use animated precomps, solids, images, and videos as materials for 3D objects when working with the Advanced 3D renderer.

Apply materials to 3D text and shapes

Apply Substance materials directly to 3D text and shape layers, replacing default legacy materials with photorealistic or stylized looks. 

Editable text from Illustrator layers

Convert Illustrator text to editable text layers, preserving font, size, fill, position, styles, and variable font settings.

Reduce sibilance with De-esser effect

Automatically detect harsh "s" and "sh" sounds in a target frequency range and turn the audio down until the harshness passes.

Change anchor point in a more efficient way 

Effortlessly adjust the anchor point on 2D layers with Quick Set Anchor using the Properties panel or a keyboard shortcut.

Duplicate layers using Alt/Option-drag

Alt/Option-drag a layer to the Composition panel to instantly duplicate it in both 2D and 3D compositions.

Set your PNG compression level on export

Use the new Compression slider for PNG sequence exports to trade off file size for export speed while maintaining the same lossless image quality.