Adobe After Effects for Mac

Compositions, Timeline, and Layers

• The Timeline panel no longer shows a floating horizontal scrollbar when expanding or maximizing the panel with minimal content.
• No error is shown when using Paste Reverse Keyframes on mixed selections with and without keyframes.
• Multi-line comments in the Timeline panel now display the bottom border correctly.
• Replacing or deleting an audio-only layer no longer clears cached video frames.
• Rotation now correctly snaps to 5-degree increments when holding Shift while dragging with the Rotation tool.
• Dropdown menus for Light Options, Environment Light Source, and Model Animations now appear in the timeline’s Switches column.
• Shape group transform space now centers correctly when Center Anchor Point in New Shape Layers is enabled.
• Resetting to Saved Layout no longer creates multiple duplicate panels in the timeline.
• The timeline no longer scrolls to the top when adding keyframes to layers near the bottom of a large layer stack.
• Grid snapping for path points and handles now aligns correctly with transformed Shape groups.
• Moving layers in the Timeline stack no longer displays a duplicate plus icon.

Effects and Presets

• Effects & Presets no longer cause After Effects to crash due to hidden effects exceeding internal index limits.
• Presets apply and play back without expression errors in all languages.

Preview and Rendering

• When the resolution settings of the Composition and Preview panels differ, a frame with the resolution of the Preview panel no longer flashes when playback when stopped.
• After Effects no longer downscales audio to 16-bit when exporting at 24-bit or 32-bit, preserving correct audio quality.
• Time Displacement effects in pre-comps now render correctly in the main composition.
• Overwriting multiple renders in the Render Queue now includes a Yes to All option, eliminating repeated confirmation prompts.
• Hidden layer handles no longer appear when opening the Renderer Options dialog.
• Switching from QuickTime to DPX/Cineon format in Output Module Settings no longer resets the channel setting from RGB + Alpha to RGB.
• Render tokens in the File Name and Location Template dialog now insert at the text cursor or replace the selected text.
• The Composition menu’s Save Current Preview option is now enabled, sending the active comp to the Render Queue with current settings.

Expressions and Scripting

• Text style expressions no longer disrupt cursor behavior when typing, deleting, or navigating text in After Effects.
• Expression links now correctly update when layer names are renamed using non-Latin characters.
• Scripts, ScriptUI panels, and CEP extensions no longer load in Safe Mode.
• Correct bounds are now returned by sourceRectAtTime(time, includeExtents = true) for Shape layers with Stroke set to Miter Join.
• Line breaks in marker comments are now preserved when applied via scripting with carriage return characters.

Graph Editor

• The Current Time Indicator (CTI) no longer gets stuck when navigating keyframes in a narrowly sized Graph Editor.
• The Graph Editor tooltip now correctly limits values to two decimal places when dragging keyframes.

Properties Panel

• Transform values in the Properties panel can now be adjusted while text is selected in a text layer.
• Double-clicking dropdown properties in the Properties panel now correctly reveals them in the timeline.
• Switching between Point and Box Text modes now applies a default minimum box size when no text is entered.
• The Color Picker cursor in the Properties panel no longer gets stuck as a circle after canceling the dialog.
• Scale, Rotation, and Orientation values update live in the Properties panel while scaling and rotating layers in the Composition viewer.

Stability and Performance

• After Effects no longer crashes when scrubbing values in the Properties panel.
• Applying OCIO plug-ins no longer causes crashes in After Effects when using non-English languages.
• After Effects no longer crashes when using Shape Repeater with extreme coordinate values in combination with the Glow effect.
• Copying a Content Aware Fill reference layer no longer crashes After Effects.
• After Effects no longer becomes unresponsive when scrolling over the timeline control column with Option/Alt held at maximum zoom.
• Applying effects to multiple layers no longer causes After Effects to stall.
• After Effects no longer crashes when pre-composing nested composition layers that contain numerous Essential Properties and Protected Regions.

Third-party

• After Effects prevents Blackmagic Design Desktop version 10.11.4.0 (2018) and earlier from loading to avoid startup crashes.
• After Effects no longer crashes when undoing Ripple Insert Edit or Overlay Edit actions on a Cinema 4D file opened in the Footage panel.

User Interface

• Icon buttons and links now have meaningful text alternatives.
• The usage count dropdown is now correctly enabled for all project items with valid usage in the project.
• Label color brightness no longer shifts when changing UI themes.
• The History menu now lists the most recent items at the top instead of the bottom.
• The Home screen can now be closed using Esc or Cmd/Ctrl + W.
• Dialogs now open at their last saved position by default, with the Preferences dialog always opening centered.
• The Layer panel title bar now remains visible after undocking and reopening the panel.
• The Align panel’s default height now fully displays the Distribute section.
• Enabling Preserve Transparency for a layer now correctly shows Undo Preserve Transparency in the Edit menu.

Miscellaneous

• Premiere Pro projects exported from After Effects now open without errors using ProRes editing mode.
• AEGP_GetNumTextOutlines in the AE plug-in SDK now correctly returns all paths for Right-to-Left text set in Paragraph options.
• Undoing a cleared shortcut in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog no longer incorrectly shows a "Shortcut already in use" error.
• Dialogs now always open on the same monitor as the main application window.
• The Mask Feather Boundaries option is now correctly disabled when "Masks" is turned off in the View Options menu.
• Incompatible file formats can no longer be replaced with 3D models in the Project panel.
• After Effects project files created on Windows are no longer deleted when edited and saved on Mac via Dynamic Link with Premiere.
• Transparency Color thumbnails now correctly retain their original color when changes are canceled in Preferences.
• Holding Shift while using the Rotate Tool constrains rotation to fixed angle increments.