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After Effects

Free add-on lets artists view VR content on the Oculus Rift directly inside After Effects or Premiere Pro without rendering.

Monday, January 18th, 2016

Top effects plugin collection gets integrated mocha planar tracking, new skin retouching, titling and restoration tools.

Wednesday, January 6th, 2016

Online library of add-ons for editing and compositing tools gets six new effects: from heat distortion to 1980s-style titles.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

Updated, now shipping: watch videos of the new features, including better UltraHD and gesture support.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

Updated: Neat tool automatically creates clean background plates from video footage. Now available for After Effects as well as Nuke.

Monday, October 12th, 2015

Suite of plugins for editing and compositing tools gets four diverse new effects, plus advanced options for building your own.

Friday, October 9th, 2015

Updated: Suite of GPU-accelerated grading tools gets new layered grading option, better support for DaVinci Resolve.

Friday, September 25th, 2015

Handy new plugin automatically builds a compositing project from render output in 10 leading 2D apps.

Wednesday, July 15th, 2015

Online library of add-ons for editing and compositing apps gets six new tools, with three useful freebies.

Thursday, July 9th, 2015

Handy new tool lets users live-link (almost) anything in 3ds Max to its equivalent in After Effects. Try it free until 31 July.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

Ongoing overhaul of the core code has unintended consequences for After Effects' existing functionality.

Friday, June 19th, 2015

Dover Studios co-founder's previz renderer outputs images in panoramic VR formats, or as 360° YouTube videos.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

Clovis Gay's neat motion graphics plugin creates particle-based effects similar to After Effects' Plexus.

Monday, April 27th, 2015