In the late October release of After Effects, version 12.1 one of the new features is called Detail Preserving Upscale. Now the title of this feature is pretty self-explanitory. You can upscale your footage, while preserving detail. The purpose is to scale SD to HD or HD to larger resolutions. Let’s take a look and see how it works.
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A lot of films, TV shows, and commercials use After Effects as their go-to motion graphics, visual effects, and compositing platform. In some workdlows, its okay to render your final out of After Effects, but personally I find that workflow too limiting. After all, how often is an edit really “locked” when your client, producer, director, etc. say that it is? And to start tweaking an editor or worse have to play back edit changes from After Effects, isn’t ideal to say the least.
Motion blur is great.
There are always the big features that take ALL the attention away from the little guys.
Cinema 4D has become the go-to 3D application for After Effects artist in recent years.
This improvement to the 3D Camera Tracker will you decide where you want your world center to be located. Adobe settled on the coordinates common to most 3D applications of 0,0,0 meaning if you were to model an object with the new Cinema 4D Lite and keep it at the default location, it will come back into your AE scene at exactly the point you setup in this step.
See how it all works in the video.
This is one of those features where once you start using it, you wonder how the hell you did your work without it for all of those years.
Want to render in the background? Now you can!
The new version of After Effects features a redesigned Warp Stabilizer.