January 2017 Update to After Effects CC Is Now Available

The January 2017 update for Adobe After Effects CC (version 14.1) is now available. This update fixes multiple bugs, including fixes for compositions rendering at the wrong resolution via Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe Premiere Pro. Updates for Audition CC, Adobe Media Encoder CC, Premiere Pro CC, and Prelude CC are also now available.

You can install updates through the Creative Cloud desktop application, or you can check for new updates from within any Creative Cloud application by choosing Help > Updates. Please note that it can take 24 hours or more for all of our global data centers to receive the update. If the update isn’t available for you right now, please check back later.

For details of what was added, changed, and fixed in the November 2016 release of After Effects CC (version 14.0), see this page, and see this page for a list of bugs fixed in the version 14.0.1 bug-fix update. For details of all of the other updates for Creative Cloud professional video and audio applications, see this page.

Please, if you want to ask questions about these new and changed features, come on over to the After Effects Forums. That’s the best place for questions. Questions left in comments on a blog post are much harder to work with; the blog comment system just isn’t set up for conversations. If you’d like to submit feature requests or bug reports, you can do so at this page.

The January 2017 update for After Effects CC (version 14.1) fixes these bugs:

• Adobe Media Encoder and Premiere Pro again render compositions at full resolution, regardless of the resolution set in the Composition panel in After Effects. (When using the Queue In AME command, the resolution you specify in the Render Settings dialog will be used.)
• JPEG image sequence footage no longer changes its frame rate and duration when the project is saved, if the frame rate assigned in the Interpret Footage dialog differs from the preference for sequence footage frame rate. Note: JPEG sequences in projects last saved by versions 14.0 or 14.0.1 are not automatically corrected to their previous frame rate. To fix such projects, change the frame rate to the expected value in the Interpret Footage dialog for these JPEG sequences.
• After Effects no longer crashes when you open the preferences if the audio device last used by After Effects was disabled or disconnected.
• Auto-save timing has been fixed so that the timer only starts after you make a change to a saved (or new) project. This prevents problems where the timer would run while the project was saved but not changed, resulting in auto-save occurring after you make the next change.
• After Effects no longer disables the Hardware Accelerate Composition, Layer, and Footage Panels option on Windows when you unlock the computer while After Effects is active. (You should no longer receive the warning, “Hardware-accelerated views have been disabled because they are not compatible with Remote Desktop”, unless you are actually using Remote Desktop.)
• Text templates that use sourceRectAtTime() in an expression now update the comp correctly when the text is changed in Premiere Pro.
• Text templates that use expressions to reference other layers now update the comp correctly when the text is changed in Premiere Pro.
• Text templates no longer display layers as offline in Premiere Pro if the source file for that layer uses non-English Unicode characters.
• When you select a template project in Preferences > New Project, the file dialog box allows you to select all project format types (.aet, .aep, and .aepx) without changing the format type selector.
• Creating a new project from a template, when enabled in Preferences > New Project, no longer adds the project template to the File > Open Recent menu.
• Orthographic views of compositions using the CINEMA 4D renderer are no longer offset and shifted from layer handles.
• Previews with the Skip option enabled (i.e., not zero) in the Preview panel no longer play at less than real-time when you play through previously cached frames.
• Composition and layer viewer panels no longer downsample the preview image if you make a change during playback and the composition Fast Preview option is set to Adaptive Resolution.
• After Effects no longer crashes when you quit on a Mac computer with an Intel GPU, after you import video footage or JPEG images.
• After Effects no longer sometimes crashes when you quit while a preview is playing back.
• After Effects no longer crashes on start when trying to load a plug-in from a folder with a very long name.
• After Effects no longer crashes if you apply the Glow effect to a synthetic layer (e.g., solid, shape, text, etc.) and the layer is outside of the comp bounds, if the project is set to use GPU acceleration and is in 8- or 16-bpc mode.

The January 2017 update for After Effects CC (version 14.1) also includes these improvements to Team Projects (Beta):

• Team projects can now be saved as a local project (.aep) by choosing Edit > Team Projects > Convert Team Project to Project.
• The Edit > Edit in Adobe Audition command is now available for layers with audio in a team project.
• Many bugs with team projects have been fixed.

For more detail about these improvements and how Team Projects lets you collaborate on shared projects in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Prelude, read this article about working in shared projects.