14 DAY TRIAL // Adobe’s powerful effects tool, After Effects CC 12.2.1, is now available for download on Mac OS X and Windows. The update is packed with fixes for some specific bugs, as well as general code corrections.
Applying effects to your photos with Adobe After Effects CC 12.2.1 promises to be a more satisfying experience after downloading the update, according to Adobe.
For example, some users reported that dragging a folder of source items into the Project panel would fail to import the source items. This issue is now addressed.
Another bug would cause QuickTime output files to gain extra frames at the end when exporting with audio to certain codecs, such as ProRes. Adobe’s engineers went deep inside the app and mended the code that was causing this to happen.
The rest of the tweaks are listed below, with a number of clarifications on behalf of the Photoshop maker, as per the official changelog.
• The output audio sample rate was reset to the lowest value (often 8kHz) in the Output Module Settings dialog box. This is now fixed. • Purging of the disk cache using the commands in After Effects did not function on systems that use comma as decimal separator. This is now fixed. • After Effects crashed when attempting to read temporal XMP metadata from files created by Illustrator 17.1 (as well as files from other applications based on those Illustrator files). This is now fixed for After Effects CC (12.2.1), but the same badly formed files can cause problems in previous versions of After Effects • We also fixed several bugs related to output file name and location templates.
The system requirements haven’t changed, meaning users will require 4GB of RAM, 5GB of free disk space. On Mac OS X, users need an Intel processor. PC users need Windows 7 or newer.