{"id":28657,"date":"2013-09-03T12:57:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=28657"},"modified":"2013-09-03T17:54:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T21:54:43","slug":"hidden-features-of-adobe-after-effects-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/hidden-features-of-adobe-after-effects-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"After Effects CC Hidden Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"dont-miss-out-on-a-few-timesaving-features-of-adobe-after-effects-cc-that-flew-under-the-radar-the-following-video-gives-a-rundown-on-many-of-the-hidden-gems-of-ae-cc\">Don&#8217;t miss out on a few timesaving features of Adobe After Effects CC that flew under the radar. The following video gives a rundown on many of the hidden gems of AE CC.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28658\" title=\"Adobe After Effects \" src=\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe After Effects \" width=\"490\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver.jpg 490w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver.jpg?resize=300,36 300w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver.jpg?resize=277,33 277w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver.jpg?resize=359,42 359w, https:\/\/vip-go.premiumbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver.jpg?resize=150,18 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>After Effects<\/strong> pro and Premiumbeat friend John Dickinson of <a title=\"Motionworks\" href=\"http:\/\/motionworks.net\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">Motionworks.net<\/a> shares some of the best &#8216;hidden features&#8217; of AE CC. Among the feature additions and changes to <strong>After Effects CC<\/strong> that you may have missed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shift Parenting: holding shift while combining layers will inherent the anchor point of the parent layer&#8230;as well as the keyframes.<\/li>\n<li>Isolate AE comps that have missing elements: effects, fonts or footage.<\/li>\n<li>AE Brainstorm: you can brainstorm gradient colors for text and shapes.<\/li>\n<li>Quickly experiment with looks by reversing the colors in a Gradient Ramp.<\/li>\n<li>You can now set audio output to &#8216;auto&#8217;. \u00a0The file will only output audio if there is audio present in the comp.<\/li>\n<li>Enable\/disable the &#8216;render finished&#8217; alert sound.<\/li>\n<li>If frames are missing when importing footage, know exactly which ones.<\/li>\n<li>You can export\u00a0 Effects.<\/li>\n<li>Reveal a layer in Finder by right-clicking it in the Timeline panel.<\/li>\n<li>Keep your project more organized (especially big projects) by using the new &#8220;close other timeline panels&#8221; feature.<\/li>\n<li>Quickly replace a layer with a precomp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be sure to check out the video to see these features and more, as well as how to access them in <strong>Adobe After Effects CC<\/strong>. \u00a0<em><a title=\"Motionworks Hidden Gems of Adobe After Effects CC\" href=\"http:\/\/motionworks.net\/hidden-gems-in-ae-cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Thanks for sharing<\/a>, John!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/73581460?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many feature additions to After Effects CC may not be obvious but WILL save you time! In this video you&#8217;ll learn how to take full advantage of \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,39],"tags":[1944,5375,1946,196,1945,1356,844],"class_list":["post-class-post-28657","post-class-post","post-class-type-post","post-class-status-publish","post-class-format-standard","post-class-has-post-thumbnail","post-class-hentry","post-class-category-after-effects","post-class-category-video-editing","post-class-tag-ae-cc","post-class-tag-after-effects","post-class-tag-after-effects-update","post-class-tag-features","post-class-tag-john-dickinson","post-class-tag-motionworks","post-class-tag-video-tutorial"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v21.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>After Effects CC Hidden Features - The Beat: A Blog by PremiumBeat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many feature additions to After Effects CC may not be obvious but WILL save you time! 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