Every version, explained like a colleague would — not a commit log. The panel updates itself, so you already have all of this.
The latest three versions. Older ones below; the terse list is in the changelog.
Select a football clip and press the new key. It finds the score, the channel logo and the league logo by itself and blurs them along their exact shape, on one adjustment layer above the clip. Your own watermark stays visible, and Ctrl+Z undoes it.
Cut a person or an object out of a clip or a picture, right on your computer: nothing is uploaded. The first time it downloads its engine once, about 190 MB. Windows only for now.
A new key gives each selected precomp layer its own copy of the precomp. Edit the copy and the original stays untouched, nested precomps included. An idea from one of you.
Face tracking finds smaller faces and keeps the person you chose. The head size is picked for you, so the Small, Medium and Large buttons are gone, and the precomp no longer opens after tracking. Adjustment, Stagger, Fit to layer end, Freeze, Watermark and Presets now work on reversed clips. Download no longer gets stuck on Working, and updates always finish complete.
You are no longer asked to sign in again after a few days. A new Frame Blend key smooths slowed or sped-up clips with Pixel Motion or Frame Mix, inside precomps too.
The Easing drawer now shows the whole curve of your keyframes, like the Graph Editor. With 3 keys every segment has its own curve, so a valley or a mountain is one drag. Flip mirrors the curve, and you can save your own 3-key presets. Links to our TikTok and Instagram are in the panel.
Every drawer adapts to a small panel and has a Back bar. Choose Auto, Small, Medium or Large keys, or use the slider. Face tracking keeps the person you picked when someone walks in front of them.
Face tracking is more reliable and faster, follows a person through precomps and stays smooth when the face is hidden for a moment. Captions is open again for everyone. The top bar is more compact, so you see more keys. The download includes an uninstall script.
Click a person in the clip and the key follows their head. Lock keeps them in the middle of the frame; Follow adds a null you can parent text, stickers or effects to. Everything is analysed on your computer, nothing is uploaded. Windows for now, and it works best when the face is visible.
Null Object now cuts the null to your layer, connects the layer to it and can chain as many nulls as you like. The Text key animates a new or an existing title (Fade, Pop, Slide, Bounce). Overshoot, Bounce and Elastic get Strength, Speed and Settle sliders. Pre-compose works on reversed layers.
Closing After Effects no longer signs you out.
Design your watermark once, with any layer and any effect, and save it. One click puts it on any comp, in the same position and scaled to the comp, cut to the clip you have selected.
Freeze a layer at the playhead, or hold its first or last frame, in one click.
Mirrors the edges of a layer so shakes and zooms never show black.
Edit keys: star your favourites so they go first, hide the keys you never use, and repeat your recent ones from the strip of recent keys.
The panel recovers by itself if its saved settings get damaged, never gets stuck while updating, Presets stops searching after a few seconds so After Effects stays responsive, and Captions tells you why if it fails.
Presets now finds your own presets, even when big packs like BCC are installed. Rescan picks them up.
While the panel updates, its edges light up and run around, everything is pulled into one point, and the new version appears. Nothing can be pressed in the meantime, so an update can never catch you halfway through a click.
A small Donate link sits at the bottom of the panel. Softkeys is free, so this is completely optional.
Easing now keeps your saved curves as tiles, each with a small drawing of the curve and its name. Save up to 40, and rename or delete one with the ✎ in its corner.
Every key is now a dark tile with its own icon, coloured by the kind of job, just like compact mode. Options open right under the key you pressed, menus are calmer and the hints are short.
Pick a preset or plugin and the list folds down to your choice. "Place at" is one tap: Auto, Start, End, Stretch or Playhead.
Captions now land exactly where you put them on the grid and stay inside the frame. Beat Marker is gone for now: it was not accurate enough, a better one is coming.
No more codes to type in the panel: type your email, open the mail and click Activate my panel. The panel notices by itself and opens a few seconds later. On the site, the first download now asks for a 6-digit code from your inbox, so we know the email is really yours and every mail reaches you.
Signing in now goes through your inbox: type your email in the panel, open the link we send you and type the code shown on the page. Everyone confirms once after this update; after that the panel remembers you until you sign out. If we don't have your name yet, the panel asks once what to call you: your name or TikTok nickname. Typed the code wrong? You get 3 tries, and Resend code is always there if a mail didn't arrive.
A new key next to Pre-compose does the opposite: the layers inside the selected precomps come back into the comp, same spot, same order, same times. Select several precomps and they all open up at once. An idea from one of you.
Dragging the panel edge now feels fluid: a soft motion blur follows the speed, and the keys pop in one by one when the panel switches between wide and compact.
Drag the panel narrow and the keys become a column of coloured icons. Each one works in one click: keys with options repeat the last thing you did with them.
Retime, reverse and the other Keyframes tools now reach every selected effect, even with plugins like Twixtor, not just the first one.
Every option you set in the drawers stays as you left it, even after restarting After Effects. New presets show up by themselves, and Plugins copies all the effects of a clip at once.
Subtitles and link downloads now work on Mac too, on Apple Silicon and Intel. The panel fetches the Mac versions by itself the first time. The Mac installer also opens right away now.
The foundation: still here, still one click.
Pick an effect or plugin and it goes on every selected clip. Animate it on one clip the way you like, press Copy to all, and every other clip gets the same settings and keyframes, ease included, fitted to its own length.
One key removes every effect from all the selected layers. Ctrl+Z brings them back.
The video now comes in exactly as the site has it: best quality up to 1080p, original frame rate, nothing re-encoded. Add to comp puts it at the playhead reliably, and a sudden login wall makes the panel update itself and try again.
Want Reverb, a blur or Twixtor on twenty clips? Search it in Presets like any preset and Apply puts it on every selected layer at once. Every effect and plugin installed in After Effects is in the list.
Not sure what a key does? The Guide button at the top of the panel opens the explanation of every key in your browser.
Some videos come with an odd or changing frame rate, and After Effects let the sound drift. They now arrive at a standard frame rate, so picture and sound stay together.
Paste a TikTok, YouTube or Instagram link and the video or the sound lands in your project, already imported — on the timeline if you want it there. Pick the quality from 720p to 4K; it always arrives as H.264, so After Effects never refuses it.
Press one key and your subtitles are written as text layers, each timed to the words. It listens on your own machine — nothing is uploaded, nothing is charged. Choose one word at a time up to a full line, any font you have installed, the colours, a shadow, outline or box behind the text, where they sit, and how they enter. Windows for now; Mac follows.
Every key's options panel got the same treatment: the label sits above the control, controls run the full width, and related settings are grouped. Less squinting, fewer mis-clicks.
The download now carries a Mac installer as well: right-click Install.command and open it. Same panel, same keys.
Two buttons on the home page, so you get just the installer for your machine instead of both.
Apply a preset to every selected layer at once — clips, adjustment layers, whatever is selected — with the keyframes placed at each layer's in point, out point, or stretched across it.
Select several clips and Adjustment Layer gives each one its own, trimmed to that clip, ready for an effect or a preset.
Fit to layer end, Align, Stretch and Reverse now take all the keyframes you selected — across Twixtor, Sapphire, transforms, whatever — in one click, each curve kept intact like Alt-drag.
Install once. Every new version arrives on its own the next time you open the panel — no more downloads.
Select five precomps, press Adjustment Layer with "One per selected layer": five adjustment layers, each trimmed to its clip, ready for effects or a preset.
Search After Effects' own animation presets from the panel, star your favorites, and Apply puts one on every selected clip — keyframes at each clip's in point, out point or stretched over it.
The panel asks once for the email you used to download, then remembers you.
Cut all selected layers at the playhead; scale to comp width / height / fit; center.
Align to playhead, Fit to layer end, Reverse, Stretch — curves kept like Alt-drag.
Overshoot, Bounce, Elastic as one-click expressions. Remove with one click.
Layers one after another, or N frames apart, bottom→top or top→bottom.
Save your own curves, rename or delete inline, Read selection, All keys on layers.
Drag keys by the corner grip; ⋯ or right-click opens options; a plain click runs.
Exact in/out, no lost last frame, "Each separately" for one precomp per layer.
The shaded area under the curve is the speed — see the snap before you apply it.