Creative Cloud Updates Coming
Monday, September 9, 2013 at 9:16AM 
It’s the little things.
Adobe has revealed what we can look forward to in Creative Cloud updates coming in October. Premiere looks to have done some of what I recommened in terms of integrating SpeedGrade.
After Effects has a slew of handy new features. My favorite big ones are the Mask Tracker and the Detail Preserving Upscale effect. But there are great little features as well, such as masks automatically choosing a color that differes from the background, and new layers being created above selected layers. You can also link properties without manually creating expressions. It’s a very nice update.
But my favorite new feature is one so tiny that you’ll have to scroll all the way to the bottom of Todd Kopriva’s exhaustive blog post to see it:
removal of extraneous warnings regarding missing custom effects
If you used an animation preset based on a custom effect (such as those defined in PresetEffects.xml), you could get a warning that an effect was missing, even though nothing needed for the animation preset was missing.
All of the Prolost After Effects presets have been updated to use the new naming scheme, so once you update to After Effects 12.1, you won’t see any more errors when applying Prolost Burns, Prolost Boardo, or Prolost Stereo Levels.
Thanks for that Adobe!
Reader Comments (4)
This all looks cool, but the feature Adobe needs to add to get me to buy into CC is a perpetual license for the last version available when the subscription lapses.*
* Note I would be happy to have a minimum period requirement in order to 'earn' the perpetual license, i.e. a value from continual subscription time roughly equivalent to the purchase price of an equivalent CD6 suite.
Its comforting to find that I am not the only one that gets all hot and bothered over things like cycling mask colors turned on by default. I think the list of little overdue changes in 12.1 have made me more happy than most of the new headline features in the past several updates.
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He didn't have the latest Photoshop and After Effects and stuff.