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Feature and performance upgrades in After Effects 2019

Feature and performance upgrades in After Effects 2019 - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects CC 2019 New Features

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Feature and performance upgrades in After Effects 2019

- [Instructor] If, like me, you're a bit of an AfterEffects workflow nerd, and if you've made it to this point in the course you may be, this lesson is for you. I'm gonna show you some relatively minor new features and upgrades to most people that may nonetheless make your life majorly easier in specific situations. The biggest new addition that we haven't really discussed yet is the complete overhaul of the Expressions engine. Now, to show you that, I'm gonna go to Project Settings first and go to the Expressions tab, where you'll see that we now have an option about the Expressions engine. The default is now called JavaScript. This is a more modern and a more fully-featured JavaScript engine that allegedly will run faster than the 15-year-old Extend script engine that's been the one we've used in AfterEffects with no other choice for the past 15 years or so. Why would I wanna have this option? Well, there are gonna be cases where Extend script is not compatible with the more modern…

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