Changes to location of installed scripts, Miscellaneous updates – Adobe After Effects User Manual
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Changes to location of installed scripts
In After Effects 12.2, if you drag and drop a script (.jsx or .jsxbin) file onto the Project panel, the script is copied to the following user location:
(Windows) \Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\12.2
(Mac OS) /Users/[user_name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/12.2
Relaunch After Effects to see the scripts (that are located in the user space) under the File > Scripts submenu.
However, the preferred location for the scripts is in the folder next to the application itself. If you want to explicitly copy scripts to this folder, ensure
that you have administrator privileges.
(Windows) Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects \Support Files
(Mac OS) Applications/Adobe After Effects
After Effects loads scripts from both the above locations. See the Scripts article for additional information.
If you uninstall the After Effects application and choose to Remove Preferences during uninstallation, any installed scripts that are located in
the user’s Scripts folder will be deleted.
Miscellaneous updates
Cycore (CC) effect plug-ins have been updated to fix a bug with the CC Power Pin effect's UI drawing incorrectly.
The Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse plug-in has been updated to address several bugs. Installation and activation of the plug-in is also
easier on render-only systems.
The Auto-keyframe button has been removed from the default state of the Timeline panel. You can enter auto-keyframe mode by choosing
Enable Auto-keyframe from the Timeline panel menu
. The Auto-Keyframe button is still displayed on the Timeline panel when it is
enabled.
The Brush Size properties in the Stroke effect and in the Write-on effect now have a maximum value of 200. The previous maximum value
was 50.
The Channel Mixer effect is now a 32bpc effect.
The default value for the Zoom Quality preference in the Viewer Quality section of the Previews preferences is now set to More Accurate.
The previous default value was set More Accurate Except RAM Preview.
You can move effect control points in the Mesh Warp effect using the arrow keys.
Purging the disk cache for the current version also purges the disk cache for other minor versions within the same major version. For
example, purging from within After Effects 12.2 also purges After Effects 12.0 and 12.1 disk caches. Use the commands under Edit > Purge
to clear memory.
In the Color Picker dialog, the hex value field is highlighted by default. This makes it easier to type, copy, or paste hex values.
Negative times can now be used in composition settings, and negative times can be represented in the Timeline panel.
After Effects CC (12.2) integrates a new version of the Nvidia OptiX library. The new library provides the following advantages:
Fixes some crashes related to the ray-traced 3D renderer.
The library is now loaded and initialized when the ray-traced 3D renderer is used for the first time, rather than when the application
starts.
This reduces the time that the application takes to start.
Prevents users who don't use the ray-traced 3D renderer from being exposed to any problems that might remain with this renderer.
The Automatically Save Projects preference in the Auto-save preferences category is now on by default.
Layer names are not forced to be unique except when you use the Copy With Property Links command or the pick whip expression.
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