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Adobe After Effects for Windows. Industry-standard video effects software. Adobe After Effects for Windows is the software of choice for adding effects and animations to videos. You can create visual effects, motion graphics, remove objects, add weather effects, and much more. If you can imagine it, then you can. Description The version of Adobe After Effects installed on the remote Windows host is prior or equal to 17.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to an information disclosure.

1. After Effects 17.0.5 Update
2. After Effects 17.0.5
3. After Effects 17.0.1

Nov 04, 2019 Trapcode Suite 15 is also compatible with Adobe After Effects 17.0 and Premiere Pro 14.0, however, you will need to run a free update that you can get HERE. Once updated, the Trapcode Suite 15 plug-ins will work properly in After Effects and Premiere Pro. As always, if you have any issues, please reach out to our support team for help. After Effects 17.0 Key New Features Dropdown Menu Control effect: After Effects now allows you to hook up properties of a layer to a dropdown menu in addition to sliders and checkboxes. Discuss this feature here. The version of Adobe After Effects installed on the remote Windows host is prior or equal to 17.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to an information disclosure.

Text layers have gained a massive upgrade in After Effects 17.0. You can now use expressions to control text styling as well as the text itself. This feature enables you to keep font, size, and styling in sync across multiple text layers in After Effects and Motion Graphics templates.

Bear in mind that this is a new feature and will only work in After Effects 17.0 or above. MoGRTS containing text-style expressions will only be compatible with Premiere Pro 14.0 and higher.

In this blog post, we’ll cover three ways to use text forwarding expressions:

1. Forward Source Text only
2. Forward style only
3. Forward Source Text and style

JavaScript Engine

To start, double-check that the JavaScript Expressions Engine is enabled. Go to File -> Project Settings… and click on the Expressions tab. Change the Expressions Engine from Legacy ExtendScript to JavaScript.

Forward Source Text only

This method has been available in After Effects for a long time, and many enterprising creators use it in their MoGRTS.

Create two text layers. For our example, we’ll name our layers “Parent” and “Child.” Pickwhip the Source Text of the second layer and drag it to the Source Text of the first layer. Voila! The second text layer now copies the Source Text of the first text layer.

You can copy and paste the expression from here:

thisComp.layer(“Parent”).text.sourceText

Forward text style only

We’ll continue where we left off in the previous example. In the Expressions Editor, simply add “.style” to the end of the expression. The second text layer now copies the text properties (style) of the first text layer. However, the Source Text remains separate.

You can copy and paste the expression from here:

thisComp.layer(“Parent”).text.sourceText.style

Forward Source Text & style

This one’s going to be more challenging, and we’ll have to combine our previous examples to accomplish it.

In the Expressions Editor, we’ll create two variables with custom names. Coding best practice is to give meaningful, self-explanatory names when creating custom variables. So we’ll create one variable named “parentText” to get the Source Text, and one variable named “parentStyle” to get the style of the Source Text.

var parentText = thisComp.layer(“Parent”).text.sourceText;

var parentStyle = thisComp.layer(“Parent”).text.sourceText.style;

Now we’re going to copy the text style properties from the “Parent” text layer via expressions. Hit Enter in the Expressions Editor to add a third line, and type in:

parentStyle.setText( parentText )

Once set up, the second text layer will copy all text style properties and the Source Text from the first text layer. Here is another way to write the expression and achieve the same result:

style = thisComp.layer(“Parent”).text.sourceText.getStyleAt(0); style.setText(thisComp.layer(“Parent”).text.sourceText);

By using “.getStyleAt()”, you are getting the style of a particular character index at a particular time. In this case, “.getStyleAt(0)” is getting the style of the character “P” because its character index in the word “Parent” is 0. Using “.style” is the same as using “.getStyleAt(0).” These techniques just scratch the surface of what is possible with text expressions.

More information on expressions for text properties can be found at the HelpX page.

Dropdown Menu Expression Controls

MoGRT creators have long used Sliders for toggling between multiple designs. When designing several options in a MoGRT, After Effects 17.0 has a new feature to familiarize yourself with.

Checkboxes are appropriate for On/Off states, such as flipping on or off the stroke of a text layer.

Sliders are appropriate for ranges of minimum and maximum values, such as the padding of a text box.

The new Dropdown Menu Control is appropriate for selection from a limited number of options.

How to set up a Dropdown Menu

After Effects 17.0.5 Update

In this example, we’ll learn how to reposition a layer to four different positions on the screen, like in the GIF above.

Create a New Composition with dimensions 1920x1080px. Create a new Null Object and apply the Dropdown Menu Control effect to it (Effect -> Expression Controls -> Dropdown Menu Control).

In the Effect Controls panel, select the Dropdown Menu Control and click on Edit… Click the “+” button in the top-right of the dialog box to add Item 4. Click on Item 1 and rename it to “Bottom-Left.” Rename all other items to reflect their position. Always rename the Dropdown Menu Control items to something that reflects the contents best.

Create a new text layer. Hit “p” on your keyboard for Position, and alt-click the stop-watch to the right of the word “position” to add an expression. To move the layer’s Position based on our Dropdown Menu, we’re going to write a switch statement:

In the Expression Editor, copy the following expression snippet:

menu = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Dropdown Menu Control”)(“Menu”).value;

switch (menu)

{

case 1: [192,972];

break;

case 2: [1344,972];

break;

case 3: [192,162];

break;

default: [1344,162]

};

The item names of the Dropdown Menu are not read by the expression. Instead, it is reading the index, meaning the hierarchal position of the menu item in the list (1, 2, 3, etc.). If no case (number) is matched, then the default code is executed. For our example, case 1 is “Bottom-Left,” case 2 is “Bottom-Right,” case 3 is “Top-Left,” and default is “Top-Right.” The values inside the square brackets are the positions that the layer will move to.

In the Effect Controls panel select the Dropdown Menu Control. Right-click the Menu property (A) and select Add Property to Essential Graphics.

In the Essential Graphics panel, hit Export Motion Graphics Template > OK. Fire up Premiere 2020, import your newly created MoGRT, and see the Dropdown Menu in action!

For more information on drop-downs,see the HelpX page.

Adobe has released an update for Adobe After Effects for Windows and macOS.  Drivers ken brown laptops & desktops. This update resolves an important out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to information disclosure in the context of the current user.

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings and recommends users update their installation to the newest version via the Creative Cloud desktop app’s update mechanism. For more information, please reference this help page.

After Effects 17.0.5

For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Admin Console to deploy Creative Cloud applications to end users. Refer to this help page for more information.

After Effects 17.0.1

Adobe would like to thank Mat Powell & Michael DePlante of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers.