Essentially, any drop down menu you can access from the list in the timeline can be dragged in its entirety to the Essential Graphics Panel.
Once done, After Effects will then use that altered frame as a reference to improve its own calculation and give you a more seamless result for your clip.ĭrag a menu from the timeline to the Essential Graphics panel, and even to Master Properties for greater ease and customisation of your effects and templates (Image credit: Adobe) Drop down menusĪ big improvement has been made to the interface with the way you can control parameters in drop down menus. Activating this bring said frame into Photoshop, where you can work on removing the offending object, by using that app’s Content Aware Fill to recreate the background. However, you can also see the huge advantage Adobe has in controlling so many properties: in order to improve the effect, you can create a reference frame. As always, your results will depend on your clip’s content, and we found simple a background yields much better results.
What you could do with a still image in Photoshop, you can now do to video in After Effects. Photoshop users undoubtably have been aware of a similar feature for a while: it allows you to remove an object from the screen and the background to be seamlessly extended over this gap to essentially make that object disappear. We’re well aware this isn’t actually a new feature introduced with the latest release, but it’s so important, we felt we needed talking about it. You’ll notice that Content Aware Fill has been significantly sped up in this latest version (Image credit: Adobe) Content Aware Fillīut what’s Content Aware Fill we hear you ask? That’s one of the big ones that were introduced between 20, and is a great new addition to After Effects.