- Continuous rasterization — nothing goes soft when the camera comes close — shape layers, text layers and MotionFast templates are now redrawn at the resolution they actually occupy on screen, the way After Effects continuously rasterizes vector art. A ribbon, a headline or a kinetic-type block holds its edge through a 4× push-in instead of magnifying pixels it already had. Layers the camera isn’t enlarging cost nothing extra, and the memory budget is sized from your machine’s real RAM and what your GPU reports.
- Quality belongs to the project now — texture quality moved out of App Settings into the player bar’s gear as PROJECT · QUALITY, so it travels with the project instead of depending on which machine opens it. Alongside it a Preview mode select: Draft keeps the preview at 1920 for a smooth playhead, Full renders it at the project’s real size — what to reach for when 4K text looks stepped on screen. The rendered file is identical either way.
- Text on Path — a text layer with a Motion Path can lay its letters out along the curve: by letters or words, kerning-true or evenly spread, with Spread, Spacing, Trim, perpendicular Offset and Rotate-with-path. Path progress carries the text along the curve letter by letter, so a closed loop wraps like a marquee. All of it keyframable, and split animations, the leading highlight, the randomizer and voice-synced captions compose per letter on the curve.
- Paths go anywhere, and leave something behind — copy any curve in the project into any other, so a camera can fly exactly the route a layer travels or six layers can share one run-up, with X/Y/Z Offset from path to move them in formation. Create shape from path traces a motion path as a real Line layer — the visible trail of the move, ready to style, trim and animate.
- Layouts that animate themselves — the Position Distributor gained Stagger (a per-property step between one layer and the next across Position, Rotation, Scale and Opacity, in four orders) and Capture Current, which pins every layer where it stands so the next layout you pick becomes a move instead of a jump. Plus Zigzag and Spiral layouts — and Use as Grid no longer rearranges your layers, because grouping now starts on a Current layout that keeps the arrangement you built.
- New this release — Kinetic Perspective Type, lines of type driving in across a tilted 3D plane and snapping flat to a lockup, with true sub-frame motion blur; the Punch Through camera preset; Design Tokens, your project’s own colour palette on the first line of every colour picker; collapsible option sections across all 38 templates; text sized as a share of the frame; and layer selection under a dollying or tilting camera.
- Fixes throughout — Neon Glow runs calm on text instead of trembling, thick strokes are no longer clipped at square ends and mitred corners, selecting a layer no longer arms its first keyframe for deletion, and the Track Matte popover clears the timeline’s resize bar.
v9.0.0 — Continuous rasterization, Text on Path and layouts that animate themselves
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