- Motion Tracking — Draw a box over a detail in a video — a logo, a face, the corner of a phone — and the editor analyses that footage once and remembers how it moves, scales and turns. Any layer can then follow the track: Ride along adds the tracked motion to the layer’s own, Pin to point puts it straight onto the detail, and Lock cancels the motion so the footage steadies around it. Corrections are the After Effects move: park on a frame the tracker got wrong, drag the box back onto the subject, and the fix is stored as a key beside the measured ones. Every track shows a confidence strip, the engine’s dials sit behind a cog for footage the defaults can’t hold, and a track that loses its subject says where — and continues when you put the box back on it.
- RotoScope — Cut a moving subject out of footage with Person, Object (Magic Touch), Colour Key or Hand modes. Draw a lasso around the subject, trace, and review the outline as a live preview on the canvas before anything is written — Copy to mask is the only action that touches the layer. A track can continue after an occlusion, and a broken stretch is repaired from any frame: reshape the outline there, re-track forward, and the good part is preserved.
- The camera follows your subject — The new Follow Object camera-rig type keeps the camera looking at a chosen layer while Radius, Height and Sweep place and circle it — a moving subject drags the camera with it, drone-style. The follow target is keyframable, so a shot can pan from one subject to the next with easing, and two new presets — Drone Follow and Chase Cam — join the rig grid. The Camera Rig also arrives in the After Effects extension: every move and preset as a real two-node AE camera, baked keys or a live expression-driven rig.
- Local color grades with masked adjustment layers — Draw vector masks on an adjustment layer and its grade, LUT and effect chain apply only inside them, while everything outside stays untouched — with the full mask toolkit: feather, expand, grow, add/subtract/intersect/difference combining, keyframes and an Amount slider.
- Notes grew up — Icons (ten types, four positions including a corner badge, one-click presets with real Bold and Soft palettes), per-note fonts from the full Typography catalog, and inline formatting — bold, italic, text color and clickable links. All of it renders on shared boards too, with custom fonts bundled along.
- Sharing looks and works like the app — A consistent new icon set across every toolbar; connectors, drawings and arrows finally render on shares; clicking a card shows its title and source link; Markdown and HTML cards open properly formatted previews; share links unfurl on social media with a pickable preview image; and big boards stay smooth on phones — videos load only when you reach them and far-out cards flatten into cheap tiles.
- Flipbook caught up with the video editor — Camera rigs (all eight move types and thirteen presets), the full 40+ curve easing catalog, a Line Path scene object, keyframable Look At targets, marquee keyframe selection and group gizmos for path points.
- Editor quality-of-life — Layers can be renamed from the inspector; prompt @-references show a thumbnail chip of what they point to; the After Effects inputs editor got a readable card layout; template glows no longer collapse on close camera moves; and every Pika chat model works in Board Chat again.
v9.6.0 — Motion tracking, RotoScope, and a camera that follows your subject
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