NEW FEATURES in AFTER EFFECTS 2025 (v25.2)

NEW FEATURES in AFTER EFFECTS 2025 (v25.2)

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Play it back in full. Faster than ever.
Say bye to playback pauses. After Effects now lets you play back your entire timeline all in one go. Any computer. Any composition. All the playback.

Show your true colors with HDR monitoring.
See your vision come to life in true color with new HDR monitoring. All the colors, all the luminosity, all across your workflow.

See 3D animations in a whole new light.
It’s never been easier to blend dimensions, animate fast, and fine-tune in hyperrealistic detail. Discover simplified 3D workflows in After Effects.

Play back your entire comp on any computer without the waiting
For years, the amount of work you could play back in After Effects has been dependent on the amount of RAM in your computer. This made it difficult to preview longer compositions without pausing and waiting for After Effects to re-cache, especially on laptops.

High Performance Preview Playback changes that forever.

It’s a new caching system that utilizes your computer’s RAM and local disks together, so After Effects can cache and preview your entire composition. It’s one of the biggest performance improvements in the history of After Effects. Now any user, on any computer, can play back more of their comp than ever.

Make realistic 3D animations in fewer clicks
After Effects users have been asking us for more 3D tools to enhance their motion design and VFX compositing capabilities. Not only are we releasing more tools, we’re making 3D faster, easier, and more fun for any 2D motion designer or video editor to start using.

With new Animated Environment Lights, you can wrap your 3D comp with moving light made from any video or animation. Use your background plates, 360-degree videos, selected layers, or even an entire comp to illuminate your 3D models with reflections and shadows that move.

You can now use 3D FBX models natively in After Effects, making millions more 3D models available for you to use. FBX is a popular 3D model format commonly used in online marketplaces.

Additionally, we’ve condensed many advanced and multi-step 3D workflows into new one-click menu items. Now you can create a 3D background environment that moves with your camera or shade your 3D model with custom effects in just a single click.

Monitor your work in HDR
In addition to importing and exporting HDR content in After Effects, we’re thrilled to introduce new HDR monitoring. Whether you’re working on an HDR-enabled laptop or transmitting your video signal to an HDR reference monitor, you can now view new levels of vibrance, saturation, and brightness in After Effects.

More to love in After Effects 25.2

While all our new features in After Effects come directly from professional motion design and video editing communities, these ones are the little things that matter a lot to the users who animate and composite in After Effects frequently.

Custom fallow colors and transparency grids
New preference to maintain workspaces when opening projects from another user
New null commands for precise animation control
3D model animation controls in the Properties Panel
Availability
All these features are available now

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