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2006-06-20

After Effects 7.0 Hotfix 1 Available: But What Is It For?


I just found out there's a "Hotfix 1" available for After Effects 7.0. However, what problems the patch is supposed to fix is still unclear. There's no Read Me file, no postings on the Adobe blogs, nothing in the About After Effects... dialog, and nothing on the Support Page.

The Windows version of the patch seems to replace at least one DLL, but it's still the same build (7.0.0.244) as the shipping 7.0.

Preliminary testings (I'm home with three kids wanting to go to the park) indicate that the old problem of OpenGL previews ignoring frames in the buffer when scrubbing seems to have been fixed. If so, OpenGL previewing is finally usable again, hooray!

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 Tuesday, June 20, 2006

6 Comments:

  • I think the main fix was for the problem below which I have been suffering from.

    Unspecified error when you import 8-bit YUV AVI files (After Effects 7.0)

    Issue

    When you import an AVI file into Adobe After Effects 7.0 that was captured using an 8-bit YUV codec, such as the Blackmagic YUV codec, After Effects displays an unspecified error message and then closes.

    Solution: Run Adobe Update Manager to install After Effects 7.0 Hot Fix 1.

    Background information

    Some 8-bit YUV AVI codecs, such as the one from Blackmagic, do not use 64-bit alignment for the frame rowbytes. After Effects 7.0 expects the frame rowbytes of an AVI file to be 64-bit aligned. The Hot Fix 1 update allows After Effects to read AVI files with non-aligned rowbytes.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Tuesday, June 20, 2006  

  • And it also fixes importing Premiere Pro 2 projects that contain or had contained DVD markers and/or menus.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Tuesday, June 20, 2006  

  • I can't find anything in the Adobe Knowledgebase about any hotfix at all. I've tried to search for some of the terms in your quote and come up with nothing. "Powered by Google" doesn't look like a very good advertisement...

    I've actually found links to the two documents you mentioned via a post in the Adobe Forum:
    http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332934.html
    http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/327949.html

    By Blogger Jonas Hummelstrand, at Tuesday, June 20, 2006  

  • I got the links to those tech docs from a RSS feed of "After Effects: Top Issues". I believe this link and ones for other Adobe products is somewhere on their site. Here is the feed-

    http://rss.adobe.com/www/support/top/top_after_effects.xml

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006  

  • here's the page of Adobe feeds

    http://www.adobe.com/support/rss/

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006  

  • Update: Unfortunately, the hotfix didn't address the OpenGL bug. Let's hope for the next patch!

    By Blogger Jonas Hummelstrand, at Monday, August 07, 2006  

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