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—UPDATE—-

Adobe has put up links to the direct downloads of the CC apps

Adobe CC 2013 Direct Download Links: Creative Cloud 2013 Release

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With the release of Creative Cloud we now no longer have access to the installers of the Adobe apps and have to rely on the Creative Cloud App to download and install new apps and programs… or do we?

If you don’t want to download the apps on every machine you need to install them on there is a way to install them once on one machine and save the installers.

Open a finder window and go to (CMD-SHIFT-G) /tmp

 

 
Launch the CC app and hit install on the app of your choice

If you are sorting by date modified you will see a folder with a cryptic name pop up

 

 

Enter that folder and you will see a few files. When the app is finished downloading you will see one of those files is a DMG. make a copy of that file and save it to your desktop.

 

 

 

 

Once the installer finishes it will remove the dmg and the folder from the tmp directory

Copy that installer to your other machine and double click to install. No download necessary on your other machines

 

 

 

 

I posted these earlier on twitter but figured I should collect them here in a post as well because… well because thats what this site is for.

So here are my Top 5 improvements and tidbits on After Effects CC (v12) that you may not have seen advertised

1) “Reveal in Finder” in a layers contextual menu

Now when you have an item selected in your timeline you can reveal it in the finder or explorer without having to first reveal it in your project

 

 

 

2) “Replace With Precomp” in the project panel.

Ever had a clip or item that you needed to make a change to and let that flow project wide?
Now you can precomp the item in the project panel and that precomp will replace the footage where it lived previously. Nice little timesaver.

 

 

3) Reposition a layers anchor point

Repoing the anchor point of a 3D layer has been a pain in the past where you might be offsetting in Z without meaning to or knowing that it happened. Now with the Pan Behind tool selected you can drag the RGB axis to repo the AP in X Y or Z by dragging the appropriate Axis.

 

 

4)”Close Other Timeline Panels” contextual menu

Ever wanted to close other those other open comps EXCEPT the one you are working with? Right Click on the comps tab in the timeline and use the new contextual menu in AECC

 

 

5) its now TAB not SHIFT for the mini flowchart

whether or not you like the old SHIFT key to pop open the miniflowchart or are glad its finally changed to TAB, this is one that you want to know before you curse AECC for not working “right”

 

So theres 5 little things that arent the main features of AECC but will make a big difference in everyday workflow. Now that Creative Cloud promises us more frequent updates and features, hopefully these are just a hint at the improvements that are yet to come

 

thanks to the Adobe AE team!