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Controls with new controls, such as Displacement, Shading, and Coloring. Star Burst: Rearranged effect controls with new shading controls.Particle World: Enhanced performance.Environment: Enhanced performance. One of the enhancements is the newly added effects controls — Displacement, Shading, and Coloring in the CC Ball Action effect. Browse and explore all the third-party plugins you can use in your After Effects projects. Cast and accept shadows for 3D objects Use Compositing Options of a layer to configure 3D objects' ability to cast and receive shadows. These properties are valuable tools to define the relationships between 3D objects in your composition and how they interact with light and shadows. Casts Shadows: Turn it On to allow the 3D object in the layer to cast shadows. Set it to Only if you want the object to cast a shadow but not appear in the composition.Accepts Shadows: Turn it On to allow the 3D object in the layer to accept shadows. Use the Composition Options to specify if the 3D object should cast or accept shadows. Learn to use the Casts Shadows and Accepts Shadows options while working on a 3D workflow. Additional updates Added the ability to encode H264 in an MOV container. Fixed issues

Follow Automatic Cast List GenerationThe Cast List feature is typically used in three-camera shows to list which characters appear in a scene. The Cast List appears directly below the Scene Heading.Note: if you'd like to just have a list of characters in your script, instead of an automatically filling cast list, we'd recommend using a second title page, as outlined in the below article:Can I have multiple title pages?To generate a Cast List for each scene:Enter a Scene Heading in the script;Press Return to insert a new Action paragraph;Type some action;Once the scene has been started, place the blinking cursor at the end of the Scene Heading and press Return;The cursor will be blinking on a blank line; press Return to bring up the Elements menu;Choose Cast List.As characters are entered into the scene, their names automatically appear in the new Cast List paragraph. When a character is removed from a scene, it is removed from the Cast List for that scene. When finished, click OK.Cast List Element Options for Mac UsersIf the Cast List element is used in a script (primarily in 3-camera shows)...and the order of names in the paragraph needs to be changed, the three options presented are Alphabetical, Order of Appearance in Each Scene, and Custom Order. The Custom Order option is used if the names are to arranged in a certain way. If (for example) the showrunner wants the leads to always be listed first, check the Custom Order radio button and drag the character names into the correct order.In this example, Tangle is the first lead and Mossy is the second lead; their names, in that order, should always be first in the Cast List paragraph. Mossy is dragged up under Tangle in the list... ...and whenever he appears in a scene, his will be always the second name listed (Tangle will always be first, if she is in the scene). Insert Non-Speaking CharacterThis feature adds a character with no dialogue to the cast list of the scene containing the cursor. Final Draft automatically tracks and displays all speaking characters in a scene and with this command, the program can also account for non-speaking characters, extras or background cast.The order in which the inserted non-speaking character appears in the Characters section of the Navigator and the Cast List element in the script is managed under Cast List Element Options.Cast List Element Options for Windows UsersFinal Draft automatically keeps track of the speaking characters in each scene. These characters are displayed in the Characters section of the Navigator. To change the order in which they are displayed in the Navigator, choose the appropriate radio button (Alphabetical or Order of Appearance in Each Scene):If Custom Order

--> The most awaited update of PlayerXtreme is now live on App-Store. You can download it here. We apologize to our customers and fans for the delay. We submitted the application for Apple’s review over 3 weeks ago. But the review team at Apple took its time to approve the update. Thankfully it is live now. The new update has a number of changes and enhancement. Lets go through a few of them here.Chrome Cast SupportSupport for Chrome Cast was long over due. We got a lot of emails asking us to add support for Chrome Cast. The current update adds support for Chrome Cast. PlayerXtreme provides a button on the player screen that brings up the chrome Cast panel. From this panel you can see a list of available Chrome Cast devices. Once you select a device from this list and connect to it, your movie or music would stream to that Chrome Cast device.­ScreenshotsScreenshot support was available in PlayerXtrem before v6.0 however, it was removed from the app when the player UI was changed. We have added the screenshot button again.Seek Progress when changing video positionWhen seeking, PlayerXtreme will display the seek progress on the screen. The first number shows the increment/decrement relative to the current position, while the second number in the brackets shows the absolute video time position. This makes it easy to seek to a desired position.Slowmo videos support addedYou can now play slow-mo videos from your camera roll. You can also extract clips from slow-mo videos. The extracted clips would have slow-mo encoded into them.MiscOther interesting features includeImproved Settings options added.Slide show added in PhotoViewerRepeat and Shuffle options are added in PlaylistImproved Player gestures.Multiple Video tracks list feature added in Player.­Bug fixesFixed Status bar issue on Player ScreenImproved App performance and UI tweaks.Other minor bug fixes