The Adobe After Effects 7.0.1 update fixes a number of problems discovered after After Effects 7.0 was released.

The most significant fixes in the 7.0.1 release include the following:

• Contrast has been improved on trimmed layer bars compared to untrimmed portions when User Interface Brightness is darkened.

• After Effects can now read IFF image files rendered out of mental ray for Maya.

• Shift-clicking to draw vertices with the Pen tool now constrains to 45 degree angles.

• Copy and paste of semitransparent text from Illustrator into After Effects has been fixed.

• Layers no longer are inadvertently selected in the Timeline panel when moving the mouse quickly after clicking in an empty area to deselect all.

• Selected layers that are hidden in Flowchart viewer no longer are deleted when other Flowchart viewer items are deleted.

• Choosing Composition > Preview > Audio Preview (Work Area) will now play the whole work area.

• Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 projects with DVD marker information no longer cause After Effects to crash.

• An issue that caused a crash when exposing waveform for a precomposed audio track has been fixed.

• In the Effects & Presets panel, Show Preset Contents and Show Referring Presets now default to off.

• Collapsed guide layers no longer become visible when a noncollapsed guide layer is present.

• The Camera Raw dialog box no longer shows when relinking a camera raw sequence.

• An issue that caused 32-bpc visual discontinuity when animating opacity at very low values for very overbright images has been fixed.

• Users can now import Blackmagic Design 8-bit YUV AVI compressed files.

• An issue that caused incorrect pixel aspect ratio and dimensions when importing DVCProHD files captured in FCP5 has been fixed.

• The Curves effect no longer clips to mask bounds when setting zero alpha to be non-zero.

• Rendering errors in 32-bpc color depth with large iterations of the Box Blur effect have been fixed.

• Interactivity of 8- and 16-bpc effects in 32-bpc projects has been improved.

• Interactivity of feathered masks in large (2,000+ pixels wide) compositions has been improved.

• Microsoft Windows Media output no longer crashes in Windows Vista.