: Significant improvements to the Feathering and Expansion of masks, including the ability to track masks to moving objects within the frame. Mercury Playback Engine Enhancements : Support for then-new GPUs, including the AMD Radeon R9 290 Series for OpenCL acceleration. Media Management

Introduced the sleek, "flat" UI that modern users recognize, moving away from the cluttered look of the CS6 era.

(allowing for high-quality intermediate files) 3. Streamlined Media Management