Adobe After Effects CS5.5

TOP REASONS TO BUY ADOBE® AFTER EFFECTS® CS5.5

Innovative compositing and animation tools—Combine moving and still imagery, graphics, and text in 2D or 3D space. Animate practically any aspect of each element, and add sound for virtually any result you can imagine.

Responsive 64-bit performance—Work effectively on high-resolution projects—even at 32-bit-per-channel color—inside HD, 2K, and 4K compositions. Use all your system’s RAM to see longer previews. With enhanced disk caching, you can spend less time waiting and more time creating.

Unmatched integration with industry-standard Adobe applications—Enjoy a streamlined workflow with support for importing Adobe Photoshop® images and layer effects. Move easily between After Effects CS5.5 and Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5.5. Import Adobe Illustrator® files and then animate each layer.

Unlimited creative options—Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects such as stylize, distort, and shatter. Create grids, radio waves, particles, and more. Combine effects from a third-party ecosystem of plug-ins for Hollywood-caliber results.

Creation and animation of text and vector graphics—Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate those elements to create visually innovative motion graphics.

Comprehensive masking and keying tools—Use the revolutionary Roto Brush tool to isolate moving foreground elements from backgrounds in a fraction of the time it would take with hand-drawn animated masks. Remove bluescreen and greenscreen backgrounds with The Foundry’s Academy Award–winning Keylight (included; UI is in English only).

Powerful motion controls—Remove unwanted movement with Warp Stabilizer, or precisely match the motion of source footage with Imagineer Systems’ mocha for After Effects CS5.5 (included; UI is in English only). Apply realistic motion blur. Use Timewarp to slow down and speed up footage.

32-bit floating-point pipeline—Exploit extended highlights and shadows with the dynamic range of real-world light. Freely push values above monitor white, and recover detail without clipping.

Professional results for any media type—Deliver your work virtually anywhere. Compatibility with an extensive list of output formats lets you produce animated content for media ranging from film and broadcast to the web and mobile devices.

TOP REASONS TO UPGRADE TO ADOBE® AFTER EFFECTS® CS5.5

Warp Stabilizer—Smooth a bumpy camera move, or lock a shot automatically. Warp Stabilizer removes jitter and compensates for motion-related irregularities.

Camera Lens Blur—Create soft-focus effects with Camera Lens Blur. Set iris shape, blade curvature, and diffraction fringe characteristics for beautiful bokeh, and use these same settings for fantastic depth-of-field control with the After Effects 3D camera.

Source timecode support—Take the guesswork out of source footage edits. Timecode data in QuickTime, AVI, Broadcast WAV (BWF), DPX, and some variations of MXF is read directly in After Effects and the Timecode effect can display both source timecode and composition frames.

Stereoscopic 3D workflow improvements—Animate and composite stereoscopic projects more easily. Quickly set up stereo camera rigs. Save time with simplified rendering of multiple cameras, and work with an updated 3D Glasses effect.

Light falloff—Control how light intensity falls off across 3D distances, just as it does in the real world.

RAW digital cinema workflow improvements—Gain instant access to high-definition source formats. Support for the RED Rocket card and RMD metadata dramatically improves the performance and look of RED footage. Import footage in CinemaDNG format, an open standard that offers a common solution.

Color LUT support—Get consistent color in your workflow by using industry-standard 3DL and CUBE lookup tables. Create your own color LUT files as exports from Synthetic Aperture’s Color Finesse (included; UI is in English only).

XDCAM EX export—Render in the XDCAM EX format using multiple bitrates, pixel aspects, and frame rates. This allows you to roundtrip footage shot on popular Sony cameras so that your output is consistent with files being edited directly from source.

Save As After Effects CS5—Work on projects with colleagues still using After Effects CS5. Save projects in After Effects CS5 format to take advantage of new features and performance improvements without the need for colleagues to upgrade.

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