Adobe A er Eff ects 6.5 so ware continues to set new standards in motion graphics and visual eff ects for fi lm, video, DVD, and the Web. Off ering unmatched integration with Adobe Premiere® Pro, Adobe Encore™ DVD, Adobe Audition,™ Photoshop® CS, and Illustrator® CS so ware, A er Eff ects gives you the speed, precision, and power to be visually innovative as you meet production challenges and deliver quality results.

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• Be more productive with performance • Speed up production by defi ning a • Composite and animate in 2D or 3D optimizations such as OpenGL support parent-child relationship between layers space using multiple cameras and lights. for extremely fl uid interactive compositing. to ensure the child layer inherits all the transformations applied to the parent. • Animate layers by setting keyframes at • Take advantage of disk caching to speed specifi c points in time for properties such up your interactive work. • Use post-render actions to streamline as position, scale, rotation, and opacity. back-end production tasks, such as creat- Or save time with Animation Presets. • Experience unmatched integration with ing proxies or replacing project footage Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, Adobe with output from the Render Queue. • Create animated text with unprecedented Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore DVD, and ease. Type and edit text in the Comp Adobe Audition so ware. • Work with fi les of any resolution, and use window, instantly apply more than 250 commands such as Reduce Project and text Animation Presets, and much more. • Learn as you work with Tool Tips, context- Collect Files to manage them easily. sensitive menus, and comprehensive • Create visual eff ects using more than 150 online Help. • Share projects and fi les across Windows® plug-ins to blur, sharpen, distort, shatter, and Macintosh platforms. and more.

• Create animations without using key- frames by defi ning Expressions that link the behavior of one layer property to that of another property on any layer in the composition.

Groundbreaking text animation tools Use powerful tools to animate characters, words, or lines within a single text layer; animate properties that move smoothly across the same range; or animate an entire text layer as a unit. Be visually innovative Meet production challenges

• Freely distort footage using a variety of • Perform touch-up and rotoscoping with • Produce professional output more eff ects, including brush-based Liquify built-in vector paint tools, including effi ciently using the Render Queue, the eff ect tools similar to those in Photoshop the new advanced Clone tool, which Advanced 3D Renderer, and more. and Illustrator. makes it easier to handle even complex cleanup tasks. • Export animations as compact • Save any combination of animation Macromedia® Flash™ (SWF), Windows parameters—including transformations, • Easily design, edit, and work with masks Media™ 9, RealMedia, or QuickTime masks, Expressions, eff ects, and text— using fl exible auto-tracing options and streaming audio and video fi les. as Animation Presets to quickly reuse RotoBézier masks. without setting keyframes. • Import and output fi les in QuickTime, • Adjust the color of footage and other layer AVI, MPEG-2, Windows Media 9, • Produce high-quality sound: Adjust elements using color correction tools RealMedia, native Photoshop (PSD), audio levels precisely, apply Delay or similar to those in Photoshop, as well as SWF, Cineon, SGI, TIFF, TGA, Maya IFF, Backwards eff ects, alter audio tone with Color Finesse™ for high-end corrections. JPEG, ElectricImage, Filmstrip, PDF, or Bass & Treble, and pan from one speaker WAV and AIFF formats. or channel to another. • Control layer transparency using keying and matte tools. • Preview your compositions on NTSC and PAL video monitors whether you’re using a Windows or a Mac OS X system. Powerful animation controls Animate still images, movies, and vector artwork by setting keyframes for layer properties. Produce eye-catching text animations quickly and easily using innovative controls.

Cutting-edge visual eff ects Enhance, manipulate, and stylize images by applying an unlimited number of animated effects to any layer. After Effects includes more than 150 effects, including Scribble, Liquify, Shatter, and Lightning.

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• Zero in on any element with the fast, • Apply advanced warping and distortion • Expand your 3D compositing options accurate Motion Tracker, which lets you eff ects to stretch, shrink, skew, and twist with powerful 3D channel eff ects. use as many points as you like or standard any layer. Use Mesh Warp, Reshape, Import camera data from Alias Maya one-, two-, and four-point settings; track Bézier Warp, Scatter, and Bulge to and Discreet 3ds max. change in scale or just horizontal or verti- warp images. cal movement; and edit the motion path. • Create a precise morph from one complex • Design and manipulate images with more mask shape to another using the Smart • Get fi nished output faster with network than 30 additional eff ects, including Mask Interpolation keyframe assistant. rendering, which distributes jobs across grain management tools, Fractal Noise, multiple computers. Automate text Advanced Lightning, Glow, and Optics • Increase the range of color in the movies changes, rendering, and other production Compensation. you create for better quality results. tasks with scripting support. Import and export 16-bit fi les in industry- • Simulate explosions, fl ocks of birds, standard formats. • Use Keylight to create high-quality swarms of bees, and more using a power- mattes, and work with other advanced ful particle system. Add behaviors such • Import timelines from Avid using the tools such as the Matte Choker and the as repel and gravity to your animations. Advanced Authoring Format (AAF), and Spill Suppressor. Any layer, even text, can be a particle. import and export fi les in Avid’s native format, Open Media Framework (OMF).