Adobe® After Effects® 4.1 The ultimate tool for motion graphics and visual effects compositing 2D animation effects Customer Profiles Motion Graphics Designers Visual Effects Artists Adobe After Effects gives designers the Adobe After Effects provides motion- opportunity to expand their creative and picture and broadcast professionals with business potential into motion graphics, the power and precision to cost-effectively including interactive multimedia, Web create top-quality visual effects on the animation, and video production. desktop. Key Selling Points Adobe products deliver unparalleled integration for the ultimate dynamic media solution. Award-winning Use the interface you already know from Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Common menus, Adobe user interface keyboard shortcuts, and tools—including the Pen tool, Align palette, rulers and guides, and Free Transform mode—allow easier learning and a more efficient workflow. tion a With Adobe Premiere® Import Adobe Premiere projects as compositions with video clips and audio files automatically egr arranged on individual layers in the proper time sequence. t With Adobe Photoshop® Add motion and effects to still images by importing Photoshop files with layers, adjustment layers, transfer modes, and layer effects preserved. Use Photoshop paths as masks or animation paths. erior In With Adobe Illustrator® Animate graphics and text by importing Illustrator files with layers intact. Dynamically scale and distort up Illustrator files to any size without loss of detail. Use Illustrator paths as masks or animation paths. S Maintain complete control to achieve your creative vision. Powerful masking Add up to 127 open or closed masks to each layer. Copy and paste paths from Photoshop or Illustrator to use as masks. Apply blend modes, fills, and strokes, and combine, rotate, and scale masks. Even animate masks to create traveling mattes. ol tr Leading-edge visual effects Embellish your work using more than 85 plug-in filters. Categories include Blur & Sharpen, Channel on Manipulation, Distortion, Keying, Perspective, Render, Stylize, and Audio effects. e C Motion Sketch Animate an element by drawing a free-form animation path and recording its velocity as easily as you tiv sketch on paper. Automatically smooth a path using the Smoother tool. ea r Extensive motion controls Add unlimited keyframes to animate any layer attribute, including position, scale, rotation, and opacity. C Adjust velocity and splined motion paths, or add realistic motion blur. Time Remapping makes frames stutter, play backwards, move in slow motion, or freeze. Produce high-quality work with the utmost efficiency. RAM Preview Preview your work in real time. Make adjustments and then review again—all without skipping a beat. y Resolution independence Mix file resolutions, from tiny thumbnails up to 30,000-pixel by 30,000-pixel frames, within a composition. tivit Then output files at any resolution—from small, animated GIF files to high-resolution output for film. duc Render Queue Prepare a file once, and then output it for film, video, multimedia, or the Web with equal ease by rendering o r in multiple sizes and various formats at the same time. Or batch-render any number of different compositions. Automatically copy a project and all of its associated source footage to a single location for ed P rendering with the new Collect Files command. Cross-platform compatibility Share files across a workgroup or between Windows® and Macintosh platforms without a hitch. nhanc E 3D Channel File Format Import 3D file format saved in Softimage PIC and RLA formats. Use the new 3D Channel Pack to create effects with the auxiliary channel information stored in imported 3D files, including RLA, Softimage PIC/ZPIC, and Electric Image EI/EIZ files. To order Adobe After Effects 4.1, contact an Adobe Authorized Distributor. For more product information, visit Macintosh, Standard Version SKU 15510296 UPC 718659102630 www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects. Windows, Standard Version SKU 25510255 UPC 718659102852 Or call Adobe at 800-685-3504 Macintosh, Production Bundle SKU 15510302 UPC 718659102692 Windows, Production Bundle SKU 25510261 UPC 718659102913 Adobe® After Effects® 4.1 vs. Discreet Logic effect* and Eyeon Software Digital Fusion For creating professional-quality effects on the desktop, there is no better choice than Adobe After Effects. While other programs offer similar functions, only After Effects delivers the essential tight integration with Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, and Illustrator, as well as the sheer volume of features and depth of control. This powerful combination makes After Effects the ultimate tool for motion graphics and visual effects. Adobe After Effects Discreet Logic effect* Eyeon Software Digital Fusion Import Photoshop files, preserving all layers, No support for preserving Photoshop or No support for preserving Photoshop or adjustment layers, layer effects, transfer modes, Illustrator file attributes or for importing Illustrator file attributes or for importing tion a and clipping paths. Import Illustrator files with Adobe Premiere projects. Adobe Premiere projects. Does not support layers preserved and use Illustrator paths as PostScript® fonts. Windows only. egr t In masks. Import Adobe Premiere projects with all clips arranged in proper sequence. Keyframe controls include the ability to sketch Does not include motion path sketching, Does not include motion path sketching or a motion path and record its velocity, as well as smoothing, or randomizing. Timeline does randomizing. Timeline does not offer color smoothing or randomizing motion. With color not offer color coding, markers, or display of coding, markers, or display of control curves. ol tr coding, markers, and other displays—including control curves. No Motion Blur. No Render on control curves with linear keyframe Queue or batch rendering. C information—the After Effects Timeline is the industry standard. From color correction to sophisticated While offering many filters, effect* lacks Digital Fusion also offers many filters yet distortion and time remapping tools to audio several powerful warp, perspective, and lacks several warp, perspective, stylizing, and ts filters, After Effects is unmatched in the variety audio effects. Limited text animation audio effects, as well as transitions. Limited ec and control of effects it offers. The selection of capabilities compared to After Effects. No text animation capabilities compared to ff E compatible third-party effects filters is also audio support at all. After Effects. unparalleled. Adobe After Effects Production Bundle adds even more power. The Production Bundle version of Adobe After Effects includes everything in the standard version, plus 35 additional tools in six productivity packs. Effects Pack Motion Pack Keying Pack Audio Pack 3D Channel Pack Network Rendering Develop even more Animate with Create the highest Enhance your Read auxiliary channels Install multiple copies sophisticated visual advanced control, quality mattes with: professional-quality in imported 3D files of the new render effects with: creating and - Linear Color Key sound with: and then manipulate engine at no additional - Displacement Map manipulating - Difference matte - Flange & Chorus those channels using charge (unlimited - Time Displacement keyframes with: - Extract Key - High-Low Pass five effects: license included). - Particle Playground - Motion Tracker - Color Difference Key - Modulator - Depth Matte Set up a Watch folder - Corner Pin - Motion Stabilizer - Color Range - Parametric EQ - Depth of Field Blur on a network and use - Wave Warp - Motion Math - Reverb - Simple Choker - ID Matte the render engine to - Mesh Warp - Exponential Scale - Matte Choker - Tone monitor the Watch - Bézier Warp - Wiggler - Alpha Levels - Fog 3D Folder unattended. - Reshape - Spill Suppressor - 3D Channel Extract - Lightning Work together to - Scatter render projects that appear in the - Ripple Watch Folder. - Bulge - Glow - Twirl Package Contents System Requirements • Adobe After Effects software Windows Power Macintosh • QuickTime™ software • Intel® Pentium® or faster processor • Apple Power Macintosh computer • Three plug-in filters from Cult Effects™ • Microsoft® Windows 98 or Windows NT® 4.0 • Mac OS software version 8.1 or later • Accom DDR/AE plug-in • RAM: • 32 MB of application RAM (64 MB or Find out even more about • Adobe Acrobat® Reader more recommended) - 32 MB for Windows 98 Adobe After Effects at • Tour movie (64 MB or more recommended) • 80 MB of available hard-disk space • Online help and tutorials www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects. - 64 MB for Windows NT for installation (500 MB or larger • Demo versions of third-party (96 MB or more recommended) hard disk or disk array Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Adobe Premiere, After compatible software recommended for ongoing work) Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, and PostScript are trademarks • 80 MB of available hard-disk space for • Quick Reference Card • CD-ROM drive of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Apple, Mac, Macintosh, installation (500 MB or larger hard disk or Power Macintosh, and QuickTime are trademarks of Apple • User Guide disk array recommended for ongoing work) • Apple QuickTime 4.0 or later Computer, Inc. registered in the United States and other Production Bundle also includes: • CD-ROM drive recommended countries. QuickTime is a trademark used under license. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are either registered • Effects Pack • Apple QuickTime 4.0 or later recommended • 16-bit color display adapter (24-bit trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the • Motion Pack color display adapter and video United States and/or other countries. Intel and Pentium are • 16-bit color display adapter (24-bit color capture card recommended) • Keying Pack registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. All other display adapter and video capture card trademarks are the property of their respective owners. • Audio Pack recommended) © 1999 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. • 3D Channel Pack • Sound card recommended Printed in the USA. BC1531 11/99 • Render Engine.