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The Stats
- Developer: Adobe
- Version: CS3
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Description
Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional software is an essential upgrade. Design vector graphics, create more organic movements, and expedite delivery with new integration and collaboration features.
Features
Shape Layers
Easily create and animate vector graphics with new Shape Layers. Add and animate strokes, fills, gradients, and vector effects. You can convert text into shapes and animate them just like any other shape type.
Puppet tool
This new, fast, and intuitive animation tool lets you squash and stretch images or text to bring it to life as an animated character. Use Motion Sketch to record the position and speed of your puppet movements, the Starch tool to stiffen areas of the character, and the Overlap tool to control the depth of elements of your puppet.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended integration
Enjoy a streamlined workflow with support for importing layered Adobe Photoshop® images including video layers. Sophisticated Photoshop Layer Styles can be easily modified or animated within After Effects. Import Vanishing Point data from Photoshop into After Effects to build 3D compositions automatically.
Tight integration with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Work more efficiently to create and edit animations for playback on Adobe Flash® Player software. Preserve vectors from animations created in After Effects for lean and clean delivery, and encode FLV files more easily. Import SWF files as vectors with alpha channels preserved and batch render FLV files with embedded cue points.
Per-character 3D text animation
Explore new text animation possibilities by making individual characters in your text — or an entire phrase — move and rotate in 3D space.
Brainstorm
Jump-start animations with Brainstorm, a new user interface that offers variations based on selected design and animation parameters. Choose which properties and effects you want to explore, and Brainstorm will propose animated variations.
Complete color management workflow
Enable color management simply by selecting a Project Working Space. Doing so maintains the color accuracy of imported files as they are displayed and rendered and allows you to preview how footage will look on other devices.
Adobe Clip Notes
Streamline the review and approval process. Render your work into an Adobe PDF file that enables anyone with Adobe Reader software to make timecode-accurate comments. When you import the comments into After Effects, they appear as markers on the Timeline.
Enhanced performance
Harness your computer's processing power with new multicore and graphics acceleration plus disk caching so you can spend less time waiting and more time creating. Distribute rendering across your entire network to maximize output performance.
Video for mobile
Use new rendering options and preview in Adobe Device Central CS3 to help ensure your video will look great on an array of supported mobile devices.
Old Version Information
Adobe After Effects 7.0 Professional vs. Standard
| Features | AE Pro | AE Std |
|---|---|---|
| Flexible 2D and 3D compositing environment | yes | yes |
| Unrivaled creative text animation tools, including hundreds of text Animation Presets | yes | yes |
| Powerful animation and keyframing including the new Graph Editor and professionally designed Animation and Behavior Presets | yes | yes |
| Visual effects plug-ins to enhance, stylize, and otherwise manipulate the appearance of any layer*, including new Blur effects | more than 230 | yes |
| Vector Paint support based on Adobe Photoshop® technology for cleaning up footage | yes | yes |
| Professional output options for film, video, DVD, Macromedia® Flash®, and other streaming media formats for the web | yes | yes |
| Masking tools for controlling which parts of a layer are visible | yes | yes |
| Advanced keying and matte tools for seamless compositing, including Keylight, Matte Choker, and Spill Suppressor, as well as the Smart Mask Interpolation keyframe assistant for animating complex masks | yes | |
| 32-bit HDR and 16-bit color support for high-fidelity color | yes | |
| Timewarp for high-quality slow motion | yes | |
| Motion tracking and stabilization tools, including color stabilization | yes | |
| Advanced 3D compositing support, including the ability to import camera data from Maya and 3Ds max, auxiliary channel support, and more | yes | |
| Wiggler for easily adding random movement | yes | |
| Timesaving rendering options, including network rendering and support for render automation | yes | |
| Advanced audio tools for adding color and depth to sound | yes | |
| Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) support | yes |
- Additional effects in the Professional edition include Advanced Lightning, Glow, Optics Compensation, and many more.
Updates for AE v3.x through current version
Resources
Plug-ins
- Adobe After Effects Plug-ins
- Compatibility with Adobe After Effects CS3
- Compatability with Adobe After Effects 7
Support
- Tutorials
- Toolfarm Expert Forum
- World Wide User Group
- AE Mail-List
- After Effects CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts
Updates
Reviews
- After Effects CS3 by Ko Maruyama, Digital Media Net
- This page was last modified 20:18, 26 October 2007.
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