Whats new in Adobe After Effects CS5.5

Create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard

Adobe® After Effects® CS5.5 software is the industry-leading solution for creating sophisticated motion graphics and cinematic visual effects. Transform moving images for delivery to theaters, living rooms, personal computers, and mobile devices.

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.

Product highlights

Top reasons to buy

Get 64-bit performance—Work more quickly with groundbreaking 64-bit performance that dramatically improves the experience of creating HD and higher resolution content. Streamlined tools and tight Adobe integration also accelerate your workflow.

Innovate visually—Express your visual ideas with freedom. Adobe After Effects CS5 revolutionizes motion design with an open-ended environment that fosters creative experimentation.

Composite efficiently—Realize your vision quickly and efficiently by drawing on a broad and deep set of tools designed to help you solve any creative challenge.

Deliver everywhere—Master modern media: Deliver your completed projects to the widest range of formats, from large format feature films and high-definition television to websites and mobile devices.

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® After Effects® CS5

• Native 64-bit support—Get the most out of your hardware investment: Native 64-bit supportmeans After Effects can use all available RAM, so it’s easier to work efficiently on complex HD, 2k,and 4k projects.
• Adobe Roto Brush—Isolate moving foreground elements from their backgrounds in a fraction of the time it used to take. Identify foreground and background elements and then let the Roto Brush automatically create transparency for you. Refine edges easily for extremely precise results.
• mocha for After Effects—Experience the powerful new capabilities of this popular 2.5D planar tracker,included with After Effects CS5. Masks are now trackable, have variable width feather, and can be applied directly to layers in After Effects using mocha shape.
• Dynamic cross-references—Simplify the writing, production, and management of long documentswith flexible and powerful cross-references that dynamically update as content is changed or moved within a document.
• AVC Intra and enhanced RED support—Work natively with tapeless footage from the newest high-quality Panasonic cameras thanks to AVC-Intra 50 and AVC-Intra 100 support. Work natively with RED R3D formats, and gain additional controls for working with raw footage.
• Auto-Keyframe mode—Animate quickly by automatically setting a starting keyframe at the current time.
• Dozens of enhancements—Realize productivity gains from dozens of customer-requested refinements.Enhancements include a new Refine Matte effect, the ability to align layers to a composition’s boundaries,and importing additional Adobe Photoshop® adjustment layer types.
• Color lookup table (LUT) support—Easily manage consistent color in your workflow with popular colorLUT formats to simulate film and alternate devices or to apply different looks to your footage.
• Color Finesse—Enjoy an enhanced color correction workflow with Color Finesse LE 3, included with After Effects CS5. New features include vibrance controls that work in a similar way to those in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® software, hue and saturation curve controls, and highlight recovery.
• Digieffects FreeForm—Turn flat objects into virtually any 3D shape using this popular 3D mesh warp plug-in by Digieffects.

Top reasons to buy Adobe® After Effects® CS5

• Innovative compositing and animation tools—Create high-impact communications by combining moving imagery, still images and graphics, text, and sound in 2D or 3D space, and then animating virtually any aspect of each element.
• Responsive 64-bit performance—Work more easily with complex high-resolution projects and see longer RAM previews thanks to native 64-bit operating system support. Enhanced disk caching allows you to 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 types. Move easily between After Effects and Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5 software. Export projects for enhancement in Adobe Flash® Professional CS5 software.
• Unlimited creative options—Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects that stylize,distort, shatter, and more. Combine effects to create Hollywood-caliber visual effects. Create grids, radio waves, particles, and more.
• Text and vector graphics creation and animation—Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate these elements to create visually innovative motion graphics.
• Comprehensive masking and keying tools, including new Roto Brush—Control which portions of a layer are visible by drawing and animating masks. The revolutionary new Roto Brush tool handles rotoscoping in a fraction of the time. Remove bluescreen and greenscreen backgrounds with the awardwinning Keylight.
• Timesaving presets and learning tools—Get a jump start animating text and creating syntheticbackgrounds with more animation presets. Use Brainstorm to experiment and refine designs. Learn fast with help, tool tips, and training resources on the web.
• Powerful motion controls—Apply realistic motion blur. Use Timewarp to slow down and speed up footage. Remove unwanted movement with the Motion Stabilizer, or precisely match the motion ofsource footage with mocha for After Effects.
• Professional results for every media type—Deliver your work anywhere. Compatibility with an extensive list of output formats lets you produce animated content for virtually any media, from film and broadcast to the web and mobile devices.
• High-fidelity color—Get precise, predictable color in After Effects with support for high dynamic range(32-bit-per-channel floating point) color, including Pro EXR files, ICC-based color management tools, and new color lookup tables (LUTs).