Bring your vision to life with blockbuster visual effects and
compelling motion graphics in Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
software. Work with sophisticated tools and enjoy tight integration
with Adobe's leading design applications while you deliver stunning
work to virtually any media type. Design from scratch or jump-start
projects from hundreds of fully customizable presets and templates--all
from within a streamlined interface.
Create Motion Graphics and Visual Effects with the Industry Standard
Take your inspiration to new heights: Create beautiful, sophisticated
animations and effects more effectively than ever with Adobe After
Effects CS3 Professional. Whether you design from scratch or jump-start
projects from any of the hundreds of customizable templates and
presets, the latest version of After Effects lets you exceed
expectations with less effort. Use innovative new features like Shape
Layers, the Puppet tool, Brainstorm, and Clip Notes to design, animate,
and review with greater creative freedom.
After Effects is
available as a standalone product, or as a component of Adobe Creative
Suite 3 Production Premium and Master Collection software. Eliminate
rerendering and move easily between After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro
CS3 and Encore CS3 software using Adobe Dynamic Link, part of
Production Premium. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium is a
complete digital video production solution in which Adobe After Effects
CS3 provides the ability to generate animations and composites of all
kinds, from stylized motion graphics to realistic visual effects. Adobe
Creative Suite 3 Master Collection combines the powerful components of
Production Premium with those of Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and
Web Premium.
Whether you are a motion graphics designer, visual
effects artist, video editor, or a designer of rich media for the web,
Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional lets you:
Innovate visually--Unleash
your creative vision with responsive controls and amazing effects.
Animate freely and with even more flexibility using new Shape Layers
and the new Puppet tool. Use the new Brainstorm interface to naturally
evolve animation variations based on parameters you choose.
Maximize your time--Deliver
your best work on schedule. The intuitive interface in Adobe After
Effects CS3 Professional lets you accomplish even the most complex
tasks faster while keeping you focused on your vision. Enhanced
multi-core and multi-processor support enables faster renders; powerful
integration allows you to move quickly and efficiently between After
Effects and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe
Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Illustrator CS3, and Adobe Encore CS3.
Design for tomorrow, today--Adobe
After Effects CS3 Professional delivers on tomorrow's challenges today,
with flexible tools that anticipate the future of design and animation.
Work with tools that enable you to deliver professional results on
virtually any type of media. Create QuickTime and Flash video for the
web and work with a wide range of formats from HDV to OpenEXR, H.264,
and Camera Raw. Ensure output quality for an array of supported mobile
devices. After Effects is available for Intel and Power PC Mac, or for
Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Audience benefit
Motion graphics and visual effects professionals--As
a professional in your field, you need to meet tight deadlines for
clients who demand the highest quality productions. Adobe After Effects
CS3 Professional helps you reach peak performance and realize your
vision with the industry's leading compositing and animation tools for
creating stunning motion graphics and visual effects. With improved
performance and tight integration with other Adobe applications, you'll
get there faster, moving quickly and efficiently between After Effects
and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Flash CS3
Professional, Illustrator CS3, and Encore CS3, while getting the best
performance from your hardware.
Video editors and producers--When
budgets are tight and clients are on a deadline, Adobe After Effects
CS3 Professional offers an intuitive, easy-to-learn interface along
with powerful tools to enhance your production values. Tight
integration with Adobe's other professional video applications means
you can get great results quickly, and when you need to jump-start
projects without sacrificing quality you can use the new Brainstorm
feature or customize any of hundreds of timesaving, professionally
designed presets and templates.
Flash animators and graphic designers--Work
with state-of-art animation tools inside a familiar Adobe interface and
enjoy unprecedented integration with Adobe Flash as well as other Adobe
applications you already use, including Photoshop and Illustrator.
Graphic designers can import Photoshop and Illustrator files with
layers, transparency, and blend modes intact to bring still imagery to
life. Flash animators can import and output SWF or FLV files with alpha
channels and cue points.
New in Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
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
Photoshop images that include 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 Flash animations. Preserve
vectors from animations created in After Effects for lean and clean
delivery, and create Flash Video more easily. Import SWF files as
vectors with alpha channels preserved, and batch render Flash videos
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 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 helps ensure 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.
3D compositions from Vanishing Point
Export Vanishing Point data from Photoshop Extended, and then import
into After Effects to automatically build a 3D composition from the 2D
Photoshop image.
Additional Features
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.
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
new motion graphics.
Extensive visual effects
Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects such as
stylize, distort, shatter, and time remapping. Create grids, radio
waves, 3D particles, film grain, fractal noise, and more.
Timesaving tools
Start
projects quickly with animation presets and behaviors when creating
common animation elements, such as animating text in and out, creating
synthetic backgrounds, and more. Use new Brainstorm to quickly
experiment and refine designs using parameters you define. Learn fast
with Tool Tips and training resources in the box and on the web, and
streamline your review process with Clip Notes to create and import
comments.
Comprehensive masking and keying tools
Control which portions of a layer are visible by importing,
manipulating, and animating masks; flexible auto-tracing options and
RotoBezier masks make it easy to get precise results. Key bluescreen
and greenscreen mattes with the Academy Award-winning Keylight and a
host of supporting tools.
Powerful motion controls
Animate graphics and text using the Puppet tool. Apply motion blur to
produce more realistic animations, or use Timewarp to slow down and
speed up footage. Precisely match the motion of source footage using
Motion Tracker, and get the look of a locked-off shot using Motion
Stabilizer.
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.
Professional results for every media type
Compatibility with an extensive list of output formats lets you produce
animated content for virtually any media, from the web and mobile
devices to film and broadcast. Plus, After Effects CS3 Professional
introduces color management tools to help make the color-correction
process more predictable and preserve color fidelity.
High-fidelity color
Use standard color management tools with enhancements for film and video workflows.
32-bit 2D and 3D compositing and animation
Create high-impact communications by combining moving imagery,
graphics, text, and sound in 2D or 3D space and then animating
virtually any aspect of each element. Freely work with high dynamic
range imagery in a color-managed workflow.
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.
Complete color management workflow
Enable
color management simply by selecting a Project Working Space. Doing so
helps ensure the color accuracy of imported files as they are displayed
and rendered and allows you to preview how footage will look on other
devices.
Project templates
Use included project templates for DVD motion menus and motion graphics backgrounds.
Nondestructive vector painting
Paint nondestructively on layers to clean up footage, draw masks, clone elements, and create animations.
32-bit audio tools
Import 32-bit audio files mixed and mastered in Adobe Soundbooth or
Adobe Audition software. Fine-tune audio levels precisely using VU
meters with peak and clip indicators on the Audio panel.
Color accuracy
Take advantage of an end-to-end color management workflow to ensure color accuracy throughout your production pipeline.
Powerful masking and keying tools for creating video transparency
Control which portions of a layer are visible by importing,
manipulating, and animating masks. Key bluescreen and greenscreen
mattes with Academy Award-winning Keylight and a host of supporting
tools to rival those available in any other application. Flexible
auto-tracing options and RotoBezier masks make it easy to get precise
results.
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.
Product Description
Adobe After Effects
CS3 brings your vision to life. Create stunning motion graphics and
visual effects, with the industry's leading compositing and animation
tools. Take your inspiration to new heights with innovative new
features like Shape Layers, the Puppet tool, Brainstorm, and Clip
Notes. Jump-start projects with hundreds of fully customizable
animation presets and templates. Tight integration with Adobe's other
professional video applications means you can get great results
quickly. Graphic designers can import Photoshop and Illustrator files
with layers, transparency, and blend modes intact to bring still
imagery to life. Flash animators can import and output SWF or FLV files
with alpha channels and cue points. You'll create blockbuster visual
effects and compelling motion graphics, easily and quickly. Jump-start
animations with Brainstorm - Choose which properties and effects you
want to explore and Brainstorm will propose animated variations
Nondestructive vector painting on layers - clean up footage, draw
masks, clone elements and create animations Import 32-bit audio files
mixed and mastered in Adobe Soundbooth or Audition End-to-end color
management for better accuracy Powerful masking and keying tools for
creating video transparency Multiple visual effects - create grids,
radio waves, 3D particles, film grain, fractal noise and more Create
text and vector graphics - then animate them for motion graphics New
rendering options for mobile devices Included project templates for DVD
menus and backgrounds Full integration with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3,
Encore CS3 and Flash CS3 Professional.
System Requirements:
OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2, Microsoft Windows Vista
Software Requirements: QuickTime 7.0 or later
Peripheral / Interface Devices: DVD-ROM, SXGA monitor, Internet connection
Processor: Pentium 4 - 400 MHz
RAM: 2 GB
HD space: 500 MB