Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional software features comprehensive compositing, sophisticated effects, and tight integration with Adobe’s world-class design applications. Take your inspiration to new heights with innovative new features like Shape Layers, the Puppet tool, Brainstorm, and Adobe Clip Notes - all while enjoying an uninterrupted, streamlined workflow.Jump-start projects with hundreds of customizable animation presets and templates, or start from scratch and move efficiently between After Effects and other key applications like Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3 and Adobe Encore® CS3.
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.
Top new features
- Shape Layers
- Puppet tool
- Adobe Photoshop® CS3 Extended integration
- Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional integration
- Per-character 3D text animation
- Brainstorm
- Complete color management workflow
- Adobe Clip Notes
- Enhanced performance
- Video for mobile
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.
Unmatched Adobe integration
Enjoy a streamlined workflow with support for importing Adobe® Photoshop® images that include video layers as well as Adobe Illustrator® graphics that maintain image integrity. Move easily between After Effects and Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3 or Encore® CS3 software, and share animations easily with Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional software.
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, and shatter. 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 Adobe 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.
New 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.
System requirements
- Windows
- Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon®, or Intel CoreTM Duo (or compatible) processor
- Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows VistaTM Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)
- 1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD
- 500MB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content (additional free space required during installation)
- 1,280x1,024 monitor resolution with 24-bit video card; Adobe recommended graphics card for GPU-accelerated playback
- For OpenGL support: Adobe After Effects supported OpenGL 2.0 card (NVIDIA recommended)
- DVD-ROM drive
- QuickTime 7.1.5 software required to use QuickTime features
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe® Stock Photos and other services
- For recommended graphics cards and compatibilitylists, see the OpenGL page: http://store.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/opengl.html
- Macintosh
- PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
- Mac OS X v.10.4.9
- 1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD
- 500MB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content (additional free space required during installation)
- 1,280x1,024 monitor resolution with 24-bit video card; Adobe recommended graphics card for GPU-accelerated playback
- For OpenGL support: Adobe After Effects supported OpenGL 2.0 card (NVIDIA recommended)
- DVD-ROM drive
- QuickTime 7.1.5 software required to use QuickTime features
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services
- For recommended graphics cards and compatibilitylists, see the OpenGL page: http://store.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/opengl.html
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