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Adobe After Effects
Superior Adobe product integration
• Adobe Photoshop® Transform layered images into animations easily.
• Adobe Illustrator® Add layered files as compositions singly or in batches.
• Adobe Premiere® Import projects as compositions.
• Adobe LiveMotion™ Import After Effects animations as Flash (SWF) files.
• Transforming paths Instantly turn any Illustrator or Photoshop path into a motion path or mask
Powerful masking
• Smart Mask Interpolation Keyframe Assistant Create highly precise interpolations between mask shapes (Production Bundle only).
• Motion blur Apply motion blur to individual masks.
• Animation Animate the shape, opacity, and feathering applied to masks.
• Combinations Instantly combine masks by applying Boolean operations.
• Variability Apply variable inner or outer feathering.
2D and 3D compositing
• Layers Composite and animate an unlimited number of layers in 2D or 3D space.
• Shadows Create and animate multiple cameras and lights with realistic soft shadows.
• Projection layers and colored shadows Provide 3D light transmission for slide-projection, colored shadows, and stained-glass effects.
• Multiple views View a composition from multiple 2D and 3D perspectives.
• Auto-orientation Auto-orient cameras and lights toward a definable point of interest or along a path.
Extensive motion controls
• Motion Sketch Let After Effects create the keyframes for an animation path that you draw.
• Smoother Smooth the shape of the path and fine-tune it.
• Expressions Create procedural animations without using keyframes by defining live relationships between properties with expressions.
• Parenting Speed up production with parenting, which lets layers inherit the transformations of other layers.
• Time remapping and frame blending Use time remapping and frame blending to create effects such as variable slow motion, frame stuttering, playback delay, backward playback, and hold frames.
Leading-edge video and audio effects
• Combine and control effects Apply an unlimited number of effects to every layer and animate each control. Add and animate more than 90 visual effects plug-ins to stylize, enhance, and manipulate images. Expand your visual effects toolkit with Shatter, Radio Waves, Colorama, Fractal, and Vegas. Animate text along any path shape. Even animate text parameters such as stroke, tracking, character rotation, and jitter. Control kerning, leading, and alignment
Flexible media handling
• Mixed resolutions Mix multiple file resolutions, from small thumbnails to 30,000x30,000-pixel frames.
• RAM Preview Play back your compositions in real time with or without sound using RAM Preview.
• Productivity Boost your productivity with dynamic previews, intelligent caching, and the ability to define a region of interest for faster and longer RAM previews.
• Better rendering Perform multiple renders of a composition at various sizes or batch-render any number of different compositions. Even save render templates.
Web delivery
• Macromedia® Flash™ (SWF) support Import and export SWF files.
• Embed URLs in Web output Create URL flips using layer markers.
• Audio compression Take advantage of QuickTime™ and MP3 audio compression codecs.
• QuickTime streaming Prepare streaming video and audio and output it as QuickTime files.
• RealMedia™ Output optimized streaming video as RealMedia files using the render queue.
Production Bundle features
• Visual effects Use Displacement Mapping, Color Stabilizer, Warping tools, the Particle Playground, and more.
• Keying effects Control keying to make precise composites. Use the Spill Suppressor to remove key-color traces, and use the Matte Choker to create clean edges.
• Motion tools Interpolate between mask shapes with the Smart Mask Interpolation Keyframe Assistant. Easily create random keyframes with the Wiggler, and use the Motion Tracker to isolate a moving element and track it to a moving element on another layer.
• Audio effects Use Flange, Chorus, Reverb, and more.
• 3D channel effects Use Depth of Field, Depth Matte, and more; bring in camera data from Maya and 3ds Max™.
• Render Engine Take advantage of network rendering.
• 16-bit-per-channel color Use deep color support for higher-quality output.
• Vector paint tools Easily paint on images over time using nondestructive vector-based strokes.
• Zaxwerks Use the Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator Classic to create beautifully sculpted 3D objects of text and logos.**
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