adobe after effects professional cs3 preview
adobe after effects professional cs3 preview
Adobe After Effects creates motion graphics and visual effects.
Adobe After Effects delivers a comprehensive set of tools to efficiently produce motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web.
Animate your ideas. Adobe? After Effects? 7.0 software helps you create compelling motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects with efficiency, precision, and infinite variety.
Take advantage of unmatched integration with other Adobe software, flexible 2D and 3D compositing, and hundreds of effects and Animation Presets to bring a new dimension to your film, video, DVD, and Macromedia? Flash? productions
Features of "Adobe After Effects":
Graph Editor
ˇ Value and Speed graphs
ˇ Edit Value and Speed graphs in the Graph Editor, or let After Effects choose the one most appropriate for the animated property.
Value graphs for spatial properties
ˇ See spatial properties such as Position represented with value graphs on individual channels, each with a unique color.
Selected properties display
ˇ Choose one or all of three display modes for comparing animation curves: all selected properties, all animated properties of a selected layer, or a Graph Editor Set containing marked properties only.
One-button eases
ˇ Add eases in and out of curves with a single click.
Free transform
ˇ Scale and offset keyframes in the Graph Editor with free-transform features, just as you would scale or offset vertices on a mask.
Snapping keyframes
ˇ Snap keyframes to interesting points as you drag them horizontally or vertically around the Graph Editor.
Scalable view
ˇ Freely zoom and pan around the Graph Editor with the Zoom tool, Hand tool, or your mouse scroll wheel, using modifier keys for additional controls. Automatically fit all graphs to the current view with a single click.
32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) and 16-bit color support
ˇ 32-bit floating-point pipeline
ˇ Freely push values above full white and recover detail at any stage of the pipeline, so you can access the full range of color visible with the naked eye (Professional edition only).
Support for HDR image formats
ˇ Import and export HDR color images in Adobe Photoshop?, OpenEXR, and TIFF formats to preserve the full dynamic range of all footage (Professional edition only).
Quality 16-bit results
ˇ Produce work that is film- and HDTV-ready using the broader range of colors available in the 16-bit color mode (Professional edition only).
Flexible color modes
ˇ Rough out a composition in 8-bit color mode, and then finalize and output it to 16-bit or 32-bit color for optimal quality. Toggle between 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit color on-the-fly. (Professional edition only.)
Powerful masking tools
ˇ Unlimited masks
ˇ Control which parts of a 2D or 3D layer are visible by adding and animating an unlimited number of masks on any layer.
Imported masks
ˇ Import Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator? paths as masks.
Mask animations
ˇ Stroke, feather, transform, animate, and apply motion blur to masks over time.
Combined masks
ˇ Combine masks using Add, Subtract, Intersect, and Difference.
Mask auto-tracing
ˇ Quickly turn any channel, including alpha channels, into a vector-based mask, and quickly create animated masks.
Masks from text
ˇ Turn After Effects text into masks using the Create Outlines command.
RotoB?zier masks
ˇ Create RotoB?zier masks from scratch or convert them from B?zier masks. RotoB?ziers simplify repetitive tasks by reducing the number of control points you have to think about.
Faster mask rendering
ˇ Render even complex masks up to 100% faster than in previous versions of After Effects.
Smart Mask Interpolation
ˇ Create smooth, realistic intermediate mask keyframes automatically based on settings you provide. Take control of mismatched points, or create arcing mask transitions to replicate natural motion. (Professional edition only.)
Highest quality keying and matte tools
ˇ Track mattes
ˇ Turn any grayscale image, movie, or animated text or graphic into an alpha or luma track matte to control whats visible on another layer.
Color Range
ˇ Quickly eliminate all the pixels on a layer that are similar to a color youve specified. For example, cut out a greenscreen background in one step by specifying that color.
Keylight
ˇ Create subtle, elegant mattes of reflections, semitransparent areas, and hair with this Academy Award-winning keyer from The Foundry. Spill suppression, color correction, and edge refinement tools help perfect the result. (Professional edition only.)
Extract and Linear Color keys
ˇ Easily create high-contrast mattes with subtle edge thresholds using these keys to isolate and knock out a single shade or range of intensity (Professional edition only).
Color Difference Key
ˇ Replicate the method used to key color footage on many landmark films. The Color Difference Key weights the dominant color being keyed against the other two primary colors. (Professional edition only.)
Spill Suppressor
ˇ Remove unwanted color spill from any footage quickly and easily (Professional edition only).
Difference Matte
ˇ Compare foreground information in a scene against a precisely matched, static background "clean plate" and leave only the pixels that are different (Professional edition only).
Inner/Outer Key
ˇ Derive the key from border pixels that you select by creating a rough mask around the edges of the object. This helps out in difficult keying situations. (Professional edition only.)
Matte Choker and Simple Choker
ˇ Spread or choke the selection area of any alpha channel with a subpixel level of control (Professional edition only).
Professional color correction
ˇ Color Finesse
ˇ Perform your most demanding digital intermediate work within After Effects using Color Finesse? from Synthetic Aperture, a full-featured color-correction environment containing high-end telecine-style correction tools.
Comprehensive color correction
ˇ Adjust colors on layers over time using color-correction tools similar to those in Photoshop, including Brightness & Contrast, Channel Mixer, Color Balance, Levels, Tint, and more.
Shadows/Highlights effect
ˇ Automate color correction over time while preserving the shadows and highlights within the frames using the Photoshop style Shadows/Highlights effect.
Automatic adjustments
ˇ Enhance the contrast of footage over time with Photoshop style Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and Auto Levels controls.
Curves controls
ˇ Adjust the tonal range of an image with complete control - for example, decrease blues in the shadows and increase them in bright areas. Also import curve settings from Photoshop.
Hue/Saturation controls
ˇ Adjust the hue, saturation, and lightness of individual color components on a layer. Adjust up to six separate user-defined hue ranges.
Color Stabilizer
ˇ Sample the exposure of a single reference frame and adjust the exposure of all other frames to match it (Professional edition only).
High-quality audio
ˇ 32-bit audio support
ˇ Maximize audio quality in your projects with new support for 32-bit audio. Import 32-bit audio files mixed and mastered in Adobe Audition? software. Fine-tune audio levels precisely using VU meters with peak and clip indicators on the Audio panel.
Auto-sampling support
ˇ Prepare and resample audio using sampling rates from 8kHz to 96kHz (Mac OS) or 8kHz to 96kHz (Windows?).
Audio-to-keyframe conversion
ˇ Create keyframes to represent audio.
Audio effects
ˇ Remap audio over time with the Delay and Backwards audio effects. Adjust audio tone with Bass & Treble.
Stereo Mixer
ˇ Pan from the left speaker or channel to the right speaker or channel, or vice versa, with the Stereo Mixer.
Advanced audio effects
ˇ Use Modulator, Parametric EQ, and High-Low Pass for precise professional control over 32-bit audio. Delay, Flange & Chorus, and tone generation allow you to stylize sound or generate sounds from scratch. (Professional edition only.)
Audio Spectrum and Audio Waveform effects
ˇ Generate full-color visuals based on audio elements that animate dynamically along a frequency spectrum or that behave like an audio waveform.
Superior output
ˇ Render Queue
ˇ Use the powerful Render Queue to simultaneously render at multiple resolutions and file formats or to batch render files. Also create templates to apply common render and output settings.
OpenGL rendering
ˇ Use OpenGL for final rendering at high speed: OpenGL 2.0 capabilities include common blending modes, motion blur on 2D layers, anti-aliasing and track mattes, better shadows and transparencies, and more.
Network rendering
ˇ Divide each render - and the time it requires - over networked machines using a special Render Engine version of After Effects, with no limit on the permitted number of computers. See the product license agreement for details. (Professional edition only.)
Grid rendering
ˇ Speed output by using other networked computers to render your compositions, thanks to Gridiron X-Factor (plug-in available for Professional edition only).
Advanced 3D Renderer
ˇ Render 3D compositions - even those that include intersecting layers - at the highest possible quality.
Flexible frame rates and resolutions
ˇ Specify output frame rates and resolutions (up to 30,000x30,000 pixels) to meet all international film and broadcast standards, including Cineon, HDTV, HDV, and more.
Render automation
ˇ Use scripting to automate a render pipeline (with an unlimited number of nodes) and to integrate with third-party render management software (Professional edition only).
Pixel Aspect Ratios
ˇ Compensate for non-square pixels in DV, 601, HD, HDV, and other video formats using the Pixel Aspect Ratio settings.
Pulldown modes
ˇ Translate files smoothly between film and video using the 3:2 Pulldown option. Choose the 24PA Pulldown option for 24-frame progressive DV cameras.
Field rendering
ˇ Control field-rendering order for jitter-free playback on PAL and NTSC video systems.
FireWire video output
ˇ Preview your compositions on NTSC and PAL video monitors whether youre using a Windows or a Mac OS X system.
Extensive file format support
ˇ Extensive support for industry-standard formats
ˇ Import and output files in QuickTime, AVI, MPEG-2 (Windows only), Windows Media (WMV9 export on Windows only), RealMedia (Windows only), native Photoshop (PSD), Camera Raw, Macromedia Flash (SWF and FLV), Cineon, SGI, TIFF, TGA, Maya IFF, JPEG, ElectricImage, Filmstrip, PDF, WAV, and AIFF formats.
RLA/RPF support
ˇ Import camera data and auxiliary 3D image data saved with RLA or RPF files, such as data generated from 3ds Max (Professional edition only).
HDV support
ˇ Work with HDV video directly within After Effects.
DVD-ready files
ˇ Create DVD-ready files by encoding your After Effects output in MPEG-2 format (Windows only).
Macromedia Flash export
ˇ Streamline the process of encoding video and audio for your Flash projects with new Flash Video (FLV) export. Create compact, vector-based SWF animations that include sophisticated text animations and shape morphing.
AAF/OMF support
ˇ Import timelines from Avid using the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF). Import and export media in Avids native Open Media Framework (OMF) format. (Professional edition only.)
Windows Media and RealMedia export
ˇ Export your After Effects work in popular Windows Media and RealMedia formats for the web.
Intelligent workflowEase of use
ˇ Redesigned, unified user interface
ˇ Work within an elegantly redesigned interface featuring workspace panels that dock and group for optimal organization, eliminating overlapping windows. Save custom workspaces, control UI brightness, and more.
Familiar Adobe look and feel
ˇ Leverage your knowledge of other Adobe products to get up to speed quickly: After Effects uses standard Adobe tools, palettes, menus, and customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Easy to learn and use
ˇ Learn as you work with convenient Tool Tips, context-sensitive menus, the Adobe website, third-party books and training videos, and an active user community. Get started quickly with professionally designed templates for DVD motion menus and animated backgrounds.
Adobe Help Center
ˇ Get answers quickly from the new Adobe Help Center, which offers powerful search features and convenient topics.
Auto Save
ˇ Prevent mishaps from destroying hours of work. The Auto Save feature saves incremental versions automatically as you work.
Flexible media management
ˇ Cross-platform workflows
ˇ Easily share projects and files across Windows and Macintosh platforms.
Resolution independence
ˇ Mix multiple file resolutions from small thumbnails up to 30,000x30,000-pixel frames.
Adobe Bridge
ˇ Simplify the everyday tasks of asset management with Adobe Bridge, which offers powerful ways to browse and search digital assets, preview and apply presets, work with metadata, manage files, and run batch processes.
Post-render actions and Proxy creation
ˇ Use post-render actions to streamline back-end production tasks, such as creating proxies or replacing project footage with output from the Render Queue.
Convenient file management
ˇ Use commands such as Find, Reveal, Reduce Project, and Collect Files to manage files easily.
Flowchart view
ˇ View a flowchart of a composition or project to see how its organized and what footage, layers, and effects are used.
Unmatched Adobe integration
ˇ Photoshop CS2 integration
ˇ Save 32-bit HDR and 16-bit color values in Photoshop files. Text remains editable, and layers, common layer styles, blending modes, masks, and transparency are all preserved when Photoshop files are imported as compositions. Use Photoshop paths as masks or animation paths.
Photoshop layer style support
ˇ Import common layer styles created in Photoshop - including Glow, Bevel, and Drop Shadow effects - for rendering in After Effects layers.
Photoshop file creation
ˇ Create a new Photoshop file from within your After Effects project. Photoshop automatically opens a blank file using composition settings - including title-safe and action-safe guides - ready for editing. Changes appear in After Effects when you save.
Illustrator CS2 integration
ˇ Copy vectors from Illustrator to use as After Effects masks or motion paths. Illustrator layers and blend modes are preserved, and vector shapes can be continuously rasterized (and output as compact SWF files), preserving smooth edge detail.
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 integration
ˇ Preserve bins, edits, markers, keyframed effects, nested sequences, transitions, and more from Adobe Premiere? Pro 2.0 software. Drag and drop or copy and paste clips from one application to the other. (Windows only.)
Adobe Premiere Pro project export
ˇ Export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project, streamlining work that involves editing as well as motion graphics and effects. (Windows only.)
Adobe Encore DVD integration
ˇ Create elements such as motion menus and interactive buttons for your DVDs. Export AVI and MPEG-2 movies from After Effects with markers that Adobe Encore? DVD software reads as chapters. (Windows only.)
Optimal performance
ˇ Real-time, high-fidelity OpenGL support
ˇ Experience real-time performance with advanced OpenGL 2.0 capabilities including support for blending modes as well as motion blur, anti-aliasing, track mattes, high-quality shadows and transparency, and accelerated rendering of common effects. Use OpenGL for accelerated final renders.
RAM previews
ˇ Preview compositions in real time and benefit from intelligent caching, dynamic previews, and the ability to define a region of interest for faster and longer RAM previews.
Disk caching
ˇ Dramatically enhance previewing and interactivity on large projects with highly efficient disk caching.
Windows and Mac OS optimization
ˇ Take advantage of better performance using the latest Intel? Pentium? based Windows hardware and PowerPC? G5 based Macintosh hardware.
Integrated Script Editor
ˇ Text editing palettes
ˇ Organize and edit scripts using numbered lines, user-defined text formatting, and colored text (Professional edition only).
Debug menu
ˇ Clearly isolate specific functions and statements in complex scripts by interactively managing breakpoints (Professional edition only).
Profile
ˇ Profile individual functions or lines within scripts for individual timing and hit count information to understand how and when individual parts of the script are called (Professional edition only).
Integrated palette-based interface
ˇ Instantly access all scripts in the Scripts menu, which also includes a JavaScript Console and Call Stack, Breakpoints, and Data Browser palettes (Professional edition only).
Creative empowermentFlexible 2D and 3D compositing
ˇ Real-time design with OpenGL acceleration
ˇ Composite layers in 2D or 3D space using multiple cameras and lights. Mix and match 2D and 3D layers in a single composition, and design in real time using OpenGL acceleration.
Cameras and lights for 3D compositions
ˇ Create and animate multiple cameras and lights. Specify a point of interest, produce soft shadows, and simulate different types of lights to add depth.
Multiple views and workspaces
ˇ See how layers interact in space, and manipulate a composition from multiple perspectives using multiple views. Use predefined workspaces or create your own to contextually streamline your workflow.
Projection layers and colored shadows
ˇ Project light through a layer to create colored shadows, stained-glass effects, and the look of projected slides.
Camera data
ˇ Import 3D camera and null animation data in the Alias Maya (MA) format, directly from Maya or from any 3D tracking software that can export MA files, such as 2d3s boujou (Professional edition only).
Quick arrangement of multiple layers
ˇ Quickly arrange multiple layers in time with the Sequence Layers keyframe assistant, and arrange layers in space with the Align and Distribute tools.
Parenting
ˇ Speed up production by defining a parent-child relationship between layers to ensure the child layer inherits all transformations applied to the parent.
Built-in creative tools and templates
ˇ Produce cool animations from scratch right in After Effects by creating layers, adding masks, and applying effects. Or use included project templates to get started on creating DVD motion menus, animated backgrounds, and more.
Unrivaled text animation and titling effects
ˇ Intuitive text creation
ˇ Create text using Adobe-standard tools for typing, editing, and formatting text, and easily edit text created in Photoshop. Mix and match fonts and other attributes on a layer.
Text Animation Presets
ˇ Save animation time by instantly applying more than 250 professionally designed, fully editable text Animation Presets, or create and save your own. Use Adobe Bridge to conveniently preview and apply presets.
Character-level blurs
ˇ Create and animate blurs on a per-character basis for eye-catching text animations.
Versatile text animation
ˇ Animate text along any path, transform or displace words or lines of text over time, set intercharacter blending modes, randomize the order in which characters animate, wiggle your text, and more.
Web-ready text animations
ˇ Export animated text as vector-based SWF files to create innovative, web-friendly animations.
Expert visual effects
ˇ Comprehensive effects toolkit
ˇ Use a broad selection of included effects to change the appearance of footage or to generate entirely new elements. Create unique looks from scratch or by using more than 100 new, customizable effects presets.
Creative blur effects
ˇ Re-create the effect of a defocused camera lens easily and realistically with new Lens Blur, and use new Smart Blur to create soft color effects without destroying fine detail. Use a variety of other blur effects for specific situations, including Directional Blur, Box Blur, and Gaussian Blur.
Fractal Noise
ˇ Create textures and organic elements with Fractal Noise, which is perfect for simulating caustics, clouds, lava, flowing water, and gas. Use included presets to create eye-catching animated backgrounds.
Flexible distortion effects
ˇ Distort and morph footage using Mirror, Ripple, and other effects, and paint distortions directly onto imagery with Liquify.
Maximum warping
ˇ Warp and distort the full frame of your footage as well as selected areas in specific, realistic ways with effects like Mesh Warp, B?zier Warp, and Displacement Map (Professional edition only).
Reshape
ˇ Morph one defined shape in a layer into another shape on the same layer, distorting the image itself to fit the shape of the new area (Professional edition only).
Optics Compensation
ˇ Precisely simulate the fish-eye lens distortion of images taken with a real camera using a wide-angle lens.
Corner Pin
ˇ Skew the corners of an image to simulate the perspective of a plane in 3D space. Use the tracker to create animated corner pin data automatically, matching scene features precisely. (Professional edition only.)
Bulge
ˇ Warp an image around a given point, as if inflating the pixels out to a given radius.
3D effects
ˇ Use 3D Channel Effects to import 3D channel image files saved in RLA, RPF, Softimage PIC/ZPIC, and Electric Image EI/EIZ formats, and work with the 3D image data contained within them. Use Depth of Field to simulate the focal effects of camera depth of field, and use Fog 3D to simulate volumetric haze in a source 3D image file. (Professional edition only.)
ID Matte
ˇ Isolate elements in a 3D image file using unique embedded Object ID tags created by 3D programs (Professional edition only).
Scribble
ˇ Achieve a loose, hand-drawn look instantly by applying Scribble to a layer.
Cycore Effects
ˇ Add smoke and sparks using Particle World, create blazing ray-of-light transitions using Light Burst and Light Sweep, change all the colors in an image to just three hues using Toner, and more with over 60 bundled effects from Cycore.
Grain management tools
ˇ Add or remove grain artifacts from footage - automatically or manually. Specify the characteristics of grain on all three individual color channels for a perfect match. (Professional edition only.)
Glow
ˇ Instantly brighten or diffuse the bright areas of an image to create a glowing halo or other lighting effect, suitable for stylized emphasis of featured elements.
Advanced Lightning
ˇ Create electrical arcs with variety, precision, and realism.
Particle Playground
ˇ Simulate explosions, flocks of birds, swarms of bees, and more using a powerful particle system. Any layer, even text, can be a particle. (Professional edition only.)
Scatter
ˇ Generate sizzle around borders by adding dancing, dissolve-style animated pixel scatter to the inside and outside of masked areas of a layer (Professional edition only).
Expandable effects toolkit
ˇ Expand your creative range in After Effects with hundreds of compatible third-party effects plug-ins (available separately).
Intuitive effects management
ˇ Effects & Presets palette
ˇ Organize effects the way you like and quickly access them in the Effects & Presets palette. Save, apply, and share Animation Presets with specific settings and animated properties.
Placeholder for missing effects
ˇ Continue working on a project even when the effects it uses are missing from your system. Information about where each effect was applied and the settings it uses is preserved.
Adjustment layers
ˇ Create adjustment layers, similar to those in Photoshop, to apply effects to any layers that appear below them.
Powerful animation and motion controls
ˇ Motion blur
ˇ Apply motion blur to moving layers to produce more realistic animations.
Timesaving Animation and Behavior Presets plus project templates
ˇ Produce great-looking animations quickly using hundreds of fully customizable Animation Presets, including presets for animating text, effects, transitions, backgrounds, and behaviors. Use included project templates for DVD motion menus and motion graphics backgrounds.
Timewarp
ˇ Slow down and speed up footage with smooth, crisp results and minimal artifacts. Timewarp analyzes pixel motion to create more accurate in-between frames. (Professional edition only.)
Time remapping and frame blending
ˇ Produce effects such as variable slow motion and backward playback using two types of frame blending: frame mix and the new pixel motion.
Motion Sketch and Smoother
ˇ Quickly draw an animation path and set its velocity with Motion Sketch. Then fine-tune the shape and speed of the path with the Smoother.
Motion Tracker
ˇ Precisely match the motion of source footage using the fast, accurate Motion Tracker. Use as many points as you like or standard one-, two-, and four-point settings to track x and y position, rotation, and scale. (Professional edition only.)
Motion Stabilizer
ˇ Eliminate unwanted motion using the Motion Stabilizer, which can give handheld video shots the look of a locked-off shot (Professional edition only).
Wiggler
ˇ Apply smooth or jagged changes to color, motion, or other effects over time with the Wiggler (Professional edition only).
Exponential Scale tool
ˇ Create natural-looking zoom effects by making linear changes of scale exponential (Professional edition only).
Time Displacement
ˇ Mix different portions of source footage in an intriguing manner using the luminance of one layer to control the timing of individual pixels in another layer (Professional edition only).
Rotoscoping and paint tools
ˇ Nondestructive vector painting
ˇ Paint nondestructively on layers to clean up footage, draw masks, clone elements, and create animations.
Photoshop style brushes
ˇ Work with brushes similar to the ones in Photoshop. Customize brushes to control size, spacing, and angle, and save them for ongoing use.
Advanced Clone tool
ˇ Remove unwanted distractions like dust and scratches, or replicate elements for a desired effect, like filling a stadium with people. The Clone tool offers multiple presets and onion skinning of the source frame.
Animated paint strokes
ˇ Animate individual paint strokes over time to change their size, position, or shape and to create write-on and write-off effects.
Eraser tool
ˇ Control whether the Eraser tool removes paint strokes only or paint strokes plus the underlying background footage.
Wacom tablet support
ˇ Use Wacom tablets for more precise control when painting in After Effects.
Versatile Expressions and Behavior Presets
ˇ Keyframeless creation of animations
ˇ Define Expressions that link the behavior of one layer property to that of another on any layer in the composition. Use new Behavior Presets to create Wiggles, Bounces, Drifts, Flashes, and more without setting keyframes.
Intuitive pick whip interface
ˇ Link properties easily and intuitively with the pick whip interface.
Standard syntax
ˇ Use standard JavaScript to modify Expressions, or create your own from scratch.
Menu of preset commands
ˇ Reduce keystrokes and eliminate the need to memorize code with an extensive library of functions and commands.
Requirements:
ˇ Intel? Pentium? 4 processor (multiprocessor recommended)
ˇ Microsoft? Windows? XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2
ˇ 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
ˇ 500MB of available hard-disk space for installation (10GB for disk caching and 1GB for functional content recommended)
ˇ 24-bit color display adapter
ˇ DVD-ROM drive
ˇ QuickTime 6.5 software recommended
ˇ Internet or phone connection required for product activation
ˇ For the Render Engine (Professional edition only): System requirements are the same as application system requirements.
ˇ For OpenGL support: Adobe After Effects supported OpenGL 2.0 card (Nvidia recommended).
Limitations:
ˇ 30 days trial
Changes from previous version
ˇ Redesigned, unified user interface
ˇ Graph Editor
ˇ HDR color support
ˇ Timesaving Animation and Behavior Presets plus project templates
ˇ Real-time, high-fidelity OpenGL support
ˇ Timewarp
ˇ Adobe Bridge
ˇ Expanded file format support
ˇ Unmatched Adobe integration
ˇ Macromedia? Flash? Video (FLV) export
Adobe After Effects delivers a comprehensive set of tools to efficiently produce motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web.
Animate your ideas. AdobeŽ After EffectsŽ 7.0 software helps you create compelling motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects with efficiency, precision, and infinite variety.
Take advantage of unmatched integration with other Adobe software, flexible 2D and 3D compositing, and hundreds of effects and Animation Presets to bring a new dimension to your film, video, DVD, and MacromediaŽ FlashŽ productions
Here are some key features of "Adobe After Effects":
Graph Editor
ˇ Value and Speed graphs
ˇ Edit Value and Speed graphs in the Graph Editor, or let After Effects choose the one most appropriate for the animated property.
Value graphs for spatial properties
ˇ See spatial properties such as Position represented with value graphs on individual channels, each with a unique color.
Selected properties display
ˇ Choose one or all of three display modes for comparing animation curves: all selected properties, all animated properties of a selected layer, or a Graph Editor Set containing marked properties only.
One-button eases
ˇ Add eases in and out of curves with a single click.
Free transform
ˇ Scale and offset keyframes in the Graph Editor with free-transform features, just as you would scale or offset vertices on a mask.
Snapping keyframes
ˇ Snap keyframes to interesting points as you drag them horizontally or vertically around the Graph Editor.
Scalable view
ˇ Freely zoom and pan around the Graph Editor with the Zoom tool, Hand tool, or your mouse scroll wheel, using modifier keys for additional controls. Automatically fit all graphs to the current view with a single click.
32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) and 16-bit color support
ˇ 32-bit floating-point pipeline
ˇ Freely push values above full white and recover detail at any stage of the pipeline, so you can access the full range of color visible with the naked eye (Professional edition only).
Support for HDR image formats
ˇ Import and export HDR color images in Adobe PhotoshopŽ, OpenEXR, and TIFF formats to preserve the full dynamic range of all footage (Professional edition only).
Quality 16-bit results
ˇ Produce work that is film- and HDTV-ready using the broader range of colors available in the 16-bit color mode (Professional edition only).
Flexible color modes
ˇ Rough out a composition in 8-bit color mode, and then finalize and output it to 16-bit or 32-bit color for optimal quality. Toggle between 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit color on-the-fly. (Professional edition only.)
Powerful masking tools
ˇ Unlimited masks
ˇ Control which parts of a 2D or 3D layer are visible by adding and animating an unlimited number of masks on any layer.
Imported masks
ˇ Import Adobe Photoshop and IllustratorŽ paths as masks.
Mask animations
ˇ Stroke, feather, transform, animate, and apply motion blur to masks over time.
Combined masks
ˇ Combine masks using Add, Subtract, Intersect, and Difference.
Mask auto-tracing
ˇ Quickly turn any channel, including alpha channels, into a vector-based mask, and quickly create animated masks.
Masks from text
ˇ Turn After Effects text into masks using the Create Outlines command.
RotoBézier masks
ˇ Create RotoBézier masks from scratch or convert them from Bézier masks. RotoBéziers simplify repetitive tasks by reducing the number of control points you have to think about.
Faster mask rendering
ˇ Render even complex masks up to 100% faster than in previous versions of After Effects.
Smart Mask Interpolation
ˇ Create smooth, realistic intermediate mask keyframes automatically based on settings you provide. Take control of mismatched points, or create arcing mask transitions to replicate natural motion. (Professional edition only.)
Highest quality keying and matte tools
ˇ Track mattes
ˇ Turn any grayscale image, movie, or animated text or graphic into an alpha or luma track matte to control whats visible on another layer.
Color Range
ˇ Quickly eliminate all the pixels on a layer that are similar to a color youve specified. For example, cut out a greenscreen background in one step by specifying that color.
Keylight
ˇ Create subtle, elegant mattes of reflections, semitransparent areas, and hair with this Academy Award-winning keyer from The Foundry. Spill suppression, color correction, and edge refinement tools help perfect the result. (Professional edition only.)
Extract and Linear Color keys
ˇ Easily create high-contrast mattes with subtle edge thresholds using these keys to isolate and knock out a single shade or range of intensity (Professional edition only).
Color Difference Key
ˇ Replicate the method used to key color footage on many landmark films. The Color Difference Key weights the dominant color being keyed against the other two primary colors. (Professional edition only.)
Spill Suppressor
ˇ Remove unwanted color spill from any footage quickly and easily (Professional edition only).
Difference Matte
ˇ Compare foreground information in a scene against a precisely matched, static background "clean plate" and leave only the pixels that are different (Professional edition only).
Inner/Outer Key
ˇ Derive the key from border pixels that you select by creating a rough mask around the edges of the object. This helps out in difficult keying situations. (Professional edition only.)
Matte Choker and Simple Choker
ˇ Spread or choke the selection area of any alpha channel with a subpixel level of control (Professional edition only).
Professional color correction
ˇ Color Finesse
ˇ Perform your most demanding digital intermediate work within After Effects using Color Finesse? from Synthetic Aperture, a full-featured color-correction environment containing high-end telecine-style correction tools.
Comprehensive color correction
ˇ Adjust colors on layers over time using color-correction tools similar to those in Photoshop, including Brightness & Contrast, Channel Mixer, Color Balance, Levels, Tint, and more.
Shadows/Highlights effect
ˇ Automate color correction over time while preserving the shadows and highlights within the frames using the Photoshop style Shadows/Highlights effect.
Automatic adjustments
ˇ Enhance the contrast of footage over time with Photoshop style Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and Auto Levels controls.
Curves controls
ˇ Adjust the tonal range of an image with complete control ? for example, decrease blues in the shadows and increase them in bright areas. Also import curve settings from Photoshop.
Hue/Saturation controls
ˇ Adjust the hue, saturation, and lightness of individual color components on a layer. Adjust up to six separate user-defined hue ranges.
Color Stabilizer
ˇ Sample the exposure of a single reference frame and adjust the exposure of all other frames to match it (Professional edition only).
High-quality audio
ˇ 32-bit audio support
ˇ Maximize audio quality in your projects with new support for 32-bit audio. Import 32-bit audio files mixed and mastered in Adobe AuditionŽ software. Fine-tune audio levels precisely using VU meters with peak and clip indicators on the Audio panel.
Auto-sampling support
ˇ Prepare and resample audio using sampling rates from 8kHz to 96kHz (Mac OS) or 8kHz to 96kHz (WindowsŽ).
Audio-to-keyframe conversion
ˇ Create keyframes to represent audio.
Audio effects
ˇ Remap audio over time with the Delay and Backwards audio effects. Adjust audio tone with Bass & Treble.
Stereo Mixer
ˇ Pan from the left speaker or channel to the right speaker or channel, or vice versa, with the Stereo Mixer.
Advanced audio effects
ˇ Use Modulator, Parametric EQ, and High-Low Pass for precise professional control over 32-bit audio. Delay, Flange & Chorus, and tone generation allow you to stylize sound or generate sounds from scratch. (Professional edition only.)
Audio Spectrum and Audio Waveform effects
ˇ Generate full-color visuals based on audio elements that animate dynamically along a frequency spectrum or that behave like an audio waveform.
Superior output
ˇ Render Queue
ˇ Use the powerful Render Queue to simultaneously render at multiple resolutions and file formats or to batch render files. Also create templates to apply common render and output settings.
OpenGL rendering
ˇ Use OpenGL for final rendering at high speed: OpenGL 2.0 capabilities include common blending modes, motion blur on 2D layers, anti-aliasing and track mattes, better shadows and transparencies, and more.
Network rendering
ˇ Divide each render ? and the time it requires ? over networked machines using a special Render Engine version of After Effects, with no limit on the permitted number of computers. See the product license agreement for details. (Professional edition only.)
Grid rendering
ˇ Speed output by using other networked computers to render your compositions, thanks to Gridiron X-Factor (plug-in available for Professional edition only).
Advanced 3D Renderer
ˇ Render 3D compositions ? even those that include intersecting layers ? at the highest possible quality.
Flexible frame rates and resolutions
ˇ Specify output frame rates and resolutions (up to 30,000x30,000 pixels) to meet all international film and broadcast standards, including Cineon, HDTV, HDV, and more.
Render automation
ˇ Use scripting to automate a render pipeline (with an unlimited number of nodes) and to integrate with third-party render management software (Professional edition only).
Pixel Aspect Ratios
ˇ Compensate for non-square pixels in DV, 601, HD, HDV, and other video formats using the Pixel Aspect Ratio settings.
Pulldown modes
ˇ Translate files smoothly between film and video using the 3:2 Pulldown option. Choose the 24PA Pulldown option for 24-frame progressive DV cameras.
Field rendering
ˇ Control field-rendering order for jitter-free playback on PAL and NTSC video systems.
FireWire video output
ˇ Preview your compositions on NTSC and PAL video monitors whether youre using a Windows or a Mac OS X system.
Extensive file format support
ˇ Extensive support for industry-standard formats
ˇ Import and output files in QuickTime, AVI, MPEG-2 (Windows only), Windows Media (WMV9 export on Windows only), RealMedia (Windows only), native Photoshop (PSD), Camera Raw, Macromedia Flash (SWF and FLV), Cineon, SGI, TIFF, TGA, Maya IFF, JPEG, ElectricImage, Filmstrip, PDF, WAV, and AIFF formats.
RLA/RPF support
ˇ Import camera data and auxiliary 3D image data saved with RLA or RPF files, such as data generated from 3ds Max (Professional edition only).
HDV support
ˇ Work with HDV video directly within After Effects.
DVD-ready files
ˇ Create DVD-ready files by encoding your After Effects output in MPEG-2 format (Windows only).
Macromedia Flash export
ˇ Streamline the process of encoding video and audio for your Flash projects with new Flash Video (FLV) export. Create compact, vector-based SWF animations that include sophisticated text animations and shape morphing.
AAF/OMF support
ˇ Import timelines from Avid using the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF). Import and export media in Avids native Open Media Framework (OMF) format. (Professional edition only.)
Windows Media and RealMedia export
ˇ Export your After Effects work in popular Windows Media and RealMedia formats for the web.
Intelligent workflowEase of use
ˇ Redesigned, unified user interface
ˇ Work within an elegantly redesigned interface featuring workspace panels that dock and group for optimal organization, eliminating overlapping windows. Save custom workspaces, control UI brightness, and more.
Familiar Adobe look and feel
ˇ Leverage your knowledge of other Adobe products to get up to speed quickly: After Effects uses standard Adobe tools, palettes, menus, and customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Easy to learn and use
ˇ Learn as you work with convenient Tool Tips, context-sensitive menus, the Adobe website, third-party books and training videos, and an active user community. Get started quickly with professionally designed templates for DVD motion menus and animated backgrounds.
Adobe Help Center
ˇ Get answers quickly from the new Adobe Help Center, which offers powerful search features and convenient topics.
Auto Save
ˇ Prevent mishaps from destroying hours of work. The Auto Save feature saves incremental versions automatically as you work.
Flexible media management
ˇ Cross-platform workflows
ˇ Easily share projects and files across Windows and Macintosh platforms.
Resolution independence
ˇ Mix multiple file resolutions from small thumbnails up to 30,000x30,000-pixel frames.
Adobe Bridge
ˇ Simplify the everyday tasks of asset management with Adobe Bridge, which offers powerful ways to browse and search digital assets, preview and apply presets, work with metadata, manage files, and run batch processes.
Post-render actions and Proxy creation
ˇ Use post-render actions to streamline back-end production tasks, such as creating proxies or replacing project footage with output from the Render Queue.
Convenient file management
ˇ Use commands such as Find, Reveal, Reduce Project, and Collect Files to manage files easily.
Flowchart view
ˇ View a flowchart of a composition or project to see how its organized and what footage, layers, and effects are used.
Unmatched Adobe integration
ˇ Photoshop CS2 integration
ˇ Save 32-bit HDR and 16-bit color values in Photoshop files. Text remains editable, and layers, common layer styles, blending modes, masks, and transparency are all preserved when Photoshop files are imported as compositions. Use Photoshop paths as masks or animation paths.
Photoshop layer style support
ˇ Import common layer styles created in Photoshop ? including Glow, Bevel, and Drop Shadow effects ? for rendering in After Effects layers.
Photoshop file creation
ˇ Create a new Photoshop file from within your After Effects project. Photoshop automatically opens a blank file using composition settings ? including title-safe and action-safe guides ? ready for editing. Changes appear in After Effects when you save.
Illustrator CS2 integration
ˇ Copy vectors from Illustrator to use as After Effects masks or motion paths. Illustrator layers and blend modes are preserved, and vector shapes can be continuously rasterized (and output as compact SWF files), preserving smooth edge detail.
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 integration
ˇ Preserve bins, edits, markers, keyframed effects, nested sequences, transitions, and more from Adobe PremiereŽ Pro 2.0 software. Drag and drop or copy and paste clips from one application to the other. (Windows only.)
Adobe Premiere Pro project export
ˇ Export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project, streamlining work that involves editing as well as motion graphics and effects. (Windows only.)
Adobe Encore DVD integration
ˇ Create elements such as motion menus and interactive buttons for your DVDs. Export AVI and MPEG-2 movies from After Effects with markers that Adobe EncoreŽ DVD software reads as chapters. (Windows only.)
Optimal performance
ˇ Real-time, high-fidelity OpenGL support
ˇ Experience real-time performance with advanced OpenGL 2.0 capabilities including support for blending modes as well as motion blur, anti-aliasing, track mattes, high-quality shadows and transparency, and accelerated rendering of common effects. Use OpenGL for accelerated final renders.
RAM previews
ˇ Preview compositions in real time and benefit from intelligent caching, dynamic previews, and the ability to define a region of interest for faster and longer RAM previews.
Disk caching
ˇ Dramatically enhance previewing and interactivity on large projects with highly efficient disk caching.
Windows and Mac OS optimization
ˇ Take advantage of better performance using the latest IntelŽ PentiumŽ based Windows hardware and PowerPCŽ G5 based Macintosh hardware.
Integrated Script Editor
ˇ Text editing palettes
ˇ Organize and edit scripts using numbered lines, user-defined text formatting, and colored text (Professional edition only).
Debug menu
ˇ Clearly isolate specific functions and statements in complex scripts by interactively managing breakpoints (Professional edition only).
Profile
ˇ Profile individual functions or lines within scripts for individual timing and hit count information to understand how and when individual parts of the script are called (Professional edition only).
Integrated palette-based interface
ˇ Instantly access all scripts in the Scripts menu, which also includes a JavaScript Console and Call Stack, Breakpoints, and Data Browser palettes (Professional edition only).
Creative empowermentFlexible 2D and 3D compositing
ˇ Real-time design with OpenGL acceleration
ˇ Composite layers in 2D or 3D space using multiple cameras and lights. Mix and match 2D and 3D layers in a single composition, and design in real time using OpenGL acceleration.
Cameras and lights for 3D compositions
ˇ Create and animate multiple cameras and lights. Specify a point of interest, produce soft shadows, and simulate different types of lights to add depth.
Multiple views and workspaces
ˇ See how layers interact in space, and manipulate a composition from multiple perspectives using multiple views. Use predefined workspaces or create your own to contextually streamline your workflow.
Projection layers and colored shadows
ˇ Project light through a layer to create colored shadows, stained-glass effects, and the look of projected slides.
Camera data
ˇ Import 3D camera and null animation data in the Alias Maya (MA) format, directly from Maya or from any 3D tracking software that can export MA files, such as 2d3s boujou (Professional edition only).
Quick arrangement of multiple layers
ˇ Quickly arrange multiple layers in time with the Sequence Layers keyframe assistant, and arrange layers in space with the Align and Distribute tools.
Parenting
ˇ Speed up production by defining a parent-child relationship between layers to ensure the child layer inherits all transformations applied to the parent.
Built-in creative tools and templates
ˇ Produce cool animations from scratch right in After Effects by creating layers, adding masks, and applying effects. Or use included project templates to get started on creating DVD motion menus, animated backgrounds, and more.
Unrivaled text animation and titling effects
ˇ Intuitive text creation
ˇ Create text using Adobe-standard tools for typing, editing, and formatting text, and easily edit text created in Photoshop. Mix and match fonts and other attributes on a layer.
Text Animation Presets
ˇ Save animation time by instantly applying more than 250 professionally designed, fully editable text Animation Presets, or create and save your own. Use Adobe Bridge to conveniently preview and apply presets.
Character-level blurs
ˇ Create and animate blurs on a per-character basis for eye-catching text animations.
Versatile text animation
ˇ Animate text along any path, transform or displace words or lines of text over time, set intercharacter blending modes, randomize the order in which characters animate, wiggle your text, and more.
Web-ready text animations
ˇ Export animated text as vector-based SWF files to create innovative, web-friendly animations.
Expert visual effects
ˇ Comprehensive effects toolkit
ˇ Use a broad selection of included effects to change the appearance of footage or to generate entirely new elements. Create unique looks from scratch or by using more than 100 new, customizable effects presets.
Creative blur effects
ˇ Re-create the effect of a defocused camera lens easily and realistically with new Lens Blur, and use new Smart Blur to create soft color effects without destroying fine detail. Use a variety of other blur effects for specific situations, including Directional Blur, Box Blur, and Gaussian Blur.
Fractal Noise
ˇ Create textures and organic elements with Fractal Noise, which is perfect for simulating caustics, clouds, lava, flowing water, and gas. Use included presets to create eye-catching animated backgrounds.
Flexible distortion effects
ˇ Distort and morph footage using Mirror, Ripple, and other effects, and paint distortions directly onto imagery with Liquify.
Maximum warping
ˇ Warp and distort the full frame of your footage as well as selected areas in specific, realistic ways with effects like Mesh Warp, Bézier Warp, and Displacement Map (Professional edition only).
Reshape
ˇ Morph one defined shape in a layer into another shape on the same layer, distorting the image itself to fit the shape of the new area (Professional edition only).
Optics Compensation
ˇ Precisely simulate the fish-eye lens distortion of images taken with a real camera using a wide-angle lens.
Corner Pin
ˇ Skew the corners of an image to simulate the perspective of a plane in 3D space. Use the tracker to create animated corner pin data automatically, matching scene features precisely. (Professional edition only.)
Bulge
ˇ Warp an image around a given point, as if inflating the pixels out to a given radius.
3D effects
ˇ Use 3D Channel Effects to import 3D channel image files saved in RLA, RPF, Softimage PIC/ZPIC, and Electric Image EI/EIZ formats, and work with the 3D image data contained within them. Use Depth of Field to simulate the focal effects of camera depth of field, and use Fog 3D to simulate volumetric haze in a source 3D image file. (Professional edition only.)
ID Matte
ˇ Isolate elements in a 3D image file using unique embedded Object ID tags created by 3D programs (Professional edition only).
Scribble
ˇ Achieve a loose, hand-drawn look instantly by applying Scribble to a layer.
Cycore Effects
ˇ Add smoke and sparks using Particle World, create blazing ray-of-light transitions using Light Burst and Light Sweep, change all the colors in an image to just three hues using Toner, and more with over 60 bundled effects from Cycore.
Grain management tools
ˇ Add or remove grain artifacts from footage ? automatically or manually. Specify the characteristics of grain on all three individual color channels for a perfect match. (Professional edition only.)
Glow
ˇ Instantly brighten or diffuse the bright areas of an image to create a glowing halo or other lighting effect, suitable for stylized emphasis of featured elements.
Advanced Lightning
ˇ Create electrical arcs with variety, precision, and realism.
Particle Playground
ˇ Simulate explosions, flocks of birds, swarms of bees, and more using a powerful particle system. Any layer, even text, can be a particle. (Professional edition only.)
Scatter
ˇ Generate sizzle around borders by adding dancing, dissolve-style animated pixel scatter to the inside and outside of masked areas of a layer (Professional edition only).
Expandable effects toolkit
ˇ Expand your creative range in After Effects with hundreds of compatible third-party effects plug-ins (available separately).
Intuitive effects management
ˇ Effects & Presets palette
ˇ Organize effects the way you like and quickly access them in the Effects & Presets palette. Save, apply, and share Animation Presets with specific settings and animated properties.
Placeholder for missing effects
ˇ Continue working on a project even when the effects it uses are missing from your system. Information about where each effect was applied and the settings it uses is preserved.
Adjustment layers
ˇ Create adjustment layers, similar to those in Photoshop, to apply effects to any layers that appear below them.
Powerful animation and motion controls
ˇ Motion blur
ˇ Apply motion blur to moving layers to produce more realistic animations.
Timesaving Animation and Behavior Presets plus project templates
ˇ Produce great-looking animations quickly using hundreds of fully customizable Animation Presets, including presets for animating text, effects, transitions, backgrounds, and behaviors. Use included project templates for DVD motion menus and motion graphics backgrounds.
Timewarp
ˇ Slow down and speed up footage with smooth, crisp results and minimal artifacts. Timewarp analyzes pixel motion to create more accurate in-between frames. (Professional edition only.)
Time remapping and frame blending
ˇ Produce effects such as variable slow motion and backward playback using two types of frame blending: frame mix and the new pixel motion.
Motion Sketch and Smoother
ˇ Quickly draw an animation path and set its velocity with Motion Sketch. Then fine-tune the shape and speed of the path with the Smoother.
Motion Tracker
ˇ Precisely match the motion of source footage using the fast, accurate Motion Tracker. Use as many points as you like or standard one-, two-, and four-point settings to track x and y position, rotation, and scale. (Professional edition only.)
Motion Stabilizer
ˇ Eliminate unwanted motion using the Motion Stabilizer, which can give handheld video shots the look of a locked-off shot (Professional edition only).
Wiggler
ˇ Apply smooth or jagged changes to color, motion, or other effects over time with the Wiggler (Professional edition only).
Exponential Scale tool
ˇ Create natural-looking zoom effects by making linear changes of scale exponential (Professional edition only).
Time Displacement
ˇ Mix different portions of source footage in an intriguing manner using the luminance of one layer to control the timing of individual pixels in another layer (Professional edition only).
Rotoscoping and paint tools
ˇ Nondestructive vector painting
ˇ Paint nondestructively on layers to clean up footage, draw masks, clone elements, and create animations.
Photoshop style brushes
ˇ Work with brushes similar to the ones in Photoshop. Customize brushes to control size, spacing, and angle, and save them for ongoing use.
Advanced Clone tool
ˇ Remove unwanted distractions like dust and scratches, or replicate elements for a desired effect, like filling a stadium with people. The Clone tool offers multiple presets and onion skinning of the source frame.
Animated paint strokes
ˇ Animate individual paint strokes over time to change their size, position, or shape and to create write-on and write-off effects.
Eraser tool
ˇ Control whether the Eraser tool removes paint strokes only or paint strokes plus the underlying background footage.
Wacom tablet support
ˇ Use Wacom tablets for more precise control when painting in After Effects.
Versatile Expressions and Behavior Presets
ˇ Keyframeless creation of animations
ˇ Define Expressions that link the behavior of one layer property to that of another on any layer in the composition. Use new Behavior Presets to create Wiggles, Bounces, Drifts, Flashes, and more without setting keyframes.
Intuitive pick whip interface
ˇ Link properties easily and intuitively with the pick whip interface.
Standard syntax
ˇ Use standard JavaScript to modify Expressions, or create your own from scratch.
Menu of preset commands
ˇ Reduce keystrokes and eliminate the need to memorize code with an extensive library of functions and commands.
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 Adobes leading design applications while you deliver stunning work to virtually any media type. Design from scratch or jump-start projects from hundreds of customizable presets and templates ?? all from within a streamlined interface.
Features:
-Innovative compositing and animation tools
-Unmatched Adobe integration
-Text and vector graphics creation and animation
-Extensive visual effects
-Timesaving tools
-Comprehensive masking and keying tools
-Powerful motion controls
-Enhanced performance
-Professional results for every media type
-High-fidelity color
Adobe After Effects CS4 provides a powerful tool for all users. With Adobe® After Effects® CS4 software, you can create compelling motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects with flexible tools that help save you time and deliver unparalleled creative power.
Create the look of cel animation from live footage with the new Cartoon effect. Track even the most challenging shots with 2.5D planar motion tracking in Imagineer Systems' Mocha for Adobe After Effects, which is now included. Export After Effects compositions as editable layered projects to open inside Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software. Whether you're working in broadcast and film or delivering work online or to emerging devices, it's easier than ever to transform creative ideas into reality with After Effects CS4.
Major features:
- Import 3D models from Adobe Photoshop® CS4 software, and then bring them into After Effects to composite them with other elements, adjust lighting, and more
- Adobe provides end-to-end software solutions to deliver compelling experiences on film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices.
Save time from on-set capture using Adobe OnLocation through to output, expand your creative options via integration with Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional and Photoshop CS3 software, and deliver your content to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile devices.
Here are some key features of "Adobe Premiere Pro":
Edit creatively and efficiently
Focus on telling your story with powerful, flexible editing tools. Save time creating dramatic effects and get finer creative control thanks to tight integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and After Effects CS3 Professional.
Work fast
Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional integration
Drag and drop or copy and paste clips and timelines between Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and After Effects CS3 Professional. Open complete Adobe Premiere Pro projects, including nested sequences, in After Effects.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 integration
Import and animate Adobe Photoshop layers. Edit still images from Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 with Photoshop CS3. Automatically create Photoshop files to match the current project?s frame size and aspect ratio.
Direct-to-disk recording with included Adobe OnLocation CS3
Save tape and time by eliminating capture from your production process. Record SD and HD video directly to hard disk using Adobe OnLocation CS3 software, included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. Instantly review each shot without shuttling tape. Adobe OnLocation automatically detects and flags problems to provide the best results.
Adobe After Effects plug-in compatibility
Take advantage of After Effects software plug-ins to expand your effects options. Most After Effects plug-ins are compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.
Adobe Illustrator integration
Open Adobe Illustrator files in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. When scaling an image in Adobe Premiere Pro, the image is rerasterized, ensuring that image quality remains pristine.
Adobe Soundbooth integration
Send audio files directly to Adobe Soundbooth software for editing, and hear changes immediately in the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 timeline.
Adobe Encore CS3 integration
Save time in the authoring process by sending media with timeline markers directly to Adobe Encore CS3 for interactive authoring for Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and the web.
Customizable user interface
Adjust the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 interface to fit any editing style, workflow, and environment. Panels can be configured in many arrangements and across multiple monitors. Use the docked interface to simultaneously adjust all windows.
Multiple project panels with smart file search
Find files faster with search tools that instantly update results as you type. Sort and organize assets into multiple project panels, each with its own graphical or text view setting. Display and handle media files, making project management easier and more efficient.
Project manager
Easily archive media, reclaim drive space, and move between offline and online environments. Consolidate projects by selecting and moving actual media used in a project to a single location for archiving and storage management.
File management with Adobe Bridge
Work more efficiently by using Adobe Bridge CS3 to search for and access your project files, preview and apply settings, run batch processes, and tag assets with XMP metadata.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Personalize your experience by creating multiple keyboard maps for different tasks or to support multiple users. Export your own shortcut sets, allowing you to be productive immediately when working with Adobe Premiere Pro on other systems.
Scrolling timeline
Set the timeline to scroll smoothly under a stationary indicator during playback, or adjust it to advance one page as the playback indicator reaches the edge of the window.
Assignable panel shortcuts
Switch between panels using keyboard shortcuts that save time and mouse fatigue.
No audio rendering with nested sequences
Play nested sequences immediately without having to render audio. This can save time when working with multicam sequences.
Realize your vision
Multicam editing
View multiple video tracks from a multiple-camera shoot, easily sync via timecode, and edit by switching between tracks in real time. Rerecord sections of your edit, make fine adjustments using standard timeline editing tools, and easily adjust color correction across multiple shots, even after editing.
Advanced color-correction tools
Use primary and secondary color-correction tools to match shots; change colors; correct exposure errors; and modify highlights, midtones, and shadows across clips, sequences, or entire projects.
Time remapping
Use slow motion to create dramatic effects that focus on the action. With a streamlined, on-clip interface, the time remapping feature makes it easy to speed up, slow down, reverse, and hold frames with precision.
Professional on-set monitoring with Adobe OnLocation CS3
Maximize camera image quality during shoots by using Adobe OnLocation CS3 to quickly calibrate your camera, check levels, and monitor your signal. Use simple tools that function like their hardware equivalents to get results quickly and easily. The virtual reference monitor, waveform monitor, vectorscope, and audio spectrum analyzer help you avoid problems and improve quality when shooting.
Multiple nestable timelines
Edit each section or sequence of your project on its own timeline. Nest each timeline section into a master timeline while maintaining full access to every edit.
Professional internal scopes
Monitor luma and chroma levels on every line with the built-in waveform monitor and vectorscope. Display Waveform IRE information in standard, YCbCr Parade, RGB Parade, or combined modes.
Integrated titling
Create sophisticated text and graphics titles from scratch, from professionally designed templates, or from user-defined styles.
10-bit and 16-bit color resolution support
Maintain source integrity with support for 10-bit video and 16-bit PSD files.
32-bit internal color processing
Maintain maximum image quality with subtle and dramatic changes to color, contrast, and exposure, free of the banding and artifacts caused by lower bit-depth processing.
Advanced audio editing
Create 5.1 surround-sound audio mixes, edit audio with individual sample precision, and apply clip- and track-based effects, using the included VST plug-ins or your own.
Surround sound editing
Create and manipulate 5.1 multichannel audio to produce true surround sound and other richly layered audio experiences.
Video clip and timeline effects
Apply powerful visual and motion effects to your clips with high-quality built-in effects. An almost unlimited choice of additional effects is available thanks to the wide range of After Effects compatible plug-ins for video and VST plug-ins for audio.
Advanced subclip creation and editing
Break master clips into smaller subclips for more flexible editing, especially when working with large sections of content. Treat subclips like any other video clip by trimming, applying effects, renaming, and more.
Audio clip and track effects
Apply multiple audio effects to any audio clip or track and work with third-party VST-format audio plug-ins. Enjoy audio effects and editing unequaled by any other nonlinear editor and by most audio software.
Audio mixer
Control the volume and pan/balance settings of your audio tracks with a software version of an audio mixer. Use advanced features like channel inserts, auxiliary sends and returns, automation, and more.
Hundreds of video and audio filters and effects
Explore hundreds of high-quality production and design filters and effects to restore and enhance your video, graphics, and audio.
Timewarp
Use the same Timewarp effect found in After Effects to create high-quality slow motion through pixel-motion analysis. The Timewarp filter gives precise keyframe control over every parameter, producing the highest quality results on the most difficult source content.
Clip replacing
Easily swap out clips in the timeline without having to re-create settings. Replace any clip in the timeline with a new clip that preserves the original clip?s attributes. All effects and keyframes are retained, and, if necessary, the new clip is trimmed to fit the duration of the original one.
Ripple, rolling, slip-and-slide edits
Make complex edits in one step using the advanced editing tools professionals depend on. Trim and adjust footage with single actions that would otherwise require multiple steps.
Auto-color adjustment
Instantly improve your video image quality with filters like those in Photoshop, including Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and Shadows/Highlights.
Effects favorites
Create your own effects presets. Save simple and complex effects parameters as a custom preset that you can quickly apply to any clip in any project.
Lighting Effects filter
Add a spot, directional, or omni light to your video footage. Create multiple lights to see different looks on different parts of a scene.
Audio sample-level editing
Adjust audio clips with a precision of up to 1/96,000 of a second. Set precise L- and J-cuts. Eliminate small pops, crackles, and other unwanted audio elements.
Audio keyframing
Create smooth audio crossfades and other audio changes with a minimal number of keyframes. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 creates fewer audio keyframes over a given time interval, simplifying editing and preserving system resources.
Animated track-matte workflow
Easily create traveling mattes by applying effects and animation to individual track-matte clips.
Precise keyframe controls with Bezier handles
Control any audio and video effect parameter using comprehensive keyframe controls that mirror those found in After Effects. Get precise control using Bezier handles to finesse the shape of parameter curves.
Achieve excellent results
Work with virtually any format with uncompromised imagery from start to finish. Maximize footage quality and save time by recording directly to hard disk using the included copy of Adobe OnLocation CS3.
Support for multiple formats
Comprehensive video-format compatibility
Work with the formats you want. Edit all standard- or high-definition formats, from DV and HDV to HD and beyond (some formats may require additional hardware).
Native HDV editing
Capture and edit HDV content in real time and in its original format with no conversion or quality loss. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 supports HDV cameras and VTRs from Sony, JVC, and Canon.
Support for all media types
Import and export major video, audio, and graphic file formats, including QuickTime, Windows Media, AVI, BWF, AIFF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIFF, and more.
Still-image file support
Import still-image files in any major format including PSD, BMP, GIF, EPS, JPEG, PCX, PICT, PNG, and TIFF. Export in BMP, GIF, TARGA, and TIFF formats.
Real-time editing
Play through most common transitions and effects without waiting to render. For even more real-time performance, add hardware from a variety of third parties.
Integration with high-end workflows
Feet + Frames timecode
Display timecode for 16mm and 35mm film in standard Feet + Frames nomenclature.
4K film production
Import, edit, and output image sequences with dimensions up to 4,096x4,096 pixels.
16:9 preview to 4:3
Preview widescreen footage on a 4:3 monitor or lay off to a 4:3 tape or DVD with real-time letterboxing. Help ensure that your 16:9 material looks right during playback.
Digital intermediate workflow
Capture and edit HD or up to 4K scanned files, consolidate and manage projects, and work efficiently with After Effects CS3 Professional and Photoshop CS3 software.
Target output resolution
Set your project to any resolution and work with it throughout production?great for creating video banner ads, content for small screens, and more.
Broad hardware support Comprehensive VTR support
Control video decks through RS-422 and RS-232 serial protocols or FireWire for precise batch capturing, recapturing, and insert editing.
ASIO compatibility
Record and play back audio through any multichannel audio card or hardware that supports the industry-standard ASIO protocol (Windows only).
Video hardware support
Choose from a wide range of capture cards and other hardware to build the HD, SD, or DV editing system that meets your needs and budget.
Deliver everywhere
Accelerate reviews and reach the widest possible audience by delivering your work to film, tape, the web, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile devices.
Share your work
Accelerated client review and approval with Adobe Clip Notes
Expedite review cycles and avoid miscommunication with Adobe Clip Notes. Embed video into a PDF file, e-mail the file to your client to review and add timecode-specific comments, and then view comments mapped to the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 timeline.
AAF and EDL import/export
Exchange project metadata with major video, film, and audio applications via industry-standard Advanced Authoring Format (AAF), AAF with Edit Protocol, and Edit Decision List (EDL) files. (AAF import/export for Windows only)
Choose your final output
Blu-ray Disc authoring
Maintain the pristine quality of your HD video all the way to distribution. Create high-definition Blu-ray Discs with Adobe Encore CS3, working with the same interface and features used to create standard-definition DVDs.
Adobe Encore CS3 publishing to the web
With one click, easily create SWF versions of your DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects for the web. Use Adobe Encore CS3, included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, to create content compatible with Adobe Flash Player, complete with DVD interactivity and menus, without opening another application.
Deliver for interactive video creation
Easily incorporate video into Flash CS3 Professional projects as you create immersive experiences for the web. Timeline markers are embedded as cue points when exporting FLV files from Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, streamlining the process of creating interactive and navigational triggers.
Interactive authoring to multiple formats
Reach more audiences quickly. Use Adobe Encore CS3 to author interactive titles, and then publish them to multiple delivery formats?Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and SWF for playback through Adobe Flash Player?with a single click.
Output for mobile devices
Make your video viewable on the latest delivery platforms. Encode video for delivery to cell phones and other mobile devices, and simulate playback on those devices to check video quality. Download profile updates to simulate the latest devices.
Web video delivery
Make your project web ready. In addition to FLV format, choose from comprehensive compression tools for Internet-friendly file formats including Real, Windows Media, and QuickTime.
Digital cinema export
Create a stunning theatrical experience. Export your digital cinema project as a Windows Media 9 Series file with 720p or 1,080p resolution and 5.1 surround sound.
Sequence editing for film out
Support for any frame size up to 4,096x4,096 pixels, and for every major image and sequence file format (including AI, PSD, TGA, TIFF, and BMP), makes Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 the ideal tool for editing and preparing sequences for output to 35mm and other film formats.
Note: This demo version cannot save files. The full version costs $649.
-Contrast has been improved on trimmed layer bars compared to untrimmed portions when User Interface Brightness is darkened.
-After Effects can now read IFF image files rendered out of mental ray for Maya.
-Shift-clicking to draw vertices with the Pen tool now constrains to 45 degree angles.
-Copy and paste of semitransparent text from Illustrator into After Effects has been fixed.
-Layers no longer are inadvertently selected in the Timeline panel when moving the mouse quickly after clicking in an empty area to deselect all.
-Selected layers that are hidden in Flowchart viewer no longer are deleted when other Flowchart viewer items are deleted.
-Choosing Composition > Preview > Audio Preview (Work Area) will now play the whole work area.
-Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 projects with DVD marker information no longer cause After Effects to crash.
-An issue that caused a crash when exposing waveform for a precomposed audio track has been fixed.
-In the Effects & Presets panel, Show Preset Contents and Show Referring Presets now default to off.
-Collapsed guide layers no longer become visible when a noncollapsed guide layer is present.
-The Camera Raw dialog box no longer shows when relinking a camera raw sequence.
-An issue that caused 32-bpc visual discontinuity when animating opacity at very low values for very overbright images has been fixed.
-Users can now import Blackmagic Design 8-bit YUV AVI compressed files.
-An issue that caused incorrect pixel aspect ratio and dimensions when importing DVCProHD files captured in FCP5 has been fixed.
2DPaint Letterbox - Plug-in for Adobe After Effects, crop footage to any standard format, fast and easy to use.
Requirements:
Pentium III or better processor with SSE instruction set. For AMD processors,
that means an Athlon XP or later
Adobe After Effects 6.5 or later
-RAM preview performance on Mac OS X is improved.
-View options are now saved correctly in the preferences file.
-Problems working with Electric Image and 16-bit Maya IFF files are resolved.
-New blend modes introduced in Adobe Photoshop 7.0 are now preserved on import.
-Adobe Premiere 6.5 titles now import as solids instead of "missing footage" placeholders.
-Adobe Premiere project import now preserves in and out points for missing footage.
-TIFF output from After Effects no longer generates a warning when imported into Photoshop 7.0.1.
-Several Standard and Advanced 3D Renderer anomalies are corrected.
Note: This demo version cannot save files. The full version costs $649.
Reasons to upgrade
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator import
Animation conversion to ActionScript
Adobe interface
ActionScript 3.0 development
Advanced debugger
Adobe Device Central CS3
Rich drawing capabilities
User interface components
Advanced QuickTime export
Sophisticated video tools
Timesaving coding tools
The start-to-finish solution for efficient video production that now includes Adobe OnLocation CS3 and Adobe Encore CS3 Tell your story with maximum impact using Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 software, the start-to-finish solution for efficient video production that now includes Adobe OnLocation CS3 and Adobe Encore CS3.
Save time from on-set capture using Adobe OnLocation through to output, expand your creative options via integration with Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional and Photoshop CS3 software, and deliver your content to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile devices.
Here are some key features of "Adobe Premiere Pro":
Edit creatively and efficiently
Focus on telling your story with powerful, flexible editing tools. Save time creating dramatic effects and get finer creative control thanks to tight integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and After Effects CS3 Professional.
Work fast
Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional integration
Drag and drop or copy and paste clips and timelines between Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and After Effects CS3 Professional. Open complete Adobe Premiere Pro projects, including nested sequences, in After Effects.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 integration
Import and animate Adobe Photoshop layers. Edit still images from Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 with Photoshop CS3. Automatically create Photoshop files to match the current project?s frame size and aspect ratio.
Direct-to-disk recording with included Adobe OnLocation CS3
Save tape and time by eliminating capture from your production process. Record SD and HD video directly to hard disk using Adobe OnLocation CS3 software, included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. Instantly review each shot without shuttling tape. Adobe OnLocation automatically detects and flags problems to provide the best results.
Adobe After Effects plug-in compatibility
Take advantage of After Effects software plug-ins to expand your effects options. Most After Effects plug-ins are compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.
Adobe Illustrator integration
Open Adobe Illustrator files in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. When scaling an image in Adobe Premiere Pro, the image is rerasterized, ensuring that image quality remains pristine.
Adobe Soundbooth integration
Send audio files directly to Adobe Soundbooth software for editing, and hear changes immediately in the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 timeline.
Adobe Encore CS3 integration
Save time in the authoring process by sending media with timeline markers directly to Adobe Encore CS3 for interactive authoring for Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and the web.
Customizable user interface
Adjust the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 interface to fit any editing style, workflow, and environment. Panels can be configured in many arrangements and across multiple monitors. Use the docked interface to simultaneously adjust all windows.
Multiple project panels with smart file search
Find files faster with search tools that instantly update results as you type. Sort and organize assets into multiple project panels, each with its own graphical or text view setting. Display and handle media files, making project management easier and more efficient.
Project manager
Easily archive media, reclaim drive space, and move between offline and online environments. Consolidate projects by selecting and moving actual media used in a project to a single location for archiving and storage management.
File management with Adobe Bridge
Work more efficiently by using Adobe Bridge CS3 to search for and access your project files, preview and apply settings, run batch processes, and tag assets with XMP metadata.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Personalize your experience by creating multiple keyboard maps for different tasks or to support multiple users. Export your own shortcut sets, allowing you to be productive immediately when working with Adobe Premiere Pro on other systems.
Scrolling timeline
Set the timeline to scroll smoothly under a stationary indicator during playback, or adjust it to advance one page as the playback indicator reaches the edge of the window.
Assignable panel shortcuts
Switch between panels using keyboard shortcuts that save time and mouse fatigue.
No audio rendering with nested sequences
Play nested sequences immediately without having to render audio. This can save time when working with multicam sequences.
Realize your vision
Multicam editing
View multiple video tracks from a multiple-camera shoot, easily sync via timecode, and edit by switching between tracks in real time. Rerecord sections of your edit, make fine adjustments using standard timeline editing tools, and easily adjust color correction across multiple shots, even after editing.
Advanced color-correction tools
Use primary and secondary color-correction tools to match shots; change colors; correct exposure errors; and modify highlights, midtones, and shadows across clips, sequences, or entire projects.
Time remapping
Use slow motion to create dramatic effects that focus on the action. With a streamlined, on-clip interface, the time remapping feature makes it easy to speed up, slow down, reverse, and hold frames with precision.
Professional on-set monitoring with Adobe OnLocation CS3
Maximize camera image quality during shoots by using Adobe OnLocation CS3 to quickly calibrate your camera, check levels, and monitor your signal. Use simple tools that function like their hardware equivalents to get results quickly and easily. The virtual reference monitor, waveform monitor, vectorscope, and audio spectrum analyzer help you avoid problems and improve quality when shooting.
Multiple nestable timelines
Edit each section or sequence of your project on its own timeline. Nest each timeline section into a master timeline while maintaining full access to every edit.
Professional internal scopes
Monitor luma and chroma levels on every line with the built-in waveform monitor and vectorscope. Display Waveform IRE information in standard, YCbCr Parade, RGB Parade, or combined modes.
Integrated titling
Create sophisticated text and graphics titles from scratch, from professionally designed templates, or from user-defined styles.
10-bit and 16-bit color resolution support
Maintain source integrity with support for 10-bit video and 16-bit PSD files.
32-bit internal color processing
Maintain maximum image quality with subtle and dramatic changes to color, contrast, and exposure, free of the banding and artifacts caused by lower bit-depth processing.
Advanced audio editing
Create 5.1 surround-sound audio mixes, edit audio with individual sample precision, and apply clip- and track-based effects, using the included VST plug-ins or your own.
Surround sound editing
Create and manipulate 5.1 multichannel audio to produce true surround sound and other richly layered audio experiences.
Video clip and timeline effects
Apply powerful visual and motion effects to your clips with high-quality built-in effects. An almost unlimited choice of additional effects is available thanks to the wide range of After Effects compatible plug-ins for video and VST plug-ins for audio.
Advanced subclip creation and editing
Break master clips into smaller subclips for more flexible editing, especially when working with large sections of content. Treat subclips like any other video clip by trimming, applying effects, renaming, and more.
Audio clip and track effects
Apply multiple audio effects to any audio clip or track and work with third-party VST-format audio plug-ins. Enjoy audio effects and editing unequaled by any other nonlinear editor and by most audio software.
Audio mixer
Control the volume and pan/balance settings of your audio tracks with a software version of an audio mixer. Use advanced features like channel inserts, auxiliary sends and returns, automation, and more.
Hundreds of video and audio filters and effects
Explore hundreds of high-quality production and design filters and effects to restore and enhance your video, graphics, and audio.
Timewarp
Use the same Timewarp effect found in After Effects to create high-quality slow motion through pixel-motion analysis. The Timewarp filter gives precise keyframe control over every parameter, producing the highest quality results on the most difficult source content.
Clip replacing
Easily swap out clips in the timeline without having to re-create settings. Replace any clip in the timeline with a new clip that preserves the original clip?s attributes. All effects and keyframes are retained, and, if necessary, the new clip is trimmed to fit the duration of the original one.
Ripple, rolling, slip-and-slide edits
Make complex edits in one step using the advanced editing tools professionals depend on. Trim and adjust footage with single actions that would otherwise require multiple steps.
Auto-color adjustment
Instantly improve your video image quality with filters like those in Photoshop, including Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and Shadows/Highlights.
Effects favorites
Create your own effects presets. Save simple and complex effects parameters as a custom preset that you can quickly apply to any clip in any project.
Lighting Effects filter
Add a spot, directional, or omni light to your video footage. Create multiple lights to see different looks on different parts of a scene.
Audio sample-level editing
Adjust audio clips with a precision of up to 1/96,000 of a second. Set precise L- and J-cuts. Eliminate small pops, crackles, and other unwanted audio elements.
Audio keyframing
Create smooth audio crossfades and other audio changes with a minimal number of keyframes. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 creates fewer audio keyframes over a given time interval, simplifying editing and preserving system resources.
Animated track-matte workflow
Easily create traveling mattes by applying effects and animation to individual track-matte clips.
Precise keyframe controls with Bezier handles
Control any audio and video effect parameter using comprehensive keyframe controls that mirror those found in After Effects. Get precise control using Bezier handles to finesse the shape of parameter curves.
Achieve excellent results
Work with virtually any format with uncompromised imagery from start to finish. Maximize footage quality and save time by recording directly to hard disk using the included copy of Adobe OnLocation CS3.
Support for multiple formats
Comprehensive video-format compatibility
Work with the formats you want. Edit all standard- or high-definition formats, from DV and HDV to HD and beyond (some formats may require additional hardware).
Native HDV editing
Capture and edit HDV content in real time and in its original format with no conversion or quality loss. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 supports HDV cameras and VTRs from Sony, JVC, and Canon.
Support for all media types
Import and export major video, audio, and graphic file formats, including QuickTime, Windows Media, AVI, BWF, AIFF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIFF, and more.
Still-image file support
Import still-image files in any major format including PSD, BMP, GIF, EPS, JPEG, PCX, PICT, PNG, and TIFF. Export in BMP, GIF, TARGA, and TIFF formats.
Real-time editing
Play through most common transitions and effects without waiting to render. For even more real-time performance, add hardware from a variety of third parties.
Integration with high-end workflows
Feet + Frames timecode
Display timecode for 16mm and 35mm film in standard Feet + Frames nomenclature.
4K film production
Import, edit, and output image sequences with dimensions up to 4,096x4,096 pixels.
16:9 preview to 4:3
Preview widescreen footage on a 4:3 monitor or lay off to a 4:3 tape or DVD with real-time letterboxing. Help ensure that your 16:9 material looks right during playback.
Digital intermediate workflow
Capture and edit HD or up to 4K scanned files, consolidate and manage projects, and work efficiently with After Effects CS3 Professional and Photoshop CS3 software.
Target output resolution
Set your project to any resolution and work with it throughout production?great for creating video banner ads, content for small screens, and more.
Broad hardware support Comprehensive VTR support
Control video decks through RS-422 and RS-232 serial protocols or FireWire for precise batch capturing, recapturing, and insert editing.
ASIO compatibility
Record and play back audio through any multichannel audio card or hardware that supports the industry-standard ASIO protocol (Windows only).
Video hardware support
Choose from a wide range of capture cards and other hardware to build the HD, SD, or DV editing system that meets your needs and budget.
Deliver everywhere
Accelerate reviews and reach the widest possible audience by delivering your work to film, tape, the web, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile devices.
Share your work
Accelerated client review and approval with Adobe Clip Notes
Expedite review cycles and avoid miscommunication with Adobe Clip Notes. Embed video into a PDF file, e-mail the file to your client to review and add timecode-specific comments, and then view comments mapped to the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 timeline.
AAF and EDL import/export
Exchange project metadata with major video, film, and audio applications via industry-standard Advanced Authoring Format (AAF), AAF with Edit Protocol, and Edit Decision List (EDL) files. (AAF import/export for Windows only)
Choose your final output
Blu-ray Disc authoring
Maintain the pristine quality of your HD video all the way to distribution. Create high-definition Blu-ray Discs with Adobe Encore CS3, working with the same interface and features used to create standard-definition DVDs.
Adobe Encore CS3 publishing to the web
With one click, easily create SWF versions of your DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects for the web. Use Adobe Encore CS3, included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, to create content compatible with Adobe Flash Player, complete with DVD interactivity and menus, without opening another application.
Deliver for interactive video creation
Easily incorporate video into Flash CS3 Professional projects as you create immersive experiences for the web. Timeline markers are embedded as cue points when exporting FLV files from Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, streamlining the process of creating interactive and navigational triggers.
Interactive authoring to multiple formats
Reach more audiences quickly. Use Adobe Encore CS3 to author interactive titles, and then publish them to multiple delivery formats?Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and SWF for playback through Adobe Flash Player?with a single click.
Output for mobile devices
Make your video viewable on the latest delivery platforms. Encode video for delivery to cell phones and other mobile devices, and simulate playback on those devices to check video quality. Download profile updates to simulate the latest devices.
Web video delivery
Make your project web ready. In addition to FLV format, choose from comprehensive compression tools for Internet-friendly file formats including Real, Windows Media, and QuickTime.
Digital cinema export
Create a stunning theatrical experience. Export your digital cinema project as a Windows Media 9 Series file with 720p or 1,080p resolution and 5.1 surround sound.
Sequence editing for film out
Support for any frame size up to 4,096x4,096 pixels, and for every major image and sequence file format (including AI, PSD, TGA, TIFF, and BMP), makes Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 the ideal tool for editing and preparing sequences for output to 35mm and other film formats.
Requirements:
ˇ Intel Pentium 4 (2GHz processor for DV; 3.4GHz processor for HDV), Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon (dual 2.8GHz processors for HD), or Intel Core Duo (or compatible) processor; SSE2-enabled processor required for AMD systems
ˇ Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)
ˇ 1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD
ˇ 10GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
ˇ Dedicated 7,200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred
ˇ 1,280x1,024 monitor resolution with 32-bit video card; Adobe recommended graphics card for GPU-accelerated playback
ˇ Microsoft DirectX or ASIO compatible sound card
ˇ For SD/HD workflows, an Adobe certified card for capture and export to tape
ˇ DVD-ROM drive
ˇ Blu-ray burner required for Blu-ray Disc creation
ˇ DVD+-R burner required for DVD creation
ˇ OHCI compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device
ˇ QuickTime 7 software required to use QuickTime features
ˇ Internet or phone connection required for product activation
ˇ Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services
ˇ 1,280x1,024 monitor resolution with 32-bit video card; Adobe recommended graphics card for GPU-accelerated playback (see the full compatible hardware listing)
- new! Panopticum IcePattern 1.0 for Adobe After Effects
- IcePattern Basement module - lets you create an effect of a window covered with frostings.
- IcePattern Up module - lets you create a more complicated effect of a window covered with frost flowers and "plants".
- IcePattern Single module - helps you art up your composition and give it a final touch. With this tool you can create single frost "twig" and place them anywhere in your composition.
- You can create frost flowers and frost patterns.
- You can animate the created patterns and adjust their size, shape, motion parameters and material properties, as well as lighting of the glass.
- Frostings can "grow" along the specified contour.
- No other plug-ins can do it beside IcePattern.
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms.
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional helps you build interactive websites, instructional media, engaging presentations, rich media advertisements, games and more. Designers and developers working on both Macintosh and Windows systems depend on Flash and the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player software to ensure their content reaches the widest possible audience.
Available for Microsoft Windows and as a universal-binary application for Mac, Flash CS3 Professional provides the tools you need to be successful.
Features of "Adobe Flash CS3 Professional":
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator import
Import Adobe Photoshop (PSD) and Adobe Illustrator (AI) files, while preserving layers and structure, and then edit them in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. Optimize and customize the files during import with advanced options.
Frame-based timeline
Quickly add motion to your creations with the easy-to-use, highly controllable, frame-based timeline inspired by traditional animation principles such as keyframing and tweening.
Shape primitives
Easily create pie wedges, round off rectangle corners, define an inner circle radius, and do much more. Visually adjust shape properties on the stage. And create custom shapes with the included JavaScript API.
ActionScript 3.0 development
Save time with the new ActionScript 3.0 language, featuring improved performance, increased flexibility, and more intuitive and structured development.
Sophisticated video tools
Create, edit, and deploy streaming and progressive-download FLV content with comprehensive video support. Ensure the best video experience with a standalone video encoder, alpha channel support, a high-quality video codec, embedded cue points, video import support, QuickTime import, closed captioning, and much more.
MP3 audio support
Integrate audio into your projects by importing MP3 files. Integration with Adobe Soundbooth makes it easy to edit files as needed, without requiring audio production experience.
Rich drawing capabilities
Visually adjust shape properties on the stage with smart shape drawing tools, create precise vector illustrations with the new Pen tool inspired by Adobe Illustrator, paste illustrations from Illustrator CS3 into Flash CS3, and more.
Extensible architecture
Leverage the Flash application programming interfaces (APIs) to easily develop extensions that add custom functionality.
Convert animation to ActionScript
Instantly convert timeline animations into ActionScript 3.0 code that can be easily edited, reused, and leveraged by developers. Copy animations from one object to another.
Adobe Device Central
Design, preview, and test mobile device content using Adobe Device Central CS3, now integrated throughout Adobe Creative Suite 3. Create and test interactive applications and interfaces viewable with Flash Lite software.
Requirements:
Intel Pentium 4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, or Intel Core Duo (or compatible) processor
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
2.5GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7.1.2 software required for multimedia features
Internet or phone connection required for product activation
Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services
Limitations:
30-day trial
- You can art up your image with breath-taking water effects such as streaming water and more. The set contains six modules.
- Water Throw - lets you create streaming water jet and adjust its motion and properties.
- Water Filling - imitates water being poured into a container. You can adjust the water jet in the process of filling and water behavior when the container is already filled.
- Water Transfusion - this effect lets you obtain a fascinating transition between two video segments - one image is being "poured" on top of another.
- Water Maelstrom - a transition effect of a whirlpool.
- Water Utopia - transition effect of an image swept away by a powerful water wave. You can choose the water direction and adjust water parameters.
- Water Transvaal - a transition effect of an image "broken apart" as drops.
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