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Adobe After Effects CS5.5

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Developer's Description

Whether you're working in broadcast and film or delivering work online and to mobile devices, Adobe After Effects CS5.5 software enables you to create groundbreaking motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects.

Put your ideas in motion--Bring together footage of virtually any size and format, photographs, and 3D renders with text, vector artwork, and music -- and make it all come alive. Handle complex compositing projects with new efficiency thanks to native 64-bit operating system support. Create polished productions--Get higher production values. Polish your productions with professional effects, hundreds of animation presets, precise tracking and keying controls, professional color support, and much more. Add animation and interactivity--Craft sophisticated, professional animations that can be rendered as FLV files for your Web site. Or import your entire composition into Adobe Flash Professional, where you can add interactivity.

Full Specifications

What's new in version

  • Native 64-bit OS support--Work fluidly on high-resolution projects -- even at 32-bit-per-channel color inside HD, 2K, and 4K compositions. Use all of your system's RAM. View a list of 64-bit third-party plug-ins.
  • Roto Brush--Isolate foreground elements from backgrounds in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take using this revolutionary new tool.
  • AVC-Intra and enhanced RED support--Work natively with tapeless footage from the newest high-quality Panasonic cameras thanks to AVC-Intra 50 and AVC-Intra 100 support. Take advantage of improved support for RED R3D formats, and gain additional controls for working with raw footage. Do more with tapeless workflows
  • Dozens of enhancements--Benefit from dozens of customer-requested refinements that yield big productivity gains -- such as the ability to align layers to comps.
  • Color Finesse--Enjoy an enhanced color correction workflow with the new features, finer control over hue and saturation, and ability to export settings as color lookup tables (LUTs) in Color Finesse LE 3.
  • Digieffects FreeForm--Turn flat objects into virtually any 3D shape using this popular 3D mesh warp plug-in.
  • mocha for After Effects v2--Apply motion tracking to hand-drawn masks and import variable-width mask feathers. The powerful mocha shape plug-in is also included.
  • Auto-Keyframe mode--Animate quickly by setting starting keyframes automatically.
  • Color LUT support--Get consistent color in your workflow by using industry-standard 3DL and CUBE lookup tables.
  • Refine Matte effect--Apply intelligent edge tracking, dechattering, and motion blurring capabilities to any layer with a problematic alpha channel, such as keyed footage.

General

Release April 29, 2010
Date Added April 30, 2010

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Additional Requirements 64-bit OS, 2GB RAM, 3GB disk space, QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime features

Popularity

Total Downloads 1,765,002
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