Adobe After Effects CS4

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.

Top features:

Get 64-bit performance
Execute a wide range of post-production tasks with unmatched speed and efficiency. Native 64-bit operating system support, multiprocessor utilization, and OpenGL acceleration help you work faster, taking full advantage of your computer's power. Unmatched integration with other Adobe software further streamlines your workflow.

Enhanced Multiprocessor and multicore support
Render and preview faster by taking advantage of your computer's power. Multiple processors and processor cores are used to calculate complex effects and to render multiple frames simultaneously.

Animate ideas
Express your creative ideas with freedom and flexibility using After Effects CS4. Employ innovative 2D, 3D, text, and vector graphic compositing and animation tools; choose from an extensive selection of effects; and add high-quality audio. Explore a large library of creative building blocks to get you started, and take advantage of command line automation and scripting for advanced applications.

Enhanced mocha for Adobe After Effects v2 for 2.5D planar motion tracking
Track, mask, and master difficult composites with this powerful, greatly enhanced 2.5D planar motion tracker from Imagineer Systems. Masks are now trackable, variable-width mask feather is now supported, and masks created in mocha can be applied directly to layers in After Effects using the now-included mocha shape plug-in.

Composite efficiently
Combine layers into new, visually rich alternate realities. Mask, key, motion track, color correct, paint, and perform a variety of visual effects magic with powerful, efficient, and precise tools.

Generation effects
Generate imagery from simple fills and gradients to realistic lightning bolts and electricity, as well as lens flares, strokes, grids, circles, scribbled lines, and animated graphics based on audio.

Enhanced Color correction effects
Manipulate color information with a wide variety of effects, including Color Finesse LE 3, Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and Auto Levels; simple and advanced tinting effects; broadcast colors and gamma/pedestal/gain; and the ability to target specific colors to discard or change.

Deliver virtually anywhere
Master modern media: Deliver your final result to the widest range of formats, from mobile media to feature films, at maximum bit depth and resolution, using color management to ensure accurate results.

Extensive support for industry-standard formats
Import and output files in QuickTime, FLV and SWF, AVI, MPEG-2, Windows Media (Windows® only), native Photoshop (PSD), Camera Raw, OpenEXR, ProEXR, Cineon, SGI, TIFF, TGA, Maya IFF, JPEG, PDF, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and many other formats, including Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCAM EX and HD. After Effects CS4 adds support for the AVC-Intra 50 and AVC-Intra 100 formats, as well as multichannel DPX files.


Streamlined encoding with revamped Adobe Media Encoder
Deliver content in virtually any format,including DPX, FLV, H.264, MPEG-2, QT, WM, and more with Adobe Media Encoder — now with a more intuitive user interface. You can batch encode multiple versions of source files and sequences, manage priorities, and control advanced settings for each item individually. Use new metadata thinning templates to help ensure that only cleared-for-distribution metadata is included at final output.

System requirements:

• 1.5GHz or faster processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista)
• 2GB of RAM
• 1.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation, plus 2GB of space for optional content; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,280x900 display with OpenGL 2.0®compatible graphics card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.4.5 software required to use QuickTime features