Adobe After Effects CS5

Adobe After Effects CS5 is a pre-eminent leader in creating revolutional motion graphics and incredible visual effects for film, broadcast, online or mobile media - any workflow project you need. Integrated 64-bit support allows working more efficiently with high-resolution projects.

New features:

Native 64-bit application
Top feature in After Effects is a fully native 64-bit application. This results in numerous advantages, including the ability to fully use your computer's memory for impressive improvements when working with high-resolution projects.

On 32-bit OS, the 2GB to 4GB memory restriction for each application sharply limit how many image frames can be held in RAM at the same time - which in turn constrains the length of full-motion previews and the complexity of projects overall.

With After Effects CS5, these limitations no longer apply. Support for 64-bit operating systems means After Effects CS5 can access your computer’s entire available RAM. This has a huge, positive effect on the type, size, and complexity of projects you can take on - as well as how smoothly you can work. With After Effects CS5 running on a 64-bit operating system with 32GB of RAM, you can preview a 30-second HD comp at full resolution and at 32 bpc. This enables you to preview your entire composition at maximum fidelity without interruption.

Integrated memory management
In Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium, you can coordinate RAM allocation for After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro , Adobe Encore, and Adobe Media Encoder thanks to cross-component memory management. In other words, switch from one operation to another and define where you need most of your computer potential.
 
Roto Brush
Let's say you shoot your friend in your apartment and now you can replace the foreground with the beach view. The revolutionary new Roto Brush provides a fast, efficient solution for isolating these foreground elements in complex scenes. The new Roto Brush is so fast that After Effects user can now perform rotoscoping on virtually any project - from previsualization to final composites.


mocha for After Effects CS5
mocha for After Effects CS5 - an updated version of the software included with After Effects CS5 - has a unique planar tracker that makes it easy to handle even the most difficult tracking and stabilization tasks. Also included in this release is the mocha shape plug-in, which allows you to use tracking data in new ways.

VC-Intra support and expanded RED camera support
After Effects CS5 includes integrated support for the new AVC-Intra 50 and AVC-Intra 100 codecs, as well as expanded native support for footage from RED cameras.

AVC-Intra is used by high-quality Panasonic cameras like the AJ-HPX300, AJ-HPX3700 VariCam, and AJ-HPX2700 VariCam, and also recorders like the AJ-HPM110. Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 also supports AVC-Intra, so there's no barrier to integrating After Effects with Adobe Premiere Pro projects if you want to use AVC-Intra.

With After Effects CS5, you can work with content in all common RED R3D file permutations, including 2K, 3K, 4K, 4K HD, 16x9, and 2x1, using a number of different frame rates.

Auto-keyframe mode
After Effects has long featured powerful, flexible keyframing. After Effects CS5 offers an Auto-keyframe mode. When Auto-keyframe mode is on, modifying a property automatically turns its stopwatch on and adds a keyframe at the current time. Parameters that can be automatically keyframed include position, rotation, shape properties, mask properties, effect point controls, and camera manipulation.

New Refine Matte effect and other enhancements
In every release, After Effects introduces dozens of refinements to popular features. Among many such features added in After Effects CS5 are:

    * The new Refine Matte effect that allows you to take advantage of the intelligent edge tracking, dechattering, and motion blurring capabilities found in Roto Brush and apply them to any layer with a problematic alpha channel, such as keyed footage
    * New options that allow you to align layers to a composition's boundaries, making it easier to precisely center objects and clean up the layout of your image frame overall
    * Enhanced support for Photoshop adjustment layer types, including Selective Color, Black & White, and Vibrance; you can also apply these color correction effects to any layer
    * A new option for per-character 3D text animation that allows each character to orient toward the camera around its own anchor point, further enhancing the illusion of 3D
    * A new Type option in the Camera Settings dialog box that allows you to easily specify if the camera is a one-node or two-node camera, adapting to your preferred approach for aiming and animating 3D cameras
    * The ability to import layered PSD files which include extruded 3D layers created with the new Adobe Repousse' feature inPhotoshop CS5 Extended.
    * A new keyboard shortcut to point the camera to either selected layers or all layers, along with many other improvements to camera tools and settings
    * New options to color-code panel tabs with the composition, footage item, or layer's label color, making it eadsier to identify elements at a glance in a complex project
    * Rendered Output Modules can now be dragged to a folder in the Project panel, resulting in the import of the output files into that folder for quick inclusion of rendered elements
    * New keyboard shortcuts and mouse functionality to quickly move between viewing the entire timeline and returning to your previous zoom level
    * An enhanced Levels effect Histogram display showing individual color channel strengths
    * New options for specifying the size of Bezier direction handles and vertices for masks and shapes as well as direction handles for motion paths, making them easier to see on today's larger monitors
    * Tooltips added for each vertex in the Graph Editor, which display the layer name, property name, time, and value of the keyframe, making it easier to precisely check values at a glance
    * Numerous enhancements to scripting, including the ability to access parameters for adaptive motion blur, text tracking, label attributes, and per-character auto-orientation

Color Look-Up Table support
Color Finesse 3 LE
Digieffects FreeForm

System requirements:

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II recommended); 64-bit support required
• 64-bit operating system required: Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 or Windows® 7
• 2GB of RAM
• 3GB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1280x1024 display with OpenGL 2.0–compatible graphics card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime features