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Adobe After Effects 5.5Adobe After Effects 5.5
The essential tool for motion graphics and visual effects

Create, generate and edit professional output for film, video, multimedia, and the Web with Adobe After Effects.

The ultimate tool for motion graphics and visual effects
After Effects 5.5 software continues to set motion graphics and visual effects standards for professional cross-media delivery using a toolset that lets you explore unlimited creative possibilities with precise control. After Effects not only offers unparalleled integration with Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, but it efficiently produces professional results too. So, whether you're creating for film, video, multimedia, or the Web, After Effects 5.5 delivers a comprehensive set of tools for a flexible workflow that meets your many 2D and 3D compositing, animation, and effects needs.

After Effects 5.5 software delivers important enhancements to Adobe's award-winning motion graphics and visual effects software. After Effects 5.0 was released in early 2001, and introduced support for 3D compositing, parenting, expressions, and dozens of other enhancements. After Effects 5.5 adds significant new functionality and time-saving refinements that help film and video professionals, Web content creators, and video enthusiasts create motion graphics and visual effects with ease.

The powerful new tools and effects in After Effects make it possible to explore unlimited creative possibilities with precise control, and to get great results quickly with a streamlined workflow and optimized perfor-mance. With versatile new import and output capabilities, After Effects enables flexible cross-media delivery of high-quality digital content.

Choose The Right Version...
Choose between the Standard version (product codes below), which provides a core tool set for motion-graphics professionals, and the Production Bundle, with more advanced motion control and keying capabilities, and additional distortion and audio effects.  The production version is After Effects 5.5 Standard plus Keying Pack, Motion Pack, Effects Pack, Audio Pack, 3D Channel Pack, Render Engine, 16-bit color and Vector Paint Tools for even more precision and efficiency. With these powerful packs, visual effects artists can produce sophisticated compositions.

Core Features
  • Superior Adobe product integration - Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere
  • 2D & 3D compositing
  • Powerful Masking
  • Extensive motion controls
  • Leading-edge video and audio effects
  • Flexible media handling
  • Web delivery
Additional Production Bundle Features
  • Effects Pack
  • Keying Pack
  • Motion Pack
  • Audio Pack
  • 3D Channel Pack
  • Render Engine
  • 16-bit Color
  • Vector Paint Tools

Additional Production Bundle Features

Effects Pack - Offering a variety of exciting types of visual effects including Warping and the Particle Playground. You can warp images over time using the Bézier Warp, Mesh Warp, and Reshape effects; displace pixels from one layer to another using Displacement Map; or apply the Glow effect to create a diffuse halo along an object's edge. With the Particle Playground, you can animate a large number of objects (dots, images, or text) so that they move independently and yet produce a consistent group behavior. Other effects include Corner Pin, Lightning, Scatter, Ripple, Bulge, WaveWarp, and Twirl.

Keying Pack - Delivers sophisticated keying controls for producing precise composites. The Linear Color Key uses the RGB, hue or chroma information you specify to create transparency from a key color. With the Color Difference key, you can produce combination mattes to control hard-to-key images, such as smoke, shadows, or glass. The Spill Suppressor makes it easy to remove key-color traces from light reflecting off a screen and onto your subject. Create clean mattes with the Simple Choker or more natural-looking mattes with the Matte Choker. And you can perform other specialized keying tasks with the Extract, Difference Matte, Color Range, and Alpha Levels keys.

Motion Pack - From reducing unwanted motion to creating natural-looking zoom effects, the Motion Pack delivers the tools you need to produce the highest quality animations.

Audio Pack - The Audio Pack expands the range of high-quality audio effects you can incorporate into a composition. Add depth and character to a sound with Flange, or make one voice or instrument sound like many with Chorus. Apply Parametric EQ to isolate and fine-tune specific ranges of sound. With Reverb, simulate a spacious, acoustically live interior. Create simple tonal sounds

3D Channel Pack - Use to create effects with the auxiliary channel information stored in imported 3D files, including RLA, Softimage PCI/ZPIC, and ElectricImage EI/EIZ files.

Render Engine - The Production Bundle version of After Effects also includes new network-rendering features, such as a Render Engine with an unlimited license to install it at no additional charge. Install multiple copies to streamline your rendering process. Each Render Engine can monitor a Watch Folder on a network. If you then use the Collect Files command to copy projects (and their associated footage) to this Watch Folder, each Render Engine will start rendering those projects as soon as they appear. You can monitor the progress using a standard Web browser.

16-bit Color - Deep color support means that you get higher-quality output. After Effects can work in 16-bit-per-channel mode, making a larger range of colors available. And when you work with high-resolution images that use a narrow range of colors, such as when you're creating film effects or output for HDTV, the difference is easily visible: Transitions between colors are smoother with less visible banding, and more detail is preserved. You can choose whether to work in 8-bit-per-channel or 16-bit-per-channel color mode for each project. You can directly import 16-bit images, including those from Photoshop, and you can composite and color-correct footage in 16-bit mode; the Info palette displays 16-bit color values with exact precision. To optimize performance, quickly rough out a composition in 8-bit color mode, and then finalize and output 16-bit files for maximum quality.

Vector Paint Tools - The nondestructive vector paint tools in After Effects open up a host of new creative possibilities, from strokes that reveal an image over time to animated cartoons and painted textures that change from frame to frame. Use brush controls to specify exactly how the strokes you paint will look. Characteristics such as brush radius, color, and opacity can be modified to get the exact desired look. Use the Onion Skin mode to paint strokes frame by frame. Take advantage of numerous options to control how the paint strokes interact with the layer they appear on. For more control over the final results, you can also choose whether strokes continuously paint or are recorded to the current frame, to sequential frames, or in real time. You'll quickly discover how indispensable these versatile tools are.

System Requirements

Windows

  • Intel Pentium II, III, or 4 (multiprocessor recommended)
  • Microsoft DirectX 8.0a software (recommended)
  • 128MB of RAM installed (256MB or more recommended)
  • Apple QuickTime 5.0 software (recommended)
  • CD-ROM drive
  • 120MB of available hard-disk space for installation (500MB or larger hard disk or disk array recommended for ongoing work)
  • 24-bit color display adapter

Mac

  • PowerPC processor (multi-processor G4 recommended)
  • Mac OS version 9.0.4, 9.1, or Mac OS X Version 10.1
  • 128MB of application RAM (256MB or more recommended)
  • Apple QuickTime 5.0 software (recommended)
  • CD-ROM drive
  • 120MB of available hard-disk space for installation (500MB or larger hard disk or array recommended for ongoing work)
  • 24-bit color display adapter

Choose the Right Version...
Part Number, Version and Platform

AD-B2069 After Effects 5.5 - Win
AD-B4056 After Effects 5.5 - Mac
AD-B2066 After Effects 5.5 Production Bundle - Win
AD-B4055 After Effects 5.5 Production Bundle - Mac

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