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After Eﬀects

7.0

Features

Product overview

Animate your ideas. Adobe Aer Eects 7.0 soware delivers the exibility and power you

need to bring a new dimension to your lm, video, DVD, and Macromedia® Flash® productions.

Production excellence

Graph Editor

Value and Speed graphs

➤

Edit Value and Speed graphs in the Graph Editor, or let Aer Eects choose the one

most appropriate for the animated property.

Value graphs for spatial properties

➤

See spatial properties such as Position represented with Value graphs on individual

channels, each with a unique color.

Selected properties display

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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

➤

Add eases in and out of curves with a single click.

Free transform

➤

Scale and oset keyframes in the Graph Editor with free-transform features, just as you

would scale or oset vertices on a mask.

Snapping keyframes

➤

Snap keyframes to points of interest as you drag them horizontally or vertically around

the Graph Editor.

Scalable view

➤

Freely zoom and pan around the Graph Editor with the Zoom tool, Hand tool, or your

mouse scroll wheel, using modier keys for additional controls. Automatically t all

graphs to the current view with a single click.

32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) and 16-bit color support

32-bit ﬂoating-point pipeline

➤

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

➤

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

• Produce work that is lm- and HDTV-ready using the broader range of colors available

in the 16-bit color mode (Professional edition only).

Flexible color modes

• Rough out a composition in 8-bit color mode, and then nalize 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-

y. (Professional edition only.)

The industry standard for motion graphics and

visual eﬀects

➤

New or enhanced feature

Compare the features in

After Eﬀects 7.0 Standard

and After Eﬀects 7.0 Professional

at www.adobe.com/products/

aftereﬀects/matrix.html.

Summary of content (11 pages)

PAGE 1
Adobe After Eﬀects 7.0 ® ® The industry standard for motion graphics and visual effects Product overview Animate your ideas. Adobe After Effects 7.0 software delivers the flexibility and power you need to bring a new dimension to your film, video, DVD, and Macromedia® Flash® productions. Production excellence Graph Editor ➤ Value and Speed graphs Edit Value and Speed graphs in the Graph Editor, or let After Effects choose the one most appropriate for the animated property.
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Powerful masking tools Unlimited masks • 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 • Import Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator® paths as masks. Mask animations • Stroke, feather, transform, animate, and apply motion blur to masks over time. Combined masks • Combine masks using Add, Subtract, Intersect, and Difference.
PAGE 3
Difference Matte • 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 • 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.
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Audio effects • Remap audio over time with the Delay and Backwards audio effects. Adjust audio tone with Bass & Treble. Stereo Mixer • Pan from the left speaker or channel to the right speaker or channel, or vice versa, with the Stereo Mixer. ➤ Advanced audio effects 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.
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Extensive file format support Extensive support for industry-standard formats • 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.
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Resolution independence • Mix multiple file resolutions from small thumbnails up to 30,000x30,000-pixel frames. ➤ Adobe Bridge 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.
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RAM previews • 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 • Dramatically enhance previewing and interactivity on large projects with highly efficient disk caching. Windows and Mac OS optimization • Take advantage of better performance using the latest Intel® Pentium® based Windows hardware and PowerPC® G5 based Macintosh hardware.
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Parenting • 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 • 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.
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Optics Compensation • Precisely simulate the fish-eye lens distortion of images taken with a real camera using a wide-angle lens. Corner Pin • 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 • Warp an image around a given point, as if inflating the pixels out to a given radius.
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Placeholder for missing effects • 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 • Create adjustment layers, similar to those in Photoshop, to apply effects to any layers that appear below them. Powerful animation and motion controls Motion blur • Apply motion blur to moving layers to produce more realistic animations.
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Rotoscoping and paint tools Nondestructive vector painting • Paint nondestructively on layers to clean up footage, draw masks, clone elements, and create animations. Photoshop style brushes • 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 • Remove unwanted distractions like dust and scratches, or replicate elements for a desired effect, like filling a stadium with people.