User Manual
Difference Matte
• Compare foreground information in a scene against a precisely matched, static
background “clean plate” and leave only the pixels that are dierent (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. is helps out in dicult keying situations. (Professional edition
only.)
Matte Choker and Simple Choker
• Spread or choke the selection area of any alpha channel with a subpixel level of control
(Professional edition only).
Professional color correction
Color Finesse™
• Perform your most demanding digital intermediate work within Aer Eects using
Color Finesse from Synthetic Aperture, a full-featured color-correction environment
containing high-end telecine-style correction tools.
Comprehensive color correction
• Adjust colors on layers over time using color-correction tools similar to those in
Photoshop, including Brightness & Contrast, Channel Mixer, Color Balance, Levels,
Tint, and more.
Shadows/Highlights effect
• Automate color correction over time while preserving the shadows and highlights
within the frames using the Photoshop style Shadows/Highlights eect.
Automatic adjustments
• Enhance the contrast of footage over time with Photoshop style Auto Color, Auto
Contrast, and Auto Levels controls.
Curves controls
• Adjust the tonal range of an image with complete control—for example, decrease blues
in the shadows and increase them in bright areas. Also import curve settings from
Photoshop.
Hue/Saturation controls
• Adjust the hue, saturation, and lightness of individual color components on a layer.
Adjust up to six separate user-dened hue ranges.
Color Stabilizer
• Sample the exposure of a single reference frame and adjust the exposure of all other
frames to match it (Professional edition only).
High-quality audio
32-bit audio support
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Maximize audio quality in your projects with new support for 32-bit audio. Import
32-bit audio les mixed and mastered in Adobe Audition® soware. Fine-tune audio
levels precisely using VU meters with peak and clip indicators on the Audio panel.
Auto-sampling support
• Prepare and resample audio using sampling rates from 8kHz to 96kHz (Mac OS) or
8kHz to 96kHz (Windows®).
Audio-to-keyframe conversion
• Create keyframes to represent audio.