User Manual

Parenting
• Speed up production by dening 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 Aer Eects by creating layers, adding
masks, and applying eects. Or use included project templates to get started on creating
DVD motion menus, animated backgrounds, and more.
Unrivaled text animation and titling effects
Intuitive text creation
• Create text using Adobe-standard tools for typing, editing, and formatting text,
and easily edit text created in Photoshop. Mix and match fonts and other attributes
on a layer.
Text Animation Presets
• Save animation time by instantly applying more than 250 professionally designed,
fully editable text Animation Presets, or create and save your own. Use Adobe Bridge
to conveniently preview and apply presets.
Character-level blurs
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Create and animate blurs on a per-character basis for eye-catching text animations.
Versatile text animation
• Animate text along any path, transform or displace words or lines of text over time,
set intercharacter blending modes, randomize the order in which characters animate,
wiggle your text, and more.
Web-ready text animations
• Export animated text as vector-based SWF les to create innovative, web-friendly
animations.
Expert visual effects
Comprehensive effects toolkit
• Use a broad selection of included eects to change the appearance of footage or to
generate entirely new elements. Create unique looks from scratch or by using more
than 100 new, customizable eects presets.
Creative blur effects
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Re-create the eect of a defocused camera lens easily and realistically with new Lens
Blur, and use new Smart Blur to create so color eects without destroying ne detail.
Use a variety of other blur eects for specic situations, including Directional Blur, Box
Blur, and Gaussian Blur.
Fractal Noise
• Create textures and organic elements with Fractal Noise, which is perfect for simulating
caustics, clouds, lava, owing water, and gas. Use included presets to create eye-
catching animated backgrounds.
Flexible distortion effects
• Distort and morph footage using Mirror, Ripple, and other eects, and paint distortions
directly onto imagery with Liquify.
Maximum warping
• Warp and distort the full frame of your footage—as well as selected areas—in specic,
realistic ways with eects like Mesh Warp, Bézier Warp, and Displacement Map
(Professional edition only).
Reshape
• Morph one dened shape in a layer into another shape on the same layer, distorting the
image itself to t the shape of the new area (Professional edition only).