Adobe After Effects CS5.5 (Mac) Upgrade

Adobe After Effects CS5.5 software is the industry-leading solution for creating sophisticated motion graphics and cinematic visual effects. Transform moving images for delivery to theaters, living rooms, personal computers, and mobile devices. Smooth unstable camera moves with the new, high-quality Warp Stabilizer, create beautiful depth-of-field effects with the integrated Camera Lens Blur effect, and work faster with enhanced timecode support and quick stereo 3D setup.

TOP FEATURES
Turn visual ideas into sophisticated motion graphics and cinematic visual effects for delivery virtually anywhere using industry-leading Adobe After Effects CS5.5 software for native 64-bit motion design and compositing.

• Innovative compositing and animation tools
  Combine moving and still imagery, graphics, and text in 2D or 3D space. Animate practically any aspect of each element and add sound for virtually any result you can imagine.
• Responsive 64-bit performance
  Work effectively on high-resolution projects -- even at 32-bit-per-channel color inside HD, 2K, and 4K compositions. Use all your system's RAM to see longer previews. With enhanced disk caching, you can spend less time waiting and more time creating.
• Unparalleled Adobe integration
  Enjoy a streamlined workflow with support for importing Adobe Photoshop images and layer effects. Move easily between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro software via Adobe Dynamic Link. Import Adobe Illustrator files, and then animate each layer.
• Unlimited creative options
  Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects such as stylize, distort, and shatter. Create grids, radio waves, particles, and more. Combine effects from a third-party ecosystem of plug-ins for Hollywood-caliber results.
• Animated text and vector graphics
  Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate those elements to create visually innovative motion graphics.
• Masking and keying tools, including Roto Brush
  Isolate moving foreground elements from backgrounds in a fraction of the time it would take with hand-drawn animated masks using the revolutionary Roto Brush tool. Remove bluescreen and greenscreen backgrounds with the Academy Award-winning Keylight.
• Powerful motion controls
  Remove unwanted movement with the Warp Stabilizer, or precisely match the motion of source footage with mocha for After Effects v2. Apply realistic motion blur. Use Timewarp to slow down and speed up footage.
• 32-bit floating-point pipeline
  Exploit extended highlights and shadows with the dynamic range of real-world light. Freely push values above monitor white and recover detail without clipping.
• Expressions and scripting
  Use expressions to link individual parameters, effects, and layers in a variety of ways -- even across compositions. Also add custom capabilities to After Effects and automate repetitive tasks with robust scripting support.
• Rich pool of third-party plug-in developers
  Add extra capability to After Effects with plug-ins from third-party developers. Discover unique, creative effects; particles; 3D objects; and specialized workflow tools.
• Professional results for any media type
  Deliver your work virtually anywhere. Compatibility with an extensive list of output formats lets you produce animated content for media ranging from film and broadcast to the web and mobile devices.

FEATURES NEW SINCE CS5
Smooth unstable camera moves and create beautiful depth-of-field effects with Adobe After Effects CS5.5 software. Timecode support, quick stereo 3D setup, Roto Brush, and mocha for After Effects v2 all help you work more efficiently.

• Warp Stabilizer
  Smooth a bumpy camera move, or lock a shot automatically. Warp Stabilizer removes jitter and compensates for motion-related irregularities. Handheld footage is often shaky, with distracting motion artifacts, and it's simply not practical to use a counter-balanced camera rig or keep a dolly or crane ready for every moving shot. Warp Stabilizer provides an innovative solution that makes hand-held footage look as if it had been shot with a complicated, expensive camera rig. It can even use pixel analysis to resolve artifacts related to motion and parallax.
• Camera Lens Blur
  Create soft-focus effects with Camera Lens Blur. Set iris shape, blade curvature, and diffraction fringe characteristics for beautiful bokeh, and use these same settings for fantastic depth-of-field control with the After Effects 3D camera. Camera lens blur re-creates in post-production the (often beautiful, even fascinating) abstract characteristics that appear in the defocused areas of a camera image. With this effect, footage shot in perfect focus can take on the elegant attributes of a soft focus image. This realistic blur can be applied with the new Camera Lens Blur effect or generated automatically via Depth Of Field controls in the After Effects camera.
• Source timecode support
  Take the guesswork out of source footage edits. Timecode data in QuickTime, AVI, Broadcast WAV (BWF), DPX, and some variations of MXF is read directly in After Effects, and the Timecode effect can display both source timecode and composition frames. Timecode support saves steps when working directly with source footage. Without it, you are left to guess based on visual clues or frame counts how a video selection is edited, increasing the likelihood of extra steps and careless errors. Timecode is embedded in source media when recorded and used to log takes when edited. Timecode hours, minutes, seconds, and frames settings are absolute and do not change.
• Stereoscopic 3D workflow improvements
  Animate and composite stereoscopic projects more easily. Quickly set up stereo camera rigs. Save time with simplified rendering of multiple cameras, and work with an updated 3D Glasses effect. After Effects CS5.5 makes it easier than before to set up a stereo-ready 3D image pipeline for review and output of stereo scenes that use the After Effects camera. Initial setup is nearly instantaneous.
• Light falloff
  Control how light intensity falls off across 3D distances, just as it does in the real world.
• RAW digital cinema workflow improvements
  Gain instant access to high-definition source formats. RED Rocket card and RMD metadata dramatically improve the performance and look of RED footage. Import footage in CinemaDNG format, an open standard that offers a common solution.
• Expanded color LUT support
  Expand your color management options by using additional LUT variants in the 3DL and CUBE formats to simulate film and alternate devices or to apply different looks to your footage. Export 3D LUTs to promote more consistent, predictable color.
• Save As After Effects CS5
  Work easily on projects with colleagues still using After Effects CS5: Save projects in After Effects CS5 format to take advantage of new features and performance improvements without the need for colleagues to upgrade.
• Small changes that make a big difference
  Benefit from big productivity gains: more efficient rendering with improved disk caching, review of recent searches, and new sorting options in the Project panel.
• XDCAM EX export
  Render in the XDCAM EX format using multiple bitrates, pixel aspect ratios, and frame rates. This allows you to roundtrip footage shot on popular Sony cameras so that your output is consistent with files being edited directly from source

System requirements

Windows

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor (Intel Core i3, i5, or i7 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 storage devices)
• 1280x800 display with OpenGL 2.0-compatible graphics card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis*

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
• Mac OS X v10.5.8 or v10.6
• 2GB of RAM
• 4GB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• 1280x800 display with OpenGL 2.0-compatible graphics card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis*

*Adobe online services, including Adobe CS Live Services, are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe's online privacy policy. Online services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.

Activation

This product must be activated over the Internet prior to use. Visit the Product Activation Center to learn more about activation.

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