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1. or layer s label color making it easier to resulting in the import of the output files into that folder for quick inclusion of Re epousse a Extrude Repouss Materials identify elements at a glance ina S a a Fh complex project F 0 At pom vl el i i in Rendered Output Modules can now be ir r Sides Bevel2 Back dragged to a folder in the Project panel hes f U3 Bevel Sides Front and Back 7 Contour Depth 9 25 l Scale l Height Ig r rendered elements Twist o fE Texture Seale ES wath io f C Shear Bend REE New keyboard shortcuts and mouse ses Scio S X Angle ig Y Angle i functionality to quickly move between hie Lights Dawn viewing the entire timeline and returning aag a qa ry Render Settings Custom to your previous zoom level ooo a Angle 24 e Strength g 7 a Internal Constraints fa ai a bY ode aao Type Hole B Angle 0 p Scale Side Both Strength g l X f1 Weil Zz 1 i Select j Delete amp C o Cancel Adobe Repouss in Photoshop CS5 Extended allows advanced extrusion possibilities including bevels frames inflations and twists The results may be imported into After Effects CS5 Adobe After Effects CS5 What s New 7 An enhanced Levels effect Histogram display 2 M h Effect Controls Mage_09225R_ 743 796 png showing individual color channel streng2. DPX has rapidly become the preferred file format of the visual effects community in high end production workflows AVC Intra support and expanded RED camera support After Effects CS5 includes native support for the new AVC Intra 50 and AVC Intra 100 codecs as well as expanded native support for footage from RED cameras AVC Intra is used by high quality Panasonic cameras like the AJ HPX300 AJ HPX3700 VariCam and AJ HPX2700 VariCam as well as recorders like the AJ HPM110 According to Panasonic documents AVC Intra 100 is the highest recording quality available ina one piece camcorder comparable to mastering video quality and is explicitly designed and optimized for broadcast and production Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 also supports AVC Intra so there s no barrier to integrating After Effects with Adobe Premiere Pro projects if you want to use AVC Intra After Effects CS5 like Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 provides full native support for RED R3D files allowing you to import them directly without transcoding rewrapping or installing additional software Because the files you import contain raw sensor data you edit footage that is as close to what the camera captured as possible enabling you to work nondestructively on the color and look of your projects This includes the ability to edit enhanced parameters such as Debayer Detail Chroma Denoise White Balance ISO settings and more With After Effects CS5 y
3. the other new features you will find useful is that Bezier or X spline animated roto shapes created in mocha may be converted into mask shapes in After Effects where they can be further refined and manipulated without requiring a trip back into mocha Also with mocha for After Effects CS5 motion blur data is now included in the exported tracking data This enables you to re create the motion blur that occurred in the original footage Eh Effect Controls Mocha 000 070 Jpg m Composition 4_Mocha Shapes Starter v 4_Mocha Shapes Starter Mocha_ 000 070 jpg 4_Mocha Shapes Starter Multiply v Render edge width A Render type Shape cutout Shape colour gt Opacity Color composite x x sire Color shape cutout Render edge width v Render type Shape cutout Shape colour gt Opacity v fx Right Shape Blend mode Invert Render edge width Render type Shape colour gt Opacity Z3 0 00 00 00 tJ E Active Camera v 1View v m P U A You can outline and track complex objects in mocha for After Effects CS5 top export the tracked shapes and apply them to your footage using the mocha shape effect in After Effects CS5 above Motion blur and variable width per point mask feathering are maintained to help create the more realistic composites Adobe After Effects CS5 What s New 5 Multi channel DPX After Effects CS5 also supports multi channel DPX files such as those generated by the Northlight film scanner
4. 4 i With the revolutionary new Roto Brush one of the numerous innovations introduced in After Effects CS5 you can isolate moving foreground elements from their backgrounds in a fraction of the time it used to take CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time See the last page of this document for details and limitations related to all Adobe online services Top new features Native 64 bit application Page 2 Roto Brush Page 4 mocha for After Effects CS5 and mocha shape Page 5 AVC Intra support and expanded RED camera support Page 6 Auto keyframe mode Page 6 Refine Matte effect and dozens of other enhancements Page 7 Color Look Up Table support Page 8 Color Finesse 3 LE Page 9 Digieffects FreeForm Page 9 Work with collaborative online services Page 10 Leading 64 bit OS support In addition to After Effects Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Photoshop CS5 Extended and Adobe Media Encoder CS5 all included in Adobe Production Premium CS5 software are also native 64 bit applications meaning you can enjoy enhanced performance when working on very large files across a variety of common video workflows Adobe Premiere Pro includes the revolution ary Adobe Mercury Playback Engine a native 64 bit GPU accelerated playback and rendering engine that provides rock solid performance and stability at 4K resolution and beyond Note that Adobe Premiere Pro CSS
5. 6 png v 3_Roto Brush Mage_09225R_ 743 796 png EA Roto Brush Y Propagation Search Radius Motion Threshold gt Motion Damping View Search Region Edge Detection Balanced Use Alternate Color Estimation Invert Foreground Background v Matte gt Smooth Feather gt Choke Refine Matte gt Reduce Chatter Use Motion Blur Y Motion Blur gt Samples Per Frame Shutter Angle Higher Quality Decontaminate Edge Colors v Decontamination Decontamination Amount Extend Where Smoothed Increase Decontamination View Decontamination Map The revolutionary new Roto Brush enables you to separate foreground elements from complex backgrounds in a fraction of the time it would take using traditional rotoscoping techniques Teach it how to process one frame and Roto Brush automatically tracks the footage and applies the same criteria across multiple frames The Roto Brush expands your creative options by enabling you to offer results that require sophisticated rotoscoping on virtually any project Professional quality results can be realized dramatically faster and with far less tedium artists are already reporting that the process of rotoscoping is taking a fraction of the time it required in the past This means you can accomplish creative treatments that previously were feasible exclusively on big budget projects from isolating elements for targeted color enhancement to placing d
6. Adobe After Effects CS5 What s New Adobe After Effects CS5 is also available as a component of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection software Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium combines Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Adobe After Effects CS5 Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended e Adobe Illustrator CS5 Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Adobe Soundbooth CS5 Adobe OnLocation CS5 Adobe Encore CS5 Additional components Adobe Dynamic Link Adobe Bridge CS5 Integrates with new Adobe CS Live online services Adobe After Effects CS5 Create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard Adobe After Effects CS5 software delivers the outstanding performance and visual richness required to succeed in today s media culture New native 64 bit support lets you tap more of your computer s power to work efficiently with complex HD 2K and 4K projects Plus a broad range of innovative features from the revolutionary new Roto Brush to dozens of subtle but important changes that streamline your workflow enable you to create amazing motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects while delivering your work to the widest possible variety of screens With Adobe After Effects CS5 you can Get 64 bit performance Take advantage of all available RAM and processor cores to quickly craft complex 3D scenes a
7. Adobe Media Encoder CS5 and After Effects CSS all require a 64 bit operating system CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time See the last page of this document for details and limitations related to all Adobe online services Who uses After Effects Motion graphics designers and visual effects artists use After Effects to produce highly designed short form content such as TV commercials broadcast graphics and film titles and to create a wide range of visual effects shots After Effects is able to handle a broad range of animation and compositing tasks and offers timesaving integration with other essential tools Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Illustrator CS5 software 3D modeling applications such as Maxon CINEMA 4D and Autodesk Maya and the editing software Adobe Premiere Pro A rich ecosystem of third party plug ins means highly specialized solutions are readily available Video editors and other types of post production professionals use After Effects to complement nonlinear editing tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro because it offers an efficient well integrated solution for delivering higher production values When designing attention getting show openers lower thirds and other types of motion graphics After Effects offers timesaving presets and templates as well as the ability to refine virtually every aspect of every design element After Effects is also used by video editors to create effects and to handle a wide va
8. ated imagery instantly applying the appearance of cel animation or watercolor paintings to live action or to computer generated 3D imagery After Effects to Flash Export After Effects compositions as layered projects which can be imported into Flash CS5 Professional About Adobe Systems Incorporated Adobe is the world s leading provider of software solutions to create manage and deliver high impact reliable digital content For more information visit www adobe com This product may allow you to extend its functionality by accessing certain features that are hosted online including CS Live online services Online Services provided you have a high speed Internet connection The Online Services and some features thereof may not be available in all countries languages and or currencies and may be discontinued in whole or in part without notice Use of the Online Services is governed by separate terms of use and by the Online Privacy Policy and access to some services may require user registration Some Online Services including services that are initially offered at no charge may be subject to additional fees and require a separate subscription For more details and to review the applicable terms of use and Online Privacy Policy visit www adobe com For more information about CS Live online services see www adobe com go cslive Adobe the Adobe logo Acrobat Adobe OnLocation Adobe Premiere After Effects Creative Suite Encor
9. d the memory demands don t stop there For example RED has announced cameras that sport 5K 6K 9K and even 28K frame sizes Native 64 bit OS support in After Effects CS5 means you can work on ever higher resolution projects with confidence 4K Format memory requirements HD standard definition 720x486 pixels x 4 color channels x 8 bpc SD 1 33 megabytes frame 10 seconds 29 97 fps 398 6MB high definition 1920x1080 pixels x 4 color channels x 16 bpc 15 82 megabytes frame 10 seconds 23 976 fps 3 7GB digital cinema 4096x2304 pixels x 4 color channels x 32 bpc 144 megabytes frame 10 seconds 24 fps 33 75GB 4 color channels red green blue alpha Adobe After Effects CS5 What s New 2 Complete your production toolset Integrate your entire workflow with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium and get more creative power at an appealing price In addition to After Effects CS5 Production Premium offers the latest versions of Photoshop Extended Adobe Premiere Pro Illustrator and Flash Professional as well as Adobe Flash Catalyst Encore OnLocation and Soundbooth Move up to Production Premium to Get breakthrough performance with other Production Premium components Complete projects faster with the new Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro and 64 bit performance and GPU acceleration in Photoshop Extended Faster Dynamic Link between After Effects and Adobe Pr
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11. emiere Pro means you can iterate projects more quickly without intermediate rendering Create eye popping 2D and 3D assets Easily create 3D assets and expressive digital paintings and efficiently remove unwanted objects with new 3D and painting tools and Content Aware Fill in Photoshop Extended Integrate tapeless formats Widen your options with the industry s best tapeless support in Adobe Premiere Pro Edit natively with formats such as RED AVCHD AVC Intra and video from DSLR cameras Roundtrip with other NLEs Apply the timesaving benefits of Production Premium to Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer workflows by easily moving projects and media back and forth between Adobe Premiere Pro and these NLEs For more information see Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium What s New On 32 bit operating systems the 2GB to 4GB memory restriction for each application sharply limit how many image frames can be held in RAM at the same time which in turn constrains the length of full motion previews and the complexity of projects overall Even with disk caching and virtual memory working with HD content using older versions of After Effects on 32 bit systems means you may be forced to wait while images are swapped in and out of RAM or re rendered the next time they are needed Resourceful artists have developed strategies to work around these limitations such as working at lower resolutions or frame rates or using pro
12. esign elements such as text or logos between actors and their backgrounds Adobe After Effects CS5 What s New 4 mocha for After Effects CS5 Real world projects typically require motion tracking and many shots present tracking challenges such as elements that go partially out of frame or include motion blur mocha for After Effects CS5 an updated version of the software included with After Effects CSS5 has a unique planar tracker that makes it easy to handle even the most difficult tracking and stabilization tasks Also included in this release is the mocha shape plug in which enables you to use tracking data in new ways stabilization tasks mocha for After Effects CS5 and mocha shape have user interfaces that are English only This updated release of mocha includes the ability to apply motion tracking to hand drawn masks which is a significant time saver In addition motion blurred or semitransparent areas are easily handled with new support for varible width mask feathers And like After Effects CS5 mocha for After Effects CS5 is a native 64 bit application Included for the first time in After Effects CS5 the mocha shape plug in enables you to copy and paste multiple motion tracked masks from mocha to any After Effects layer fully preserving all their qualities including any variable width mask feather settings This is particularly useful for shots that contain camera movements or moving objects that require masking One of
13. forming on a project and simulate within After Effects what the result for LUTs After Effects also offers would look like on a specific piece of footage or final composite You can also use this new feature robust CC based color management to predict how your images will look through an unusual output chain such as displaying through support on input output and for a certain projector at a trade show or site specific installation In short Color LUT support gives display simulation you confidence that the creative and technical decisions you make will translate properly to final output in an even wider variety of situations than before and help ensure color consistency across multiple devices Support for custom color LUTs makes it possible to preview within After Effects the result of film output color correction top original image above color corrected image Adobe After Effects CS5 What s New 8 Color Finesse 3 LE After Effects CS5 includes an updated version of one of the most powerful desktop color correction tools available Synthetic Aperture s Color Finesse 3 LE Color Finesse has a user interface that is English only The latest release of this versatile tool introduces numerous refinements providing you with new ways to perfect your images New features in Color Finesse 3 LE include Hue and saturation curve controls yielding finer control over your color corrections Anew vibrance control that works in a
14. gent edge tracking dechattering and motion blurring capabilities found in Roto Brush and apply them to any layer with a problematic alpha channel such as keyed footage New options that allow you to align layers to a composi tion s boundaries making it easier to precisely center objects and clean up the layout of your image frame overall Enhanced support for Photoshop adjustment layer types including Selective Color Black amp White and Vibrance you can also apply these color correction effects to any layer Anew option for per character 3D text animation that 2 Align Align Layers to Composition F 2 Selection Composition Distribute ee You may align layers to other layers or the composition allows each character to orient toward the camera around its own anchor point further enhancing the illusion of 3D Anew Type option in the Camera Settings dialog box that allows you to easily specify if the camera is a one node or two node camera adapting to your preferred approach for aiming and animating 3D cameras The ability to import layered PSD files which include extruded 3D layers created with the new Adobe Repouss feature inPhotoshop CS5 Extended Anew keyboard shortcut to point the camera to either selected layers or all layers along with many other improve ments to camera tools and settings New options to color code panel tabs with the composition footage item
15. has a user interface that is English only STPEY DE_FreeFormAE v About effects FreeForm digieffects com mettle com v Grid gt Rows gt Columns gt Mesh Distortion Editing Controls Manipulation Tangent Alignment gt 3D Mesh Controls gt Surface Controls Backside Controls 3D Mesh Quality gt Mesh Subdivision Rendering Antialiasing Image Filtering gt Displacement Controls gt Grid and Controls Colors Grid and Controls Y Display Adobe After Effects CS5 What s New 9 This powerful plug in allows you to bend or warp any layer in 3D space using either an adjustable mesh of points or another layer as a displacement map FreeForm allows you to warp or extrude any After Effects layer in 3D space Work with collaborative online services Users of After Effects CS5 may also enhance their workflow on large After Effects projects by accessing Adobe CS Live online services available separately including Adobe Story the innovative new online service for crafting scripts Story allows you to capture metadata in the writing phase and use that metadata to plan your shoot more efficiently in Adobe OnLocation and help produce a preliminary rough cut in Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe CS Review an online service that enables peers and clients to take part in the review of page layouts image comps illustrations and video sequences Acrobat com a set of online services for creati
16. mited time See the last page of this document for details and limitations related to all Adobe online services Adobe After Effects CS5 What s New 10 System requirements Note After Effects CSS requires a 64 bit operating system Windows Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor Intel Core 2 Duo 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 based storage devices 1280x1024 display with OpenGL 2 0 compatible graphics card DVD ROM drive e QuickTime 7 6 2 software required for QuickTime features e Broadband Internet connection required for online services Mac OS Multicore Intel processor with 64 bit support Mac OS X v10 5 7 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 based storage devices 1280x900 display with OpenGL 2 0 compatible graphics card DVD ROM drive e QuickTime 7 6 2 software required for QuickTime features Broadband Internet connection
17. n help beginners avoid mistakes such as forgetting to enable keyframing for certain properties Adobe After Effects CS5 What s New 6 New Refine Matte effect and dozens of other enhancements In every release After Effects introduces dozens of refinements to popular features Experienced professionals know that while individually these changes may seem subtle collectively they make the day in and day out experience of working with After Effects smoother and more intuitive Among many such features added in After Effects CS5 are Better media management with Adobe Bridge CS5 Whether you are a designer photog rapher or cross media creative you can now manage your content more efficiently with these new or enhanced features in Bridge CSS included with After Effects CS5 Flexible batch renaming including savable presets of regularly used settings Advanced text and image based watermark options when outputting PDF documents Conversion of any file to JPEG format for easy sharing of files via websites and galleries Faster navigation between open folders with an improved Path bar Precise adjustment of the size and quality of images in the Web Gallery Support for drag and drop actions between Bridge CS5 and After Effects A Publish panel with simple options to output files to disc and upload images to popular sharing sites The new Refine Matte effect that allows you to take advantage of the intelli
18. nd camera moves work on large frames preview long deeply layered composites and batch render your results to a variety of output file formats Innovate visually After Effects CS5 includes Mocha for After Effects CS5 v2 with the Mocha Shape plug in Color Finesse 3 and Digieffects FreeForm note that these third party plug ins included with After Effects CS5 have a user interface that is English only Combine this new power with the wide range of innovative 2D and 3D creation compositing and animation tools already in After Effects and it s clear that CS5 is a must have release that expands your creative horizons Composite efficiently Execute post production tasks faster than ever at maximum bit depth and at virtually any frame size thanks to the revolutionary new Roto Brush new support for color LUTs and other breakthroughs Efficient production pipelines including support for XMP metadata are increasingly important in complex digital production workflows and After Effects CS5 delivers innovations across the board Deliver everywhere Work with a wider range of media types now including AVC Intra and expanded RED camera support and render your final results in formats from mobile media to feature films at maximum bit depth and resolution using industry unique color management and new custom Color Look Up Table LUT support to help ensure accurate results across a variety of delivery platforms Mt Layer Mage 092258 743 79
19. ny project from previsualization to final composites with greatly reduced concern about project budgets or deadlines To use the new Roto Brush just draw simple paint strokes inside the foreground object and let After Effects calculate where the rest of the foreground object is If the foreground and background are similar you can draw additional paint strokes to teach After Effects which elements are in the background After Effects determines where the foreground and background are on subsequent frames you can refine results with additional strokes The process is fast and intuitive and because After Effects does the hard work of finding the edges Roto Brush eliminates the tedium traditionally associated with the task Once you ve defined the foreground and background areas you can control the quality of the edges between the two using options for smoothing feathering or choking spreading inside or outside of the original edge After Effects can calculate motion blur for fast moving portions of the edge to deliver photo realistic professional results with minimal effort Edge chatter from frame to frame is automatically reduced and in addition you can remove background color from semitransparent edges of the foreground object And if the resulting alpha channel still requires additional refinement you can use the paint tools already built into After Effects to further tweak your results E Effect Controls Mage_09225R_ 743 79
20. ou can work with content in all common RED R3D file permutations including 2K 3K 4K 4K HD 16x9 and 2x1 using a number of different frame rates Auto keyframe mode After Effects has long featured powerful flexible keyframing However artists new to After Effects Project E OO0O1R MxAF used 1 time 1920 x 1080 1 00 A 0 00 53 20 23 976 fps ns Millions of Colors P2 AVC Intra K Comment f 9 1_FreeForm Warp Starter A 9 1_FreeForm Warp_finished Ei 9 2_FreeForm Displace Starter 99 2 FreeForm Displace_animated A 9 2_FreeForm Displace_finished E Solids Gi Sources AVC intra 100 a A006_C001_03130X _001 R3D RED R3D Freeform sources Mi Mage_09225R_ 743 796 png 18 40 3 21 c bayer Deta High om noise On EEEN Minimum Milder Mild Medium Strong Maximum have expressed a wish for an automatic way to begin keyframing their animations To assist these artists After Effects CS5 offers an Auto keyframe mode When Auto keyframe mode is on modifying a property automatically turns its stopwatch on and adds a keyframe at the current time This prevents you from working with a layer s properties only to realize later that After Effects did not capture any of your changes Parameters that can be automatically keyframed include position rotation shape properties mask properties effect point controls and camera manipulation Auto keyframe mode simplifies the keyframing process and ca
21. re virtually eliminated These improvements increase productivity which in turn facilitates creativity Integrated memory management In Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium you can coordinate RAM allocation for After Effects Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Encore and Adobe Media Encoder thanks to cross component memory management This allows you to make the most of your system resources without learning complex memory management settings General Previews Display Import Output Grids amp Guides Labels RAM shared by Media amp Disk Cache Video Preview Appearance Auto Save Installed RAM 16 GB RAM reserved for other applications 3 GB Ac Pr En This shared setting affects After Effects Premiere Pro Encore and Adobe Media Encoder You can manage memory allocations across 64 bit Production Premium from inside After Effects Adobe After Effects CS5 What s New 3 Roto Brush Many shots require separating a foreground object such as an actor from its current live action background so that the object may be placed in a completely new environment The revolutionary new Roto Brush provides a fast efficient solution for isolating these foreground elements in complex scenes In the past this kind of work was time consuming and expensive and as a result the technique was often reserved for big budget projects The new Roto Brush is so fast that After Effects artists can now perform rotoscoping on virtually a
22. required for online services For updates to system requirements and more detailed information about video hardware compatibility visit www adobe com go aftereffects_systemreqs Expected ship date Second quarter 2010 For more information Product details www adobe com aftereffects AI Adobe Adobe Systems Incorporated 345 Park Avenue San Jose CA 95110 2704 USA www adobe com Still using After Effects CS3 For those still using After Effects CS3 upgrading to After Effects CS5 also gives you the chance to catch up on all the great features added in After Effects CS4 These features greatly enhance your productivity as well as provide groundbreaking integration with other Adobe software Some of these features include Searchable timelines and projects Search projects for specific footage items or properties Save time by searching timelines by layer names properties comments or expressions effect names or parameters and more Independent XYZ position keyframes Keyframe X Y and Z position properties separately greatly easing the crafting of complex animation moves in 3D space Photoshop 3D layer support Place 3D objects on layers in Photoshop including the new Adobe Repouss layers introduced in Photoshop CS5 Extended paint them using its industry standard tools import them into After Effects and animate them alongside your other 3D layers Cartoon effect Create new looks for your video or other anim
23. riety of post production tasks including color correction motion tracking and stabilization and keying and rotoscoping Interactive designers are turning to After Effects in ever greater numbers because it offers flexible tools they can use to prepare dynamic media for use in interactive projects Whether they re creating videos with transparent backgrounds that can be composited with other elements in real time in Flash Player designing snippets of persistent motion that add richness to an interactive experience or creating visually distinctive text animations that stand out from the crowd interactive designers benefit from tight integration between After Effects and Adobe Flash Professional Top new features of Adobe After Effects CS5 Native 64 bit application One of the most significant advances in After Effects is that it is now a fully native 64 bit application This yields numerous advantages including the ability to fully use your computer s memory for dramatic improvements when working on high resolution projects Just a few years ago it was normal to work on standard definition video at a color depth of 8 bits per channel bpc Today it is common to work on high definition video at a depth of 16 bpc And while some artists have used After Effects on film projects since the earliest versions digital cinema cameras such as the RED One are now commonly in use making 4K images in 32 bit floating point color increasingly common An
24. ths 3_Roto Brush Mage_09225R_ 743 796 png sated Levels Reset New options for specifying the size of Bezier Channel RGE Histogram direction handles and vertices for masks and shapes as well as direction handles for motion paths making them easier to see on today s larger monitors Tooltips added for each vertex in the Graph gt Input Black b Input White Editor which display the layer name property TS name time and value of the keyframe making gt Output Black Output White Clip To Output Black Off for 32 bpe Color Y Clip To Output White Off for 32 bpe Color Y it easier to precisely check values at a glance Numerous enhancements to scripting including the ability to access parameters The updated Histogram display makes it easier to visualize and edit individual color channels This display also makes for adaptive motion blur text tracking label it possible to spot problems such as where editing the attributes and per character auto orientation overall image may cause an individual channel to clip Color Look Up Table support After Effects CS5 adds support for custom color look up tables LUTs in the popular 3DL and CUBE file formats which may be loaded into the new Apply Color LUT effect This makes it Color management possible for example to receive from a film output facility a custom LUT that reflects the specific In addition to providing new support color correction they are per
25. ve professionals who need to accelerate discussion and information exchange with colleagues and clients For more information about these and other CS Live services visit www adobe com go CSLive fy PROJECTS View Production Courier Sad vj s AANS Paladin_ShootingScript_ OUTLINE INT TOWER ROOM DUSK It is a bizarre cross of library metalshop amp chemistry lab candles glow on every available surface strange liquids sit in odd shaped jars around the room LOW ANGLE HERO CAMERA 2 DOLLY AWAY FROM DOOR The door is KICKED OPEN the lock splintering framed in the doorway ig our HERO Cloaked and swathed in rough leather armor He steps through and brandishes his sword at the lone occupant of the room A older man a MAGE who was busy pouring over his books MEDIUM HERO CAMERA 2 HERO POINTING SWORD HERO You are judged guilty of rning your heel on the face of the Old Gods Your sorcery stops here Stops tonight He raises his sword to strike MCU MAGE CAMERA 3 MAGE S ARM The MAGE s hand WHIPS out the Hero s sword FLIES from his grasp it buries itself in the wall behind hin OS MAGE CAMERA 3 MAGE WALKS TOWARD HERO B Unshared Document CS Live online services including Adobe Story enhance your workflow from script to final output including the ability for you to collaborate with remote team members and clients during the scripting phase of a project CS Live online services are complimentary for a li
26. way similar to the one in Adobe Lightroom software providing a more subtle alternative to altering saturation Auto Color and Auto Exposure buttons for instant corrections New highlight recovery feature meaning you lose less image detail when you have to conform high dynamic range footage to the limitations of video Improved handling of non square pixels Asimplified plug in user interface for improved ease of use Color Finesse LE is also capable of exporting your looks as color look up tables which can then be applied in After Effects CS5 using its new Apply Color LUT effect Plus Color Finesse 3 LE has been updated to natively support 64 bit operating systems amp SAColor Finesse 3U File Edit Settings Clip View Lightness a vi co v amp Bua E a aQ lt MBO Sund39mM QA a cee Color Finesse 3 LE has been significantly updated including vibrance control highlight recovery and HSL curves Digieffects FreeForm Digieffects FreeForm included with After Effects for the first time in Creative Suite 5 vastly increases your 3D design options allowing you to do more in After Effects such as creating flags bending floating video panels and extruding layers without requiring a side trip into dedicated 3D software FreeForm automatically responds to 3D cameras and lights in After Effects making it easy to integrate the results of this effect into any 3D scene FreeForm
27. xies of lower quality sources but these come with the trade off of not seeing your composition in its final form while you work With After Effects CS5 these limitations no longer apply Support for 64 bit operating systems means After Effects CS5 can access all of your computer s available RAM This has a dramatic positive effect on the type size and complexity of projects you can take on as well as how fluidly you can work With After Effects CS5 running on a 64 bit operating system with 32GB of RAM you can preview a 30 second HD comp at full resolution and at 32 bpc This enables you to preview your entire composition at maximum fidelity without interruption After Effects RAM preview examples 8GB system RAM 1280x720 pixels 25 fps 16 bpc CS4 9 7 secs CS5 25 secs 16GB system RAM 1920x1080 pixels 29 97 fps 16 bpc CS4 3 6 secs CS5 24 8 secs 32GB system RAM 1920x1080 pixels 23 976 fps 32 bpc CS4 2 3 secs CS5 34 9 secs Real time RAM Preview durations are dramatically increased by the 64 bit support in After Effects CS5 Preview times are approximate with no other software or tasks currently running Beyond being able to preview longer continuous stretches of your project rendered image frames are more likely to be kept in memory allowing you to move around a project s timeline or between compositions without losing already rendered frames Additionally memory buffer errors due to RAM constraints a
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