Adobe After Effects Professional 7 (EN) Win32, TLP Commercial 15000-24999 54018993TT User Manual

• Control which parts of a 2D or 3D layer are visible by adding and animating an 

unlimited number of masks on any layer.

• Import Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator® paths as masks.

• Stroke, feather, transform, animate, and apply motion blur to masks over time.

• Combine masks using Add, Subtract, Intersect, and Difference.

• Quickly turn any channel, including alpha channels, into a vector-based mask, and 

quickly create animated masks.

• Turn After Effects text into masks using the Create Outlines command.

• Create RotoBézier masks from scratch or convert them from Bézier masks. RotoBéziers 

simplify repetitive tasks by reducing the number of control points you have to think 
about.

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 Render even complex masks up to 100% faster than in previous versions of After Effects.

• Create smooth, realistic intermediate mask keyframes automatically based on settings 

you provide. Take control of mismatched points, or create arcing mask transitions to 
replicate natural motion. (Professional edition only.)

• Turn any grayscale image, movie, or animated text or graphic into an alpha or luma 

track matte to control what’s visible on another layer.

• Quickly eliminate all the pixels on a layer that are similar to a color you’ve specified. For 

example, cut out a greenscreen background in one step by specifying that color.

• Create subtle, elegant mattes of reflections, semitransparent areas, and hair with this 

Academy Award–winning keyer from The Foundry. Spill suppression, color correction, 
and edge refinement tools help perfect the result. (Professional edition only.)

• Easily create high-contrast mattes with subtle edge thresholds using these keys to isolate 

and knock out a single shade or range of intensity (Professional edition only).

• Replicate the method used to key color footage on many landmark films. The Color 

Difference Key weights the dominant color being keyed against the other two primary 
colors. (Professional edition only.)

• Remove unwanted color spill from any footage quickly and easily (Professional edition 

only).