Adobe CS5.5, Mac 65110238 User Manual
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Adobe After Effects CS5.5
What’s New
Who uses After Effects?
Motion graphics designers and visual effects artists use After Effects to produce intricately
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 virtually any animation
and compositing task, and offers timesaving integration with other essential tools—Adobe
Photoshop and Illustrator software, the video editing software Adobe Premiere Pro, and 3D
modeling applications such as Maxon CINEMA 4D and Autodesk Maya. A rich ecosystem of
third-party plug-ins means highly specialized solutions are readily available.
Video editors and other 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. Video
editors also use After Effects for a wide variety of post-production tasks, including color correction,
motion tracking and stabilization, and keying and rotoscoping.
Interactive designers turn to After Effects because it offers flexible tools they can use to prepare
dynamic media that integrates well with interactive projects and the tools used to create them.
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, interactive designers
benefit from tight integration between After Effects and Adobe Flash Professional software.
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 virtually any animation
and compositing task, and offers timesaving integration with other essential tools—Adobe
Photoshop and Illustrator software, the video editing software Adobe Premiere Pro, and 3D
modeling applications such as Maxon CINEMA 4D and Autodesk Maya. A rich ecosystem of
third-party plug-ins means highly specialized solutions are readily available.
Video editors and other 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. Video
editors also use After Effects for a wide variety of post-production tasks, including color correction,
motion tracking and stabilization, and keying and rotoscoping.
Interactive designers turn to After Effects because it offers flexible tools they can use to prepare
dynamic media that integrates well with interactive projects and the tools used to create them.
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, interactive designers
benefit from tight integration between After Effects and Adobe Flash Professional software.
Top new features of Adobe After Effects CS5.5
Smooth a camera move with Warp Stabilizer
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. You can’t stabilize a shot without scaling somewhat to compensate for
missing areas of frame, but this new approach requires less zooming than most available
alternatives. You can use Warp Stabilizer either to smooth the existing motion of a camera while
preserving the movement, or to create a locked-off shot, with no camera movement whatsoever.
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. You can’t stabilize a shot without scaling somewhat to compensate for
missing areas of frame, but this new approach requires less zooming than most available
alternatives. You can use Warp Stabilizer either to smooth the existing motion of a camera while
preserving the movement, or to create a locked-off shot, with no camera movement whatsoever.
You can see a preliminary result in just one step: Apply Warp Stabilizer to the source layer, and let
After Effects perform analysis and stabilization. Analysis begins automatically without the need to
set tracking points or make any decisions whatsoever. Stabilization progress is displayed onscreen
in a two-step process, first analyzing and then stabilizing; once the second step is complete, the
result is ready for immediate review.
After Effects perform analysis and stabilization. Analysis begins automatically without the need to
set tracking points or make any decisions whatsoever. Stabilization progress is displayed onscreen
in a two-step process, first analyzing and then stabilizing; once the second step is complete, the
result is ready for immediate review.
But Warp Stabilizer doesn’t just smooth the motion of the camera. It also will remove motion
artifacts that otherwise remain after stabilization. Warp Stabilizer processes individual areas of the
frame separately to compensate for parallax. If these corrections are not desired, other modes can
be used to stabilize only perspective, or scale and rotation, or even just position.
artifacts that otherwise remain after stabilization. Warp Stabilizer processes individual areas of the
frame separately to compensate for parallax. If these corrections are not desired, other modes can
be used to stabilize only perspective, or scale and rotation, or even just position.
Top new features
• Smooth a camera move with Warp
• Smooth a camera move with Warp
Stabilizer (Page 2)
• Create beautiful soft-focus effects
with Camera Lens Blur (Page 3)
• Take the guesswork out of edits
with source timecode support
(Page 4)
(Page 4)
• Effortlessly establish a stereoscopic
3D workflow (Page 5)
• Control light intensity falloff
(Page 6)
• Work with more high-definition
source formats (Page 6)
• Make use of additional LUTs
(Page 7)
• Export XDCAM EX footage (Page 7)
• Collaborate easily with colleagues
• Collaborate easily with colleagues
still using After Effects CS5 (Page 7)
• Benefit from small changes that
make a big difference (Page 7)
Warp Stabilizer offers you a good deal
of control over the automated result
without the need for any actual
keyframes in the timeline. The Subspace
Warp option, chosen by default,
performs pixel analysis to correct for
motion artifacts. This correction is
necessary to complement the change in
perspective that results from
stabilization, which changes parallax
within the shot.