Adobe CS5.5, Win 65110418 User Manual

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65110418

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System requirements

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*

Windows
• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64

processor (Intel Core™ i3, i5, or i7 or
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 appli-
cable) on an ongoing basis*

For updates to system requirements
and more detailed information about
video hardware compatibility, visit
www.adobe.com/go/aftereffects_
systemreqs.

* 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 (available at www.adobe.com/go/ terms). 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.

†CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time. See www.adobe.com/go/cslive for details.

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Still using After Effects CS4?

If you’re still using After Effects CS4, upgrading to After Effects CS5.5 gives you the huge
improvements in performance and efficiency first introduced in After Effects CS5. These features
substantially boost productivity in many areas.

• Native 64-bit support—Get the most out of your hardware investment. As a native 64-bit

application, After Effects uses all available RAM so that you can work efficiently on complex HD,
2K, and 4K projects. On average, using data from over 130 performance benchmarks, After
Effects CS5 is more than twice as fast as After Effects CS4 (according to independent research
firm Pfeiffer Consulting).

• Roto Brush—Isolate moving foreground elements from their backgrounds in a fraction of the

time required by other methods. Quickly identify foreground and background elements, and
then let the Roto Brush automatically create transparency for you. Refine edges easily for
extremely precise results. Rotoscoping a five-second clip was found to be 20x faster with Roto
Brush than using the After Effects CS4 workflow (Pfeiffer Consulting).

• Color Finesse 3 LE (English user interface only)—Enjoy an enhanced color correction workflow

with Color Finesse 3 LE from Synthetic Aperture. Features include a vibrance control similar to
that in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® software, hue and saturation curve controls, 3D LUT
export, and highlight recovery.

• Refine Matte effect—Apply intelligent edge tracking, dechattering, and motion blurring

capabilities to any layer with a problematic alpha channel, such as keyed footage.

• Digieffects FreeForm (English user interface only)—Turn flat objects into virtually any 3D

shape using this popular 3D mesh warp plug-in by Digieffects, now included with After Effects.

Still using After Effects CS3?

For those still using After Effects CS3, upgrading to After Effects CS5.5 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 ground-breaking integration with other Adobe software.

• QuickSearch—Instantly locate any element, or all used or missing footage in a comp or project.

• Composition Navigator and Mini-Flowchart—Navigate quickly between nested compositions

with a simple keyboard shortcut and interactive user interface element.

• Separate X, Y & Z values—Set unique keyframes for properties with three dimensions,

simplifying the process of creating natural motion.

• Photoshop integration—Place 3D objects on layers in Photoshop (including the new Repoussé

layers introduced in Photoshop CS5), paint them using its industry-standard tools, import them
into After Effects, and animate them alongside your other 3D layers.

• Flash integration—Export After Effects compositions as layered projects which can be

imported into Flash Professional.

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