Adobe CS5.5, Mac 65110281 User Manual
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Adobe After Effects CS5.5
What’s New
CinemaDNG enables film and video professionals working with RAW digital footage—such as a
time-lapse sequence from a DSLR camera—to use an open standard. After Effects CS5.5 now
imports CinemaDNG files, offering similar controls on import that apply to DNG files, a still format
already in wide use. CinemaDNG helps ensure interoperability and the lasting viability of source
footage files.
time-lapse sequence from a DSLR camera—to use an open standard. After Effects CS5.5 now
imports CinemaDNG files, offering similar controls on import that apply to DNG files, a still format
already in wide use. CinemaDNG helps ensure interoperability and the lasting viability of source
footage files.
Work with additional LUTs
Color look-up table (LUT) support helps boost confidence that creative and technical decisions
translate properly to final output in a wide variety of situations, and help ensure color consistency
across multiple devices. After Effects CS5.5 expands LUT support beyond the popular 3DL and
CUBE file formats to also allow the loading of 3DL files with floating point values or 3DMES/Mesh
keywords, or those saved from the ASSIMILATE SCRATCH system.
A LUT makes it possible to save the color correction performed on a file using a wide range of
applications and systems, and simulate those settings exactly within After Effects on a specific
piece of footage or final composite. A LUT is also used to simulate how images look when
projected via specific film stocks or digital projectors. LUTs are an important part of streamlining
complex post-production pipelines that span many locations and use a wide variety of software
and hardware.
translate properly to final output in a wide variety of situations, and help ensure color consistency
across multiple devices. After Effects CS5.5 expands LUT support beyond the popular 3DL and
CUBE file formats to also allow the loading of 3DL files with floating point values or 3DMES/Mesh
keywords, or those saved from the ASSIMILATE SCRATCH system.
A LUT makes it possible to save the color correction performed on a file using a wide range of
applications and systems, and simulate those settings exactly within After Effects on a specific
piece of footage or final composite. A LUT is also used to simulate how images look when
projected via specific film stocks or digital projectors. LUTs are an important part of streamlining
complex post-production pipelines that span many locations and use a wide variety of software
and hardware.
Export XDCAM EX footage
After Effects can now render in the XDCAM EX format using multiple bit-rates, pixel aspects, and
frame rates. This allows you to roundtrip footage shot on currently popular Sony cameras such as
the PMW-EX3 so that your output is consistent with files being edited directly from source.
frame rates. This allows you to roundtrip footage shot on currently popular Sony cameras such as
the PMW-EX3 so that your output is consistent with files being edited directly from source.
Collaborate easily with colleagues still using After Effects CS5
Choosing when to upgrade to After Effects CS5.5 is simpler with backward compatibility of saved
projects. The new option makes it possible to open a project created in version CS5.5 on a system
that has not yet been upgraded from CS5.
This option allows you to upgrade your studio even if you anticipate working with clients and
freelancers have not yet upgraded. Although After Effects CS5 users do not gain access to the many
great features added in this latest version, effects available only in After Effects CS5.5 show up as
placeholders, the same way that third-party plug-ins are handled when missing. When the project
is reopened in After Effects CS5.5, those settings are restored.
projects. The new option makes it possible to open a project created in version CS5.5 on a system
that has not yet been upgraded from CS5.
This option allows you to upgrade your studio even if you anticipate working with clients and
freelancers have not yet upgraded. Although After Effects CS5 users do not gain access to the many
great features added in this latest version, effects available only in After Effects CS5.5 show up as
placeholders, the same way that third-party plug-ins are handled when missing. When the project
is reopened in After Effects CS5.5, those settings are restored.
Benefit from small changes that make a big difference
Each new release of After Effects includes many enhancements that aid workflow and add
refinements to existing features, and version CS5.5 is no exception.
refinements to existing features, and version CS5.5 is no exception.
• Improved disk caching allows for more efficient rendering. Now enabled by default, with
a 20 GB limit, many more frames are eligible for disk caching. Items are cached speculatively
when the app is idle, so you don’t have to wait for them to be added and purged. Caching
frames at any time creates a more responsive work environment.
when the app is idle, so you don’t have to wait for them to be added and purged. Caching
frames at any time creates a more responsive work environment.
• Search history saves recent searches while allowing you to save favorite search terms with a
shortcut. You can freely delete items from the 10 item list that is saved.
• Drag-selection of layers in the Composition panel improves the workflow. A marquee
selection selects layers in the same way you might select mask vertices, holding Shift to add or
subtract from the existing selection.
subtract from the existing selection.
• Create Orbit Null parents the camera to a new null layer named to match that camera.
• Perform OR searches using commas. Add a comma between entries in a list of search terms,
and After Effects will return any item that contains at least one of those text strings.
• Dual time display in the Timeline panel lets you monitor both the current time display, such as
timecode, and the alternate display, such as frames, as well as the current frame rate.
Expected ship date
Second quarter 2011
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mocha for After Effects CS5.5
(included: English UI only)
(included: English UI only)
This latest version of the powerful
plug-in from Imagineer Systems—
first introduced in After Effects
CS4—features a completely
revamped and streamlined
interface. With mocha for After
Effects you can precisely track
whole planes of motion and apply
the results in an After Effects
composition, greatly increasing
your motion tracking, corner
pinning and rotoscoping options.
first introduced in After Effects
CS4—features a completely
revamped and streamlined
interface. With mocha for After
Effects you can precisely track
whole planes of motion and apply
the results in an After Effects
composition, greatly increasing
your motion tracking, corner
pinning and rotoscoping options.