Adobe Upgrade to Adobe® After Effects® Professional 6.5 12070156 User Manual

• Easily add motion to static Adobe Encore menu designs in After Effects, save After Effects compositions  

as layered Photoshop files to use as menus in Adobe Encore, and designate subcompositions as buttons 
(Windows only).

• Turn any Illustrator or Photoshop path into a mask or motion path for use on any layer.

• Choose whether layers in Illustrator and Photoshop files import at their original size or at the same size as 

the composition.

Streamlined user interface

• Learn as you work with Tool Tips, context-sensitive menus, and comprehensive online Help.

• Build on your Adobe expertise: After Effects uses Adobe-standard tools, palettes, menus, and shortcuts.

• Work more intuitively with the mouse wheel to zoom and scroll, adjust the brightness of the After Effects 

interface, and more.

Parenting

• Create parent-child relationships between layers to efficiently apply transformations and other effects to 

multiple layers.

• Animate the scale or position of a parent layer and automatically apply the behavior to its child layers.

Flexible media management

• Share projects and files across Windows and Macintosh platforms.

• Use post-render actions to streamline back-end production tasks, such as creating proxies or replacing  

project footage with output from the Render Queue.

• Mix multiple file resolutions from small thumbnails up to 30,000x30,000-pixel frames.

• Use commands such as Find, Reveal, Reduce Project, and Collect Files to manage files easily.

• View and print a flowchart of a composition or project to see how it’s organized and what footage, layers, 

and effects are used.