Adobe Upgrade to Adobe® After Effects® Standard 6.5 12040133 User Manual

• Create a more natural edge between a person or object and the background image using the Matte Choker.

• Use Difference Matte, Extract, and the Linear Color Key to create clean, natural-looking composites by setting key 

criteria and then generating a range of transparency values based on how closely each pixel matches the criteria.

• Perform other sophisticated keying tasks using the Simple Choker, Alpha Levels, and Inner/Outer Key.

Advanced visual effects

• Apply advanced warping and distortion effects to stretch, shrink, skew, and twist any layer. Use Mesh Warp,  

Reshape, Bézier Warp, Scatter, and Bulge to warp images.

• Easily rid footage of optical distortions from fish-eye lenses and other sources, or add such distortions  

when desirable.

• Simulate explosions, flocks of birds, swarms of bees, and more using a powerful particle system. Add behaviors  

such as repel and gravity to your animations. Any layer, even text, can be a particle.

• Add grain to make video look more like film, or remove grain to give film the look of video, using the grain  

management tools.

• Simulate animated electrical discharges using the sophisticated controls available with Advanced Lightning.

• Create textures and organic elements. Fractal Noise is perfect for simulating caustics, clouds, lava, flowing water,  

and gas.

• Create a range of effects by displacing pixels on one layer to another using Displacement Map. For example, mirror  

a pattern from one layer on another and make it move around.

• Create glows and halo effects around an object.

• Remove flicker from footage with the Color Stabilizer.

Automated production

• Use scripts to automate management of the Render Queue as well as production tasks including changes to text and 

layers, creation of custom palettes, and more.

• Work seamlessly with render management software to move jobs through the production pipeline more easily.

• Install unlimited copies of the Render Engine. Use them to monitor a Watch Folder on a network in order to  

automatically distribute rendering jobs to available computing resources.