Adobe After Effects CS6, Upgrade, Win, EN 65174350 User Manual

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65174350
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Adobe After Effects CS6 
What’s New
Top features
• Global Performance Cache (Page 3)
• 3D Camera Tracker (Page 5)
• Fully ray-traced, extruded text and
shapes (Page 6)
• Variable Mask Feathering (Page 7)
• Tight integration with Adobe
Illustrator (Page 7)
• Rolling Shutter Repair (Page 8)
• Enhanced effects (Page 8)
• Pro Import After Effects (Page 9)
• Improved mocha AE workflow 
(Page 10)
• Additional enhancements (Page 10)
With Adobe After Effects CS6, you can:
Work faster. Work more quickly using Adobe After Effects CS6 software, optimized to help you 
create more in less time. Maximize performance with Global Performance Cache, which preserves 
previews whenever possible for a fast, robust, and responsive workflow, taking full advantage of 
the power of your computer’s hardware.
Create visual effects with enhanced precision and new creative options. Challenge creative 
boundaries. Use the 3D Camera Tracker and Rolling Shutter Repair features to seamlessly integrate 
new elements into your existing video footage. Work precisely with variable mask feathering and 
mocha AE CS6 to make your visual effects look exactly the way you intend.
Work quickly and easily with ray-traced 3D. Create high-quality imagery faster using a powerful 
new 3D engine. Easily extrude text and shapes created in After Effects or vector graphics imported 
from Adobe Illustrator® software.
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 and components  
of Production Premium—Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop software, the video editing software 
Adobe Premiere Pro, and 3D modeling applications such as Maxon CINEMA 4D and Autodesk 3ds 
Max. A rich ecosystem of third-party plug-ins and scripts 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 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, 
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 creating finished full-frame video content or objects with transparent backgrounds that 
can be composited with other elements, designing snippets of persistent motion that add richness 
to an interactive experience, or creating visually distinctive text animations, interactive designers 
benefit from the superb quality of After Effects as well as the tight integration between After Effects 
and Adobe Flash Professional software.