Adobe After Effects CS3 (PC)

As a professional in your field, you may need to meet tight deadlines for clients who demand the highest quality productions. Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional helps you reach peak performance and realize your vision with the industry’s leading compositing and animation tools for creating stunning motion graphics and visual effects. With improved performance and tight integration with other Adobe applications, you’ll get there faster, moving quickly and efficiently between After Effects and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Illustrator CS3, and Encore CS3, while getting the best performance from your hardware.

When budgets are tight and clients are on a deadline, Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional offers an intuitive, easy-to-learn interface along with powerful tools to enhance your production values. Tight integration with Adobe’s other professional video applications means you can get great results quickly, and when you need to jump-start projects without sacrificing quality you can use the new Brainstorm feature or customize any of hundreds of timesaving, professionally designed presets and templates.

Work with state-of-art animation tools inside a familiar Adobe interface and enjoy unprecedented integration with Adobe Flash as well as other Adobe applications you already use, including Photoshop and Illustrator. Graphic designers can import Photoshop and Illustrator files with layers, transparency, and blend modes intact to bring still imagery to life. Flash animators can import and output SWF or FLV files with alpha channels and cue points.

Key Features:
Innovative compositing and animation tools - Create high-impact communications by combining moving imagery, still images and graphics, text, and sound in 2D or 3D space and then animating virtually any aspect of each element.

Unmatched Adobe integration - Enjoy a streamlined workflow with support for importing Adobe Photoshop images that include video layers as well as Illustrator graphics that maintain image integrity. Move easily between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 or Encore CS3 without rendering, and share animations easily with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional.

Text and vector graphics creation and animation - Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate these elements to create visually innovative new motion graphics.

Extensive visual effects - Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects such as stylize, distort, shatter, and time remapping. Create grids, radio waves, 3D particles, film grain, fractal noise, and more.

Timesaving tools - Start projects quickly with animation presets and behaviours when creating common animation elements, such as animating text in and out, creating synthetic backgrounds, and more. Use new Brainstorm to quickly experiment and refine designs using parameters you define. Learn fast with Tool Tips and training resources in the box and on the web, and streamline your review process with Clip Notes to create and import comments.

Comprehensive masking and keying tools - Control which portions of a layer are visible by importing, manipulating, and animating masks; flexible auto-tracing options and RotoBezier masks make it easy to get precise results. Key bluescreen and greenscreen mattes with the Academy Award-winning Keylight and a host of supporting tools.

Powerful motion controls - Animate graphics and text using the Puppet tool. Apply motion blur to produce more realistic animations, or use Timewarp to slow down and speed up footage. Precisely match the motion of source footage using Motion Tracker, and get the look of a locked-off shot using Motion Stabilizer.

Enhanced performance - Harness your computer’s processing power with new multi-core and graphics acceleration plus disk caching so you can spend less time waiting and more time creating. Distribute rendering across your entire network to maximize output performance.

Professional results for every media type - Compatibility with an extensive list of output formats lets you produce animated content for virtually any media, from the web and mobile devices to film and broadcast. Plus, After Effects CS3 Professional introduces colour management tools to help make the colour-correction process more predictable and preserve colour fidelity.

High-fidelity colour - Use standard colour management tools with enhancements for film and video workflows.