Adobe After Effects CS5.5

ATTENTION!!

You cannot install or run After Effects CS5 on any of the following operating systems:

• 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP Home or Professional
• 32-bit editions of Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise
• 32-bit editions of Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate

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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/825/cpsid_82595.html

What is After Effects?
Adobe® After Effects® CS5.5 software is the industry-leading solution for creating sophisticated motion graphics and cinematic visual effects. Transform moving images for delivery to theaters, living rooms, personal computers, and mobile devices.

Animate and composite flexibly in 2D and 3D
Solve visual problems quickly and efficiently using Adobe® After Effects® CS5.5 software by drawing on a comprehensive set of tools designed to help you meet any creative or technical challenge.

Create and animate text and vector graphics
Work with text flexibly and creatively — edit it, add depth to it, animate it, convert it into editable paths to animate the vertices, or export animated text as vector-based SWF files. Use Shape Layers to animate vector graphics easily.

Choose among extensive visual effects
Explore the possibilities with the wide range of visual effects available in After Effects. Use effects to correct color, blur or sharpen images, distort footage, turn flat objects into 3D shapes, and perform many other creative feats.

Fluidly key, mask, rotoscope, and paint composites
Work efficiently with an unlimited number of masks, imported or created in After Effects. Animate masks and their parameters over time. Take advantage of Academy Award–winning Keylight from The Foundry, Roto Brush, and other compositing tools.

Take control of motion and keyframes
Control keyframe values and the timing of motion with precision using tools such as mocha for After Effects CS5.5 planar tracking, the Keyframe Graph Editor, Timewarp, and roving keyframes.

Work with pristine color
Correct and optimize color in your compositions, and produce work that is film and HDTV ready using the broader range of colors available in 16- and 32-bit color modes. Work with HDR color images. Use color management to keep color consistent.

Use creative building blocks
Get a head start on your project using animation presets, shape presets, template compositions, Brainstorm, and other creative timesaving tools that help you realize your vision more quickly.

Automate with scripting
Link individual parameters, effects, and layers within a project using expressions. You can also use the robust scripting support in After Effects to automate repetitive tasks and add custom capabilities to the application.

Work with 32-bit audio
Manage and process your audio without leaving After Effects using advanced audio effects. Control audio levels for each layer separately. Use Adobe Media Encoder to write compressed audio formats.

Gain professional results for every media type
Master modern media. Deliver your completed projects to the widest range of formats, from large-format feature films and high-definition television to websites and mobile devices.

Integrate seamlessly with Adobe Creative Suite
Build projects from 3D models in Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe Premiere® Pro sequences, FLV files, and motion paths created from Adobe Illustrator paths. Using any Adobe Creative Suite® 5.5 component, work easily with colleagues — even those still using After Effects CS5.

Leverage outstanding performance
Work more quickly with 64-bit performance that dramatically improves the experience of creating HD and higher resolution content. Streamlined tools, advanced OpenGL capabilities, intelligent caching, and unified memory management also accelerate your workflow.

Paint and clone with nondestructive vector brushes
Explore creative possibilities with customizable nondestructive vector brushes. Use the advanced Clone tool to remove unwanted distractions or to replicate multiple specific elements. Animate individual paint strokes.

Save time with efficient tools and a customizable interface
Keep your work focused and efficient with project management tools, customizable workspaces, a targetable Layer panel, searchable timelines and projects, and the ability to quickly align layers.


System requirements
- Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II recommended); 64-bit support required
- 64-bit operating system required: Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 or Windows® 7
- 2GB of RAM
- 3GB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
- 1280x1024 display with OpenGL 2.0–compatible graphics card
- DVD-ROM drive
- QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime features