What's new in After Effects

Adobe® After Effects® CS6 software lets you deliver cinematic visual effects and motion graphics faster than ever before with new Global Performance Cache. Extend your creativity with built-in text and shape extrusion, new mask feathering options, and the fast, easy-to-use 3D Camera Tracker.

Work fast:

• Responsive 64-bit performance
• Global Performance Cache
• Avid AAF and FCP 7 XML file import with Pro Import AE
• Multiprocessor and multicore support
• Real-time, high-fidelity OpenGL support
• Coordinated RAM allocation
• Layer and composition proxies

Fluidly key, mask, rotoscope, and paint composites:

• Variable mask feathering
• Roto Brush
• Unlimited masks
• Keylight
• Mask animations
• Imported masks
• RotoBezier masks
• Track mattes
• Combined masks
• Specialized keying effects
• Mask interpolation
• Spill Suppressor
• Color Difference Key
• Matte Choker and Simple Choker
• Inner/Outer Key
• Refine matte effect
• Auto-trace

Animate and composite flexibly in 2D and 3D:

• 3D Camera Tracker
• Ray-traced, extruded text and shapes
• 2D and 3D element combination
• 3D camera data import
• Multiple 3D cameras per composition
• 3D lights and cameras
• Multiple 3D lights with shadows
• Material options for each 3D layer
• Parenting
• Stencil, Silhouette, Preserve Transparency
• Adjustment lights
• Projection layers and colored shadows
• Nested compositions
• Unified Camera tool
• Adjustment layers
• Collapse Transformations
• Timeline editing tools
• 3ds Max and Cinema 4D support

Create and animate text and vector graphics:

• Intuitive text creation and animation
• Shape layers
• Web-ready text animations
• Text conversion to shapes or masks
• Continuous rasterization
• Solid layers
• Shape path operators
• Creative text animation tools

Choose among extensive visual effects:

• New and updated effects
• Color-correction effects
• Camera Lens Blur
• Stereoscopic 3D workflow
• Blur and Sharpen effects
• Distortion effects
• Generation effects
• Stylized effects
• Simulation effects
• 3D channel effects
• Channel effects
• Perspective effects
• Noise and grain management effects
• Time effects
• Text effects
• Utility effects
• Transition effects
• Placeholders for missing effects
• Turbulent Noise

Take control of motion and keyframes:

• Rolling Shutter Repair
• mocha for After Effects CS6
• Warp Stabilizer
• Keyframe Graph Editor
• Timewarp
• Roving keyframes
• Subpixel positioning
• Frame blending modes
• Time displacement
• Motion Sketch and Smoother
• Auto-orientation
• Puppet tool
• Independent x, y, and z keyframe values
• JavaScript-based expressions
• Multiple keyframe interpolation types
• Exponential Scale
• Adaptive motion blur
• Time remapping
• Motion Tracker
• Wiggler

Work with pristine color:

• Flexible 8-, 16-, and 32-bit color modes
• Color Finesse 3 LE
• Color LUT support
• Color management
• Display compensation

Use creative building blocks:

• New and updated effects
• Built-in creative tools
• Animation presets
• Text animation presets

Processor:

• Multicore Intel with 64-bit support

Operating System:

• Mac OS X v.10.6.8 or v.10.7

Hard Disk:

• 4 GB of available space
• Additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• Additional disk space for disk cache (10 GB Recommended)

Memory:

• 4 GB of RAM (8 GB Recommended)

Optical Drive:

• DVD-ROM

Others:

• 1280x900 display
• OpenGL 2.0-capable system
• QuickTime 7.6.6 software required for QuickTime features
• Optional: Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer

Note:

• This software will not operate without activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services. Phone activation is not available.

The following NVIDIA GPUs are supported in After Effects CS6:

• GeForce GTX 285
• Quadro CX
• Quadro FX 4800
• Quadro 4000