After Effects CS3 Professional

Bring your vision to life with blockbuster visual effects and compelling motion graphics. Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional software features comprehensive compositing and tight integration with Adobe’s world-class design applications. Take your inspiration to new heights with innovative new features like Shape Layers, the Puppet tool, Brainstorm, and Clip Notes—all while enjoying an uninterrupted, streamlined workflow. Jump-start projects with hundreds of fully customizable animation presets and templates, or start from scratch and move efficiently between After Effects CS3 and other key applications like Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and Encore CS3, without rendering.

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Top reasons to buy Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional

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 behaviors 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 multicore 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 color management tools to help make the color-correction process more predictable and preserve color fidelity.

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

System requirements
For complete system requirements, including recommended graphics cards and compatibility lists, see www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/systemreqs.

Macintosh

PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor

Mac OS X v.10.4.9

1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM recommended for HDV and HD

500MB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content (additional free space required during installation)

1,280x1,024 monitor resolution with 32-bit color adapter; Adobe recommended graphics card for GPU-accelerated playback

For OpenGL support: Adobe After Effects supported OpenGL card

DVD-ROM drive

QuickTime 7 software required to use QuickTime features

Internet or phone connection required for product activation

Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services

* Online services, including, but not limited to, Adobe Stock Photos and Adobe Acrobat Connect, may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies. Availability of services is subject to change. Use of online services is governed by terms and conditions of a separate agreement and may be subject to additional fees.