After Effects CS3 Professional Upgrade

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.

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional

Shape Layers—Easily create and animate vector graphics with new Shape Layers. Add and animate strokes, fills, gradients, and vector effects. You can convert text into shapes and animate them just like any other shape type.

Puppet tool—This new, fast, and intuitive animation tool lets you squash and stretch images or text to bring it to life as an animated character. Use Motion Sketch to record the position and speed of your puppet movements, the Starch tool to stiffen areas of the character, and the Overlap tool to control the depth of elements of your puppet.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended integration—Enjoy a streamlined workflow with support for importing layered Photoshop images that include video layers. Sophisticated Photoshop Layer Styles can be easily modified or animated within After Effects. Import Vanishing Point data from Photoshop into After Effects to build 3D compositions automatically.

Tight integration with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional—Work more efficiently to create and edit Flash animations. Preserve vectors from animations created in After Effects for lean and clean delivery, and create Flash Video more easily. Import SWF files as vectors with alpha channels preserved, and batch render Flash videos with embedded cue points.

Per-character 3D text animation—Explore new text animation possibilities by making individual characters in your text—or an entire phrase—move and rotate in 3D space.

Brainstorm—Jump-start animations with Brainstorm, a new user interface that offers variations on selected design and animation parameters. Choose which properties and effects you want to explore, and Brainstorm will propose animated variations.

Complete color management workflow—Enable color management simply by selecting a Project Working Space. Doing so helps ensure the color accuracy of imported files as they are displayed and rendered and allows you to preview how footage will look on other devices.

Adobe Clip Notes—Streamline the review and approval process. Render your work into an Adobe PDF file that enables anyone with Adobe Reader software to make timecode-accurate comments. When you import the comments into After Effects, they appear as markers on the Timeline.

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.

3D compositions from Vanishing Point—Export Vanishing Point data from Photoshop Extended, and then import into After Effects to automatically build a 3D composition from the 2D Photoshop image.

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

Windows

Intel Pentium 4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, or Intel Core Duo (or compatible) processor

Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)

1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM 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 service.

* 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. For details, visit
www.adobe.com.