Adobe After Effects CS3 is a spectacular compositing tool that combines moving imagery and still imagery with sound in 2D and 3D space and animating them in your own artistic way. This program integrates smoothly with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore and Adobe Flash. You can create extensive visual effects such as stylize, distort, and shatter. Create grids, radio waves, 3D particles, film grain, fractal noise, and more. One of the cool features this program integrates is its award winning Bluescreen and Greenscreen mattes which allow you to take motion graphics manipulate them in amazing supernatural ways. This is the program to have for people who take their multimedia seriously.

Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional software features comprehensive compositing, sophisticated effects, 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 Adobe Clip Notes — all while enjoying an uninterrupted, streamlined workflow. Jump-start projects with hundreds of customizable animation presets and templates, or start from scratch and move efficiently between After Effects and other key applications like Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3 and Adobe Encore® CS3.

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 Adobe Illustrator graphics that maintain image integrity. Move easily between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 or Encore CS3 software, and share animations easily with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software.

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, and shatter. 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 Adobe 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

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
• 3GB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content (additional free space required during installation)
• 1024x768 monitor resolution with 32-bit video card; Adobe recommended graphics card for GPU-accelerated playback
• For OpenGL support: Adobe After Effects supported OpenGL 2.0 card (NVIDIA recommended)
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.1.5 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
• For recommended graphics cards and compatibility lists, see the OpenGL page.

Macintosh

• PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
• Mac OS X v.10.4.9
• 1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD
• 3GB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content (additional free space required during installation)
• 1024x768 monitor resolution with 32-bit video card; Adobe recommended graphics card for GPU-accelerated playback
• For OpenGL support: Adobe After Effects supported OpenGL 2.0 card (NVIDIA recommended)
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.1.5 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
• For recommended graphics cards and compatibility lists, see the OpenGL page.