AfterEffects

Create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard

Key features

• Optimized and accelerated—Inspiration doesn’t like to wait. Crunch pixels using multiple processors and support for NVIDIA GPUs, including OptiX 3.0 for the ray-traced 3D renderer. As a 64-bit application, After Effects CC uses all the RAM your system allows to cache and render multiple frames simultaneously.
• Global Performance Cache—Create more in less time, even in high-resolution projects. With Global Performance Cache, your previews are saved and ready when you are, even if you close a project and open it later. Duplicate compositions and undo edits without waiting for After Effects to catch up.
• Live 3D Pipeline—Objects and scenes from popular 3D modeling and animation software CINEMA 4D can be used directly as footage inside After Effects CC without rendering first. This eases roundtripping between the programs and opens up numerous creative possibilities.
• Text and shape layers—A powerful typesetting and text animation engine lets you craft titles from classic to manic, in either 2D or ray-traced extruded 3D. Define, draw, and animate vector shapes to create almost anything from a lower-third bar to animated characters.
• Tools to mask, key, and rotoscope—There’s more than one way to cut an alpha channel. That’s why After Effects includes a variety of mask tracking, color keyer, rotoscoping, and edge refining tools. You also get masks with variable-width feathering, and more.
• Hundreds of effects—If you can imagine an effect, After Effects can help you create it. Hundreds of plug-ins let you add blurs, shadows, distortions, particles, colorizations, transitions, and much more. Effect presets help you get the results you’re looking for, fast.
• Warp Stabilizer VFX—A major upgrade to the much-loved Warp Stabilizer, VFX lets you choose which objects in a scene get stabilized, reverse a stabilization, and preserve a scene’s original scale to fix tricky shots, like aerial fly-throughs. And now, it’s 80% faster than before.
• 3D Camera Tracker—The 3D Camera Tracker makes it possible to reproduce the original camera movement in a scene so you can add new layers — including video and text layers. Now, it also offers much-requested Track Optimization and is up to 80% faster analyzing footage.
• Rich developer community—After Effects is a brilliant media creation and processing platform – and you can extend it easily with hundreds of third-party effects and file format plug-ins. Download and install scripts created by fellow users to automate tasks and supercharge your workflow.