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Adobe Aer Eects CS5 What’s New
New Refine Matte effect and dozens of other enhancements
In every release, After Effects introduces dozens of refinements to popular features. Experienced
professionals know that while individually these changes may seem subtle, collectively they make
the day-in and day-out experience of working with After Effects smoother and more intuitive.
Among many such features added in After Effects CS5 are:
• e new Rene Mae eect that allows you to take advantage of the intelligent edge tracking,
dechaering, and motion blurring capabilities found in Roto Brush and apply them to any layer
with a problematic alpha channel, such as keyed footage
• New options that allow you to align layers to a composi-
tion’s boundaries, making it easier to precisely center
objects and clean up the layout of your image frame overall
• Enhanced support for Photoshop adjustment layer types,
including Selective Color, Black & White, and Vibrance; you
can also apply these color correction eects to any layer
• A new option for per-character 3D text animation that
allows each character to orient toward the camera around
its own anchor point, further enhancing the illusion of 3D
• A new Type option in the Camera Seings dialog box that allows you to easily specify if the
camera is a one-node or two-node camera, adapting to your preferred approach for aiming and
animating 3D cameras
• e ability to import layered PSD les
which include extruded 3D layers created
with the new Adobe Repoussé feature
inPhotoshop CS5 Extended.
• A new keyboard shortcut to point the
camera to either selected layers or all
layers, along with many other improve-
ments to camera tools and seings
• New options to color-code panel tabs
with the composition, footage item, or
layer’s label color, making it easier to
identify elements at a glance in a
complex project
• Rendered Output Modules can now be
dragged to a folder in the Project panel,
resulting in the import of the output les
into that folder for quick inclusion of
rendered elements
• New keyboard shortcuts and mouse
functionality to quickly move between
viewing the entire timeline and returning
to your previous zoom level
Beer media management with
Adobe Bridge CS5
Whether you are a designer, photog-
rapher, or cross-media creative,
you can now manage your content
more eciently with these new or
enhanced features in Bridge CS5,
included with Aer Eects CS5:
• Flexible batch renaming, including
savable presets of regularly used
seings
• Advanced text and image-based
watermark options when outpuing
PDF documents
• Conversion of any le to JPEG
format for easy sharing of les via
websites and galleries
• Faster navigation between open
folders with an improved Path bar
• Precise adjustment of the size and
quality of images in the Web Gallery
• Support for drag-and-drop actions
between Bridge CS5 and Aer
Eects
• A Publish panel with simple options
to output les to disc and upload
images to popular sharing sites
You may align layers to other layers or the
composition.
Adobe Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended allows advanced
extrusion possibilities including bevels, frames, inations, and
twists. e results may be imported into Aer Eects CS5.