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Adobe Aer Eects CS6 What’s New
Fully ray-traced, extruded text and shapes
After Effects CS6 introduces a new ray-traced 3D rendering engine, allowing you to simply and
quickly design fully ray-traced, geometric text and shape layers in 3D space. These enhanced 3D
capabilities include:
• Beveledandextrudedtextandshapelayers,addingdepthtographicdesignswithoutcompro-
mising animations
• Bendingoffootageandcompositionlayers,addingdimensionandyieldingmoreinteresting
lighting eects for otherwise at content
• Environmentmapsupport,forphotorealisticreectionsofvirtualimageryinadditiontothe
layers included in a composition
• Additionalmaterialoptions,includingreection,transparency,andindexofrefractiontomimic
light traveling through glass and other translucent materials
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e ability to create translucent shapes and type is but one option provided by the ray-traced 3D renderer.
The new ray-traced renderer is available as an alternative
to the scanline-based Classic 3D composition renderer
that has been available for several versions. In addition
to the new capabilities mentioned above, existing
capabilities like soft shadows, motion blur, depth-of-field
blur, intra-character shadowing, projection of an image
onto a surface with any light type, and intersection of
layers are also supported in the new ray tracer. 2D layer
backdrops at the bottom of the stacking order are visible,
and you can look through translucent objects to see those
layers. By using a ray tracer to render the scene, the result
is now also more physically accurate, including improved
soft shadows and depth-of-field blur, plus sharper light
transmission for video projection and effects such as light
streaming through a stained glass window.
Accelerating ray-traced renders
AerEectsCS6rendersray-traced
3Dimagesusingyourcomputer’s
CPU,employingallofitsphysi-
calcores.Additionally,itmaytake
advantageofNVIDIAOptiX™for
highlyacceleratedrendering.OptiX
requiresasupportedNVIDIAGPU
and1024+MBoftexturememory.
ForacurrentlistofsupportedGPUs,
visit www.adobe.com/products/
aereects/tech-specs.html.
UsingaqualiedNVIDIAgraphics
cardgreatlyacceleratesrender-
ingofray-traced3Dcompositions.
Basedontestsofanearlypre-
releaseversionofAerEectsCS6
performedbyNVIDIA,theirQuadro®
graphics cards deliver impressive
results.ComparedtoCPU-only
renderingusingahigh-endsix-core
Inteli73960Xprocessorrunning
at3.3GHz,installinganentry-level
NVIDIAQuadro2000improves
performancebyoverafactoroften,
whileatop-of-the-lineMaximus™
systempoweredbyaQuadro6000
andTesla™C2075isover50times
faster.Resultswillvarydependingon
yourspecicprojectsandhardware
conguration,butthesepreliminary
resultsgiveanindicationofthe
benetsofGPUaccelerationofray-
tracedrenderinginAerEectsCS6.
In addition to a new Geometry Options section, the
ray-traced 3D renderer features Material Options for
Reection, Transparency, and Refraction.