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Adobe After Effects CS6 software lets you deliver cinematic visual effects and motion graphics faster than ever before with new Global Performance Cache. Extend your creativity with built-in text and shape extrusion, new mask feathering options, and the fast, easy-to-use 3D Camera Tracker.

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Work fast

Work more quickly using Adobe® After Effects® CS6 software, optimized to help you create more in less time. Take full advantage of your computer’s hardware with Global Performance Cache, preserving previews whenever possible for a fast, robust, and responsive workflow.

Responsive 64-bit performance
Work effectively on high-resolution projects — even at 32-bit-per-channel color in HD, 2K, and 4K compositions. See longer previews using all system RAM. Spend less time waiting and more time creating with smart disk caching.

Global Performance Cache
Create more in less time, even in high-resolution projects. This revolution "under the hood" makes After Effects fast and responsive by taking full advantage of your computer’s hardware.

Avid AAF and FCP 7 XML file import with Pro Import AE
Import and work with files created in Apple Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier versions, as well as Avid Media Composer and Symphony, letting you integrate After Effects with professional production workflows.

Multiprocessor and multicore support
Render and preview faster by taking advantage of your computer's power. After Effects uses multiple processor cores to calculate complex effects and to render multiple frames simultaneously.

Real-time, high-fidelity OpenGL support
Work with speed and precision using OpenGL, which enhances the display of blending modes, motion blur, anti-aliasing, track mattes, high-quality shadows, and transparency and accelerates the rendering of common effects.

Coordinated RAM allocation
Coordinate RAM usage across multiple Adobe Creative Suite® Production Premium components with unified memory management. Make the most of your system resources without learning complex memory management settings.

Layer and composition proxies
Prerender time-consuming compositions and assign them as proxies without changing the structure of your project. Temporarily replace large source comps with lower resolution versions to speed up work.

Fluidly key, mask, rotoscope, and paint composites

Work efficiently with an unlimited number of masks, imported or created in After Effects. Animate masks and their parameters over time. Take advantage of Academy Award–winning Keylight from The Foundry, Roto Brush, and other compositing tools.
Variable mask feathering
Create a separate set of splines to precisely control mask feathering. Get the exact shape you want with the proper degree of softness at any point along the mask edge, resulting in a big boost to creative flexibility.

Roto Brush
Isolate foreground elements from backgrounds in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take using this revolutionary tool.

Unlimited masks
Control which parts of a 2D or 3D layer are visible by adding and animating a virtually unlimited number of masks on any layer. Individually control their feather and transparency.

Keylight
Use Academy Award–winning Keylight from The Foundry to create mattes of green screen and blue screen footage, even for difficult situations such as reflections, semitransparency, and hair.

Mask animations
Animate the shape of masks over time as well as their parameters, such as feather and opacity.

Imported masks
Copy paths in Adobe Photoshop® and Illustrator® software and paste them as masks in After Effects. Use the Shape effect to import masks tracked in mocha for After Effects CS6* from Imagineer Systems Ltd.

RotoBezier masks
Create RotoBezier masks from scratch or convert them from Bezier masks.

Track mattes
Use any layer's pixel data (alpha channel or luminance) to determine the visibility of an adjacent layer.

Combined masks
Combine masks using Add, Subtract, Intersect, and Difference modes.

Specialized keying effects
Employ Difference, Color Range, Color Key, Linear Color Key, Extract, and Luma Key effects as needed for a specific job.

Mask interpolation
Control mask transitions when mask points don't transition properly to replicate natural motion.

Spill Suppressor
Remove unwanted color spill from any footage quickly and easily.

Color Difference Key
Replicate the method used to key color footage on many landmark films with the Color Difference Key.

Matte Choker and Simple Choker
Spread or choke the selection area of any alpha channel with a subpixel level of control.

Inner/Outer Key
Derive a key from border pixels that you select by creating a rough mask around the edges of an object.

Refine matte effect
Apply intelligent edge tracking, dechattering, and motion blurring capabilities to any layer with a problematic alpha channel, such as keyed footage.

Auto-trace
Produce animated vector masks automatically from any layer's pixel data, including alpha channels.

Animate and composite flexibly in 2D and 3D

Solve visual problems quickly and efficiently by drawing on a comprehensive set of tools designed to help you meet any creative or technical challenge. Place and track 3D elements on 2D footage with the new 3D Camera Tracker, and extend your creativity with built-in ray-traced text and shape extrusion.

3D Camera Tracker
Track 3D elements with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections. Automatically analyze and place 3D track points onto 2D footage in the background while you work.

Ray-traced, extruded text and shapes
Extrude fully ray-traced text and shapes natively and take full advantage of reflections, environment maps, and more.

2D and 3D element combination
Work in 2D or 3D, or freely combine 2D and 3D elements in the same composition without having to change modes or redo your work. Default cameras and lights let you add dimension to a layer with no additional setup.

3D camera data import
Import 3D camera and other 3D data from any 3D tracking software that can export Autodesk Maya ASCII (MA) files. Extract camera information from an RLA/RPF sequence. Export After Effects camera data via third-party scripts.

Multiple 3D cameras per composition
Cut between multiple cameras in the same composition. Define unique cameras by angle of view, lens length, image area size, aperture, depth-of-field blur, and a host of other keyframable parameters.

3D lights and cameras
Work in 3D space using tools including Camera Lens Blur; light falloff; 3D camera data input; multiple 3D cameras per composition; and the ability to keyframe x, y, and z values separately.

Multiple 3D lights with shadows
Add multiple lights to a scene and animate them. Choose from different light types, set their color, and define their shadow darkness and diffusion individually.

Material options for each 3D layer
Define how each 3D layer in a scene responds to lights, including control over size and intensity of the specular highlight.

Parenting
Work with parent and child layers. A child layer inherits all transformations applied to the parent, including anchor point, while maintaining its own local animation.

Stencil, Silhouette, Preserve Transparency
Define individual layers to cut out all the layers below. Or have layers above honor the transparency of layers underneath.

Adjustment lights
Set a 3D light to illuminate a subset of layers in a composition.

Projection layers and colored shadows
Project light through a layer to create colored shadows, stained-glass effects, and the look of projected slides.

Nested compositions
Use a complex composition as a single-layer source. Feed multiple compositions into one, or use a single source comp multiple times, so that upstream changes ripple throughout a project. Easily navigate through nested comps.

Unified Camera tool
Take advantage of three-button mice for more intuitive, immediate 3D control with the Unified Camera tool. Keyboard shortcuts make it easy to look at all or selected layers.

Adjustment layers
Create adjustment layers, similar to those in Photoshop, to apply effects to any layers that appear below them.

Collapse Transformations
Combine the transform properties of nested compositions with higher level comps to reduce the number of times the pixels of a layer are processed, preserving their fidelity.

Timeline editing tools
Easily add and extract content from the timeline in your compositions using basic editing tools, such as Overlay and Ripple Insert Edit; Lift, Extract, and Trim Comp to Work Area.

3ds Max and Cinema 4D support
Get bidirectional support for the transfer of cameras, lights, null objects, plane objects and solids, footage, blend modes, opacity, and effects. Iterate more effectively and reduce rework.

Create and animate text and vector graphics

Work with text flexibly and creatively — edit, add depth to, animate, and convert your text into editable paths to animate the vertices, or export animated text as vector-based SWF files. Import Illustrator vector art as shape layers to easily animate them in 2D or extrude in 3D.

Intuitive text creation and animation
Type, edit, and customize characters, words, and paragraphs. Animate text along a path, randomize or wiggle text, and more in 2D or 3D space. Add depth to your text by casting shadows and moving, rotating, or blurring.

Shape layers
Create and animate vector graphics easily with shape layers. Add properties such as stroke, stroke type, fill, and gradients to shapes and animate those properties.

Web-ready text animations
Export animated text as vector-based SWF files to create innovative, web-friendly animations.

Text conversion to shapes or masks
Convert text into editable paths — either as shape layers or masks on solids — so you can animate the individual vertices of each character.

Continuous rasterization
Maintain sharpness at any scale by setting Illustrator artwork, text, shapes, solid layers, and vector components of PDF and SWF files to be continuously rasterized.

Solid layers
Create simple solid shapes that can have effects applied and that can be masked and animated.

Shape path operators
Modify and animate hand-drawn or parametric shapes by applying shape effects, including Merge Paths, Offset Paths, Pucker & Bloat, Repeater, Round Corners, Trim Paths, Twist, Wiggle Paths, Wiggle Transform, and Zig Zag.

Creative text animation tools
Typeset text professionally and then set it in motion. Use more than 250 professional 2D and 3D text animation presets, or create custom text animations from scratch.

Choose among extensive visual effects

Explore the possibilities with the wide range of visual effects available in After Effects. Use effects to correct color, blur or sharpen images, distort footage, turn flat objects into 3D shapes, and perform many other creative feats.

New and updated effects
Enhance your creativity with 90 new and updated built-in effects, including the complete 16- and 32-bit CycoreFX HD suite.

Color-correction effects
Edit color with a wide variety of effects, including Color Finesse 3 LE to create LUTs, Photoshop based color-correction and tinting tools, access to broadcast colors and gamma/pedestal/gain, and tools to isolate/change hues.

Camera Lens Blur
Create soft-focus effects with Camera Lens Blur. Set iris shape, blade curvature, and diffraction fringe characteristics for beautiful bokeh. Use these settings for depth-of-field control with the After Effects 3D camera.

Stereoscopic 3D workflow
Animate and composite stereoscopic projects easily. Quickly set up stereo camera rigs. Save time with simplified rendering of multiple cameras, and work with an updated 3D Glasses effect.

Blur and Sharpen effects
Create blur effects customized to the needs of the shot, including compound and edge-preserving "smart" blurs, as well as standard sharpening effects.

Distortion effects
Warp and distort footage with effects like Liquify, Bezier Warp, Wave Warp, Corner Pin, Reshape, and Displacement Map and with the unique Puppet tool. Simulate real camera lens distortion.

Generation effects
Generate imagery ranging from simple fills and gradients to realistic lightning bolts and electricity, as well as lens flares, strokes, grids, circles, scribbled lines, and animated graphics based on audio.

Stylized effects
Enhance existing imagery, ranging from subtle textures and hot-looking glows to stylized edges, brush strokes, and other effects. A dedicated Cartoon effect gives live footage the look of cel animation quickly and easily.

Simulation effects
Use advanced plug-ins to generate realistic wave reflection and caustic effects as well as to break up 2D layers into 3D pieces, which can then be exploded or further manipulated.

3D channel effects
Perform 3D post-processing of RLA and RPF files, extracting Object and ID Matte channels and normals and adding Depth Matte, Depth of Field, and Fog 3D effects.

Channel effects
Manipulate the individual color and alpha channel information of your images, including borrowing channels from other layers and performing advanced operations to combine channels or create grayscale images.

Perspective effects
Add shadows, bevel the outline of a layer, and even create a single 3D image by combining a left and right 3D view.

Noise and grain management effects
Match camera grain perfectly, automatically, and with full manual control, or remove it from footage entirely. Add or eliminate dust and scratches.

Time effects
Process footage based on other layers or adjacent frames using Time Difference, Displacement, and Echo effects. Timewarp offers extra control over the built-in Pixel Motion for precise retiming of footage.

Text effects
Generate numbers and timecode with text effects that supplement the powerful text engine already built into After Effects.

Utility effects
Customize Cineon log color conversion, alter assigned color profiles, manage HDR images to prevent clipping, and artificially grow images beyond their normal boundaries.

Transition effects
Use classic video-style transitions without the need to re-create them step by step.

Placeholders for missing effects
Preserve information about the settings used by each missing effect.

Turbulent Noise
Create natural phenomena such as clouds, lava, glowing water, and gas using the fast and efficient Turbulent Noise effect. Create looping animations of similar elements using the Fractal Noise effect.

Take control of motion and keyframes

 

Control keyframe values and the timing of motion with precision using tools such as planar tracking in mocha for After Effects CS6 from Imagineer Systems Ltd., the Keyframe Graph Editor, Timewarp, and roving keyframes.

Rolling Shutter Repair
Remove rolling shutter artifacts such as skew and wobble without forcing stabilization.

mocha for After Effects CS6
Launch mocha for After Effects CS6 directly within After Effects CS6*.

Warp Stabilizer
Smooth handheld footage, or lock a shot automatically. Warp Stabilizer removes jitter and compensates for motion-related irregularities.

Keyframe Graph Editor
Gain precise graphical control over keyframe values, interpolation speed, and how properties and keyframes relate to each other over time.

Timewarp
Slow down and speed up footage with smooth, crisp results and minimal artifacts. Timewarp analyzes pixel motion to create more accurate in-between frames with user-adjustable parameters.

Roving keyframes
Separate the Position path from the time it takes to move from one point to another.

Subpixel positioning
Enable the position of each object to be calculated to finer than 1/65,536th of a pixel for extremely smooth motion.

Frame blending modes
Choose between traditional Frame Mix and intelligent Pixel Motion modes to create new intermediate frames in speed-shifted footage.

Time displacement
Use the luminance of one layer to control the timing of individual pixels in another layer.

Motion Sketch and Smoother
Quickly draw an animation path for any layer and set its velocity with Motion Sketch; then fine-tune the shape and speed of the path with the Smoother. Integrates with the Puppet tool to create natural animation.

Auto-orientation
Specify an auto-orientation option for each layer. Layers and cameras can easily auto-orient along 2D or 3D motion paths. 3D layers can also auto-orient toward the camera.

Puppet tool
Use the Puppet tool to animate text or images naturally with organic, pin-based deformations.

Independent x, y, and z keyframe values
Separate bundled x, y, and z value keyframes into their own curves that can be edited individually. Also recombine these streams back into standard bundled keyframes.

JavaScript-based expressions
Link the behavior of a property to that of another to easily create dynamic relationships, using the convenient pick whip or mathematical expressions. Simulate physical behavior realistically with minimal need for keyframes.

Multiple keyframe interpolation types
Animate motion or properties quickly and easily for smooth and elegant eases; linear paths; or sudden, stepped motion. Edit velocity and ease interactively in the Graph Editor or numerically.

Exponential Scale
Create natural-looking zoom effects by scaling exponentially instead of linearly.

Adaptive motion blur
Adjust motion blur on a layer-by-layer basis to produce more realistic animations. You control how the motion blur is calculated to customize its look and enhance its smoothness.

Time remapping
Keyframe time itself — produce effects such as variable slow motion, freeze frames, and backward playback.

Motion Tracker
Track or stabilize with as many individual points as you like, or use standard one-, two-, and four-point settings to track x and y value, rotation, and scale and to create corner pins.

Wiggler
Introduce organic randomness to static or smooth animated properties. Apply smooth or jagged changes to color, motion, and most any property with keyframes.

Work with pristine color

Correct and optimize color in your compositions, and produce work that is film and HDTV ready using the broadest range of colors available in 16- and 32-bit color modes. Work with HDR color images. Use color management to keep color consistent.
 

Flexible 8-, 16-, and 32-bit color modes
Start a composition in 8-bit color mode, and then finalize and output it to 16-bit or 32-bit color for optimal quality for film and HDTV.

Color Finesse 3 LE
Perform digital intermediate work in a full-featured color-correction environment with high-end telecine-style correction tools, using Color Finesse 3 LE from Synthetic Aperture*.

Color LUT support
Get consistent color using industry-standard 3DL and CUBE lookup tables. Create your own color LUT files as exports from Color Finesse. The Apply Color LUT effect supports .Look files from Adobe SpeedGrade™ CS6 software.

Color management
Specify a color intent with an ICC profile. Any profile can be linearized or allow color blending with a 1.0 gamma. Recognize ICC profiles assigned by applications such as Photoshop on import, and apply them on output.

Display compensation
Simulate formats that cannot be previewed in real time, such as film projection, as well as those that can be, such as broadcast and HDTV monitors, directly in the Composition viewer.

 

Use creative building blocks

Get a head start on your project using animation presets, shape presets, template compositions, Brainstorm, and other creative timesaving tools that help you realize your vision more quickly.

New and updated effects
Enhance your creativity with 90 new and updated built-in effects, including the complete 16- and 32-bit CycoreFX HD suite.

Built-in creative tools
Produce cool animations from scratch right in After Effects by creating layers, adding masks, and applying effects.

Animation presets
Jump-start projects quickly with hundreds of fully customizable animation presets for transitions, color treatments, picture-in-picture effects, backgrounds, and numerous other animations.

Text animation presets
Use Adobe Bridge to quickly preview and apply more than 250 professionally designed, fully editable text animation presets, or create and save your own.

Shape presets
Browse and apply Shape Layer sprites and animations. Download hundreds more on Adobe Exchange, a central resource for finding third-party tools, services, and innovations that extend your Adobe products.

Automated animation
Take advantage of special behavioral presets to create animations without keyframes — just set a few parameters and preview results, simple or complex.

Timesaving presets and learning tools
Jump-start text animation, synthetic background creation, and more with animation presets. Learn fast with help, tool tips, and training resources on the web.

 

Automate with expressions and scripting

Link individual parameters, effects, and layers within a project using expressions. Use robust scripting support in After Effects to automate repetitive tasks and add custom capabilities to the application.

Expressions and scripting
Use expressions to link individual parameters, effects, and layers in a variety of ways — even across compositions. Also add custom capabilities to After Effects and automate repetitive tasks with robust scripting support.

Menu of preset commands
Reduce keystrokes and eliminate the need to memorize code with an extensive library of functions and commands available in a convenient contextual menu.

Script Debug menu
Isolate specific functions and statements in complex scripts by interactively managing breakpoints.

Integrated scripting palettes
Access all scripts in the Scripts menu instantly. Includes a JavaScript Console and Call Stack, Breakpoints, and Data Browser palettes.

Text-editing palettes
Organize and edit scripts using numbered lines, user-defined text formatting, and colored text.

Script profiling
Profile individual functions or lines within scripts for individual timing and hit count information to understand how and when individual parts of the script are called.

XML project file format
Export a project to an XML file, making it easier to write external scripts that modify the project file.

Work interactively with audio

Manage and process your audio without leaving After Effects by controlling  audio levels for each layer separately. Use Adobe Audition® software for more advanced audio editing. Output to Adobe Media Encoder to write compressed audio formats.

Support for multiple audio formats
Write compressed audio formats such as AAC and MP3 for Adobe Flash® Professional software and H.264 video using Adobe Media Encoder. After Effects reads and writes multiple audio formats at multiple sample rates and bit depths (up to 32 bit).

Audio-driven motion graphics elements
Generate customizable visuals based on audio elements that animate dynamically along a frequency spectrum or that behave like an audio waveform.

Automatic sample rate conversion
Resample audio automatically using sampling rates from 8kHz to 96kHz.

Audio-to-keyframe conversion
Convert audio in a composition into a stream of keyframes that can be used directly or by expressions.

Advanced audio effects
Manage an audio mix in After Effects. Equalize, echo, reverberate, modulate, and process audio with 32-bit effects. Generate audio procedurally with a Tone generator, and then link to animations with the expressions pick whip.

Audio controls per layer

Control the audio levels of any layer. Manage balance, mix, and fades with built-in Levels and a Stereo Mixer effect.

Gain professional results for every media type

Master modern media. Deliver your completed projects to the widest range of formats, from large-format feature films and high-definition television to websites and mobile devices.

Avid AAF and FCP 7 XML file import with Pro Import AE
Import and work with files created in Apple Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier versions, as well as Avid Media Composer and

Symphony, letting you integrate After Effects with professional production workflows.
Raw digital cinema workflow
Use high-definition source formats instantly. RED Rocket card and RMD metadata dramatically improve the performance and look of RED footage. Import footage in the open CinemaDNG format.

AVC-Intra support
Work natively with tapeless footage from Panasonic cameras thanks to AVC-Intra 50 and AVC-Intra 100 support.

Native RED EPIC camera support
Edit up to 5K footage shot from RED EPIC® cameras without transcoding or rewrapping.

XDCAM HD export
Render in the XDCAM HD format using multiple bitrates, pixel aspect ratios, and frame rates. Roundtrip footage shot on popular Sony cameras so that your output is consistent with files being edited directly from source.

Network rendering
Install render-only versions of After Effects on multiple computers and harness them to render frames in large projects using a centralized Watch folder.

Batch rendering
Queue multiple compositions inside a single project to render in sequence without user intervention. Have one render create a proxy or source to be used by a later composition.

Extensive support for standard formats
Import and output files in QuickTime, FLV, SWF, AVI, MPEG-2, Windows Media (Windows® only), CinemaDNG, PSD, Camera Raw, OpenEXR, ProEXR, Cineon, SGI, TIFF, and others. Import files in Panasonic P2, Sony XDCAM HD, and RED.

Easy delivery of multiple formats
Assign multiple output modules, each using a different size and output format, to a single item in the Render Queue.

Adobe Media Encoder
Deliver virtually any format, including DPX, FLV, H.264, MPEG-2, QT, WM, and more, with Adobe Media Encoder. Batch encode multiple versions of source files and sequences, and control each item individually.

Flexible render settings
Specify resolution, frame rate, scale, and bit depth. Add interlacing; pull-down; individual layer switches; and RGB, alpha, or both (plus audio). Assign multiple output modules with different specs to one Render Queue item.

Batch rendering of web-optimized files
Create multiple FLV files with minimal effort by using the After Effects Render Queue. Manage renders for multiple compositions and export formats, including FLV and F4V files.
 

Integrate seamlessly with Adobe Creative Suite

Work easily with colleagues using other Adobe Creative Suite 6 components — even those still using After Effects CS5.5. Build upon projects started in Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe Premiere® Pro,  Flash Professional, and Illustrator.

Integration with Adobe Illustrator
Instantly convert Illustrator vector art (AI and EPS format) into shape layers. Easily animate vector art in 2D or extrude to 3D.

3D and video support in Photoshop Extended
Create, import, and paint on 3D models in Adobe Photoshop Extended software, export as a layered PSD file, and animate the After Effects 3D camera. Export Vanishing Point 3D planes from Photoshop and animate in 3D with cameras and lights.

Photoshop HDR image and text support
Save 32-bit HDR and 16-bit color values in PSD files. Text remains editable, and layers, layer effects, blending modes, masks, and transparency are preserved when PSD files are imported as compositions.

Integration with Adobe Premiere Pro
Import Adobe Premiere Pro sequences with edits, markers, keyframed effects, transitions, and more. Share effects between applications via drag and drop or copy/paste. Export compositions to Adobe Premiere Pro.

Drag-and-drop encoding to Adobe Media Encoder
Drag and drop compositions from After Effects directly into Adobe Media Encoder to encode immediately, and continue working in After Effects while rendering.

Integration with Adobe Flash Professional
Export After Effects compositions and vector graphics as layered XFL format rich media projects for Flash Professional. Import and encode FLV files, batch rendering with embedded cue points.

Photoshop layer support
Import layer effects available in PSD files as a separate layer property. This yields greatly enhanced shadows, bevels, shading, and other treatments, which can also be animated.

Integration with Adobe Encore
Create DVD motion menus and buttons. Export movies with markers that Adobe Encore® software reads as chapters. See After Effects edits in Encore without rendering with Adobe Dynamic Link in Production Premium.

Adobe Bridge
Organize, preview, and employ your assets using Adobe Bridge, a centralized media management utility included with After Effects.

Familiar Adobe look and feel
Leverage your knowledge of other Adobe products. After Effects uses standard Adobe tools, palettes, menus, and keyboard shortcuts, so you can get up to speed quickly.

Online LiveDocs
Use web search tools to find answers on Adobe's website or on the web. Help files for all Adobe products are available online, are constantly updated by Adobe and a global community of users, and can be read offline.

Broad format support
Use the latest digital camera formats and share media with Adobe Premiere Pro, thanks to native support for tapeless formats in After Effects. Convert film, video, and web content to the correct format for your project.

Markers and cue point export
Export composition or layer markers as cue points in FLV files. Easily convert keyframe values into markers, allowing you to use motion tracking data and other After Effects keyframe values in Flash Professional.

Save As After Effects CS5.5
Work easily on projects with colleagues still using After Effects CS5.5: Save projects in After Effects CS5.5 format to take advantage of new features and performance improvements without the need for colleagues to upgrade.

 

Paint and clone with nondestructive vector brushes

Explore creative possibilities with customizable nondestructive vector brushes. Use the advanced Clone tool to remove unwanted distractions or to replicate multiple specific elements. Animate individual paint strokes.

Customizable brushes
Define brushes to control size, spacing, and angle, and save them for ongoing use.

Wacom tablet support
Use Wacom tablets for more precise control when painting in After Effects.

Advanced Clone tool
Remove unwanted distractions like dust and scratches or replicate elements for a desired effect, such as filling a stadium with people. The Clone tool offers multiple presets and onion skinning of the source frame.

Animated paint strokes
Animate individual paint strokes over time to change their size, position, or shape and to create write-on and write-off effects.

Eraser tool
Control whether the Eraser tool removes paint strokes only, the last stroke only, or paint strokes plus the underlying background footage.

 

Save time with efficient tools and a customizable interface

 

Keep your work focused and efficient with project management tools, customizable workspaces, a targetable Layer panel, searchable timelines and projects, and the ability to quickly align layers.

Source timecode support
Take the guesswork out of source footage edits. See timecode data in QuickTime, AVI, Broadcast WAV (BWF), DPX, and some variations of MXF, and use the Timecode effect to display both source timecode and composition frames.

Auto-Keyframe mode
Animate quickly by setting starting keyframes automatically.

Quick arrangement of multiple layers
Use convenient tools to quickly align layers with each other or with the overall composition.

User-modifiable interface
Easily rearrange workspace panels and customize user interface brightness to suit the task at hand and your work environment. Tinted panel tabs make it easy to track project elements.

Targetable Layer panel
View individual sources in context or on their own with View and Render switches, which allow you to see a layer before or after masks or at any point in the effect chain.

Project management tools
Resolve duplicate sources, delete unused sources, and collect your project and sources into a new folder for easy backup, handoff, or transport using simple menu commands.

Resources to get you up to speed
Take advantage of convenient, searchable tool tips, context-sensitive menus, the Adobe.com website, the Community Help Client, numerous third-party books and training videos, and an active user community.

Grids, guides, and safe areas
Place layers precisely with grid patterns, safe areas, and guides you can position by hand.Title/action safe areas have programmable safe zone margins; widescreen compositions display 4:3 center cut safe areas.

Multiple views
Create multiple views for the same composition to see how layers interact in space, and manipulate them with confidence. Lock views so you can edit a nested composition while seeing the results downstream.

Guide layers
Specify layers that are visible only in a local composition without being rendered. Perfect for scratch audio tracks, guide overlays, temporary graphics, and more.

Interpretation rules
Define a set of rules that allows specific media types to be given predetermined default frame rates, aspect ratios, alpha channel types, and color profiles.

 

Easy search and navigation
Use QuickSearch to instantly locate any element or all used or missing footage in a comp or project. Navigate quickly between nested comps using the Composition Navigator and Mini-Flowchart.

XMP metadata
Add project-, comp-, and layer-level metadata to streamline project tracking, and automate asset auditing plus many other tasks that were previously handled manually.

 

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