Adobe After Effects 5.0 Standard [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005ATC2
• Item model number: 15510518
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,706 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #90 in Software > Video & Music > Digital Video > Compositing & Effects
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

If you watch television at all, you've seen After Effects at work. Of the thousands of software applications in existence, there are a handful that have changed or spawned industries. Adobe's After Effects is one of them, and version 5 boasts some very exciting features that will again change the look of motion graphics.

The big new addition to After Effects 5.0 is "3-D layers." If you've never done any 3-D work, 3-D layers can be a whole new concept. Imagine being able to create all your After Effects layers in a virtual 3-D space, then create and position cameras and lights and fly through the scene. Not only can cameras and lights be animated, but any layer or layer property can be keyframed, and its value changed over time. This opens up exciting new design possibilities that were previously unavailable to the After Effects artist.

Lights support features like soft shadows, and available light types include spot, ambient, parallel, and point. After Effects cameras offer control over angle of view, focal length, and can render with varying degrees of depth of field blur.

If you're an old After Effects user, fear not: the AE you know and love is still here, only much improved. There are numerous interface tweaks and additions you are likely to notice, but the award for Best Improved Feature must go to RAM Preview for its improved cache management. No longer does making a change to one layer require re-rendering the entire preview--AE now renders only the frames that have changed, storing those that haven't. This is an enormous time saver.

Another great enhancement goes to AE's handling of masks. Masks no longer need to be created and edited in a Layer window; you can now create and edit masks on any visible layer right in the Composition window. This becomes an invaluable timesaver when the position of a mask on one layer is dependent on other layers.

After Effects is a powerful and versatile tool, and AE 5 includes some exciting features. If you're an After Effects user, you won't regret upgrading, and if you're thinking of joining the ranks of After Effects artists, this is a great time to start. --Mike Caputo

Amazon.com Product Description

Adobe After Effects 5.0 enables you to create motion graphics and visual effects for professional cross-media delivery. It is a complete tool set for 2-D and 3-D compositing, animation, and effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web, and offers tight integration with Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.

After Effects 5.0 features the Adobe user interface familiar to anyone who uses Photoshop, Illustrator, or Premiere. The tabbed windows, tabbed palettes, common tools, and common keyboard shortcuts make it possible to move among the programs with ease. Other features, such the pen tool, align palette, rulers and guides, editing tools, and free transform mode, also work in After Effects just as they do in other Adobe products.

When you import a layered Photoshop file as a composition, After Effects retains layers and other key Photoshop settings. You can transform layered Photoshop images into animations with ease. Import files as compositions one at a time or in batches: After Effects preserves layers, common layer effects, adjustment layers, alpha channels, transfer modes, vector masks, and more. You can then apply visual effects to color correct, stylize, or manipulate each layer, and to animate these layers over time. Use Photoshop paths as mask or motion points. Move easily between Photoshop and After Effects to complete your work. Similarly convenient integration is possible with Illustrator and Premiere.

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5.0 out of 5 stars If there were 10 Stars, it would deserve even more..., May 25, 2001

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M. Christian "Knight of the Old Republic" (Greenup, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe After Effects 5.0 Standard [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention at the end of April (2001) in Las Vegas, NV, the most impressive software product being demonstrated was AfterEffects 5. Now, I'm an AE-user, and before NAB, I was thinking, "I really haven't driven AE past the surface in version 4.1 Production Bundle, I can't see getting the upgrade." After seeing the demo at Adobe's booth, I gotta say: "Do you take Visa or MasterCard?"

You have to move up several price ranges to buy into a compositing solution that does more than the newest release. The 3-D elements they were showing made my jaw hit the floor. The web sites and magazine reviews just don't give this product the justice it deserves. You need to see someone use it in a real-live application to see the true potential. AE5 will eliminate the barriers to entry for novice 3-D animators like how Adobe's LiveMotion did for people wanting to get into Flash.

This release is incredible. A must-have for the digital artist.

1.0 out of 5 stars This is all hype, the product sucks big time!, August 10, 2011

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Jack The Ripper "Jack The Ripper" (Springfield, Mo) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe After Effects 5.0 Standard [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Here is the REAL skinny on this item. I read the Book. I also read after effects bible. Everything sounded SO GOOD. Afyter effects is supposed to be able to utilize about any format you want. NOT SO.
I made a short Video from my Canon S5 IS, loaded it on my computer. Then tried to UPLOAD it by IMPOPRT, into after effects. ERROR.#1. some other software it needs, NOT FOUND. ERROR #2. Compressor not found. NONE of the user books, or Bible tutorial books on aftereffects ADDRESSED this problem! I write to Adobe. No reply. I write AGAIN. NO REPLY. I call adobe, get a sales pesron, who hypes up the software, makes NO MENTION of any problems, so they are covering it up. I GOOGLE the problem, and everyone else is also having this problem, but no one has any solution. I EMAIL the authors of the After effects Bible, not once, not twice, but THREE times.in each email, I carefully state the problem, and errors. NO REPLY.
If YOU buy this software, and expect it to actually work, you are in for a VERY EXPENSIVE wake up call. MANY others have had this same problem, and there is no solution. I THOUGHT of upgrading to 5.5 off my 5.0, but after reading the customer reviews on THAT, I found out its even MORE problematical. I feel SCREWED over by adobe, because they will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP YOU. They Ignore you, which is even WORSE than getting some foreigner on the phone, who's english is THE WORST EVER,and who still doesn't address the problem OR provide a solution. If after effects actually DID what it says in the user manual, and in the after marklet books, it would be fantastic. But the truth is, I can't get after effects to import a simple short Video off my Canon camera, however, both Sony Vegas Movie studio easily imports the very SAME footage I fail to import into after effects, and I-Clone easily imports that same footage, and Magix movie edit pro also imports the same footage that after effects was unable to import!!!!! So, likie you tell ME what the better software is here? One that works, or one that has huge hype, and won't work at all??? You want MY advice? WRITE adobe, and ask them how to over come this import problem, BEFORE YOU BUY THIS SOFTWARE. Make the give you the answer, because if you hand over your hard earned money to them, you will NEVER get the real help you need to get off square ONE!!!! Better yet, find another software program that is equal to, or better than after effects, and go that route. You buy this, and you will have flushed your money down the toilet, just like I did!!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Wanna make big bucks FAST?!, May 14, 2001

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This review is from: Adobe After Effects 5.0 Standard [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

If you have little or no notion of Special Effects and animations or are a well experienced Designer or Animator, After Effects is THE animation and composing software for you. Get all you want and more with this product that goes well beyond the horizon. After Effects has all the features to make bick bucks and it's price will pay for itself in the first project Garanteeed!!! Get online and BUY IT (unless you're online allready)