Amazon.com: Adobe After Effects Professional 6.5 Upgrade [Old Version]: Software

From the Manufacturer
Adobe After Effects 6.5 software continues to set new standards in motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, DVD, and the Web. Offering unmatched integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore DVD, Adobe Audition, Photoshop CS, and Illustrator CS software, After Effects gives you the speed, precision, and power to be visually innovative as you meet production challenges and deliver quality results. After Effects 6.5 Professional includes all of the features in After Effects Standard plus motion tracking and stabilization, advanced keying and warping tools, more than 30 additional visual effects, a particle system, scripting, network rendering, 16-bit-per-channel color, additional audio effects, and more.

Features:

Gain new control with After Effects Professional

Powerful motion controls

Powerful motion tracker: zero in on any element in Adobe After Effects Professional with the fast, accurate motion tracker, which lets you use as many points as you like or standard one-, two-, and four-point settings; track change in scale or just horizontal or vertical movement; and edit the motion path.
Motion stabilizer: track a single element on a layer to stabilize unwanted motion using the motion stabilizer, which is perfect for correcting handheld video shots.
Smart-mask interpolation keyframe assistant: create a precise morph from one complex mask shape to another using the smart-mask interpolation keyframe assistant.
Wiggler: apply smooth or jagged changes to color, motion, or other effects over time with the wiggler.
Exponential scale tool: create natural-looking zoom effects by making linear changes of scale exponential with the exponential scale tool.

Additional keying and matte tools

Keylight: Create Academy Award-quality mattes using the keylight keyer. Built-in spill suppression, secondary mattes, and other tools make fine-tuning results easy.
Color difference key: use the color difference key for superior control over hard-to-key images, such as those with windows, glasses of water, hair, and transparent regions containing smoke.
Spill suppressor: use the spill suppressor to eliminate blue- or green-screen reflections on the elements.
Matte choker: create a more natural edge between a person or object and the background image using the matte choker.
Difference matte, extract, and linear color key: use difference matte, extract, and the linear color key to create clean, natural-looking composites by setting key criteria and then generating a range of transparency values based on how closely each pixel matches the criteria.
Additional keying tools: perform other sophisticated keying tasks using the simple choker, alpha levels, and inner/outer key.

Advanced visual effects

Comprehensive warping and distortion effects: Apply advanced warping and distortion effects to stretch, shrink, skew, and twist any layer. Use mesh warp, reshape, bezier warp, scatter, and bulge to warp images.
Optics compensation: easily rid footage of optical distortions from fish-eye lenses and other sources, or add such distortions when desirable.
Advanced particle system: Simulate explosions, flocks of birds, swarms of bees, and more using a powerful particle system. Add behaviors such as repel and gravity to your animations. Any layer, even text, can be a particle.
Grain management: add grain to make video look more like film, or remove grain to give film the look of video, using the grain management tools.
Advanced lightning: simulate animated electrical discharges using the sophisticated controls available with advanced lightning.
Fractal noise: Create textures and organic elements. Fractal noise is perfect for simulating caustics, clouds, lava, flowing water, and gas.
Displacement map: Create a range of effects by displacing pixels on one layer to another using displacement map. For example, mirror a pattern from one layer on another and make it move around.
Glow: create glows and halo effects around an object.
Color stabilizer: remove flicker from footage with the color stabilizer.

Automated production

Enhanced scripting: use scripts to automate management of the render queue as well as production tasks including changes to text and layers, creation of custom palettes, and more.
Render automation: work seamlessly with render management software to move jobs through the production pipeline more easily.
Network rendering: Install unlimited copies of the render engine. Use them to monitor a watch folder on a network in order to automatically distribute rendering jobs to available computing resources.

Powerful 3D effects

Camera data: import camera data from Alias Maya and Discreet 3ds max and quickly composite new elements into a complex 3D scene.
3D Assistants Lite keyframe assistants: Quickly arrange and animate 3D layers with the 3D Assistants Lite plug-ins from Digital Anarchy. Position 3D layers in cubes or tunnels, or distribute them in 3D space with ease.
3D channel effects: manipulate auxiliary channel information in imported 3D files, including RLA, Softimage PIC/ZPIC, Electric Image EI/EIZ, and RPF files.
Depth matte: slice an image along the z axis and insert elements within 3D images with depth matte.
Depth of field: use depth of field to simulate a camera focusing on one element in a 3D scene and letting surrounding elements blur.
ID matte: isolate elements in a 3D scene for color correction or other effects with ID Matte.
Fog 3D: make distant elements in a 3D scene appear hazier or even disappear using Fog 3D.
3D channel extract: make auxiliary channel information visible as either grayscale or multichannel color images with 3D channel extract.
Zaxwerks 3D invigorator classic: easily create custom 3D elements and 3D text from 2D Adobe Illustrator files with the included Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator Classic plug-in (included with full, new retail purchases of After Effects 6.5 Professional and After Effects Standard to After Effects 6.5 Professional upgrades only).

16-bit color support

Quality results: achieve maximum quality for film and HDTV using the broader range of colors available in the 16-bit color mode.
Flexible color modes: Rough out a composition in 8-bit color mode, and then finalize and output it to 16-bit color for optimal quality. Toggle between 8-bit and 16-bit color on-the-fly.
16-bit effects: work with more than 90 effects that support 16-bit-per-channel color, including Alpha Levels, Blend, Bulge, Color Key, Colorama, Difference Matte, Glow, Luma Key, Radial Blur, and more.

AAF and OMF support

AAF support: import timelines from Adobe Premiere Pro using the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF).
OMF support: import and export OMF (Open Media Framework) media files to work with footage in Avid's native file format.

Additional high-quality audio effects

Flange and chorus: add color and depth or make a single voice or instrument sound like many with flange and chorus.
High-low pass: remove high and low frequencies to enhance a sound, create special effects, or protect audio equipment with high-low pass.
Modulator: exercise precise control over audio delay and modulation by creating a variety of echo and chorus effects.
Parametric EQ: isolate specific frequency ranges for fine-tuning using parametric EQ.
Reverb: simulate a spacious and acoustically live interior using reverb.
Tone: create a variety of simple tonal sounds such as a swoosh, a doorbell, or a cacophony of beeps using tone.

Product Description
Upgrade only; previous installation of After Effects 5.5 or earlier required New disk caching tools speed up your interactive work Save any combination of animation parameters as presets -- create transformations, masks, Expressions, effects, and text Tighter integration with other Adobe tools - Import Photoshop CS and Illustrator CS files with preserved layers and other attributes Output to Firewire for easier previewing on NTSC and PAL video monitors