Adobe After Effects 7.0 - Standard (Windows)

Animate your ideas.  Adobe After Effects 7.0 software helps you create compelling motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects with efficiency, precision, and infinite variety. Take advantage of unmatched integration with other Adobe software, flexible 2D and 3D compositing, and hundreds of effects and Animation Presets to bring a new dimension to your film, video, DVD, and Macromedia Flash productions.

After Effects 7.0 Standard Highlights

• Experience creative empowerment with a broad selection of visual effects plus hundreds of Animation Presets for producing compelling motion graphics and visual effects.
• Take advantage of enhancements that enable a more intelligent workflow, including a redesigned, unified interface and tighter integration with other Adobe applications.
• Achieve production excellence with a new Graph Editor, professional color-correction tools, and complete input and output format scalability.
• Get sophisticated results faster with new OpenGL acceleration for realistic, real-time preview and rendering.

New Features in Version 7.0 of After Effects Standard

• Redesigned, unified user interface-Work within an elegantly redesigned interface featuring workspace panels that dock and group for optimal organization, eliminating overlapping windows. Save custom workspaces, control UI brightness, and more.
• Graph Editor-Create precise animations with the new Graph Editor, which offers complete visual control over keyframe editing and easy synchronization of animated properties across layers.
• Timesaving Animation and Behavior Presets plus project templates-Produce great-looking animations quickly using hundreds of fully customizable Animation Presets, including presets for animating text, effects, transitions, backgrounds, and behaviors. Use included project templates for DVD motion menus and motion graphics backgrounds.
• Real-time, high-fidelity OpenGL support-Experience real-time performance with advanced OpenGL 2.0 capabilities including support for blending modes as well as motion blur, anti-aliasing, track mattes, high-quality shadows and transparency, and accelerated rendering of common effects. Use OpenGL for accelerated final renders.
• Adobe Bridge-Simplify the everyday tasks of asset management with Adobe Bridge, which offers powerful ways to browse and search digital assets, preview and apply presets, work with metadata, manage files, and run batch processes.
• Expanded file format support-Take advantage of new support for HDV, Macromedia Flash Video (FLV), Camera Raw, OpenEXR, 10-bit YUV (v210), and 32-bit TIFF and PSD formats.
• Unmatched Adobe integration-Experience an efficient Adobe workflow: Import Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files with attributes preserved, and, in Windows, import Adobe Premiere Pro projects, add motion to static Adobe Encore DVD software menus, export After Effects projects as Adobe Premiere Pro projects, and more.
• Macromedia Flash Video export-Streamline the process of encoding video and audio for your Flash projects with new Flash Video (FLV) export.

Top Features in Adobe After Effects 7.0 Standard

• Unmatched Adobe integration-Experience an efficient Adobe workflow: Import Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files with attributes preserved, and, in Windows, import Adobe Premiere Pro projects, add motion to static Adobe Encore DVD software menus, export After Effects projects as Adobe Premiere Pro projects, and more.
• Flexible 2D and 3D compositing-Composite and animate in 2D or 3D space using multiple cameras, lights, and intersecting layers.
• Unrivaled text animation and titling effects-Create animated text with unprecedented ease. Use he standard Adobe Text tool, or edit and animate text from Photoshop; instantly apply text Animation Presets; and much more.
• Powerful animation and keyframing controls-Animate layers by setting keyframes at specific points in time for properties such as position, scale, and rotation, or save time with Animation Presets. And use the new Graph Editor for complete visual control over keyframe editing and easy synchronization of effects across layers.
• Nondestructive vector painting-Paint nondestructively on layers to clean up footage, draw masks, clone elements, and create animations.
• Extensive visual and audio effects-Take advantage of a broad selection of effects and hundreds of additional third-party effects (available separately).
• Comprehensive tracking and masking tools-Easily design, edit, and work with masks using flexible auto-tracing options and RotoBézier masks.
• Productivity enhancements-Maximize your productivity with high-fidelity OpenGL support for fluid, interactive compositing.
• Ease of use-Get up to speed quickly with a redesigned, unified user interface that includes panels that dock and group, helpful learning resources, and new templates to help you get a quick start on animated backgrounds and DVD motion menus.
• Professional results-Produce professional output for film, video, DVD, Macromedia Flash, and other streaming media formats for the web.
• Highest quality keying and matte tools-Key bluescreen and greenscreen mattes that rival those created in any other toolset with a host of supporting tools.
• Powerful 3D options-Experience features and effects designed to let the 3D tools in After Effects work together with third-party 3D animation programs including Alias Maya and Autodesk’s 3ds Max.
• Flexible distortion effects-Distort and morph footage using Mirror, Ripple, and other effects, and paint distortions directly onto imagery with Liquify.

Adobe After Effects 7.0 Standard System Requirements

• Intel Pentium 4 processor (multiprocessor recommended)
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 500MB of available hard-disk space for installation (10GB for disk caching and 1GB for functional content recommended)
• 24-bit color display adapter
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 6.5 software recommended
• Internet or phone connection required for product activation
• For OpenGL support: Adobe After Effects supported OpenGL 2.0 card (Nvidia recommended). For a current list, visit the OpenGL cards page.