Adobe After Effects manual

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Index

• What's new in After Effects CC 12.2 (December 2013)
• What's new in After Effects CC 12.1 (October 2013)
• What's new in After Effects CC 12.0 (June 2013)
• What's New in Adobe Media Encoder CC
• What's new in Adobe Media Encoder CC 7.1 and CC 7.2
• What's new in CS6

• Setup and installation
• General user interface items
• Workflows
• Dynamic Link and After Effects
• Workspaces, panels, and viewers
• Keyboard shortcuts reference
• After Effects keyboard shortcuts
• Planning and setup
• Working with After Effects and other applications
• Sync Settings
• Preferences
• Modify keyboard shortcuts

• Projects
• Precomposing, nesting, and pre-rendering
• Composition basics
• Timecode and time display units

• Importing and interpreting footage items
• Importing and interpreting video and audio
• Preparing and importing 3D imagefiles
• Working with footage items
• CINEMA 4D and After Effects | CC
• Importing from After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
• Preparing and importing still images

• Creating layers
• Selecting and arranging layers
• Managing layers
• Layer properties
• Blending modes and layer styles
• 3D layers
• Cameras, lights, and points of interest

• Previewing
• Modifying and using views

• Animation basics
• Setting, selecting, and deleting keyframes
• Editing, moving, and copying keyframes
• Assorted animation tools
• Keyframe interpolation
• Speed
• Tracking and stabilizing motion
• Tracking 3D Camera Movement | CC, CS6
• Time-stretching and time-remapping
• Animating with Puppet tools

• Paint tools: Brush, Clone Stamp,and Eraser
• Overview of shape layers, paths, and vector graphics
• Creating shapes and masks
• Managing and animating shape paths and masks
• Shape attributes, paint operations, and path operations for shape layers
• Mask Tracking

• Creating and editing text layers
• Formatting characters and the Character panel
• Examples and resources for text animation
• Animating text
• Extruding text and shape layers | CC, CS6
• Formatting paragraphs and the Paragraph panel

• Roto Brush, Refine Edge, and Refine Matte effects | CC
• Roto Brush and Refine Matte | CS6
• Alpha channels, masks, and mattes
• Compositing and transparency overview and resources
• Keying

• Effects and animation presets overview
• Detail-preserving Upscale effect
• Effect list
• 3D Channel effects
• Audio effects
• Blur and Sharpen effects
• Channel effects
• Distort effects
• Utility effects
• Transition effects
• Stylize effects
• The Rolling Shutter Repair effect | CC, CS6
• Text effects
• Simulation effects
• Perspective effects
• Obsolete effects
• Noise and Grain effects
• Matte effects
• Keying effects
• Generate effects
• Color Correction effects

• Layer markers and composition markers
• XMP metadata

• Memory and storage | CS5.5 and earlier
• Improve performance
• GPU (CUDA, OpenGL) features | CC, CS6
• Memory and storage | CC, CS6

• Plug-ins
• Automation
• Expression basics
• Expression language reference
• Expression examples
• Scripts

• Basics of rendering and exporting
• Converting movies
• Export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project
• Rendering and exporting for Flash Professional and Flash Player
• Rendering and exporting still images and still-image sequences
• Automated rendering and network rendering

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Adobe After Effects specifications

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Adobe After Effects is a video and photo editing software. It is commonly used by professionals and students in the media industry. The software offers a wide range of features such as 3D camera tracking, motion graphics, and visual effects. It allows users to create animations, text, and other visual effects that can be applied to videos and still images. The Adobe After Effects software is available on a 12-month license term and is targeted towards educational institutions. The license level is 1, meaning it is suitable for individual use. It supports multiple languages, making it accessible to users worldwide. The software is user-friendly with intuitive tools and a well-designed interface. It allows for seamless integration with other Adobe applications such as Photoshop and Premiere Pro. The software is highly reliable, and it ensures top-quality output of video and photo edits. It supports different file formats, which means users can import and export files seamlessly. Adobe After Effects is perfect for anyone who wants to create eye-catching video and photo edits. Whether you are a professional photographer, graphic designer, or video editor, this software caters to your needs. With its advanced features and integration with other Adobe applications, it is a top choice for anyone in the media industry who wants to create visually compelling content.