After Effects CS3 Professional Upgrade - Retail Boxed

After Effects CS3 Professional is an essential upgrade. Design vector graphics, create more organic movements, and expedite delivery with new integration and new collaboration features.

Top NEW Features:

• Shape Layers
• Puppet Tool
• Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended integration
• Adobe Flash CS3 Professional integration
• Per-character 3D text animation
• Brainstorm
• Complete color management workflow
• Adobe Clip Notes
• Enhanced performance
• Video for mobile

Innovative compositing and animation tools

Create high-impact communications by combining moving imagery, still images and graphics, text, and sound in 2D or 3D space and then animating virtually any aspect of each element.

Unmatched Adobe integration

Enjoy a streamlined workflow with support for importing Adobe Photoshop® images that include video layers as well as Adobe Illustrator® graphics that maintain image integrity. Move easily between After Effects and Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3 or Encore® CS3 software, and share animations easily with Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional software.

Text and vector graphics creation and animation

Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate these elements to create visually innovative new motion graphics.

Extensive visual effects

Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects such as stylize, distort, and shatter. Create grids, radio waves, 3D particles, film grain, fractal noise, and more.

Time-saving tools

Start projects quickly with animation presets and behaviors when creating common animation elements, such as animating text in and out, creating synthetic backgrounds, and more. Use new Brainstorm to quickly experiment and refine designs using parameters you define. Learn fast with Tool Tips and training resources in the box and on the web, and streamline your review process with Adobe Clip Notes to create and import comments.

Comprehensive masking and keying tools

Control which portions of a layer are visible by importing, manipulating, and animating masks. Flexible auto-tracing options and RotoBezier masks make it easy to get precise results. Key bluescreen and greenscreen mattes with the Academy Award-winning Keylight and a host of supporting tools.

Time-saving tools

Animate graphics and text using the Puppet tool. Apply motion blur to produce more realistic animations, or use Timewarp to slow down and speed up footage. Precisely match the motion of source footage using Motion Tracker, and get the look of a locked-off shot using Motion Stabilizer.

Enhanced performance

Harness your computerÂ’s processing power with new multicore and graphics acceleration plus disk caching so you can spend less time waiting and more time creating. Distribute rendering across your entire network to maximize output performance.

Professional results for every media type

Compatibility with an extensive list of output formats lets you produce animated content for virtually any media, from the web and mobile devices to film and broadcast. Plus, After Effects CS3 Professional introduces color management tools to help make the color-correction process more predictable and preserve color fidelity.

High-fidelity color

Use standard color management tools with enhancements for film and video workflows.

Upgrade Information for Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional Upgrade - 25510605

• The installation process for an upgrade requires that you enter the serial number from a qualifying product, on the same platform and for the same language version, as the upgrade product being installed.
  
• Qualifying products go back 3 previous versions.

System Requirements for Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional Upgrade - 25510605

• Intel Pentium 4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, or Intel Corel Duo (or compatible) processor
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)
• 1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD
• 500MB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content (additional free space required during installation)
• 280x1,024 monitor resolution with 24-bit video card; Adobe recommended graphics card for GPU-accelerated playback
• For OpenGL support: Adobe After Effects supported OpenGL 2.0 card (NVIDIA recommended)
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.1.5 software required to use QuickTime features
• Internet or phone connection required for product activation
• Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services

*Online services, including, but not limited to, Adobe Stock Photos and Acrobat Connect, may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies. Availability of services is subject to change. Use of online services is governed by terms and conditions of a separate agreement and may be subject to additional fees.