Adobe After Effects CS5 Professional software features comprehensive compositing, sophisticated effects, and tight integration with Adobe's world-class design applications.

Take your inspiration to new heights with innovative new features like Shape Layers, the Puppet tool, Brainstorm, and Adobe Clip Notes - all while enjoying an uninterrupted, streamlined workflow.

Jump-start projects with hundreds of customizable animation presets and templates, or start from scratch and move efficiently between After Effects and other key applications like Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Encore.

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.

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.

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

NOTE: To be able to download Adobe After Effects you will have to register for an account on the developer's website.

Here are some key features of "Adobe After Effects":

2D and 3D element combination:
· Work in 2D or 3D, or freely combine 2D and 3D elements in the same composition without having to change modes or redo your work. Default cameras and lights mean you don't have to set up additional elements just to add dimension to a layer.

3D camera data import:
· Import 3D camera and other 3D data from any 3D tracking software that can export Alias Maya ASCII (MA) files. You can also extract camera information from an RLA/RPF sequence and export After Effects camera data via a number of third-party additions.

Multiple 3D cameras per composition:
· Cut between multiple cameras in the same composition. Define unique cameras by angle of view, lens length, image area size, aperture, depth-of-field blur, and a host of other keyframable parameters.

Light falloff:
· Control how light intensity falls off across 3D distances, just as it does in the real world.

Streamlined design of 3D compositions:
· Benefit from numerous features to use 3D space inside After Effects, including the ability to keyframe x, y, and z values separately.

Multiple 3D lights with shadows:
· Add multiple lights to a scene and animate them. Choose from different light types, set their color, and define their shadow darkness and diffusion individually.

Material options for each 3D layer:
· Define how each 3D layer in a scene responds to lights, including control over size and intensity of the specular highlight.

Parenting:
· Work with parent and child layers. A child layer inherits all transformations applied to the parent, including anchor point, while maintaining its own local animation.

Stencil, Silhouette, and Preserve Transparency:
· Define individual layers to cut out all the layers below. Or have layers above honor the transparency of layers underneath.

Adjustment lights:
· Set a 3D light to illuminate a subset of layers in a composition.

Projection layers and colored shadows:
· Project light through a layer to create colored shadows, stained-glass effects, and the look of projected slides.

Nested compositions:
· Use a complex composition as a single-layer source. Multiple compositions can feed into one, or a single source comp can be used multiple times, allowing upstream changes to ripple throughout a project. Easily navigate through nested comps.

Unified Camera tool:
· Take advantage of three-button mice for more intuitive, immediate 3D control with the Unified Camera tool. Keyboard shortcuts make it easy to look at all or selected layers.

Adjustment layers:
· Create adjustment layers, similar to those in Adobe Photoshop® software, to apply effects to any layers that appear below them.

Collapse Transformations:
· Combine the transform properties of nested compositions with higher-level comps to reduce the number of times the pixels of a layer are processed, preserving their fidelity.

Timeline editing tools:
· Easily add and extract content from the Timeline in your compositions using basic editing tools, such as Overlay and Ripple Insert Edit; Lift, Extract, and Trim Comp to Work Area.

Requirements:

· 2GB of RAM
· 4 GB of available hard-disk space for installation, plus 2GB of space for optional content; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices).
· 1,280x900 display with OpenGL 2.0–compatible graphics card.
· DVD-ROM drive.
· QuickTime 7.6.2 software required to use QuickTime features.
· Broadband Internet connection required for online services.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· addresses issues with some serial numbers for upgrades from After Effects CS5 to After Effects CS5.5.