Portable Adobe After Effects CS3 | 151mbClass Act! It's exciting when the newest version of a product that
you've had the pleasure to use has so many tremendous new
additions/upgrades to it as Adobe After Effects CS3. It's powerful
integration across the board with the different Adobe products makes AE
CS3 more exciting and effective.
With it's
new 2D and 3D compositing features, animating anything and everything
is possible. The 3D feature includes moving animation along the X, Y,
and Z coordinates.
And then there are the shape layers with
features such as Pucker and Bloat, Zig Zag, and Repeater with the
addition of the Star. You can import files and text into AE CS3 from
Illustrator, modify and animate the layers.
Or how about the all the hundreds of visual effects resources and greenscreen removal.
You can view all the new and standard effects directly in Bridge and see just how it looks on your AE document.
Brainstorm
is a really cool feature that allows you view a multitude of variations
on layers. It takes your creativity and gives you many more choices.
The
new Puppet tool is so amazing. If you have anything you want to animate
such as a character, you can add joints to it make it move anyway you
want.
Clip Notes are an added benefit in that it helps track
progress and can be exported in a PDF file with video embedded in it.
Once they have been exported they can also be imported back into AE CS3
at the exact same point they were exported from.
Flash is such a popular program and because Adobe now owns it, AE can export SWF files directly into Flash without any problems.
There is even more precise and powerful color management tools available for use in film and video.
It's
impossible to evaluate just how powerful this newest version of After
Effects CS3 really is without coming to the conclusion that you just
have to have it in order to stay up with creativity and technology.
It's a resource that undeniably too awesome to be able to cover in one
review.