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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 |
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Streamlined user interface for designing 3D compositions: Benefit from numerous changes that enhance the use of 3D space inside After Effects CS4, including the ability to keyframe x, y and z values separately |
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Unified camera tool: Take advantage of three-button mice for more intuitive 3D control with the unified camera tool |
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Multiple, versatile 3D cameras for each composition: Cut between multiple cameras in the same composition. Define cameras by angle of view, lens length, image area size, aperture, depth-of-field blur and a host of other keyframeable parameters |
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Camera data: Import 3D camera and null animation data in the Alias Maya (MA) format - directly from Maya or from any 3D tracking software that can export MA files, such as 2d3's boujou |
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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 |
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Adjustment lights: Set a 3D light to illuminate select layers in a composition |
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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 |
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Projection layers and colored shadows: Project light through a layer to create colored shadows, stained-glass effects and the look of projected slides |
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Real-time design with OpenGL acceleration: Take advantage of advanced OpenGL 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 |
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Parenting: Work with parent and child layers. A child layer inherits all transformations applied to the parent, including the parent's anchor point, while maintaining its own local animation |
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Adjustment layers: Create adjustment layers, similar to those in Adobe Photoshop software, to apply effects to any layers that appear below them |
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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 |
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Subpixel positioning: Enable the position of each object to be calculated to finer than 1/65,536th of a pixel for extremely smooth motion |
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Adaptive motion blur: Adjust motion blur on a layer-by-layer basis to produce more realistic animations. You control how the motion blur is calculated to customize its look and enhance its smoothness |
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Nested compositions: Use a complex composition as a single-layer source in another composition. Multiple comps can feed into one, or a single source comp can be used multiple times, allowing upstream changes to ripple throughout a project |
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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 |
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Overlay and Ripple Insert Edit; Lift, Extract and Trim Comp to Work Area: Using basic editing tools, easily add and extract content from the Timeline in your compositions without having to rebuild a comp from scratch |
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Intuitive text creation and versatile text animation with per-character 3D text: Type, edit and format characters, words and paragraphs. Mix and match fonts and other attributes on a layer |
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Shape Layers: Easily create and animate vector graphics with Shape Layers. Add properties such as stroke, stroke type, fill and gradients to shapes and animate those properties |
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Text conversion to shapes or masks: Convert text into editable paths so you can animate the individual vertices of each character. New in Creative Suite 4 is the ability to convert text to shape paths or mask paths |
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Shape path operators: Modify and animate hand-drawn or parametric shapes by applying a series of specialized shape effects, including Merge Paths, Offset Paths, Pucker & Bloat, Repeater, Round Corners, Trim Paths, Twist, Wiggle Paths, Zig Zag and the Repeater |
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Web-ready text animations: Export animated text as vector-based SWF files to create innovative, web-friendly animations |
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Solid layers: Create simple solid shapes that can have effects applied and that can be masked and animated |
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Continuous rasterization: Enable Adobe Illustrator artwork, text, shapes, solid layers and vector components of PDF and SWF files to be continuously rasterized, maintaining sharpness regardless of their scaling |
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