Innovative Compositing & 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.

Responsive 64-bit Performance

Work more easily with complex high-resolution projects and see longer RAM previews thanks to native 64-bit operating system support. Enhanced disk caching allows you to spend less time waiting and more time creating.

Integration w/Industry-Standard Adobe Applications

Enjoy a streamlined workflow with support for importing Adobe Photoshop images and layer types. Move easily between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 software. Export projects for enhancement in Adobe Flash Professional CS5 software.

Unlimited Creative Options

Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects that stylize, distort, shatter, and more. Combine effects to create Hollywood-caliber visual effects. Create grids, radio waves, particles, and more.

Text & 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 motion graphics.

Comprehensive Masking & Keying Tools

Control which portions of a layer are visible by drawing and animating masks. The revolutionary new Roto Brush tool handles rotoscoping in a fraction of the time. Remove bluescreen and greenscreen backgrounds with the award-winning Keylight.

Timesaving Presets & Learning Tools

Get a jumpstart animating text and creating synthetic backgrounds with more animation presets. Use Brainstorm to experiment and refine designs. Learn fast with help, tool tips, and training resources on the web.

Powerful Motion Controls

Apply realistic motion blur. Use Timewarp to slow down and speed up footage. Remove unwanted movement with the Motion Stabilizer, or precisely match the motion of source footage with mocha for After Effects.

Professional Results for Every Media Type

Deliver your work anywhere. Compatibility with an extensive list of output formats lets you produce animated content for virtually any media, from film and broadcast to the web and mobile devices.

High-fidelity Color

Get precise, predictable color in After Effects with support for high dynamic range (32-bit-per-channel floating point) color, including Pro EXR files, ICC-based color management tools, and new color lookup tables (LUTs).

Reasons to Upgrade to After Effects CS5

Native 64-bit Support

Get the most out of your hardware investment: Native 64-bit support means After Effects can use all available RAM, so it's easier to work efficiently on complex HD, 2k, and 4k projects.

Adobe Roto Brush

Isolate moving foreground elements from their backgrounds in a fraction of the time it used to take. Identify foreground and background elements and then let the Roto Brush automatically create transparency for you. Refine edges easily for extremely precise results.

mocha for After Effects

Experience the powerful new capabilities of this popular 2.5D planar tracker, included with After Effects CS5. Masks are now trackable, have variable width feather, and can be applied directly to layers in After Effects using mocha shape.

Dynamic Cross References

Simplify the writing, production, and management of long documents with flexible and powerful cross references that dynamically update as content is changed or moved within a document.

AVC Intra & Enhanced RED Support

Work natively with tapeless footage from the newest high-quality Panasonic cameras thanks to AVC-Intra 50 and AVC-Intra 100 support. Work natively with RED R3D formats, and gain additional controls for working with raw footage.

Auto-Keyframe Mode

Animate quickly by automatically setting a starting keyframe at the current time.

Dozens of Enhancements

Realize productivity gains from dozens of customer-requested refinements. Enhancements include a new Refine Matte effect, the ability to align layers to a composition's boundaries, and importing additional Adobe Photoshop adjustment layer types.

Color Lookup Table (LUT) Support

Easily manage consistent color in your workflow with popular color LUT formats to simulate film and alternate devices or to apply different looks to your footage.

Color Finesse

Enjoy an enhanced color correction workflow with Color Finesse LE 3, included with After Effects CS5. New features include vibrancy controls that work in a similar way to those in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software, hue and saturation curve controls, and highlight recovery.

Digieffects FreeForm

Turn flat objects into virtually any 3D shape using this popular 3D mesh warp plug-in by Digieffects.