Adobe After Effects CS5 delivers the visual richness required to get noticed in today's media culture. Use open-ended creative tools. Work efficiently on high-resolution projects thanks to native 64-bit support. And benefit from tight integration with Adobe's other leading software. Whether you're working in film, broadcast, online, or mobile media, Adobe After Effects enables you to create groundbreaking motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects.

• Get 64-bit performance - Execute a wide range of post-production tasks with unmatched speed and efficiency. Native 64-bit operating system support, multiprocessor utilization, and OpenGL acceleration help you work faster, taking full advantage of your computer's power. Unmatched integration with other Adobe software further streamlines your workflow.
• Animate ideas - Express your creative ideas with freedom and flexibility using After Effects CS5. Employ innovative 2D, 3D, text, and vector graphic compositing and animation tools; choose from an extensive selection of effects; and add high-quality audio. Explore a large library of creative building blocks to get you started, and take advantage of command line automation and scripting for advanced applications.
• Composite efficiently - Combine layers into new, visually rich alternate realities. Mask, key, motion track, color correct, paint, and perform a variety of visual effects magic with powerful, efficient, and precise tools.
• Deliver virtually anywhere - Master modern media: Deliver your final result to the widest range of formats, from mobile media to feature films, at maximum bit depth and resolution, using color management to ensure accurate results.

Create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard
Whether you're working in broadcast and film or delivering work online and to mobile devices, Adobe After Effects CS5 software enables you to create groundbreaking motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects.

• Responsive 64-bit performance - New
  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.
• Innovative compositing and animation tools
  Create high-impact communications by combining moving and still imagery, graphics, and text in 2D or 3D space. Animate virtually any aspect of each element, and add sound for further impact.
• Unlimited creative options - Enhanced
  Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects such as stylize, distort, and shatter. Create grids, radio waves, particles, and more. Combine effects for Hollywood-caliber results.
• Comprehensive masking and keying tools, including new Roto Brush - Enhanced
  Control which portions of a layer are visible by drawing and animating masks. The revolutionary new Roto Brush tool isolates moving foreground elements from backgrounds in a fraction of the time. Remove bluescreen and greenscreen backgrounds with the Academy Award - winning Keylight.
• Powerful motion controls - Enhanced
  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 v2.
• High-fidelity color - Enhanced
  Get precise, predictable color in After Effects with support for high dynamic range (32-bit-per-channel floating point) color, including ProEXR files, ICC-based color management tools, and now color lookup tables (LUTs).
• Expressions and scripting - Enhanced
  Use expressions to link individual parameters, effects, and layers in a variety of ways -- even across compositions. Additionally, add custom capabilities to After Effects and automate repetitive tasks with robust scripting support.
• Unmatched integration with industry-standard Adobe applications - Enhanced
  Enjoy a streamlined workflow with support for importing Photoshop images and layer effects. Move easily between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. Import Adobe Illustrator files, and then animate each layer.
• Text and vector graphics creation and animation - Enhanced
  Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate these elements to create visually innovative motion graphics.
• Timesaving presets and learning tools
  Get a jump start animating text, creating synthetic backgrounds, and more with animation presets. Use Brainstorm to experiment and refine designs. Learn fast with help, tool tips, and training resources on the web.
• Professional results for any media type
  Deliver your work virtually anywhere. Compatibility with an extensive list of output formats lets you produce animated content for media ranging from film and broadcast to the web and mobile devices.
• Rich ecosystem of third party plug-in developers
  Add even more capability to After Effects with plug-ins from third-party developers. Find solutions for everything from creative effects to particles, 3D objects, and specialized workflow tools.

After Effects for video editing
Bring higher production values to your projects by adding the world-class motion graphics and visual effects capabilities of Adobe After Effects to the power of your NLE. After Effects excels at 2D and 3D compositing, keying, rotoscoping, and addressing a wide variety of post-production challenges.

• Innovative compositing and animation tools: Create high-impact communications by combining moving and still imagery, graphics, and text in 2D or 3D space. Animate virtually any aspect of each element, and add sound for further impact.
• Text and vector graphics creation and animation - Enhanced: Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate these elements to create visually innovative motion graphics.
• Tight integration with other Adobe software: Take advantage of Dynamic Link to move between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro without the need for intermediate renders. Import layered files from Adobe Photoshop Extended, including 3D and video layers.
• Unlimited creative options - Enhanced: Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects such as stylize, distort, and shatter. Create grids, radio waves, particles, and more. Combine effects for Hollywood-caliber results.
• Powerful motion controls - Enhanced: Use the highly tweakable 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 v2.
• Professional results for any media type: Deliver your work virtually anywhere. Compatibility with an extensive list of output formats lets you produce animated content for media ranging from film and broadcast to the web and mobile devices.
• Broad format support - Enhanced: Native support for numerous tapeless formats in After Effects means it's easy to use the latest cameras and share media with Adobe Premiere Pro. Convert film, video, and web content to the correct formats for your project.
• Timesaving presets and learning tools: Get a jump start animating text, creating synthetic backgrounds, and more with animation presets. Use Brainstorm to experiment and refine designs, and tap into Community Help to learn more. Plus, the new Auto-Keyframe mode gets you animating quickly.
• 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.
• Comprehensive masking and keying tools, including new Roto Brush - Enhanced: Control which portions of a layer are visible by drawing and animating masks. The revolutionary new Roto Brush tool isolates moving foreground elements from backgrounds in a fraction of the time. Remove bluescreen and greenscreen backgrounds with the Academy Award-winning Keylight.
• High-fidelity color - Enhanced: Get precise, predictable color in After Effects with support for high dynamic range (32-bit-per-channel floating point) color, including ProEXR files, ICC-based color management tools, and now color lookup tables (LUTs).

After Effects for interactive design
Add dynamic media to interactive experiences you create in Adobe Flash Professional. Use the cinematic animation capabilities and rich effects toolkit in After Effects to create attention-grabbing looping elements and transparent video. Timesaving integration between Adobe After Effects and Flash Professional helps smooth the way.

• Video transparency - Enhanced: Use the Academy Award-winning Keylight plug-in to create transparency for video shot against a bluescreen or greenscreen. Or employ the amazing new Roto Brush tool to create transparency around an object shot against a complex background.
• Flexible 2D and 3D compositing and animation environment: Freely express your visual ideas by using powerful 2D and 3D content creation, compositing, and animation tools. Choose from an impressive variety of rich cinematic animation options.
• Comp export to Flash Professional: Export compositions as layered, XFL format projects that can be opened and edited in Flash Professional. Many After Effects assets such as text and Adobe Illustrator artwork are preserved as vectors.
• Markers and cue point export: Export composition or layer markers as cue points in FLV files. Easily convert keyframe values into markers, allowing you to use motion tracking data and other After Effects keyframe values in Flash Professional.
• Creative text animation tools - Enhanced: Typeset text professionally, and then set it in motion. Use more than 250 professional 2D and 3D text animation presets, or create custom text animations from scratch.
• JavaScript-based expressions - Enhanced: Produce a stunning range of programmatic animations by using powerful expressions in After Effects. Easily link the behavior of any property in a composition to that of virtually any other property. Use expressions to simulate realistic physical behavior or define complex interactions between elements.
• Hundreds of animation presets for quick results: Get a jump start animating text, creating synthetic backgrounds, and more by choosing from a wide-ranging library of animation presets.
• Batch rendering of files optimized for the web: Create multiple FLV files with minimal effort by using the After Effects Render Queue. Manage renders for multiple compositions and export formats, including FLV and F4V files.

What's new in After Effects CS5
Adobe After Effects CS5 delivers more of the creative control you crave, while making it faster to work on high-resolution projects. Native 64-bit support means you can tap all the RAM on your system to work more efficiently with HD, 2K, and 4K projects. The new Roto Brush tool delivers rotoscoping results in a fraction of the time. Plus, dozens of user-requested features make everyday tasks easier.

• Native 64-bit OS support - New
  Work fluidly on high-resolution projects -- even at 32-bit-per-channel color inside HD, 2K, and 4K compositions. Use all of your system's RAM. View a list of 64-bit third-party plug-ins.
• Roto Brush - New
  Isolate foreground elements from backgrounds in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take using this revolutionary new tool.
• AVC-Intra and enhanced RED support - New
  Work natively with tapeless footage from the newest high-quality Panasonic cameras thanks to AVC-Intra 50 and AVC-Intra 100 support. Take advantage of improved support for RED R3D formats, and gain additional controls for working with raw footage.
• Dozens of enhancements - New
  Benefit from dozens of customer-requested refinements that yield big productivity gains -- such as the ability to align layers to comps.
• Color Finesse - Enhanced
  Enjoy an enhanced color correction workflow with the new features, finer control over hue and saturation, and ability to export settings as color lookup tables (LUTs) in Color Finesse LE 3.
• Digieffects FreeForm - New
  Turn flat objects into virtually any 3D shape using this popular 3D mesh warp plug-in.
• mocha for After Effects v2 - Enhanced
  Apply motion tracking to hand-drawn masks and import variable-width mask feathers. The powerful mocha shape plug-in is also included.
• Auto-Keyframe mode - New
  Animate quickly by setting starting keyframes automatically.
• Color LUT support - New
  Get consistent color in your workflow by using industry-standard 3DL and CUBE lookup tables.
• Refine Matte effect - New
  Apply intelligent edge tracking, dechattering, and motion blurring capabilities to any layer with a problematic alpha channel, such as keyed footage.