Some notes before you start Hello and welcome to the After Effects CS3 Professional preview. Please note that this preview is an unfinished product and does not include all the … … functionality that will appear in the final release. While some may find the quality appropriate for use in a production environment, the preview is not final-release quality and should not be used for critical work. Adobe does not offer technical support for the After Effects CS3 Professional Preview. For a list of system requirements, please …

After Effects CS3 Professional Preview Limitations This preview version does not include the ability to encode the following video and audio formats: MPEG-2, HDV, H.264, Dolby, MP3, MP3 Pro, and AAC/AAC+. In addition, you will not be able to import most non-QuickTime MPEG compressed files. Bundled third-party effects (Synthetic Aperture Keylight, Cycore Effects, and The Foundry Color Finesse) are not included in the preview. The project file format of the preview is not compatible with previous versions of After Effects. Projects created in or saved from the After Effects CS3 preview will open in the final release version of After Effects CS3 Professional. Note: The After Effects CS3 Professional preview is available for use for a limited time and will expire on August 31st 2007. After Effects CS3 Professional Preview Known Issues We recommend uninstalling Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta and Soundbooth Beta 1 and Beta 2 prior to installing After Effects CS3 Professional Preview. Uninstalling After Effects CS3 Professional Preview will disable the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta, uninstall Adobe Bridge, and disable Adobe Device Central. Running the Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta installer in repair mode will fix these problems. What’s new in After Effects CS3 Professional Shape layers Use new shape drawing tools to create and animate vector graphics. Strokes and fills—including editable gradients—can be added to shapes, and these properties can be animated. After Effects also includes shape layer operations based on Adobe® Illustrator® vector effects. Puppet tools Puppet tools let you quickly add natural motion to raster images and vector graphics, including still images, shapes, and text characters. Use Puppet tools to easily distort any image with natural, life-like motion. Photoshop layer styles, video layers, and Vanishing Point exchange Layer styles and video layers are preserved when you import a Photoshop file. You can also add and animate layer styles within After Effects and use advanced blending options. Export Vanishing Point data from Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, and then import the data into After Effects to automatically build a 3D composition from the 2D Photoshop image Flash CS3 Professional integration After Effects timeline markers can be embedded as FLV cue points in order to create interactive video presentations in Flash Professional. In addition, After Effects CS3 can batch render .FLV for use in Flash. Import SWF files with the alpha channel preserved and continuously rasterize SWF layers to scale them without loss in quality. Per-character 3D properties for text animation Explore new text animation possibilities by making individual characters or words in your text move and rotate in 3D space . Brainstorm Jump-start animations with Brainstorm , a new user interface that offers variations based on selected design and animation parameters. Choose which properties and effects you want to explore, and Brainstorm will propose animated variations Enhanced color management Use color management to maintain precise and predictable color from input to output. Simulate the output of various film stocks and devices to control color quality Clip Notes Streamline the review and approval process . Render your work into an Adobe PDF file that enables anyone with Adobe Reader® software to make timecode-accurate comments. When you import the comments into After Effects, they appear as markers on the Timeline. Performance improvements Take full advantage of multiprocessor and multicore systems to render multiple frames simultaneously during RAM previews and final renders. Export and preview video for mobile devices New export presets in the Export Settings dialog box make it easier to export movies suitable for playback on mobile devices, such as mobile phones and the Apple® iPod®. Use Adobe Device Central CS3 to help ensure your video will look great on an array of supported mobile devices For more details on these new features and more, review the following sections…

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