Adobe After Effects CS4

A quick look: After Effects CS4 is the industry-standard software for creating visual effects and motion graphics.

Upgrades from:

• Adobe After Effects CS3, 7.0, or 6.0
• Education versions are not eligible

With Adobe^® After Effects^® CS4 software, you can create compelling motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects with flexible tools that help save you time and deliver unparalleled creative power. It can be integrated with other Adobe design programs to deliver your work to a variety of media types. The streamlined interface lets you bring your ideas to life from scratch or speed up your workflow with hundreds of customizable templates.

• Create stunning animations and effects
  Create high-impact animations by combining elements like photos, text, and sound. The familiar tools let you create text and vector graphics, while other sophisticated tools let you match footage, stabilize motion, and apply slow-motion effects. Many visual effects and distortions can be added, such as film grain, grids, 3D particles, and more. Masking tools control which portions of a layer are visible, and the Keylight feature helps you work with green screens.
   
• Work efficiently
  After Effects CS4 helps you start projects quickly with built-in presets for creating common elements. The work you create is compatible with a wide variety of output formats, ranging from film to mobile devices. The software can also take advantage of graphics-oriented hardware like multicore processors and accelerated graphics cards.
   
• Integrate with other Adobe products
  Adobe software is designed to work together. That means you can import native files created in Photoshop or Illustrator, without even having to flatten layers. Once that's done, you can export to Premiere, Encore, and Flash.
   

• Hard Drive Space: 3.3 GB
• Operating System: Windows^® Vista w/SP1, or XP w/SP2
• Processor Speed: 1.5 GHz (SSE2 required for AMD CPUs)
• RAM: 2 GB
• Graphics: 1280x900 screen resolution with OpenGL 2.0-compatible graphics card
• Other: DVD-ROM drive, QuickTime^® 7.4.5, broadband internet connection