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You can use scripting to embed the results of After Effects’ motion tracking, expressions, and keyframe assistants, into media you can then access in Flash. Other media files and layers with attached effects are converted to Flash-compatible file types. FLV, PNG, and JPG source footage files need no further transcoding, and animated transformations such as scale, position, and rotation are preserved in the layers and can be further edited in Flash.
#ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS CS4 PROFESSIONAL#
You can now export projects and compositions as layered projects (XFL files) that you can then import into Flash CS4 Professional and edit with all their properties. In addition, all of these enhanced interface features make working on a Wacom Cintiq tablet much easier, without the need for continual keyboard commands or pull-down menus for repeated tasks, which further speeds up the production process by keeping your focus on your project.įlash CS4 Professional project integrationĪfter Effects CS4 boasts tighter integration with Flash CS4. You can now adjust RAM, multiprocessor, and OpenGL memory to take advantage of today’s powerful, multicore Macs and more robust video cards. A new Auto Resolution/Down Sample Factor menu item on the Composition panel redraws only visible pixels when you preview at any scale to save time and video card memory. If you’re working in the 16:9 aspect ratio, there’s a new 4:3 center cut safe area visible (with the Title/Action Safe overlays) to help you focus on the center for broadcast media production. Instead of having to select each layer in the Timeline and use keystrokes to reveal specific transform or effects properties, such as Position, you can now enter the word position in the QuickSearch box and all layers in that composition will reveal only their Position properties. Plus, the Timeline panel’s QuickSearch reveals layer properties such as rotation and position at a glance. Even deeply nested files are now visible in the Project panel. Mobile-device authoring has been integrated into the workflow, complete with multi-device previews for most popular phones and PDAs.Īfter Effects CS4’s new QuickSearch box lets you search for either keyword or file type on both the Project and Timeline panels. This new version also improves asset management and copyright tracking by letting you add and maintain XMP metadata throughout your After Effects projects from start to final render. This means a project you create in After Effects CS4 will transfer all the layer and timeline data over to Flash for further programming and video production for online distribution. In keeping with the overall application integration touted in the other CS4 updates, you can now export rich media from After Effects to Flash CS4 Professional while still retaining layer and keyframe data for further editing. Much-needed production features, such as keyword-searchable timelines and projects and nested composition navigation that shows hierarchy in a graphical flowchart format, have been added to this new version. Photoshop 3D layers can now be imported into After Effects CS4 and animated along with other 3D layers. In addition, a powerful new 2.5-D planar motion tracker is also shipping with After Effects to help you track hard-to-manage shots.
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This major upgrade to After Effects lets you more easily search and navigate your project, import 3-D layers from Photoshop Extended ( ), fine-tune your 3-D composites with separate X-, Y-, and Z-position keyframes, create new effects like Cartoon and Turbulent Noise, and export complete projects to open and edit in Flash CS4 Professional.
#ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS CS4 PLUS#
O’Reilly members experience live online training, plus books, videos, and digital content from 200+ publishers.When you consider all the new features and enhancements Adobe piled into the CS4 release of After Effects, its flagship visual effects and motion graphics software, it’s apparent that the company was very concerned about this sector of the market. Get After Effects for Flash | Flash for After Effects: Dynamic Animation and Video with Adobe® After Effects® CS4 and Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional now with O’Reilly online learning. For example, EPS and SWF are usually vector-based but can contain a mixture of raster and vector graphics.Īdobe Photoshop is often used to create and edit raster graphics, although it has some vector capabilities Adobe Illustrator is often used to create vector graphics. Confusing things a bit is that these formats sometimes “blend” and support both. Common vector formats are AI, EPS, SVG, and SWF. That data can be stored in two main formats: raster (sometimes called bitmap or pixel-based) and vector.Ĭommon raster formats include PSD, JPEG, PNG, MOV, GIF, and TIFF. Computers identify graphics as data stored in a file. People think of graphics as images: a company logo, a smiling child, a beautiful sunrise, and so on.