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Last updated 12/21/2009
Chris Pirazzi provides technical details of digital video on his
Chris Zwar provides articles, After Effects projects, scripts, and other resources on
Christopher Green provides many useful scripts on
New features in After Effects CS4
The new features listed here are only a few highlights from the hundreds of improvements and additions made for
After Effects CS4.
For a complete list of new and changed features in After Effects CS4, see
For a detailed list of changes to the user interface for After Effects CS4, see
CS3 to After Effects
CS4" on page 22.
• Create movies tailored to a set of mobile devices that you specify:
devices" on page 56.
• Configure memory and multiprocessing settings more easily:
page 635.
• Use XMP metadata and improved marker features to facilitate various stages of your work:
page 625 and "Markers" on page 619.
• Save compositions for use in Adobe Flash® Professional:
Player" on page 705.
• Navigate among nested compositions more easily:
• Animate each component of position separately:
individually" on page 146.
• Find items more easily with search fields:
on page 17.
• Use 3D object layers from Adobe Photoshop® Extended:
• Save a copy of your project in the new XML project file format to improve automation workflows:
on page 49.
• Import or create an Adobe Premiere® Pro sequence using Dynamic Link:
After
Effects" on page 42.
• Use Imagineer Systems mocha for After Effects to track motion:
For more information about new features in After Effects CS4, go to the Adobe website:
www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_indepth.
Chris and Trish Meyer provide a discussion of new and changed features in After Effects on the
website. Chris and Trish Meyer also provide a free chapter from their book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects
on the
Focal Press website
his
"Separate dimensions of Position to animate components
"Search and filter in the Timeline, Project, and Effects & Presets
that explains the new and changed features in After Effects CS4.
Lurker's Guide to Video
website.
Todd Kopriva's blog
"User interface changes from After Effects
"Create compositions for playback on mobile
"Memory & Multiprocessing
"Rendering and exporting for Flash Professional and Flash
"Opening and navigating nested
"3D object layers from
"Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and
"Tracking and stabilizing
USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Getting started
website.
his
website.
on the Adobe website.
preferences" on
"XMP
metadata" on
compositions" on page 62.
Photoshop" on page 185.
"About
projects"
motion" on page 261.
ProVideo Coalition
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panels"
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