After Effects CS6 / Features

Work effectively on high-resolution projects — even at 32-bit-per-channel color in HD, 2K, and 4K compositions. See longer previews using all system RAM. Spend less time waiting and more time creating with smart disk caching.

Create more in less time, even in high-resolution projects. This revolution "under the hood" makes After Effects fast and responsive by taking full advantage of your computer’s hardware.

Track 3D elements with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections. Automatically analyze and place 3D track points onto 2D footage in the background while you work.

Isolate foreground elements from backgrounds in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take using this revolutionary tool.

Launch mocha for After Effects CS6 directly within After Effects CS6*.

Extrude fully ray-traced text and shapes natively and take full advantage of reflections, environment maps, and more.

Smooth handheld footage, or lock a shot automatically. Warp Stabilizer removes jitter and compensates for motion-related irregularities.

Precisely specify feather values at any place along a mask, not just at its vertices. Control falloff and shape of feathering, resulting in a big boost to creative flexibility.

Instantly convert Illustrator vector art (AI and EPS format) into shape layers. Easily animate vector art in 2D or extrude to 3D.

Create soft-focus effects with Camera Lens Blur. Set iris shape, blade curvature, and diffraction fringe characteristics for beautiful bokeh. Use these settings for depth-of-field control with the After Effects 3D camera.

Use high-definition source formats instantly. RED Rocket card and RMD metadata dramatically improve the performance and look of RED footage. Import footage in the open CinemaDNG format.

Take the guesswork out of source footage edits. See timecode data in QuickTime, AVI, Broadcast WAV (BWF), DPX, and some variations of MXF, and use the Timecode effect to display both source timecode and composition frames.

Remove rolling shutter artifacts such as skew and wobble without forcing stabilization.

Get consistent color using industry-standard 3DL and CUBE lookup tables. Create your own color LUT files as exports from Color Finesse. The Apply Color LUT effect supports .Look files from Adobe SpeedGrade™ CS6 software.

Perform digital intermediate work in a full-featured color-correction environment with high-end telecine-style correction tools, using Color Finesse 3 LE from Synthetic Aperture*.

Import and work with files created in Apple Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier versions, as well as Avid Media Composer and Symphony, letting you integrate After Effects with professional production workflows.

Work in 3D space using tools including Camera Lens Blur; light falloff; 3D camera data input; multiple 3D cameras per composition; and the ability to keyframe x, y, and z values separately.

Edit color with a wide variety of effects, including Color Finesse 3 LE to create LUTs, Photoshop based color-correction and tinting tools, access to broadcast colors and gamma/pedestal/gain, and tools to isolate/change hues.

Animate and composite stereoscopic projects easily. Quickly set up stereo camera rigs. Save time with simplified rendering of multiple cameras, and work with an updated 3D Glasses effect.

Animate quickly by setting starting keyframes automatically.

Work natively with tapeless footage from Panasonic cameras thanks to AVC-Intra 50 and AVC-Intra 100 support.

Work easily on projects with colleagues still using After Effects CS5.5: Save projects in After Effects CS5.5 format to take advantage of new features and performance improvements without the need for colleagues to upgrade.

Apply intelligent edge tracking, dechattering, and motion blurring capabilities to any layer with a problematic alpha channel, such as keyed footage.

Render in the XDCAM HD format using multiple bitrates, pixel aspect ratios, and frame rates. Roundtrip footage shot on popular Sony cameras so that your output is consistent with files being edited directly from source.

Coordinate RAM usage across multiple Adobe Creative Suite® Production Premium components with unified memory management. Make the most of your system resources without learning complex memory management settings.