The essential tool for motion graphics and visual effects

Adobe® After Effects® 6.5 software continues to set new standards in motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, DVD, and the Web. Offering unmatched integration with Adobe Premiere® Pro, Adobe Encore™ DVD, Adobe Audition™, Photoshop® CS, and Illustrator® CS software, After Effects gives you the speed, precision, and power to be visually innovative as you meet production challenges and deliver quality results.

After Effects 6.5 is available in two editions: After Effects 6.5 Standard provides core 2D and 3D compositing, animation, and visual effects tools. After Effects 6.5 Professional includes all of the features in After Effects Standard plus motion tracking and stabilization, advanced keying and warping tools, more than 30 additional visual effects, a particle system, scripting, network rendering, 16-bit-per-channel color, additional audio effects, and more.

Product overview

Adobe® After Effects® 6.5 software delivers the speed, precision, and power you need to produce visually innovative motion graphics and effects for film, video, DVD, and the Web.

Work faster, work smarter

OpenGL support
Be more productive with performance optimizations such as OpenGL support for extremely fluid interactive compositing.

Disk caching
Take advantage of disk caching to speed up your interactive work.

Unmatched Adobe integration
Experience unmatched integration with Photoshop® CS, Illustrator® CS, Adobe Premiere® Pro, Adobe Encore™ DVD, and Adobe Audition™ software.

Easy to learn and use
Learn as you work with Tool Tips, context-sensitive menus, and comprehensive online Help.

Parenting
Speed up production by defining a parent-child relationship between layers to ensure the child layer inherits all the transformations applied to the parent.

Be visually innovative

2D and 3D compositing environment
Composite and animate in 2D or 3D space using multiple cameras and lights.

Powerful animation and keyframing
Animate layers by setting keyframes at specific points in time for properties such as position, scale, rotation, and opacity. Or save time with Animation Presets.

Unrivaled text animation
Create animated text with unprecedented ease. Type and edit text in the Comp window, instantly apply more than 250 text Animation Presets, and much more.

Extensive visual effects
Create visual effects using more than 150 plug-ins to blur, sharpen, distort, shatter, and more.

Expressions
Create animations without using keyframes by defining Expressions that link the behavior of one layer property to that of another property on any layer in the composition.

Meet production challenges

Integrated vector paint tools
Perform touch-up and rotoscoping with built-in vector paint tools, including the new advanced Clone tool, which makes it easier to handle even complex cleanup tasks.

Comprehensive masking tools
Easily design, edit, and work with masks using flexible auto-tracing options and RotoBézier masks.

Color correction tools
Adjust the color of footage and other layer elements using color correction tools similar to those in Photoshop, as well as Color Finesse™ for high-end corrections.

Keying and matte tools
Control layer transparency using keying and matte tools.

Rendering and output
Produce professional output more efficiently using the Render Queue, the Advanced 3D Renderer, and more.

Adobe® After Effects® Professional software has all the features in After Effects Standard plus a flexible Motion Tracker, powerful scripting, precise keying and matte tools, advanced visual effects, and much more.

Gain new control with After Effects Professional

Powerful Motion Tracker
Zero in on any element with the fast, accurate Motion Tracker, which lets you use as many points as you like or standard one-, two-, and four-point settings; track change in scale or just horizontal or vertical movement; and edit the motion path.

Network rendering and scripting
Get finished output faster with network rendering, which distributes jobs across multiple computers. Automate text changes, rendering, and other production tasks with scripting support.

Additional keying and matte tools
Use Keylight to create high-quality mattes, and work with other advanced tools such as the Matte Choker and the Spill Suppressor.

Comprehensive warping and distortion effects
Apply advanced warping and distortion effects to stretch, shrink, skew, and twist any layer. Use Mesh Warp, Reshape, Bézier Warp, Scatter, and Bulge to warp images.

Advanced visual effects
Design and manipulate images with more than 30 additional effects, including grain management tools, Fractal Noise, Advanced Lightning, Glow, and Optics Compensation.

Advanced particle system
Simulate explosions, flocks of birds, swarms of bees, and more using a powerful particle system. Add behaviors such as repel and gravity to your animations. Any layer, even text, can be a particle.

Powerful 3D effects
Expand your 3D compositing options with powerful 3D channel effects. Import camera data from Alias Maya and Discreet 3ds max.

Smart Mask Interpolation keyframe assistant
Create a precise morph from one complex mask shape to another using the Smart Mask Interpolation keyframe assistant.

16-bit color support
Increase the range of color in the movies you create for better quality results. Import and export 16-bit files in industry-standard formats.

AAF and OMF support
Import timelines from Adobe Premiere® Pro using the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF), and import and export media files in Avid's native format, Open Media Framework (OMF).

New features

Upgrade to Adobe® After Effects® 6.5 software and take advantage of the advanced Clone tool, disk caching, timesaving text animation presets, and much more.

Top new features

Advanced Clone tool
Remove unwanted elements from multiple frames more accurately using the advanced Clone tool, which offers five presets and the ability to simultaneously view the source frame as an overlay while you paint.

Disk caching
Take advantage of disk caching to speed up your interactive work.

Animation Presets
Save any combination of animation parameters — including transformations, masks, Expressions, effects, and text — as Animation Presets to quickly reuse without setting keyframes.

Tighter Adobe integration
Import Adobe Photoshop® CS and Illustrator® CS files with layers and other attributes preserved. In Windows®, copy and paste selected Adobe Premiere® Pro clips into After Effects, and create motion menus and buttons for use in Adobe Encore™ DVD and much more.

Color correction and grain management effects
Adjust the color of footage and other elements with powerful color correction tools, such as Color Finesse™. Use grain management tools to add grain to make video look more like film, or remove grain to give film the look of video (Professional edition only).

New special effects plug-ins
Add dramatic effects to your compositions with more than 60 new plug-ins, including Particle World, Light Burst, Light Sweep, and Toner.

New text animation features
Set blend modes between characters, randomize text, write scripts to automate text changes within animations (Professional edition only), and more. Enjoy over 250 professionally designed text Animation Presets.

FireWire video output
Preview your compositions on NTSC and PAL video monitors whether you're using a Windows or a Mac OS X system.

More flexible Motion Tracker
Zero in on any element with the enhanced Motion Tracker, which lets you use as many points as you like or standard one-, two-, and four-point settings; track change in scale or just horizontal or vertical movement; and edit the motion path (Professional edition only).

Enhanced scripting
Use scripts to automate management of the Render Queue as well as production tasks including changes to text and layers, creation of custom palettes, and more (Professional edition only).