Adobe After Effects CC 2015

Adobe After Effects CC 2015 Download

Adobe After Effects is a post-production tool developed by Adobe which enables users to compose special effects for their videos and clips in order to obtain a professional result. If you have ever wanted to create or modify videos with high-quality effects, as professionals do with a film, then this download is what you have been looking for. This sophisticated software can also be used as a media transcoder or a simple non-linear editing program, although there are other especially designed options for that task, like Adobe Premiere.

This version keeps the best things from previous ones and also offers some improvements and new tools such as the Mask Tracker (your new best friend for rotoscopy works), the warp stabilizer and one of the most outstanding new features: CINEMA 4D Lite, with which the user will be free to compose CINEMA 4D files within After Effects. This means a huge advantage, since you will be free to mix some 3D objects with your regular compositions without any intermediate multipass render.

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System Requirements

For Windows: Intel Core2 Duo or AMD Phenom II processor with 64-bit support; For Mac OS: Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
For Windows: Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10; For Mac OS: Mac OS X versions 10.9, 10.10, or 10.11
4GB of RAM (8GB recommended)
6GB of available hard-disk space for installation
1280x1080 display

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How To Use After Effects

Using Adobe After Effects may seem a bit difficult at first. It has many customizable global parameters and some templates, effects and filters that also have parameters inside them. Nevertheless, the interface is clean, and the areas are well differentiated. You will find a timeline, a preview area and a toolbar which contains almost every setting. In addition, you can enable some additional tools such as the wiggler or the tracker, which have separate modules. However, if you used the previous version and you cannot find a tool you have used in the new version, you can change the interface in preferences and restore the one you had in CS5.5.

Its workflow is layer based, which means that you can modify the transfer mode in which one layer affects others below it. The transfer mode refers to the way that pixels are transferred to other layers' pixels. There are several ways in which this can be done, like multiplying or Soft Light. Moreover, you can link a specific parameter existing in one layer to another, so the "parent" directly affects the “child”.

Almost every parameter can be animated with this software. You can do this by using keyframes; these are specific frames which have been configured to initiate a change in a parameter’s value, while keyframe will define the final value for that parameter some seconds later. Animating requires patience, but results are rewarding when you do it correctly.

Although Adobe After Effects includes a vast array of effects, templates and filters to enhance your footage, you can download and install plugins to increase your options. These plugins offer additional effects for a variety of purposes including color correction to particular systems. You can also install additional scripts, which are handy shortcuts for your work. For instance, a script can contain some formulas to modify the way a parameter works.

The new mask tracker will save you hours, since you can track the whole shape when you draw a Bezier mask, so you don’t have to edit it frame-by-frame for rotoscopy works. The warp stabilizer allows you to stabilize motion blur for a specific object in your composition, but bear in mind that this is not the panacea for blurred shots. You will need some conditions such as clarity and a minimum quality for it to work properly.

One of the best things about this program is that it is fully compatible with other Adobe applications. You will be able to import and export different files from Photoshop or Illustrator and the software will automatically place the layers the same way you left them, making your workload easier.