ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 7.0
User Guide
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New features
What’s new
Redesigned, unified user interface Work within an elegantly redesigned interface featuring dockable panels that
eliminate overlapping windows and let you rearrange your workspace quickly and easily. Save custom workspaces,
control user interface brightness, and more. (See “About the Adobe workspace” on page 14.)
Graph Editor Create precise animations with the new Graph Editor, which offers complete visual control over
keyframe editing and easy synchronization of animated properties across layers. (See “About the Graph Editor” on
page 188.)
High dynamic range (HDR) color (Pro only) Match the behavior of color and light in the real world with new 32-bit-
per-channel floating-point HDR color support. (See “High dynamic range footage (Pro only)” on page 62.)
Animation presets and project templates Produce great-looking animations quickly using hundreds of fully
customizable behaviors and other animation presets, including presets for animating text, effects, transitions,
background movies, and expressions. Save your own animation properties as reusable presets. (See “About animation
presets” on page 202.)
High-fidelity OpenGL support Experience better, faster previewing and rendering with OpenGL 2.0 capabilities,
including support for blending modes, motion blur on 2D layers, anti-aliasing, track mattes, shadows, and accel-
erated rendering of common effects. (See “Supported OpenGL features” on page 140.)
Timewarp (Pro only) Slow down and speed up footage with smooth, crisp results and minimal artifacts. (See “To
apply the Timewarp effect (Pro only)” on page 239.)
Adobe Bridge Simplify the everyday tasks of asset management with Adobe Bridge, which offers powerful ways to
browse and search digital assets, preview and apply presets, work with metadata, manage files, and run batch
processes. (See “About Adobe Bridge” on page 24.)
Expanded file format support Take advantage of new support for HDV, Camera Raw, OpenEXR, AAF, 10-bpc YUV
(v210), and 32-bpc TIFF and PSD formats. Support for some file formats is available only in the Professional edition.
(See “Supported file formats for import” on page 69 and “Supported file formats for output” on page 590.)
Unmatched integration with Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Production Studio Experience tighter integration
with Adobe graphics and video tools: Create Photoshop® layers within After Effects®, export After Effects projects as
Adobe Premiere® Pro projects (Windows only), use Adobe Dynamic Link to update After Effects compositions
without rendering, and more. (See “To create a new Photoshop layer” on page 152, “Working with After Effects and
Adobe Premiere Pro” on page 94, and “About Adobe Dynamic Link (Adobe Production Studio only)” on page 632.)
Creative blur effects Recreate the effect of a defocused camera lens more easily and realistically with the new Lens
Blur, and use the new Smart Blur to create soft color without destroying fine detail. Use a variety of other blur effects
for specific situations, including Fast Blur, Box Blur, and Compound Blur. (See “Blur & Sharpen effects gallery” on
page 369.)
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