What's new in After Effects CS5
Native 64-bit OS support new
Work fluidly on high-resolution projects — even at 32-bit-per-channel color inside HD, 2K, and 4K compositions. Use all of your system's RAM. View a list of 64-bit third-party plug-ins.
Roto Brush
Isolate foreground elements from backgrounds in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take using this revolutionary new tool.
AVC-Intra and enhanced RED support
Work natively with tapeless footage from the newest high-quality Panasonic cameras thanks to AVC-Intra 50 and AVC-Intra 100 support. Take advantage of improved support for RED R3D formats, and gain additional controls for working with raw footage. Do more with tapeless workflows
Dozens of enhancements
Benefit from dozens of customer-requested refinements that yield big productivity gains — such as the ability to align layers to comps.
Color Finesse enhanced
Enjoy an enhanced color correction workflow with the new features, finer control over hue and saturation, and ability to export settings as color lookup tables (LUTs) in Color Finesse LE 3.
DigiEffects FreeForm
Turn flat objects into virtually any 3D shape using this popular 3D mesh warp plug-in.
Expand your video options
Include After Effects elements in Adobe Premiere® Pro timelines without rendering intermediate files, thanks to Dynamic Link. Animate 3D objects created in Adobe Photoshop® Extended and combine them with other video and graphical elements.
Do more with Creative Suite® Production Premium
Videomocha including variable width mask feather and trackable masks
Mocha for After Effects v2 enhanced
Apply motion tracking to hand-drawn masks and import variable-width mask feathers. The powerful mocha shape plug-in is also included.
Auto-Keyframe Mode
Animate quickly by setting starting keyframes automatically.
Color LUT support
Get consistent color in your workflow by using industry-standard 3DL and CUBE lookup tables.
Refine Matte effect new
Apply intelligent edge tracking, dechattering, and motion blurring capabilities to any layer with a problematic alpha channel, such as keyed footage.
Adobe AfterEffects CS5 only works on a 64-bit system.