Puppet tools

• distort any image with natural, life-like motion.
• Like moving a marionette

Photoshop layer styles & video layers

• Preserve layer styles and video layers when you import a Photoshop file.
• Add and animate layer styles within After Effects
• use advanced blending options.

Video tutorials

• tutorial on importing Photoshop files: www.adobe.com/go/vid0252.

Flash integration

• export Flash® Video files with cue points that you create as markers within After Effects
• importing SWF files:
  • alpha channel is preserved
  • graphics are continuously rasterized, so they stay sharp as you scale them up.

Video tutorials:

• export to Flash Video: www.adobe.com/go/vid0262.
• export markers as cue points: www.adobe.com/go/vid0255.

Per-character 3D properties for text animation

• Move or rotate individual characters or words in 3D space.
• See Work with per-character 3D text properties.

Video tutorial

• on animating text, go to the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/go/vid0226.

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Brainstorm

• Experiment with properties
• see the results side by side
• Choose variants & use as is or as input to further experimentation.
• See Use Brainstorm to experiment and explore settings.

Improved, simpler color management

• control color for each footage item and each output item, all with a robust and simple interface, so colors look right on any output device.
• See Color management.

Export & preview video for mobile devices

• New export presets in the Export Settings dialog box make it easier to export movies suitable for playback on mobile devices, such as mobile phones and the Apple® iPod®.
• view some output types using Adobe® Device Central, which emulates many mobile devices.
• See Preview a movie on a virtual mobile device using After Effects.

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