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You are here: Home > NEW! Adobe Creative Suite 4! > Adobe CS4 Products > Adobe After Effects version comparison
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After Effects CS4


After Effects CS3


Flexible 2D and 3D compositing and animation
2D and 3D element combination
Streamlined user interface for designing 3D compositions
Unified camera tool
Multiple, versatile 3D cameras for each composition
Camera data
Multiple 3D lights with shadows
Adjustment lights
Material options for each 3D layer
Projection layers and colored shadows
Real-time design with OpenGL acceleration
Parenting
Adjustment layers
Stencil, Silhouette, and Preserve Transparency
Subpixel positioning
Adaptive motion blur
Nested compositions
Collapse Transformations
Overlay and Ripple Insert Edit; Lift, Extract, and Trim Comp to Work Area    
Text and vector graphics creation and animation
Intuitive text creation and versatile text animation with per-character 3D text
Shape Layers
Shape path operators
Text conversion to shapes or masks
Web-ready text animations
Solid layers
Continuous rasterization
Extensive visual effects
Support for Adobe Pixel Bender™
Cartoon effect
Blur and Sharpen effects
Channel effects
Color-correction effects
Distortion effects
Stylize effects
Generation effects
Noise and grain management effects
Perspective effects
Simulation effects
Text effects
Time effects
Utility effects
3D channel effects
Cycore effects
Transition effects
Effects & Presets palette
Placeholders for missing effects
Robust selection of third-party plug-ins and effects
Pristine color
32-bit floating-point pipeline
Flexible 8-, 16-, and 32-bit color modes
Support for HDR image formats
Color Finesse™
Color profiles on input
Project working space
Output profiles
Monitor compensation
Creative building blocks
Built-in creative tools
Template compositions
Animation presets
Text animation presets
Shape presets
Automated animation
Brainstorm
Unmatched Adobe integration
Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended 3D workflow and video layer support
Adobe Flash® integration
Adobe Device Central integration
Adobe Photoshop CS4 HDR image and text support
Photoshop layer style support
Adobe Illustrator® CS4 integration
Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4 integration
Enhanced Adobe Premiere Pro integration with Dynamic Link (Production Premium Only)
Adobe Encore® CS4 integration
Adobe Bridge CS4
Clip Notes
Familiar Adobe look and feel
Adobe Community Help
Online LiveDocs
Timesaving tools and interface
Searchable timelines and projects and easier nested comp navigation
Custom workspaces
Grids, guides, and safe areas
User-modifiable interface
Multiple views
Quick arrangement of multiple layers
Targetable Layer panel
Guide Layers
Project management tools
Interpretation rules
Easy to learn and use
Outstanding performance
Multiprocessor and multicore support
Network rendering
Real-time, high-fidelity OpenGL support
RAM previews
Disk caching
Layer and Composition proxies
Powerful keying and masking tools for fluid compositing
Keylight
Unlimited masks
Imported masks
Mask animations
Combined masks
Auto-trace
RotoBezier masks
Mask interpolation
Track mattes
Color Difference Key
Numerous other specialized keying effects
Inner/Outer Key
Spill Suppressor
Matte Choker and Simple Choker
Powerful motion and keyframing controls
Mocha for Adobe After Effects from Imagineer Systems for 2.5D planar motion tracking
Ability to keyframe x, y, and z values independently
Puppet tool
Multiple keyframe interpolation types
Roving keyframes
Frame blending modes
Timewarp
Time remapping
Motion Sketch and Smoother
Motion Tracker
Motion Stabilizer
Wiggler
Exponential Scale
Auto-orientation
Audio-to-keyframe conversion
Time Displacement
Expressions
Graph editor for precise keyframing
Value and Speed graphs
Value graphs for spatial properties
Selected properties display
One-button eases
Free transform
Snapping keyframes
Scalable view
Integrated Expression editor
Nondestructive vector painting
Customizable brushes
Advanced Clone tool
Animated paint strokes
Eraser tool
Wacom tablet support
Command-line automation with scripting
Menu of preset commands
Text-editing palettes
Debug menu
Profile
Integrated palette-based interface
XML project file format
32-bit audio tools
Multiformat support
Automatic sample rate conversion
Advanced audio effects
Audio controls per layer
Audio-driven visual effects
Audio-to-keyframe conversion
Professional results for every media type
XMP metadata for asset intelligence
Batch rendering
Flexible render settings and output modules
Easy delivery of multiple formats
Extensive support for industry-standard formats
Adobe Media Encoder
Exportable markers