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After Effects CS5.5 to add Warp Stabilizer, 3D effects and more

by Samuel Gibbs (Apr 11th, 2011)

Adobe's been pretty focused on the mobile platform with its talk of tablet and smartphone publishing and integration of the iPad into the CS5.5 workflow, but that's not all: Adobe's visual effects package, After Effects, got some love, too. After Effects CS5.5 will bring quite a few new ...

After Effects 8.02 now available

by Christina Warren (Jan 23rd, 2008)

Note: This update does NOT fix the conflict between AE and QuickTime 7.4 that we reported here. Adobe's recommendation is still to avoid the 7.4 QuickTime update. Good news users of Adobe After Effects CS3 (8.0) who are running Leopard -- 8.02 is now available and it fixes many of the compatibility ...

After Effects 7 users: QuickTime 7.4 update a nono

by Brian Liloia (Jan 23rd, 2008)

After Effects 7 users, take note: there have been some interesting and unfortunate developments with the recent release of the QuickTime 7.4 update. Apparently, it disables After Effects 7 and will not permit users to complete rendering videos. There have been some arguments about what is causing ...

Is Safari a system resource hog?

by David Chartier (Feb 27th, 2007)

A browser doesn't seem like it should have that adverse of an effect on one's system performance. Aside from the power users who surf for hours at a time and leave their browser running for days on end, one's browser shouldn't be dragging the rest of the class down. Macenstein, on the other hand, ...

Someone finally tests Adobe apps on Rosetta vs. PPC

by David Chartier (Apr 13th, 2006)

Bare Feats has been busy with their Mac OS X vs XP tests earlier today and now this. From what I can tell, they are probably the first site to post some benchmarks of non-Intel native Adobe apps, specifically Photoshop CS2 and After Effects 7.0. Check out the machines they used, and note the ...

Adobe After Effects 7: Now with Flash export!

by C.K. Sample, III (Jan 17th, 2006)

According to MacCentral, Adobe has just released Adobe After Effects 7, which now, thanks to the recent acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe, has an export to Flash feature. The software comes in two flavors: Professional (or as I like to call it, $999 is outrageously expensive) and Standard (or $699 ...