“Innovation in Motion: After Effects CS6″ with Steve Forde, seminar recording and notes
0 COMMENTSRecently, After Effects product manager Steve Forde presented a seminar introducing improvements in After Effects CS6.
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For details of all that’s new and changed in After Effects CS6, see this page. For more information about Creative Cloud, see these resources.
Steve covered a lot of useful and interesting material, both in the main presentation and in the question-and-answer segment at the end.
Here’s a brief outline of what Steve talked about, as well as some links to more information about each subject:
performance
- Global Performance Cache and persistent disk cache
- GPU (CUDA and OpenGL) acceleration features
- Fusion ioFX as one example of ultra-fast storage good for disk cache
compositing and effects
- 3D Camera Tracker effect
- Roto Brush
- mocha-AE planar tracker
- using Apply Color LUT effect to apply .Look file from SpeedGrade
- variable-width mask feather
- Cycore HD effects included, adding 12 effects and increasing color bit depth to 16-bpc or 32-bpc
- color correction and color grading in After Effects, including using color scopes
3D extrusion of text and shapes
- converting vector graphics from Illustrator to shape layers
- extruding text and shapes in 3D space
- ray-traced 3D renderer
- using Fast Draft mode
- new layer bounding boxes and selection indicators
miscellaneous and Q&A
- plug-ins for After Effects CS6: availability, updates, and SDK
- how to give feedback to After Effects team
- Adobe Product Improvement Program
where to get training and other resources