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Online resources about new and changed features in After Effects CS5
Top new features in After Effects CS5
Other new and changed features in After Effects CS5
Online resources about new and changed features in After Effects CS5
New and changed features in After Effects CS4, CS5, and CS5.5, collected by Chris and Trish Meyer on the ProVideo Coalition website.
For information on an update to the importer software for RED (R3D) files (for the RED camera Mysterium-X sensor and new color science), see
this post on the After Effects Region of Interest blog.
In After Effects CS5, bugs were fixed for the Apple ProRes 422 and ProRes 4444 codecs. However, there were still a couple of issues. See this
post on the After Effects Region of Interest for workarounds for two issues in After Effects CS5.
See this post on the After Effects Region of Interest blog for details about the After Effects CS5 (10.0.1) update:
Several fixes and improvements for RED (R3D) import and workflow.
The Apply Color LUT effect can now use .3dl files with floating point values or 3DMESH/Mesh keywords, or those saved from an
ASSIMILATE SCRATCH system (i.e. that have SCRATCH in the comments at the top of the file).
QuickTime (.mov) files from JVC solid-state cameras can be imported.
The Vector Paint effects was removed for After Effects CS5. See these posts on the After Effects user-to-user forum for a discussion of
alternatives and feedback. This post on the After Effects Region of Interest blog has more information about giving feedback in general.
See this post on the Premiere Pro Work Area blog for information about what’s new and changed in Adobe Media Encoder CS5.
For details of new and changed features in After Effects CS4, see the After Effects CS4 Help document.
Top new features in After Effects CS5
64-bit After Effects CS5 application, with improved performance and memory features: Memory, storage, and performance
Roto Brush tool: Roto Brush and Refine Matte
Refine Matte effect: Roto Brush and Refine Matte
AVC-Intra import and improved RED (R3D) support: Supported import formats
Imagineer mocha shape for After Effects plug-in and improved mocha for After Effects planar tracker application: Resources for Imagineer
mocha shape for After Effects and Resources for mocha for After Effects (mocha-AE)
Auto-keyframe mode: Auto-keyframe mode
Apply Color LUT effect for using color lookup tables: Apply Color LUT effect
Align panel improvements, including ability to align layers to the edges and center of a composition: Align or distribute layers in 2D space
Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse 3, with support for 32-bpc color: Resources for Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse
Digieffects FreeForm: Resources for Digieffects FreeForm
Other new and changed features in After Effects CS5
Added Help > Send Feedback command, which opens a web browser to the feature-request and bug-report form on the Adobe website.
Projects and compositions changes
The default composition settings are now for a 30-second 1920x1080 HDTV composition: Composition settings
In previous versions, if you were entering or editing text when it was time for an auto-save, you would be forced out of text-editing mode.
Now, if you're in text-editing mode when it's time for an auto-save, that auto-save is skipped: Save and back up projects in After Effects CS5
The Frame Rate control in the Composition Settings dialog box now includes a menu that allows you to select from a list of common frame
rates: Change frame rate for a composition

The composition background color setting is now located in the Composition Settings dialog box instead of on the Composition menu, and
the keyboard shortcut for accessing only the composition background color has been removed: Composition settings
When you double-click a precomposition layer when the Roto Brush tool or a paint tool is active, the precomposition layer opens in a Layer
panel. To open the nested composition in a Composition panel instead, Alt-double-click (Windows) or Option-double-click (Mac OS) the
precomposition layer: Opening and navigating nested compositions