Adobe After Effects CS6

Adobe After Effects CS6

Adobe After Effects CS6 is an advanced consumer grade video post-production tool. It can be used for creating special effects in the video and also offers retouching which helps in making professional quality videos as well. This is the perfect tool that helps the users of Adobe Premier to add additional great effects to their videos. Though this software is available for all Mac computers, Adobe has now shifted to a subscription based model rather than the licensed software purchase. Therefore, you would now have to make a shift to the Adobe Creative Cloud or Adobe CC to use this software.

The Adobe After Effects CS6 has been successful in providing professional grade video editing options to the consumers. As it forms a part of the Adobe CC suite, it integrated with the rest of the Adobe products quite seamlessly. If the users wish, they can get some really good effects from Photoshop and Illustrator software by Adobe as well. The users can make video broadcasts, make films or even deliver their work for mobile devices or online viewing. This tool can be compared with Adobe’s path breaking photo editing tool Photoshop. The After Effects CS6 is quite the same, except the fact that it has been designed solely for video. The effects are quite similar to Photoshop, but with a different name. Therefore, those who have already used Photoshop would take less time to get used to the effects.

The RotoBrush, for example, is quite similar to Photoshop’s Magic Wand. However, the software does come with some tools that are designed especially for video. The Auto-Keyframe feature helps in creating video key frames automatically. This helps in applying effects in a better way and even add Mesh effects in the 3D version which helps control distortions of the image. The tool also comes with many plugins like Mocha and Color Finesse. With the new upgrade to creative cloud, there is now an all new 3D pipeline as well. Plus, the users can show use Behance for sharing their work as well.

The automatic functionalities of the software have been improved which means that now the files are auto saved, the image sequence folders are also auto created and more. The workflow has now become more organized and structures. Overall, for those who have the time to learn, it is a good pick.