Adobe Systems announces Adobe After Effects 3.0 for Macintosh and Power Macintosh; Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator File Support, New Compositing Tools, Enhanced Motion Control, Improved Plug-ins for Multiple Effects and Keyframe Assistants

Business Wire, August 7, 1995

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 1995--Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Version 3.0 of Adobe After Effects for Macintosh and Power Macintosh, a major upgrade of the award-winning, digital post-production software application for film, broadcast video and multimedia production.

Version 3.0 provides seamless integration with the Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator programs, and adds many new and enhanced features, such as Enhanced Motion Control, Time Remapping, Keyframe Assistants, Bezier Masking, Multiple Effects per layer, Batch Rendering, as well as quality and productivity enhancements. After Effects 3.0 is being demonstrated this week on the show floor of two trade shows: at SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles Convention Center, in Adobe's booth, No. 1256, and at Macworld Expo Boston, in Adobe's booth, No. 5412.

Adobe After Effects 3.0 offers direct support for Adobe Photoshop 3.0 files with all layers and transfer modes, plus independent resolution rendering of Adobe Illustrator files. The integration with Adobe Illustrator includes the ability to maintain vector information with imported Adobe Illustrator files. Users can then scale, rotate and manipulate Adobe Illustrator files in a resolution-independent fashion. When used in concert with Adobe Premiere, which provides non-linear digital video and audio editing capabilities, this combination of Adobe software forms the core of a professional, integrated post-production suite for creating and delivering all levels of output, from QuickTime movies on CD-ROM to D-1 broadcast-quality, digital video and film resolution for special effects.

New Distribution Strategy

Adobe is also introducing a new, two-tiered distribution strategy for Adobe After Effects 3.0. Users will be able to purchase a retail version of the product through Adobe Authorized Resellers or buy a bundle tailored to the needs of professional film and video producers through Value Added Resellers (VARs).

The retail version of Adobe After Effects 3.0 includes all of the power of Version 3.0 and more than 50 special effects and addresses the needs of graphic designers now moving to dynamic media-based publishing tools, while the Adobe After Effects 3.0 Production Bundle increases the appeal to film and video professionals by including more advanced motion control, keying, distortion and device control plug-ins.

System Requirements

Minimum system requirements for Adobe After Effects 3.0 include a Macintosh II or later computer with a Floating Point Unit (FPU); Apple System Software version 7.0 or later; 6 megabytes of application RAM (8 megabytes for Power Macintosh), an 80-megabyte or larger hard drive, a color monitor and QuickTime 2.0 (included). Recommended system requirements include a Power Macintosh computer, Apple System Software version 7.5, 32 megabytes or more of application RAM, two color monitors and a 500-megabyte hard drive.

Price and Availability

The retail version of Adobe After Effects 3.0 is expected to be available from Adobe 33-6687 or 800/521-1976. The Adobe After Effectates and Canada, call 206/628-2749.

Regispurchased Version 2.0 prior to July 8, 1995, may upgrade to the Production Bundle for $99. Registered users of Version 1.0 may upgrade to the retail package of Version 3.0 for $195.

Adobe After Effects 3.0 and the Adobe After Effects 3.0 Production Bundle include the application software on CD-ROM and floppy disk. The CD-ROM also includes Adobe Acrobat(TM) Reader 2.0 on-line documents in the Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF), sample files in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop formats, as well as QuickTime movies.

CONTACT: Adobe Systems Inc.

Patricia J. Pane, 415/962-2967

ppane@adobe.com

http://www.adobe.com/