ADOBE INTRODUCE NEW VERSION OF AFTER EFFECTS

ADOBE have announced Adobe After Effects 5.0, a new version of the company's award-winning motion graphics and visual effects software.
Adobe After Effects 5.0 offers more than one hundred new features and productivity enhancements that enable creative professionals to generate compelling content for film, video, multimedia and the Web.
Offering a superior implementation of tools that professionals demand in a leading compositing software package, the new version includes a true 3D compositing environment. In addition, new vector paint tools and 16-bit colour support expand the Production Bundle version.
Adobe say that the combination of new features along with numerous productivity enhancements will help visual effects artists and motion graphics designers explore their creative ideas and execute them with precise control.
Other new features in Adobe After Effects 5.0 include Parenting which allows users to animate layers hierarchically; Expressions which create live relationships between layer properties; masking enhancements to draw masks in the Comp window, expand masks, and add motion blur to masks; and Macromedia Flash (SWF) output which allow users to create vector animations destined for Web sites.
A complete list of the new features is available on the Adobe Web site at www.adobe.com/aftereffects. (CD)