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Adobe After Effects CS6

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Adobe® After Effects® CS6 software lets you deliver cinematic visual effects and motion graphics faster than ever before with new Global Performance Cache. Extend your creativity with built-in text and shape extrusion, new mask feathering options, and the fast, easy-to-use 3D Camera Tracker.

 

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Create visual effects with enhanced precision and new creative options

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Challenge creative bounds. Use the 3D Camera Tracker to smoothly integrate animated 3D objects with 2D video footage. Make effects look the way you intended using variable mask feathering and mocha for After Effects CS6 from Imagineer Systems Ltd.

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