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Version 5.0 of Adobe Systems' After Effects software, which shipped last spring, marked "our first foray into 3D compositing," says Adobe's senior product manager Steve Kilisky. The latest iteration of the popular motion graphics and visual effects package, Version 5.5, heads further into 3D territory with features developed especially for users of Alias/Wavefront's Maya and Discreet's 3ds max modeling and animation software. Chief among these are the ability to bring in camera data from Maya and 3ds max scenes. All XYZ rotations and zooms are preserved so that "users no longer have to coordinate manually with the After Effects camera," says Kilisky. The new version also offers support for more 16-bit formats, so that users can read and write to IFF, RLA, RPE or SGI files.

Additional improvements include user-requested features such as colored ...

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