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Adobe After Effects CS3 User Manual

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AFTER EFFECTS CS3

User Guide

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Video and animation formats

3GPP (3GP, 3G2, AMC; requires QuickTime 6.5 or later)

Adobe Clip Notes (PDF containing rendered movie)

Animated GIF (GIF)

Cineon (CIN, DPX; 16 and 32 bpc converted to 10 bpc)

ElectricImage (IMG, EIZ)

Filmstrip (FLM)

Flash (SWF)

Flash Video (FLV)

H.264 and H.264 Blu-ray

MPEG-2 (Windows and Mac OS on Intel-based Mac only)

MPEG-2 DVD (Windows and Mac OS on Intel-based Mac only)

MPEG-2 Blu-ray (Windows and Mac OS on Intel-based Mac only)

MPEG-4

OMF (media [essence] only, Windows only)

QuickTime (MOV, DV; requires QuickTime for 8 bpc and codec support for 16 bpc)

RealMedia (RAM, RM; Windows only)

Video for Windows (AVI)

Windows Media (Windows only)

After Effects can read and render QuickTime files in 16-bpc color depth. When you select a QuickTime codec that
supports 16-bpc color depth in the Output Module dialog box, such as the None16 codec, Trillions Of Colors is

available. For information on the None16 and Microcosm codecs, see the Digital Anarchy website:

www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_digitalanarchynone16

. To find out whether your video codec supports 16-bpc color depth,

contact the manufacturer directly.

Video project formats

Adobe Premiere Pro project (PRPROJ; Windows and Mac OS on Intel-based Mac only)

Still-image formats

Adobe Photoshop (PSD; 8, 16, and 32 bpc)

Bitmap (BMP, RLE)

CompuServe GIF (GIF)

Maya IFF (IFF; 16 bpc)

JPEG (JPG, JPE)

Open EXR (EXR)

Pict (PCT, PIC)

PNG (PNG; 16 bpc)

Radiance (HDR, RGBE, XYZE)

RLE (RLE)