After Effects
After Effects was originally created by the Company of Science and Art] in Providence, RI, USA, where the first two versions of the software, 1.0 & 1.1, were released by the company in 1993. CoSA along with After Effects was then acquired by Aldus corporation in July 1993, which was then acquired by Adobe in 1994, and with it PageMaker and After Effects. Adobe's first new release of After Effects was version 3.0.
The following is the list versions of After Effects over the years, with the inclusion of the first two versions released by CoSA.
Provider |Date |Version |Codename |Major features added | |CoSA |January 1993 |1.0 |Egg |layered compositing with mask, effect, transforms, keyframes; Mac only | | |May 1993 |1.1 | |more effects | |Aldus |January 1994 |2.0 |Teriyaki |Time Layout window, multi-machine rendering, frame blending | |Adobe |October 1995 |3.0 |Nimchow |render queue, bezier masking, time remapping, keyframe assistants, multiple effects per layer, velocity graph, motion tracker, motion math, first Japanese version, layer transfer modes, continuously rasterize Illustrator files, Photoshop as comp import with layer/transfer mode/alpha channel support, 3:2 pulldown, non-square pixel support, proxies | | |April 1996 |3.1 | |file formats, multiprocessing, advanced keying, wiggler, motion sketch, smoother; last Mac 680x0 version | | |May 1997 |3.1 (Windows 95/NT) |Dancing Monkey |first Windows version, contextual menus, first French & German versions; in November 1997, Path Text effect and Animated GIF output were released for free to registered users of 3.1[1] | | |January 1999 |4.0 |ebeer |tabbed windows, movable time layout columns, multiple masks per layer, warping effects, particle playground, audio effects, transform effect, adjustment layers, align palette, rulers & guides, RAM preview, glows/blurs no longer clip at layer edge, Premiere import, label colors in timeline; first simultaneous Mac & Windows release | | |September 1999 |4.1 |Batnip
The following is the list versions of After Effects over the years, with the inclusion of the first two versions released by CoSA.
Provider |Date |Version |Codename |Major features added | |CoSA |January 1993 |1.0 |Egg |layered compositing with mask, effect, transforms, keyframes; Mac only | | |May 1993 |1.1 | |more effects | |Aldus |January 1994 |2.0 |Teriyaki |Time Layout window, multi-machine rendering, frame blending | |Adobe |October 1995 |3.0 |Nimchow |render queue, bezier masking, time remapping, keyframe assistants, multiple effects per layer, velocity graph, motion tracker, motion math, first Japanese version, layer transfer modes, continuously rasterize Illustrator files, Photoshop as comp import with layer/transfer mode/alpha channel support, 3:2 pulldown, non-square pixel support, proxies | | |April 1996 |3.1 | |file formats, multiprocessing, advanced keying, wiggler, motion sketch, smoother; last Mac 680x0 version | | |May 1997 |3.1 (Windows 95/NT) |Dancing Monkey |first Windows version, contextual menus, first French & German versions; in November 1997, Path Text effect and Animated GIF output were released for free to registered users of 3.1[1] | | |January 1999 |4.0 |ebeer |tabbed windows, movable time layout columns, multiple masks per layer, warping effects, particle playground, audio effects, transform effect, adjustment layers, align palette, rulers & guides, RAM preview, glows/blurs no longer clip at layer edge, Premiere import, label colors in timeline; first simultaneous Mac & Windows release | | |September 1999 |4.1 |Batnip