Adobe® creative suite® 5.5 after effects®

Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 After Effects®
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Welcome to Adobe® After Effects®. This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips not covered in the After Effects documentation.
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Minimum system requirements
Windows®
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64-bit support required: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Core™ i3, i5, or i7 or AMD Phenom® II recommended)
64-bit operating system required: Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium,
Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 or Windows® 7
2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
3GB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices) 1280x800 display with OpenGL 2.0-compatible graphics card
7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model
DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs;
Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)
QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features
Adobe Flash® Player 10 software required to export SWF files and to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files
Broadband Internet connection required for online services and Creative Suite
Subscription Edition software*
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Multicore Intel® processor with 64-bit support
Mac OS X v10.5.8 or v10.6
2GB of RAM
4GB of available hard-disk space plus 2GB of space for optional content; additional free space required during installation