Video Effects

Adobe* After Effects* 7 software delivers a comprehensive set of tools to efficiently produce motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web. The After Effects* 7 Production Bundle provides core compositing, animation and effects tools, 16-bit color support, vector paint capabilities, network rendering, and additional powerful keying, motion control, visual effects, 3D channel, and audio tools.

The workload applies different filters and effects to a variety of input file types including Photoshop* PSD, Illustrator AI and EPS, TIF, and QuickTime* MOV files. Some of the filters and effects include: blur, bulge, color key, frame blending, glow, motion blurring, fading, 2D and 3D manipulation, shadows, echo, median, radial blur, and invert. After each filter is applied, the composition is rendered to an uncompressed AVI movie file of the same resolution as the input file(s).

For this test, you will need to download and install Quicktime* from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ and you'll also need a full commercial version of Adobe* After Effects* 7.

1. Purchase the Standard Bundle of Adobe* After Effects* 7.

2. Install After Effects* with the default settings.

3. Copy the supplied AE7_Workload-seg folder from the CD to your C:\ drive.

4. Reboot the computer.

5. When the system reboot finishes, start After Effects from the start menu,

6. Go to the file menu and select open project.

7. Type in the path for the file called test_all_AE70seg.aep in the file name box. Example: C:\AE7_workload\test_all_AE70seg.aep.

8. Click OK.

9. You should see the Render Queue window. Click on Render.

10. Click OK in the next 10 dialog boxes. The After Effects* 7 project will automatically generate footage files internally.

11. When the After Effects rendering has completed the time it took to do the test will be automatically written out to a text tile.

12. Close After Effects WITHOUT saving the project.

13. The rendering time text file is located in the folder AE Project Logs where your project file is located.

14. Open the text file and scroll down to the bottom. You will see Total Time Elapsed and then a time.

15. This is the total time it took to complete the After Effects* Workload.

16. Lower time means better performance.

17. To run the test again, delete all the files in the C:\AE7_workload-seg\Output directory.

18. Reboot the system and go back to step 5.

You can download a PDF version of this SEG here.

You can also download the input data for this SEG here as well.