What's new in After Effects CS5

Here it is:
"What's new in After Effects CS5"

> -Still no real 3D or ability to import 3D-files without Photoshop. The
experiences with Photoshop import were not very good with CS4 and I
didn't read about any work done on that in the change list. I hope I'm
wrong on this one!
There has been quite a lot of work to improve stability, but the overall feature is the same in After Effects. Because Photoshop has some additions, you can make more useful things in Photoshop, so overall it's an improvement. See this post.
-I was really really hoping that this would be implemented in  AE CS5 http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancement.htm After all, there is an adobe employee involved with project. So this  was a bit disappointing for me, but I guess I just have to wait a bit  longer.
I was really annoyed at all of the YouTube videos that said that was going to be in CS5. It just goes to show that you can't believe what you see on the Internet. ;-)
Seriously, though, those folks are just down the hall from me, and they are always doing great stuff---much of which eventually makes it into products. Several of the cool features from this and previous release have come in part from them. So, don't lose hope.

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