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Keep in mind that until now, After Effects layers have pretty much always been "postcards in space"they can move around in three dimensions but cannot themselves be dimensional. The inclusion of Freeform AE, a Digieffects plug-in, changes that situation completely. After Effects has long had some great deformation tools for warping and bending an image in various ways, but until CS5 has had no way to warp or displace a layer in all three dimensions.
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