Adobe Systems Adobe After Effects 6.5 has strong features, including two especially compelling features, and is bundled with integrated products from Synthetic Aperture and GridIron. The Video Collaboration is worth the price and then some, but even without it, After Effects 6.5 would still be a highly recommended upgrade. After Effects 6.5 is part of a workflow solution and is very close to providing a level of function that makes the Creative Suite and Video Collection as near to a total 2D media solution as testers have seen. Adobe is focusing on integration, and Premiere Pro and After Effects work in tandem to allow users to copy/paste keyframes back and forth and edit them in either package. There are a few Windows-only exceptions in After Effects 6.5's features, but, for Macintosh users, Adobe supports the Advanced Authoring Format. Adobe After Effects 6.5 provides enhanced previewing, including stronger OpenGL support via a new OpenGL engine; Targeted Preview; Video Preview; and support for other OpenGL improvements. RAM caching is better with disk caching, but users can also supercharge RAM playback with X-Factor from Gridiron, which is one of many Adobe After Effects 6.5 bundles. Adobe After Effects 6.5 is an almost incredibly excellent value that also includes image-editing enhancements, robust Grain filters, animation presets, a reworked Clone tool with the added Clone Source Overlay, an improved Paint tool, some good new tracking features, guide layers for image and text alignment, and support for 3GB of RAM in Windows XP.