Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects

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Motion graphics and VFX solution for graphic designers

About Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects is a motion graphics and VFX solution designed to help businesses create cinematic title animations, introductory videos, and transitions via a unified platform. It enables graphic designers to remove unwanted objects and add fire or rain animation and visual effects in videos.

Adobe After Effects allows organizations to animate logos or characters, edit text, and combine videos and photos to create media clips. Professionals can use the application to design virtual reality (VR) videos, configure keyframes, and capture and store digital content in a centralized repository.

Adobe After Effects lets administrators import files from various Adobe applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, Character Animator, Animate, and more.


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Value for Money
4.2/5
Features
4.7/5
Ease of Use
3.9/5
Customer Support
4.1/5

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Revanth
Revanth
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best ever Advanced software Video editing

Reviewed on 2021/09/22

Adobe after effects is best class video editing software. Their are a lot of software for editing...

Adobe after effects is best class video editing software. Their are a lot of software for editing videos but with after effects you can do next level editing because not only their are a lot of inbuilt features but you can add more with help of plugins.

Pros

Adobe After effects is the best software for video editing. Complex and Advanced editing can done easily, it is like just built for creating Amazing video edits. Huge number of features are their for editing videos in
different ways. Not only a lot of features are their but we can add more custom features using Plugins. Rendering speed is also amazing.
When it comes for editing, to learn, it will take some time, the more complex or advanced your editing is, the more you have to learn as a beginner. Interface is best and maintenance of tabs with features are made to edit video faster and effective. So if their is a need for software to edit videos, After effects best ever choice and highly recommended.

Cons

If the system has lower specifications and suppose you are rending an highly complex video that is just edited, it will take very very long time to render and sometime software will even crash. So always it needs high specs system. System will heat up quickly not only while rendering but also during editing, so cooling device is must if you want to save the system's life.

Jeremy
Jeremy
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  • Industry: Media Production
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

After Effects: The Gold Standard for Motion Design

Reviewed on 2022/03/31

I've been using AE for two decades now, and it is truly unrivalled in many ways. Despite some...

I've been using AE for two decades now, and it is truly unrivalled in many ways. Despite some strong competition out there from Apple and BlackMagic Design, AE remains the industry standard, and for good reason.

Pros

The very best thing about After Effects is the sheer power under the hood. You can do everything from basic video editing & titles, to complex 3D rendering and motion tracking. And the tight integration with other Adobe apps, plus the familiar interface design will make jumping in easier for most industry professionals.

Cons

In After Effects, you have to hit "Render" to see even the most basic video playback, and as soon as you start adding any content to the timeline, you have to knock back the preview quality to 1/4, and wait, wait, wait for frames to render. This can make editing tedious.

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve

Reasons for Switching to Adobe After Effects

Industry standard quality and tight Adobe integration.
Jonathan
Jonathan
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  • Industry: Media Production
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

Heavy software, can be difficult to learn

Reviewed on 2022/02/13

Pros

There are lots of features and you can install plugins to make your workflow faster and easier and further expand the functionality and features.

Cons

The features can also be a con, it can take a long time for a new user to get used to the interface, it's an overload and we end up trimming the interface down so there is not too much going on.

After Effects can be really heavy on your computer and is prone to crashing.

It's part of Adobe, which has some of the worst customer support in existence.

Melanie
Melanie
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  • Industry: Graphic Design
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

As a student...

Reviewed on 2023/10/23

For now, it continues to surprise me, and this newer version has a look and feel and a working...

For now, it continues to surprise me, and this newer version has a look and feel and a working dynamic, which motivates me to learn to use the program to the fullest and create more animations.

Pros

I learned to use after effects during high school. Currently I use it on my own mainly to animate my Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, or Illustrator designs. After Effects has made it very easy for me to create short videos, looping sequences or even create animations with stop motion style graphics. I think it is a program that allows you to have absolute control over your ideas and creativity, and above all, a program that is very easy to learn and understand. I really like the fact that you can modify the files within the program and link them directly after opening them in photoshop. I also like that you can import default effects or designs.

Cons

I don't like that at the time of exporting, the time it takes to render in video, however short or long it may be, you have to wait a long time. In most cases, if not all, the quality is quite good and I can't complain about that.

Gonzalo
Gonzalo
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The undisputed leader of animation

Reviewed on 2021/12/10

Thanks to After Effects I was able to vastly improve the final quality of our videos and webinars,...

Thanks to After Effects I was able to vastly improve the final quality of our videos and webinars, supporting myself with the variety of templates found on the net for free and/or paid.

Pros

Adobe After Effects has a great ability to bring what happens in the designer's mind. It proposes almost infinite freedoms to carry out animation works such as transitions, stop motions, introductions for logos, among others. It provides results of as good quality as the designer intends, but it also solves many problems automatically thanks to the filters, effects, and shortcuts.

Cons

After Effects is very resource-intensive. It is clear that you need a fairly powerful computer to run this software, as well as to render videos. It is somewhat complex if you are not used to this kind of software. Not ideal for video editing, I prefer Premiere for this.

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Adobe After Effects FAQs

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Adobe After Effects offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$31.49/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Adobe After Effects has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Adobe After Effects supports the following languages:

English

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Adobe After Effects offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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