Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects

366 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe After Effects	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	Adobe After Effects allows users to create cinematic movie titles, intros, and transitions, remove an object from a clip, start a fire or make it rain, or animate a logo or character. The vendor states that with After Effects, users can apply motion-graphics and animation to any digital object.	$20.99 Per User Per Month

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Adobe After Effects

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Annual Plan (Paid Monthly): $20.99
Per User Per Month
Monthly Plan: $31.49
Per User Per Month
Annual Plan (Prepaid): $239.88
Per User Per Year

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Adobe After Effects
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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	Adobe After Effects
Considered Both Products	Adobe After Effects Avery Chipman Interior Designer Chose Adobe After Effects I've created videos with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe PhotoShop (with the GIF function), as well as Canva and other online products. Adobe Premiere Pro does not have the same capabilities for creating vector-based content, meaning if that is necessary, Adobe After Effects is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Adobe After Effects AE can take elements from each one of these softwares and bring them to life. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Adobe After Effects Don't know about any other tools in the market which can replace Adobe After Effects Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe After Effects Because they are part of the Creative Cloud platform, all Adobe software. They are well integrated into each other. If I create a vector in Illustrator and save it, load it up in After Effects, and notice that I need to adjust it? Well I don't have to fully close out of After … Incentivized Helpful? Miko Mikaela Garcia Graphics Video Editor Specialist Chose Adobe After Effects A lot more features and support through Adobe with After Effects Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects stands out for its comprehensive set of tools for creating motion graphics, visual effects, and animations. Its seamless integration with other Adobe software, vast community, and extensive tutorials make it user-friendly. It offers a wide range of 2D and 3D … Incentivized Helpful? Romi Kalathiya App/Game Designer \| UI/UX & Prototype Expert \| Motion Graphics \| Video Editor \| GIF \| JSON Chose Adobe After Effects [Adobe After Effects] is a beast and VEGAS Pro is just a baby when compared to Adobe. It doesn't match [Adobe After Effects] when it comes to the feature and performance it offers. Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Adobe After Effects I have used Adobe Premiere Pro, Camtasia, Microsoft Powerpoint, and Apple Keynote. All of these programs allow you to do some level of animation. However, Adobe After Effects is specifically designed to create advanced and dynamic effects and animations for video. Though you … Incentivized Helpful? AR Alexander Ross-Edwards Motion Designer Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects is a great bridge from still graphics and vector, to motion graphics. The integration with Premiere makes things work seamlessly and the way it can ustilise native PSDs and ai files makes working in Adobe After Effects ideal for most clients. Incentivized Helpful? Hannan Shahid Sales Team Lead Chose Adobe After Effects The other tools we use are part of the Adobe CC Family and they complement each other very well. We chose Adobe After Effects because it is far superior in terms of functionality and output to any other application in the market and it met our design needs perfectly well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe After Effects In Adobe After we can do Motion Graphics, 2d Animation, Text Animation, 3d Animation, Video Editing, Chroma Key Cutting, Visual Effects, Color grading, Motion Tracking all this can be done in After Effects only, and I have been using this software quite a while so it's a … Helpful? Salomi Rai Junior Animator Chose Adobe After Effects Compared to other software, Adobe After Effects is more useful for motion graphics and composition. Adobe After Effects is simpler and easier to use for video editing and adding effects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects is available for both windows and macOS with no software level performance degradation. Final cut pro is available only for Mac os on apple devices which let's file sharing between windows difficult. File sizes also vary for same level of editing. After … Incentivized Helpful? LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Chose Adobe After Effects Before switching to Adobe After Effects we were using Camtasia Studio to edit videos and it's a great video editing software but it couldn't provide us with the complex video effects that we needed to implement for our videos so we switched it to After Effects for that purpose. Incentivized Helpful? IS Isabel Sam Owner Chose Adobe After Effects Photoshop is good for simple video editing, but it doesn't have animation or audio help and it takes a while to get your video put together in a way that looks good. iMovie is also just for simpler video editing and lacks the extras that After Effects have that really turn your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe After Effects We use these tools in conjunction with After Effects not as a replacement. Apple Motion does many of the same things as After Effects and in some ways is more intuitive. However, After Effects is bundled with software we absolutely must use and is the industry standard. New … Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Morimitsu Social Media and Marketing Adminstrator Chose Adobe After Effects Because of our use of other Adobe products, and how they all play well together, we never really looked at using any other product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Adobe After Effects It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud that I sign monthly and is full of possibilities. Most of them I've not yet explored. Adobe has a large library of tutorials and we can find a huge number of tutorials on YouTube for free to teach how to use it better or find some plugins … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe After Effects I find Adobe After Effects to be superior to iMovie and Final Cut Pro in that I am able to do much more with the software. It isn't as limiting as the other two. I also like that it isn't an Apple product. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Apple. There is a bigger learning … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro are quite similar in the sense of their functionalities as far as I'm aware and the interfaces are more or less similar. But Adobe After Effects is preferred over Final Cut Pro mostly because of the fact that it is part of the Adobe … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe After Effects iMovie motion graphics limitations are just that, limitations. Motion Graphics in [Adobe] After Effects are very easy. [Adobe] After Effects opens many more doors for typography, visuals, and 3D animations that are leaps and bounds cooler than anything you can do in iMovie. … Incentivized Helpful? ANDREW TOUTANT Sr. Designer / Art Direction Chose Adobe After Effects After Effects is more versatile for animations than Premiere for sure. And now, with the .mogrt templates, it can be great for keeping consistent animations and branding guides when sharing work with other animators and editors. I also like their 3d plugins and advanced … Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Adobe After Effects The family apps advantage puts Adobe After Effects at a higher preference for me, but I have heard that Final Cut Pro is also great if you deal with footage and animation. Incentivized Helpful? RT Ryan Treleven Technology Trainer Chose Adobe After Effects I haven’t used any direct competitors. I’ve used plenty of other paid and free photo and video editing programs, but none as full featured and powerful as After Effects, which makes it a pretty simple choice to use and buy if you need something that can perform like it can! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe Illustrator is used for creating templates, logos, cartoons but you can animate the beautiful logo or cartoon with the help of a camera and 3D space, it worth the experience no matter what... Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Adobe After Effects
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (39 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (7 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe After Effects
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe I would recommend Adobe After Effects to a colleague above all other comparable software that I have used, however, with the caveat that it can be time-consuming to learn to use and can be frustrating if you are not familiar with the software. Difficulty aside, once you begin to understand how to use Adobe After Effects, it is the only software for the job. Incentivized Avery Chipman Interior Designer Read full review
Pros	Adobe Adobe After Effects allows you to exercise a great level of control over how to animate just about every aspect of an object. You can control animation speed of entry and exit, the direction of rotation, scale, position, and so many more attributes. Adobe After Effects is so popular that you can find so many paid and free third-party plug-ins and scripts to incorporate into your project. There is such a breadth and depth of features available in Adobe After Effects, you will never get tired of exploring the program and using its many features to take your projects to new heights Adobe After Effects works well with other products in the Adobe Creative Suites including, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Media Encoder Adobe After Effects allows you to customize the setup of your workspace and panels Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Adobe I would like the Re-Link file structure to mimic Premiere. I would like to see native .obj importing and manipulation. I would like to see better audio editing available within Adobe After Effects. if it could be given a separate layer/panel. Incentivized AR Alexander Ross-Edwards Motion Designer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Adobe I will renew my use of After Effects since it's affordable and always has been reliable. They also always continue to update new features and add new things to compete with other software out there. I also like all the 3rd party plugins out there that keep my interest for the future and new toolsets and creative solutions. ANDREW TOUTANT Sr. Designer / Art Direction Read full review
Usability	Adobe There's a lot of features and functionality that Adobe After Effects offers that can be hard to navigate at times. Depending on the depth you plan to use the software for, that can take some time to learn. The built-in templates and tutorials really help soften that learning curve. Once you get past some of the basics, it's fairly simple to use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Adobe Adobe customer support is wonderful. They genuinely care about their product and the end user experience. The products they create have always been innovative and continue to improve. They have a huge chunk of the user market in their field and still strive to improve. This is such a big deal for me and other small business/organizations that need their products and don't have a large voice on our own. Incentivized Nicole Rayne Director of Design Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Adobe I find Adobe After Effects to be superior to iMovie and Final Cut Pro in that I am able to do much more with the software. It isn't as limiting as the other two. I also like that it isn't an Apple product. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Apple. There is a bigger learning curve with After Effects, but once you get the hang of it, there's really no comparison. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Adobe Adobe After Effects has a great impact on business as maximum work can be done in one software To run this software you need to have good configuration system Motion Graphics, 2d Animation and video editing can be done in one software Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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