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Adobe After Effects

Score9.1 out of 10

371 Reviews and Ratings

What is Adobe After Effects?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Adobe Affer Effects Is Exactly What Video Editors Need!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For marketing and advertising projects, we used After Effects for nearly everything. From creating logos and 3D animations to creating high-quality special effects for films & movies, After Effects was a major part of the organization and the solution to all of our advanced video editing needs. The features of After Effects are unparalleled for the work that we did.

Pros

  • Title & Logo Design
  • 3D animation
  • VFX Effects
  • Video Editing
  • Chroma Key

Cons

  • More support for plugins
  • Quicker Encoding times
  • Better data recovery

Most Important Features

  • Connectivity with Other Adobe Creative Cloud Programs
  • Animation Tools
  • Professional VFX Plugins

Return on Investment

  • Every client has been satisfied with the quality of work we had done.
  • Allowed us to utilized VFX that other video editing programs do not offer.
  • Increased viewership of Video content created for clients

Other Software Used

Adobe Audition, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Premiere Pro

Best tool for Motion Graphics with a minor crashing issue.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adobe After Effects to create complex and simple animations for the eLearning Platform called Digital Learning. Adobe After Effects helps us achieve the highest standards of quality as well as efficiency in creating that content easily. It helps create engaging content faster and smarter. Adobe After Effects is the best out there. We have absolute control on what we can do.

Pros

  • Create 2D Animations
  • Create templates for managing recurring content developments
  • Creating Custom Animations for Logos and on-screen elements

Cons

  • First Off: Random Crashes
  • Working on Complex Projects on Low End Systems
  • Efficient RAM usage
  • Better Custom Scripts / Plugins support

Return on Investment

  • Adobe After Effects helped the company launch a product which is earning well above 200,000$ each year and growing from 0
  • It helped us create assets easily
  • It helped us create custom templates for repetitive elements

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe Illustrator CC

Other Software Used

Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator CC

Steep Learning Curve but Super Powered

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe After Effects to create motion graphics that combine photos with vector images for use on our company social media page. Adobe After Effects gives me the full range of capabilities to create fully personalized videos that are 100% customizable whereas other popular products do not deliver the same level of ability and customization.

Pros

  • Customizable motion
  • Utilizes both pixel and vector images
  • Allows for use of audio and audio customization alongside video

Cons

  • In my experience, Adobe After Effects is not remotely intuitive to use.
  • In my experience, complicated for beginner or very basic use
  • Many wonderful effects available, but I think the menu is frustrating to use

Return on Investment

  • Helped us create motion graphics that are above that of our competition
  • Increases interaction on our social media by helping us create more dynamic and engaging content
  • Can be time-consuming to create even short content so must be considered in advance

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe PhotoShop

Other Software Used

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe InDesign, Canva, Microsoft Powerpoint Online, Microsoft Powerpoint, Revit, BricsCAD, Microsoft Teams

Once you get past the learning curve the possibilities are endless

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adobe After Effects for Marketing and training videos. Mostly we use it to animate text, objects, infographics, and other various elements to support our marketing and other company department's needs. The videos we create are usually client facing, but sometimes for internal use to better visualize a process for training.

Pros

  • More in-depth customization for animations on text
  • Great built-in templates to simplify workflows
  • Supports plugins that help alleviate manual processes

Cons

  • Steep learning curve of the software
  • Setting up a custom workspace is a little tedious

Return on Investment

  • Saves money by using it with an in-house creative team instead of outsourcing
  • Built-in templates has improved my workflow by 25% by alleviating manual editing of keyframes

Usability

It's still a great piece of software... if you don't mind a little bloat.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

After Effects is mostly used to come up with quick motion design elements we might use on the site, emails, or even some videos. Most of it is quite small, just simple things that already enhanced what we have created, transitions between certain products, or presentations to internal members. Though occasionally we do create longer works when marketing requires it, usually being put to use on the homepage or in social media posts.

Pros

  • Easy integration with the rest of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite
  • Industry standard
  • Work can be easily continue even when switching from Mac to Windows or backwards.

Cons

  • The program itself feels "heavy" so some de-bloating would help
  • Sync workspaces to Adobe Cloud so they can be loaded automatically

Return on Investment

  • Comments saying the site feels better
  • Click through rates on emails increased
  • More engagement on social media

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe Animate

Other Software Used

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe PhotoShop, Figma