Unleash Creative Brilliance with Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects helps with organization through visual consistency, project structure, asset management, efficient editing, animation …
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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…
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UCSC Silicon Valley Extension (Education Management, 11-50 employees)
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$20.99
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Per User Per Month
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$31.49
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$239.88
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Per User Per Year
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- No setup fee
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- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Adobe After Effects Lesson 8 - DEMO Sand Text (Blowing Sand Effect)
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New in Adobe After Effects! Remove Anything from Video with Content Aware Fill (April 2019)
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.9.
The most common users of Adobe After Effects are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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August 18, 2023
Unleash Creative Brilliance with Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects helps with organization through visual consistency, project structure, asset management, efficient editing, animation presets, collaboration, version control, export options, reusable templates, and workflow integration in post-production.
- Motion Graphics
- Animation
- Compositing
- VFX
- Render
- 3D
- Interface
- Motion Graphics and Animation
- 3D Integration
- Text and Typography
- Transitions and Effects
- Enhanced Visual Appeal
- Effective Marketing and Advertising
- Higher Engagement and Sharing
- Product Demonstrations
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 capabilities, advanced tracking and keying options, and a robust particle system. While some alternatives excel in specific niches, After Effects' versatility, industry-standard status, and continuous updates have solidified its position as a go-to choice for professionals across diverse creative fields, ensuring efficient workflows and exceptional visual storytelling.
October 11, 2021
Adobe After Effects isn't just for film!
We use Adobe After Effects as our video editing software of choice, from our training videos to short gifs on social media. It allows our video presentations to be clean, professional, and engaging. We've also used it to produce stills for background images. It is our plan to increase our usage of this software over the next few years, as we develop more video content for both our curricula and social media presence.
- Video editing
- Special Effects
- Lighting Effects
- The newest version of AE no longer has a scroll bar at the bottom of the timeline, this makes it really hard to stay zoomed in and move through a project slowly.
- video editing
- chroma key features
- Being able to produce professional quality video is crucial for customer buy in and presentation.
I did not purchase any additional or premium support for our organization's Adobe products. The support staff at the standard level is excellent. I feel like any issues we've ever had (and they are never major and are always resolved quickly) have been handled with care and enthusiasm towards a combined goal, rather than the us vs you approach some subscription companies can have.
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We had questions about educational vs nonprofit pricing. A real human emailed and then called me on the phone to follow up and ensure that we had the answers we were looking for. They also provided their direct contact information in order to resolve any further questions that may have arisen later. The personal care was above my expectations.
We use Adobe After Effects primarily to design short animations for marketing email. After Effects is the best solution for this since we can design the assets in other Adobe programs such as Photoshop, XD and illustrator. Additionally, we use After Effects to create online display ads and even short (one minute or less) videos for broadcast.
- After Effects is great for creating motion content once and easily exporting it to various formats such as web, broadcast, GIF, etc.
- After Effects is the industry standard for motion graphics. While I’m an Apple user and have used Motion in the past it is not as feature rich and most clients will expect you to use After Effects.
- After Effects is great for complex UI animation. Tools like principle and Flinto are great but are quite cumbersome for complex UI animations.
- Developer handoff. Competing UI design tools allow designers to share CSS and C+/Swift code for developers to recreate animations. After Effects requires third party plugins to do so.
- Functions like GIF export have been removed and moved to Media Encoder. Media Encoder can be launched directly from After Effects but the reasoning behind the decision is unclear. Similar features have not been removed and it creates a unneeded learning curve for new users.
- Resizing is done form the center of an object where as CSS always originates from top left. By not being able to toggle the origin point the user has to do a lot of math on their end.
- Motion Design
- GIF export
- UI mockup
- It’s included in our Adobe CC subscription so it really cost us nothing since we need Photoshop and Illustrator to do our jobs.
- Clients cleft rich animation. After Effects allows us to deliver and bill appropriately.
- Experienced users can create outstanding animation that “looks” expensive and bill appropiately.
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 hires are more likely to have After Effects experience than competing platforms which is a no brainer. It really is the industry standard.
In our higher education institution, Adobe After Effects is primarily used by creative units around campus, primarily by marketing professionals and instructional media producers. It allows for these roles to create high-fidelity, professional animations, and graphics for use in a variety of deliverable formats. The complexity and depth of After Effects require training and a high degree of comfort/familiarity with the program to ensure that the user is able to create what they want. As such, its usage across the institution is limited.
- If you can dream it, you can probably create it in After Effects. With a host of features, 3rd-party plugins, and a high degree of customizability, After Effects is an agile platform for video/graphic compositing.
- After Effects integrates well with other Adobe products such as Premiere Pro. If you make an edit in one, it reflects in the other without having to render out a full project. This is a huge time saver.
- After Effects has served as the industry standard for many years now, which means there is a plethora of resources online and in print to help new (and current!) users locate information when they need it.
- At first blush, After Effects' UI is overwhelming. Even after a decade of using it, I still get lost at times.
- While the base-level product is fine for a lot of basic projects, anything with any kind of complexity is going to require 3rd-party plugins which can be rather expensive.
- While this is not specific to After Effects, it is unfortunate that all of Adobe's products in the Creative Suite require the user to maintain a subscription. Subscription-based models benefit the company, not the user.
- Highly customizable and powerful engine for composition
- Easy to use integration with other Adobe products (such as Premiere Pro)
- Strong community of help around the product in form of tutorials, walkthroughs, etc.
- Using Adobe After Effects's built-in collaborative and library tools, we are able to save time/money when onboarding new producers to get them up and running quickly.
August 04, 2020
Adobe After Effects is the real professional software to deal with animation, vfx and video editing
We use After Effects to deal with the different types of animations like Explainer videos, 2D animation, we create educational videos in complete animation for YouTube and with help of After Effects our work becomes so productive and fast, so that we can expand our business. Working with animation on After Effects is really very powerful and effective. it provides high quality output for our work, you can work on professional projects with help of Adobe After Effects. It is really impressive industry-standard software. We are also using After Effects for video editing and VFX, it can handle both of them very well.
- 2d animation, it can handle the 2d animation on more than 60+ fps. it is easy to work with character animation. you can add various plugins, it has a strong interface to work on, so it almost each and every type of animation related work mainly in 2d.
- vfx- we can integrate after effects with various softwares like Cinema 4D to create amazing vfx scenes.
- video editing- we can do professional video editing along with some really impressive motion graphic and object tracking.
- 3D - working with 3D in After Effects doesn't provide that much effective results as compared to 3D software, we can only do basic 3D or we have to integrate 3D software.
- Sometimes when it comes to real-time preview of the scene (what you created) even if you have better specs, you will face some lags.
- Audio - After Effects doesn't provide any effective tool to work with audio, they should provide something which can be helpful to remove audio noise, but there is no effective tool to work with audio in After Effects (you can work with Adobe Audition to do that but that's a different software).
- It helped us to improve our productivity.
- It gives us freedom to take on more projects as it is really amazing to handle work faster than other tools or programs.
- We need to slightly raise our budget but it ultimately helped us, so there is no negative impact on our business, we are better and more professional now.
- Adobe Animate (formerly Flash)
We have taken After Effects because Adobe Animate is completely focused on animation rather than other things which After Effects can handle very easily, like we needed a program which can handle the professional animation, speed up our workflow, and can do various things like edit a video with text and some VFX, can add various VFX into finished projects, can do post-production, so that's why we have selected After Effects.