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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Graphics Video Editor Specialist
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension (Education Management, 11-50 employees)
Pricing
Annual Plan (Paid Monthly)
$20.99
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Per User Per Month
Monthly Plan
$31.49
On Premise
Per User Per Month
Annual Plan (Prepaid)
$239.88
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Per User Per Year
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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After Effects Demo Reel
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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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What is Adobe After Effects?
Adobe After Effects Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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 16, 2023
After Effects is effective
It is being used by the Production department in my organization. It addresses visualizing eye-catching and supporting graphics for our courses.
- animate text
- add visual effects onto footage
- create motion graphics
- create Mogrts that don't break or have flicker when using in Premiere Pro
- Be able to have 2 views of the full comp and the comp with a layer or effect turned off (instead of toggling on/off)
- When using linear wipe on text, have the transition percentage encompass only the text length (not the text in regards to where it is on the composition)
- Dynamic linking in Premiere Pro
- Text animations
- Camera and 3D space
- Tied down to Adobe suite
- Purchasing plug-ins for more functionality
- High volume of rendering
A lot more features and support through Adobe with After Effects
June 24, 2022
So Much to Explore in Adobe After Effects
I use Adobe After Effects to create motion graphics to accompany big organization announcements and releases, via email, the web, and social media. I use Adobe After Effects to create motion graphics for virtual events, like Symposiums and celebrations.
- 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
- Adobe After Effects' biggest drawback is that it uses a lot of computer processing power and ram. This can cause delays in working on your project and can be challenging to smoothly preview your project in real-time.
- Workspace Customization
- Animation Presets and Effects
- Composition - Creating and nesting compositions
- Keyboard shortcuts
- With Adobe After Effects, we have created motion graphics that we have displayed at events that have made our events very memorable and special.
- With Adobe After Effects, we have created motion graphics that have improved engagement on our social media platforms.
- We have created motion graphics that have improved our visibility among other organizations.
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 can do some animation in all of these other programs, there are significant limitations, because animations and effects are not their primary purpose. However, that is the sole purpose of Adobe After Effects. There is so much more you can do with Adobe After Effects than with these other programs.
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.
Score 10 out of 10
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It is a great animation and design program for videos from small to large clients. It’s been fast, reliable, and I like their updates and customer support. I use it for motion graphics in the advertising field and for movie and tv promos. It always meets the needs of the agency and those needs of the client for revisions and changes.
- Fast animation
- Copying and repurposing template files
- Reliable renders
- Easy interface
- Some of the scripts can be difficult.
- Some plugins could work more reliably.
- More free trials for plugins would be good.
- It’s positive for being fast and efficient.
- It’s easy to address client notes.
- It has great new updates and features with each new version.
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 third-party vendors, like video Copilot and Element 3D.
It's much faster to render in real-time and see your work in After Effects.
and editors. I also like their 3d plugins and advanced third-party vendors, like video Copilot and Element 3D.
It's much faster to render in real-time and see your work in After Effects.
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Other editors and designers also use After Effects for updating graphics packages. Generally, when a project is saved and exported, it can be updated by other users in an efficient way with their collected files feature. It's great to be able to share files with other users and know they'll have all the assets needed when saving the project.
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We have a few in-house support workers to address any technical issues. But I'd add that many
times I can find the solution to technical issues online in forums since After Effects has such a large
user base with similar issues. So it's great to know I can usually solve the issue myself, but sometimes support can help as well.
times I can find the solution to technical issues online in forums since After Effects has such a large
user base with similar issues. So it's great to know I can usually solve the issue myself, but sometimes support can help as well.
- It's best used for short advertisements and animations.
- It's great for infographics.
- It's great for typography animation.
- It's used great for green-screen background removal.
- It's great for rotoscopy and background removal.
- It's great for finding new solutions to graphics and background integration.
- It can use the .mogrt templates more in the future
- It can use some of the new plugins, like 3d element plugin
- It could be easier to make templates.
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- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
Usability and features are the most important decision. It has to work well and fast and keep up with client changes, internal changes, and be able to improve animation and graphics in a timely and efficient way. Having other programs with system crashes can slow down the workflow, so it's great to know After Effects is reliable and has great usability and a good reputation.
I wouldn't change my evaluation, as it's always met my needs and the needs of companies I've worked with.
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I believe our team had to call Adobe support when systems were down and they provided great support
and had us up and running later in the day. So knowing they are fast and address the needs of their customers; it gives me peace of mind.
and had us up and running later in the day. So knowing they are fast and address the needs of their customers; it gives me peace of mind.
- Typography is great and easy to use.
- Greenscreen and roto brush is easy to learn.
- Basic cameras are easy to start learning.
- Some scripts and more advanced programming can be difficult.
- Some of the third party plugins can be harder to learn for beginners.