Unleash Creative Brilliance with Adobe After Effects
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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)
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 18, 2023
Unleash Creative Brilliance with Adobe After Effects
- Motion Graphics
- Animation
- Compositing
- VFX
- Render
- 3D
- Interface
August 16, 2023
After Effects is effective
- 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)
March 29, 2023
After effects review
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Animating
- Combining clips
- Sound editing
- Exporting
November 17, 2022
Always value your time
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Motion graphic
- Image animation
- Video editing
- Color balance
- Remove green mat
- Importing .gif
- Manual frame adjustment
- Title animation
July 07, 2022
Adobe After Effects review: For all VFX and animation nerds out there - I'm sure you have it installed.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Rotoscope
- Chroma keying
- Vector based animations
- Camera tracking
- Motion graphics
- Little more flexibility with video editing- I know it's not a video editing tool but still, it's good to have some features
- Vector based animations should be much more compatible with other device/codes
- Some more effects and presets to make it easier
June 24, 2022
So Much to Explore in Adobe After Effects
- 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.
- Text Animation
- Character Animation
- Simple 3D designs
- 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.
April 26, 2022
Professional Grade Visual Effects
- VFX
- Titles and outros
- Motion Blur
- Animations
- Effects
- Pricing
- Learning Curve
- Resource Intensivity
- Proper utilization of CPU, RAM, and VRAM
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Motion graphics
- The dynamic link is buggy and when using Premiere Pro you often have to re-link the After Effects file
- After effects is not compatible with the Apple M1 chip
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Creating 2d animation
- Motion Graphics
- Creating 3d elements
- Video Editing
- Stop Motion Animation
- As previewing video in After Effects takes lot of time, so it's better to solo a layer and see the animation preview which will save a lot of time
- Delete all the unnecessary files from the project and trim the comp size to the object so that it will use less memory
- Try to work on lower resolution which will save a lot of time
January 14, 2022
Adobe Affer Effects Is Exactly What Video Editors Need!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Title & Logo Design
- 3D animation
- VFX Effects
- Video Editing
- Chroma Key
- More support for plugins
- Quicker Encoding times
- Better data recovery
November 04, 2021
Adds extra beauty in your animation
- Easy to add any kind of effects
- Easy to animate any character, title, object, or text
- Video editing and composition
- 2D animation
- Can’t perform the basic editing functions like cutting, trimming, cropping, layering, etc.
- Absence of a mobile app
- 3D animation
October 22, 2021
After the shooting effects
- Video masking using shapes and more outlines
- Saving and reverting to an older file version
- Easy expressions to use features like masking, brush strokes
- The UI looks very cluttered and takes time to navigate around the tool
- Very hardware dependant. Takes a lot of cpu and gpu performance time
- Difficult to add text and edit
October 21, 2021
Adobe After Effects is the best software for pro video editors!
- A lot of educational resources are available for it online
- Thousands of premade After Effects templates are downloadable free of charge
- It can handle complex animations
- Sometimes the software crashes in the middle rendering a video and we have to start the rendering process all over
- Some After Effects plug-ins are not working well and they make the software slower while running
October 11, 2021
Adobe After Effects isn't just for film!
- 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.
August 19, 2021
The sky's the limit with your imagination and After Effects!
- If you know Photoshop, you can use this.
- You can integrate this with Photoshop and basically all the other products in the Adobe suite.
- There's audio editing, because, well, I stink at audio and have needed my audio saved before!
- You absolutely need a higher end computer like a gaming computer to use this.
- It uses a ton of RAM and then your computer complains about it.
- Sometimes extra plugins, plus the RAM getting hung up, and not having enough of a high end computer can create the perfect storm of everything crashing and then you curse everything out that you were working on.
- 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.
- isolating subjects and removing backgrounds
- animations
- creating title and credit sequences
- Resource Use - After Effects is a huge resource hog. I'm hopeful that future versions continue the trend of improving on this
- Extremely powerful platform
- 3D animation and rendering
- Multi-layer compositions
- Text warping
- Steep learning curve
- Huge resource hog
- Takes several GB for installation
- Add movement to a static image
- Capture the attention of the viewer with effects and plug ins
- Fast rendering
- Integrate it more easily with Audition would be a nice improvement
June 05, 2021
After Effects is the one for me
- It is extremely efficient at creating videos with the best effects.
- It is easy to use once you learn how the program functions.
- It offers more ways to edit video than other software I've used.
- There are plugins that don't work with After Effects at times.
- There is definitely a learning curve. It is not very intuitive.
- 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.
- Creating complex animations
- Creating professional and creative animations
- Learning curve is steep
- Interface is intimidating
- Keyboard shortcuts don't always align with the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite
May 10, 2021
My take with Adobe After Effects :)
- Responsive
- Easy and friendly interface
- Highly easy and solid
- The timeline for videos should be updated
- More intuitive
- Speed load
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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.