Overview Adobe After Effects

What is Adobe After Effects?

Adobe After Effects is a professional software for motion graphics and visual effects (VFX), used in film, TV, and web production to create animations, special effects, and complex digital compositions. It allows users to animate text, graphics, and illustrations, composite layers of video and images, and add motion to any video project, making it a key tool in post-production.

What it's used for?

• Motion Graphics: Creating animated titles, intros, logos, and character animations.
• Visual Effects (VFX): Adding special effects like keying, tracking, and compositing to live-action footage for film and video.
• Compositing: Combining different layers of video, images, and graphics into a single, cohesive scene.
• Animation: Animating static elements to bring motion graphics to life using keyframes.

Key features and capabilities

• Layer-based workflow: Similar to Photoshop, After Effects uses a layer-based system, allowing for complex arrangements of different elements.
• Keyframe animation: Users can set keyframes to define the position, scale, rotation, and other properties of layers over time, which After Effects then animates automatically.
• Effects library: A wide range of built-in effects and presets are available to manipulate imagery and footage.

Integration with other Adobe products

• It works seamlessly with other Creative Cloud applications, allowing easy import and export of files.
• 3D capabilities: Advanced tools allow users to work with 3D objects and environments within their compositions.

Where it fits in production:

After Effects is typically used in the post-production phase, after video editing is complete. While editing is done in software like Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects is used to add the advanced visual effects, motion graphics, and final polish to the footage before its release.

There’s nothing you can’t create with After Effects.

Create cinematic movie titles, intros, and transitions. Remove an object from a clip. Start a fire or make it rain. Animate a logo or character. Even navigate and design in a 3D space. With After Effects, the industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects software, you can take any idea and make it move.

Roll credits. Spin words. Twirl titles.

Animate titles, credits, and lower thirds. Start from scratch or with presets available right from the app. From spin to swipe to slide — your text is on the move.

Get animated.

Set anything in motion with keyframes or expressions. Or use presets to kick off your designs for unique results.

Add exciting effects.

Change a scene’s setting. Add a moving object. Make selective color adjustments. Choose from hundreds of effects and create VR videos to drop your audience right into the action.

Plays well with others.

Create compositions in After Effects and use Dynamic Link to eliminate intermediate rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro. Import from Photoshop, Illustrator, and more. Collaborate with others and integrate with 300+ software and hardware partners.

Introducing your 3D design space

Take 3D projects further with new tools to help you navigate and design in 3D space. Add multiple cameras to a scene and orbit, pan, and dolly based on various viewpoints.

One tool for three dimensions

The new 3D Transform Gizmo allows you to scale, position, and rotate 3D layers, all with one tool. With visual guides and multiple modes, this multifunctional gizmo offers more power when navigating 3D.

Rotoscoping powered by AI

Roto Brush 2 uses Adobe Sensei to make rotoscoping easy, intuitive, and accurate. It’s the automatic way to select and track objects and isolate them frame by frame, so you can get back to your creative flow fast.

Easy removal of objects from video clips

With Content-Aware Fill, remove unwanted items up to 25% faster with a third of the memory — no need to mask or cut frame by frame.

Creativity for all.

Photography, video, design, UI and UX, 3D and AR, and social media. Creative Cloud has everything you need, wherever your imagination takes you.