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What is Adobe After Effects?

Animation and creative compositing software used by a wide variety of motion graphics and visual effects artists.

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Animation and creative compositing software used by a wide variety of motion graphics and visual effects artists.


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Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create, and bring any digital experience to life. From creators and students to small businesses, global enterprises, and nonprofit organizations — customers choose Adobe products to ideate, collaborate, be more productive, drive business growth, and build remarkable experiences.

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Da T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Intuitive and compatible with other adobe products"
I like how granular animations can be if needed
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Ryan S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Love playing in Effects"
It is easy to use and has some great effects. Learning different types of ways to create gives you so many possibilities.
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Ron G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Nothing Comes Close to After Effects"
After Effects is more than the swiss army knife of video production. It can do anything. I've been using it for over 20 years and it's come from st...
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Products used within Adobe Creative Cloud: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Media Encoder
What do you like best about Adobe Creative Cloud?

Adobe Creative Cloud is a great set of tools for designers to do pretty much anything creative, from illustration, to photo manipulation, branding, packaging, video editing and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Creative Cloud?

Each version of Adobe Creative Cloud brings less and less improvements and doesn't change the very outdated UI significantly. This lack of change, when associated with the high price, makes the product less appealing every year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Creative Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's allowing creatives to do a wide range of creative work. In my case, it allows me to create iconography, logotypes and image mockups effectively, to be imported into our product, sales decks, and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe After Effects?

The thing that I like most about Adobe After Effects is its ability to do a myriad of tasks whether it's creating motion graphics in the form of animating text, creating actual stingers, or going into the 3D space. It's a program in where you can truly begin to see your imagination come to life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe After Effects?

The only main thing I can think about when it comes to Adobe After Effects for this column is that you may need to spend some money when it comes to external plugins such as Element 3D which can add up over time, however these plugins are still worth their money as it really does lead to an easier use of the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe After Effects solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem that Adobe After Effects is solving for me is fulfilling the need for a program that can allow me to incorporate video effects, create smooth motion graphics, and templates for clients to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Creative Cloud?

The best thing is that it covers all design tools in one place, with easy access to downloads, updates and reorganization of installations. Plus, the desktop icon remind us of all updates and enables a quick access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Creative Cloud?

The desktop icon consumes some time to open when starting. Also, as most programs are very complex, creative cloud could provide more tutorials and easy guides all programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Creative Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

It manages all my installations and shows me all the updates available in one place. It's great they are organized in categories. Also, it provides a fast way to search for stock photos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Creative Cloud?

The best things about ACC (Adobe Creative Cloud are the the variety and quality of creative software available in just one package. The software is updated frequently and automagically, and you have access to stock artwork, models, fonts and collaboration software as well as cloud storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Creative Cloud?

The downsides are mostly around pricing, but for professionals, this is just a small cost per month that is fully deductible, unlike an outright purchase. Another negative, though less visible, is the number of "helpers" that run in the background and the need for an always-on internet connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Creative Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

ACC helps me create web and print graphic images, books, magazines, logos, stationery, packaging, videos, animations, soundtracks, and many more, all software working together and then helping to share and collaborate with team members and clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Creative Cloud?

The Adobe tools are an industry standard for any kind of design work, capable of some amazing things, and for the single "all apps" subscription, you get a lot of choice regarding which apps you use for not a ton of money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Creative Cloud?

As a large-company tool with a high degree of complexity, getting support as an admin is difficult, and in my experience working with Adobe client support, it very much feels like they're more interested in selling my org more licenses than they are in actually being helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Creative Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Adobe Creative Cloud is an essential tool for our Marketing team, which creates a variety of 2D design content and custom video work to support our brand and provide polished learning and enablement content to our customers. We also have a significant number of team members that need advanced PDF editing capability, and Acrobat delivers that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Creative Cloud?

The creative cloud provides a series of tools for graphic design, motion graphics, photo editing, user interface design and other tools that integrate with each other directly from the cloud. Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects are just a few examples Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Creative Cloud?

In my opinion there is a lack of type design software and a communication tool between the user interface software and Dreamweaver. Now we need to better integrate Firefly for artificial intelligence Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Creative Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work as a graphic designer so I use Photoshop, Illistrator, InDesign, XD and After Effects every day for my work projects. Illustrator, by far, is indispensable to me for the creation of vector graphics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe After Effects?

This software has everything you need, from editing your videos to adding animations to color grading! This is amazing, and on top of that, this allows you to create 3D objects in the software. It isn't something like C4D, but still unique and straightforward to use. I use a plugin that helps with my creations in AE, and I am in love!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe After Effects?

For a beginner, this isn't very clear; I wish there were a workspace with a version for beginners with simple tools that they would need to create simple stuff. Also, moving around the panel windows is confusing. Once you make the wrong move, you must figure out what you did or restart the AE. Other than that everything else is a learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe After Effects solving and how is that benefiting you?

My job revolves around AE, and my degree revolves around AE. This tool is something 98% of motion designers use to create their art. This has benefitted me and many companies in developing their business vision into a work of marketing and art. And every time AE updates its system, it gets better and better! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe After Effects?

My favorite part about After Effects is that it's relatively user friendly, and Adobe really has made an effort to make it a better platform overall. It truly shows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe After Effects?

However, the efforts have been for naught. This entire ecosystem needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign need to be merged into one mega app. As do Premiere, After Effects and Audition. There is no reason I should be installing six enormous apps when they could just combine them into two mega apps in which I can do everything I need to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe After Effects solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's definitely the industry standard and all of my projects have that wow factor. However, there's a lot of features that I would like it to have that others do. Such as DaVinci Resolve and even Apple Motion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Creative Cloud?

Adobe is an amazing tool for product creation and collabortion. Documents can be exported to all kinds of formats. Secure digital signatures is certainly really useful. Adobe gives you an amazing power you can utilize for a lot of jobs certainly a great software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Creative Cloud?

Layer editing can be a lot of fun but it is also a lot of work. It takes time to learn how to use layers effectively. However, the results are worth it as layer editing can be very useful to create amazing images. Dont really have any other complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Creative Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps me with any problem I might have with any image and video as Adobe creative cloud tools are extremely detailed and I can do pretty much anything I can imagine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe After Effects?

The ability to create just about anything you can think of post production on video, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe After Effects?

Slightly expensive but like anything else you get what you pay for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe After Effects solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to add animation/effects to videos, images, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.