TrustRadius Insights for Adobe After Effects are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Extensive Control: Users have appreciated the extensive control Adobe After Effects offers for animating various aspects of objects, such as speed, rotation, scale, position, and more. This level of control allows users to create intricate and dynamic animations with precision.
Wide Range of Plug-ins: Some users have found Adobe After Effects to be a popular software with a wide range of paid and free third-party plug-ins and scripts available for incorporation into projects. These plug-ins enhance the capabilities of the software, providing users with additional tools and effects to elevate their projects.
Integration with Adobe Creative Suite: Reviewers have highlighted the positive aspect of the integration of Adobe After Effects with other Adobe Creative Suite products like Illustrator, Photoshop, and Media Encoder. This seamless integration streamlines workflows by allowing users to easily transfer assets between different applications within the suite.
If someone need to put together some video for a demo, or wants to do good animation for a digital product I will recommend. If it's for a prototype animation for digital product I won't.
We use Adobe After Effects to design and finish and enhance our videos with effects, intros, and outros. The amount of control we get in editing is not available in any other application in the market currently. The tools that Adobe After Effects offers also do the job very well and help our organization reduce expenditures by not having to separately purchase those tools.
Pros
VFX
Titles and outros
Motion Blur
Animations
Effects
Cons
Pricing
Learning Curve
Resource Intensivity
Proper utilization of CPU, RAM, and VRAM
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe After Effects is very well suited for detailed designs and editing where you can put in some time and effort and can reap the rewards of your efforts by having more than average output results. It does require a learning curve and is time-consuming to work on a project. Therefore, it is not very well suited for organizations that require doing multiple projects quickly and with some automation.
Adobe After Effects is being used at our company for video editing purposes because it allows us to create awesome video advertisements with cool effects and transitions, we chose After Effects because it can handle special video effects better than any video editing software and thousands of pre-made templates are available for it online which helps us a lot during the editing process because we can easily add awesome effects to our videos or to the ones that we edit for our clients with little to no effort.
Pros
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
Cons
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
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe After Effects is the perfect video editing software for videos that require a lot of animations and effects and no competitor in the market can compete with it when it comes to special effects and animations it's simply the best one for this purpose, and they are constantly updating the software to add new features to help video editors produce better videos.
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.
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
After Effects is the best tool for motion graphics due to it’s tight integration with the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite. It should be your go to for film and video. I use the tool primarily for web animation and UI mock-up and it works great in most instances but requires the user to have a good understanding of the requirements of designing for the web. Also, After Effects is a resource hog. It’s highly CPU dependent and ram dependant if you want to do lots of previews. Its inclusion in the Creative Cloud subscription is great. If you are an Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator user your most likely already paying for it.
We use video clips in our online marketing and advertising efforts, from webinars to produced videos and tutorials. Often we need to have an animated video intro or outro to go along with the content, so we turn to Adobe After Effects. Using Adobe After Effects, we can create these animated segments that highlight our logo and text in our brand colors. It works perfectly.
Pros
Extremely powerful platform
3D animation and rendering
Multi-layer compositions
Text warping
Cons
Steep learning curve
Huge resource hog
Takes several GB for installation
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe After Effects is not for the beginner; it's the top-end software program for video animations. With so many complex settings and capabilities, it has a huge learning curve that can take years to master. Luckily, through YouTube videos and just pure ingenuity, one can learn how to use Adobe After Effects even if they are more of a hobbyist. It's well suited for complex animation needs.
I am a designer who creates motion graphics as well as gifs. [Adobe After Effects] is being used by the design dept. We do not currently address any business problems, we are growing thanks to hard work and passion for design.
Pros
Responsive
Easy and friendly interface
Highly easy and solid
Cons
The timeline for videos should be updated
More intuitive
Speed load
Likelihood to Recommend
To generate visually stunning work for film, TV, video, and web. [Adobe] After Effects brings “life” and motion to graphics. [Adobe] After Effects is built for animation. That's one of its main purposes. It can be great for certain styles of character animation, but in other areas, it's just not designed with those capabilities in mind.
Adobe After Effects is being used by our organization for the creation of animations utilizing vector illustrations. It's mainly only used for one particular client but it's used on a monthly basis and is essential in being able to create the animations that they request as it has the capability of making professional and complex animations.
Pros
Creating complex animations
Creating professional and creative animations
Cons
Learning curve is steep
Interface is intimidating
Keyboard shortcuts don't always align with the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
I would only recommend using Adobe After Effects to someone who is willing to spend a significant amount of time to learn the ins and outs of how to use the software. However, if it was someone who was already familiar with using another animation/video software and has some experience in using the Adobe Creative Suite then I might be more inclined to recommend it to them.
We are a small video and photo production company. We have been using Adobe After Effects for years, to insert animations into our videos, animate titles, cut out, and many other things.
Pros
Track an object to insert animations.
Create transition effects better than in Premiere.
Cons
Best use RAM memory.
Sometimes the timeline interface is problematic.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is essential if you want to give your videos a further creative touch. With external plug-ins and many tutorials made available, even the less experienced can insert atmospheric effects, color shades, explosions and many other things. It is not appropriate for simple video montages, for that there is Premiere.
I use Adobe After Effects to create motion graphics that combine photos with vector images for use on our company social media page. Adobe After Effects gives me the full range of capabilities to create fully personalized videos that are 100% customizable whereas other popular products do not deliver the same level of ability and customization.
Pros
Customizable motion
Utilizes both pixel and vector images
Allows for use of audio and audio customization alongside video
Cons
In my experience, Adobe After Effects is not remotely intuitive to use.
In my experience, complicated for beginner or very basic use
Many wonderful effects available, but I think the menu is frustrating to use
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend Adobe After Effects to a colleague above all other comparable software that I have used, however, with the caveat that it can be time-consuming to learn to use and can be frustrating if you are not familiar with the software. Difficulty aside, once you begin to understand how to use Adobe After Effects, it is the only software for the job.
