Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Systems and used in the post-production of film making, video games and television production. Among other things, After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, compositing, and animation.
How to best use After Effects:
- Creating motion/info graphics
- Manipulating multilayer sequences that require detailed key-framing
- Allows advanced visual effects
- You can create title sequences that include keyframe-based animation
- Video compositing
Compare:
After Effects vs Premiere Pro
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- After Effects is the programs you use when you’ve understood Premiere Pro and want to move on to something more advanced
- You can create work in other programs than bring them into After Effects to edit
- After Effects is more of an asset generation tool
- After Effects allows for limited puppet animation