What is Adobe After Effects?
Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Systems and used in the post-production process of film making, video games and television production. Among other things, After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, compositing, and animation.
It also functions as a very basic non-linear editor, audio editor, and media transcoder. In addition, it has some generally limited 3D and VR capabilities. The program is primarily used for 2D motion graphics, visual effects and compositing. It allows users to animate, alter, and composite media in 2D and 3D space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user adjustable angles of observation.
The program also has the ability to extrude 2D shapes into 3D shapes and animate camera movements. Shape layers can be masks, text or paths that have been converted to masks. Mocha for After Effects, a third-party plug-in from Boris FX, is integrated inside After Effects to provide planar tracking and masking tools.
Some of the most common creative uses for After Effects include keying, tracking, compositing and animation. It also functions as a very basic non-linear editor, audio editor and media transcoder. In addition, it has some generally limited 3D and VR capabilities.
Blender, OpenToonz, NUKE, Alight Motion, HitFilm Pro, Apple Motion, BluffTitler, TimeLineFX, Autodesk Smoke, Liconcomp, Natron, Notch, ParticleIllusion, PixelConduit, Rotato, Cavalry, JuiceFX, AfterCodecs, ButtleOFX, Talos VFX, Autodesk Combustion, Expressive Animator, LottieLab, SpeedEDIT, Simmetri, Action Pro, Blackmagic Design Fusion, Avid DS, Dancing Letters, PixelConduit Complete, Autokroma Influx, Design Camera are some alternatives to Adobe After Effects.