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Adobe After Effects Review

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Adobe After Effect Review

By: Eddie Yzaguirre

 

Adobe After Effects (AE) is the industry standard of film, television, and other visual media formats in the post production process. It is used to create texts, graphics, 2D and 2.5D animation, special effects, and some color correction.  Can integrate projects from other adobe programs and import into the editing table (This is called Layering).

 

Can get a 30 day free trial. Also can apply for an Adobe Creative cloud account.

 

                                   Individually                                                                                               Student/Faculty

Single App:                 $19.99/monthly                                                                                             n/a

All Apps:                     $49.99/monthly (yearly commitment)                                                        $29.99

 

All of these offer 20 GB of cloud storage.                                              

 

 

 

 

Brief examples of effects:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b97KIlJuYs

 

Advantages: 

 

  • Mac/PC compatible
  • If familar with other Adobe products (exp: photoshop, flash), can change its graphic interface to match theirs. 
  • Can be transferred to work with other Adobe softwares.
  • Various plugins from AE website and 3rd party sources (Some do charge)

 

Disadvantages:

 

  • Expensive:

 

Individually                                                                    Student/Faculty

By itself:                     $999                                            n/a

Production premium: $1899                                         $599

Master collection:      $2599                                         $999

 

  • The learning curve is difficult and can take up to a year to fully operate.
  • Graphics and effects can take up a lot of RAM to make and run. Need to make sure graphics cards and processor can handle it. 
  • Many people believe it can perform 3D effects and animation (Avatar and game design) but can't.
  • New editions come out yearly and changes the functions or adds more options which can take up memory. Is now on version six
  • Program can lag on projects and abrupt shutdowns are common. Save often.  

 

Additional sources

http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects.edu.html

http://www.videocopilot.net/

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/adobe-after-effect-tutorials-beginners-intermediate-advanced-users/

 

 

 

 

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