Oct 29 |19:33
Adobe After Effects is a collection of powerful tools, which is used for creation of motion graphics and magnificent visual effects. With After Effects designers can animate, alter, and make media compositions in 2D and 3D space with many own tools and other third party After Effects plug-ins.
After Effects and some other non-linear editing systems (NLEs) are layer-oriented. It's mean that each single media (video, audio, still image) is located on its own track. But many other NLEs are based on a system, where separate media can occupy the identical track until it overlap in time. This track-oriented system is better for editing process and can save project files more compressed. The layer-oriented system in After Effects has an advantage of progressive effects work and keyframing. After Effects has unique possibility of selectively hiding layers (so called "Shy switch") or by selecting (grouping them) into separate pre-compositions.
The program interface consists of many panels. The main panels of After Effects are Timeline, Project & Composition panels. The After Effects Project panel is used for importing still images, video footages & audio files. Media items from the Project panel are importing to Timeline panel. Time panel layers can be adjusted separately according to order and timing. The Composition panel in After Effects displays the items, which are visible at the current time marker.
After Effects integrates very well with other Adobe software's such as Illustrator, Flash, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Encore and other 3D programs like Cinema 4D.