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What is Adobe After Effects?

Adobe After Effects is a 2.5D animation software used for animation, visual effects, and motion picture compositing. After Effects is used in film, TV, and web video creation.

This software is used in the post-production phase, and has hundreds of effects that can be used to manipulate imagery. This allows you to combine layers of video and images into the same scene. After Effects was released in 1993 January which is 26 years ago, in this 26 years after effects has developed a lot of versions, 1993 to 1996, after effects was available only on Mac, the first version for Windows, was introduced on May 1997, this software was developed by three companies, from 1992 – 1993 CoSA was the developer of this software and in this period after effects 1.0 and 1.1 was developed in 1994, Aldus develop two versions of after effects 2.0 and 2.0.1 then from 1995 to present Adobe hand over after-effects and developed lot of versions, the first version of Adobe after effects are 3.0.

Different Versions of After Effects

1. Developer CoSA

The very first version of After-effects 1.0 was developed by CoSA on 1993 January and it worked only on Mac, the code name of this version is Egg.

After Effects 1.1 was developed in 1993 May with more features than 1.0. And its Features were Effects, Keyframes, Transforms, layer compositing with the mask.

2. Developer Aldus

Aldus Corporation was a software firm that developed software for desktop publishing. It is well known for producing PageMaker, an early application in the area of desktop publishing.

After Effects 2.0 was developed by Aldus on 1994 January, the code name of this version is Teriyaki and the Features are Motion blur, multi-machine rendering, Frame blending, Proxies, Time layout window, image sequence support.

After Effects 2.0.1 was developed on 1994 May. And Only one feature is added in this version called Power Macintosh Version (PPC).

3. Developer Adobe

From 1994 Adobe handed over After effects and developed a lot of versions with many features.

Adobe After Effects 3.0 was introduced in 1995 October, the code name of this version is Nimchow. And its features are Keyframe assistances (wiggler, Motion sketch, smoother), Render queue, multiple effects per layer, advanced keying, layer transfer modes, continuously rasterize illustrator files, motion maths, bezier masking, time remapping, velocity graph, 1/2/4point motion tracking.

When adobe developed after-effects they add a lot of features that can be imported directly from photoshop and illustrator because as that two products belong to adobe.

 

Adobe After Effects Overview

Adobe After Effects is a software application for creating video compositions, animations and special effects. It is very popular with video makers — almost an industry standard in the mid-professional level. Only productions with extremely high demands or large budgets would need anything more sophisticated. After Effects is perfectly capable of producing high-quality compositions for television programs, commercials and even feature films.

After Effects uses a similar general workflow as most video editing software: Each project includes a collection of media assets that are arranged in layers on a timeline.

Where After Effects differs from normal editors is that it is specifically designed for special effects. Although After Effects does let you perform most common editing tasks, its real purpose is to create advanced effects and composites rather than just cutting shots together. Typically, you would do the bulk of your editing work in an application such as Premiere Pro and use After Effects to work on smaller sections of the video that require advanced tools.

After Effects is a tool that requires imagination. If you are wondering "how to edit in After Effects" you are probably missing the point. After Effects is like a canvas and some paint — you decide what to do make with it.

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