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Adobe After Effects

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

Adobe After Effects

Those who regularly work with Adobe software, should be happy to hear that Adobe After Effects assimilate with its other software such as Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Encore. This particular software allows you to add the nice touches to your Adobe projects.

Though it works with most of the Adobe software, Adobe After effects is often referred as the Photoshop tool that deals with video editing. It uses comprised layers on a timeline to allow the used to produce composites, either from video or still pictures.
With the After Effects, position and opaqueness of a video can independently be controlled as each layer of properties has its own individual effects. They can be applied separately as well. The software has the flexibility of altering the videos in any way the user finds suitable.

Even though, After Effects is capable of creating its own images; it is generally used for motion pictures by assimilating materials from different sources to make a graphics in the other Adobe software. For instance, a star picture can be placed on the background of a space ship picture and can animate the spaceship to move across the stars. This is what we see on science fiction movies. It is quite similar to NLE (Non-Linear Editing System) that is the modern editing technique used in film and television postproduction houses. The major difference between NLEs and After Effects is that NLEs are usually track-oriented and After Effects is layer-oriented. Each individual media element in After Effects (audio clip, video clip, still image, etc) take up its own space whereas in NLEs use a structure where each media elements can lodge in its own space as long as time does not overlap.

In After Effects, the main interface is comprised of a number of panels. Three of the most widely used panels in the software are the Composition panel, Project panel, and the Timeline panel. In the Composition panel, the items that are visible in the present time market are displayed. Still pictures, audio footage items and video items are imported to the project panel which acts as a bin through the Composition panel. In Project panel, the footage items are used in the timeline to adjust the timing and layers. After Effects allows the users to work with lots of plug-in assistance. Wide ranges of plug-in style are available in it such as particles systems for lively rain, fire and snow effects.

After Effects can also produce excellent 3D effects by using third-party plug-ins. BorisFX, The Foundry, Red Giant Software, Zaxwerks, Gen Arts, DigiEffects, GridIron Software, Conoa, and Trapcode are some popular plug-in vendors.

With Adobe After effects, you can give your work a new sophisticated tune. Even though the professionalism slightly dominates in this track but nevertheless, when you get used to it, you can work on it much faster to give a new look and dimension to your videos. People around you will surely appreciate your creative works once you utilize the Abode After Effects.