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Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe; it is 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 2019, the program won an Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement.[3]
After Effects was originally created by David Herbstman, David Simons, Daniel Wilk, David M. Cotter, and Russell Belfer[4] at the Company of Science and Art in Providence, Rhode Island. The first two versions of the software, 1.0 (January 1993)[5] and 1.1, were released there by the company. CoSA, whose CEO was William J. O'Farrell. CoSA with After Effects was acquired by Aldus Corporation in July 1993, which in turn was acquired by Adobe in 1994. Adobe acquired PageMaker as well. Adobe's first new release of After Effects was version 3.0.
Plug-ins are predominantly written in C or C++[6] and extend the functionality of After Effects, allowing for more advanced features such as particle systems, physics engines, 3D effects, and the ability to bridge the gap between After Effects and another application.
After Effects Scripts, unlike plug-ins, can only access the core functionality of After Effects.Scripts are often developed to automate repetitive tasks, to simplify complex After Effects features, or to perform complex calculations that would otherwise take a long time to complete.[7]
While not dedicated to compositing, the open source software Blender contains a limited node-based compositing feature which, among other things is capable of basic keying and blurring effects.[11][12][13]
So my kids and I wanted to create a Star Wars video with lightsabers. We recorded the video, imported in after effects, and then I went frame by frame adding lightsaber effects. It took a a lot of hours to complete. We got all excited when it was complete, and I rendered the movie to h264. When watching it, the audio was not synced and the light sabers were off. After figuring things out, I noticed the composition frame rates for both the footage and the light saber effects are at 29.37 fps. Everything is in sync when playing it in after effects. But after I render it (which looks like it renders to 29.97), everything is off.
So I attempted to change the composition frame rates to 29.97 for both footage and lightsaber effects. The audio is synced but the light sabers are still off. Is there a way to get this rendered without needing to go back and do the light sabers all over again?
This thread relates to my question as well, I think. But I'm a noob, so please forgive me if this is a breach of protocol. I created a couple of comps at 24fps, when I created them. I subsequently realized that all the rest of the video that I plan to include along with my comp's, are at 60fps. Can I just go into the comp setting and change the fps to 60 now? Or do I have to do something else to make the timings work? From Ko's answer above, I think I need to edit the fps of every pre-comp inside the main comp, but if I do that, and make everything 60fps, and leave the duration the same, will AE make everything nice? (and I won't include any audio in the comp, and just add it later in Premiere.
the other thing to try is make your comp in ae 29.97. Precomp your effects and footage. Make the precomp 29.37. Go into the comp settings of the precomp, click on the advanced tab and check "preserve framerate when nestes or in render que". Then render the mater 29.97 comp
Hi there! I was wondering if someone could tell me which is better for animation- After Effects or Flash? The pros and cons for each, or something along thoes lines. I've looked at other threads, but they were quite dated (or just useless, listing no reasons). If it helps to know, I won't be doing web animation, and I'm already quite familiar with After Effects in the motion graphics and visual effects areas. I'm also wondering which is used more commonly in the industry, and which would benifit me more in future (job opprotunities, ecetera). Thank you in advanced.
Rick is correct. I have used both Flash and AE for animation for years and it really does depend on what you are trying to achieve. Flash has advantages in my opinion in that you can put multiple assets on one layer in Flash where each assets requires a new layer in After Effects.
If you do use Flash, do NOT use movie clips, use graphic symbols instead...this is "old school," however when you export the result you can then import the swf into After Effects and have the best of both worlds.
After Effects is an animaiton system that has keyframes that are locked to a linear timeline. There is no interactivity or programming available. Therea re programming tools that allow layers and objects to interact with each other but not with the viewer.
Flash's output is a file that can be manipulated, oten desired or necessary for web interfaces. You can program a button in Flash that will run a movie that was created in AE. You can program a button in Flash that sits on top of a movie that was created in AE.
This is an apples and oranges question. AE is used to create shots or short sequences. Flash is used to create interactive presentations for the web or apps. Without knowing what you are trying to produce it is impossible to point you to the best tool. If it is interactive content then your choice is Flash. If it is a movie then it's After Effects.
Considering interactive apps are really the only place for flash formats, I would say that you should stick to After Effects. That way you can control the export options that make compression ratios an actual topic. Import Photoshop and Illustrator elements with ease. I would also imagine that After Effects formats play nicer with Premiere projects in case you have a director that uses it as part of his/her workflow.
Strangely enough, Flash is more common in the industry (Well, more shorts rather than full feature, recorded, videos.). Mainly because Macromedia was a real thing before Adobe bought them out, and our planet is chalk full of people who don't care to upgrade their education.
just to be accurate, in Ae you can have multiple assets in one layer: a shape layer can have multiple shapes in one layer, and a precomp (which is a layer) can contain an infinite amount of layers inside.
I am really enjoying the Affinity Suite of Products as professional design products and alternatives to Adobe products. Are there any plans for an After Effects alternative in the next couple of years? This is the app I miss the most from Creative Cloud.
The Affinity Team has no plans to make an after effects alternative. They are strictly focusing Photo, Designer and Publisher. They may also be working an adobe Bridge alternative, but don't quote me on it. As for after effects alternatives, I know at least one open source alternative, called "Natron"
There is no After Effects alternatives, full stop. Natron is ambitious, but it's more similar to Nuke, and also is not actively developed (or at least it needed a maintainer for quite some time so it's on the way to abandonware).
I've done several hours of search for some hypothetical non-adobe video alternative, and it simply doesn't exist somehow. If you want to do motion graphics or video effects, AE is legitimately the only way to do that.
You cannot expect us to keep posting about things we are not doing, but the 2016 post still currently holds true. It's surprising that so many people think that they will be able to replace all the Adobe products, not only in one go, but from only one alternative provider, who's starting from scratch.
Apologies if what I said was in any way taken as a jab at you all. I don't expect you to update status, I was just remarking that it was from 2016 since many things can change in 3 years - though I don't expect an update. My reply is more aspirational than anything else; again - I am not saying I expect you or your company to provide me with software I specifically want to buy. If that was your business model I don't think it'd last very long.
I have no clue how your company is structured nor where efforts are being focused - it's possible for all I know that Serif has a million employees all working on new creative applications with a release date near in the future. It's also possible that you have a small team and are choosing to support the products you already have released. Or it's even possible it's just one very, very tired programmer in a 100sqft apartment. I wouldn't know.
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