Adobe After Effects Preview

Adobe® After Effects® PreviewMotion graphics and visual effects

Take your creativity to new heights with the industry standard for motion graphics and visual effects. Digital filmmaking and motion design have opened up new worlds of possibility for visual storytelling. The next version of Adobe After Effects will give you the tools to work dynamically in 3D with precision and control in an integrated, collaborative workflow. Shape images in space and time—and deliver results that dazzle and inspire.

Create photo-real visual content fast with awesome new advancements, such as the Live 3D Pipeline between After Effects and CINEMA 4D, an enhanced 3D Camera Tracker, and layer and mask snapping for faster composition construction. Save hours of tedious rotoscoping work with the Refine Edge tool. Be more creative, thanks to advancements in stabilization and other refinements for a more responsive workflow. Plus, with upcoming support for Adobe Anywhere for video, broadcast and post-production professionals can collaborate on workflows across enterprises regardless of location.

After Effect brings sophisticated motion graphics and cinematic visual effects to your desktop. Use it alongside all the other Adobe production tools such as Adobe Premiere® Pro and Photoshop® and discover how simple it is to get great results quickly and efficiently.

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The next version of After Effects includes numerous enhancements and powerful new tools such as the Live 3D Pipeline with CINEMA 4D, Pixel Motion Blur, and the Refine Edge tool (shown above).

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Who uses Adobe After Effects?

Motion graphics designers and visual effects artists use After Effects to produce intricately designed short-form content such as TV commercials, broadcast graphics, and film titles, and to create a wide range of visual effects shots.

Video editors and post-production professionals use After Effects to complement nonlinear editing tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro providing a comprehensive solution for delivering enhanced production value.

Interactive designers love the flexible tools in After Effects that help them easily prepare dynamic media that integrates well with interactive projects.

What’s coming in Adobe After Effects

CINEMA 4D Lite and Live 3D PipelineSave time and stay in the creative flow. Insert 3D objects directly into After Effects compositions thanks to the new Live 3D Pipeline with MAXON CINEMA 4D Lite, included with the next version of After Effects. The new Advanced Rendering engine allows you to composite C4D files within After Effects, including OBJ, FBX, and Alembic file formats. No more rendering and waiting every time you want to make an adjustment or just try out a new idea. Roundtrip edits and modifications between CINEMA 4D and After Effects are a snap, and any changes you make to the .C4D file are automatically updated in the After Effects project.

Refine Edge toolSave time and get great results faster with the powerful new Refine Edge tool. Say goodbye to old-school frame-by-frame rotoscoping: use Refine Edge in the next version of After Effects to separate challenging foreground elements—such as frizzy hair or soft edges—from poorly lit or complex backgrounds. The Refine Edge tool creates high-quality matting results, so you can take your compositing to the next level.

The Live 3D Pipeline provides an easy roundtrip workflow between CINEMA 4D and After Effects as you perfect your composition.

Soft matte applied Extracted element

The Refine Edge tool allows you to extract complex foreground images, such as messy hair, and create ready-to-use mattes. Backgrounds can then be replaced, and fine details will be preserved in the new composition.

Live 3D Pipeline

MAXON CINEMA 4D Lite is included with After Effects.

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Warp Stabilizer VFXYou can smooth handheld footage, lock a shot—or part of your frame—automatically, and more with the new Warp Stabilizer VFX. Select stabilization points, edit and delete them throughout time, and preserve scale to fix tricky shots such as aerial fly-throughs. Warp Stabilizer VFX also allows you to reverse stabilize. Select objects within a scene to stabilize while leaving others unstable, or stabilize an entire scene to do detailed work such as painting or warping, and then artfully restore jitter to get exactly the shot you want.

Track Optimization in the 3D Camera TrackerRecommended by some of Hollywood’s finest visual effects artists, the enhanced Camera Tracker in the next version of After Effects introduces Track Optimization, which allows you to refine tracking points over time for even more accurate 3D tracking in 2D space.

Search and other interface enhancementsNever again hunt for missing fonts, effects, or footage used in your comps. With the new search feature in After Effects, missing fonts, effects, and other media are easily identified and located within your compositions, so you can relink or replace them quickly. New layer- and mask-snapping behaviors makes aligning both 2D and 3D objects faster and more interactive. Plus, you can now see complete file paths, regardless of language or character length.

Bicubic resamplingPreserve fine detail and achieve greater accuracy when resizing compositions by choosing between bilinear or new bicubic scaling.

Use reverse-stabilization in Warp Stabilizer VFX

after stabilizing a scene to fix or add elements.

You can also use reverse-stabilization to track an object into an

unstable scene.

Use Warp Stabilizer VFX to stabilize selected elements within your frames

Auto-delete points over time to ensure even tracking of objects

Quickly find missing elements, fonts, or effects in your composites with this new search function.

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Pixel Motion BlurCreate more dynamics in your compositions. Derived from the popular Timewarp effect, Pixel Motion Blur allows you to create the photographic illusion of movement by adding motion blur to your frames or to elements within them.

Coming soon: Integration with Adobe Anywhere for video Collaborate on composites and animations with After Effects team members working across town or around the world, thanks to integration with Adobe Anywhere for video, which is coming soon. Anywhere users who do not have their own MAM can open and edit composites from the Anywhere server. Composited footage is rendered locally and can be saved back onto the Anywhere server. Composites are easily monitored to see the latest iterations and resolve version conflicts. Note: Adobe Anywhere for video requires a separate purchase and implementation.

Visually communicate movement

Apply motion blur settings

Pixel Motion Blur is a new effect based on the popular Timewarp feature.