Introduction to Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects is a widespread animation and compositing program, or, to put it another way, it’s kind of Photoshop for video. If you don’t have After Effects yet, or need more information about this product, you can check its dedicated page on Adobe website and download a 30 day trial version.

Why After Effects?

Animating and compositing graphical designs using XML is time consuming, excessively complicated, and ultimately not rewarding. Not to mention that motion designers or graphic artists simply don’t code to make things move. As we were looking for a design environment for our templates, we decided After Effects will be our weapon of choice. Widespread acceptation in the motion design world, ability to script it and convert projects to XML sealed the deal for us.

On top of that, After Effects has a great community, and a sweet learning curve.

What versions are supported?

We are internally using Adobe After Effects CC 2014, but we accepts projects from CS6 and above.

Where to learn After Effects

If you are new to After Effects and want to quickly learn the basics, head over to VideoCopilot Basic Training Series . You’ll be able to create cool stuff in a matter of hours.

Now if you’re already an After Effects artist and want to know what the technical constraints and requirements are to work with Stupeflix, just click the Next button below :)