What Is After Effects?

Overview Of After Effects

After effects at first is a software product from Macromedia that has now become one of the Adobe productsand is a software (software) digital compositing and motion graphics that are its main use is for film and video post-production.

Description Of After Effects

After effects is a very professional software for the needs of Motion Graphic Design. With a blend of various kinds – software Design, After Effects became one of software Design. Standard Effects that reach about 50 kinds of more, a very able to revamp and animating objects. In addition, creating animations with After Effects, can also be done by just typing in some script code commonly known Expression for menghasil a more dynamic movement.

After Effects more complete amenities when we compare it with other Video Editing software. In After Effects,there are some facilities that are owned by some othersoftware. For example; There is a tool in After Effects to make a Shape (such as in Photoshop). On the After Effects there is a Keyframe as contained in Flash (the waymenganimasikannya is also almost the same). There is also an Expression that is almost similar to the Action Script in Flash, and many more others.

After Effects and some non-linear editing systems (NLEs) are layer-oriented, which means that each individualmedia object (video clip, audio clip, still image, etc.) occupy the track (track). In contrast, other NLEs use a system where individual media objects can occupy the same track as long as they do not overlap in time. This Track-Oriented systems are more suitable for editing andcan save the project file is much more concise.

After Effects integrates with the software – Adobe software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Encore, Flash, and 3D software from third parties likeCinema 4 d.

The History Of After Effects

After Effects was originally created by the Company of Science and Art in Providence, RI, USA (CoSA). Version 1.0 was released in January 1993. Version 2.1 introduced PowerPC Acceleration in 1994. COSA along with After Effects company later acquired by Aldus in July 1993;the company was later acquired by Adobe in 1994, and with it PageMaker and After Effects. The first release by Adobe for After Effects was version 3.0.

Support After Effects Plug-Ins

Plug-ins

After Effects has been broadly in support of Plug-ins, and a variety of third-party plug-ins available. Various plug-ins there is style, such as particle systems for realistic effects for rain, snow, fire, etc.

With or without third-party plug-ins, After Effects can render (mathematical calculations) 3D effect. Some of the plug-3D uses the basic 2D layers from After Effects.Illustrator graphics can also be invoked (loaded: red) and dirender in 3D using plug-ins such as Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator Pro. Some well-known plug-in Vendors: Automatic Duck, BorisFX, Conoa, Cycore Effects, DigiEffects, Digital Anarchy, Digital Film Tools, Digital Trove, TheFoundry, FXhome, GenArts, GridIron Software, Noise Industries, RE: Vision Effects, Red Giant Software, Synthetic Aperture, Trapcode, Video Copilot, and Zaxwerks. In addition to the 3D effect, there are plug-ins to create avideo display such as a movie or a cartoon, simulated fire, smoke, or water, particle systems, slow-motion; animated graphics create, graphs, and other data visualization; calculate the movement of the camera in 3D and 2D video shot; twisting, eliminate, noise, or rigging lines; the schedule translating from FCP or Avid; adding high-end color correction and workflow improvements and other visual effects.