What is After Effects?
Adobe After Effects is the industry-leading digital visual effects and motion graphics software. After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, compositing, and animation in the post-production process.
Cost and Eligibility:
As of October 1st, 2024, we have moved to request-based Adobe licensing.
Important Note: Even if you have previously had access to these systems, you still need to submit the request form to continue using Adobe products.
DU Staff and Faculty (including adjuncts) must use the Adobe Access Request form to get access to the following apps:
- Adobe Express
- Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (desktop PDF management application)
- Adobe Creative Cloud (All Apps)
DU Students automatically have access to Adobe Express. Students must use the Adobe Access Request form to get access to the following apps:
- Adobe Acrobat Pro DC
- Adobe Creative Cloud
Once the request is submitted, the access will be provisioned overnight.
How do I start using After Effects?
Once your Adobe Access request is submitted and processed, follow these instructions to download and install Creative Cloud.
Features and Benefits:
- Create your own or use presets to animate titles, credits and lower thirds
- Animate or set anything in motion with keyframes or expressions
- Add exciting effects, change a scene setting, add moving objects, make selective color adjustments and more
- Create compositions in After Effects and import from Photoshop, Illustrator and other Adobe programs
AI Capabilities:
- Functionality:
- Motion graphics and visual effects
- Compositing
- Animation
- AI Features:
- Content-Aware Fill for video to remove unwanted objects
- Roto Brush 2 for isolating objects in video