

Adobe After EffectsĪdobe After Effects is great when you want to add intricate visual effects such as lighting, explosions, track your camera or integrate 3D elemenets, build complex titles or custom animations and ‘composite’ a large amount of different visual layers into a single shot. When you want to add more intricate visual effects or work with keyframes for custom animations, you will quickly come up against its limitations and have to move over into a tool such as After Effects.


While Premiere Pro does allow you to stack visual layers on top of each other and technically ‘composite’ them together, this capability is mainly limited to adding simple titles or overlays. Premiere Pro also contains a fairly large amount of audio effects as well as an inbuilt mixing console to allow you to tweak your audio track before you export your final project. You can then create ‘Sequences’ and sequentially order your clips, images and audio files to form a cohesive video from start to finish. Adobe Premiere Pro is great for importing a large amount of video and image files into, organising them neatly into folders and then picking the items that you want to use in your film project.
