Adobe After Effects CS5.5 for Windows

User Reviews

• A Good Software

  Jacob3442/7/2014

  Pros

  the designing option and ability to understand and use features is pretty easy which makes it quite a user friendly software.

  Cons

  Crashes randomly, but can't exactly figure our why ?

  Summary

  I love Adobe and everything they come up with !!

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• plz teach me

  machinekid9/18/2011

  Pros

  u wont be sorry

  Cons

  cause i will give u this product free

  Summary

  if you teach me i will give u adobe after affect and i swear it is not trial version 100% works just go to facebook and send a message say i teach u my facebook email is mhammad_kamal@yahoo.com<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Sep 18, 2011<p/>ii will give u this adobe after affect pro free i will spend the 999 $ if u teach me but full teach good deal i swear iam not lieing

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• brilliant for special effects

  lyle9639/17/2011

  Pros

  amazing software user friendly tutorials readily available ram preview to display even with low gpu

  Cons

  plugins are hard to get and expensive

  Summary

  amazing software

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• Freezes Constantly

  xDroid138/24/2011

  Pros

  It makes ok videos for a trial

  Cons

  It's outputs are only swf and come out at a 0:00 swf file and gives me a black screen while rendering.

  Summary

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• i use it every day for my editing needs :) best thing

  FraNetwork5/12/2011

  Pros

  EVERYTHING!

  Cons

  well. the price is a bit high, but worth it.

  Summary

  I would say , buy it, its worth it ;)

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• It has everything what I need

  JLeeBriges3/29/2011

  Pros

  If you edited video before, AE will be very easy to use. It's not a program for beginners

  Cons

  Price is too high!!!

  Summary

  Good program.

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• Trial version doesn't open

  meanmrclean1/24/2011

  Pros

  none...couldn't open.

  Cons

  the trial download is 2 files and when trying to run setup after the install,...you get an error messege that links you to a troubleshooting analysis ...which says there are no problems detected.

  Summary

  If the free version is this difficult to merely download and open...why buy the the software?

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• Worth the money and then some...one word: Rotobrush.

  MacG3Freak8/9/2010

  Pros

  64bit, Cross Platform, Rotobrush, Improved Puppetry, Remarkable Stability, Interconnectivity All Adobe Programs, Relatively Cheap, Only 1 Version

  Cons

  Limited 3D, still uses JavaScript...no really

  Summary

  After Effects has been one of the better compositing programs for the better part of two decades. I had been using AE since the mid 90's but switched to Discrete's (now Autodesk's) Combustion in 2000. After Effects was bulky, awkward, hard to control and SLOW to boot. I refused to switch back to After Effects until CS5 was released and I had a good chance to play with it. After 11 years in the post production business I can say without a doubt that dollar for dollar there is no better program out there than AE CS5. Now before all you neigh sayers leave flaming bags of poop on my doorstep, allow me to explain. We live in a multi-platform world, we compositors must be able to jump between systems and be able to work without ANY hitches. It is a fact that no software company in the world has a track record anywhere near that of Adobe's when it comes to developing unified cross platform products. Adobe was developing for Windows when Macintoshes were the ONLY art based computers. That being said, I know that when I jump back and fourth between my MacBook Pro and my Windows 7 desktops, I can be 110% confident that I will not have any problems that slow me down or make me look like a jackass in front of my clients. This beings up another point about rendering. I have been and always will be a Mac user, but there is one problem with every Mac: the price. Since I switched back to AE I no longer NEED to buy a Mac for my rendering. I recently put together a system that has a pair of 12 core server processors, 64GB RAM and a pair of top of the line graphics cards for under $4k. An equivalent Mac would have cost me nearly 5 times as much. But since AE is reliable on both platforms, and the little known fact that ADOBE ALLOWS YOU TO INSTALL AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF UNREGISTERED COPIES OF AFTER EFFECTS FOR RENDERING PURPOSES, I can now trust the legendary stability of the Mac for doing my work, and leave the rendering to my monster Windows server. All of this leads me to my next point, CS5 is now fully 64bit capable, which is a darn good because now my little 15" laptop is capable of doing some pretty beast effects in absolutely no time at all, AND I can take full advantage of all 24 beautiful cores and all 64 wondrous GB of RAM in my render box. And if I haven't convinced you yet, I have one final point: Rotobrush. Perhaps the most incredible tool in the new version, it allows you paint a few strokes and it automatically rotoscopes a clip for you. In under 10 minutes you can do what used to take several hours. Throw all of this in with a nice heaping side of complete interconnectivity with all of Adobe's other products and you've got one heck of a program. Don't get me wrong, it's not the best product on the market, but Final Cut Studio isn't cross platform and Autodesk's Flame may absolutely lay waste to After Effects, but I'm pretty sure there are Ferraris that cost less than Flame, I'd venture to say that dollar to dollar AE wins every time.

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• Strictly okay software

  masbageorge7/7/2010

  Pros

  This software is good in some aspects.The graphic designing ended up pretty well.

  Cons

  Not matches the standards of the other products from the maker

  Summary

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• Not worth the trouble.

  saintjimmy9605/18/2010

  Pros

  Pretty much everything except installing, as long as you can get it to work.

  Cons

  Every time I tried to add an effect (or anything else), it crashed!

  Summary

  Basically, this is the best video editing program ever... if it doesn't crash! My friend had it and his worked perfectly, so I got the trial version, but of course it didn't really work too well... Oh, well, from the other reviews, it must be pretty good when it works.

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