What is After Effects used for?

[Luke Cheung]

One year ago, I learnt from the job description section in the Centro's website that you must know how to use Photoshop and After Effects in order to apply for the job. I know that Photoshop is used for making texture but what is After Effects used for?

[feverheat]

Like photoshop act on static graph, & after effect is for the motion picture.

Actually, the After effect is for compositing, like , if you make a CG or 2D animation & have a real or 3d / 2d background wants to key-in together. You can use the after effect to combine them & output to a mpeg, avi or quicktime file. & also after effect have the special function to make the blur , key-in , masking.

You also have other options for the same function , like softwares : combustion (by discreet ), shake ( by nothingreal ) .... so many

Hope that can help you !!~