Unlock the visual effects of your dreams.

Bring out your inner magician with Adobe After Effects VFX software. Make objects disappear, create 3D animations, control the weather onscreen, and generate special effects that make the impossible look real.

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Perfect it in post-production.

Elevate your footage with Adobe After Effects. Take out what you don’t want and add in stunning visuals — from motion graphics to explosive effects.

Using Content-Aware Fill to edit footage in After Effects

Eliminate mistakes and distractions.

Cut boom mics, signs, and people from live-action footage with Content-Aware Fill, and skip time-consuming rotoscoping. Removing objects from video footage has never been easier.

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Add the weather of your choice.

Make it rain or send a blizzard blowing through your scene. Add a stylish lens flare for bright sunshine. Or create drifting or rising smoke to give scenes an eerie effect.

Using the Warp Stabilizer to stabilize footage in After Effects

Smooth handheld footage.

No need to throw out shaky footage. With motion tracking, you can use the Warp Stabilizer VFX to animate your scene and compensate for unintentional movement.

Add 3D geometry and depth.

Turn animations into high-resolution videos. Work with the Cinema 4D renderer to bend layers in 3D space and convert text and shape layers to 3D objects.

Access the power of the Adobe toolset.

Import your assets from Photoshop, Illustrator, Character Animator, or Animate. Export your visual effects to Premiere Pro.

Make Hollywood-level title sequences.

Create titles worthy of blockbuster movies by importing Adobe Illustrator assets to After Effects and manipulating them with Cinema 4D Lite.

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Export an animated scene or puppet.

It’s easy to add visual effects to animated characters. Just drag and drop the asset from the Character Animator Project panel to the After Effects Project panel.