Adobe After Effects vs. Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe After Effects

282 Reviews and Ratings

Adobe Premiere Pro

613 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe After Effects	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Adobe After Effects allows users to create cinematic movie titles, intros, and transitions, remove an object from a clip, start a fire or make it rain, or animate a logo or character. The vendor states that with After Effects, users can apply motion-graphics and animation to any digital object.	$20.99 Per User Per Month
Adobe Premiere Pro	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Adobe offers their video editing platform Adobe Premiere Pro, supporting video and audio editing as well as VR presentations, available as part of the company's Creative Cloud suite or as a standalone application.	$22.99 per month

Pricing

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Premiere Pro

Annual Plan (Paid Monthly): $20.99
Per User Per Month
Monthly Plan: $31.49
Per User Per Month
Annual Plan (Prepaid): $239.88
Per User Per Year

Premiere Pro Single App: $22.99
per month
Adobe Creative Cloud - All Apps: $59.99
per month
Adobe Creative Cloud - Students and Teachers: $59.99
per month
Adobe Creative Cloud - Business: $89.99
per month per seat

Pricing Offerings
Adobe After Effects	Adobe Premiere Pro
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Discounts available for student and teacher plan.

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	Adobe After Effects	Adobe Premiere Pro
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe After Effects I have used Adobe Premiere Pro, Camtasia, Microsoft Powerpoint, and Apple Keynote. All of these programs allow you to do some level of animation. However, Adobe After Effects is specifically designed to create advanced and dynamic effects and animations for video. Though you … Incentivized Helpful? Avery Chipman Interior Designer in Professional Services at EOP Architects (Architecture & Planning, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects I've created videos with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe PhotoShop (with the GIF function), as well as Canva and other online products. Adobe Premiere Pro does not have the same capabilities for creating vector-based content, meaning if that is necessary, Adobe After Effects is … Incentivized Helpful? Alexander Ross-Edwards Motion Designer in Social Media at Jump450 (Animation, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects is a great bridge from still graphics and vector, to motion graphics. The integration with Premiere makes things work seamlessly and the way it can ustilise native PSDs and ai files makes working in Adobe After Effects ideal for most clients. Incentivized Helpful? Hannan Shahid Sales Team Lead in Sales at Axelliant (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects The other tools we use are part of the Adobe CC Family and they complement each other very well. We chose Adobe After Effects because it is far superior in terms of functionality and output to any other application in the market and it met our design needs perfectly well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe After Effects In Adobe After we can do Motion Graphics, 2d Animation, Text Animation, 3d Animation, Video Editing, Chroma Key Cutting, Visual Effects, Color grading, Motion Tracking all this can be done in After Effects only, and I have been using this software quite a while so it's a … Incentivized Helpful? Miko Mikaela Garcia Graphics Video Editor Specialist in Professional Services at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects A lot more features and support through Adobe with After Effects Incentivized Helpful? Romi Kalathiya App/Game Designer \| UI/UX & Prototype Expert \| Motion Graphics \| Video Editor \| GIF \| JSON in Marketing at Freelance (Animation, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects [Adobe After Effects] is a beast and VEGAS Pro is just a baby when compared to Adobe. It doesn't match [Adobe After Effects] when it comes to the feature and performance it offers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe After Effects It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud that I sign monthly and is full of possibilities. Most of them I've not yet explored. Adobe has a large library of tutorials and we can find a huge number of tutorials on YouTube for free to teach how to use it better or find some plugins … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe Illustrator is used for creating templates, logos, cartoons but you can animate the beautiful logo or cartoon with the help of a camera and 3D space, it worth the experience no matter what... Incentivized Helpful? Zacheray Long Multimedia Specialist in Marketing at Vertiv (Computer Hardware, 10,001+ employees) Chose Adobe After Effects After Effects is the halfway point between simple editing software like Premiere Pro and complex 3D suites like Cinema 4D. It offers a balance of speed and functionality for mid-level production. I also prefer it over Apple Motion and Black Magic Fusion, mostly due to being in … Incentivized Helpful? John Zelayandia Content Specialist in Marketing at Taos (Luxury Goods & Jewelry, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects After Effects is on par with most of these other non-Adobe software. It is able to edit, create, render, illustrate, stabilize video content; and so much more. Incentivized Helpful? ANDREW TOUTANT Sr. Designer / Art Direction in Corporate at Rip Media Group (Animation, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects After Effects is more versatile for animations than Premiere for sure. And now, with the .mogrt templates, it can be great for keeping consistent animations and branding guides when sharing work with other animators and editors. I also like their 3d plugins and advanced … Incentivized Helpful? Fabio Zenoardo Media Creator in Professional Services at Fabio Zenoardo Photography (Photography, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects Obviously I use Premiere to edit and After Effects to post-produce. In the past I used 4D Cinema to create objects to insert in the videos, but now with a few external plugins all the objects you want are inserted. Incentivized Helpful? Bradley Gill co-founder in Professional Services at 360 Labs (Media Production, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects After Effects doesn't need to be compared directly with Premiere Pro. They should be looked at more like a pair. One is the right hand and one is the left. You can do things with either, but if you use them together you can do much much more. Using AE can help make your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe After Effects The family apps advantage puts Adobe After Effects at a higher preference for me, but I have heard that Final Cut Pro is also great if you deal with footage and animation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe After Effects Don't know about any other tools in the market which can replace Adobe After Effects Incentivized Helpful?	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro is the less advanced version of Adobe After Effects. It gets the job done to create quality videos and some of the features are included in Adobe After Effects. Adobe After Effects is more about putting finishing touches or extra effects on your video. iMovie … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Premiere has the capability to edit audio, video, and graphics. While we still use Adobe After Effects for more complicated motion graphics and animation, Premiere is where we do most of our work and final exports. Incentivized Helpful? Vinny Hebert Owner at Web Help U.S., LLC (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro I use Adobe After Effects in partnership with Adobe Premiere Pro. Final Cut Pro I used years ago when working on a television show. I no longer use it because I don't have a Mac and I'm not about to buy one. However, if I did own a Mac, I would still use Adobe Premiere Pro … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Premiere Pro I have also used Adobe Premiere Rush (a less capable but more streamlined and easier to use version of Adobe Premiere Pro) and Canva to produce video content. Ultimately I will choose to use Adobe Premiere Pro every time. I always end up wanting to do something in Rush that I … Incentivized Helpful? ANDREW TOUTANT Motion Graphic Designer & Editor in Corporate at Evolution LA (Animation, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Compared to other editing software, it's a cleaner layout, faster render, and much more easy to learn some of the more complex features. Similar platforms take too long to set up and give commands in one step as opposed to 3 or 4 steps in some software, which saves time. Incentivized Helpful? Hilary Hobbs Senior Video Editor at Spear Education and Freelancing (Entertainment, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro We actually took time in 2020 to test out Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve to see if they would be better suited for our department but ended up sticking with Premiere. Each has [its] strong suits, but the non-linear editing style of Resolve was too complicated to grasp when … Incentivized Helpful? Fabio Zenoardo Media Creator in Professional Services at Fabio Zenoardo Photography (Photography, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Probably better for the color part, and free, but very very unintuitive and slower workflow. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Premiere Pro DaVinci Resolve is a powerful editing and color-grading application, and the base version is free. However, I've found that with the Lumetri Color panel in Premiere, I really have no need for Resolve as it meets all of my needs. Additionally, I've found Resolve to be lacking in … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hecox Business Owner in Marketing at Lucky Whisker LLC (Online Media, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro iMovie is great for video editing unless you want to make money in video production. If you've got the income and a lot of reasons to learn editing techniques, I recommend learning Premiere Pro before touching iMovie. Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Newman Marketing Director in Marketing at MGT Films (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Premier Pro is a better version of Final Cut Pro. Adobe offers a more comprehensive suite that allows communication between programs. Adobe is also a much more widely used program in comparison to Final Cut Pro. Premiere is going to be the best option for video editors, as it … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Adobe After Effects	Adobe Premiere Pro
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (34 ratings)	9.0 (82 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (2 ratings)	8.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (3 ratings)	7.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (7 ratings)	3.2 (16 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)