Adobe After Effects vs. Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects

282 Reviews and Ratings

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro

613 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe After Effects	Score 9.0 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	Score 8.9 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

Editions & Modules

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

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Discounts available for student and teacher plan.

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Community Pulse
	Adobe After Effects	Adobe Premiere Pro
Considered Both Products	Adobe After Effects Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects stands out for its comprehensive set of tools for creating motion graphics, visual effects, and animations. Its seamless integration with other Adobe software, vast community, and extensive tutorials make it user-friendly. It offers a wide range of 2D and 3D … Incentivized Helpful? AR Alexander Ross-Edwards Motion Designer 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 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 Anonymous 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 Chose Adobe After Effects A lot more features and support through Adobe with After Effects Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects is available for both windows and macOS with no software level performance degradation. Final cut pro is available only for Mac os on apple devices which let's file sharing between windows difficult. File sizes also vary for same level of editing. After … Incentivized Helpful? LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Chose Adobe After Effects Before switching to Adobe After Effects we were using Camtasia Studio to edit videos and it's a great video editing software but it couldn't provide us with the complex video effects that we needed to implement for our videos so we switched it to After Effects for that purpose. Incentivized Helpful? Romi Kalathiya App/Game Designer \| UI/UX & Prototype Expert \| Motion Graphics \| Video Editor \| GIF \| JSON 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? IS Isabel Sam Owner Chose Adobe After Effects Photoshop is good for simple video editing, but it doesn't have animation or audio help and it takes a while to get your video put together in a way that looks good. iMovie is also just for simpler video editing and lacks the extras that After Effects have that really turn your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe After Effects We use these tools in conjunction with After Effects not as a replacement. Apple Motion does many of the same things as After Effects and in some ways is more intuitive. However, After Effects is bundled with software we absolutely must use and is the industry standard. New … Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Morimitsu Social Media and Marketing Adminstrator Chose Adobe After Effects Because of our use of other Adobe products, and how they all play well together, we never really looked at using any other product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous Chose Adobe After Effects I find Adobe After Effects to be superior to iMovie and Final Cut Pro in that I am able to do much more with the software. It isn't as limiting as the other two. I also like that it isn't an Apple product. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Apple. There is a bigger learning … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe After Effects iMovie motion graphics limitations are just that, limitations. Motion Graphics in [Adobe] After Effects are very easy. [Adobe] After Effects opens many more doors for typography, visuals, and 3D animations that are leaps and bounds cooler than anything you can do in iMovie. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro are quite similar in the sense of their functionalities as far as I'm aware and the interfaces are more or less similar. But Adobe After Effects is preferred over Final Cut Pro mostly because of the fact that it is part of the Adobe … Incentivized Helpful? RT Ryan Treleven Technology Trainer Chose Adobe After Effects I haven’t used any direct competitors. I’ve used plenty of other paid and free photo and video editing programs, but none as full featured and powerful as After Effects, which makes it a pretty simple choice to use and buy if you need something that can perform like it can! Incentivized Helpful? Salomi Rai Junior Animator Chose Adobe After Effects Compared to other software, Adobe After Effects is more useful for motion graphics and composition. Adobe After Effects is simpler and easier to use for video editing and adding effects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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? ZL Zacheray Long Multimedia Specialist 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? JZ John Zelayandia Content Specialist 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 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? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe After Effects We have taken After Effects because Adobe Animate is completely focused on animation rather than other things which After Effects can handle very easily, like we needed a program which can handle the professional animation, speed up our workflow, and can do various things like … Incentivized Helpful? FZ Fabio Zenoardo Media Creator 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 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?	Adobe Premiere Pro Verified User Anonymous 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? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Final Cut Pro is equivalent to Premiere in terms of capability, but our organization is completely Windows based, as are most corporate office environments, and PowerDirector offered an adequate solution but lacked the full suite of tools that we were looking for. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe Premiere Pro I like the interface and features way more than iMovie. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro has all the tools you are looking for. It is easy to find things, you can save unfinished projects in a location. Other applications do not have all the available transitions, tools similar to Adobe Premiere Pro. Blender has for example a complex interface … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Craven Owner/President/CEO Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Davinci Resolve works nicely (though some things have a different flow compared to Adobe Premiere Pro). More importantly though, whenever I ran into a limitation with Davinci Resolve, I can always find a solution with Adobe Premiere Pro. Incentivized Helpful? Ignacio Lopez Editor Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro works great on both Mac OS and Windows OS. Avid not so much. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro integrates relatively well with the rest of the Creative Cloud suite. The challenges come down to individual workflows. Each product has its own separate hotkeys and workflows that may make sense individually, but collectively they're a hassle to keep … Incentivized Helpful? Arthur Zepeda Owner Chose Adobe Premiere Pro I have used APP for so long, it was hard to try other editing applications. Adobe stands on its own. FCPX normally has to try to live up to APP. Incentivized Helpful? Travis Brown Account Manager and Tactical Projects Leader Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Not even close. iMovie is a good starter set, Adobe Premiere Pro is the real deal. iMovie is a great entry point for you to learn the basics, but when you are ready to take your editing to the next level, Adobe Premiere Pro is the way to go. Incentivized Helpful? Emily Hammell Marketing and Communications Manager Chose Adobe Premiere Pro We had looked at Camtasia due to an industry referral and although it offers a much more simplistic interface and took less time to learn, it wasn't able to compete with some of the upscale Adobe options. That being said, we do use it for small projects that focus more on … Incentivized Helpful? ANDREW TOUTANT Motion Graphic Designer & Editor 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? Andy Ryan Launch Engineer Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Camtasia is a lower end video editing software. There is limited features and not any integrations with other apps. I think Camtasia is good for super simple video edits. But Adobe Premiere Pro is going to give you all the latest video editing tricks and tools to produce … Incentivized Helpful? Hilary Hobbs Senior Video Editor 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? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro is so much better than iMovie, but iMove is great for people who are just starting out and want a slimmed-down version of Adobe Premiere Pro. Adobe Premiere Pro does have a learning curve and is not as easy to pick up and learn in comparison to iMovie. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Folts YouTube Filmmaker Chose Adobe Premiere Pro I had no problems with Final Cut. It was also easy to use and very powerful. However, Adobe Premiere Pro is part of the Adobe ecosystem, so it just makes sense to use it instead of Final Cut Pro. Of course, some people may prefer to pay a one-time fee of $300 with Final Cut vs … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Huisjen Director of studentLife Chose Adobe Premiere Pro We used Final Cut for a while before switching to Premiere. Overall we found Premiere to be a better and more professional video editor with a number of great and easy to use features. Couple that with the fact that it's a part of the Creative Suite and compatible with all the … Incentivized Helpful? FZ Fabio Zenoardo Media Creator Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Probably better for the color part, and free, but very very unintuitive and slower workflow. Incentivized Helpful? WA Walter Aho Creative Director Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Each editor has its pros and cons. I tend to not like node-based editing, so the sliders, faders, and effects that I feel comfortable with in Photoshop and other similar programs are reflected in PPs UI. The more recently added hardware acceleration makes editing RAW 4K footage … Incentivized Helpful? Kenny Madison Video Editor, ChiveTV Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Final Cut Pro X was better at handling footage playback. Red footage playback was instantaneous. But I couldn't make heads or tails of the layout. It was so radically different and I didn't have time to relearn how to use editing software. Premiere provides fairly smooth … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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? Karee Smith STEM teacher Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Spark is better for the average user who does not have video editing experience or even for student use. Premiere Pro is definitely more of a professional software. Incentivized Helpful? Mark Anderson Digital Marketing Specialist Chose Adobe Premiere Pro This is the only software of it's kind that I have worked with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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? PE Paul Emporellis District Network Manager Chose Adobe Premiere Pro We selected Adobe Premiere Pro not only because it was included with our Suite but because it covered all bases from beginners to advanced users. As times have gone on our users were looking for a feature rich software to be able to edit videos and Premiere fit the bill. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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?

Best Alternatives
	Adobe After Effects	Adobe Premiere Pro
Small Businesses	Autodesk Maya Score 9.2 out of 10	iMovie Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Blender Score 9.2 out of 10	iMovie Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Adobe Animate Score 8.2 out of 10	Adobe Express Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Adobe After Effects	Adobe Premiere Pro
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (0 ratings)	3.2 (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe After Effects	Adobe Premiere Pro
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe After Effects is well suited for creating short video projects that require intricate animation, like 5 minute or 1-minute countdowns, credit roll-ins, outros, and video bumpers. It is also useful for creating animated elements that can be incorporated into video projects, like animated key titles. For longer videos, I would recommend using Adobe Premiere Pro instead. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Adobe Premiere Pro seems to be industry standard for video editing. For any type of video promotion or production Premiere is a great software for tidying up and correcting video color and audio as well as an easy editor to bring multiple clips together into a seamless production. Because it is the professional version, for casual video editing it may be too much program. Incentivized Jeff Huisjen Director of studentLife Read full review
Pros	After Effects is great for creating motion content once and easily exporting it to various formats such as web, broadcast, GIF, etc. After Effects is the industry standard for motion graphics. While I’m an Apple user and have used Motion in the past it is not as feature rich and most clients will expect you to use After Effects. After Effects is great for complex UI animation. Tools like principle and Flinto are great but are quite cumbersome for complex UI animations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The audio output of this program is better than those of other video editing software. You can make cuts from other videos and make a unique video. When you edit a video you can put audio, images, letters and other things. Incentivized FP Franchesco Petrizzo Colsultor de Marketing Digital Read full review
Cons	I would like the Re-Link file structure to mimic Premiere. I would like to see native .obj importing and manipulation. I would like to see better audio editing available within Adobe After Effects. if it could be given a separate layer/panel. Incentivized AR Alexander Ross-Edwards Motion Designer Read full review	GPU utilization- While Premiere utilizes the GPU occasionally and during exports, it's mostly a CPU intensive program. Unless you have a powerful CPU, your computer may struggle to playback high-resolution footage. The Graphics panel is very useful and has come a long way but still needs some work. I need more templates available to me since I'm paying monthly for this service. Incentivized John Uibel Creative Specialist Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	I will renew my use of After Effects since it's affordable and always has been reliable. They also always continue to update new features and add new things to compete with other software out there. I also like all the 3rd party plugins out there that keep my interest for the future and new toolsets and creative solutions. ANDREW TOUTANT Sr. Designer / Art Direction Read full review	Adobe Premiere Pro saves time and cost and it does a great job. When you see the output you know that you have made the right investment in the right application. Adobe does not require a lot of support to work good. There are thousands of videos in case you are looking for a particular thing to do during your work on your videos therefore it is well supported. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	There's a lot of features and functionality that Adobe After Effects offers that can be hard to navigate at times. Depending on the depth you plan to use the software for, that can take some time to learn. The built-in templates and tutorials really help soften that learning curve. Once you get past some of the basics, it's fairly simple to use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Premiere Pro is a very powerful tool, but it's not intuitive - it's virtually impossible to use without some kind of training or instruction. That being said, once you've learned how to use the product so that you can take advantage of its various video editing and creation options, it's an incredible program in terms of features and tools. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Adobe customer support is wonderful. They genuinely care about their product and the end user experience. The products they create have always been innovative and continue to improve. They have a huge chunk of the user market in their field and still strive to improve. This is such a big deal for me and other small business/organizations that need their products and don't have a large voice on our own. Incentivized Nicole Rayne Director of Design Read full review	The customer support was extremely slow, being passed to multiple departments, having calls dropped and need to start all over. I basically had to hold THEIR hand through the process so they could fully understand the situation. The most effective part was when I finally spoke with someone who was able to access my computer and walk through the issues themself. However, they came to the same conclusion after an entire hour, and had no idea why or that it was an issue that could be escalated to the technical team. Ultimately this communicates that Adobe Premiere has no interest in refining their platform, which solidified my ZERO user confidence in this video editing platform. JC Jesse Carrey-Chan Co-Founder Read full review
In-Person Training	No answers on this topic	Utilizing one of the many books available on Adobe Premiere Pro, each video editor can learn at their own pace. Incentivized Michael Craven Owner/President/CEO Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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 superior. The video format functionality of Adobe PhotoShop is more basic and works similarly to Adobe After Effects, so I would choose to use Adobe After Effects over Photoshop for video-making needs because of the increased capability. Incentivized Avery Chipman Interior Designer Read full review	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 already working in linear programs for so long. Their features aren't as robust and Premiere (outside of color). Final Cut is always a great tool, but if we were to switch to using PC it would become a problem down the road. And not being able to seamlessly use After Effects within Final Cut was the final nail in the coffin. Incentivized Hilary Hobbs Senior Video Editor Read full review
Return on Investment	Adobe After Effects has a great impact on business as maximum work can be done in one software To run this software you need to have good configuration system Motion Graphics, 2d Animation and video editing can be done in one software Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It allows my company to produce products. Full stop. There is no more valuable tool than Premiere for our entire company. Premiere's slow export time consumes the entirety of my computer. This means I often need to go to another machine to continue working. It's frustrating. Premiere also slows down when handling videos larger than 1080p. This slows down my workflow. Every second of my workday needs to make things go faster. Anything that slows it down is a serious problem. Incentivized Kenny Madison Video Editor, ChiveTV Read full review
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