Adobe After Effects vs. Filmora

Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects

282 Reviews and Ratings

Filmora

Filmora

66 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
Filmora	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Filmora from Wondershare is the company's video editing software available for a monthly or annual subscription, with support for 4k editing and a wide (and growing) range of available effects.	$7.99 per month

Pricing

Adobe After Effects

Filmora

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

Educational: $7.99
per month
Subscription Plan: $39.99
per year
Perpetual Plan: $69.99
one-time fee
Bundle Subscription Plan: $99.87
per year
Business Annual Plan: Starting at $155.88
per year

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Adobe After Effects	Filmora
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

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Community Pulse
	Adobe After Effects	Filmora
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?	Filmora Prashant Chaudhari Strategic Brand & Marketing Consultant Chose Filmora Firstly, Adobe Premiere Pro's price is too high as comapared to Filmora's price. Secondly, Adobe Premiere Pro is not easy to get started. You need to invest a lot of time to learn it. It also reauires more powerful computer whereas Filmora's requirements are not that high. The … Incentivized Helpful? Marvin Malinao Online Course Designer Chose Filmora You can purchase Filmora for only one-time payment, unlike those software that have monthly plans to pay for you to be able to use their softwares. So, if you're looking for affordable, reliable but good editing software. Filmora is the best! Incentivized Helpful? Rocio Maria Macoritto Architect and Interior Designer Chose Filmora I like both Filmora and Adobe premiere pro but it is worth noting that Filmora has some advantages over Adobe Premier pro. It makes as professional looking videos as Adobe premier pro but faster and it is much easier to use and straightforward. Filmora has many video effects, … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Malinger Photographer/Author Chose Filmora There is no comparison, except the price; you get what you pay for. Buy cheap crap and you get cheap crap. I think Filmora relies on the price of their product to seduce customers and then only offers a meager amount of product, which is actually very substandard. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Filmora An incredibly more powerful tool. More costly up front, but full-suite, no nickel-and-dime business strategy, and no nonsense or issues. Records video and screengrabs simultaneously, but adds them as separate tracks to edit individually. Pleasurable experience, and simple … Incentivized Helpful? Adnan Sohail Akhtar Freelancer Chose Filmora I truly do not utilize Adobe Premiere Professional and DaVinci Resolve. However, the time when I'm beginning to study to video edit for a faculty challenge. I used the trial of Adobe and DaVinci however I actually don't get the way to use them even after watching loads of … Incentivized Helpful? JE JOHN MICHAEL EUBRA FACULTY Chose Filmora Wondershare The best video editing program is Filmora. If you're new to video editing and want to make new videos for your Youtube channel or for promotional purposes, this should be your first choice. In comparison to other expensive video editors, the pricing is also very … Incentivized Helpful? Gary Shouldis Founder & CEO Chose Filmora Adobe Premiere Pro is the gold standard for video editing but it was overkill for our needs, which entails educational and advertising videos on Youtube and other social media platforms. The cost and learning curve to train staff made it unusable so we switched to Filmora … Incentivized Helpful? AK Ann Korb Chose Filmora Filmora is easy enough to use after you get started. There are other programs with more functions but that depends on what you need it for. Just for cutting and small editing Filmora is really great and useful. Movavi has more functions, or at least it felt like it but … Incentivized Helpful? Shivam Sharma Video Editor Chose Filmora DaVinci, despite having a paid version, has a totally free version that allows us to make a good number of edits to our video. Of course, we will have to know the environment to control all the parameters it includes and have a powerful computer. Among some of its advantages: … Incentivized Helpful? Preston Bramley Engineering Executive Chose Filmora The only other one I have used was Movie Maker and this is much better. Incentivized Helpful? CW Chris Waters The Architect Chose Filmora Think of Filmora as the sweet spot between iMovie and one of the bigger editing software like Final Cut or Adobe Premiere. If you're just putting together videos or you have a YouTube channel and need a simple way to edit videos and add some bells and whistles, this is for you. … Incentivized Helpful? MS Mihai George Sorohan Music Teacher Chose Filmora I tried iMovie on iPad, Adobe Premiere and the default video program that came with my Asus laptop. iMovie is easy to use, good quality output but very little options, Premiere had very hard to use/ understand interface and the default Asus program had catastrophic quality, … Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Städeli CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Filmora Filmora is great for quick video edits and is quick to load and operate on lower-end PC. It lacks some of the more advanced features, but for some of the training and promotional videos, these are not needed. Filmora is easy to learn for any type of user, it doesn't require … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Filmora From what I remember, Final Cut seemed quite expensive and therefore used it on a free trial. The Apple Macs in the office aren't particularly new and didn't cope very well with the software. I can easily and quickly use Filmora on my Windows PC and also when remoting in from … Incentivized Helpful? Bill Greganti Owner Chose Filmora I had very limited time to spend with a Premiere Pro trial and didn't manage to accomplish much in that time. It is a very capable and professional program but leaves an amateur editor pretty bewildered. It was easy enough to add media and trim out unnecessary footage, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Filmora Filmora is a good video editor with many of the capabilities of Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro. However, it was the more user-friendly of the three to people who have no experience in video editing. I cannot speak to what a professional video editor would say, but as … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Germino Owner of DragonBlogger.com Chose Filmora Filmora has a better effects, transition option pack than other services and it is less than half the price of Camtasia. However, it is limited to 2 video tracks only where Avid One which is free allows 4 video tracks. Camtasia has better layered video on top of video … Incentivized Helpful?

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	Adobe After Effects	Filmora
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User Ratings
	Adobe After Effects	Filmora
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (0 ratings)	9.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe After Effects	Filmora
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	It is a good program when you just start editing videos to get into it and have successful end products. If you have more requirements on a program you might need to be able to look into something more advanced. But it is totally sufficient to start out with when editing the first videos. Incentivized AK Ann Korb 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	Edits videos very well. Records the screen of your computer perfectly. This is great if you are an architect because you can show on a video how you make your renderings and plans with Autocad, chief architect premier, Adobe photoshop or even revit. You can cut videos perfectly and add music to them easily. You can use several predesigned themes to create any video you desire. You can add as much text as you want to your videos There are several filters you can use to improve the images on the recordings. Incentivized Rocio Maria Macoritto Architect and Interior Designer 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	Filmora needs to improve the motion tracking feature. Filmora needs to improve the green screen feature to make smoother removing of background. Filmora needs to improve the editing feature that can allow user to manipulate more the texts, shapes and other elements. Incentivized Marvin Malinao Online Course Designer 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	No answers on this topic
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	Filmora is an all rounder video editing software. Besides editing videos, you can generate videos, images, and music! So, even if you are not shooting any videos on your own, you can create highly engaging explainer videos, demo videos, or any kind of information videos. Filmora is powerfully useful to content creators, video editors, podcasters, or even for enthusiasts! Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Strategic Brand & Marketing Consultant 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	I'm giving this a ten because I haven't needed the support in any way, however, I've gotten correspondence from them letting me know that they are available if needed. I've seen reviews saying the support is lacking but those were years ago. I'm assuming they've figured everything out by now. Incentivized CW Chris Waters The Architect 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	Adobe Premiere Pro is the gold standard for video editing but it was overkill for our needs, which entails educational and advertising videos on Youtube and other social media platforms. The cost and learning curve to train staff made it unusable so we switched to Filmora where we now have several staff trained on how to use it. It's just more fun all around and easier to use than Premiere Pro. Incentivized Gary Shouldis Founder & CEO 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	I have saved a lot of money and time by not outsourcing the work to the videographer I have started posting more on social media by repurposing the long videos using Filmora's "Smart Short Clips" feature Now, any idea can be quickly converted into video using Filmora's "An Idea To Video" feature. It is just like Google's "Veo 2" Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Strategic Brand & Marketing Consultant Read full review
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