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# Adobe After Effects Reviews

## Reviews Summary

## Overall Rating

4.7

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## Ratings Breakdown

5

(344)

4

(92)

3

(9)

2

(1)

1

(0)

## Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

3.9

Customer Support

4.1

Value for money

4.3

Functionality

4.7

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### Pros

"The pros of using After Effects is it's easy to navigate User Interface, after a few uses it's easy to understand how to create and edit videos, and where to find all the editing and animation tools you desire."

"AE helps me to create great work, is one of Adobes harder to learn softwares in my opinion but is rewarding when you get good results."

"The possibilities are endless and the amount of adds-on and plugins are very vast and enable you create stunning VFX and motion graphics."

### Cons

"The cache does also sometimes really slow down my machine as its such a large software."

"Complex projects can slow down my computer and render times can be long, especially without high-end hardware."

"Now there are over 470 addons in this bloated mess, they hacked in multithreading, then removed it, then added it back worse 5 years later and acted like it was the first time, same with MP4 export, they advertise GPU usage, like it's special, but it has all of 5 effects that use the GPU.now, it can't even playback 1080p video reliably."

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