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You should not be editing long videos in After Effects.

But! this makes some serious changes to your work flow. Of course the program called After Effects is meant for effects. If you want to learn more about how layers in After Effects work, check out this article by School of Motion. It takes some getting used to, but is extremely helpful once you get into the thick of creating visual effects (vfx) or motion graphics (mgfx). So if you want to have two clips play one after another, then one clip has to be directly after the first but on a separate layer.Īe is set up this way because clarity of layers is vital to the work done in this program. Layers are no stranger to the experienced Premier editor, but in After Effects, no two clips can share the same layer. This ‘staircase’ is what creates the full edit. Now look at this: Every clip is on its own layer, placed directly diagonally down from the one before it.

Most normal timelines look like this Every clip is one after the other on a single layer creating a the full edit. Thankfully it’s not Blackmagic Fusion, a terrifying node-based software which has no timeline, but Ae’s timeline is a little strange. So, does After Effects have a timeline? Yes…kind of. If you’ve ever done any kind of editing then you know what a timeline is. This article is not meant to be tutorial on After Effects, but rather a conceptual introduction to the most important parts of it. The ones I find most useful and accessible are those by Ben Marriott, a motion designer who specializes in vector animation, and Jake in Motion, another motion designer who has a series where he explains every single effect in basic Ae.

The first thing I will say is that there is a wealth of tutorials online that cover literally everything you could think of. In my years of introducing editors to After Effects, I have found the most common conceptual barriers to entry and am here to make jumping those hurdles a little easier. I have been using Ae for almost 8 years now and it is my best friend, my arch nemesis, my creative outlet, my creative blockage, and the single biggest influence on the way that I think. Ae is scary! Even the best Premier editors that I know have expressed their fear of it. Everyone should learn After Effects (Ae) but I understand the trepidation.