With Adobe After Effects, the industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects software for macOS, you can take any idea and make it move. Create cinematic movie titles, intros, and transitions. Make a big scene bigger! Animators, designers, and compositors use After Effects to create motion graphics and visual effects for film, TV, video, and the web.
The industry-standard animation and creative compositing app lets you design and deliver professional motion graphics and visual effects for film, TV, video, and Web. Adobe After Effects CC for Mac is part of Creative Cloud, which means you can access and share all your creative assets -- including Motion Graphics templates and Adobe Stock videos -- across your apps, desktop, and mobile devices.
Features and Highlights
Roll credits. Spin words. Twirl titles
Create animated titles, credits, and lower thirds. Start from scratch or with one of the animation presets available right inside the app. From spin to swipe to slide — there are countless ways to make your text move with the tool.
Explosive effects. Mind-blowing results
Combine videos and images to send a UFO across the sky, blur out a logo, or create an explosion — the possibilities are endless. And there are hundreds of effects to get just the look you want, from adding fog to changing colors to making it snow.
Get animated
Set anything in motion—from logos to shapes to cartoons—with keyframes or expressions. Or use presets to kick-off your designs and get unique results.
Plays well with others
The program works seamlessly with other Adobe apps. Create comps and immediately see how they look in Premiere Pro CC with Adobe Dynamic Link. Import work from Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Character Animator CC, Adobe XD CC, and Animate CC. Use Team Projects to collaborate with editors no matter where they’re located. And the tool is integrated with 300+ software and hardware partners.
Advanced puppet tools for mesh sculpting
Mesh sculpting tools like Advanced and Bend pins let you precisely twist, bend, curve, and scale your animations.
Get depth passes from native 3D elements
Apply depth effects such as Depth of Field, Fog 3D, and Depth Matte so elements look natural — or use depth data to simulate 3D looks.
Supercharge your animation flow
Work faster with a new JavaScript expression engine and get up to a 6x boost in performance. Write expressions with a new editor that makes creating expressions more accessible.
Responsive Design — Time
Create motion graphics compositions that can be stretched or shortened while preserving the integrity of keyframes such as intros and outros. Export your designs as Motion Graphics templates for more editorial flexibility.
Capture inspiration everywhere
Capture inspiration and create assets wherever you are using mobile apps like new Adobe Hue CC and Adobe Shape CC. Then, bring your assets into the software to create rich motion graphics and effects.
Perfect while you preview
Create without interruptions now that the app lets you adjust a composition's properties and even resize panels without stopping playback.
More accurate face tracking
Use the new Face Tracker to apply effects to select areas of faces. Color-correct or blur, track measurements, or track points to change things like eye color.
Breathe life into 2D characters
New Adobe Character Animator lets you animate characters you create in Illustrator or Photoshop by acting out their movements in front of a webcam.
Access all your After Effects assets anywhere with CreativeSync
Adobe CreativeSync keeps everything you need up to date and at your fingertips across your desktop, web and mobile apps. It automatically syncs your Looks, colors, images, Adobe Stock assets, settings, metadata and more.
Introducing Adobe Stock. Millions of high-quality images. Right inside After Effects
Find the perfect photo or graphic to jump-start your next project and make it amazing. The new Adobe Stock service offers 40 million curated, royalty-free assets that are all available from AfterEffects CC in just a few clicks.
Note: 7 days trial version.
Also Available: Download Adobe After Effects for Windows

With Adobe After Effects, the industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects software for macOS, you can take any idea and make it move. Create cinematic movie titles, intros, and transitions. Make a big scene bigger! Animators, designers, and compositors use After Effects to create motion graphics and visual effects for film, TV, video, and the web.
The industry-standard animation and creative compositing app lets you design and deliver professional motion graphics and visual effects for film, TV, video, and Web. Adobe After Effects CC for Mac is part of Creative Cloud, which means you can access and share all your creative assets -- including Motion Graphics templates and Adobe Stock videos -- across your apps, desktop, and mobile devices.
Features and Highlights
Roll credits. Spin words. Twirl titles
Create animated titles, credits, and lower thirds. Start from scratch or with one of the animation presets available right inside the app. From spin to swipe to slide — there are countless ways to make your text move with the tool.
Explosive effects. Mind-blowing results
Combine videos and images to send a UFO across the sky, blur out a logo, or create an explosion — the possibilities are endless. And there are hundreds of effects to get just the look you want, from adding fog to changing colors to making it snow.
Get animated
Set anything in motion—from logos to shapes to cartoons—with keyframes or expressions. Or use presets to kick-off your designs and get unique results.
Plays well with others
The program works seamlessly with other Adobe apps. Create comps and immediately see how they look in Premiere Pro CC with Adobe Dynamic Link. Import work from Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Character Animator CC, Adobe XD CC, and Animate CC. Use Team Projects to collaborate with editors no matter where they’re located. And the tool is integrated with 300+ software and hardware partners.
Advanced puppet tools for mesh sculpting
Mesh sculpting tools like Advanced and Bend pins let you precisely twist, bend, curve, and scale your animations.
Get depth passes from native 3D elements
Apply depth effects such as Depth of Field, Fog 3D, and Depth Matte so elements look natural — or use depth data to simulate 3D looks.
Supercharge your animation flow
Work faster with a new JavaScript expression engine and get up to a 6x boost in performance. Write expressions with a new editor that makes creating expressions more accessible.
Responsive Design — Time
Create motion graphics compositions that can be stretched or shortened while preserving the integrity of keyframes such as intros and outros. Export your designs as Motion Graphics templates for more editorial flexibility.
Capture inspiration everywhere
Capture inspiration and create assets wherever you are using mobile apps like new Adobe Hue CC and Adobe Shape CC. Then, bring your assets into the software to create rich motion graphics and effects.
Perfect while you preview
Create without interruptions now that the app lets you adjust a composition's properties and even resize panels without stopping playback.
More accurate face tracking
Use the new Face Tracker to apply effects to select areas of faces. Color-correct or blur, track measurements, or track points to change things like eye color.
Breathe life into 2D characters
New Adobe Character Animator lets you animate characters you create in Illustrator or Photoshop by acting out their movements in front of a webcam.
Access all your After Effects assets anywhere with CreativeSync
Adobe CreativeSync keeps everything you need up to date and at your fingertips across your desktop, web and mobile apps. It automatically syncs your Looks, colors, images, Adobe Stock assets, settings, metadata and more.
Introducing Adobe Stock. Millions of high-quality images. Right inside After Effects
Find the perfect photo or graphic to jump-start your next project and make it amazing. The new Adobe Stock service offers 40 million curated, royalty-free assets that are all available from AfterEffects CC in just a few clicks.
Note: 7 days trial version.
Also Available: Download Adobe After Effects for Windows