Adobe After Effects / Available On Streaming Rental or Purchase

Alongside Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects is one of the two Creative Cloud tools made for film post-production. It’s known best for visual effects, motion design, and compositing, but it’s also been used in animation, keying, and tracking. Through the application, filmmakers can set shapes into motion, so anything created on Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro can turn into more dynamic elements. 2D and 3D elements can be blended here, and its integration with Frame.io allows for easily collaboration. Of course, as part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud, it’s just one piece of a 20-plus-application set made for designers, making it a good investment for filmmakers, especially those into visual effects and animation.