Recently in my DDA class, we have been working with three different Adobe products- Adobe After Effects, Premiere, and Animate. All three of these have their strengths and weaknesses; some more so than others.
Once you get the hang of it, Animate is at least tolerable. That's the only good thing I have to say about that program. After Effects was easy to use, if a little bit more clunky than Premiere. I enjoyed making my motion graphic on it, and it was really easy and cool to see what I'd done. I've only used Premiere once now, and I think it's honestly the best of the three. If you've ever used iMovie, you'll get the hang of this program pretty quick. It's literally just that, but a whole lot nicer. I found Animate frustrating and annoying to work with, and I can't say that, concerning quality, I'm terribly proud of the things I made in it. For example, I thought the brush tool was broken, making it so that I couldn't use tweens on a layer where I had used it. But no, I just had no understanding of the symbol system (I still don't). After Effects is a well polished program. It's easy to use, and I have no problems with it. I really can't think of anything I don't like about it. On the other hand, while this hasn't happened to me, my teacher mentioned the Premiere is a drain on system resources, and one kid had problems with the program crashing. Each product has their advantages and disadvantages. I personally felt let down by Animate, as I was really excited to start animating. I ended up glad that we only did two assignments in it. Otherwise, I've been really happy with the programs we've been using. In Summary;
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