Adobe After Effects is motion design and visual effects software. Designers and video makers use it to animate text, illustrations and still images and to composite effects for film, TV, video and the web. It offers a 3D workspace, built-in effects, tracking, keying, Content-Aware Fill and AI Object Matte. It imports layered Photoshop files and works with Premiere through Dynamic Link. After Effects is installed as a desktop application and delivered through a Creative Cloud subscription.
Adobe Inc. is headquartered in San Jose, California, and is therefore subject to US jurisdiction. For users outside North America and Japan, Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited is the contracting party and data controller. According to its privacy policy, processing takes place mainly in the US and India, Adobe is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and the policy includes a GDPR section. Adobe documents no separate EU hosting option. For European organisations, files and account data in Creative Cloud can be processed outside the EU, while locally stored projects stay on their own systems.