Adobe After Effects Alternatives for Windows

A Node based approach for not only vector and raster image processing and animation but also for OpenGL effects and shader authoring. Also supports OFX. Mainly targeted for VFX compositing.

Its simple (when you get the arrangement) but still very powerful, easily works with Blender and its free!!

Awful documentation (blank page); The versions change so much that the old tutorials don't help at all; Difficult to learn by just messing around; High learning curve.

free ,open source a bit hard to use at first

Bad support for zoom-in on SVG and fonts

Natron can import SVG image and edit node. However, Natron cannot export SVG file.

Free and open-source node based alternative to After Effects. It's pretty similar to Nuke, but doesn't cost anything.

Yeah, you can edit videos with it... But it's not made for it in specific and isn't it's main purpose. It has lots of purposes.

It clearly doesn't look like after effects and has a pretty steep learning curve, but it can do anything that after effects can do.

AE's main purpose: Video effect editing. Blender has a whole range of possibilities, but it's hard to get into and it's not designed to be used solely for video effect editing.

Blender is a 3D suite and the node based compositing workflow differs a lot from after effects.

It is free and u can use it for everything. You can Design you own things

Blender is has a bit different workflow, that doesn't make it worse than AE. People think that Blender is only a 3D program, but it fact it has greasepencil (2d animation tool), and it also includes node-based compositing, video editing and video tracking. With Blender you can combine 2d animations, 3d renderings and video footage without using any external program.

Blender is a very powerful tool, don't get me wrong, but Blender is not focused on video effects. Blender is more focused on 3d modeling and animation. Blender can do what After Effects can do, but only to a certain extent.

The closest thing to the After Effects experience but lacking on some parts.

It has some nice features to make 2D and 3D compositings. Very easy to use and free. In this case, free does not mean "cheap".

it has a better alternative when it comes to editing

The only one in the list that has more similarities with the After Effects Workflow

It has a free version, also has a lot of built-in tools to help you achieve everything you can imagine. It has TRUE 3d space, unlike some other solutions.

It may not be entirely free, but still works VERY WELL if I could only understand it XD

It's really powerful, but also very difficult to understand.

Great software and well integrated with DaVinci Resolve.

High level composition software.

Very hard to understand alone.

There is a free commercial version, nuke is also more industry standard for compositing

Because it can do precisely similar things to what things Adobe After Effects can do.

It's free I have used black magic's da'vinchi resolve. After effects is mainly for vfx. Hitfilm too is! As per its latest update it has been optimised to a high level.no lag. It's really good.its forums are very active! I don't think any free software can compete with hitfilm express in case of VFX:)

Free and open source, much easier on the memory; still a lot of bugs and features missing but it is an absolutely amazing piece of software that will hopefully one day do to Adobe what Blender did to Autodesk.

Wow! Cavalry is one of the closest free softwares I have seen with a similar interface and flow to After Effects. Although Cavalry doesn't contain all the bells and whistles of After Effects, it is a great and free software that allows you to create advanced compositions. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to composite within 2d and doesn't want to pay the expensive fee of After Effects.