After Effects
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We put eleven real editing requests in front of the panel and measured which ones it could even express. Six of them died on the same three walls, and not one of the three is a bug in the panel: they are things Premiere does not hand to a panel at all. After Effects is built out of exactly those three.
Inside Premiere a panel can hand an effect a clip and a timecode, never a region of the picture. So “make all the players flash green” and “sweep a light across these four gems, one by one” have nowhere to land: the effect can only take the whole frame or nothing. After Effects is layers and masks all the way down, and a region of the picture is a thing you can hold there.
A rectangle over a face, a circle around a detail, a code lock with ten keys and a six digit code on it. Premiere ships no drawing effect a panel can reach, so those requests stop before they start. In After Effects a shape is an object in its own right, which is what turns a sentence into something you can still edit afterwards.
A blue box that stays on a head while the head walks across the shot. We went looking for Premiere’s tracker from inside a panel, across three hundred and one entries of what scripting can see, with a control that proved the search itself worked. It is not reachable. After Effects tracks motion in the app itself, and that is the whole difference.
After Effects has no tracks and no razor. That is measured, not an opinion, and it means the three tools crossed out here cannot exist in that app however the panel is written. We would rather have it on the page than have you find out after paying.
When, and how much. Neither one is settled, and a guess printed here would be a promise nobody made. What is settled is above: what the panel is being built to do in After Effects, and what it will not pretend to do.
Those plans cover the Premiere Pro panel, the one you can install today.