After Effects or Premiere?
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- section_014
Okay, so my company is gonna pony up and buy one of these.
I'll be making mostly instructional videos. Most of the graphics will be simple, but could be complex at some point. Other than text, most of the graphics will be imported from illustrator and animated without a load of effects and what not.
After Effects is what I'm leaning towards, but it's $200 more. I know After Effects has loads more features, but would they're be anything I'd be missing out on editing wise with After Effects vs Premiere?
- babaganush0
both really, or AE and Final cut pro preferably
- CALLES0
ae
- BaskerviIle0
for editing use final cut.
But you could get final cut express for cheap, or even use imovie for quick simple editing, then get AE as well, best of both on a budget?
- lvl_130
this question is kind of like comparing apples to oranges.
if anything you should be asking whether to buy final cut or premiere.
i would say Final cut would be your best bet with the type of editing you will be doing. that being said, as soon as you move into more complex animations and such you will need to invest in after effects.
- yeah, or just listen to what baskerville said. i didn't read his response before i hit respond :\lvl_13
- orangesinvisiblechamber
- section_0140
I run a pc at work (ducks!). We have some lame windows only software that I have to use, so I'm stuck on it (although, maybe the plea for final cut will get me a mac pro).
There's no way I can get both. I'd be fine with Premiere because I will be editing mostly, and any animation that may be needed, I could use flash for. I won't be compositing at all. I haven't used Premiere for ages, but if I can do basic animation (rotating, fading, scaling) with it in addition to editing, I should be fine.
- vector animation that issection_014
- ah, well the fact that you are on a pc obviously eliminates the possibility of final cut hahalvl_13
- yeah, it's lame. At least I go home to a nice shiny mac at nightsection_014
- bogue0
sounds like Premiere is definitely your answer.
- nosaj0
Premiere CS4 isn't bad feature wise but it crashes all the time. Works really well with After Effects as you can bring in pre-rendered comps.
That said, we just switched everything over to Mac / Final Cut Studio / Final Cut Server and it has been worlds better.
You'll want to get Sound Booth also if you're using Premiere.
- harlequino0
If you're mainly working with live action or pre-rendered footage, you'll want the editing app. You can kinda sorta edit in AE, but it's cumbersome as hell. Just doesn't handle real time playback the way a dedicated editing app does.
- twokids0
^ yeah, what harlequino says. Premiere will do the job. AE is for Motion Design, complex layered animations.
- formed0
You need both
Back to my car analogies - it's like asking "I want to race a car, should I get a really good engine or really good suspension?"
If you want to be able to race on a track, you'll need both to do well. You can get buy with mediocre version of one of them (think racing economy cars vs. drag racing), but you'll need a little of both.
- twokids0
dont get your thinking there, formed. This is what section_014 says: "most of the graphics will be imported from illustrator and animated without a load of effects and what not."
What will AE be for? It will take a long time to learn, and add little or nothing since Premiere can handle what it seems needs to be done.....
Section_014, AE is complex, deep program that will take a long time to learn....go ahead and get it if you want, but I feel that you will do what you need with Premiere.
- NONEIS0
The biggest thing you will be missing out on is easy audio playback / scrubbing. Editing in After Effects is actually more straight forward than even FCP in my book, but I have been using it for an inordinate amount of time and am severely biased as a result. If you are going to be doing a ton of syncs to audio / sounds etc, Premiere or Final Cut for sure, if it's all animation, After Effects could easily make your life a bit easier...
- CyBrain0
Don't get Premiere. The only thing it can do that AE can't is capture video. Other than that AE does every single thing better and with more features. It's integration with Photoshop, Illustrator is fantastic, type is better. Don't believe the hype that editing is cumbersome, Once you get used to the keyboard shortcuts, it's fine. AE is just simply more advanced, feature-rich and if you know Photoshop, you will learn AE very quickly.
- KwesiJ0
yeah all that was said about AE is true its an awsome feature packed peice of software but this guy wants to make instructional videos with minimal graphix ffs, its pointless using ae. try vegas maybe?
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.…
If you get AE you should probably plan on learning and using it for way more than editing and titles... otherwise premier would work.