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    Adobe After Effects CS5 Review Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Dustin Sklavos, Jul 22, 2010.

  1. Dustin Sklavos

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    Dustin Sklavos, Jul 22, 2010
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    After Effects is compositing software not an editing one, so it is not comparable to Premiere like a little brother to a big brother.
     
    Bullit, Jul 23, 2010
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    Respectfully, in some video production workflows it essentially can be. At least, in my workflow, for complex compositions/tweaks/etc., I'll do the grunt work of a particular scene in After Effects then pipe it back to Premiere. Also, when Adobe made the jump to CS, they did integrate a healthy amount of After Effects features into Premiere Pro that simply weren't there before.

    It's true, After Effects is not an editor. But your correction doesn't really seem appropriate here either.
     
    Dustin Sklavos, Jul 24, 2010
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    Sorry but your answer just makes my point.

    You bring it back for Premiere because After Effects is not good to edit video. If you go After Effect you loose editing efficiency and capability, if you go Premiere you loose compositing power.
     
    Bullit, Jul 25, 2010
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    I'm trying to figure out why you're "correcting" me for something I never actually said or even inferred in the original article.

    And then in my reply and your response to it we say basically the exact same thing, and I use the big-brother-little-brother analogy to mean "you'll do most of your work in Premiere (bigger brother because you use it more) but will periodically need to farm work into AE (which you will use less)." You'll forgive me for being short-tempered - I almost never am with readers - but I've been very sick lately and I have to ask: do you even have a point other than to say "this thing you didn't say isn't true"? Or are you actually going to nitpick because I used the term "edit" once or twice in the actual piece (and I did go back and check) when I maybe should've used "composite"?

    For the record, just so I beat everyone over the head with it again and again, I do actually have a degree in Film, am trained in using both of these programs (among others), and have actually used them both personally and professionally. I have practical, professional, and academic experience, so I have some measure of a clue as to what the hell I'm talking about.
     
    Dustin Sklavos, Jul 25, 2010
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    If someone reads you thinks that it can good editing in After Effects. It can't. It is not a big brother. They are just friends :)

    Hope you get well soon.
     
    Bullit, Jul 25, 2010
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