Hi,

I have a general question to guys who have worked with Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effect. I dont want the details, just a general advice on I should start and finish the editing of the film.

Below I will put down the steps I think I should take, and if i'm wrong somewhere, please correct me:

1. Import DV footage with Adobe Premiere.
2. Cut and Edit the footage until the desired result with Adobe Premiere.
3. Save the project (WITHOUT compression and rendering) with Adobe Premiere (or save the video, transitions and sound separately - is this possible?
4. Import the project (uncompressed and without render) in Adobe After Effect (or import video, transition and sounds separately.
5. Do all the effects, titles, transition tunings, etc. in Adobe After Effect (there are certain 3rd party plug-ins i would like to use on the video).
6. Render the final result to the desired format using Adobe After Effect.

Are these steps true? Can I go with this and have a correct final result?

I have some experience with Premiere, but very very very limited with After Effect. So, Thank you in advance and Your insight will be quite helpful.

Cheers, David

I use both and here's what I do. I do all of my edits in Premiere Pro. That includes transitions. Then any clip that needs an effect, composit, etc is exported to AE (if you have the newer versions with Adobe bridge it's even easier). Once in AE I do what I need to to the clip, render it out and import back into Premiere and put it back on the timeline where it should go.

If you want to do titles and stuff you can do them in AE just render them out and import them into Premiere and insert them where you want them it's that simple. I then render the whole movie (in Premiere). It's possible to do it the way you described though so now you have another option. My only concern with your way is that you plan on bringing the whole project file into AE and I'm not sure AE will read the file. I know that AE projects are AEP files and Premier's are different. You may encounter a problem there. I may be wrong there since I don't do it the way you are wanting to.

Mike

Mike,

Thanks a lot for the insight.

The thing I noticed on the AE 7 pro is that it has an option of importing Adobe Premiere Project. That is why I think it might read the file. If this will hold true I suppose AE will also put the video, sound and transition layers separately (as in the Premiere). If this is true I guess I will be able to do the final render of the film in AE, cause it also has options of exporting in avi, mpeg-4, etc. formats.

I will be grateful for info on above subject.

I have AE 7 pro and didn't know that about the ability to read Premiere projects. Go for it and let me know how it turns out. I'm curious to see if any problems or difficulties come up. Good luck.

Mike