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Stillborn
Stillborn
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July 24, 2018
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After Effects. Sound work improvements

  • July 24, 2018
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Hy Adobe!

Do you have any plans to improve work with sound in After Effects ?

I would really like to see opportunities like in Premiere. Use of VST / Split tracks / multyaudio tracks format support etc.

Many maybe say, AE is composer, so this is not necessary. But I dont think so. Many peoples fully makes clip montages in AE.

Adobe Photoshop, can EDIT video.. use 3D abilities.. etc.WTF?

Why AE can not get better audio support?

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Correct answer Rick Gerard

AE is NOT an audio app, Premiere is barely adequate for audio processing. PPro is getting a lot better but Audition is a well-integrated tool that you can use to process audio for film and deliver in any of the standard formats. Can you cut audio and make minor adjustments in AE, sure, but that is light years away from effectively processing audio and mixing it for delivery. Sure you can cut audio, do some minor editing, make some minor editing, and output to one of the video standard formats, but if you have problems you need to fix, AE is the wrong tool.

Scopes added to AE make it a lot easier to do the kind of color grading that you need to do in After Effects to create seamless composites but AE is a really lousy way to grade anything longer than a few seconds with more than a few cuts. PPro is just now getting up to the task of grading a film. Scopes are valuable to keep the pixels under control but AE is far from what anyone would consider being an efficient color grading tool.

The video editing tools in Photoshop are a nice feature for doing a very few specific tasks that can not yet be done in AE. I have used the tools several times in the last few weeks to do things that were cumbersome to do in AE.

Picking the right tool for the job depends entirely on the job. In my 25 years of using and teaching AE, I have run into more folks that are content to drive nails with a screwdriver than folks that pick the right tool, use the right app, for most jobs. If you want to make a decent living doing anything creative you had better learn which tools to use for which jobs or you'll be wasting a lot of time on forums taking most of your advice from enthusiasts with little more knowledge than you have.

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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July 24, 2018
Why AE can not get better audio support?

Why should it? You're not making a good case for it and your argumentation confirms the exact opposite of what you allege: 98% of AE users probably don't care for any of the features you mentioned and then it simply becomes a matter of development economics. Pro users more or less won't need it, as sound mixing is done at a different step by a different guy in a big pipeline and most hobby/ prosumer users would be totalyl overwhelemed, never even daring to attempt to use those features if they existed. It realyl boils down to this simple fact: It makes no sense for what AE is supposed to do and what it is as a motion graphics/ compositing tool.

Mylenium

Stillborn
StillbornAuthor
Participant
July 24, 2018

Why should it?

Why photoshop has VIDEO editing TOOLs? Where is LOGIC?

Audio for AE is very FINE and very USABLE!

2 years ago. I ask to add SCOPES in AE, and u say AE is not COLORGRADING TOOL!!! and now u add it.

I think it will take another couple of years and you change your mind!

Any current software tends to multitask. Many people use it for different purposes.

R
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Rick GerardCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
July 24, 2018

AE is NOT an audio app, Premiere is barely adequate for audio processing. PPro is getting a lot better but Audition is a well-integrated tool that you can use to process audio for film and deliver in any of the standard formats. Can you cut audio and make minor adjustments in AE, sure, but that is light years away from effectively processing audio and mixing it for delivery. Sure you can cut audio, do some minor editing, make some minor editing, and output to one of the video standard formats, but if you have problems you need to fix, AE is the wrong tool.

Scopes added to AE make it a lot easier to do the kind of color grading that you need to do in After Effects to create seamless composites but AE is a really lousy way to grade anything longer than a few seconds with more than a few cuts. PPro is just now getting up to the task of grading a film. Scopes are valuable to keep the pixels under control but AE is far from what anyone would consider being an efficient color grading tool.

The video editing tools in Photoshop are a nice feature for doing a very few specific tasks that can not yet be done in AE. I have used the tools several times in the last few weeks to do things that were cumbersome to do in AE.

Picking the right tool for the job depends entirely on the job. In my 25 years of using and teaching AE, I have run into more folks that are content to drive nails with a screwdriver than folks that pick the right tool, use the right app, for most jobs. If you want to make a decent living doing anything creative you had better learn which tools to use for which jobs or you'll be wasting a lot of time on forums taking most of your advice from enthusiasts with little more knowledge than you have.

    Kyle Hamrick
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    Kyle HamrickCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 24, 2018

    AE has never been great for audio editing, because that's not what it's built for. Audition and Premiere are both vastly better options for a variety of reasons.

    One program can't do everything, and you probably wouldn't want it to. Just because people use AE for editing (::cringe::) doesn't mean it needs to be tailored to that workflow.

    That said, there ARE some improvements that might be nice, specifically for allowing a better dynamic link pipeline with Audition. If you're interested in features like that, you can look for existing feature requests to +1 here, or add your own if you don't find one that fits your current idea.

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