After Effects: what makes a good workflow when creating 1-5 minute animations

Question

Hi all,

What makes a good workflow when and what programs do you use?

Would it be better do do a bunch of small animations in After Effects and combine them in Premiere Pro or should I try to do everything in After Effects?

What does an effective workspace look like in After Effects?

Thanks

Mrtn Ritter · Accepted Answer

This heavily depends on your overall workflow and the outcome, you are aiming for.

I did a lot explainer straight in AE, including simple audio edits and SFX. Those animations didn't had a lot of videoedits and I always got a aproved storyboard by hand. The result was a final video following the storyboard 1 by 1 in a given resolution and image size. I kept everything in AE to be most flexible, don't need intermedia exports or any post animation effects. Keeping everthing in AE requires a strictly project structure with precomps hierachy. AE can handle a deep hierarchy better then long comps with a lot of layers.

If you plan to have a lot of edits, scene jumps, color grading, intensive audio edits and stuff like this, you may just create your animations in AE with handlelengths and do the editing in PR.

*Martin

Troy789 · Answer

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