Edit in Premiere or After Affects first?

Question

Hey,

New poster around here and can't seem to find the specific answer I need anywhere.

I've edited a video in Premiere and exported it to my laptop and I am now looking to open it in after effects to put callouts over some landmarks (I know I can link Premiere files to After Effects but my laptop is super slow and shuts down when I try!)

My question is now, should I import the finished video file that is on my laptop into After Effects and try and apply the call out graphics on the specific part of the video or should I take the individual clips (that I need to be animated in After Effects) from Premiere, export to my laptop and import to After Effects and then re-import to Premiere (Fully aware of how long and arduous this process is but this is the only laptop I can work with right now)?

Using Adobe CC 2018 on a Acer Windows 10 PC. If this is in the wrong community apologies.

Appreciate your help as I am stumped as for the quickest and best method to go about doing it,

Thank you in advance,

dparsons85 · Answer

I would just use the finished video that you've already exported, bring that into AE and make a new comp from the video. Duplicate the video and individually precomp every clip you want to add graphics to. Add any graphics you want inside the precomps. That way in your main comp you have the full video without graphics on the bottom track and a couple precomps with graphics above it. You should be able to just export the final from there.

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