Using other editing programs w/ AE

[maxxt70668201]

Hi, I am kind of new to After Effects and was wondering if it is really important to use Premiere Pro? Is it still fine to use other editing softwares such as imovie then edit in After Effects? I am trying to make a montage with time remapping and wanted to know if it would still work to put clips together in imovie then edit in AE.

Thanks

[Dave_LaRonde]

iMovie?  Ugh!  That's for Mom to put together an iPhone video of her kid's dance recital.

Look, you're already renting After Effects.  Just get Premiere Pro.  Sure, there's a lot more to learn about running it, but it's a heck of a lot better.

[Roland Kahlenberg · Accepted solution]

PPro is a great complement to AE. It is actually an integral part of my workflow and most professionals. Here are ways with which you can/should integrate PPro into your AE workflow.

1) As an NLE, PPro has a great playback engine. Render work-in-progress from AE and use PPro to compile the work-in-progress renders. As your PPro Timeline gets propagated with AE renders, you will be better able to view your work —realtime playback. Then when changes are in order, you can more easily identify these areas in PPro and then re-render just the problem segment in AE.

2) You can edit footage in PPro and apply markers and simply copy from PPro onto an AE Composition. This is a great feature that no other NLE allows.

3) Then there's Dynamic Linking between AE and PPro which allows you to link Compositions/Sequences between the two apps and have changes in one app update in the other, immediately. This is another feature that exists only between AE and PPro (as an NLE). You can of course also Dynamically Link stuff between AE and Adobe Audition.

4) There is also the case for using MoGRTs and Live Text between AE and PPro — these two features allow you to apply AE's Type Animation presets and even more complex AE compositions into PPro and then make changes to these AE compositions, directly in PPro. It should be obvious that not everything within AE can be edited in PPro but the level of control is way beyond what any other AE-NLE combo will be able to provide.

HTH

[Rick Gerard]

After Effects is a lousy video editor but a great compositing and motion graphics app well suited to creating shots, not movies but shots you cannot create in a nonlinear editor. After you have created your magical shots the most efficient way to edit them into a movie is to use an NLE. Premiere Pro has some advantages over other editing software, but you can use any video editing program you like to cut your movie. Just make sure you are rendering your magical shots to a visually lossless format that is compatible with your NLE of choice. DO NOT make the mistake of rendering a bunch of MP4's and expect the best quality when you run them through the rendering process again.

[One&Done]

Thank you! This is extremely helpful!!!