Edited audio files in after effects

[UnderarmTuna]

I have my edited (in premiere pro) audio files linked with video in premiere pro. I am importing premiere pro project into after effcts. When I play my files in after effects and trying to compare audio quality of the same files in after effects and premiere pro, it feels like after effects using original, unedited audio files. Is it true? Or this is just my paranoia? The thing is that I am trying to master an after effects and this type of video I usually edit and compile in premiere pro but now I am trying to make a video fully in after effects only audio I edited in premiere pro. After I finnish my video I am gonna render it via adobe media encoder. After render I will get final video with edited audio? Or not? I don't know how after effects is working with audio. Is it a bad idea to edit video fully in after effects?

[RobShultz]

If I'm understanding correctly I would keep my editing in Premiere Pro and then right click/create After Effects composition to the video clips that you need After Effects. When you save in AE those clips will be updated in Premiere and you can still use Premiere's awesome audio tools.  You can send from Premiere to Media Encoder for your final output.

[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

After Effects is using the unedited audio files. The best workflow for AE is to use Dynamic Link to create a composition from a shot. If the shot is complicated or is going to take a long time to render it is best to render that shot using a visuall lossless production format and replace the shot in Premiere Pro. If the effects are simple you can continue to use Dynamic Link.

If you are importing a complex edit into After Effects as a Premiere Pro Sequence then you are going to end up with a very unwieldy and difficult to manage composition with one layer for each shot in the Premiere Pro sequence and another layer for each shot in the sequence that is above the original video layer. None of the Premiere Pro transitions and only a very few of the Premiere Pro effects you added will come into AE because they are not compatible with the app. 

It would be very helpful for us if you would describe the project and your workflow in more detail. Ideally, the only shots that you should process in After Effects are shots that you cannot create in any other way. You would never want to do a final audio mix in AE that was more complicated than two simple audio tracks. My last corporate video had 22 AE shots in about 250 shots, 15 audio tracks, and a final color correction pass in Premiere Pro using Lumetri. I could not possibly have finished that 6-minute project in After Effects. The final edit had to be done in Premiere Pro and the final Mix in Audition, and I even used Davinci for the final color grading.

[UnderarmTuna]

Thank you for your answer! I am editing a youtube video in this style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlEFbZAInZg . Not very complicated editing. I just wanted to use After Effects as a main platform for editing and Premiere Pro as helper in audio editing process. I have imported into After Effects two sequences from Premiere Pro. One sequence was me talking on camera and second was my voiceover for some video parts where will be some pictures or videos. In Premiere Pro I made only audio editing without cutting out unnecessary parts. So I have two sequances for about 1 hour long each and final video will be around 10 minutes long. So I don't have that much layers in after effects. Because I do main editing in After Effects. And I wanted to improve an audio quality in Premiere Pro (and that's it for Premiere Pro in this project) then import this whole material into After Effects and there make main editing and after all render AE final composition via adobe media encoder. And hopefully get a final video with improved audio quality. But now I think this is some strange way for an editing. And I should consider Premiere Pro as main editing platform and After Effects as helper. Is it true?

[Rick Gerard]

I watched most of the sample video and I only saw about three or four shots in the entire thing that could not be done in Premiere Pro. Cutting a project any longer than a few seconds in a single AE comp is a real waste of time. No pro does that. I produce very complex instructional videos in Premiere Pro all the time that have split screens, animated graphics, and a bunch of simple compositing and masking all inside Premiere. You just have to learn how to use the tools. Some of my PPro projects have 10 or 20 layers and an additional half dozen adjustment layers for color correction. I recently did the final audio editing on a project using Dynamic Link to port it to Audition from Premiere Pro and ended up with almost 100 audio tracks that were mixed down so I could deliver simple 2 channel stereo and a Dolby 5.1 Surround version to the client. 

If you want to be efficient, use After Effects only when you cannot achieve the effect or motion graphic you want in Premiere Pro. More than 90% of my AE comps are under seven seconds and one shot. Almost all of my Premiere Pro edits have at least a half dozen shots created in After Effects and some of the projects require more than 60% or 70% of the shots to be processed or created in AE. Even those very effects-heavy projects seldom have a single comp that is longer than just a few seconds. Things just get too messy and it is way too hard to fix problems.

[UnderarmTuna]

Got it. Thank you!