Archi-thirst Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Dears, Anyone can give some explantion about what are the diffrences in between the usage of Adobe After Effect & Adobe premier. As a Architectural visualizer which one is best to learn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Mann Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Hi Abdul, Premiere is for primarily for editing and splicing together different video/animation sequences and adding soundtracks. After Effects is for compositing - a bit like photoshop for video. Thats an oversimplified definition of course and you can do some editing in After Effects and you can adjust levels, colour balance etc in Premiere. So up to a point, either would be suitable for what I imagine your needs are. If you were to choose one, I would recommend Premiere. That should give you enough tools and control to cover your needs. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 What Jim says is correct. however i much prefer after effect as its basically photoshop with timeline. I use it for puting togeter all my video presentations, showreels etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 what is the price difference? and is after effects a stand alone piece aswell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 What are you going to use it for? Premiere is pretty crap for special effects, but after effects is rock hard to learn. I use premiere but all i use it for is stiching jpgs together and fading bits in and out of each other. If this is all you need it for, try get a second hand license on and old version, like Premiere 5 or something. Save you a bundle. Oh, Id get the panasonic mpeg1 compressor as well. (Researching compressors is a nightmare by the way). Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 After effects is like a dynamic photoshop, it mainly deals with video "retouching". It's more like "vertical" editing with using a lot of layers to create and animate what you want. I think the color correction is extremely useful. Also try to learn some plugins After effects is like 3dsmax, a lot functions and effects are achieved using third party plugins. Premiere is for editing, it's like "horizontal" editing, mainly deals with a bit longer composition of videos, (the way is a bit like power point). For short ones, you can just use after effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 After effects is more like "vertical" editing with using a lot of layers to create and animate what you want. Premiere is for editing, it's like "horizontal" editing, mainly deals with a bit longer composition of videos That is a very good description. I have both, I use Premiere 99%. Really more preference than anthing else. The workflow is very different. Both are stand-alone apps, both work well with other Adobe app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Nichols Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Premier also gives you a lot of great editing tools that logically, AE should not have. These tools include a firewire interface for your digital camcorder, MPEG2 compression for your DVD burning, and in fact, I think the very latest version also has the ability to burn a DVD directly out of premier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 I think the very latest version also has the ability to burn a DVD directly out of premier. Yes. Premiere Pro 1.0 and 1.5 does. I've tried it, it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRD Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 I recently had the same questions and ended up buying both. Now, after spending some time with both programs as a novice, I'm spending most of my time in After Effects. All the examples in premiere show how to import tons of film footage and splice and edit them together to get your movie of the important footage. But I find in architectural rendering that I never render extra "footage" that needs to be edited down. I want to show every precious frame that I've rendered. With AE6.5, I can make a fancy intro with the great text animation engine (that's not in Premeire), then fade into the different rendered sequences or pans of stills, then add a closing. I find you can "create" in AE, but only "edit" in Premeire. I'm no expert at editing yet, but this is my emerging workflow. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archi-thirst Posted November 6, 2004 Author Share Posted November 6, 2004 Thanks to all. Dear CRD can you tell me also which one is more easy to learn. Abdul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 as a side note to this, what is the difference between premiere 6.5 and premiere pro 1 or 1.5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 as a side note to this, what is the difference between premiere 6.5 and premiere pro 1 or 1.5? Pro adds a few additional MPEG output option as 'stock' features. It has a more built-in audio editor. But Adobe decided to completely re-do the workflow, which sucks bigtime. I still prefer working in 6.5, but am trying to get used to Pro 1. Pro 1.0 has a few bugs that, when I looked them up on the support site, was informed that the fix was to upgrade to 1.5 No joke, that's their advice. And I'm refering to crashing bugs, though it always allowed me to save my work before exiting. Still, that is customer service for you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRD Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Thanks to all. Dear CRD can you tell me also which one is more easy to learn. AbdulAdobe included a dvd which had tutorials that ran thru their whole "video suite" which showed a project started in Premiere, added effects in AE, audio in Audition, then exported to dvd in Encore. I am becoming a big fan of video tutorials instead of printed ones. After watching a 45 min video of a guy working on a project in AE, I was effectively up and running. Same could be said of the video of Premeire. I would say AE was slightly easier. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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