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AE for Multimedia
I’m looking to offer a client several solutions across media platforms, preferably using AE as core product. We want to offer PDF, Video DVD, possibly flash presentation, or even powerpoint. We’ve found that our client list is diversifying and I’m having to move on from my video production background into corporate presentations of different sorts – some of which don’t require any video at all.
I’m not hands-on with After Effects, but is this the right route to take if I’m bringing in an outside designer? I appreciate any views or insights you might have.
KURULA Media / Documentaries & DVD
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4 Replies
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AE is best for fancy-schmancy non-interactive videos. It might be better to build your business around Flash, and bring in an AE person occasionally.
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I would say AE is the best for anything you want control over everything in. AE is the professional standard in animation and special effects. It can do anything that Flash can do (i.e. Vector-based animation), with the exception of interactivity, but with much more control.
I would say if it is just non-interactive video you are doing, go with After Effects, if you need to have the ability to have your clients interact with the video, then go Flash.
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After Effects is a tool designed for special effects, motion graphics, and compositing. You make content in After Effects from content produced in many other applications and from other sources. After Effects mostly makes movies.
Your investment in the top-of-the-line Adobe packages will include Flash, Premiere, After Effects and some other stuff, everything you need to help you break into a market you seem to know little about. Then you need to spend a few months learning AE. It is not an applicaiton into whihc you simply jump and start making money.bogiesan
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Hiring contractors would be the way to go at the start. Find a Flash artist and an AE artist and talk to them about what they can and cannot do. Build the network before making an investment in software.
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