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Best workflow for editing with the Adobe suite
I decided to do some video reviews for my gaming blog and recently picked up the CS4 suite of applications. As a long time user of most Adobe products I’m familiar with each (except possibly Premiere, AE and Soundbooth, which I have limited experience using to this point), though now I’m presented with an entirely different monster as I find myself fumbling around trying to choose which applications to use for which tasks. Let me explain…
What I’ve been doing is recording my title sequences in After Effects, compiling and editing my raw video with Premiere and then reloading that video back into After Effects to place the title sequences and add a small logo overlay to the video’s bottom right hand corner. I’m then presented with a new issues, which is where best to do my overdubbing work; meaning I’m wondering if I should finish up with my AE/PP work and then record the audio using Soundbooth (I’m not sure if I can even preview the video while I record, which is going to be important) or if I should find another way to do this.
On top of all that I’m still trying to figure out how best to output for youtube, considering I’ll be using them to host these videos for my personal site.
Any assistance on how to rope in some of these problems and refine my workflow would be very appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
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4 Replies
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I would edit in PPro. Create your titles with Alpha in AE and cut into Ppro. I don’t know if SB previews audio during voice over – I imagine it would, though you’d have to export the complete video as an AVI first to do it. Cut the VO into PPro and do any mix there. Youtube takes wmv and flv, check their site for optimal exporting.
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Premiere lets you play the timeline and record audio. Presumably you have a good audio interface for your mic – not sure if Premiere can access this.
For Youtube there are Youtube presents in the media encoder. YouTube should accept H.264 – check their ever changing specs. Youtube converts to FLV but retains H.264 quality if it deems it to be so.
I would recommend using Vimeo – this site hosts HD quality video and blows away YouTube for quality.
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Thank you both for the suggestions. I guess, having done extensive audio work and graphic design for so long I was used to the workflow I was using before, easily switching back and forth between applications with ease; now I feel a little clumsy, trying to wrap my head around just which program I should be using for what — being that each do similar tasks in certain situations.
What I ended up doing was editing my title in AE with the specific audio effects I needed to match to key frames, moved over to PP to add in the soundtrack that blanketed the entire comp and then added the edited video for the actual review at the end of the title, and used PP to overdub the voice track and make any small refinements to the audio for the entire project. So far this is working for me, though I’m still open to suggestion on how to further streamline the process.
And thanks for the recommendation Mike. I will definitely check out the site and see what it has to offer.
I don’t believe in shameless self-promotion, so I will ask prior to posting, would it be against the rules to post the finished product here in order to receive some critiques on the work and content?
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we like critiquing others’ work. Just be warned, we are an honest bunch!
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