FCP or Premiere

[David Bogie]

Premiere is cool and fun. If your only issue is moving smoothly between Adobe apps, it’s a no-brainer. What do you think you’re giving up or will miss if you stop using FCP?

Your projects and established habit are different from mine but I bounce between AE and FCP daily and have never felt a need for Duck.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Pablo Hill]

I want to avoid all the rendering that I’m doing when switching apps.

[Mark Palmos]

Pablo,
I used premier for 3 years and now fcp for just over one.

As an editor fcp has a deeper feature set.

As an nle which is geared for short promo pieces with lots of compositing and effects as well as a far deeper plugin architecture, premier pro is better.

They are very similar in many ways, definitely no clear winner here.

Mark.

[Chris Poisson]

I’m with David, bouncing back and forth from FCP to AE almost daily for more than 6 years, never a problem.

Have a wonderful day.

[Bob Cole]

[Pablo Hill] “I want to avoid all the rendering that I’m doing when switching apps.”

Unless I’m missing something, you shouldn’t have to re-render. Choose a new default rendering codec in AE that is compatible with your FCP set-up.

Bob C

[Walter Biscardi]

[Pablo Hill] “I want to avoid all the rendering that I’m doing when switching apps.”

You need to render in the same format as you’re working in FCP. I.e. if you’re editing DV, then render in DV in After Effects. If you’re editing in DVCPro HD, then render in DVCPro HD in After Effects.

The only time you need to render in FCP is when you need an alpha channel from AE so you render in Animation and bring that into FCP where it will re-render. That’s the only time you should ever have to render an AE comp in FCP.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[David Bogie]

[Pablo Hill] “I want to avoid all the rendering that I’m doing when switching apps.”

This is a simple user error, an incorrectly designed workflow. Changing to Premiere won’t help you unless you thoroughly understand how the CS3 video apps are integrated.
Rendering is required because you are not using the same codecs throughout your workflow. In CS3, most of your work in After Effects will be using the Animation codec. when you bring that project file into your DV Premiere timeline, you will have to render it. If you render out of AE using animation and drop that onto your Premiere DV timeline, you will still have to render it.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Pablo Hill]

I’ve been using AE for over 8 years but started using FCPS for the last 2 years. I immediately fell in love with the editor and the integration with motion and the other apps, but hated motion. Ever since I’ve been wanting to be able to go back and forth applications without having to render the clip (in the editor) I have to take to AE (so that I can take only the frames I need from the clip), make my composition in AE, delete the video in AE (the one I had previously rendered in FCP), render the animation with alpha (no video track), go back to FCP put my animation in a new layer (on top of the video I had previously rendered) and re render to see everything is in it’s place.
If I use the dynamic link between Premiere and AE I would select a clip, open it in AE, make my comp, go back to premiere and…. thats it.
Is my work flow wrong?
Is there a easier way to do this?

I make corporate videos which are anywhere from 10 to 45 minutes, So there are times I do go back and forth quite a bit.