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PP or AE to export / best workflow
I’m new to the world of video production and motion graphics. I think I have a basic understanding of how Premiere Pro CS5 and After Effects CS5 can interact with each other through the use of Dynamic Link or simply copy and pasting. In my head I see advantages from using different workflows, but just end up confusing myself more.
Would it be better to import a PP sequence into AE … do my CC, lower thirds, etc and just “export” my final out of AE? Or is it faster (in terms of rendering/exporting) to bring my AE comps back into PP and “export” my final version out of PP?
My initial thoughts are that a final export/render straight out of AE would be faster since AE is probably having to do most the rendering work anyways even if the file is being exported out of PP. I would think AE might be better at using your system’s resources better as well?
Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks for your help!
– Eddie
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In terms of workflow, I would think either is fine. Premiere Pro will actually reencode anything in the timeline, so it is an extra step of reencoding your video, even if it has been all rendered out of AE.
The good thing about doing a clip by clip render out of AE, then exporting out of PP, is that if your edit changes, it is a lot easier to update an edit in PP than in AE. This would be the workflow I would use for this reason. Do one shot at a time in AE, render, have in PP timeline, perhaps even with extra heads and tail. Then use PP as the timeline to keep everything together, and more easily editable. Though it all depends on the project.
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I agree with Josh. Another reason to export from AE is that due to multiprocessing, AE renders much faster then PrP. So when you do all that work in AE and export it to the PrP timeline, when PrP exports the project it doesn’t have a lot of computing to do with that clip. As opposed to having a AE dynamically linked clip on the PrP timeline which would demand more rendering time from PrP as it exported the sequence.
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