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What is the longest AE project you would do?
I have been using Premiere for a couple of years now, and have got pretty comforatable with it. The last few months I started using AE. I know AE is used primarily for short segments. I have learned to rely on the flexability of AE over Premiere. I never hear of anyone keeping their enitre project in AE. What is the downfall to keeping the enitre project in AE? It seems that would be easier than shuffling all of the special effects parts back over to Premiere.
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I always have problems with sound levels out of ae for some reason. Always way to loud or two soft.
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Rendering is the downfall. When you edit in a “native” codec in most systems, there is minial rendering. Also, from my expereince, the interface is not really designed to do all the edit functions that most NLE
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Yes. AE has to render every frame, so if you have a half-hour program with 20 minutes of non-affected footage, eventually you’ll choose to preview only the 10 minutes of affected footage for speed’s sake. So why bring in the extra 20 minutes at all?
AE is a “vertical” program, oriented for layers, stacking and compositing. An NLE is “horizontal”, oriented toward time: fast editing and fast previews. Eventually the two will meet, but not just yet.
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As Steve said, two different ways and strengths. I’d say if you are comfortable with Premier, use it for what it does best and augment it with AE. The new Creative Production Studio upgrade has them interacting in wonderful ways! It seems to allow you to to get the best from each with a powerful link between them as well.
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This all makes sense. In the past, I have had Premiere projects take 12 hours to render. I would hate to see how long it would take to do the entire thing in AE.
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This all makes sense. In the past, I have had Premiere projects take 12 hours to render. I would hate to see how long it would take to do the entire thing in AE.
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The longest piece I’ve created in AE was 16 minutes…but my typical project is from 1:30 to 5:00.
I typically make all my cuts and audio work in PPro and them import the project into AE and do all my f/x, compositing, etc. Then export the entire piece back into PPro for additional sound f/x and exporting.
I just find that having to create multiple AE comps and then exporting/importing them into PPro is more work than just completing it all in AE. Gives you more freedom to experiment freely as well. This may change as I migrate to the the new Studio Bundle, being able to dynamically link, and work with higher quality codecs, but it’s pretty effective right now.
If you’re just dealing with DV clips without FX the RAM preview is pretty quick. When dealing with FX, it’s important to take advantage of the multiple quality levels and try to solo layers a lot…makes long format work more bearable.
I have dual 2.8Xeons with 2GB ram.
Greg
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