Hi Victor,
Thanks for the suggestion. What I had in mind was to use the real-time playback capability in Premiere to cut the video and add in some dissolves and placeholder graphics and then export it to After Effects and add the final graphics and effects. I don’t think that doing it the other way around would work very well for my situation but I can see how it might work for some.
I didn’t even know about the blend effect in AE but that seems like it would be very useful – thanks for the tip!