What is Adobe After Effects?

[cassiee.livejournal.com]

I have question, about Adobe Effects. What is Adobe Effects used for, per say in a vid? I know some vidders use it, I know in part it's to create motion graphics(am I wrong)? Apologies if this has been asked before.

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[chasarumba.livejournal.com]

I'm no expert on AE -- still definitely consider myself to be in the process of learning it and picking up new ways to apply it in vidding as I go. Thus far, I've used it for opening titles, ripple effects (the effect controls were a lot more precise than what Premiere had to offer) and speed ramping (when you want to be able to vary the rate of speed of a clip over time, rather than just doing a flat percentage speed change).

[cassiee.livejournal.com]

Ah. Thank you for that bit of info.

So do you import the project in there? Or does the video have to be rendered first? Sorry for more clueless questions. :sheepish:

[chasarumba.livejournal.com]

With the version I now have of AE, yes, I can import the whole Premiere project. But before I upgraded, I couldn't. I had to do rough cuts in Premiere, and then I would render out small sections (uncompressed or with Huffyuv, so that all the swapping around wouldn't eff up the quality) that I wanted to work with in AE...render back out afterwards and then back into Premiere. Kinda tedious, but I'm good at making things tedious ;) Really, since I was only using AE in spots, it wasn't all that awful.

Your questions aren't clueless! I wondered the same things. AE's learning curve is a lot steeper for me that Premiere's was, but I have to learn new stuff or die of boredom...I think I'll be working through AE tutorial books for quite a while :)