then importing those comps into Premiere for use on the timeline there. What I'm doing is using AE to setup each photo's vignette and animation. In that case, I wouldn't be doing anything with blurs/vignettes/etc. If you're wanting to do a lot of complex stuff, I would just use Premiere to set the timing up and then just copy and paste everything into After Effects for doing the rest of the work. maybe that's what you all have been referring to. If by then I don't care about the pre-comp temp audio sync it may not be an issue but adjusting tweaking things from that earlier timeline point to my current forward point seems like it could be a big bear. I'm not going to want to pop into each pre-comp to slide things over. My fear is I'll have some major change earlier in the existing AE timeline that will be a real bear to adjust throughout. I may ditch this starter AE and so what you say. but when I use time-remapping in AE it's a breeze. so I set the time indicator to the new position, go into the precomp and drag/snap to there. For example, if i change the position of a pre comp photo, well I better not do that by moving the pre-comp because it won't keep the pre-comp in sync with its audio. I'm working with AE now and discovering it's doable but I'm learning how to bounce back and forth between an outer and inner (pre) comp to adjust things. It's a LOT better to do timing to audio in Premiere than it is in AE. You can just copy and paste from your Premiere timeline into After Effects. I set my timing up in Premiere than bring my Premiere edit into AE. That was surprising to me so thought I'd check in.Īlso thanks for the tips there on dup'ing audio. and if one has the stomach for AE's depth.Īm I looking at this the right way? I was just surprised to see folks steering people away from AE for more than a few sentences of dialog or a music-sync'ed project in entirety. So I get how Premiere is more of a luxury for certain kinds of editing but it seems AE is so darn powerful with image manipulation that even for music-sync'ed montages of video/photos it seems worthwhile to consider if one expects a lot of time-remapping coupled with possibly advanced vignetting or more. AE seems like a reliable workhorse when you want to affect the video of images/video without too much clip-based editing with audio which Premiere can handle without adding new layers, as one example. I love Premiere but I sense AE has a lot of focus in frame-by-frame and time-remapping areas. if you find a workaround it's a non-issue so I'll take the quirks given the complexity of the quite and related benefits. so I went with the quirk, likely a bug but that's life. like the other day I time-remapped a sequence and noticed opacity keyframes had to be moved further down the sequence (the part which has no video due to time remapping speeding things up) than where they actually effect opacity. I also need to use time remapping which I use in Premiere but I also find Premiere time remapping to be a little more finicky. I've been using it more and more for frame-based stuff and am appreciating its power and not afraid of it (have the patience), and I see interesting results which can be achieved for photo/video montages in tutorials and online courses to create very cool looks. I'm curious to hear any thoughts on this if any arise. Let me provide more background on my thinking. This seems to deviate a little from advice to use a video editing app. In 2017, do we still think it's best to avoid AE for this? For some odd reason, I feel AE is a good thing for me to try using for this, both because of its power, but also because it may be the better tool. I see I can create the precomp with a duplicate of the audio. but that doesn't work unless I can get audio in the precomps. I've started a photo montage in AE that will be inserted into a Premiere project. I've seen some helpful posts from Rick Gerard, Mylenium, Dave LaRonde and others regarding this topic.
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