How many of you use/can use After Effects in your AMVs?

[TheLuminaireShow]

I've been getting pretty good with Premiere, I feel, but I know for some of the flashier videos that After Effects is used to great effect. How many of you use or can use this program when you make AMVs and what do you typically use it for? What are some specific uses you can get out of it that you can't get out of Premiere?

also, does anybody know where there are some decent tutorials on how to use the program? Premiere is self-explanatory with some diligence but I'm finding After Effects to be a bit too confusing. Thanks!

[irriadin]

I use Sony Vegas and After Effects. I mainly use AE for the 3d camera, masking and yes, Twitch. In all of these areas, AE is much better than Vegas.

[-Kyros-]

I use to make my amv sony vegas.
For a little something special, also applied after effect (CC Burn, Shattered, etc.)
But I'm using it for a couple of months, fact not very good
Soon I will learn to use the 3D camera
As for the tutorial, search for a bit of Video Copilot and Motionworks

[Brad]

AE can really be thought of as Photoshop for video/motion. Almost anything you can do with Photoshop, you can do in AE (and sometimes, far more). It's got layers, visual effects, masking, etc. all right on the timeline. It really just depends on what it is you actually want to accomplish with a video. If you have an idea, like say "For this part of my video, I want to animate some original graphics on top of the video" or "I have some cool color correction stuff I want to do that I can't (or don't know how to) properly accomplish in Premiere" or "I want to mask out an animated sequence from one show and composite it into another" then open up AE and start figuring out how to do it.

What you don't want to do is bring your video into AE and just start adding random things to it, thinking that more = better. Plus, a lot of the time, you CAN accomplish a lot with just Premiere. I mean, a lot of Nostromo's "effects heavy" (quotations on purpose) videos were done entirely in Premiere, with no AE.

As far as tutorials go, you can always check out Video Copilot. A lot of people poopoo these tutorials because you end up seeing the results of the tutorials used everywhere (like, frame for frame, the same thing). But if you approach it the way you're supposed to, they're worthwhile. Don't watch a tutorial, follow it, then slap exactly what you did into a video and upload it saying "Look how good I am at AE!" Tutorials are meant to explain HOW the tools work, not "you should do this specific look in your work." Take the knowledge you learned from following the tutorial and apply it to your own ideas. And if you don't HAVE any ideas, then don't do it in the first place.

[Radical_Yue]

AE can really be thought of as Photoshop for video/motion. Almost anything you can do with Photoshop, you can do in AE (and sometimes, far more). It's got layers, visual effects, masking, etc. all right on the timeline. It really just depends on what it is you actually want to accomplish with a video. If you have an idea, like say "For this part of my video, I want to animate some original graphics on top of the video" or "I have some cool color correction stuff I want to do that I can't (or don't know how to) properly accomplish in Premiere" or "I want to mask out an animated sequence from one show and composite it into another" then open up AE and start figuring out how to do it.

What you don't want to do is bring your video into AE and just start adding random things to it, thinking that more = better. Plus, a lot of the time, you CAN accomplish a lot with just Premiere. I mean, a lot of Nostromo's "effects heavy" (quotations on purpose) videos were done entirely in Premiere, with no AE.

As far as tutorials go, you can always check out Video Copilot. A lot of people poopoo these tutorials because you end up seeing the results of the tutorials used everywhere (like, frame for frame, the same thing). But if you approach it the way you're supposed to, they're worthwhile. Don't watch a tutorial, follow it, then slap exactly what you did into a video and upload it saying "Look how good I am at AE!" Tutorials are meant to explain HOW the tools work, not "you should do this specific look in your work." Take the knowledge you learned from following the tutorial and apply it to your own ideas. And if you don't HAVE any ideas, then don't do it in the first place.

[EimiJ7]

I use after effects in almost all of my videos along with premiere pro. I'll do all except basic effects in After Effects, but I especially use it for masking and rotoscoping. I also find it easier to do color corrections in after effects, and I use it to cover lip flap. I would not use After Effects to lay out clips on the timeline because it is much harder to preview clips. Instead, I find the dynamic link connection (CS4+) between Premiere Pro and After Effects to be really useful because you can easily go back in and change effects while previewing them in the context of the entire timeline in Premiere.

I'm not quite sure where you can find good tutorials, since I learned a few years ago out of a book, but I think creative cow is generally a good place to go, and I've seen some good video copilot tutorials

[TritioAFB]

I recommend AE for post production. Once the amv is done in the Vegas or Premiere, it's easier for me to go to AE just for the effects I need

[Shin-AMV]

I just started learning After Effects recently. I'm finding that a few things I learned to do in Vegas are way easier or better looking to do in After Effects.

[Ijexis]

Touched AE for exactly one day about 3 or 4 years ago and haven't gotten back to it since, intend on learning it now though.

[MimS]

I've been editing without AE for one year now : o. Just using Premiere Pro but actually it's because I'm lazy /o/

But, still :

AE can really be thought of as Photoshop for video/motion. Almost anything you can do with Photoshop, you can do in AE (and sometimes, far more). It's got layers, visual effects, masking, etc. all right on the timeline. It really just depends on what it is you actually want to accomplish with a video. If you have an idea, like say "For this part of my video, I want to animate some original graphics on top of the video" or "I have some cool color correction stuff I want to do that I can't (or don't know how to) properly accomplish in Premiere" or "I want to mask out an animated sequence from one show and composite it into another" then open up AE and start figuring out how to do it.

What you don't want to do is bring your video into AE and just start adding random things to it, thinking that more = better. Plus, a lot of the time, you CAN accomplish a lot with just Premiere. I mean, a lot of Nostromo's "effects heavy" (quotations on purpose) videos were done entirely in Premiere, with no AE.

As far as tutorials go, you can always check out Video Copilot. A lot of people poopoo these tutorials because you end up seeing the results of the tutorials used everywhere (like, frame for frame, the same thing). But if you approach it the way you're supposed to, they're worthwhile. Don't watch a tutorial, follow it, then slap exactly what you did into a video and upload it saying "Look how good I am at AE!" Tutorials are meant to explain HOW the tools work, not "you should do this specific look in your work." Take the knowledge you learned from following the tutorial and apply it to your own ideas. And if you don't HAVE any ideas, then don't do it in the first place.

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