After using Sony Vegas, which I see that most of the people use for the simple fact that is very simple to use, and of course, it's not an inferior editing software compared to others available.
I'm editing for 6 months now, which I think it's a lot, and me thinking that I would quit this idea after some days, but, I didn't.
At my first week of editing, I started with Sony Vegas and tried a little bit of After Effects, which I dropped 'cause it was just too hard, I was literally crying.
So now, that I know much more of editing, not just the basics, maybe way ahead of that (though I can put those things that I know on the screen), I want to move definitely to After Effects, more professional, organized, more choices, options for a better editing flow.
Okay, not being that boring, let's go to the questions:
• How do I use the timeline on the AE as a trimmer like on Sony Vegas? I know how to split cuts and those things, but it seems on AE you have to do such a hard work to accomplish to find the scene you want and split it, I took 25 minutes just trying to do this, yeah, noob;
• Which extension it's better for editing on AE? I mean, for the episodes, I generally download '.mp4' raws from torrent episodes, 'cause I have no patience for converting 25 episodes of '.mkv' to '.avi', just, no;
• Better rendering settings for AE? I was using pure '.mp4' (29fps, 32 bit pixel range) rendering on Sony Vegas, then I jumped right to '.avi' with logarith lossless codec (23fps[should I change that?])> Zarx264gui. I want to know if on AE this is option it's available, though I don't really know if it's the better one;
• For the preview music preview on AE, I'm really confused about this, how do I do it, 'cause I can't just click space bar or enter to check the preview of the both things (video too), which I wanted too much, damn Vegas, now I'm lazy.??
So for this week I tried, and really tried to editing on AE, but the work flow was just so heavy, I was feeling so uncomfortable with it, then I headed back to Sony Vegas. But I think it's just my lack of knowledge about this software, well.
Really sorry for being such a pain in the ass, my first thread with the questions that I wanted to do a long time ago.
That's all :3


