AE 7.0 Pro vs. Premiere Pro/Vegas etc

[Millenium Strife]

I've been making AMVs for the past 3 years (granted, only 3 AMVs in total), but I had a question regarding usage of After Effects as the program to use for actual editting of my AMV project, to include all the effects and such rather than using Premiere or Vegas.

My last project, I started with Premiere Pro, just as I had with my other 2 projects and used it to build my project using the clips I created. But I felt I was wasting time by exporting what ever work I had made in Premiere so I could add an effect or two in After Effects.

I decided to experiment and decided to dump Premiere after I struggled with the first 20 seconds and used After Effects to build my timeline, applying effects as I saw fit. I used AE to create the remaining 5.5 minutes of video that turned out to be my most successful project to date.

So my question is, what does Premiere or Vegas do exactly that After Effects can't do, as far as building my timelines are concerned? I felt that I had better control on my transitions, make sections with independent comps so I could move them as I saw fit, and simply had a better workflow than what I was dealing with in Premiere.

Seeing that I haven't used Vegas, I am assuming it can do the same stuff as Premiere, so how different is it in that respect? I guess I'm at a transition point, trying to find a solid editing style, and so far AE has given me to best solution so far.

Any insight or comments would be appreciated!

-MS

[BasharOfTheAges]

Playing with clips, trimming video, and managing simple transitions are easier in an NLE like Premiere than in a program like After Effects. If you're doing something that's completely effects-based and would obviously benefit from complex compositing though, you'd want to use AE entirely.

[Scintilla]

Don't forget working with audio and importing AVISynth files easily (w/plugin). Those are two areas in which I doubt AE will ever surpass Premiere.