Do any of you edit efficiently using After Effects only?

[BasharOfTheAges]

And the effect I find to be really useful for AMVs (especially for beat or internal sync)is Time Re-mapping. Unlike in Premiere where its percentage based, in AE its keyframe based so its allows for far greater control, IMO.

QFT Time remapping makes slight variations for movement within a clip seem so much more fluid than chopping up frames in premiere ever will.

[dreamawake]

Zerolink/SSJ3 Son JP does. Or did.

[Niotex]

It's very much possible and doable. But the one thing you need to keep in mind is the fact that AE is a compositor and not an editor. So just using AE would slow down some of the more simple tasks that you'd otherwise do in a traditional NLE. I'd highly recommend making use of Adobe's bridge features and/or simply making a clean cut in Premiere and then importing the Premiere project file into AE. As AE will read it as a composition with all your cut and layers intact. Thus avoiding the tedious stuff that AE isn't meant for and picking up right where you left off from Premiere.

Bridge and Importing like this vastly increases productivity. So while strictly AE editing isn't out of the realm of possibilities, I'd recommend against it if you have the option to use methods stated above.

Also one of the Dutch editors RellikNL did a couple of his videos in just AE.

[Vlad G Pohnert]

I do import my timelines, however if you have multiple cuts on one timeline track in premiere, it will bring it in on multiple layers in AE which might not be so desirable depending on what you are doing so sometimes it's a compromise between the two

Vlad

[cosmoho]

I know Reznic who edited this video with AE only.

this is an awesome video as well. you guys seem to have been hiding the really good stuff. /heads to suggestions section

CS versions do still require quicktime for a few formats, not sure if audio is one of these though, I don't think.

yeh, AE CS5 likes to remind me to get quicktime every time i run it but it plays audio fine so far.

I do import my timelines, however if you have multiple cuts on one timeline track in premiere, it will bring it in on multiple layers in AE which might not be so desirable depending on what you are doing so sometimes it's a compromise between the two

Vlad

i can import timelines from premiere to after effects? oh shit. that's very very handy. i think i'll end up doing that, premiere looks like a copy of final cut pro anyway, which is convenient to me. thanks to you, sir ( and to the ones above who pointed this out )

[MycathatesyouAMV]

I prefer Vegas

[Snowcrash]

I know Reznic who edited this video with AE only.

this is an awesome video as well. you guys seem to have been hiding the really good stuff. /heads to suggestions section

Reznic is not anymore an active editor (not at all on org actually) but he did really awesome videos

But it's not the subject ^^

[TritioAFB]

Basically AE can be useful if you have edited your proyect in another software. In my coming soon amv, my akross amv, I will use some techniques I havent watched yet into an amv. In PsyK-on I decided to change the storyline of K-on and turning it into something darker.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=176716

[ExSphere]

AE is a compositing and effect application. It's not an editing application and does not work like one, not even a little bit. It's a whole different way of thinking. Just use premiere and import the file project to AE when your done.

[LittleAtari]

I think it boils down to personal preference on how you like to get things done. AE does have a trimmer for you to cut clips and bring them onto your timeline similar to premiere and such. The only beef I have with using AE to do editing is having to RAM preview to hear my audio. When you're timing things in an AMV, you sometimes have to replay same section multiple times and move a clip over a frame or two and then ram preview again and then decide you want to move it back and then ram preview to check it out again.

Honestly, try it both ways. Try editing a project in AE alone and then try doing it in premiere. While it may seem a little wonky to use two programs for one project, in the newer versions of AE and premiere, it works out pretty well.