After Effects VS (omg I know) Photoshop

[billy_wires]

If they got in a fight, who would win?

I kid, I kid.

My real question is this:
If time were not an issue, would it be better to get After Effects or Photoshop for video editing? Does After Effects offer more over Photoshop besides "painting" (as Adobe calls it) and masking on moving video, or does the steep learning curve for After Effects make it fall short of Photoshop?

The reason I ask this is because Scintilla used Photoshop to do his Alternate Eva Opening (a great piece of work that I said I'd op, maybe someday), but Zarxrax uses After Effects in his video TheStarMan, and both look equally awsome. I just wanted to ask the opinions of the other members of ze site (yes, I did a search. I used the query "After Effects versus Photoshop", retrieved 330 matches, and looked at them as far back as July 10 of this year. Cool your jets if this has been asked, at least I tried ) which each user preferred.

[bum]

the effects in eva bebop were mostly masks which i think can be done in after effects now (dosnt after effects have a similar tool to this ]/url] ? ) and moving clips around, which can easily be done in prety much anything but wmm (i think) . their were also some colour filters applied.

the real question is a) do you realy need photoshop when you can just use [url=http://www.cinepaint.org/]cinepaint or gimp which can do whatever photoshop does (for video editing) just as good, if not beter and are completely free ?

[Scintilla]

the effects in eva bebop were mostly masks which i think can be done in after effects now...

I used masks? ... This is news to me.

Actually, I just polygonally lassoed everything I needed, selected the inverse, deleted it, and saved as a new .PSD.

If there were any areas of color within a character that I had to get rid of in order to get the black-and-transparent version looking right, I deleted those too.

[DrngdKreationz]

I think I've said quite a few times I use both, and each have their uses.
i'll Stand by After effects which is what I use on pretty much a daily basis.

although the learning curve is steeper than saying going from wmm to Premiere, or switching from Premiere to Vegas. I feel its worth it..

photoshop is great, if you want to work with stills. but not when im trying to work with video itself.

[Zarxrax]

I'll just regurgitate what DrngdKreations just said. Just look at what each program *IS*. Photoshop is an image editing application. Keyword here is IMAGE. After Effects is designed for use with video. Since you are presumably working on a video, then I would assume that AfterEffects would be the logical choice. Not that Photoshop isnt usefull for videos though. I use Photoshop ALL THE TIME when making AMVs. You CAN use photoshop to work with video a frame at a time... and heck, I've even used used After Effects to create images! But 99% of the time, I'm working with images in Photoshop, and Video in AE. If its a matter of cost, I would recommend perhaps checking out a cheaper image editing app, perhaps Photoshop Elements. I usually don't use the more advanced features of photoshop, anyways.

[DaPatches]

Photoshop is good if you are just doing small things here and there and can keep in consistant and clean.

AfterEffects takes a bit of knowledge...I still can't figure out the damn thing 0.o