Premiere or After Effects first?
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April 22, 2014 at 4:14 PM #76036
Crye
ParticipantI know you can say they have different powers or something, but if you were a video editing beginner looking to edit short movies and documentaries, which program would you start learning; Adobe Premiere or After Effects? … and which is more CPU/Memory demanding?
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April 22, 2014 at 4:55 PM #210266
rs170a
ParticipantPremiere is an editing program while After Effects is a compositing/special effects program.
Learn Premiere first and then AE when you feel comfortable with Premiere.Mike
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April 23, 2014 at 5:25 AM #210273
rs170a
ParticipantI use Sony Vegas Pro so I can't comment on Premiere or AE and their CPU/memory demands.
I strongly recommend checking forums for these two programs and see what other users have to say.
Mike
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April 23, 2014 at 11:43 PM #210282
Joe
ParticipantBoth softawre are different work platform. Premiere Pro is for Video editing and After Effects is for Video Compositing go first with Premiere Pro it will gives you a good seance of combine editing part and then try for After Effects for more Spicial Effects on it………..
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April 26, 2014 at 7:10 AM #210299
Suagrmedic
ParticipantBoth programs are very demanding on CPU and GPU depending on what effects you use. Both require plenty of CPU and RAM as well as GPU. PP is a little easier to use because it is easier to render parts of a clip to see your changes in real time. LIke RS170A said learn PP then get into AE as it has effect power and green screen capabilities like no other. Bottom line both require alot of CPU and RAM. Once effects are added GPU is very important I recently tested a PP render which was a 2:45 min clip withthree effects (tint, 3at coor,and G.blur) on the CPU it tool 11:02 to render. On my quadro K5000 it only took 1:40. Good luck and keep looking on YouTube for tuts hese program are worth the time
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June 14, 2014 at 8:37 PM #210605
Zororak
Participantyou will want to use premiere first. Edit the video the way you want it, then when you are ready to add special effects and compositions, swap it over to after effects.
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June 15, 2014 at 7:07 AM #210617
Anonymous
InactiveTo be fair nearly every editing suite is complicated as sky pie. So if i was a beginier i would hopefully study up on tutorials before i used any editing program.
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June 17, 2014 at 8:55 PM #210641
rt66west
ParticipantAdobe has said you want all the ram you can get on both the system and the videocard., As many cores you can get on the cpu and plus more than a single hard-drive for rendering. The best case being: one to read the video files from, a free scratch disk, and a drive to write the final files to. All Hard-drives should be direct connected and not through a usb or thunderbolt. This is best way to reduce rendering times for a home user with a limited budget. Adobe does put out a great product pretty hard to knock it. Like a lot of new things there is a learning curve, but Adobe is great at insuring there are books to help for all their products.
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July 30, 2016 at 5:38 AM #214319
JoshG40
MemberI have used both and found Premiere Pro easy to use initially, once I got more experienced and experimental I moved over to using After Effects. I found a free trial from the following if you are wanting to try out Premiere Pro. https://goo.gl/vYFRVL
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July 30, 2016 at 11:13 AM #214320
paulears
ParticipantYou can get going pretty swiftly on Premiere Pro, AE is much harder to master. Only snag will be the money side of things. Premiere Pro is now subscription, so even if you use the student discount (if you are one), not a cheap product.
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April 23, 2014 at 1:09 AM #210268
Crye
ParticipantThank you, bro!
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April 23, 2014 at 1:13 AM #210269
Crye
ParticipantThank you, bro! How about the CPU/Memory demands?
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June 15, 2014 at 2:11 AM #210611
Lakey
ParticipantEssentially this. Learn Premiere first. It's a video editing suite and it's where you put your video together. Use AE to do special effects. They're both quite CPU/Memory demanding so be careful. What do you plan on editing exactly?
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April 23, 2014 at 3:16 PM #210280
Crye
ParticipantOk very helpful. I was advised to use Premiere Pro first.
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April 26, 2014 at 2:04 PM #210303
Crye
ParticipantExcellent advice, Sua. This is a great challenge but is also what I love, so…
Thanks a lot!
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June 15, 2014 at 7:29 AM #210619
Lakey
ParticipantI agree, but I would say Sony Vegas was the easiest to pick up when I've done editing. Sony Vegas was the first video editing software I used and picked it up quite easily with the occasional google something if I didn't know how to. But, Vegas is quite basic, it's completely fine to use if you just want to cut and put things together though.
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