goobersnuftda 0 #1 December 29, 2009 I've had my fun over the years with Premiere Pro (did a few year end videos) and it was nice shooting all that video and editing it together. Learned lots and lots. Came up with some really neat projects and full length DVD's. I've just recently moved into After Effects and man.... What a huge monster of a program in what it can do. Stupidly small project files (like 2.5 meg) but it is all "fake". In Premiere, you are playing with and scrubbing though the actual video files. Nice and quick and easy. At the time I thought my computer was rendering the projects slow in Premiere, was I wrong. In After Effects, you are setting up a blue print for the special effects, 3D video manipulation etc. then you send it off to "Render". As compared to Premiere....I sent off my first final project in After Effects and watched it work only to say to my self....WHAT A DOG SLOW RENDER SYSTEM I HAVE Quad core, 4 GB Ram, pair of Velociraptor's in Raid0, GTX 280- 1GB dual head video card. You simply do no "scrub" though your video in After Effects, no way !!! I learned my lessons quick on turning every single thing down for resolution for working. Come real render time, my best time for a 50 second clip (lots and lots of effects) was a 54 MINUTE render time. Sure it was in HD 1920x1080 at the highest quality settings but what else is a quad core for :) The upside for After Effects playing around is that you only need a few good video clips or 5-10 good still shots and you can make a pretty kewl looking project. In my wildest dreams I would have NEVER thought that my two favorite extra curricular things would come together so nicely, skydiving and computers. PS, in the screen shot attached, After Effects is on the left and Premiere Pro on the right. AE is great for the little video clips but PPro is needed for the usual visual effects and all the addition of sound files. It is so sweet to have every Adobe product running and they all work together so very well. So many things going on at the same time, it gets a bit confusing unless you have the desk space to keep it organized (should have minimized AE and PPro for a second screen shot to show how full my desktop was for those projects) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #2 December 29, 2009 I used the motion tracking in AE CS4 on a project this year and the 8 seconds I used it in required 8 hours render time on a Dual core with 2 gigs RAM. AE uses every resource you give it and more. Wait until you learn expressions in AE, its way more then I can do since its so complex but it really opens up a lot of new creative opportunities. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnskydiver688 0 #3 December 30, 2009 Yeah I had a lot of fun playing with it. Expressions are sweet and some of the plugins are nice too. If you haven't already.. Check out videocopilot.net Anyway good luck and have fun.Sky Canyon Wingsuiters Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coreece 190 #4 December 31, 2009 Quotemy best time for a 50 second clip (lots and lots of effects) was a 54 MINUTE render time. AE does take some time to render, but there are things you can do to help speed up the process like: -going to >edit>purge>all -closing the comp window during rendering. -using proxies -converting large photos to fit comp size rather than scaling down the original resolution. (this can cut some renders 50-80 percent depending on the original resolution of the file being used.) -optimizing RAM and Cache settings -GPU rendering (involves new expensive hardware) Others have mention expressions... Here is a great website if you wanna go down that rabbit trail: http://www.jjgifford.com/expressions/basics/index.htmlYour secrets are the true reflection of who you really are... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
