I am starting a vlog and being me, I just want the best tools for the job (no matter how simple it is) So should I use vegas pro 9, premier pro, or premier pro AND AE? I heard that AE is meant for adding visual effects and less on editing. I saw this Youtube video with this beautiful and colorful ripple effect for the introduction video and the uploader said it's made with AE. I think it looks really cool.
AE can do very basic editing but it's not an editing application at all. It's a killer app for motion graphics and can provide good results for visual effects, even if it's no Shake nor Nuke. Premiere+AE would make vegas look like moviemaker, but you would have to learn both and that would require quite some time. Try having a look at videocopilot.net, there's a ton of free training, and a beginner's course in AE as well. Also, if the Mac is an option, you can't go wrong with final cut+motion. Hope this helps.
I downloaded the trials for AE and premiere yesterday and the first thing that struck me was the lag. Opening the Premiere Pro took like 3 times the time I opened my Vegas. And the 2nd thing that struck me was how it seems "limited". From Vegas I went to Video FX>Film Effects>Old Movie and I can apply the old movie effect and customize the appearance. From PP, I can't find that effect. The video effects seem limited and less diverse than Vegas's. When opening AE, I realized that it is hard to use. I have no idea on how to do motion graphics or some motion tracking or what. Maybe I need a good book
Yes, PP has not much in terms of effects, you'd use AE for that. But really, to learn AE well... will take some time. Have a look at the free intro videos on videocopilot.net, books are not that great when it comes to visual arts learning.
Yeah the videocopilot.net videos are really great and informative! I learnt a lot! But one thing that baffles me is making a ripples effect. In PP, I went to Effects>Video Effects>GPU Effects and dragged "Ripple (Circular)" onto the clip. I got a ripple effect on my clip straight away, which is great, but it does not move. In AE however, upon Effects>Distort>Ripple the clip remains as it was. I have to increase the radius to actually see a difference. I believed this is because AE and PP are two different softwares, thus naturally their interface and procedures are different. However I still can't find a way to animate. Help? LOL
You have to animate the effects using the little stopwatch icon next to each parameter. When clicked it sets a keyframe then you move somewhere else in the timeline, change the value, and is animated. BTW, ripple in AE is auto-animated, ie you only have to enlarge the radius, as you already found out. I think copilot has a video about keyframing.
Auto-animated? Are you referring to the Distort>Ripple effect? Because when I use that I don't see any auto-animation I have to set radius to 0, stopwatch it, drag timeline, set radius to 100 and stopwatch it again.
I would go with AE+Premier. It's going to take a while to learn but I think the power of both applications is well worth it.
Yup, distort>ripple. Create a comp, add a clip, then add distort>ripple. Change radius to a sensible amount, say 100, then do a ram preview. It should be animated without the need for keyframes.
Okay will try it soon. Anyway in Premiere Pro is adding subtitles as torturous as creating a new title, getting the position and everything right and then copying and pasting this layer for multiple subs? :O Hate to sound like a whiner, but I'm just trying to do a comparison. In Vegas subtitles is creating a new layer, right clicking and selecting an option that says something like "New text". But of course, the New Title in PP is much more advanced and has more features.
If you mean subtitles that are part of the video, yes, it's a pain. PP has a strong toolset for subtitles that gets exported as Metadata cuepoints to dvd or flv players, so they can be turned on/off, multilanguage, and sync with different editions (it can even speech recognize the dialog and auto create the subtitles). But if you want text rendered over the video you have to go with the title designer. If I may give you a suggestion, go PP/AE only if you plan to monetize all the hours you'r going to invest in them. PP is no "better" than vegas, it gives you more options, but not necessarily better results depending on the task.
I just watched the videocopilot.net tutorial on advanced car hit (http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/advanced_car_hit/) and I'm curious. Why does he create so many compositions to work on? Can't he just create one comp, add all the footage and edit the footage individually? This brings me to wonder what is a comp and when should you use it.
Hey guys I don't know why but now Premiere Pro hangs when rendering. Adobe Media Encoder remains responsive but PP shows a translucent white screen with "(Not Responding)" in the title bar. I have tried reinstalling it already. Could it be that recently I uninstalled a lot of stuff (none of it is related to Adobe, they're all my games and apps) which messed up my registry? This is frustrating.
Precomps are like folders -they help to organize a project and sometimes are needed to force some actions to be performed on several layers at once or in an order different from AE's default.