Adobe Video Editing Training
Premier Pro v After Effects
Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro are both powerful video tools, but they serve different purposes in the editing workflow. Premiere Pro is designed for video editing, making it ideal for editing clips and arranging them on timelines by syncing audio, color correcting footage, and exporting finished videos efficiently.
After Effects, on the other hand, focuses on motion graphics and visual effects, allowing creators to design animations, titles, transitions, and complex visual effects that go beyond basic editing.
While Premiere Pro is best for telling a story through smooth edits and pacing, After Effects excels at enhancing that story with dynamic visuals and cinematic effects. In many professional projects, the two are used together, edited in Premiere Pro and polished with effects and animations in After Effects.
In short Premiere Pro is perfect for full video editing working in the way you’d imagine a movie to be developed whilst After Effects works on a layerbased timeline using special effects and creating animations. They’re both bought together via a dynamic link for more complex editing.
Adobe After Effects Training, what is After Effects?
After Effects is animation software used to create stunning visual effects such as kinetic type, animated shapes and graphics.
When you hear the job title Motion Graphics Artist there’s a good chance it involves After Effects. Used widely to create animated intro’s, title sequences and moving text and create high impact social media reels AE is probably the most popular animation creator on the planet.
For example a video editor may want to use After Effects to collate short video clips, add an animated title and audio effects whereas an educator might want to make an Explainer Clip.
What is an Explainer Video?
These are short online marketing videos which are used to describe or explain something – for example a service or a specific product. If you take a look here on Explainer Video it will give you an idea of what they are. Once created they usually appear on a prominent part of a company website such as product pages or the home page.
Find out more about After Effects Explainers
It literally has a staggering array of tools including special visual and audio effects. These can be tweaked in more ways than can be imagined to create fantastic unique animations for multiple projects and people just love working with the Effect library.
After Effects
did you know?
After Effects, like Photoshop works with layers which gives great flexibility when working with animation. By using these layers you can also import a Photoshop file with all its layers intact which obviously opens up a great big design opportunity.
After Effects – Quick Tip
Double click in After Effects Project panel
Select the Photoshop (PSD) file you want to import
In the Import Kind drop down box choose ‘Retain Layer Sizes’
Under Layer Options choose ‘Editable Layer Styles’
Click OK to import
Premier Pro Training
We covered most of the default Introduction to Premier Pro course outline over two days. With most of the delegates quite new to Premier Pro this worked well however we followed more of a workshop approach on the second day.
Premier Pro is used for editing footage for movies and the web, for example how to videos, documentary or film.
It is all about editing footage, adding clips and working with sound and vision. In essence any video that comes out of a camera is a candidate for Prem Pro.
In Premier Pro you can work on a frame by frame basis to create specific movie effects and sounds. Most of the videos imported into Premier Pro consist of multiple tracks containing video and audio which can be worked with together or independently of one another. These can then be melded together to create slow motion effects, overlaid or have smooth transitions applied between tracks.
Are Premier Pro & After Effects the same?
After Effects is a wonderful piece of software but its name kind of gives you a clue about its role. It is used after footage has been edited which is usually done in Premier Pro which has different playback and layout capabilities or as a standalone animator.
Are Premier Pro & After Effects the same?
We also worked with Photoshop’s Video Tools as the delegates were keen to get as much insight into video editing as possible. Just on an offside during the Photoshop Training we created a social media image in Photoshop then imported it as a layered PSD file to work with in After Effects.
Although with none of the editing capabilities of the above software Photoshop does pack its own punch when it comes to video editing. It actually comes with its own timeline built in which offers two options direct video editing or frame based edits.
It is ideal for anyone who is looking to produce short, sharp and snazzy social media videos or basic simple GIF’s.
What is a GIF?
GIF is short for Graphical Interchange Format and has been since 1987. They were invented so images could be edited in small file sizes. They are in essence a set of images that loop continuously.
You can find out more information in the Photoshop Training link below.
