After Effects or Premiere, or?

[manlio]

Dear Crayox, Premiere and After Effects are two completely different software thinked to accomplish different tasks. For your need I think the best choice is to use After Effects because it is a real composition application.
For your rendered sequence you can use Tiff or Tga (loseless formats, higher quality).
Bye

[Crayox]

I see. Thanks

[ShamKiR]

Crayox
I've always used MAX for composition (only did animations for myself, and for fun), but I might need more. I'm doing an animation (interior flythrough) for my architectural project. I should render to files and then composit as I understand most people do.

I think for your work(interior flythrough)it`s better to use a Premiere because it`s not so complicated as After Effects.Because I don`t think that u will use a serious compositing in your work and apply a big number of special effects.

p.s. This is only my opinion .Good Luck :)

[Crayox]

lol and I was just about to start going through tutorials for AE :)

I really wanna learn this one, I've put it off for far too long.

Anyway, what about outputs, what's hot these days? DivX? Maybe mov but Quicktime and its feats are very bad on my 64 bit system (Win XP 64). I want one output for the web (what would give me the best quality/size ratio?) and the other for my PC (maybe later on DVD in VOB or something). Please tell me DivX is ok because I just bought the Pro lol

[scrimski]

i think for your work(interior flythrough)it`s better to use a Premiere because it`s not so complicated as After Effects.
That's like comparing apples and oranges. Two completely different apps with two different intentions. Premiere is for editing, After Effects for animation/compositing.
Because I don`t think that u will use a serious compositing in your work and apply a big number of special effects.
How do you know? And it would be visual effects, not special effects.

I would not suggest DivX. Beside that hacker-ckracker-kiddie-codec-discussion it requires the viewer/client to install an additional codec.
Stick with H.264 QT(it's a shame for Apple to mess up this much with it).

[Crayox]

Sure I would want h.264 but what do I need for it? Will it work directly from AE or do I need encoder?

[scrimski]

You need Quicktime. I would suggest an encoder, even QT pro will give you better results than AE.
Read here (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=10&t=534735) for more.

[EricBrooks]

Definitely render out to tga or tif sequences for the best results. I would think for what it sounds like you are trying to accomplish that AE would do better for you. as for output i would render uncompressed AVI's out of AE and then use something external for compressing.

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