Basic Adobe editing workflow questions.

[fuzzybabybunny]

What should my workflow be? I come from a photography background and the workflow is pretty simple - Lightroom for cataloging and general edits and Photoshop for specific edits like removing backgrounds and stuff. But video editing is a lot more confusing for me. Premiere can do video and sound editing but there's also Audition and After Effects which seem to overlap in some features of Premiere. So when should you just do edits in Premiere and when would you do edits in After Effects and Audition?

Would this be a good general workflow? I'm looking for some quick and dirty editing for personal videos, not editing for real production. I'm assuming that the more meticulous you get the more time you'll be spending in After Effects and Audition versus in Premiere, right?

> import compressed files and sort in Premiere
> mark ins and outs
> convert the above into an uncompressed format?
> drag into timeline
> Grading is just color editing, right? Does that encompass everything from white balance correction, color adjustments, noise reduction, sharpening, etc? I've noticed that both Premiere and After Effects have different tools but which seem to accomplish a lot of the same things, like white balance correction.
> When should grading be done in Premiere and when should it be done in After Effects?
> What audio stuff can I just do directly in Premiere versus Audition?

 

[sbrenner]

Your workflow partially depends on what you want to do with the material.
I have Premiere Pro CS6 so I can’t refer to abilities in the newer CC versions.
You would import your clips, double clicking on them opens them in the source window.
You then mark your in and out for that clip and insert into your sequence.
If you are creating a dvd, you can specify that sequence in adboe encore.
Otherwise you would use the adobe media encoder to export to the format of
your choice.
CS6 can adjust the volume on a clip and you can do voice overs,
but if you want to clean the noise, etc
you can right click on the clip and edit it in audition.
Many people use Davinci Resolve for color grading and it is getting advanced
enough to do the editing as well.

Steve

 

[JeffD7K]

Story Board so you can visualize the results you want. Then you will know what you plan to create and what effects and other tools you will need. Think about how your music will interface with the visual and what types of techniques (Pan/Crops) you will use. You might want to edit in segments for FX and other plugins. NLEs are called that because producing a good video is not a linear work flow. "Measure twice, cut once" - unlike stills planning is a key element in producing good videos.