CC with AE?

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Kugar13

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I was going to do color correction with my standard Premiere Pro 2.0 program, until I read anohter poster uses AE to color correct. Is this the best means to do color correction? Thx!
 
AE is certainly better than Premiere for color correction, it just have more tools. I rarely do CC using AE though because it's just too much of a hassle going back and forth between programs. Unless you really need to do something complicated, stick with Premiere, it has most of the necessary tools.
 
Thanks Mark! That's great to hear. Just to be clear, the book comes with a bunch of nifty stuff but what I was specifically posting about is Rebel CC, which is a part of the book I'm giving away free already. It's a color correction preset that allows slightly easier manipulation of shadow, midtone and highlight colors.

Just didn't want it to seem like a shameless plug for the book is all. :)

-Stu
 
Kugar13 said:
I was going to do color correction with my standard Premiere Pro 2.0 program, until I read anohter poster uses AE to color correct. Is this the best means to do color correction? Thx!
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It depends on your needs, really. Premiere has a perfectly adequate color correction system. After Effects has its own, and you can also use Color Finesse. It really depends on you. You will have more latitude (in certain areas) with AE over Premiere, but at the same time, there are complete and separate alternatives like this: http://www.davsys.com/2kplus/index.htm which you could use, if you had the need and money.

I use that last as an example of extremes. You can do everything in Da Vinci that you can in Premiere (naturally) but you can do a hell of a lot more in Da Vinci than you can in Premiere, hence the dedicated system and hefty price tag. The same parallel holds true to AE and Premiere.

Premiere is perfectly adequate for the vast majority of what most semi-pro to even low end pro productions require. So is After Effects. If you know them both, use whichever you are more comfortable with. Premiere lets you do everything in program, and as a true NLE, not a compositing package like AE. AE projects can be imported into Premiere, so the workaround has been lessened.

Personally, I use Vegas for most of this kind of thing, even as a die hard AE enthusiast. AE will give you more flexibility, but unless you know where to find it, you probably won’t miss it.

Dont think you need to jump up to AE to get "X" amount of quality over Premiere, because you don't. This is especially ture if you are not very well versed in both of them, well versed enough to really know the advantages of one verses the other.
 
Hey Stu,
Sweet plugin! Thanks for sharing!

PS: My favorite part of the blog is the new workflow specs for LightRoom. :D
Would be fun to see someone come up with a script that will rip through all the resource files in a Mac to replace "OK" buttons with "Hell Yeah!" buttons.
 
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