Re: Final Cut Pro Advanced Training vs After Effects intro training?

Well, just to be contrarian (because it's always useful for ONE person to be), I'd suggest you evaluate Final Cut Pro x, which may in some cases be useful to people. Further, if you think you know FCP 7, spend some time with Apple Motion, which you already have, before you start learning After-Effects. A good grounding in Motion makes you a more effective FCP Editor. And you already HAVE the application, might as well play with it. Same for Apple Color and practicing some DVD authoring in DVDSP.

Sure, you should learn AE; everyone should. However, the speed with which one drops their use of FCP is not a universal consatnt for everyone. For some folk, they will be happy using it for years yet. For others, FCP-X has gotten a little less half-baked in the past year while the haters weren't looking. I myself plan to try out a copy of it in the near future.

Then again, you may decide to just rip the bandaid off right now and jump to Avid, Adobe Premiere, Smoke, Lightworks, what-have-you. Just because some of the guys here with big facilites decide one way, doesn't mean eveerybody needs to go in lock-step. Evaluate them all, decide what's right for YOU.