Minor editing/exporting


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Minor editing/exporting
by sammy jay on Oct 29, 2008 at 9:33:21 am

I don't have Final Cut, AE is my most powerful motion suite - and I have some flash websites captured with IShowU, which when I drop in in AE they look great, although I'm trying to edit the length/size of them and when I export/make movie (lossless quicktime) and try to reintroduce them in a comp in AE they are blurred and generally bad quality.

Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?

Should I not be editing at all in AE?

Thanks

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Re: Minor editing/exporting
by Dave LaRonde on Oct 29, 2008 at 2:23:22 pm

[sammy jay] "Should I not be editing at all in AE?"

Nice call! You shouldn't.

AE's not built for editing. It's built for compositing and effects work. It's a different tool than an editing application. Trying to edit in AE is like trying to build cabinetry using a Swiss Army knife. You can probably do it, but there are so many tools that do the job better that you can't ignore them.

An editing application is built for editing. If you're going to edit, you need one.

Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA

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Re: Minor editing/exporting
by sammy jay on Oct 29, 2008 at 3:04:58 pm

Thanks for the reply - no wonder it was all so tedious! I study multimedia, and have only got in to AE lately.. I guess I'll being doing all my editing as school from now on.

Thanks again

Sam

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