Is premier what i should be using?
by Quentin Welch
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Jun 13, 2008 at 5:24:23 pm
Hi,
Im new to the post editing world. I have been animating here and there for engineering firm with 3DS max for awhile and post editing in movie maker. Im looking to upgrade my capability and quality of outputs and am wondering is premiere cs3 is what i need or after effects, or suggestions. I have not used after effects so dont know it capability. Right now the basics i need are adding/animating text over my animation (pointing out parts with names), good transistions, etc. I also have been disappointed with the quality of outputs from movie maker and priemere. I render the animations in in HD settings out of Max and they look great, and then they look horrible after i edit them in movie maker and still preimer. I guess im missing something with exporting. Size of file does not bother me since usualy the clips are less than 3 minutes long. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!
Re: Is premier what i should be using? by Vincent Rosati on Jun 14, 2008 at 2:25:52 am
You might be more satisfied with After Effects, but it's a bit more complicated. Premiere does have titling and some animation features but you can create much nicer stuff in AE.
For creating custom stuff you might use AE or even Photoshop. You could create lead lines or arrows and text in Photoshop, you can create mattes for custom transitions as well. After Effects is like Photoshop for animation.
The ideal setup would include all of the above, maybe even Illustrator..
As to why you would be disappointed with your output from Premiere, I can't say - not enough info in your post. It could be a pixel aspect ratio thing, or a compression thing. You can absolutely output perfect files from Premiere.
Maybe hit the Max forum, I'm sure there's info there on how to export from Max to work in HD in Premiere...
Autodesk 3ds Max
In the end, I'll say that Premiere is an editing and encoding app. If you need to create graphics to add to your 3D renders Premiere isn't the tool.
If you've been disappointed with titles in Premiere, try applying Gaussian Blur set to '0' to the title, it forces the effect to render on the underlying video before encoding.
