How to Use After Effects and Premiere Pro Together (The Adobe Premiere and After Effects Workflow)

hey what's up everybody adobe masters here and today i'm just showing you the workflow between Premiere Pro and After Effects this was a comment in one of my recent videos on a suggestion for a future tutorial so I thought that it would be a good time to cover this what this is gonna be really talking about is the link between the two programs and how you might go about creating a video that needs both of the programs so as you know Premiere Pro is an editor it's used to put stuff together add some tiny effects to it and sort of polish the final product up while After Effects is a compositor and what that means is that it allows you to composite the footage together and to you know add VF X elements on top of the titles really advanced motion graphics and stuff like that so sometimes you need to jump in After Effects to add the effects that you want because it can be accomplished in Premiere so I'm going to show the standard workflow of how that might be accomplished and it isn't exactly complicated it's gonna be a you know decently short tutorial on this but it's something that I think that you need to look at and then you'll understand ah ok that's how it's done so let's get started first off what we just need to do is just open ourselves up a premiere pro sort of composition which is a sequence Ignis and this is really where it's going to start everything video related always starts in Premiere Pro you can start and pretty lit as well but Premiere is the central element to this I talked about this in my video where I talked about linking them all together I'll link that in the description below if you want to see that but really Premiere Pro is the central point so you don't want to start in After Effects and then try to bring it afterwards you want to start in Premiere Pro and the reason for this is that you want to create what's known as a rough edit a rough cut whatever you want to call it basically this is going to be your in file what it's going to basically look like at the end so you're gonna put all your footage you know grab your footage you're gonna cut it together so that you can see what you know the feel of it give the pacing right get that stuff and let's say I wanted a VFX shot here I want a cool motion graphics bottom or something coming in here or maybe I want it to change weird colors or something like that right here it isn't essential to the scene even gunshots and stuff like that like bullet pings aren't exactly essential to the scene so you can still tie in the pacing really well by just going through your edit and kind of feeling out how long that scene should like okay let's say we wanted it here and then we want this piece added on top of it afterwards unlink the audio again so we wanted this piece added on top of it afterwards so now that we have the kind of the feel of this piece it's fitting in right you know of course we can do minor edits to it later and stuff like that but we got the the dinner'll gist of it we got the feel of it so now what we can do is we can right click on this and now what we got actually want to do is once this whole thing is done what's the rough cut the rough edit is done we can go through and we can mark the ones that we need to do VFX too so let's say this is our first one that's marked we're going to have we're gonna go to this one you're gonna click on it and then we're going to right click on it and it's gonna bring up this giant thing right here what we want to do is we want to click replace with After Effects composition we're gonna click on that it's going to bring up After Effects and what it's basically doing is it's just linking the two together it's gonna send this footage over to After Effects in the cut that it wants to be in and then it's going to open it up and in its own composition within After Effects now something the note is that you need to gave it a name first so let's just give it just give it a test name so something to note here is that every time we do this it only needs a composition which means we don't need a bunch of different projects for After Effects we just need a bunch of different compositions so if I went into here and I right clicked on this back one and I hit replace with After Effects composition you'll see that it starts blinking down here if I go back to After Effects you'll see that it actually created another composition for this so we can create all of the effects that we want inside of here in the exact same After Effects project in just different compositions this is important because if you have like 27 VFX shots 27 projects gets a little bit hard to manage where if we just want to put them all in different compositions then we just have one Premiere Pro project and one After Effects project make things a little bit easier and then we can under this link by hitting ctrl C right here going back in here or my bad control Z and it'll undo that link which it won't undo the link here because already been created but we can just delete out of that we don't need to touch it we can delete it right here if we want to yes so we have this effect in here so now we've gone from a pair and we've jumped into After Effects and now it's time to add some sort of effect that's something that we really wanted to create so maybe we just want to create a simple animation that was too hard for us to do in Premiere Pro so we can do the text that I like to usually do just some japan and then date like 2016 or something let's go ahead and highlight this and we'll make this a little bit larger like maybe right there and then let's just give it a cool animation here so let's have it start over here and then we're going to give us go to transform we're gonna position this we're gonna move it in for maybe about a second maybe like 3/4 of a second and we're gonna have it slide over like so and then we can go into like this right here yeah just give it a sort of a nice little animation right there anyway that's just what we came in after effects because we wanted to create this sort of effect and so just has that sort of like nice slide and it's nice and slow looks really really smooth and clear we just get a little bit of motion blur as well and boom that's the effect that we wanted to add in premiere or in After Effects so now all we have to do is once they're linked all we have to do now is click ctrl s or go up to file and save and once this comp is saved we can go back into Premiere Pro and it'll be added inside a premiere now note this will most likely be a little bit slow whenever you get in here like mine's running fast cuz I have a fast computer but maybe it isn't so after you've created your effect you can actually go in here and you can click enter over the red click the enter button and it'll render those frames out for you in a temporary version so that now as long as you don't touch that After Effects composition again it's going to always be playing like it's regular video and you can then feel it and kind of get the pacing for it again if you want to change things go back into After Effects make the changes maybe wanted oh it should have been 2017 click that kit control save we're gonna go back into Premiere Pro you'll see it goes back to red but it updates this click enter again wait for it to render itself out remember more complex will take a lot longer but this one's pretty simple and then now we have our After Effects composition re added back in here and then now there's nothing special we need to do from this point on we can just go to file export media and export it just like normal and when we click this export button it's just going to go in after-effects and grab that that footage that data for us we don't have to do anything at all it's gonna create the dynamic link it's gonna do all that stuff for us and then we're just gonna get a final video at the very end so if we have like twenty seven different After Effects compositions in here it's just going to go into each one of those it's gonna grab all the information it's gonna render it out into the final video so we never need to touch the render feature in After Effects if we're doing this sort of workflow that is though basically it on the workflow I said it's pretty simplistic if you really break it down all you're doing is you're creating the rough edit in here then you're going to the VFX files right clicking sending them into after-effects doing your effects then bringing them back into here and looking at them making adjustments stuff like that and then finally you'll have your final video you just render it out like normal and it'll all work thanks everyone for joining me if you got any questions comments or suggestions for future tutorials go ahead those in the comment section below like I said this was on a comment for a suggestion of a future tutorial so I decided I would go ahead and do it because I love these sort of suggestions it gives me a way to go that I know will instantly add value to some of my viewers if you want to see more videos similar to this one I make a video on Adobe relative products every other day so go ahead and hit that subscribe button so you can be up-to-date on all those videos and until next time guys see ya

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Length: 8min 3sec (483 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 10 2017