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after effects is NOT a good idea if you want to cut movies that last more than a few minutes. it's an excellent effects tool, but to do mainly cutting, better choose something different.


I am currently working on a 1 hour movie with AE after preprocessing it in Premiere. You can do everything with AE that you can do with Premiere and then some, however the workflow is far more complicated and audio playback in AE is questionable. It's a features vs. usability issue, but as far as usability is concerned Premiere does not fare that well compared to other applications either. Does that linked Production Premium Studen Edition allow commercial use or not ? If so then it's a steal since you also get Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and OnLocation in the bundle; I paid $1400 for that package