Todays class was working with Adobe After Affects. We were given some exercises to create an effect with a logo and played with animating a Superman logo.
After Effects is essentially a swiss army knife for video. It can do lots of different things, and it can do many of those things very well. It is not always the best tool for the job. The first thing that you need to realize is that After Effects is not designed for editing video. Editing, in this sense, refers to the most basic operations that you would perform when creating a movie video -- dropping clips onto the timeline, chopping them up into pieces, cross-fading between them, etc. For these basic types of things, you should use an NLE (non-linear editor) such as Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or perhaps even Windows Movie Maker. As I said before, After Effects can do many things. You CAN edit video in it--but the experience will be very frustrating!
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