Originally Posted by MediaMuppet

For web design flash content, you may also want to look into a program called Adobe Flash, which may tend to your needs much more efficiently than After Effects. Adobe Flash is a piece of software designed specifically for people such as yourself, I gather, though I can't comment on your own individual needs.

In my (fairly limited) experience of After Effects (a superb program), it's not great for attempting to edit entire videos from start to finish. For a start, each version I've used of After Effects, will only render five seconds of the timeline at any given stage in the editing process. What that basically means is a lot of sitting around twiddling your thumbs, when you could be doing something more productive.

Now by no means am I an authority on this, but I would suggest checking out Adobe Flash first of all, as you seem pretty at ease with Adobe anyway. If that's not what you need, perhaps a combination of Premiere and After Effects, or even all three.

I would not ever use After Effects for a start to finish edit, as immense a piece of software as it is.

Well, best wishes.


Billy