After Effects or Premiere

[RiffReiff]

I'm new to animation and I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing so I'll be descriptive.
I'm working on developing a storyboard and I've drawn up all my frames in Photoshop CS4 (on a Mac) but now I need to edit them into one moving storyboard(/film?). However, I'm not sure which program to buy I've heard good things about After Effects and Premiere as well as some other non-Adobe programs like Final Cut and Toonboom(although I'm not sure those last two would work with Photoshop). Which should I get? I want to make sure that the program's going to provide what I need before investing my money in it.

[nathanielmilburn]

I'd say Final Cut or Premiere since you're just trying to time out storyboards with images. After Effects isn't a good editing software. You can use After Effects but it would make more sense to get Final Cut or Premiere since they're made to do that.

All 4 could work, just matters on which one you'd prefer, but since you're new to all 4 of them, it doesn't really matter which one you pick.

You might need to learn Toonboom or After Effects anyways if you want to get into animation so maybe try one of those?

[SirAlex]

At 6/27/12 03:14 PM, RiffReiff wrote: I'm new to animation and I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing so I'll be descriptive.
I'm working on developing a storyboard and I've drawn up all my frames in Photoshop CS4 (on a Mac) but now I need to edit them into one moving storyboard(/film?). However, I'm not sure which program to buy

well mostly adobe Flash is used here for animations and games. You could re-draw them and animate them in flash and use Photoshop for backgrounds.

[RiffReiff]

Thanks a lot! I'll look into those!

[GamerRob1]

Yeah After Effects is more for visual effects in film. Its not designed for editing a film or a storyboard.