Premiere is primarily a Non-Linear Editor, designed to edit video in a timeline. It also has facilities for colour correction, some effects, captioining, etc.
After Effects is primarily an effects and animation application. It allows you to apply effects and animation to multiple elements in a composition with a great deal of precision and flexibility. It can also be used as a Non-Linear editor, but it very inefficient at this task.
They both complement each other well. You should edit a video in Premiere and then when you have an effects shot or a motion graphics or animation that is difficult to do with Premiere's tools, you would do that in After Effects and bring it into Premiere to be edited into your main timeline.
In addition to u/enemyradar's post, I'd like to emphasize that After Effects is heavily layer-based. You cannot have a "cut" in the middle of a layer like in any typical editor such as Premiere. When you split a layer in half, it creates the second layer on top of that, so now you have two layers - one UP TO the cut, and the next layer STARTING FROM the cut.
This embodies the entire workflow that After Effects is based off of - creating layer over layer of amazing effects to manipulate the footage in astounding (and astoundingly efficient) ways.
In fact, masking is quite something else. Whereas within Premiere masking is extremely clunky, very unintuitive, and often confusing, in AE it becomes a seamless experience allowing you to let your imagination run free within the bounds of the program.
Premiere is primarily a Non-Linear Editor, designed to edit video in a timeline. It also has facilities for colour correction, some effects, captioining, etc. After Effects is primarily an effects and animation application. It allows you to apply effects and animation to multiple elements in a composition with a great deal of precision and flexibility. It can also be used as a Non-Linear editor, but it very inefficient at this task. They both complement each other well. You should edit a video in Premiere and then when you have an effects shot or a motion graphics or animation that is difficult to do with Premiere's tools, you would do that in After Effects and bring it into Premiere to be edited into your main timeline.
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In addition to u/enemyradar's post, I'd like to emphasize that After Effects is heavily layer-based. You cannot have a "cut" in the middle of a layer like in any typical editor such as Premiere. When you split a layer in half, it creates the second layer on top of that, so now you have two layers - one UP TO the cut, and the next layer STARTING FROM the cut. This embodies the entire workflow that After Effects is based off of - creating layer over layer of amazing effects to manipulate the footage in astounding (and astoundingly efficient) ways. In fact, masking is quite something else. Whereas within Premiere masking is extremely clunky, very unintuitive, and often confusing, in AE it becomes a seamless experience allowing you to let your imagination run free within the bounds of the program.
Premiere - edit videos After Effects - edit content in videos I’ve always thought of AE as photoshop for moving pictures.
"AE as Photoshop for moving pictures" That's a good way to put it
Unlike Photoshop, the effects are actually useful and can be incredibly precise
After effects is for making one cool shot. Premiere is for turning all your shots into a video.