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<aafe4bb3-d5bb-402a-9949-09bde583086f@y9g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>,
 Nishant Mehta <nishant842@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am a developer and an absolute noob at both AE and Premiere. Am
> hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
> 
> A friend who uses Premiere for his usual editing jobs asked me if I
> can write a custom wizard in Premiere for very repetitious editing
> jobs that he does daily. From what I have read in the SDK's, the
> closest to actual automation from a development perspective that you
> can get is with AE. Plugins in Premiere wont give the kind of
> capability required for the job. I can convince him to switch to AE if
> the custom wizard functionality can make his life easier. So my
> question is, apart from how the workflow is different between the two
> and which one suits what, can AE in principle, do everything that
> Premiere can do?
> 
> I found a link which says it can. 
> http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/compare/aftereffects-vs-premiere.html
> But thats the only place i read that so I want to be certain its
> possible before wasting time tinkering with the SDK's.
> 
> Hope someone out there can help me out. If this is not the right place
> to post this, please point me to the right group.
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> Nishant

I hope 6 months is an OK time frame for answering your question  :-)

Your referenced site is basically correct:

   �	After Effects is better at working with shorter timelines and 
high-demand effects.
   �	Premiere Pro is better at working with general editing projects, 
especially long or complex edits.

Premiere Pro is like a flatbed film and audio editor, After Effects is 
like an animation stand. That is, Premiere is primarily for cutting 
together video and audio footage for the final product.

After Effects is a special-effects tool. Over the years of development 
the two products have started to share functionality, but the two were 
originally designed for these purposes. 

It may be that the editing needed can be done in AE and then rendered 
and used in Premiere for the full project editing -- I switch back and 
forth between Photoshop, AE, Premiere, and Amadeus (audio editor), 
depending on what needs to be done.

Hope this helps, however belated.