i run the full adobe suite, level CS2. So far I have not had to use Premier; I do everything I need in After Effects.

AE should be able to open your clips, you can put them on the timeline, apply filters and transitions, insert text/titles, then output the entire thing.

Now, I output to apple's H.264 but AE can output to other codex.

How much post-processing do you have to do, over and above just stringing the clips together?

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