editing - Effects

Since we have started editing we have always had the effects part of the process in the back of our minds because we know we need to get those right to make it look like a professional video. We have noticed from looking at other peoples videos and having a little experiment with Final Cut that alot of the effects look very unprofessional and just ruin the film so we need to make sure we only use them when necessary and we don't over exaggerate them otherwise we could ruin our film. Also we have found out that Adobe After Effects may be a better way of making our effects look better although it would be a long process to import the footage into there, create an effect from scratch then import the film back into Final Cut; we are under a strict deadline and this may cause us alot of unnecessary time loss.