What's best to do when Video Editing?

I'm pretty  new to this. I love the challenge. I'm curious though. When you begin your editing process which program is best to use first? Adobe Premier Pro, SpeedGrade or After Effects?

For the overwhelming majority of projects, I start and end in Premiere Pro.
Unless I missed the correction, there is currently a bug when you send a Prelude project to Premiere Pro having to do with missing audio, so until that get's fixed, I prefer to leave Prelude out of the chain.  And if you have to ask where to put SpeedGrade in the chain, you're probably not at a level where you need to use it.  It's a very powerful program, but the current work flow between PP and SG leaves out some critical features that everyone but the high end colorist would sorely miss, so until those features show up in a future version, I also prefer to leave SpeegGrade out of the equation.
That leaves PP and AE.  The former for editing, the latter for effects.  There may be the occasional short, self-contained project that can be done entirely in AE, but for the most part whatever I do in AE will end up as part of a larger project, so PP is the center of my editing work flow.

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