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  Advice on best Export format for After effects workflow with vegas

  Posted by Doron Kaufman on November 26, 2011 at 11:03 am

  Hello,
  i shot an entire Video clip on blue screen with a sony EX3 – so i have my blue screen HD footage on Mp4 format.
  Since i know i’m headed torwords After effects massive compositing work later on i thought of editing the cut on Premiere cs5 but right on the start i left the CS5 and moved to my favorite Vegas 10- i’m used to it and the workflow is much much faster – so what i really need to know from the professionals here is what is the best export format for AE, when i finish the cut i thought of EXPORTING to QUICKTIME ANIMATION- the file will be like 20 gigs bi(3 mins video).
  is this the best format?
  -Is compressing the final cut to quicktime Animation and then doing the compositing work on it in Ae and then exporting again in the same format for final output wont reduce the footage overall quallity(compared to using adobe dynamic link from premiere to AE?)

  thanks for your much needed advice (=

  John Rofrano replied 14 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Steve Rhoden

  November 26, 2011 at 4:32 pm

  I often times for that endeavor render out as Quicktime Photo-jpeg
  at 75% for tons of reasons. Other recommendations will vary a
  great deal, but i deal with practicality in my workflow and how to
  get the best quality renders out faster and at the smallest file sizes possible in the process.

  Steve Rhoden
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  John Rofrano

  November 26, 2011 at 5:08 pm

  I like to work with CineForm between AE and Vegas. It’s visually lossless and holds up well to multiple renders.

  BTW, Blue screen is suboptimal for video recording (it is usually only used with film). You really should be using a green screen unless there was some compelling reason not to. You can pull a much better key from green because it’s carried in the luminance channel which has at least twice more samples recorded.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com
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  Doron Kaufman

  November 29, 2011 at 10:49 am

  Hey,
  i never used Cineform before.
  Quicktime photo jpeg is actually a JPEG-SEQ?

  i rendered out a quick time animation version and its too heavy to start working on.
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  John Rofrano

  November 29, 2011 at 7:40 pm

  [doron kaufman] “Quicktime photo jpeg is actually a JPEG-SEQ?”

  Yea, Photo-JPEG is a sequence of JPEG images as a movie.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com

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