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best codec/format for exporting to AfterEffects
primary goals are
1) effiency (so it’s no “laggy” while working in AE)
2) reasonable image quality (the original is a noisy AVCHD capture anyway so it’s not pristine)the original cropped in for frame re-composition exporting 720p from a 1080p capture. Using neat video and colour curves.
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You’re working in AVCHD, so give it an AVCHD, if you keep the bitrate up you should be OK. Unless you’re using CS or CS2.
Jeff
2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 MSI Mobo 48GB DDR3 GTX 580 3072MB 16TB Attached Storage Win7 Vegas 11 x64
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Thanks Jeff, the source is AVCHD, but it’s edited and has filters applied so it’s a re-compress scenario anyways. Are you saying there is an advantage to use the same codec for output as what was used to capture even though there is recompression?
Being in a hurry, I ended up doing a limited simple trial with 3 formats and playing them side by side in AE. I ended up using MXF preset I create earlier as that produced the best result without tweaking. Dunno if I made the “right” choice, but we’ll see how it goes with CPU utilisation I guess. My machine’s not that quick.
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I have no idea, but this may help and/or lead to other info
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtsYN9gMTIY
Nick
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Rats. Sorry.This about working _in_ AE. Sorry.
Nick
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Just as an update.Getting the footage back from AE was a consideration as well. After trying a few different things, a PNG image sequence was the best for quality. Also AfterEffects has a handy feature where it will only render missing frames, so if the rendering process is interrupted, it picks up where it left off. Also, if I needed to re-edit part of a comp, all I need do is delete the relevent frames.
On the Vegas side of things, I imported the images into a dedicated .veg project file and dropped the .veg image sequence into my main timeline. Everytime I updated the PNGs with a new After-effects render, my vegas timeline was automatically updated WITHOUT the need to render a proxy/intermediate file internally. It worked brilliantly. I think I’m only ever going to use image sequences on the output side of AfterEffects.
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