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Best Practices When Working Between After Effects and Premiere
I’d like to hone my media management when it comes to working with After Effects files, especially as it relates to Premiere. Is there a set of best practices someone can recommend when working between these two programs? Here’s a few issues I’m running in to…
If I send a long clip from premiere into After Effects I have trouble finding the best way to “package” the linked files in a way that doesn’t result in enormous amounts of file storage. For example, if I send a short clip from the Premiere timeline that links to a larger file (ie. an hour-long interview), After Effects “collect files” feature wants to collect the entire file, rather than just the 30 seconds I used.
If I’m working with an After Effects file in the Premiere timeline, what’s the best way to make sure the Project Manager’s feature of creating a trimmed project doesn’t result in lost data/effects? Is there a way to “embed” the After Effects work in the project?
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Not sure if this will work but….in Premiere try creating a subclip of the media you have determined you want to send to AE as a dynamical link.
Then try the collect process in AE and see if that does the trick.
The only other thing I can think of is reinjesting just the length of clip you need (with handles). That would definitely solve your problem.
A thought. Maybe AE will collect that hour long clip just once as the source for all those shorter versions of it you send to AE.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
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This sounds like a workable solution for certain scenarios. What I enjoy most about premiere is the “replace with after effects composition” option, which allows me to work quickly within the both programs and not spend a lot of time managing media, creating subclips, exporting, etc. I usually work with sequences less than 10 minutes, so even if these grow to huge sizes, that’s okay. I’m just wondering if there’s a way to neatly cleanup a project that includes smaller trimmed files, etc. This might just be a dream option, and I just need to adopt a more thoughtful workflow (such as using your subclip idea).
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I am not aware of one.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIg6h-LIm0 (Best viewed at 1080P and full screen)
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid
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