• Adobe After Effects

  Work Flow using still photos as video

  Posted by Shadow24 on February 23, 2006 at 8:20 pm

  We shot 9000 photos using the Canon 1D Mach II (8.2MP RAW files) We are gonna edit a short film using Photoshop CS2, After Effects 7 Pro, and Avid Xpress DV for mac and/or Premiere Pro 2

  Out of the photos we got, there will be different effects and styles. For part of it we will be doing a “Kid Stays in the Picture” thing. We will ending up with a 24P 1920×1080 HD project, which we will lay back onto HDCAM or D5.

  The question is pixel aspect ratio, if we resize all the shots to approx 720×380, and edit inside a DV project, can we then “conform” back to the 24P HD settings? All the photos use square pixels. All DV projects use retangular pixels.

  Has anyone used CS2 for batching RAW to JPG? Ideally I would just edit natively on a 24P HD timeline (with square pixels) but Xpress DV for mac, doesn’t have the option. Should I work inside a Premiere Pro 2 timeline using the 1920x1080P HD settings?

  So,…. workflow? anyone a CS2/AVID/AE giru?

  Amish Ed replied 20 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mylenium

  February 23, 2006 at 8:34 pm

  Projects from lower end Avid systems can be opened in higher end apps. E.g. you can open an XPress project in Media Composer or Symphony. You can also export bins and edit lists easily, so you should not have a problem to offline edit in XPress Pro and finish on another system. You can’t really circumvent the pixel aspect problem, though, and you also will not be able to use “crooked” resolution settings like your proposed 720×380 px on Avid systems if you want to maintain a level of realtime functionality (unless this is a typo and you meant 720×480). From my POV the smart move would be to cut together a rough clip with the timings in XPress and then re-build everything in AE or a HD system using the clip as reference only. No ideas about that RAW to JPEG thingy, but should be doable using automation in Bridge or PS directly.

  Mylenium

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  Amish Ed

  February 24, 2006 at 12:01 am

  Yes, you can batch the whole PS CS2 part. You’ll need to create an action to take tell PS what to do with each file, and then create a droplet using that action. Look up “droplet” and “actions” in PS Help.

  Amish Ed
  “Shoot ’em all and let the Editor sort ’em out!”

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