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Best options for rendering in AFX towards Premiere Pro?
Hey guys,
I have AVCHD ( .MTS ) footage ( 1920 X 1080 ) that im mangling with in After Effects CS5. I was wondering what’s a good way to export this footage for editing in Premiere Pro CS5? Do u guys use make movie or add to render cue? ( dont know if theres a difference )
Also, id like to mix this newly rendered footage with other .MTS files so im looking for something that wont make too much of a difference between rendered footage in AFX and non treated .MTS files. So in that direction, what should i use as format? H264, Quicktime, .AVI ? And what settings?
I hope this all makes sense, and sorry if my terminology is incorrect as im quite new to all of this video stuff. Thanks in advance,
cheers,
VP
PS: maybe you can point me to some external links for an answer…
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5 Replies
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Any lossless export will require a hefty RAID system to playback without rendering back in Premiere.
My advice would be either AVI with compression set to none, or Quicktime Animation (The latter being a smaller file size).
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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If you want to play with the footage in pp, open pp, choose file, dynamic link, import after effects comp, and then navigate to the AE comp and click ok. That should open the comp in pp for you to play with without having to render out from AE at all. Then, edit in pp and render out from that with the advice above. Hope this helps. Andrew
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> My advice would be either AVI with compression set to none, or Quicktime Animation (The latter being a smaller file size).
Using the PNG codec within a QuickTime wrapper gives you files that are about half the size of files that use the Animation codec in a QuickTime wrapper. (This is true for photorealistic images; Animation still wins for large expanses of flat color, like cartoons.)
As Andrew suggested, there are ways to work between the two applications without needing to do intermediate render-and-export operations. Dynamic Link is great for a lot of purposes.
See this page for an overview of the ways to exchange information between After Effects and Premiere Pro.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
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Hey Todd…
What are the Data Rate ranges with PNG codec?
Will it playback without a hefty RAID?
Alex
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> Will it playback without a hefty RAID?
I use PNG in a QuickTime container as the lossless exchange format on my home computer that just has two reasonably fast local disk drives. I’m not doing digital cinema with it; my personal projects are 1080 24p.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
Premiere Pro Help & Support
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