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Efficient use of AE dynamic links in PPro CS5
Hi,
I import AE comps using dynamic links in PPro CS5 Master Collection and there are a lot of lost frames in the AE comp and in the PPro footage when I play the timeline for the first time.
When I play it a second time, it’s a little better.
As I need to tightly synchronize animations with what the presenter says and its movements, those lost frames make it difficult.
I have several AE comps in one PPro sequence. The AE comps play sequentially. The footage is a DSLR (Canon 7D) 1080p HD talking head with 2 effects: crop and ultra key.
Is this how it’s supposed to be? Or is there a way to have a smoother playback in PPro CS5?
Is it because of the 1080p footage?
Should I upgrade the company’s PC yet again? Here’s what I have now:
– Win 7 – 64 bit
– Intel Core i7 920, at 2.67 mhz
– Nvidia GeoForce GTX 480
– 18 Gb of Ram
– 2To Raid 1 hard driveI’m very interested in getting your opinion on this.
Thanks!Guy
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8 Replies
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Pretty sure it is not your machine. I am running CS3 on a 32bit machine and dynamic link works pretty well for me. Are you using native files from the 7D in After Effects?
If you are, the h.264 mov files from the 7D are an intra-frame codec and need to be converted to something else. After effects doesn’t work with intra-frame well at all. I always export to mov animation codec when working in After Effects. -
Thanks John,
Yes I’m native files from the 7D. I’m doing so to keep a lean workflow and remove steps. That’s why I chose the the 7D. When I go down from 1080 to 720, there is a marked improvement. So your point is probably right.
But the 7D files are not in AE, they are in PPro. So I guess PPro also has trouble working with H264.
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unrendered AE comps in PPro will not typically play smoothly.
to help you in the animating you are doing in Premiere Pro…
with both Applications open
You can try ram caching a comp in AE first.
then switch to PPro.
As they share the same ram cache you should be able to play things a bit more smoothly in PPro.
Once you get things set up you will then render that section in PPro.
watch ram usage and save frequently.
Alex
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Hi Alex,
Thanks for weighing in. Based on what you say, I should not expect to get an improvement, whatever I do.
I’ve tried your suggestion, but it does not change much. I guess we would have to wait for CS6.
But I feel a bit disappointed that Adobe touts this feature in some of its promotion content, when it actually does not work well.
Thanks again Alex,
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Guy…
out of curiousity…
what is it that you are animatingin PPro that could not be simply built in AE and then rendered as a final clip leaving simpler final assembly to PPro?
Alex
Alex Udell
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Thanks for asking Alex.
I synchronize voice and video in a DSLR H264 file to AE animations. And I’d rather do that in PPro because animations appear often, in small bytes and represent only 10 to 20% of the timeline.
But I’m new to this and my process might not be efficient.
What workflow would you suggest?Cheers,
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I’d suggest bringing the reference audio chunks into AE…
animating completely there and rendering final clips.
Between ram preview in AE (0 on the numeric keypad)
and using Ctrl Key to scrub as you drag the timeline you should be able to get things animated pretty quickly.
then either export final media to import into PPro or you can bring those comps via dynamic link into PPro and render your timeline.
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Thanks Alex,
I’ll definitely try that for the next piece. Thanks for the Ctrl+scrub tip. I did not know. Really appreciated
Cheers,
Guy
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