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After Effects export to Premiere Pro problems
Hi everyone, I have a 30 minute project that I composed mostly in after effects and now I’d like to add a music track. I’m running into a problem exporting the AE CS5 project as a PP CS5 project: after I export as PP project file, and when I drag the sequence to the timeline in PP, all of the masking work I did in AE disappears a long with a number of files coming up as “media offline” when they are all where they need to be. I thought about rendering an AVI in AE and opening that up in PP, but at 30 minutes the AVI would be insanely huge. Any suggestions?
Also dynamic link isn’t working and I think it’s because I have Premiere CS5.5 and AE CS5.5 installed as well.
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Hi Mo –
The final output on a 30 minute project in just about any codec is going to end up huge, depending on where you intend to play it back. If it’s going to the web at 640 x 360, we’re talking a lot smaller; if it has to stay in HD rez, we’re talking huge.
I would suggest doing some tests of a portion of your project in Quicktime (MJPEG-B, at 95 percent is a good start – good quality, good compression), and seeing if your masking and everything are intact. Then if they are, bite the bullet and send it over to Premiere. If you’re happy with the results, you can always delete the intermediate render.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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I guess I would ask, why pass thru PPro, just to add music.
could it be that its more than a simple bed and rather a more complex sound track?
if so, might I suggest that you just render out a low rez place holder from AE.
the resolution won’t matter for music and fx spotting.
bring that into PPro
Cut you music/fx track to that in PPro (or Audition)
then simply export the final music mix back as audio and bring it back to AE and do a full rez render with audio from AE?
does that make sense?
Alex
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Try importing your After Effects project in Premiere Pro, that works as well. File -> Import, Import your AEP then choose the composition you want to bring in, and it will come into Premiere Pro as a linked comp with all your effects and masking intact. I am using this workflow on an effects-heavy commercial I edited in Premiere Pro and am finishing in AE with the Magic Bullet Suite, and knock wood I haven’t had any problems yet (this is with three rotoscoped shots so I am definitely not having any problems with the masking as you described) and I’m almost done with it.
Hope that helps.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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Thanks for the responses guys, so basically it comes down to this: When I try to import the ae project into premiere the sequence gets imported with a little green and yellow “X” box in the project pane, and won’t let me drag into timeline. It’s really weird and it only happens with certain AE sequences. Very weird.
The only reason why I’m going this route to add music is because it requires a lot of cutting and AE is a nightmare to cut a sound track to a video, BUT the solution I found was to just save my AE project as a PP, open it up in PP (with all of the masks gone etc) and just cut the sound track for the whole video, export just the audio, bring it into AE and voilà: audio file that matches up perfectly to my AE intensive project, then I just render the movie from there. 🙂 -
I think that’s the best anyway….
heavy and unrendered AE Projects in PPro would tend to bog you down anyway.
glad you got it sorted…
Alex
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