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Premiere, After Effects, and Cinema 4D workflow
This will be my first project that I use live footage with a mixture of 3D assets and motion graphics, and I’m looking to figure out what’s the best workflow that will allow for client requests and easy edits.
So far I’ve got the live action footage captured and trimmed down (best takes, audio, VO sync, etc). In between live action clips I’m pulling in a C4D scene of an iPhone, and in After Effects animating the iPhone screen graphics to the VO. I could import the entire Premiere project into Ae, which would give me the video clips with color grading, but I’m afraid if I do that, the client will want to change the video clips in some way and then I have to edit them in Ae, because there’s no dynamic link.
How would you approach this task? I’m not afraid of editing and finishing in Ae, but I’m just trying to learn the best approach. BTW, I’m on CC2014.
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I would let Premiere be the hub: pull the iPhone shots in from Ae, not the other way around.
You might give the CINEWARE workflow a go — this will let you bounce back and forth quickly between C4D and Ae. If your 3D animation is complicated, there’s still some value to the old C4D exchange (.AEC) workflow.
If you’re using CINEWARE, I wouldn’t suggest dynamic linking from Ae into Pr. Instead, render from Ae and be sure that the output module is set to include project link. Then, when you import the render into Premiere, you can get right back to the AEP that it came from with “Edit Original.”
This will all ultimately let you finish in Ae, too, if you choose.
Walter Soyka
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I may have been a little confusing, but I was planning on compositing the 3D with Cineware in Ae. What you suggested is how I started out working, with the exception of rendering in Ae (I started with a dynamic link, I was a little anxious on how well that would work). I’ve not ever used the output module with project link. I’ll have to look into that!
Thank you for taking the time for advice!
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