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Working order w/ AE and Vegas
Hi
I’m currently working on a project and this is pretty much my first big project using both of these programs together. So I’m curious about how I should progress…
Should I
1)edit the “plain” footage in Vegas only adding simple fx and whatever masking I have in mind, render it out uncompressed and add my color correction, fx etc. in AE?
2)add fx to all of my footage in AE first, and then do all the cuts, editing in Vegas?
In what order would you work?
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I’d cut in Vegas first to nail down the timing. Then I’d only render/export the shots that need effects, rendering with no recompression, however Vegas does that. In FCP I’d be working in a sequence with the same settings as the footage, so I’d export the footage with “current settings” i.e. with no change or recompression. Then I’d add the effects to those shots in AE, and render those to the codec of the Vegas sequence, and color-correct in Vegas.
Because of the color shift between FCP and AE, if I were exporting the final out of FCP, I’d do the color correction there or in Color.
I wouldn’t affect all the footage before cutting, because it could be a big waste of rendering time. However … if the AE effects affect the timing, and you expect to tweak the cut once you see the AE effects … you might want to use AE on footage with significant handles on them.
My 2 cents.
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