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AE CS3 Edit first?
Just a general question, but when doing a VFX-heavy film would you recommend editing the footage first then applying all the effects or doing each clip individually?
I am doing a film that will deal with a lot of lightsabers, tracking VFX etc and I don’t know if I should let the editor do everything in final cut pro or give me the good takes first and then let him piece them with the fx intact. I am not sure which would be better rendering-wise etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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To save yourself time and energy I suggest you let the editor do at least a rough cut first before you start to work on the fx. That will give some extra frames to play with at head and tail and if he/she makes any changes that makes any clip longer you can always go back and add to that. Also don’t hold your work back from editing, hand over fx sequences roughly done and then start tweaking and fine tuning individual shots. The director and editor might (or rather will always) see things differently once they see a rough version of the fx and re-edit. Lather, rinse and repeat until deadline has passed 🙂
cheers
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Sounds like you might want to look into Automatic Duck as well. It lets you import the timeline from FCP as separate clips. Otherwise you would get one long quicktime file and have to split the layer at every cut to do the fx work. And the best part is you would be working from the original clips, not just the exact cuts the editor made. That way you can extend a couple frames here and there if there were slight changes to the edit. Something to think about..
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Thank you all for responding! This is such a great help.
I do, however, have a question about Automatic Duck. It looks as if it just gives me the entire timeline, which is great as it seperates the clips onto seperate layers but would you recommend pre-composing (and moving all attributes with it) each shot so that I have it in a different composition while I work on them individually?
Also, if the editor makes any changes I would still have the old timeline. Is there a way to import the updated timeline but not lose all of my previous work?
Thank you all so much for your help.
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