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AE drives the NLE decision
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The use of AE as a finishing tool has been going in for many years. I suspect it goes back to Stu Maschwitz’s DV Rebel book and approach to filmmaking. After all, there’s a pretty good color correction too, bundled with it in Color Finesse and it’s the whole reason Automatic Duck was started in the first place.
Right now, Smoke and Resolve have re-energized the concept of finishing and I suspect PPro/AE stack up well in this scenario.
Oliver
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In regards to AE as a finishing tool – yes this is what I do as well. I was hoping Premier Pro went into a “finishing solution” my self. As I’ve said before I haven’t had that much work one with Dynamic Link, I think as it works now it might not be the tool for our workflow. This is also why I bang my head every release of AE and PrPro that hasn’t gotten an overhaul to their scopes.
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I keep holding out hope for SpeedGrade in conjunction with the rest of the CS for finishing.
This way I have to best of both worlds in fcpx as my organizational and edit tool of choice and using Pr and all of its connections for the finish.
It seems to be getting closer from what I can tell, I’ll have to wait and see how CS next’s communication shakes out.
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“This is also why I bang my head every release of AE and PrPro that hasn’t gotten an overhaul to their scopes.”
Ironically FCP X could be a good finishing tool. The scopes are nice. Video quality is excellent. But relinking is essentially non-existent. And there’s no list interchange outside of FCPXML.Oliver
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Orlando, FL
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[Jeremy Garchow] “edit tool of choice and using Pr and all of its connections for the finish.”
Just to be clear: Are you organizing and editing in X. Then sending to Pr/AE for a finish? If so, how are you getting the X timeline into Pr?
Thanks!
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FCPX has some amazing “finishing features” for sure. It also has some dreadful limitations in this area as well. PrPro with After Effects and now Speed Grade could be the king of finishing. I just don’t quite see Adobe driving it in that direction. I also think there is a lot of money in the thousands of editors out there vs the hundred finishing artists. I think Adobe could use this to their advantage in the higher-end finishing space. They are just not there yet with CS 7 / 2013 / Next-whatever they are going to call it.
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[Richard Herd] “Just to be clear: Are you organizing and editing in X. Then sending to Pr/AE for a finish? If so, how are you getting the X timeline into Pr?”
That’s what I would like to do, yes.
Xto7 will get you to Pr.
Jeremy
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[Oliver Peters] “Ironically FCP X could be a good finishing tool. The scopes are nice. Video quality is excellent. But relinking is essentially non-existent. And there’s no list interchange outside of FCPXML.”
It is so strange how we are absolutely upside down in our opinions.
I think FCPX is a really good organizing, sort, sync, tag, transcode everything to a minimum of format, fast and hyper efficient, offline edit and creative editing tool.
The Creative Suite has all the makings of a finish complete with motion graphics, audio, color correction, tracking, masking, roto, real time capabilities (provided you have the grunt) and can accept and output a wide variety of interchange.
Odd.
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Could is the operative word.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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