After Effects to Resolve

[Juan Salvo]

Have them render out to dpx sequence. and then bring that into resolve.

[Stig Olsen]

Ok, and the cineform LUT will work the same way on the DPX as the original file?
The reason why Im asking is if I can grade the original footage and then replace without experiencing any changes.

Stig

[Sascha Haber]

Honestly, it’s 5D footage, it can’t get worse.
I would hard convert all of it to DPX and then stay with it throughout the pipeline until final delivery.
Working on the .mov files should only bd taken into consideration if you either need to work online or have no storage available

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[Stig Olsen]

Thanks for your inputs.
Why do you convert it to DPX? You dont improve quality if you convert it, do you? I thought the best way is to stay native as long as possible?

I know it is crap, but we have actually made some TV-commercial shot on 5D lately that I think we made look good:

https://sheriffcompany.no/?section=reklamefilm&videoId=51&lang=

and

https://sheriffcompany.no/?section=reklamefilm&videoId=52&lang=

[Margus Voll]

Camera h264 is not good for AE work imo.

DPX, tiff, uncompressed mov are better and simpler for different systems to cope with.

Some systems read only image sequences so .mov is not option there.

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[Stig Olsen]

Ok, so for performance and not improvement of quality.

[Margus Voll]

if you go away from h264 you will “capture” the quality and probably will not loose any more.

processing h264 over and over will most likely loose quality in the end of the pipeline if
re rendered many times.

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[Stig Olsen]

Ok thank!

[Michael Stirling]

Issues I often find when AE is in my workflow:

They often come back with a gamma shift so this would negate you grading the unprocessed clip in advance.

I’ve also had VFX guys just send me the frames in the shot where the effect happens – that’s where the gamma shifts are killer.

Shots from AE have also come back (more often than not) with a start TC of 00:00:00:00

Maybe I’ve been unlucky

M

[Paul Nordin]

I’d say you need to work with more experienced a AE artists! All of those issues are operator errors, not inherent flaws with AE.

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