Animating stills from AE into Avid

[Michael Hancock]

If you’re just doing a slow zoom in or out, or pan of the photos you should consider this plugin:

https://www.stagetools.com/

Stagetools gives incredible results (MUCH better than Avid’s pan and zoom) and it keeps it all in Avid. If you buy the plugin definitely spring for the rotate option. Moving Picture will zoom and pan but doesn’t recognize alphas–Moving Parts recognizes alphas. Both render pretty fast too.

I use both on a regular basis (I work in news–we do a lot of animated stills) and they’ve saved me a lot of time by not having to wait for AE renders.

Otherwise, if you stick with AE, what you’re doing is pretty much the best workflow that I’ve found. Animate in AE, export a movie or image sequence, import into Avid, cut into timeline.

Mike.

[Joe Womble]

Stagetools is great, but for a program that many Avid users already have, think BORIS FX (or RED or Avid FX). Does an elegant job very quickly and you access it directly from the Effects toolkit. Handles large images well, too, unlike Avid P&Z.

Regards,

Joe Womble

[Rob Roams]

Thank you for the quick response!

Unfortunately, my company is very stingy and it takes forever to get money for software, so Stagetools is probably out. The stills I am animating are only 5-8 seconds so rendering in AE is not taking long. We do have Boris Red as part of the AVX. Although,I never tried animating stills with it. I will give Boris a shot or stick with AE.

Thank again!

[Brendan Thompson]

Joe,

Are you saying that Boris uses high res’ pics just like Stagetools? We use Stagetools in offline then move to a different suite for online. This means we have to reload each pic’ in Stagetools. Would Boris perhaps eliminate this step?

Thanks for any thoughts.