-
Best Multicam sequence + Dynamic Link After Effects + Speedgrade Workflow/Best Practice
Hi folks,
I have a music video that I’ve just locked picture on and I’m about to do a VFX and Coloring ‘pass’ for.
The last section of the music video I cut using the Multicam feature as it was a dance that synced to the music. A few of the clips in this multicam need sending to After Effects but when I did the usual right click>replace with AE composition it did something weird whereby it brought in all the angles from the multicam.
Is there a way to duplicate my finished sequence and ‘flatten’, as it were, the multicam clips so that I can Dynamic Link them to After Effects in the normal way (i.e. like you would with a regular in and out-ed source clip). Any Ideas on workflows/practices or how to keep this a simple as possible?
My other question is once I’ve done my VFX pass and have a sequence full of pink dynamically linked Ae compositions how do I simplify this into a sequence that can be easily handed off to Speedgrade. I presuming Speedgrade wouldn’t like them but I could be wrong.
thanks for reading folks
Luke
-
3 Replies
-
For the multi-cam part options include:
1) Painful: in a duplicate sequence, Visual match, mark in, and option drag replace from the source clips to the timeline edits. then these can be used in AE.
2) Less painful: in a duplicate sequence export that part of the sequence in to out, cut it back into the timeline preferably on a track above, and use the edit points to razor the merged clip. then drop the edits back down to primary track. the downside is that you lose media trimming handles, so you have to be careful. but you can then send to AE no problem.
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX -
Thanks Alex, I think option 2 sounds slightly more appealing.
It’s a shame because I’m sure in FCP there was a collapse multicam function that did exactly this but hey-hoy, still learning about the premiere pros and cons.Anyone have any ideas on how to do a similar thing with the dynamic linked comps? I’ve had trouble exporting the dynamic comps out of the Ae in the past, which would be the obvious method.
-
yup multicam really needs the option to drill down edl wise on pass thru to AE and pass off via XML and EDL…
we ran into this in edit* development in the old days and I practically held up a release until it was fixed… 🙂
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up