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Best practices for PP and AE CS6
I have recently upgraded to the CS6 suite from CS4. I produce marketing and training videos for my mortgage company. My typical production is shot against a green screen and keyed with a graphic background added. I have begun using animated titles using AE. There may also be motion tracking involved.
I have become familiar with the Dynamic Link process but am unclear what the most efficient workflow is. If I right-click on each individual clip in PP and replace with the AE comp, I lose any special editing I may have done in PP (mainly color and exposure correction), but I do avoid the dreaded render monster.
Is it preferable to right-click the clips to AE and use AE for ALL the effects (including those things than could be handled in PP, like color correction), then view and render in PP? Or is there some secret I’m just missing where effects can be passed in both directions between the two programs?
Thanks for any suggestions,
Joe Parsons
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1 Reply
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Hi Joe,
Dynamic Link with Chroma Key is probably not the way to go, it’s going to be a pain and a lot of waiting as you’ve probably seen.
You can try the trim compose script from VideoCopilot, you’ll have to watch the tutorial, but it’s a really cool way to go about it.
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/trim_compose_script/
Otherwise, I often just chose replace with After effects composition for each clip. You would usually do that after your edit is locked.
If you keep After Effects open, it will add them all in the same project and then render to Prores etc.Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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