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Can’t successfully import After Effects project (camera) into Premiere
Hello, I hope someone can help me, first off I’m totally new to After Effects, but have been using net videos to learn really really basic stuff. I’ve been using premiere however, since nearly it’s beginning and feel pretty comfortable with it but not an expert! My question is,
I created a composition in AE that uses a camera to float around to some videos and psds, I tried to save it as a premiere project and import and it imported some weird stuff, including 1 of the videos cropped strange and no camera movement. Is there an option in premiere or AE to set “camera 1” as default viewing when importing to premiere? For now I’ll render the AE project to multiple Targa images and then import. Any help would be greatly appreciated, oh also I’m using CS4 products.
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When using dynamic link between AE and Premiere, you should save as an AE project, and import the AE project into Premiere. This will essentially render the comp using the AE render engine as needed from Premiere.
While this theoretically will allow a more “dynamic” workflow, I have found it to be more trouble than it’s worth. Because of the weight AE comps add to your Premiere project, it becomes very cumbersome to work in Premiere. I find it most effective to export AVIs for use in Premiere. If you’re not worried about reverting to previous versions, just overwrite the AVI every time you need to make a change. Wait for AE to finish writing to the file, and then switch back to Premiere. It should recognize that the file has changed, regenerate cache files if necessary, and you’re in business. Obviously, this kills the “workflow” touted by Adobe enthusiasts and the Dynamic Link marketing, but I find it to be ultimately more efficient. This is basically the workflow FCP users are forced into anyway.
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Will, you are the MAN! I stayed up all night trying to figure this out and it never occurred to me you could import AE saved projects into Premiere and it works perfectly, camera, effects, everything!
Thanks so much man, and a quick reply as well!
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