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Comps Longer Than 3 Hours
I have a customer who wants a string of presentations put together in a video file exceeding 3 hours. I have noticed that AE does not let you create compositions longer than 3 hours. Is there a way to override this?
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4 Replies
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It depends how you’re planning to deliver the file. If it’s by DVD, for example, you could place all the individual files in the same timeline or in separate timelines in a single chapter playlist (I’m talking about in Encore here, but presumably other DVD software works in a similar fashion). That way they would play as though they were one video. It would also allow you to skip to specific chapters if you didn’t want to have to watch the whole three hours in one go.
Simon Bonner
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Unfortunately the customer was not keen on dividing up the presentations into smaller subsections, so rendering out smaller files as part of a whole is out of the question.
I did find that saving my AE project as a Permiere Pro project I could string my comps into a timeline longer than 3 hours. The only issue with this is that the translation between the two programs is not flawless. I noticed that there are some random black spots in the timeline and work space times not matching up.
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“Customer is not keen”? It’s none of his/her business how you make the piece. Divide the thing up into separate comps, render them out, then string the renders together in Premiere, and deliver that.
As long as the deliverable is up to spec, you’ve fulfilled the contract. As I wrote, the rest is none of their business.
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Completely agree with Steve. How is the client going to know that you created a series of 10 minutes renders from After Effects, assembled them in Premier/FCP and then rendered out to one long final video? Even if its motion graphics, you can still cut frame accurate clips than when re-assembled in an NLE will seamlessly flow from one to another.
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