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CS3 w/ ProRes and DVCPRO HD?
I’m considering purchasing an AE CS3 license down the road to supplement Motion and Shake. My main concern is that I’m working in FCS almost exclusively in ProRes 422 and DVCPRO HD. How seamless is the process of sending clips from FCP in these codecs (from an open format timeline set to ProRes) to AE, and then back?
I’d also like to know the same of Photoshop CS3 Extended.
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There is a well-known issue with ProRes files from AE:
https://www.capria.tv/2007/06/19/prores-422-after-effects-gotcha/
Adobe and Apple are working together to fix the issue. Hopefully, this will be addressed soon.
DVCPRO HD in Quicktime containers (as captured by FCP) works just fine. Same for Apple Uncompressed, DV50 and other FCS-specific Quicktime codecs.
I haven’t tried exporting ProRes or DVCPRO HD from PS CS3 Extended. Other Quicktime codecs I tried worked perfectly. Importing all kinds of QT files also works fine. You can render a video file directly from PS CS3 Extended, or you can also take PSD files with video layers to AE and render from there.
Bear in mind that the whole Production Studio CS3 costs as much as buying AE + Photoshop Extended as point products. And you get Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3, OnLocation CS3 (DVRack, Bootcamp only for now), Premiere Pro CS3 and Encore CS3. Even if as a FCS user you don’t use PPro or Encore as your main editing/authoring apps, there are still worthwhile features like Blu-Ray disc authoring on the Mac.
Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
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My experience with DVCProHD and After Effects CS3 has not been very good. Importing clips results in very noticible gamma shifts and the only way around it is to apply a levels filter to lower the gamma.
Perhaps this has changed in the last month, but I have posted here many times in different forums and basically been told everytime, “Yep, that’s what happens. Render to Animation instead.”
If I am wrong, please let me know-
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