CS6 to AE via Dynamic Link

[Alex Udell]

Hi…

replace with comp needs a contiguous selection as it creates a single AE comp from a multi-select.

1) you can send each shot to AE individually

2) you could make sure you were at picture lock and simply import your entire PPro seqeunce in AE

3) you could identify the reels of the clips and grade the source in AE, then shot replace in PPro using a dynamic linked comp

4) You can multi select clips in PPro, Copy, and paste them into an AE comp (but this still only makes one comp)

there’s probably other ways…but I haven’t had coffee yet. 🙂

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Walter Soyka]

[Mandla Bolekaja] “this opens up AE where I have all seven clips highlighted that I need to work on. (I’m doing DayForNight for all clips, so I want them all uniform) But when I begin to work the second I start they become deselected and I can’t apply the changes to them all at once. I know there’s a simple solution that will keep all clips highlighted so I can apply changes to all of them at once.”

So you want to add the same exact effects to multiple contiguous clips in Ae?

You can create an adjustment layer and apply your effects to that. It will affect every item underneath it in the timeline stack.

It depends on your footage, but this particular problem may be better suited to making individual adjustments for each clip and making sure they match by eye. If you have different-looking sources and apply the same math to all of them, you’ll get different looking output.

Walter Soyka
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[Mandla Bolekaja]

That’s the key. The clips are not contiguous. They are clips in the sequence not right next to each other. I’m using Effects>Hues&Saturation which I can do the math but I’m also using Effects>Curves to manipulate Day for Night. I don’t see where I can enter numbers and change the curves.

M

MB

[Mandla Bolekaja]

Thanks Alex,

It was the contiguous part that was the issue. I just thought that AE would be able to work on clips specified even if they were not next to each other. I had the question because Dynamic link does bring them over in a comp but working on all of them at once is not possible in AE. Generally do you set DayforNight on all source clips that need it before you put them into your sequence for consistency?

M

MB

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

[Mandla Bolekaja] “I don’t see where I can enter numbers and change the curves.”

Maybe you can post a screen shot? I think we’re confused as to exactly what you’re trying to do.

JM

[Mandla Bolekaja]

Sure. Just trying to color correct clips already loaded in sequence for Day for Night. Clips are not contiguous.
Want to change clips 1,3,4 in sequence.

Screenshot 1 shows clips selected in sequence and being sent to AE via Dynamic Link by Replace with After Effects Composition.

Screenshot 2 shows clips highlighted in AE and in timeline. Set to use Effects>Color Correction>Hues&Saturation & Effects>Color Correction>Curves to work Day for Night.

Screenshot 3 once work begins on Hues&Saturation>Master Saturation clips become deselected and only clip 1 shows changes. I get now that this happens because the clips are not contiguous.
Once work begins on Curves the same. Curves has no numerical value in its section to change like Master Saturation and Master Lightness.

Screenshot 4 is PPro as it looks when Replace with After Effects Composition is in effect in AE.

MB

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

[Mandla Bolekaja]

Thank You sir.
That is exactly what I was looking for.
Perfect.
Done and Done.

MB