Exporting from After Effects to Avid MC5 (again!)

[Andrew Mckee]

Is it doing a fast import when you bring it into Avid?

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[Jack Wormell]

Hi

Not sure what you mean by ‘fast import’?

I’m not using AMA, Avid makes it’s own MXF of the files as per usual. Takes about 3mins I think.

Jack

[Jeff Greenberg]

Stroby:
Usually, this is because the speed of the vertical motion (I’m assuming vertical credits) from AE. You want them going at the specific velocity of 60/120/180/240 etc in NTSC…even in HD.

Fast Import:
After that, when you generate your DNxHD file from AE, as a QuickTime, you should see the words “Fast Import” when you import it into MC. If you’ve ‘done it right’ with the render in AE and the Import Settings in MC, then the avid merely unwraps the video from QuickTime and rewraps into MXF.

Best,

Jeff G

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[Jack Wormell]

Thanks for the help Jeff, but I’m not sure what you mean about the speed of the credits. ’60/120/180/240′ are these specific options on AE?

jack

[Jeff Greenberg]

Jack,

That’s the velocity of the text in AE. Roll open the X position and you should see a numerical pixels per second value.

Best,

JG