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Going from After Effects first, then to Vegas….
I have just captured my video to the PC and am working now with the raw footage. I’m using Vegas 6 and After Effects 6 for the purposes of this question….
I would like to bring in to AE a ten second segment, make it rain using AE’s effects, then export that segment to Vegas where it will stay as part of a standard, non-widescreen, dvd project.
Must I purchase a plugin from, I believe, forgedimages, or frameserve? Can someone provide me with a simple tutorial/link that details specifically what my settings should be? I have tried exporting the completed footage to Vegas as uncompressed AVI, but after I do, I’m seeing faint, horizontal lines across the footage in Vegas or the raindrops effect has dramatically increased in speed for whatever reason.
That’s why I’m in need of a comprehensive tutorial; is their a “sticky” or link to a tutorial that I’m missing on this matter?
Thank you–
Dale -
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Others can give you a better answer than I can but why can’t you render out the clip to avi from AE and bring it into Vegas?
JerryW
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I can, but it’s producing the undesired effects mentioned in my original post.
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I guess theres a really good reason for doing your rain effect in AE. Not possible to shoot some rain and superimpose it in vegas?.
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oh! and you can get frameserver here.
https://www.debugmode.com/frameserver
Its free for both Personal and commercial use. I dont know if it works with AE (Im sure it must) but I use it with Particle Illusion. Works well -
Your question might be better in the AE Basics forum; it sounds like it’s not really a Vegas issue at all.
You don’t need a frameserver. You just need to render from After Effects at high quality and in appropriate settings for your (Vegas) project.
Export in After Effects offers less control and quality than Make Movie, which should be your default choice for outputting footage to edit later.
It sounds as if you’ve probably captured DV footage. When you use the AE render queue / Make Movie dialog, make sure that your settings are the appropriate PAL or NTSC DV presets, with field rendering turned on and the appropriate frame rate.
Speeding up: when you view preview footage in AE you ONLY get a actual -speed preview if you use the RAM preview option. Otherwise, AE renders out the frames as fast as your system allows – and with plugins in use that can be just a few frames a second. So make sure to RAM preview, or render a test file and check the rain speed …
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Thanks. I know there is some scaling issues between the two applications (at least from what I’ve researched on this forum and others), so I was asking what my New Composition settings should be in AE for optimal quality.
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AE project settings that exactly match what your incoming footage is and what you want your outgoing footage to be will give best results.
So if your footage is DV, set up your project and compositions using the appropriate PAL / NTSC DV frame rate and composition preset, watching for widescreen / standard pixel aspect ratio. If it’s something else, pick presets to match.
There should be no scaling issues.
AE will take in and spit out just what you ask it to. So long as your footage comes in, is interpreted correcly with source fields acknowledged and rendered as per perset with field rendering enabled at best quality, your source footage will only be affected by whatever effects or transforms you apply.
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Use the “render image sequence” script in Vegas to output a .png sequence.
Import the .png sequence into AE, treat it as needed, render out a new .png sequence in AE.
Import the new .png sequence into Vegas- all should be good, quality will be high, alpha channel will carry across (if needed).
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