hdv from pp to ae and back again

[Jon Barrie]

Production Premium and Dynamic Link. If you need to render in and out always go with uncompressed AVI or MOV. Dynamic Link will access the original file and give you a direct link with the AE comp without any compression added. Like using uncompressed without the need to render until you finish and then only from PPro.
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[Phil Fragoulis]

Thanks for the reply Jon..Is there any way i can use dynamic link without having production premium?what codecs would you use exactly for an hdv video?

[Bart Straman]

I’ve put this to-do list together and copy past it in like every quistion about this subject and in all cases it was the answer. mayby to you too :

-Edit your clip in Premiere. than save your project.

-open After Effects. file>import, then import your Premiere Pro project file.

-now you see your clips in the project panel and very important a sequence file (it’s called that way I thought).

-double click on that sequence file (important: do not move it into the timeline, just double click). and all your seperate scenes/shots/files (cut in Premiere pro) appear in the timeline in AE as seperated layers (also transitions and styles from Premiere PRo are imported).

-then use coole effects on them separedly. if you wanne render in AE, your done here.

render out in Premiere :

-then save your AE file. and if you wanna render it out in Premiere pro, just open the AE project file in Premiere.

-then only 1 clip will appear, but you’ve edit this the first time in PP and allready applied effects on it in AE, so no prob there 🙂

i tried dynamic link, but this is only a options for 1 scene/dvd menu or whatever per sequence. only usefull if you wanne see direct result between AE and PP. not with a movie with 200 shots or so:P

Hope this helps,

Bart

[Phil Fragoulis]

Thanks Bart,but this doesn’t really work for me as i don’t have production premium in order to use dynamic link and when i try to open the ae file in pp is says that i need production premium to do that.

[Jiri Fiala]

Dynamic link is buggy (it shows wrong frames of imported PPro project timelines way too often) and slow.

Try exporting your timeline using Quicktime PNG (Slightly lossy, but alpha support), Animation (Lossless, alpha support) or JPEG (lossy, no alpha, fast and small, good for most work) codecs. Import this to AE and do whatever you need.

Then export (CTRL+M) your AE comp back to Premiere using the same settings. These should survive multiple rendering passes without significant quality loss.

Great option is Cineform, but that might be expensive.

Hope this helps!