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integration w/ premiere and after effects
I am semi- new at premiere (mostly work in after effects) & I am editing a video in premiere and am at a point in the video (music vid) that I want to do a sorta of ken burns effect, moving around pictures and then also flashing pictures and I don’t know what I should do regarding workflow. ie: Is it ok to just open After effects by itself (not as a direct link to premo) and create the composite ,save it and load it into an already existing premiere project? I thought |I read that was a no no. I don’t know. Or do I somehow do it in premiere?
wait a minute…as I am writing this, think i figured it out..lol.. anyways, you tell me:
Would I just put the pictures into the timeline in premiere, import them into after effects, I was gonna use stagetools moving picture plugin and color correct, save then bring them back into after effects with dynamic link?? is that how you do that?
see the reason I was confused is because I was thinking about how do you bring a blank file/project into after effects. Like in after effects when you create a new -layer its blank , you work on it, and then create a new-etc.. I was thinking if there was a way in premiere of creating a blank file, specifying a length, then open that in AE and create, lets say, a 3d animated title sequence, and then importing that into Premiere..<-- is that possible, because as I think about, I WANT to make a title sequence to begin my video and I dont know what workflow way I should do it? or the way i am SUPPOSED to do it.. sorry for the book.. hope I made sense..any help is appreciated.
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I guess the first question would be…
What version of the CS suite are you in?
The workflow has been changed a bit between versions 3 & 4next…
Is your timeline essentially cuts for timing or have you stared doing effects in the timeline?Alex
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thanks for the help alex..
ok, I’m on CS4 ..
My timeline right now is cuts for a music video .. so its also sync’d to music. What i want to do is take the WHOLE SEQ into AE and add Color correction and add EFX to certain clips..is that possible or should I just take individual clips in one by one (ugh, if thats the workflow)
I’m on a pc by the way, quad core, 8 gb ram.
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Well…
(Note…have both AE and PPro open and running)
If you want to take the whole Sequence into AE…
One way is to create the AE COMP in PPro.
You can simply CTRL + A on the timeline to select all the clips…Right Click on any of the selected clips and choose Replace with AE Comp (I think that’s the entry).
This will nest those clips into another timeline in PPro and an AE Dynamic Link Comp will appear in your sequence.
Then if you click on right Click on the AE Comp in PPro you can launch AE from that comp.
and should see all you elements in an equivalent AE comp.
(this should also include the audio, but you’ll need to double check that.)
The advantage of this method is that now PPro and AE are linked…
Make changes to AE comp and the changes appear in PPro.
However, you do have to do the final render in PPro by rendering the timeline, not in AE’s render Queue.
An alternative method:
Select all the clips in PPro, COPY
Open AE, make a comp of the matching resolution (this is very important) and PASTE.
This makes a unlinked comp in AE, you comp and render as normal in the render Queue….then import the finished render back into PPro…
Make sense?
Alex
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sounds excellent..thanks alot alex. by the way, have you ever run into any problems doing this either way? I am working with 24p 720PN HD footage from my panasonic HPX170, it runs about 4 minutes (the project) and I want to color correct ALL of the footage for look and consistency in AE BUT I also want to add some effects (some extensive some not) on some of the clips.. Do you think the above method # 1 is better using dynamic link or..??Also, since I have your help, if I used option 1 and then had to render in premiere pro , is that advisable? Or should I render in encore or something else? I think I had heard premieres rendering wasnt that great (speedwise and quality wise) My end format is dvd but also I need to render out a copy to be projected from a projector, so maybe a quicktime file also.
thanks again!!
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Hi there….
If you are at picture lock as far as the edit selects are concerned….
Perhaps using method 2 would be more advisable…
I seem to recall you have more control over things like motion blur if you do it thru AE rendering….
Dynamic link is good for shot compositing….as you are post processing the entire edit in AE..then dynamic link is not really necessary…
Make sense?
Alex
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