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Lossless format for exporting from AE CS4 to Premiere
Hi There,
I’m trying to pre-render a bunch of greenscreen footage in AE so that I don’t have to do much timeline rendering in PPro. Dynamic links seem totally unstable and slow down my whole computer.
My workflow is such:
import footage as HDV 60i in premiere
import those mpeg files into AE
apply my effectsthen… I get lost.
I want to export from AE to PPro in a lossless format that my PPro project likes – a format that will have real time playback, just like the original footage. BUT, where on earth can I find the native file format for a given project? All I can find (after initially setting up a proj) is that it’s in HDV (in the project settings), which really doesn’t help. If I knew the format specifics, I think I could figure out how to export from AE, but otherwise I am lost.
Any help would be awesome.
Thanks!
Paul -
1 Reply
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Listen to Dave here, he knows the score.
I had a similar problem, only I used Sony Vegas for initial editing/compression. To solve this, I rendered from Vegas as an UNCOMPRESSED .avi (or .mov), using the HD settings as needed. All my work was done in AE, but don’t be surprised if AE bogs a bit…after all, it has to do with hardware capabilities (physical memory, GPU etc.) as well as pesky software dorks. And some of your files may be massive. There are, after all, limits…
Anyway, after the AE work is complete, I re-render out of AE (still using an UNCOMPRESSED format), then re-import into PPRo (or whatever). In other words, I am using an UNCOMPRESSED workflow until the last possible moment, then I render compressed for the final output.
Hope this helps. It seems to work for me.
Scott Morrison
Just an amateur trying to learn
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