new to AE and need some basics

[Michael Szalapski]

There are scripts and programs intended to bring FCP projects into AE. You can have as many clips in the timeline as you want. The actual workflow depends on the specific project and your personal preference. Here’s an explanation of basic workflow in AE.

I agree with Dave that, if all you’re doing is Color Correction and some Color Grading, you might look into just doing it in your NLE. However, I’m more comfortable working in AE for such things, but that’s because I’m more of an AE guy than an editor.

As someone just starting out in AE, I would suggest you check out these resources. Getting a decent foundation in AE will prevent much frustration in the future.

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[Dorit Grunberger]

Hi to you both

Colorista II does work in FCP but it isn’t as easy to use or view as it is in AE.

Dave, are you suggesting that I change my sequence settings to 422 even though my footage was all shot as DV/SD, 24pa? If I understood that correctly, if I export self contained movies from that sequence timeline, will the footage fair better imported into AE? Colorista is very appealing to me at the moment because I can use shapes (mattes) to isolate very specific parts of the frame to color correct.

if I do import uncompressed movies into AE, what settings for the project should I use? and what settings should I use for sending it back out of AE without loss of quality?

Michael, thanks for the links. I’m pretty bummed out right now about the loss of quality issue betweenin a round trip between FCP and AE. I wasn’t aware of that at all.

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Thanks Dave

In the sequence settings in FCP, do you set the QT video settings compressor to 422 or 422 (HQ)? In the video processing pane, do you set Render 10-bitin high precision YUV? What about the motion filtering quality? In the Render Control pane, what do you set the Codec and Master Templates and Motion to? I do have some motion clips in there as well.

Having asked that on the FCP end of things, the settings and their locations are a bigger black box for me on the AE end. Would you be so kind as to baby-step me through how/where I should set up to accommodate the FCP .mov files, and also how best to export them?

And then I promise to leave you in peace :-).
Thanks so much (Monday deadline, I’m schvitzing)

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

A tip of my hat to you.

Thanks kindly,

Dorit

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Oh crap! I got a message saying that the codec couldn’t be found anfd that I might not have a certain card…
I’m trying it again.
The settings I chose are: QT video settings compressor ProRes 422 (HQ), the video processing pane set to: Render 10-bit in high precision YUV and the motion filtering quality to best. In the Render Control pane, I set the Codec to ProRes 422 and Master Templates and Motion to best.

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Well, I isolated the problem to a clip I made in photoshop. It was saved as a jpeg, so I don’t know what the problem is. I’ll try to work around it. At least I know it isn’t the whole sequence.

Thanks again and sorry for the extra bother.

Thanks in advance,
Dorit