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premiere mask to after effects
Hello everyone
I am doing editing in premiere pro cs3
in that I have done a kind of mask (I’ve got the french version so I am not sure about the english thing, it’s in the effect > incrustation >
4 something mask) it works fine but when I import the premiere sequence in After effects CS3 it doesn’t keep my kind of mask.Is there any way to keep it ? sorry about my bad english and thanks for any help. Corinne -
6 Replies
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Do the mask in AE, it probaly does it much better.
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actually it is more practical to do it in premiere, because we have a lot of video track and we are choosing the best footage frome all this track so we really need to do the mask in premiere and to have it after in after effects to. someone got an idea ???
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Render to dv-avi before importing into AE maybe that will keep the mask or whatever it is. Green screen?
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trim your long video track in a premiere sequence so you end up with only the parts of the track that you want to use, (do only basic cut to cut editing, no effects) and save your project.
Now import the premiere project into after effects, open the premiere sequence as a composition by double clicking it in the project window and do all your masking and effects.
You can now either re-import that after effects composition into premiere, or render it as a new clip from after effects and import that. -
Hello thanks for your answers but the mask (the Four‑Point Garbage Matte) has already been done in premiere so I need to import it in after effects. is there option to do it or not ?? thanks a lot
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The four point garbage matte doesn’t transfer over to After Effects. However, if you use the “Crop” effect in Premiere, After Effects will interpret the effect information as a layer mask.
As was mentioned earlier, once you have your footage cut together and masked in Premiere, you could export as a .mov using the animation codec with millions+ of colors, and this would at least keep the alpha channel information when you import that new piece of footage into After Effects.
Depending on what system you have, there are some hardware-enabled effects that work in both programs. For instance, I have a Matrox Axio LE system, and effects like the Matrox Chroma Key, and Matrox Blur/Soft Focus transfer back and forth. As a general rule, only effects that are listed in After Effects’ presets bin AND Premiere’s effects list are cross-software.
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