Premiere Pro – Aftereffects Rendering problem

[Fabian Caruso]

Not too long, about 3 month. To this day I have only worked inside AE to perfect my skills, but the connection and workflow between Premiere Pro and AE has given me some problems.

Fab Car

[Fabian Caruso]

Thank you for kind answer.
I fortunatly know these basic things like editing and effects and the difference between AE and PP, but I have a specific problem with rendered footage coming from Premiere Pro inside AE.
The quality is lower and the overall settings also change in some cases (tiff image sequence). I’m trying to figure out what it depends on, for a clean workflow. If you can help in some way I would be glad.

Thanks a lot again 🙂

Fab Car

[Walter Soyka]

[Fabian Caruso] “The quality is lower and the overall settings also change in some cases (tiff image sequence). I’m trying to figure out what it depends on, for a clean workflow. If you can help in some way I would be glad.”

Could you tell us exactly what you’re doing to get from Premiere to AE? The more specifics you provide, the more we’ll be able to help. A screen shot would be helpful.

Without knowing more, I’d guess that perhaps you are not previewing at full resolution, which would make the footage appear blocky.

As for the “overall settings” changing for your TIFF sequences, you should know that AE defaults to interpreting image sequences at 30 fps. If you are using any other frame rate, you’ll need to change the defaults or change the footage interpretation.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Fabian Caruso]

Hello,

thank you for your reply, I’ll try to be more specific:

The first thing I do is export (Export > Media) the edited HD footage from Premiere Pro CS5 (I have tried different formats like .avi, .mov, .wmv and tiff image sequence), subsequently I import the footage to Aftereffects CS5 and create a composition, but I notice that the footage has a lower resolution and in the case of the tiff image sequence the footage is also faster (I have adjusted the frame rate to 30 fps).

Basically the footage has an unsatisfactory look inside AE, it changes completly form what I had inside PP.

I hope that I’m clear in my explanation.
Thank you again, have a nice day 🙂

Fab Car

[Walter Soyka]

[Fabian Caruso] “Basically the footage has an unsatisfactory look inside AE, it changes completly form what I had inside PP.”

Any chance you can post a screeenshot of your entire After Effects user interface (including the footage)?

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events