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Preparing FC file for AE? How to do this?
I have HD (1920 x 1080) footage shot on P2 cameras. Imported into FC for editing. Now I have to export some editied 5 – 7 minute segments to AE.
What is the best formet to export a file from FC to use in AE? I know AE can be pretty tricky with formats.
Thank you!
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9 Replies
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On the contrary: AE handles almost all formats. You can use your footage as it is in AE
Kool En De Anderen
MAC Pro 8 core/OS 10.5.7/Kona LHe/Apple FCS 2/Adobe PPCS3/Huge fibrechannel
http://www.koolendeanderen.nl -
We tried importing .mov files and it was impossible to get both audio and video to play. The segments are roughly 5 -7 minutes each.
I was told that if compressed AE would waste it’s energy trying to recreate the compressed details. So it is best to export the “normal” file.
Do you know the codec/file format to just export/save as a “normal” FC file without compression of any kind?
Thank you for your patience!
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Playing back audio and video at the same time is an issue in AE. Try skipping 1 frame in the playback settings. It’s got nothing to do with the codec or format you use. And AE wasts no more energy on your codec then FCP does. If FCP and AE are on the same computer, I wouldn’t waste any time in converting your footage
Kool En De Anderen
MAC Pro 8 core/OS 10.5.7/Kona LHe/Apple FCS 2/Adobe PPCS3/Huge fibrechannel
http://www.koolendeanderen.nl -
He is editing on FC (on Mac) and I am doing the AE (on a PC). Could that be what is posing the problem?
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That is very much possible. In that case I guess it is the best thing to export the clips via quick time conversion to either animation or to compression ‘none’
Kool En De Anderen
MAC Pro 8 core/OS 10.5.7/Kona LHe/Apple FCS 2/Adobe PPCS3/Huge fibrechannel
http://www.koolendeanderen.nl -
If you have Premiere Pro CS4 as well as After Effects, you could take the entire FCP project, import it into Premiere Pro and then send the sections you need (or the entire project) to After Effects.
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Is this a new feature of CS4? I have CS3 and it doesn’t work for me
Kool En De Anderen
MAC Pro 8 core/OS 10.5.7/Kona LHe/Apple FCS 2/Adobe PPCS3/Huge fibrechannel
http://www.koolendeanderen.nl -
With CS3, you still have a lot of the functionality. You can import an entire Premiere Pro project into AE. You can also share via Adobe’s Dynamic Link an AE comp into Premiere Pro.
The new bit in CS4 is that you can select a portion of the PPro timeline and replace it with an After Effects comp which takes all the media from your timeline and rebuilds it. It’s definitely neat.
Lastly, the Final Cut Pro importer is new with CS4. They’ve shown a Final Cut Pro exporter as well but it’s not publicly available and FCP7 breaks this functionality… 🙁
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Thanks for the info!
Kool En De Anderen
MAC Pro 8 core/OS 10.5.7/Kona LHe/Apple FCS 2/Adobe PPCS3/Huge fibrechannel
http://www.koolendeanderen.nl
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