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Rendering motion GFX for use in Premier CS3?
Hey Guys,
I’m creating animation for use in a project 60i / DV. I need to render some short bumper animations from After Effects 7.0 for this guy to use. He’s editing in Premier Pro CS3.
I’ve only rendered for AVID before and was wondering what codec to render to? I know I could do animation codec…but wanted to go to something that was what Premier is working natively at and would import as quickly as possible.
Any ideas?
-Jason Brown
Director of Photography
Fusework Studios“I love the COW!”
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5 Replies
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Use QT wrapper or AVI with the Animation Compresssor, keep your Alpha channel by setting color to Millions+. Anything broadcast you spit out of AE PPro will use.
– JOn 🙂How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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Premiere Pro is a powerhouse when it comes to using any and all footage from any source. I doubt you can export out of AfterEffects in a format that Premiere cannot understand. Every thing I have ever imported into Premiere it has recognized, except DivX file, which are crappy anyway. It’s not like Final Cut Pro, where you can ONLY use the format of your sequence…export to anything high-quality with little to no compression, it can be used in Premiere Pro.
::: Connor
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OK…I understand that Premier Pro CAN understand any codec/container…etc. My question is, in the interest of a smooth workflow, what codec does Premier work natively at? Certainly not uncompressed, right? It has to have a codec that when you digitize video that it puts it in a certain container with a certain codec.
IE – AVID – Quicktime container with the codec depending upon which system you are working in – Meridien – DNxHD.
What is Premier’s native format?
Maybe I’m not asking the right question…I’ve not worked with Premier before.
-Jason
-Jason Brown
Director of Photography
Fusework Studios“I love the COW!”
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[Jason Brown] ”
What is Premier’s native format?”“Native” depends on the hardware you have. Without a video I/O board, Premiere would be DV native, perhaps. With an AJA board, Premiere wants AJA (QTime) codecs. Likewise with a Blackmagic board– Blackmagic (AVI) codecs. See if your editor knows…
-jeff
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that’s the beauty of Premiere…there is not “native” that you must have, that it likes. Sure when you use out there formats like Divx, it flips out, but you can edit DV, HD, DVCPro, and any other SD or HD format all on the same timeline without issue. It’s not like Final Cut Pro where you HAVE to convert all your files to what your sequence is in order to edit fluidly; Premiere is much more flexible when it comes to codecs/formats/timeline manipulation
::: Connor
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