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Sony Vegas with After Effects
I recently have been studying After Effects through books and tutorials and feel that I am ready to start integrating some of its effects into my projects that are being produced in Vegas. The only problem is, in every instance that I have learned, it has been taught on a clip by clip basis.
My question is, how do I apply this to my projects? Say I have a 1 hour video that I want to put stuff all over in, titles at the front, lightning in the middle, fractal noise somewhere in there, you get the point. What would be my workflow going towards this? Do I take the whole rendered movie into After Effects? Do I have to clip by clip it?
Please forgive my ignorance, I am a brand new After Effecter! -
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you would like to avoid compressing and re-compressing your media to maintain the highest image quality for the final product.
so, keeping that in mind, unless you have the drive space to export a 1 hr movie to an uncompressed or lossless codec to effect in ae and then render that back out to and uncompressed or lossless codec to create a dvd or put to tape, you’ll probably want to effect just the clips you need and bring them back into vegas. if you can export clips as reference movies to ae you can save yourself some time and disk space, by not having to render them to another codec to import into ae (you may be able to exprt a reference of the entire movie to ae, but reference movies in ae are ussually rather messy, and difficult to navigate).
you may even be able to render effects and titles out of ae with alpha channels and composite in vegas. i’m not familiar with vegas, but if it has blending modes similar to ae (like ‘add,’ ‘multiply,’ etc.) you may even be able to create your lighting effect in ae and composite it with your footage in vegas.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Sony Vegas includes numerous blending modes and the alpha channels also work perfectly.
I work on a clip by clip basis out of AE into Vegas and then out of Vegas to DVD Architect. I would recommend that as you have a little more control over everything. An hour’s worth of keyframes and effects would be messy and take for-ev-er to render.
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