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Sticking AE into the pipeline… suggestions?
I recently did some camerawork on Skirmish USA’s ‘Invasion of Normandy 2007’ paintball game in the Poconos, PA and the task has fallen to me to do the edit for their DVD. What I’ve been brainstorming for a while is a traditional video edit in Avid Xpress Pro mixed with graphics added in Adobe After Effects 6.5 Pro. I’ve got a skeleton edit done, and I want to bring it into AE to add some of the graphics for the section I’m working on. So here’s the question for the experts:
What is the best way (i.e. filetypes and compression settings) to get video exported from Avid, imported to AE, then rendered and imported back into Avid for placement in the master timeline?
I’ve been toying around with various QT and .avi settings, but I figured I might save some time if I went right to the guys who would know.
Thanks,
Sean Emer
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3 Replies
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QT is the answer to this. If you have AE on the same system as your media, use the QT Reference or Animation CODEC for the export and same for bringing back into Avid. If you’re using an alpha channel you may need to invert it for Avid/AE compatability.
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Export a QT reference at the same resolution you are using in AVID then render an avid QT out of AE. If you use the AVID codec then you wont need to invert the alpha if you have one, just ‘use existing alpha’ on import options. If you dont want to use the AVID codec and dont have an alpha then the PhotoJPEG codec has never given me any problems.
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Automatic Duck also makes a tool to translate Avid sequences into AE compoistions. Might be worth looking into.
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