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The best way to move clips back and forth between AE and premiere.
I want to capture my DV footage and trim a clip in Premiere Pro 2.0 and then add effects in After Effects 7.0 Pro. Finally I want to render the clip in After Effects 7.0 Pro (lossless) and bring it back into Premiere with the rest of my clips where I will finish the rest of my editing before outputting to a final movie.
I thought that I could just: File > Export > Movie > Settings > File Type Microsoft DV AVI (or should I use uncompressed Microsoft AVI?) to export the clip to an uncompressed AVI file.
Then import the clip into AE, perform effects such as color correction, then add the clip to the render que with “Best Settings” and “Lossless” settings and render it for import back into Premiere.
However, when I do this, After Effects greatly increases the file size from, for example, 250 MB to 2.5 GB?
In fact, AE increases the file size like this even when I do not add any effects.Is this right? Am I doing something wrong?
How do you recommend that I change this work flow? Any suggestions?
P.S. Unfortunately, I do not have Production Studio, just Premiere 2.0 Pro and After Effects 7.0 Pro.
-Mike Behrens-
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i have never used premiere, but if you can get a reference movie out of premiere and into ae that may be your best option… you won’t have to render the clip out to another format or worry about recompressing the file. i thought that adobe had been working on a way to join premiere and ae together with a smooth workflow, but i may be wrong.
as far as lossless vs dv, youbetcha it’s bigger. dv compresses at a rate of 5:1, so it will be significantly smaller than an uncompressed or lossless codec.
whether premiere and ae can work together via a reference movie or not, i would imagine that premiere will be converting the ae render to the same format/codec that it was working in before, so i don’t think you will be losing much if you go ahead an render to that codec out of ae.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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