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Using After Effect material in Premiere Pro without encoding (twice)
This might be a really obvious question, but after searching through Google I didn’t come up with a useful answer (to me at least).
The question is, is it possible to use material created in Adobe After Effects in Adobe Premiere Pro (both CS3) without having to encode it first in After Effects. Because if I do that, I’ll have to encode it for a SECOND time when exporting from Premiere, and thus losing quality.
I’ve tried using the ‘Premiere Project Export’ in AE, but that doesn’t work because Premiere can’t handle the effects used in AE. I’ve tried loading an After Effects file directly into Premiere but that doesn’t work either. I’ve read it’s possible to use a ‘direct link’ between After Effects CS3 and Premiere Pro CS3, but that’s only available in a professional version of the Adobe Collection which I don’t have.
I know it’s probably possible to reverse the process, use Premiere files in After Effects and then apply effects (hence the name AFTER Effects), but that’s giving me headaches with the editing process.
I hope someone can provide me with a ‘simple’ answer. Maybe I’m overlooking something really obvious.Thanks in advance!
Mark Gordo
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3 Replies
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The simple answer is that Dynamic Link was created to allow After Effects comps to be brought over to Premiere Pro without exporting it first. But, as you know, Dynamic Link is only available if you have the Production Studio or Master Collection.
So, no, without the entire package, you must export from AE.
However, if you are working with DV AVI files in Premiere Pro, and you export from After Effects to DV AVI, and you are then exporting from Premiere Pro to DV AVI, you will not have to rerender, and you will not lose any generational quality.
Steven
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[Steven L. Gotz] “However, if you are working with DV AVI files in Premiere Pro, and you export from After Effects to DV AVI, and you are then exporting from Premiere Pro to DV AVI, you will not have to rerender, and you will not lose any generational quality.”
Unfortunately, there is generational loss when you re-encode/re-render DV footage to DV. It becomes more noticeable after several generations.
Darby Edelen
NVIDIA
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Thanks for the enlighting answers!
Now for a follow up-question: What is the best way to encode my After Effects material for optimal image quality in Premiere/final project? Of course I don’t expect it to look exactly the same.
I don’t like the MPEG2 (DVD) presets because they seem too blurry. The “Microsoft DV” for AVI files looks a bit better, but still nowhere near the quality of the raw capture. Are DivX/H264 a way to go? Or even Quicktime format(100% quality JPEG?)? For some reason I never really ‘trust’ the Quicktime files… But if it’s the way to go…
Hope someone has experience on this subject and might be able to give me some tips. Thanks in advance.
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