Vegas-After Effects workflow?

[John Rofrano]

[Adam Claude Jones] “I would like to export it to AE, do effects and then get the edit back into Vegas again without having to export cut by cut and re-import them.”

There is no round trip between Vegas and AE at the event level you are looking for that I know of. What would it even mean to bring the events back to Vegas? How would the AE FX be applied back in Vegas? I don’t see how this would work. The best you can do is to render your project from Vegas and apply FX in AE and render back to Vegas because, as I said earlier, there would be no way to represent what you did in AE back in Vegas without rendering to burn them in.

A better workflow would be to use Boris RED instead of AE because Boris RED works within Vegas and can host most of the AE plug-ins. You can do some very sophisticated work RED and never leave Vegas.

~jr

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[Adam Claude jones]

I was obviously not talking about applying the AE effects inside Vegas, otherwise there’s no point in going to AE in the first place.
I was wondering if there was a workflow either built in or via some plug-in that would allow me to export my timeline to AE, do my FX and then re-send it to Vegas and it would be all in the same order, etc. FCP and Shake had that integration for example and so did Color. You would obviously render out from Shake but the rendered clips would be re-sent to FCP and would be in the same order, keeping all the cuts etc. Otherwise if you have an edited timeline with 25 clips that need FX work, you have to render each clip separated, import in AE, render them again separated and re-import in vegas and either re-organize by hand, re-link manually or something like that.

[Mike Kujbida]

Here’s a script that will get you from Vegas to AE.
How you get it back is up to you.
I’ve recommended it a few times and the users have been very happy with it.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20488019/ImportSonyVegasEDL.zip

[John Rofrano]

[Adam Claude Jones] “Otherwise if you have an edited timeline with 25 clips that need FX work, you have to render each clip separated, import in AE, render them again separated and re-import in vegas and either re-organize by hand, re-link manually or something like that.”

Understood. I don’t believe that AE has the capability to render individual clips in order like that. It sounds like the link from Mike above may get the clips into AE from Vegas for you though.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Kelvin Freitas]

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