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Work flow between Premier and AE
Hi everyone, been having some problems with my work flow. Have worked on a couple of short projects, and all have taken longer than they should have.
I’m editing in Premier and then colour correcting in AE, using the dynamic link. So this means I have been exporting each and every shot/edit in my premier time line to AE. And then levelling, and applying the effects I want. This seems very fiddly and time consuming. I know you can import a premier sequence into AE, but then any effects are applied to the sequence as a whole.
This also means that things are very have to preview in premier, as everything takes a long time to render, and re-render if any edits are made.
This is going to be very important for a new project, as I have a lot of shots that need individual effects work done on them. I will also need to level and colour correct each shot individually, and I also have a long continuous effect that needs to be overlaid over the whole project (old tape/film effect).
I’m using a laptop, so I don’t want to waste time waiting for premier to preview all the effects, when I just need to edit a small shot. Many thanks.
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4 Replies
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Actually, if you import your Premiere project into AE, each cut will appear as a separate layer.
Keep in mind that this should be done at the very end of the edit, since reimporting back into Premiere for further edits is pretty much out of the question.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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If your colour correction req’s are as simple as shifting around the levels. You can do all that in Premiere Pro using either “levels” or the “Fast Color Corrector” and playing with the Master Levels settings.
I doubt there is a need for you to go to AE at all.
Re: film effect over the whole project, AE doesn’t have an effect for that, there are filters you can buy to do it, but AE as a stand-alone s/ware doesn’t have it. If you buy it then you most likely get the plugin within PPro also so again there is no need to use AE.
The other option is if you have a short clip with the grain effect and you want to overlay it, again this can be done in PPro by adding it to the track above everything, setting the opactity to Multiply (CS4 only) adjusting the look with the opacity value until your are happy and then copying/pasting it back to back until it covers the whole project length.
(If you are using CS3 then nest the edit into a new seq, make new seq and add the edited one into the new one so it looks like 1 layer clip onto track 1, then put the film grain look clip onto track 2, find the effect “compound arithmetic” add it to the flim clip on track 2 and set the effect properties to:
second source: video 1
operator: multiply or find one you like the look of.
copy/paste method.)– Jon Barrie
Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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Thanks for the reply guys. Are the levels in premier as good as in AE, because from what I saw they weren’t as good. I am also adding a blurred vignette to many of the clips along, with a dark vignette to every shot. I am also using film magic pro for colour correction, which you can use in premier.
The video effect I am applying is a video overlay with a selective transfer. I don’t think AE has this?
I will check what you mentioned though.
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Ok, I really don’t get this guys…I’ve been trying to import my premier project into ae and via the dynamic link it wont let me. However if I copy and paste the sequence from premier to ae it will, along with importing all the other media files along with it. However all the ae effects on my premier time line appear as unlinked media files. Even though the ae project is exactly the same one….
Also the premier sequence looks a bit of a mess, as each cut is its own individual layer. Is this meant to happen??? I thought each track from premier would appear as a layer? Is this really the best work flow???
I thought it would make things a lot easier if I could convert what ever clips need special effects in the premier time line to ae comps, and then do all the levels in premier. After this I could then import the sequence into AE, do final colour correcting, including the video tape effect I want and export it from AE…
Can I do this, or is it going to be easier to render I lossless video file from premier, and then import it to ae to do the finishing touches?
Many thanks…
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