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Workflow advice: greenscreen>color>effects
Hi all,
Just looking for some advice on how to proceed with a complex project. I just shot a music video which is 100% greenscreen footage. I’m doing my edit in Final Cut Pro and I want to try to do everything else in AE. I’m going to export my final timeline via XML and import into AE, then do my keying pass on all the clips. The whole video has a specific color look that requires dropping the footage to B&W, upping the contrast and then colorizing blue. I’m worried that I’ll be adding too many filters at one time, should I be collapsing or nesting comps as I go along?
TIA,
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Thanks Dave.
I’m pretty familiar with Primary/Secondary color correction, but I usually use Apple’s Color. I was thinking this might be a good project to do the color work within AE for the first time, using Red Giant’s Colorista; I don’t think I want to roundtrip back out to Color afterwards (FCP>AE>Color) unless someone recommends it. And yes, I’m working in Apple ProRes (footage was shot on Canon 7D HDSLR and converted).
Funny you should mention it, I am typing on a laptop with 4GB of RAM right now, but only because I’m working from home. I can cut in FCP no problem, but I do plan on doing all the major AE stuff on the tower in my office.
JK
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[Dave LaRonde] “…actually 23.976, and that’s the frame rate at which you’ll want to work in AE. Do otherwise at your great consternation and frustration.”
Ooh, good to know. I had assumed that AE would know what to do with a 23.98 setting. Regarding media, I have all my clips duplicated between a RAID at the office and a G-RAID at home; I’ll swap updated project files and FX shots via the laptop or DropBox if necessary.
Here’s another question: if I want to update my edit in FCP after I’ve been working on the XML export in AE, is there any conform function in AE to accommodate a new edit? Does Automatic Duck do that? I don’t really want to show the client anything for approval until there are effects added and it looks about 90% there. Otherwise, they’ll just be approving an edit with a guy in front of a green screen and I don’t know if they can wrap their heads around that. So if they make changes down the road I’m just wondering if I can jump back into FCP easily or not…
JK
p.s. – hollah to Cedar Rapids! I used to live in the Quad Cities and Des Moines!
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