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Following up on Dave’s comment:
If you want to watch your movies in real-time, you try rendering your movie to the H264 codec. This is easily done with your prerendered video if you have Adobe Media Encoder, or you can set up an Output Module in AE that will also render a nice, computer-playable-friendly version.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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When talking about integration between After Effects and an editing program, Premiere blows the others away. Of course, this is due to the fact that Adobe creates both apps and can do some magic that other apps couldn’t.
Avid has a better reputation in “the industry,” though I’ve used both and I find that the most recent versions of Premiere can get the job done as well as any Avid.
If this is your first purchase and you’re already using AE, Premiere makes a lot of sense because you can buy the Production Premium, which has both apps and saves a fair amount of money rather than buying them separately. If you have dreams of editing in Hollywood some day, then Avid will be an important editing app to know. (But I predict that there will be more and more theatrical releases going through Premiere within the next four or five years.)
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Normally you simply render out an AE timeline into a self-contained movie file, and import that into Avid. Not sure why you’d bring AE into Avid, as you’d almost certainly do your editing in Avid, and in most cases it isn’t feasible to translate AE filters and features into the Avid workflow.
However, Automatic Duck (https://www.automaticduck.com) can import Avid projects into AE (so you can have all the clips arranged in the AE timeline, etc). Or, if you have Premiere, you can export an AAF out of Avid, import that into Premiere, and then send it from Premiere into AE. A bit muddled, but workable….
I do a lot of AE work with Avid, and the general workflow is as follows:
1. Edit a rough in Avid, mock up graphics if desired (or put in title cards as stand-ins, etc).
2. Export a lo-res QT movie from Avid as reference. Export timeline via AAF/Premiere or Automatic Duck to AE (if needed).
3. Import clips and Ref QT into AE. Do all the effects work.
4. Render out hi-res video, import that into Avid.Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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It’s looking like Avid and Premiere will be what Avid and FCP were a couple years ago. At this point I don’t see any other editing software stepping up to fill the FCP void….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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That sounds really odd. What OS are you working on? What version of AE?
Here are a few thoughts for variations on importing technique (shots in the dark):
Have you tried opening your PSD in photoshop and saving a copy with a newer version of PS?
Have you tried dragging the PSD file into your project window (instead of FIle–>Import…)?
Have you tried importing without the “Editable Layer Styles” enabled?
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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[Gernot Goebel] “I´d like to move over all the tracks to my main sequence, based on in- and out-points”
If I’m understanding correctly, you can use the PageUp/PageDown keys to jump between edits. The hotkey responds only to active tracks (hilighted on the left side of the timeline) so, for instance, if you only want to jump from video cut to video cut, deactivate all the audio tracks.
There isn’t a default hotkey to activate/deactivate tracks, btw, but I find it VERY useful, and much faster, to assign a hotkey for activating and deactivating. I use Cmd+Num1 to toggle Vid1, Cmd+Num2 for Vid2, etc; I also use Opt+Num1, Opt+Num2 for toggling Aud1, Aud2, etc. Saves me a ton of time.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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It’s hard to give more advice without seeing the actual project files. If you upload an AEP file with one of the animating layers that’s giving you a problem (CS5 or lower, please) then I’ll take a look at for you, let you know what I see. No need to include sources or anything.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Try redoing the animation with position keyframes instead of anchor point keyframes. Animating position is a lot more intuitive, and I’d recommend that method to someone who is relatively new to AE.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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This has come up a few times recently — probably because of FCP users migrating to Premiere. When you are doing the test with FCP do you recompress all frames? Because (as you pointed out) PPro does that every time. In PPro did you try using Adobe Media Encoder instead of PPro for export? (Maybe that isn’t possible with the trial version.)
I think this is a good test that you’re suggesting, and I’d like to give it a try sometime. I use both FCP and PPro CS5 regularly, but I may not be able to run a test until the end of the week.
However it turns out, I think FCP wins the export game with its ability to simply rewrap existing video files. But PPro has a lot going for it in other areas….
An alternative is to use PPro to redo the title sequence, and then use Quicktime Pro to patch the rest of the movie, unaltered, to the PPro export. You’d lose some quality at the beginning, but after that, no loss.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Try selecting the keyframes where you’re having problems. Then press cmd+opt+k (ctrl+alt+k) — this brings up the Keyframe Interpolation options. Set your SPACIAL (not Temporal) Interpolation to “Linear.” I’m 75% sure this will fix the problem.
My guess is that you have been fiddling around with the Temporal Interpolation (the timing) but not the Spacial Interpolation (the spacing) — when you’re animating position the spacial interpolation data is displayed right in the comp window, but when you’re animating the anchor point (which, in most ways, is a better technique when doing zooms and pans on images) the spacial interpolation data only shows up in the LAYER window, so it’s not immediately obvious. Setting the Spacial Interpolation to linear fixes the overcorrection that AE often does when doing automatic interpolation.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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