[Daniel Kim]

Wow, thanks!! This helped me a lot. I was wondering why it worked few days ago and suddenly gave me blank clips. haha

God bless.

[Daniel Kim]

Hey all, thanks for all the help!

And Alan, as I was fiddling with After effects and finding shortcuts, one of the shortcuts made perfect sense ‘i’ and ‘o’ to me now… ‘in’ and ‘out’ points. Haha Thanks to your information 🙂

God bless!

[Daniel Kim]

I guess that’s what both Micah and Alan is saying, also 🙂 Only placing VFX into shots that you know for sure that’s going to be in the final timeline.
I was worried because if I were to do that, I thought I would have had to render out uncompressed clips from the NLE into the Comp app and render out AGAIN uncompressed and add it back to NLE. But Alan’s last comment made a lot sense to just get the original footage but since I know which part of the footage is going to be actually end up in the final render just add the VFX into the necessary part of the footage (Hoping that is what he means.. haha)

Thanks for the reply 😉

[Daniel Kim]

Thanks Alan, once again for your great reply.

When you say locked edit, it means to finalize (or rough draft) how the footages are going to be placed in the timeline, right?

Let’s say I have two footages and I want to edit (cut,fade in/out and etc.) from one footage to another. The second footage was cut at the first five seconds from the original footage and I want to put vfx into this footage. You are saying get the original clip (2nd footage) and bring it to my comp. app and place the VFX within the timeline of the final footage, right? So in my example have the in point start from the five seconds mark. I hope I’m understanding it correctly.

In short, whatever edit I do on a footage within the NLE since I know when it will be faded it or when it will be cut just add the vfx starting from that time.

I think I’m loving that workflow. (Now I have to put in to practice into my next project which is due soon! hahaha)

Thank you so much!

[Daniel Kim]

Awesome. THanks for clearing that up. Yeap I miunderstood! 🙂 I thought you meant to render out your final locked footages into AE (or any compositing app). If I were to render out the specific locked footages and add VFX to it and finally bring it back to the NLE, wouldn’t I have hard time unifying the colors for each clip?

And Smoke looks like an awesome app!!!! Definitely an app only usable if the company provides, hahaha

[Daniel Kim]

Thanks, I think I misunderstood Alan. I thought he meant to export the final edited footages but he meant edit it and export out only the necessary edited footages for VFX work. As you mentioned, if I were to do that aren’t I already compressing when I render the footages out from my nle’s if I were to render out the locked footages uncompressed and lets say there are a lot of them, wouldn’t that be quite expensive, no? Thanks!

[Daniel Kim]

Wow, really? For some strange reason that was unexpected! I would think because of the render time with certain VFX (thank you for the tip :)) I would have imagined to have video editing first. I guess one would do a rough draft of the editing to sort out where the shots are going to fit within the film and in final gather all the final footages. I’ve been shooting videos for a bit and making motion graphics but not too much with both because I was always thinking ‘o no… rendering time is going to be a pain!’ Haha.

Also the point you mention about gamma shifting and such also crossed my mind if you were to gather different footages edited at different point in time and to match the colors would be a pain in the butt.

How is it different with Smoke (as I’m not familiar with the app)?

Thanks so much for the answer, tho I understand why one would add vfx first to footages I’m still concerned of the color and the rendering time.