James Murray
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[Joe Clay] “I don’t understand why you’d be using Dynamic Link to render out the video in AE.”
@ Joe Clay – Thanks for the Vimeo tip! I used the Dynamic Link in order to use the ProRes 4444 codec. I wanted to squeeze as much quality as I could and somehow ended up at that juncture, hence the huge video size!
Thanks to all this feedback I’m much more assured about Premiere’s capabilities!
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[Tero Ahlfors] ” I recently got “HDMI/DVI” for delivery specifications. I’ll probably send them a combo cable.”
@ Tero Ahlfors – nobody can say you didn’t follow their instructions 🙂
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@ Dave LaRonde – thanks once again! The specs are definitely a priority!
[Dave LaRonde] “Once the AE renders are in the video editor, it isn’t necessary to leave it. You should be able to export in the delivery specs… plus a high-quality archival copy. ProRes is good for this.”
What you’re talking about here is actually exactly what I’m trying to understand. Do you mean once the renders are in a video editor (such as Premiere) I can then export to ProRes quality? Do I do that with the ‘Match Source’ button? Also for the “high-quality archival copy”, is that achieved by simply exporting out of Premiere without Encoding in Media Encoder?
Apologies for the onslaught of questions!
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@ Walter Soyka – thanks for the info about ProRes! Very useful to know!
[Walter Soyka] “I tried adding all the main compositions from the AE projects into one master AE composition, in order to render all the scenes together, however the render cut out after only a short time, even at 8 bit, using ProRes 422 (HQ).”
Sorry this isn’t clear. This was my attempt to create a single AE project using all the individual AE projects I had been working on imported into one place. Each individual project had been made for the different scenes of the finished film. My idea was to take the main composition from each of these individual projects and put them all in sequence as one master composition (layer 1 = scene 1, layer 2 = scene 2, and so on).
I thought the ProRes would be higher quality if it was only rendered once as a whole project… however on reflection I realize that there is probably no advantage to doing this over simply rendering the individual projects, since they would both be Encoded in the same way!
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[Tero Ahlfors] “Is there a reason you don’t export straight from Premiere?”
@ Tero Ahlfors – thanks for replying. Usually I queue footage rendered from AE straight from Premiere into Encoder. I thought this was the correct way, however the prod. company asked me to send them a HQ version! What I had been doing was rendering out the scenes for my project, each at 8bit and using the ProRes 422 (HQ) codec. Since they then asked for a high quality version, it made me think there must be a better way.
One extra piece of info: the Illustrator layers are to scale, which meant there was no up-sizing in the AE composition (I know you can ‘continually rasterise’ but I wanted the quality to be the best it could)
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[Tudor "Ted" Jelescu] “I would edit together my HQ pieces in a NLE like Premiere and then render from there using Media Encoder to whatever the specs are for the final file for playback”
@ Tudor “Ted” Jelescu – it makes sense! Most specs I usually get are the standard HD 1920×1080 (29.97fps) so I just assumed it would be the same as they hadn’t specified.