[Mark Likosky]

Thanks!
It’s one of those things I figured out as soon as I posted it but always appreciate other’s knowledge of how to go about doing things!

[Mark Likosky]

I am now trying to render out footage from the Canon 5d Mark iii in AE CS6 on a macbook pro.

I’m having trouble with the Creative Cloud. Media Encoder keeps losing the connection so I’m trying AE again. Going to compare h.264 from AE vs lossless AE to H.264 in ME.

One thing I wish I could do is continue to work in AE while rendering- which is what I liked about Media Encoder.
Any suggestions on this workflow?

[Mark Likosky]

I just posted about the same problem in AE.
Wondered if you’ve found a solution

[Mark Likosky]

Dave,

I feather the masks quite a bit but then the background starts to show up so I pull back. Once I’m done I notice a color change when I’m done so I’m trying to figure out how to get my original background to be pure white without making the person too contrasty and then the new color later blend better by also being pure white.

thanks
mark

[Mark Likosky]

Walter,

Thanks for that advice. I figured the video would have to be compressed to create such small files (compared to when I shot with the Sony Ex-3)

Do you recommend Pro-Res 422 to use in AE? I’ve done that in Compresser but did not notice a big difference when using them in AE but maybe then again that’s my output. Would you recommend using the Lossless setting when outputting?
Is Media Encoder then better than Compressor when dealing with output?

I did try Magic Bullet for some color tweaks so I’ll try those out. Thanks for all the recommendations.

[Mark Likosky]

Tero,

I don’t seem to have a problem with bringing them in either. Just getting a feel of what other people experience with dragging them right in.

What are your outputs usually?

Thanks
Mark

[Mark Likosky]

Dave,

I’m using AE CS5 on a MBP.
Just signed up for the cloud but waiting till done editing this batch before I upgrade to CS6.

So are you saying not to bring the raw footage into AE?
Im outputting to h264 for them to use it in mobile apps and web.
I also make a 1440×1080 version cropped to fit their apps interface so AE is a quick way for me to customize each crop. Otherwise if I just create a separate output module as 1440, it comes out stretched.

I’m feathering my masks quite a bit but still see a little noise. Was wondering if there was a preset to reduce the pixelated noise

[Mark Likosky]

I’m doing something similar. I shoot on a Canon 5D but my client asks for 1440×1080, which I know is backwards but it’s going into a mobile app interface.

I easily figured this out in AE and really like the way it works and can be moved around easily but the rendering is so slow.
If I can do it all in Premiere, I’d be happy.

I’ve noticed in FCP, it just does that gross smushy thing.

thx
m

[Mark Likosky]

[Mark Likosky]

Dan,

That seems to work nicely!

I’m just getting the hang of expressions. How do I save that as a preset?

Thx!

fadeDur = framesToTime(7);
ease(time,outPoint-fadeDur,outPoint,value,0)