[Michael Swingler]

Thanks for the response Jerry. Since my last post, I discovered I’ll need to use offline files of no less than Prores 422. They want to send off “cuts in progress” to interested parties and they want it to have a higher quality.

I’ve cut plenty of projects using 1080 prores HQ files with no problem, so I’m hoping we won’t run into any issues. I was just concerned with this one since it was a feature with a lot of footage to work with. If need be, I may have to purchase the LaCie Thunderbolt to eSata HUB, and use a couple eSata drives. Either that or they purchase a 4 to 6 TB Thunderbolt drive.

See any issues?

Thanks again!
Mike

[Michael Swingler]

Hi Shane,

I went to purchase your project organization tutorial, but it’s no longer available. Any other options/tutorials that have the same information?

Thanks,
Mike

[Michael Swingler]

Peter,

I tried your expression and it’s picking up the filename and overlaying it, but there’s only one file name for the imported sequence of stills that AE assigns to it.

I have a series of stills named:
875G3051.jpg
875G3052.jpg
875G3053.jpg
875G3054.jpg

But when I import these as a jpeg sequence, AE creates an asset called 875G{3051-3056}.jpg and this is the only file name burned to the image for every frame.

I tried importing the stills separately and dropping them in as separate layers and doing the sequence layer command. However, since they’re on separate layers, the expression only picks up the first image/layer and repeats.

Is there a solution I’m missing? Any help would be appreciated.
Mike