Wes Plate
Forum Replies Created
-
Sorry, every time I tried to paste the URL to the article the forum rejected my post, so I can’t paste it. You will find the article, though, if you Google for these terms: studio daily online with after effects
— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck -
There is an article at Studio Daily about this kind of thing.
The author writes about doing “Flame-quality onlines” in After Effects.
— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck -
-
Scott’s right. Media has to be recaptured unless you want to do a lot of clip modifying… https://www.automaticduck.com/pefcp/media/
And there is no wholesale project conversion. So you need to either export your bins to FCP shot logs for Sebsky Tools to convert to ALE files, or toss all of your clips into a sequence then use Automatic Duck’s Pro Export FCP to send the sequence out as an OMF.
— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck -
You want an MXF file from the Avid MediaFiles folder? Which DNxHD setting do you want?
— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck -
-
My understanding from talking to those who know is that you cannot render from AE to some file formats and have FCP play them back in real time. Hopefully Adobe will address this in a future release. Until then, render from AE to the Animation codec then render the clips in your FCP timeline.
— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck -
We don’t directly convert XML into anything an Avid can read, but you can bring your XML into FCP, then create a shot log. Use Sebsky Tools (you can find it with Google) to convert the FCP Shot Log to an ALE.
— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck -
-
I’m just trying to keep all rendering to a minimum (just read Stu Maschwitz’s excellent book and he suggests using AE as your final rendering stop).
Good idea.
If I render individual clips in AE and take them back into FCP to be rendered again, won’t I lose some quality along the way. I thought the point of using Automatic Duck was to get your FCP timeline into AE and keep it there for the render. Taking it back to FCP again will ‘add a generation’ won’t it… or not?
If you render to the same codec that your FCP timeline is in, FCP won’t recompress.
Obviously you have a plan for outputting that doesn’t involve FCP, because obviously you can’t go out to tape from After Effects. If that is the case, you can consolidate your renders in AE, I guess.
But consider this– At some point you’re going to have to re-do something, and by rendering small sections at a time it reduces the number of bits you’re going to have to re-do when you have to render a patch. Besides, where better to edit in a render fix than in an editing program?
Plus, with Nucleo Pro (you have Nucleo Pro, right?) you can work on a shot, set it to render and have it render in the background while you work on the next shot. Then you have all these individual short-ish renders, assemble them in FCP.
Someone else can confirm but I believe that as long as you render to the DVC Pro HD 1080i50 codec, and that is what your FCP sequence setting is, FCP will not further-render your AE clips (unless you apply effects to them in FCP).
— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck