XDCAM EX premiere CS3 to after effects CS3: Dynamic Link?

[EIREHotspur]

As I posted on the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum.

I am trying to work with an EX3 file in AE CS3 linked to my PP CS3.2 EX Preset.
The sequence on the timeline is choppy, black screen dropouts and I get crashes.
I am using a Dell M90 with 4gig Ram.

Also there is a lot of Dropped frames while working on an imported EX3 file in AE CS3

Is this because of no native support of EX3 files in AE CS3? Also of course I cannot import into AE with the .mxf file format.....is this format supported in AE CS4?

It makes editing pretty much unworkable.

Does AE CS4 make Dynamic link work better & faster with EX3 files???....is there now Native Support?

[basspig]

Sadly, AfterEffects CS3 has not been updated to handle EX1 footage.

[EIREHotspur]

You mean AE CS3 and not AE CS4 right?........this guy on Adobe told me it has been updated in AE CS4?

Eric Addison (http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?224@@2ccefc1e@.59b5751c/7) - 2:37pm Oct 15, 08 PST</B> (#8 (http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.59b5751c/7) of 8)
AE CS4 has XDCAM EX support...

No use to me without AE support.

One thing I would love to know too is how extensive is The Blu-Ray Menu creator?
Can you do the cool pop-up menus with photos like the Casino Royale Blu-Ray?

[MitchLewis]

This doesn't make any sense. I'm not an EX user.....yet, but from what I understand, the EX codecs are installed in the Quicktime bucket, so they should be available to all programs that use Quicktime. Are you sure you're sequence matches your footage? Sounds like a fields dominance issue to me. If you're shooting interlaced (i), then you should made your fields dominance match your footage in your timeline.

Maybe I'm way off on this. Just trying to help! :)

[basspig]

I'm referring to the currently-available CS3. That hopefully changes with CS4 adding XDCam capability to AE.
Present workaround is to export h.264 for Blu-ray at the highest BR and import to AE to edit effects.
From what I read, CS4 should allow all those fance Blu-ray menu features in Encore. Maybe if they would fix the program so that it's reliable, that would make CS4 a hell of a deal for $2,500. The only viable alternative for Blu-ray authoring right now is Scenarist BDMV with Sonic CineVision, priced at a cool $125,000.

[EIREHotspur]

I agree with you......bloody cool and was one of the top features I seen on CS4 as a whole.
The new menu features makes Next Gen a reality......been stuck with ordinary DVD menus on Blu-Ray was cheap.
Saying it is only alternative to Scenarist....you have to give them kudos for the feature....way ahead of when I thought they would do it because there was no speculation anywhere it was coming.

Workaround you describe for CS3 makes editing longer and defeats the purpose of tapeless media for me.....but at least CS4 solves a lot of problems.

Will you be upgrading yourself??
I got Master suite CS3 so upgrade is 1200euro.

[basspig]

My main concern with Encore CS4 is whether it will be reliable. Encore CS3, most of the time, just hangs when we import media or try to render anything. It seems that it's one of those applications that only works when the moon is aligned with Jupiter and Mars, and the monkies in Africa are doing a courtship dance. :) The rest of the time it's just causing delays and headaches. Encore CS3 is no good in a production environment where schedules matter. It's okay for experimental projects with unlimited time (because that's what it takes to get any meaningful output from it, after scores of hours of fiddling with the registry, media cache files, installing MSXML6 and rebuilding the projects many times from scratch.
I like Scenarist because I can start a project at 2:50pm and have a burn folder or a DLT ready by 4:45pm, no exceptions, every time. I wish I could count on Encore the same way.

I don't do much work in AE because of the conversion needed, though I did some non-critical work in it and it came out okay.

We definately plan to upgrade, if only to gain some improved memory management. Presently, just opening a Premiere project gobbles up 3.2GB of RAM and doesn't leave much room for editing before the application reports that it is low on memory and crashes. Adobe is such a pig on memory. We also work with Maya 2008 and even a huge project with millions of polys only consumes about 600MB RAM; whereas just loading Premiere before any project and 1.3GB is gulped at the startup.