24pa workflow Premiere2 > After Effects6.5 > Premiere2 ?

[Genesis]

Ok, I know this topic has been slaughtered to death many times over, but I’ve been searching high and low and couldn’t find the definitive antidote for my problem.

I need to know the perfect workflow for 24pa footage going out of Premiere Pro 2 into After Effects 6 and back into Premiere Pro 2. I need the best workflow with with no quality loss.

Here’s what I already tried to do, I’m cutting on a 24p timeline in Premiere Pro 2,

-I export an uncompressed avi at 23.97fps
-I import into After Effects 6 on a 23.97 composition.
-I edit and apply effects
-Then export back out at uncompressed 23.97fps
-Import back into pp2 into my 24p timeline, I have to deselect frame blend from my clip and render, otherwise the clip looks washed out. (is that normal?)

This method almost works perfectly but when comparing the footage to the original, you can see a very slight difference in quality.

Is their anything I’m missing, the help would be much appreciated. I would just like to know a workflow in perfect detail.

Thanks immensely in advance.

[FutureDVXUser]

shouldn't it be 23.976?

[RUSKA]

if you can, upgrade your adobe software to the production package where everything is intergraded. You can work back and forth between programs without having to render anything. Less time, and no quality loss.
Just a suggestion.

[Demistate]

Every time you work with AFX 6.5 make sure you are using the same format of video it came in as. So if you are capturing off straight DV, stay in DV. The quality loss will be negligable. However if you are getting in un-compresed files from a black-magic card then use that codec.

Also doubble check to make sure your AFX timeline is actually 23.976, and doubble check to make sure the footage you are bringing in is being interpreted by AFX as 23.976 (I dont remember if AFX 6.5 recgnoizes 24Pa or if you just have to render with a 3:2 pulldown.)

AFX 7 would be a huge upgrade for you. It allows you to make your timeline in AFX7 but not have to render it out before you place it in your P-pro2 timeline. Its saved me a huge ammount of time because I'm cutting down 2 render passes (one out of P-pro, and one out of AFX)

[Genesis]

When i bring an uncompressed 23.976fps file into After Effects 6.5 and go under intertrep footage to see what it recognizes it as, it says 23.980fps, is this correct?
Or should it be interpreting it at 23.976 instead?

I'll definetely look into upgrading to AE7 soon, but for now i got to figure this method out.

Thanks again in advance.